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ESPN’s new “SportsCenter AM,” meet Fox Sports’ “First Things First,” airing 30 minutes earlier and only 100 miles from the headquarters of the Worldwide Leader. With its debut Tuesday morning, a week after ESPN welcomed Sage Steele back to Bristol, Conn. for the start of a morning “SportsCenter” edition, FS1’s first-ever New York City-based show marks the network’s next step toward gaining traction on its competition. “This is really the…

Chris Boardman is entirely right when he says that cycling is increasingly dangerous (Boardman: I avoid cycling on British roads, 1 September), citing the death of his own mother in a bike accident. But it’s not just British roads. Both my ex-husband and my daughter sustained extensive injuries having been knocked off their bikes by reckless car drivers in Oxford and Singapore respectively. My daughter was lucky to come out…

BEIRUT — As Syria’s soccer team stepped onto an Iranian pitch late Tuesday for an unprecedented shot at its first World Cup entry, the fans who packed cafes across the region could have been forgiven for keeping their hopes in check.  Against significant odds, the team moved up to third place in its qualifying group last week after easing past the better-resourced Qatar. An unlikely victory against favored Iran would…

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race Sunday took an unexpected turn on the last lap. Austin Cindric was chasing Kaz Grala and proved he was willing to do anything to get the win and clinch his spot in the series’ eight-driver playoffs. It was a two-man race, and as the drivers came into one of the final turns on the road course at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Cindric —…

An accused child rapist will skate free after the alleged victim — a retired NHL player — died from an apparent drug overdose. The former hockey pro, David Gove — who most recently worked as a minor league hockey coach — was found dead in April on the floor of a Pittsburgh homeless shelter, an apparent victim of a synthetic opioid called carfentanil, according to the Allegheny County Coroner’s Office….

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — On a hazy August day at The Glen, a racetrack in northern New York not far from the Finger Lakes where NASCAR hosts one of its regular-season races, a tractor trailer buzzes alive with energy on a patch of grass. The 53-foot custom-built Featherlite trailer is among the auto association’s most powerful new tools. With its own servers and several laptop and monitor stations that line…

Podcast (tht-audio): Download (Duration: 39:53 — 9.1MB) Jen, Sarah, and Mary discuss articles from the week of Aug. 28. Other topics include baseball’s response to Hurricane Harvey and the Justin Verlander trade. Twitter questions are also answered. Subscribe to THT Audio on iTunes here.

Tennis legends Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf have steered their children away from the game that made them famous, but that didn’t stop their eldest, 15-year-old son Jaden, from becoming a terrific athlete. He just chose to use his hand-eye coordination to strike a different ball. Instead of a racket, Jaden wields a baseball bat and strives for a different kind of grand slam than his parents once did. Jaden…

The Red Sox responded in kind on Tuesday, filing a complaint against the Yankees, claiming that the team uses a camera from its television network, YES, exclusively to steal signs during games. It is unclear what penalties, if any, Commissioner Rob Manfred will issue against the Red Sox and whether he will order a more expansive investigation to determine the extent of the Red Sox’ sign-stealing system. It is also…

The Mira Costa baseball team spent part of Labor Day weekend helping with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Coach Keith Ramsey and players collected more than 100 buckets filled with supplies, along with bags of clothing, shoes, pillows and blankets. They will be sent in conjunction with the ACT Project and the University of Houston baseball program.

Keith Hernandez doesn’t know exactly what he’ll do when he decides to move on from the Mets broadcast booth. He just knows what it won’t involve: baseball. Hernandez, in a wide-ranging interview with Sports Illustrated, told stories about his glory days as a Major League Baseball player living in Manhattan, discussed his love of history, offered some insight into his forthcoming memoirs and bristled aplenty at some of the recent…

I. Catch He could close his eyes and hit his throwing partner in the chest. That still came natural. The accident had not stripped that. Then Matt Imhof opened his left eye — his only working eye — and tried to catch the…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment NEW YORK — At age 36, Roger Federer is defying all tennis odds. When injuries sidelined him for a good chunk of 2016, fans and experts alike predicted that he would never be the same Federer again. But he has proved them wrong this year, winning the Australian Open — after a vintage Federer-Rafael Nadal final — and Wimbledon. On Monday, Federer…

Sports Direct has failed to meet a pledge to offer guaranteed hours to shopworkerss and transfer some warehouse staff to permanent contracts a year after promising widespread changes in working practices. The retail group controlled by the Newcastle United owner, Mike Ashley, promised to ensure that all staff were treated with dignity and respect in a report on its working practices published on 6 September last year. Key pledges included…

x Embed x Share CLOSE According to a TD Ameritrade study, nearly two out of 10 families are spending $1,000 per month on elite youth sports. USA TODAY Sports Judy Carter Davis, with her son Ian and husband, Dwight.(Photo: Handout) Judy Carter Davis and her husband, Dwight, recently got back from a trip to Scotland — the “Home of Golf” — with its tourist must-sees like Edinburgh and the Old Course in St. Andrews….

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Second-year driver Chase Elliott, former champion Matt Kenseth and veteran Jamie McMurray can breathe somewhat easier in the days and nights leading into this weekend’s Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway. Barring a disheartening set of circumstances, at least two of them and most likely all three will qualify via points for NASCAR’s upcoming 16-driver, 10-race, four-round championship playoff series. The 400-lap, 300-miler at Richmond is the…

Things are heating up for the U.S. in soccer World Cup qualifying. And we’re not talking about the Americans’ suddenly precarious position in the six-team CONCACAF tournament, although we’ll get to that in a bit. First let’s talk about the weather. It was 91 degrees with 67% humidity when the U.S. team took the field for a Monday morning training session at Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano. According to the heat index,…

Labor Day of course occasions high-level leisure time for those not tasked with, you know, laboring. Speaking of which, the University of Louisville baseball team on Monday took to the pool to pull off a profoundly impressive basketball shot. Please regard:  Teamwork? People, it makes the dream work.  Yes, this is the internet — electric hootenanny of lies — and as such it’s possible this footage has been altered in…

In the old days, there was the talk-show apology tour, a trip to Oprah’s couch or The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Then came the reality era, with fare like Dancing With The Stars geared toward rehabbing reputations. These days, you might as well become a television analyst for Fox and FS1 if you are looking to change your image with the public. Last month, the network added to its…