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The NFL is teaming up with gaming giant Electronic Arts to give millions of football fans a chance to compete to represent their favorite football team. The company’s EA Sports division, which makes popular game titles like the FIFA and Madden NFL franchises, and the NFL announced on Monday the launch of a new gaming tournament called the Madden NFL Club Championship. Starting today, gamers over the age of 16…

Fuelling up during a game is vital.OLI SCARFF/Getty Images Football is no longer won and lost on the pitch. If you ask a performance nutritionist, it’s won or lost in the fridge, cupboards and anywhere food is served to players. That’s because nutrition and supplementation today is barely recognisable from the days when oranges were served at half-time and a bottle of whiskey was kept in the changing room to…

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Walk around the sprawling campsites at the Bristol Motor Speedway here in the green hills of Tennessee, and you know you’re deep in Trump country. Cars buzz around this half-mile track, practicing for the night NASCAR races here. National Rifle Association signs are omnipresent, as the track hosts the only race in NASCAR’s top circuit with NRA branding. A pop-up city of RVs sprawls outside the speedway,…

Two Major League Soccer expansion clubs first took the field in March 2017, both bearing the moniker United. One in Minneapolis, the other in Atlanta – a city in that lower-third of the American map which, conventional wisdom holds, stands in stark opposition to the globalist concerns of either American coast, and could therefore never deign to care about a sport as preposterously effete as soccer, where flopping is rewarded….

Today, the entire continental United States will witness its first total solar eclipse since 1918. Pretty cool, right? But we know what you’re thinking — how can I watch the eclipse and watch some baseball? Luckily for you, we’re here to help. If you happen to be in the path of totality, that means you’ll see the moon totally cover the sun (get it?). But don’t worry if you’re not…

Following the Nazi demonstration in Charlottesville, Virginia, Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle both spoke and tweeted about the atrocities, calling it “white fear. It’s the worst kind of hatred. It’s disgusting” and stating “there is only one side,” in reference to the Trump administration’s reference to violence “on many sides” of the demonstration. Of those members of major league baseball asked about the events, Doolittle gave by far the most…

ELLSWORTH, Maine — It may not rival this weekend’s Red Sox-Yankees series at Fenway Park or the continuing playdown to a new Little League world champion in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. But for four baseball teams from Ellsworth, Lincoln County, the Medomak Valley region and South Portland-Biddeford, those more historic locales had nothing on Demeyer Field, which was home Saturday and Sunday to the inaugural Maine State Little League Challenger Jamboree….

Fuelling up during a game is vital.OLI SCARFF/Getty Images Football is no longer won and lost on the pitch. If you ask a performance nutritionist, it’s won or lost in the fridge, cupboards and anywhere food is served to players. That’s because nutrition and supplementation today is barely recognisable from the days when oranges were served at half-time and a bottle of whiskey was kept in the changing room to…

LOS ANGELES — O.J. Mayo broke down in tears when he heard the NBA was going to ban him for at least two years for a failed drug test, and he surely would have cried even harder if he had known the embarrassment, loneliness and aimlessness that would follow. His first instinct was to call his mother, Alisha, a conversation that left him feeling ashamed of the inevitable questions she…

Bolton are yet to win a match in the Championship since winning automatic promotion back to the second tier A company which owns more than a third of shares in Championship club Bolton Wanderers has been liquidated. Sports Shield BWFC Limited, owned by ex-Bolton striker Dean Holdsworth and part of a takeover in March 2016, was wound up on Monday. The winding-up petition was lodged by BluMarble Ltd in relation…

Formula One has announced it is launching an official eSport series to run in conjunction with the on-track world championship. The series is the first time the sport has entered the eSport arena and is to be run in conjunction with the official F1 video game and the eSport group Gfinity. The inaugural season, which will run from September to the season finale at Abu Dhabi, will be open to…

We are just five days away from Conor McGregor vs Floyd Mayweather and if there’s one man who knows about the uphill task the Irishman faces, it’s Michael “Venom” Page. The Bellator MMA welterweight recently announced that he will be make the crossover to boxing for his first professional bout later this year and he’s currently hard in training with former British boxing heavyweight champion, David Haye. Speaking exclusively to…

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Walk around the sprawling campsites at the Bristol Motor Speedway here in the green hills of Tennessee, and you know you’re deep in Trump country. Cars buzz around this half-mile track, practicing for the night NASCAR races here. National Rifle Association signs are omnipresent, as the track hosts the only race in NASCAR’s top circuit with NRA branding. A pop-up city of RVs sprawls outside the speedway,…

Two Major League Soccer expansion clubs first took the field in March 2017, both bearing the moniker “United”. One in Minneapolis, the other, in Atlanta— a city in that lower-third of the American map which, conventional wisdom holds, stands in stark opposition to the globalist concerns of either American coast, and could therefore never deign to care about a sport as preposterously effete as soccer, where flopping is rewarded. Five…

Kyle Busch celebrates his 40th win in NASCAR’s top division Saturday night. He led 156 of 500 laps in the No. 18 Toyota.

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Walk around the sprawling campsites at the Bristol Motor Speedway here in the green hills of Tennessee, and you know you’re deep in Trump country. Cars buzz around this half-mile track, practicing for the night NASCAR races here. National Rifle Association signs are omnipresent, as the track hosts the only race in NAS-CAR’s top circuit with NRA branding. A pop-up city of RVs sprawls outside the speedway,…

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Walk around the sprawling campsites at the Bristol Motor Speedway here in the green hills of Tennessee, and you know you’re deep in Trump country. Cars buzz around this half-mile track, practicing for the night NASCAR races here. National Rifle Association signs are omnipresent, as the track hosts the only race in NAS-CAR’s top circuit with NRA branding. A pop-up city of RVs sprawls outside the speedway,…

Many who swam for years in the Blue Hole or sought moments of quiet contemplation there have been dismayed, saying that the increased popularity of the spot has threatened to destroy precisely what made it precious. Advertisement Continue reading the main story State officials have responded by instituting measures to address what has become an increasingly common problem for conservation authorities across the country who aim to strike a balance…

Major League Baseball is taking a more active role in this year’s Little League World Series. Hence the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates spending Sunday at the tournament before playing their own game in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Consider it fitting, then, that the catch of the day was turned in by a youngster. Jack Regenye, playing center field for Kennett Square against Chinese Taipei in the Junior League Baseball World…

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he is no longer looking to join a local sports talk radio station once he leaves office. Christie made the announcement Sunday after the New York Daily News reported that New York sports talk radio WFAN told the Republican governor he was no longer in the running to replace the station’s longtime afternoon host Mike Francesa. The governor said WFAN approached him…