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Editor’s note: This summer, Star columnist Greg Hansen has been counting down the top 10 of just about everything related to Tucson sports. His summer series ends today, with a list of the top 10 families in Tucson sports history:  Joseph G. Hassey was a Detroit cab driver in the 1920s who moved to Tucson for the simplest reason: a doctor suggested his asthmatic condition could be helped by breathing…

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IRVINE — You may not know what’s actually at the Orange County Great Park, except for that giant orange balloon. That might change now. On Saturday, Aug. 5, the city of Irvine and developer FivePoint hosted a grand opening of the first phase of the 194-acre Great Park Sports Park, which is the biggest of its kind in Orange County — larger than Disneyland and Disney California Adventure combined. “I…

The Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians play on June 16, 2015, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. David Banks/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David Banks/Getty Images The Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians play on June 16, 2015, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. David Banks/Getty Images If he had to choose two teams to play in the World Series based only on their home stadiums, Rafi Kohan would like…

UTAH STATE AGGIES OVER THE AIRWAVES Salt Lake City • 1280 AM, 97.5 FM (KZSN) Logan • 92.3 FM (KBLU-LP) Preston, Idaho • 1340 AM, 105.5 FM (KACH) Price • 95.3 FM (KRPX) Green River • 102.7 FM (KRPX) Moab • 100.3 FM (KRPX) Orangeville • 95.9 FM (KRPX)

Editor’s note: This summer, Star columnist Greg Hansen has been counting down the top 10 of just about everything related to Tucson sports. His summer series ends today, with a list of the top 10 families in Tucson sports history:  Joseph G. Hassey was a Detroit cab driver in the 1920s who moved to Tucson for the simplest reason: a doctor suggested his asthmatic condition could be helped by breathing…

Are you ready for some football? Amazon.com is. A few months ago, it agreed to pay the National Football League $50 million for streaming rights to 10 Thursday Night Football games starting on Sep. 28. That’s five times what Twitter paid for a similar deal last season. For now, streaming is a mere sideshow to television in sports. The Thursday games will air simultaneously on the NFL Network, and on…

Here are a few things worth $613 million: The combined 2017 payrolls of the Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Rays, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics and Chicago White Sox A fleet of a dozen Boeing 737 jets Four Rembrandts and a painting each by da Vinci and Raphael One 25-year-old soccer player from Brazil When French club Paris Saint-Germain agreed last week to…

In this Aug. 1, 2017 file photo, U,S, Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun speaks about the Team USA WinterFest for the upcoming 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games at Yongsan Garrison, a U.S. military base in Seoul, South Korea.(Photo: Lee Jin-man / AP) London — About that deal to bring the 2028 Olympics to Los Angeles: Not all is set in stone. Sometime over the next five weeks, leaders from LA…

Are you ready for some football? Amazon.com is. A few months ago, it agreed to pay the National Football League $50 million for streaming rights to 10 Thursday Night Football games starting on Sep. 28. That’s five times what Twitter paid for a similar deal last season. For now, streaming is a mere sideshow to television in sports. The Thursday games will air simultaneously on the NFL Network, and on…

The Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians play on June 16, 2015, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. David Banks/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David Banks/Getty Images The Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians play on June 16, 2015, at Wrigley Field in Chicago. David Banks/Getty Images If he had to choose two teams to play in the World Series based only on their home stadiums, Rafi Kohan would like…

Steph Curry, the NBA basketball player who plays basketball year-round, is good enough at golf to beat six other professional players (three withdrew) in a tournament. He did just that at the Web.com Tour, which is sort of like what the G-League is to the NBA, the last two days, carding a 4-over 74 in each of his first two rounds. That wasn’t close to making the cut (he was…

Editor’s note: This summer, Star columnist Greg Hansen has been counting down the top 10 of just about everything related to Tucson sports. His summer series ends today, with a list of the top 10 families in Tucson sports history:  Joseph G. Hassey was a Detroit cab driver in the 1920s who moved to Tucson for the simplest reason: a doctor suggested his asthmatic condition could be helped by breathing…

As he approaches the halfway mark of his contract as England’s head coach, Eddie Jones has spent the summer watching other sports and talking to coaches as he plots ways of improving the fitness levels of his players before the 2019 World Cup in Japan. Under Jones, England have risen from World Cup failures to second in the world rankings behind New Zealand. Part of their success has been down…

As NFL training camps opened this month, the refrain once again was heard all over the land: Baseball used to be America’s pastime, but football is the nation’s favorite sport. For all the time and money the commissioner’s office spends on studies and focus groups on how to make baseball more attractive to young fans, someone there ought to talk to a gregarious red-haired guy who did not grow up…

Are you ready for some football? Amazon.com is. A few months ago, it agreed to pay the National Football League $50 million for streaming rights to 10 Thursday Night Football games starting on Sep. 28. That’s five times what Twitter paid for a similar deal last season. For now, streaming is a mere sideshow to television in sports. The Thursday games will air simultaneously on the NFL Network, and on…

Tony Granato was a 15-year-old Midwestern kid when the “Miracle on Ice” occurred in 1980. He played for the U.S. seven times in international tournaments and watched his sister, Cammi, win gold in 1998. “There is no greater thrill in the game of hockey than to be able to cheer for, represent, wear the sweater, wear the colors,” Granato told reporters. Granato will bring that patriotic passion to his latest…

Aug 3, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Former NASCAR team owner Harry Scott, who fielded cars in the NASCAR Cup Series from 2013 to ’16, died Wednesday. He was 51. Scott owned HScott Motorsports, which purchased Phoenix Racing in August 2013 and competed up until last season primarily with drivers Justin Allgaier, Clint Bowyer and Michael Annett. He also co-owned Turner Scott Motorsports, which competed in…

Mark Berman Mark Berman covers Virginia Tech men’s basketball and many other teams at the university. He also helps cover other colleges, including Radford, VMI, Roanoke, Washington and Lee and Ferrum. Follow Mark Berman Whenever Mark Berman posts new content, you’ll get an email delivered to your inbox with a link. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items.