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The NFL recently announced it will allow group celebrations and prop celebrations after touchdowns, moving half a step closer to become a league that almost kind of tolerates fun! In honor of this sort of momentous occasion, we’re trotting out the best sports celebrations of all time — or at least the ones we can think of, after many emails exchanged with CBS Sports staffers. Also, huge hat-tip to Sagar…

WEDNESDAY ON TV COLLEGE BASEBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — NCAA College World Series, Game 9, Florida St. vs. LSU, at Omaha, Neb. GOLF 7 p.m. GOLF — PGA Professional Championship, final round, at Sunriver, Ore. HORSE RACING 8:30 a.m. NBCSN — Royal Ascot, at Ascot, England MLB BASEBALL 2:20 p.m. MLB — San Diego at Chicago Cubs 7:05 p.m. MLB — Cleveland at Baltimore 10:10 p.m. ESPN — N.Y. Mets…

Video streaming service Twitch announced Tuesday a two-year deal with Blizzard Entertainment to become the exclusive third-party home for many of the Irvine game-maker’s e-sports events. Blizzard Entertainment can continue to stream video game competitions on its own services, including MLG.TV and Blizzard.com. But the global exclusivity deals a blow to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, ESPN and other apps competing for streaming rights to the growing form of entertainment. Blizzard Entertainment…

Tammy Abraham is understood to have a future at Stamford Bridge, which is why Chelsea want only to loan him out Swansea City have agreed to sign striker Tammy Abraham on loan from Chelsea for the 2017-18 season. The Swans have fought off competition from Newcastle and Brighton for the 19-year-old, who scored 23 goals in 40 appearances on loan at Championship side Bristol City in 2016-17. Paperwork for the…

Zach Bosland takes the field during the Alexandria Little League re-opening ceremony for Eugene Simpson Stadium field.  (Photo by Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post) The smaller diamond at Alexandria’s Eugene Simpson Stadium Park — Little Simpson, to locals — attracted a reported 4,000 people when it opened for the city’s Little Major Leaguers in 1953. The field’s dimensions were laid out by the head groundskeeper at Griffith Stadium, courtesy…

The NFL recently announced it will allow group celebrations and prop celebrations after touchdowns, moving half a step closer to become a league that almost kind of tolerates fun! In honor of this sort of momentous occasion, we’re trotting out the best sports celebrations of all time — or at least the ones we can think of, after many emails exchanged with CBS Sports staffers. Also, huge hat-tip to Sagar…

WEDNESDAY ON TV COLLEGE BASEBALL 7 p.m. ESPN — NCAA College World Series, Game 9, Florida St. vs. LSU, at Omaha, Neb. GOLF 7 p.m. GOLF — PGA Professional Championship, final round, at Sunriver, Ore. HORSE RACING 8:30 a.m. NBCSN — Royal Ascot, at Ascot, England MLB BASEBALL 2:20 p.m. MLB — San Diego at Chicago Cubs 7:05 p.m. MLB — Cleveland at Baltimore 10:10 p.m. ESPN — N.Y. Mets…

The NBA offseason has become even more enthralling than the actual games. Monotony and predictability are two things that can easily describe the NBA regular season, but the offseason is vastly different. During the offseason, teams have a chance to be good. And Thursday’s NBA Draft has already sparked some interesting rumors to match an early trade that moved Philadelphia up to the No. 1 overall pick. Every indication points…

Gymnastics may be known as a sport for women in their teens, but Johanna Quaas is still going impressively strong in the sport at the ripe young age of 91. Check out this routine the nonagenarian performed recently in Berlin: Quaas, who was born in Germany on Nov. 20, 1925, was introduced to gymnastics as a little girl. The former physical education teacher now competes in her country’s amateur Landes-Seniorenspiele competition. She made it…

When NASCAR’s frequent fluctuations with rules and points are juxtaposed against the redundancy of left turn after left turn after left turn, the stark contrast can create a contradictory landscape: Is anything really changing? Appropriately this weekend, the Monster Energy Cup season heads back to California for Sunday’s Toyota / Save Mart 350 on Sonoma Raceway’s 2.52-mile road course, where at least the drivers will be turning right as well…

“I get the press release, jumped out of my seat, slammed my hands on my desk and said no way,” Battaglino said. “I was literally freaking out.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story The partnership with Twitter, officially announced on Tuesday, will provide a hefty lift to the league, which wrapped up a tumultuous second year of operation in March. In 2015, the N.W.H.L. became the first North American women’s…

The NFL recently announced it will allow group celebrations and prop celebrations after touchdowns, moving half a step closer to become a league that almost kind of tolerates fun! In honor of this sort of momentous occasion, we’re trotting out the best sports celebrations of all time — or at least the ones we can think of, after many emails exchanged with CBS Sports staffers. Also, huge hat-tip to Sagar…

After tying a record for the lowest score in relation to par at the U.S. Open, Brooks Koepka will grace this week’s cover of Sports Illustrated. The 27-year-old Florida native shot 16 under at Erin Hills last weekend to win his first career major, vaulting him into the top 10 in the world. Koepka is the second golfer featured on the cover of SI this year, following Sergio Garcia’s breakthrough…

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The first time Tim Hague went down against Adam Braidwood was a little over a minute into the first round. Backed into the corner, he took a pair of right hands and ended up kneeling on the canvas, rising to his feet as the referee’s count hit seven. Roughly a minute after that Hague went down again. Then shortly after he took a few more hard shots and went lunging…

Despite finishing third in the Irish Hills 250 on Saturday, NASCAR XFINITY Series driver Elliott Sadler was furious after the race at Michigan International Speedway. Sadler – a former full-time Cup Series driver who now competes full-time in the lower series for Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s team, JR Motorsports – finished third to winner and Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin and rookie William Byron. FOX Sports obviously interviewed Hamlin afterward but…

“I get the press release, jumped out of my seat, slammed my hands on my desk and said no way,” Battaglino said. “I was literally freaking out.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story The partnership with Twitter, officially announced on Tuesday, will provide a hefty boost to the league, which wrapped up a tumultuous second year of operation in March. In 2015, the N.W.H.L. became the first North American women’s…

Two-year-old Makayla Bickell loves to talk about hockey. Since April, she has repeatedly asked her parents when they are going back to the arena to see another game. But the answer isn’t so easy. Her dad, Bryan Bickell, received a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in November 2016. A three-time Stanley Cup winner with the Chicago Blackhawks, Bickell decided to retire from the sport in April. The former forward played 10…

“If you can’t beat them, join them,” doesn’t necessarily apply to this period of NBA history. Instead, that idiom should go, “If you can’t beat them, join together.” The Warriors’ superteam was a reaction to LeBron’s success in Cleveland, which grew out of his squad in Miami, which follows in a long tradition of NBA superteams — so really, a few superstars deciding to come together to try to take…

Tiffany Lin’s Osgood-Schlatter disease diagnosis may stem from overuse of her body for sports.Tamara Beckwith During a soccer game early last year, Tiffany Lin began experiencing a sharp pain in her right knee. Then a freshman at Manhattan’s Beacon School, Lin tried to play through the pain but sought out a doctor when it wouldn’t subside. The diagnosis? She had Osgood-Schlatter disease, which is the inflammation of the area just…