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BASEBALL NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge is all done with the tooth scary — at least for now. The New York Yankees slugger was back in the starting lineup, a day after he accidentally lost half of his front left tooth during a home-plate celebration . “I’m all good,” he said. “Got it fixed.” The AL home run leader saw a dentist earlier in…

Hardly a month seems to go by without high-profile US athletes speaking out on non-sporting causes. Increasingly, the most passionate voices belong to women. Take the recent basketball game between Seattle Storm and Chicago Sky. The team’s owners organised a pre-game rally in support of Planned Parenthood, the nonprofit that provides reproductive healthcare and whose funding is under perpetual attack from the Republican party and the Trump administration. Several players,…

Liverpool have posted an update on Divock Origi’s late withdrawal in Berlin. The forward was down to start before Dominic Solanke was promoted from the bench. “Divock Origi did not start Liverpool’s pre-season friendly with Hertha Berlin on Saturday as planned after feeling tightness in his hamstring,” reads a Liverpool statement. “The striker was due to begin the contest, but was withdrawn from the line-up during the warm up as…

COLLEGES: Men’s basketball: In dire need of immediate size, William and Mary’s basketball program announced the addition of Cole Harrison, a 6-foot-11 graduate transfer from Dartmouth. Harrison played in 51 games with the Ivy League team but missed the past season with an injury. For his career, he averaged 1.4 points and 1.4 rebounds a game. Harrison played his high school ball at Montrose Christian (Md.) for Coach Stu Vetter.  Harrison…

The San Diego State women’s soccer team is scheduled to play at Texas Tech on Sept. 15. A week later, the men’s soccer team plays a pair of games at Texas-Rio Grande Valley. It might the last time an Aztecs team or athletic department personnel visit the state of Texas for a while. A California law enacted Jan. 1 prohibits most forms of state-funded travel to places with legislation deemed…

TUNKHANNOCK TOWNSHIP –NASCAR weekend is well underway in the Poconos with the Overton’s 400 set for this Sunday. Tonight, hundreds turned out for the first ever “Fan Fest” at Pocono Raceway where people got up close and personal with some drivers. “Are you guys ready to see some drivers up here?” yelled the MC. “Yeah!” the crowd yelled back. “I think that was a third of you, the people in…

John Herbold, a Hall of Fame baseball coach who coached for 49 years at the college and high school level, died on Wednesday, Cal State Los Angeles announced. He was 88. Herbold was the head coach at CSLA for 21 years, winning 455 games from 1984-2004. He was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1998. At Long Beach Poly and Lakewood, he had a record…

BASEBALL NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge is all done with the tooth scary — at least for now. The New York Yankees slugger was back in the starting lineup, a day after he accidentally lost half of his front left tooth during a home-plate celebration . “I’m all good,” he said. “Got it fixed.” The AL home run leader saw a dentist earlier in…

Hardly a month seems to go by without high-profile US athletes speaking out on non-sporting causes. Increasingly, the most passionate voices belong to women. Take the recent basketball game between Seattle Storm and Chicago Sky. The team’s owners organised a pre-game rally in support of Planned Parenthood, the nonprofit that provides reproductive healthcare and whose funding is under perpetual attack from the Republican party and the Trump administration. Several players,…

COLLEGES: Men’s basketball: In dire need of immediate size, William and Mary’s basketball program announced the addition of Cole Harrison, a 6-foot-11 graduate transfer from Dartmouth. Harrison played in 51 games with the Ivy League team but missed the past season with an injury. For his career, he averaged 1.4 points and 1.4 rebounds a game. Harrison played his high school ball at Montrose Christian (Md.) for Coach Stu Vetter.  Harrison…

I dislike the sport of boxing. I don’t like to see people punching each other with the goal of knocking their opponents out or down to the floor. Boxing often results in injuries, and it sometimes has adverse long-term effects, such as brain damage from repeated concussions. What do you think of boxing? Why do some people find it entertaining? —Charita Poe in Burke, Virginia I don’t like boxing, either,…

A vibrant sports hub awaits the region’s best athletes when Malaysia hosts the 2017 Southeast Asian Games from Aug. 19 to 30. Showcasing world-class infrastructure, the Kuala Lumpur Sports City boasts of a massive National Stadium at its heart. The multi-million project spearheaded by Malaysian Resources Corp. Berhad (MRCB) and Populous also features the refurbished National Aquatic Centre, the Axiata Arena, the National Hockey Stadium and a sprawling plaza. Photos…

TUNKHANNOCK TOWNSHIP –NASCAR weekend is well underway in the Poconos with the Overton’s 400 set for this Sunday. Tonight, hundreds turned out for the first ever “Fan Fest” at Pocono Raceway where people got up close and personal with some drivers. “Are you guys ready to see some drivers up here?” yelled the MC. “Yeah!” the crowd yelled back. “I think that was a third of you, the people in…

x Embed x Share CLOSE USA TODAY Sports’ Brant James looks ahead to some of the top story lines fans should keep an eye on at the Overton’s 400 in the Poconos this Sunday. USA TODAY Sports Driver Kyle Larson signs autographs for fans following practice for the Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway.(Photo: Christopher Hanewinckel, USA TODAY Sports) NASCAR fans were irritated at the inconvenience of having to trawl…

I am old enough to remember (that is, I’m older than 15) when Nascar was about to become the new national pastime, the sport of real America that was being eagerly embraced by corporate America because it offered so many places to plaster advertising slogans. I haven’t heard a lot about the auto-racing enterprise lately, though, so while switching channels last Sunday, I paused for a while on NBC’s coverage of the Monster…

The Tampa Bay Rays continued to bolster their bullpen for the pennant race on Friday, acquiring reliever Steve Cishek from the Seattle Mariners for right-hander Erasmo Ramirez, while the Washington Nationals sent minor league pitcher McKenzie Mills to the Philadelphia Phillies for versatile veteran Howie Kendrick. The exchange of pitchers was a surprising deal between teams that are competing for the same thing, a wild card spot in the American…

When Deshaun Watson threw a championship-winning touchdown pass to Hunter Renfrow with one second left to lift Clemson over Alabama in January, one big question was impossible to avoid: Did we just witness the best college football game ever? We’re not content with merely deciding who’s No. 1. After ranking the top 100 college football coaches ever last summer, it’s time to rank the best 100 games in the 148-year history…

When players get political, it turns out that fans can get political right back. After months of speculation and piles of anecdotal evidence, market-research company J. D. Power has weighed in with real data. After surveying 9,200 fans, researchers found that “national anthem protests were the top reason that NFL fans watched fewer games last season.” The protests were never popular. A September 2016 Reuters poll indicated that a…

The BCS was a constant source of college football angst for most of its 16-season existence. Its methodology frustrated many fans, for whom it seemed too vague, too subjective, too reliant on computers. The fact that it was something of a moneymaking scheme for its bowl directors certainly didn’t help, either. The BCS fueled conference realignment and relegated wealth to the power conferences. No matter your politics, it was hard…

9:28 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment LONG POND, Pa. — Target will focus its sports marketing budget on soccer and drop its 16-year NASCAR sponsorship of Chip Ganassi Racing after the 2017 season. The decision leaves Kyle Larson, second in the NASCAR Cup Series standings, without an announced sponsor for the majority of 2018. Target had a 28-year relationship with Ganassi and was a major…