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Tom Brady’s stolen Super Bowl jersey has been located – FOXSports.com

Monday, March 20, 2017

The biggest mystery of the Super Bowl LI been solved, and, no, it’s not how the Atlanta Falcons managed to blow a 25-point lead in the second half. As first reported by FOX Sports NFL Insider Jay Glazer, the FBI and NFL security have found Tom Brady’s stolen jersey, which has been missing for a month and a half. Breaking: FOX Sports has learned the FBI & NFL Security believe they have located Tom…

College hockey conference title game provides one of the best sports GIFs ever – FOXSports.com

Monday, March 20, 2017

Michigan Tech defeated Bowling Green in a double-overtime thriller over the weekend to take home the WCHA conference championship. The whole highlight reel paints a picture of a pretty intense and emotional game, but there’s one single clip that you’ll want to pay attention to. It might be the greatest sports GIF that you’ll ever lay eyes upon. Here’s the masterpiece in question: There are so many things I love about…

Brady Anderson’s role with Orioles a topic of debate – FOXSports.com

Monday, March 20, 2017

His title is vice president of baseball operations. The Orioles list him No. 2 on their front-office depth chart, just under executive VP Dan Duquette. But to Brady Anderson, a role that typically equates to assistant general manager is not enough. “I made up my mind early on that I’m not going to stop doing what I’m good at,” Anderson said. “There are things I can learn from somebody like…

Big TV deal for Gophers sports won’t help UMN academics – TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press

Monday, March 20, 2017

A lucrative new media-rights deal is expected to grow revenue for Golden Gophers athletics by $17 million next year, but the University of Minnesota’s academic side won’t get a share of that windfall. As recently as September, President Eric Kaler predicted Minnesota soon would join the short list of universities whose athletics programs rake in more money than they spend. “I expect us to be able to do that as…

Women’s National Team to Meet with USA Hockey as Boycott Looms – New York Times

Monday, March 20, 2017

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Japanese Olympics golf course bows to pressure on female membership – The Guardian

Monday, March 20, 2017

The Japanese golf club at the centre of a sexism row has bowed to pressure from Olympic officials and will overturn restrictions on female membership. The Kasumigaseki country club, north-west of Tokyo, was threatened with the loss of its status as a 2020 Olympics venue if it failed to grant women full membership rights. Under its existing rules, women were prohibited from playing on Sundays. The private club in Saitama…

Palestinian women try to bring baseball to Gaza – ABC News

Monday, March 20, 2017

The young Palestinian women don baseball caps on top of their Islamic headscarves and field tennis balls with fabric gloves, giving a decidedly local feel to the great American pastime. They are trying to bring baseball to the Gaza Strip, an effort that is still in its early innings. The players, who work out on a small soccer pitch in a southern Gaza town, admit they are still trying to…

World Baseball Classic late start times is one of very few issues holding tournament back – New York Daily News

Monday, March 20, 2017

Under the circumstances, it was one of the greatest catches you’ll ever see, Adam Jones leaping high above the center-field fence to rob Manny Machado in the seventh inning of a tension-packed, do-or-die game between the USA and the Dominican Republic. Except you probably didn’t see it — at least not live. After all, it happened at 1 a.m. on the East Coast, three hours into a game that didn’t…

Michigan may be 2017’s best sports story so far, and the Wolverines are Final Four good – CBSSports.com

Monday, March 20, 2017

Download the CBS Sports App today and get instant tournament news and alerts, plus get the latest picks and upsets from SportsLine! Bracket Central Expert Picks Latest odds In the thrall of this moment, we’ll start with a thought on the tournament. This tournament, this annual event. The tournament. It gives us great things every year, things we’ve never seen before but have come to expect that make the sports experience worthwhile. So now…

Mike Stone (Stoney) reigns as Detroit’s ‘godfather of sports radio’ – Detroit Free Press

Monday, March 20, 2017

Michael (Stoney) Stone talks on WXYT-FM (97.1) on March 9, 2017.(Photo: George Fox/97.1 The Ticket) It wasn’t an ordinary confession, at least not during drive-time radio. But it was teased as “the dumbest thing Stoney has ever done.” So, after the break, Mike Stone, partnered with Jamie Samuelsen delivered to southeast Michigan sports fans tuned to WXYT-FM (97.1) on this mid-February Thursday morning. Two nights before, he was watching the…

How Kentucky’s win over Wichita State hurt the NCAA tournament – FOXSports.com

Monday, March 20, 2017

There was only one problem with Sunday’s Kentucky- Wichita State thriller: It happened about seven days too early. Thanks to the NCAA tournament selection committee’s criminal decision to award a No. 10 seed to a 31-4 Shockers team that was viewed as one of the best in the country, a game that could have been played in the Final Four and should only have been played in a regional final or, at worst,…

Is this the worst NCAA tournament loss in Duke history? – FOXSports.com

Monday, March 20, 2017

Take your jaw off the floor. We’ll wait. The mighty Duke Blue Devils, one week ago crowned ACC tournament champions and discussed as a probable No. 1 seed, were handed a a stunning loss on Sunday night to the feel-good South Carolina Gamecocks, a team that hadn’t won an NCAA tournament game since 1973 and had never seen the Sweet 16. The ACC blue blood losing to the SEC also-ran was…

Turner Sports, CBS Sports announce tip times, announcer teams for … – NCAA.com

Monday, March 20, 2017

CBS Sports and Turner Sports announced tip times and commentator teams for the Regional Semifinals of the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship on Thursday, March 23, and Friday, March 24 (7 p.m.-midnight ET, both days), with all remaining games available in their entirety across TBS and CBS, in addition to NCAA March Madness Live.  Exclusive live coverage will begin on TBS both days with Infiniti NCAA Tip-Off at 6 p.m. and…

Women’s National Team to Meet with USA Hockey as Boycott Looms – New York Times

Monday, March 20, 2017

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Michigan may be 2017’s best sports story so far, and the Wolverines are Final Four good – CBSSports.com

Monday, March 20, 2017

Download the CBS Sports App today and get instant tournament news and alerts, plus get the latest picks and upsets from SportsLine! Bracket Central Expert Picks Latest odds In the thrall of this moment, we’ll start with a thought on the tournament. This tournament, this annual event. The tournament. It gives us great things every year, things we’ve never seen before but have come to expect that make the sports experience worthwhile. So now…

For Northwestern sports, the ‘after’ sure beats the ‘before’ – Chicago Tribune

Monday, March 20, 2017

For decades Northwestern alumni took pride in things like high SAT entry scores, “Saturday Night Live” cast members, two campus beaches, Otto Graham and their “Purple Mafia” media contingent. Then came the 1995 Rose Bowl season. Gary Barnett took the Purple to Pasadena. Northwestern football would no longer be known for losing Ara Parseghian to Notre Dame or a 34-game losing streak that ended with a “laking” of the goal…

Ryan Newman scores huge upset win in Camping World 500 – FOXSports.com

Monday, March 20, 2017

March Madness has nothing on NASCAR when it comes to stunning upsets — at least not on Sunday at Phoenix Raceway. Ryan Newman scored a shocking surprise win in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Camping World 500 Sunday, gambling to stay out on old tires at the end and earning a huge payoff. It was Newman’s 18th Cup win overall and his second at Phoenix, but his first since…

Doping in amateur sport: Drug use ‘fast becoming a crisis’ – Nicole Sapstead – BBC News

Monday, March 20, 2017

Media playback is not supported on this device Key stats from a ComRes/BBC doping in amateur sport poll Drug use at every level of sport is “fast becoming a crisis” according to UK Anti-Doping – responding to a BBC poll into doping in amateur sport. It found more than a third (35%) of amateur sports people say they personally know someone who has doped, and 8% said they had taken…

NASCAR at Phoenix: Ryan Newman takes risk, scores stunning Cup race win – Charlotte Observer

Monday, March 20, 2017

A big gamble in the desert heat ended a long victory drought for Ryan Newman. When just about everybody else decided to take a tire-changing pit stop in the final few laps on Sunday, Newman figured he’d be going in with them. His crew chief Luke Lambert thought otherwise. Just a heck of a gutsy call by Luke Lambert. Ryan Newman, on his crew chief’s call not to take a…

Champion for Women’s Hockey Wills Pro League Into Third Year – New York Times

Monday, March 20, 2017

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