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The last year has been the year of the comebacks. When in history have we seen seen so many in the biggest moments and in the biggest sports? There’s the Golden State Warriors’ 3-1 collapse in last year’s NBA finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers, you have the Cleveland Indians blowing a 3-1 lead in the World Series to the Chicago Cubs, and then there are the Atlanta Falcons, who lost…

Midfield’s been a big issue for Barcelona recently. They were completely outclassed in the first leg away to PSG, but that wasn’t the case in the home leg. Sergio Busquets controlled the middle of the field, Andres Iniesta created a number of chances, and Ivan Rakitic was his typical energetic presence. Messi, Neymar and Suarez got the goals, but it was the midfield that helped spark a comeback for Barcelona,…

LeBron’s 2016-17 season has been comprehensively dominant. Consider Harden, who is shooting nearly 10 full percentage points worse from the field than LeBron — 44.3 percent to James’ 53.8 percent. LeBron is also shooting a better percentage from the 3-point line — 39.8 percent to Harden’s 36 percent. (Also know that LeBron is shooting better from three than Kevin Durant and dead even with Steph Curry). Then there are the turnovers. Harden is on…

The son suffered his first injury when he lost a tooth on a Brentwood basketball court. He picked it up, threw it to the sidelines, and kept playing as the father cheered the greatest athlete he had ever seen. Aidan Cullen was 8. “I should have said, ‘Stop, are you OK?’” said Mark Cullen. “But I heard other parents saying, ‘Whoa, that’s such a tough kid.’ So I did nothing.”…

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It’s going to be a huge day in NASCAR today. Las Vegas Motor Speedway has scheduled a press conference at 5:30 p.m. ET at which time it’s expected to announce that the track will get a second race in 2018, one that would fall in the 10-race season-ending Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Still to be determined is which track would lose a race so Las Vegas could gain…

3:39 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment BOCA RATON, Florida — Here’s a roundup of what happened during the final day of the annual general managers’ meetings here Wednesday. Olympics talks stalling As one GM joked to ESPN.com, the league’s Olympic update to GMs this week lasted 38 seconds. Except, he wasn’t really joking. “Nothing new,” Bettman said about the NHL’s players participating in next year’s…

The 2017 World Baseball Classic is underway and we’ve already seen some dramatic games. The tournament continues over the next two weeks and will culminate with the Championship Game on March 22 at Dodger Stadium. Here is the full WBC schedule . In three years, baseball and softball will return to the Olympics for the 2020 games in Tokyo. The two sports were dropped from the Olympics following the 2008…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment NASCAR and SiriusXM today announced a six-year renewal to extend their broadcasting and marketing agreement through 2022. SiriusXM will continue to deliver 24/7 racing content to millions of listeners across North America, including live broadcasts of every race, plus daily NASCAR talk and interviews with voices across the industry through its exclusive SiriusXM NASCAR Radio channel. NASCAR content is available to SiriusXM…

Feb 28, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment On Monday morning the Sports Business Journal made public what many within the NASCAR world already knew, that the sanctioning body was shopping a stack of potential ideas for the future, all aimed at trying to jumpstart the slowing sport of stock car racing. For several months now 15-20 concepts have been kicked around garages, brainstorms ranging from shorter…

Two teams have punched their tickets to the second round of the World Baseball Classic, and one did it on their off-day. Early Wednesday morning, the Netherlands topped Chinese Taipei on, yes, a walk-off walk. The win clinched second round berths for the Netherlands as well as underdog Israel. Here is a recap of the day’s WBC action. Netherlands 6, Chinese Taipei 5 One day after cruising to an easy…

WASHINGTON — A Republican-dominated White House, Senate, and House of Representatives are trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), former President Barack Obama’s ambitious health care overhaul. They’ve run into some problems, however. Soon after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to start rolling back the ACA, saying he wanted the job done quickly. On Monday, House Republicans introduced their bill to repeal and replace Obamacare…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s OK, though. We’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

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Speaking at a panel discussion in 2014, Tom McMillen, a former member of Congress and retired professional basketball player, warned of a coming apocalypse to the status quo of college sports. At the time, the National Collegiate Athletic Association was facing lawsuits on several fronts over its amateurism rules and player safety. Three months earlier, the association’s president, Mark Emmert, had been grilled during a contentious Senate hearing…

For the seventh consecutive year, Turner Sports and CBS Sports will provide live coverage of all 67 games from the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – with all games streamed on NCAA March Madness Live. CBS will broadcast the NCAA Final Four National Semifinals on Saturday, April 1, and then the National Championship on Monday,…

Firefighters could be seen hosing down the gutted wagon with blackened cans littering the embankment on one side of the motorway. It was initially believed the AKW Global Logistics vehicle was carrying tinned dog food which exploded during the blaze. But firefighters have now revealed it was stocked full of cans of sports drink powder as well as white goods, malt grain, floor tiles and chocolate eggs. Staffordshire Fire and…

The Football Association, the Rugby Football Union and the England and Wales Cricket Board are at risk of losing government support and public funding because they do not employ enough women in senior positions. A report released by the charity Women in Sport reveals the three organisations are all failing to meet criteria set out in the new Code for Sports Governance, which stipulates that board membership must be at…

Auction strategy is a monstrosity of a topic that could never be fully represented by a single mock. Every auction has its own personality. The bidding skews toward the most dominant behaviors and timing can play as big of a role as a player’s actual value. 30 who should lead off Our mock (well, it’ll be an actual league this time, but that’s neither here nor there) was a prime…

For the seventh consecutive year, Turner Sports and CBS Sports will provide live coverage of all 67 games from the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – with all games streamed on NCAA March Madness Live. CBS will broadcast the NCAA Final Four National Semifinals on Saturday, April 1, and then the National Championship on Monday,…