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UCLA has been living a season on the brink almost from opening day. The Bruins’ record sat at five games below .500 in the middle of March, necessitating a sustained push for the next 2 1/2 months just to make the postseason. They were back in a familiar spot Friday, needing to stretch wins together to keep playing, after a mistake-filled showing in their NCAA baseball tournament regional opener. A…

Right-hander John Gavin gave up only three hits and struck out 10 in seven innings, second baseman Sahid Valenzuela had three hits, drove in a run and scored the go-ahead run in the fifth inning, and Cal State Fullerton defeated top-seeded Stanford 4-1 on Friday night to improve to 2-0 in the Stanford Regional. The Titans on Saturday night will face the winner of an afternoon elimination game between Stanford…

Fox Networks Group is placing an emphasis on its sports content in early-stage “upfront” talks,  the latest sign of the growing importance the company sees in NFL and MLB broadcasts and the like. The 21st Century Fox-owned unit is “trying to push multi-year sports deals,” said one person familiar with the tone of negotiations. Two other people familiar with talks confirmed that Fox had put an early focus on sports…

Pakistan captain Sarfaz Ahmed (left) and Indian counterpart Virat Kholi face a big occasion on Sunday “It’s not just a game of cricket, it’s a lot more than that.” Those are the words of former Pakistan captain Asif Iqbal before arguably the biggest match in sport this year. On Sunday, Edgbaston will host India v Pakistan in the Champions Trophy group stage. If previous contests are to go by, more…

“Overall, it seemed Dimitroff didn’t push the panic button after the Super Bowl collapse,” Kaplan wrote. “He barely touched the offense and made enough tweaks on defense to hope his players can repeat what they did in 2016, with a better finish.”

One official said the sport could appeal to the young and urban demographic. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via Associated Press) Olympics organizers are eager to get the ball rolling, or rather bouncing, as they look toward the 2020 program in Tokyo. According to the Associated Press, the International Olympic Committee is all but certain it will add 3-on-3 basketball to its ever-changing list of events. “It would certainly be a…

Former National Security Agency senior executive and whistleblower Thomas Drake revealed himself this week as the source for a lawsuit alleging the NSA conducted “blanket, indiscriminate surveillance” of Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics. In a declaration filed in discovery in the case in U.S. district court in Utah, Drake asserted the NSA, in coordination with the FBI, scooped up and stored the content of emails and text…

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RELATED: Buy tickets for Dover | Qualifying results | See every car in the field DOVER, Delaware – If Joe Gibbs Racing isn’t back, it’s hard to say what “back” is.   Kyle Busch put his No. 18 JGR Toyota on the pole for Sunday’s AAA 400 Drive for Autism at Dover International Speedway (1 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), edging favorite son Martin Truex Jr. for the…

A grass-roots coalition that opposes holding the Olympics in Los Angeles staged its first public protest Friday, walking in on a private meeting that included bid officials. Showing up at a Van Nuys hotel with placards that read “No! No! No!,” about 20 members of the group NOlympics LA were quickly ushered out of a Chamber of Commerce breakfast where LA 2024 bid officials had been invited to give a…

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“Overall, it seemed Dimitroff didn’t push the panic button after the Super Bowl collapse,” Kaplan wrote. “He barely touched the offense and made enough tweaks on defense to hope his players can repeat what they did in 2016, with a better finish.”

Football isn’t easy, so that’s why teams practice the same few plays over and over and over. And the repetition only ends when everyone gets it right. Players who blow a blocking assignment or drop a pass in football practice cause everyone to do it again, so teammates try to encourage the singled-out player to do it well. Some will offer suggestions. Others will help him accomplish the task. If…

A BLOGGER has sparked fury for an article complaining Rihanna is going to make “being fat the hot new trend”. New York-based Chris Spagnuolo also claimed the singer looked like she weighed “180lbs” in photos taken of her a week ago. Pictured is a tweet linking to the offending article, which has since been taken down The cruel article referred to this photograph of the singer taken a week ago…

Back when ordinary cars were pretty awful, all a luxury car needed to be was pretty good. Genesis, Hyundai’s nascent luxury division, is cursed to be trudging up the long hill to luxury legitimacy at a time when ordinary cars are danged nice. And that includes a lot of danged nice Hyundais being sold right alongside the Genesis vehicles in stores with big Hyundai signs out front. The new, twin-turbocharged…

Olympics organizers are eager to get the ball rolling, or rather bouncing, as they look toward the 2020 program in Tokyo. According to the Associated Press, the International Olympic Committee is all but certain it will add 3-on-3 basketball to its ever-changing list of events. “It would certainly be a perfect fit,” Patrick Baumann, the secretary general of world basketball’s governing body, told the news service on Friday. Baumann points…

This is a good time to be a college baseball fan. +7  The NCAA postseason is here. Sixty-four teams battle one another at 16 regional sites in the first step to reaching the hallowed grounds of Omaha, Nebraska. Fans will fill cozy stadiums, cramming into outfield bleachers while guzzling sodas and downing hot dogs. They’ll spend gobs of money, filtering…

Baseball Bill Holdforth in 2005. (Photo by Ricky Carioti / TWP) Back when he was still bartending at the old Hawk ‘n’ Dove — the original Capitol Hill version, fragrant with history and also bodily fluids — Baseball Bill used to host what he called “Interesting Story Hour” for his regulars. “And people would tell stories that weren’t particularly interesting,” recalled Paul Meagher, another longtime Hawk ‘n’ Dove employee. They…

The flow of information in today’s world has largely shifted to the Internet. The successful branding of an athlete requires a strategy to present them on the multiple platforms of content supply in an appealing way. Web experts can be helpful in designing and building the right website for an athlete. Interactivity with fans and the public is key. Back in the 90’s my firm built out a website called…

It’s time to take on the BBC Sport and A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz – have you been paying attention to what’s been going on in the world of sport in the past week? Picture credits: Getty Images, Reuters.