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Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press Rec-league hockey players in Buffalo set a record Monday for the longest hockey game ever recorded, coming in at nearly 11 full days in length. According to an Associated Press report (h/t ESPN.com), the players set a record of 10 days, 10 hours, three minutes and 21 seconds just after 7 a.m. ET Monday. The game was scheduled to continue until 8 a.m. Monday after beginning at 9…

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The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs are getting closer with 17 of the 26 regular-season races in the books. When the circuit heads to Chicagoland Speedway in September, 16 drivers will be competing for a championship. Here is a look at where things stand heading into this weekend’s race at Kentucky Speedway. Locked in Kyle Larson: The No. 42 driver clinched a spot in the playoffs in March when…

Caster Semenya, the Olympic 800m champion, may be banned from competing at future Games unless she undergoes hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or even surgery in the wake of a landmark study into athletes with raised testosterone levels which has just been published. The International Association of Athletics Federations, the world governing body, commissioned research which has produced the most conclusive evidence yet that female athletes with very high levels of…

5:41 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Even when you’re a fan of one specific Major League Baseball team, it can be difficult to keep track of all of the news that surrounds your favorite club on a daily basis. The MVP awards are handed out by the prwaa, but here’s where you can have your voice be heard. Vote Now! However, when you’re a fantasy…

Rupert Murdoch’s media company has been struggling for nearly a year to contain a sexual harassment scandal that has engulfed its Fox News unit in New York. Now, fresh allegations of a boorish workplace culture are dogging yet another unit — this time in Los Angeles — as Fox Sports announced that it had abruptly fired its controversial head of sports programming. Jamie Horowitz’s dismissal Monday came about a week…

Last month, the WNBA’s Seattle Storm announced that it would host a “Stand With Planned Parenthood” event at its July 18 home game. Support would include a donation of $5 from each ticket sold (a sellout would be 9,686), an auction to raise money for the organization and a rally outside the arena before the game, which is to be broadcast nationally on ESPN2. That politics have encroached on the…

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Corey Seager, left, gets congratulations from Cody Bellinger after hitting a solo home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres in San Diego, Saturday, July 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)(Photo: The Associated Press) The American League’s home run leader is a rookie. Same in the National League. The AL batting race? A rookie is in front there, too. Aaron Judge,…

I should be directly in Major League Baseball’s wheelhouse. I fit every demographic – old, white, cranky, slow. But the game has become too slow even for me. I didn’t realize how slow until I recently happened onto a Youtube video of the 1970 World Series. My God! No walk-up music. No un-Velcroing and re-Velcroing the batting gloves. (Hell, no batting gloves.) No walking around the mound. No mopping the…

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Corey Seager, left, gets congratulations from Cody Bellinger after hitting a solo home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres in San Diego, Saturday, July 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)(Photo: The Associated Press) The American League’s home run leader is a rookie. Same in the National League. The AL batting race? A rookie is in front there, too. Aaron Judge,…

Leave it to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game of all things, a popularity contest usually worth a snicker every summer, to reinforce an everyday principle every Chicago sports fan can accept. Sometimes people truly get what they deserve. And so it is that White Sox outfielder Avisail Garcia and Cubs closer Wade Davis were the only two local players selected Sunday for the Mid-Summer Classic on July 11 in…

The high court has been given an extraordinary insight into the working practices of Mike Ashley, the controversial founder of Sports Direct, who it was claimed would challenge subordinates to extreme drinking competitions that once ended with the 52-year-old billionaire vomiting into a fireplace. The “unconventional” working life of Ashley, who controls the Sports Direct retail chain and Newcastle United football club, was laid bare in evidence on Monday in…

Amid a probe of sexual harassment at Fox Sports, the company announced Monday that it had fired its controversial head of sports programming, Jamie Horowitz. Horowitz’s dismissal came less than a week after 21st Century Fox began investigating allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace at Fox Sports. The company hired a law firm, which began interviewing women at Fox Sports about Horowitz’s behavior, according to a person familiar with…

When reviewing last week’s PGA Tour field at the Quicken Loans National to make my picks for the week, I didn’t see much. To be frank, there wasn’t much to see. Rickie Fowler, Justin Thomas and a whole lot of nothing. I normally hate weeks like that. Golf is great because its stars are fun and engaging, so a dearth of stars in any given week is a bit of…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo’s hockey marathoners have overcome injuries, illness, fatigue and countless blisters to unofficially set the record for the longest continuous game. It happened shortly after 7 a.m. Monday, when the official time clock mounted in the stands overlooking center ice hit 10 days, 10 hours, 3 minutes and 21 seconds. The time surpassed the previous Guinness World Record mark…

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Corey Seager, left, gets congratulations from Cody Bellinger after hitting a solo home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres in San Diego, Saturday, July 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)(Photo: The Associated Press) The American League’s home run leader is a rookie. Same in the National League. The AL batting race? A rookie is in front there, too. Aaron Judge,…

Mr Blue told the judge, in a written witness statement, how he had been a frequent visitor to Sports Direct’s head office in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. He said he had attended several senior management meetings at the Green Dragon pub in Alfreton, Derbyshire. Mr Blue said: “These meetings were like no other senior management meeting I had ever attended in all my years of investment banking experience. “It was effectively a…

Supergroup, the company behind the Superdry fashion brand, has announced that it is launching standalone sports shops to tap into the fast growing ‘athleisure’ market as profits and sales jumped. The business was forced to release its results highlights last week after the theft of an employee’s handbag contained a draft of the announcement. The retailer, which has 863 shops and concessions around the world, said that its international strategy had…

The academies are part of an effort by Club Tijuana — the Xoloitzcuintles, or more simply the Xolos — to appeal to fans on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. Xolos was the first team in Mexico’s top division, Liga MX, to go bilingual in its public relations, and it has courted an American audience and American players since the team’s inception in 2007. Advertisement Continue reading the main…