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The 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea will begin just a year from this week. It will feature events many of us have never heard of before, let alone seen. Pyeongchang, the host city, is not Pyongyang, which is an entirely different place across the border. As the countdown begins, here are 18 things to know about the Games — which will take place from Feb. 9 to 25, 2018….

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A sport-by-sport look at the US prospects for the XXIIIrd Winter Games, which begin in Pyeongchang a year from this week, with 2014 and projected 2018 medals in parentheses: Alpine skiing (5/2): If the Americans can stay out of the operating room they could match their Sochi haul. Mikaela Shiffrin will be favored to repeat her slalom victory and also should medal in the giant slalom. Ted Ligety, who won…

American Swimming Team: Present – The Top of the Team Beginning with the December 2016 issue and running through May 2017, Swimming World takes a look at the American Swimming Team past and present, and will provide some thoughts on the future. This month: Part III. In this third of a six-part series on the American Swimming Team, Swimming World takes a look at Team USA’s performance…

Caption Close DERBY — Boston’s Fenway Park has its Green Monster. And soon Derby’s Leo F. Ryan sports complex may have a “Red Monster” to fit the school’s color and its Red Raider mascot. At least that’s the hope of Superintendent of Schools Matthew Conway, who explained how a retaining wall for the relocation of the high school baseball field can be split in two with seating in between. “It…

Brian Butterfield was jogging from his third-base coaching box back to the Red Sox dugout when he heard someone calling his name. “There’s this guy yelling at me,” Butterfield recalled from a game last season. Normally he would pay little attention – just another loud fan at Fenway. But Butterfield took a quick glance. “It looked like Steve Belichick,” Butterfield said. Indeed, the son of Patriots Coach Bill Belichick, a…

A sport-by-sport look at the US prospects for the XXIIIrd Winter Games, which begin in Pyeongchang a year from this week, with 2014 and projected 2018 medals in parentheses: Alpine skiing (5/2): If the Americans can stay out of the operating room they could match their Sochi haul. Mikaela Shiffrin will be favored to repeat her slalom victory and also should medal in the giant slalom. Ted Ligety, who won…

The 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea will begin just a year from this week. It will feature events many of us have never heard of before, let alone seen. Pyeongchang, the host city, is not Pyongyang, which is an entirely different place across the border. As the countdown begins, here are 18 things to know about the Games — which will take place from Feb. 9 to 25, 2018….

A sport-by-sport look at the US prospects for the XXIIIrd Winter Games, which begin in Pyeongchang a year from this week, with 2014 and projected 2018 medals in parentheses: Alpine skiing (5/2): If the Americans can stay out of the operating room they could match their Sochi haul. Mikaela Shiffrin will be favored to repeat her slalom victory and also should medal in the giant slalom. Ted Ligety, who won…

Before the 2017 Monster Energy Cup Series season gets underway with the Daytona 500 on Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. ET on FOX, NASCAR drivers took one last look back at what was an interesting 2016 season. On FS1’s NASCAR Race Hub, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and more talked about what they thought were the most compelling moments from last year. From the epic Daytona 500 finish to Dale Earnhardt…

The NASCAR community is getting pumped  on the eve of Super Bowl LI, which kicks off Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET on FOX following a full day of pre-game coverage. Drivers and other members of the community are making the trip to Houston for the big game. Joey Logano, a New England Patriots fan, and David Ragan, fan of the Atlanta Falcons, have even made put a little…

The NHL keeps delaying its decision on whether it will send its players to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, but league officials aren’t thrilled about disrupting next season’s schedule for Games in a faraway market with a 14-hour time change. Most of the players, however, want to go. In exchange for allowing the players…

Caption Close DERBY — Boston’s Fenway Park has its Green Monster. And soon Derby’s Leo F. Ryan sports complex may have a “Red Monster” to fit the school’s color and its Red Raider mascot. At least that’s the hope of Superintendent of Schools Matthew Conway, who explained how a retaining wall for the relocation of the high school baseball field can be split in two with seating in between. “It…

Through social media, Bill Bottenfield, declared to me he’d like to have a go at the long par six hole at the Turquoise Valley Golf Course. In a subsequent phone conversation, we arranged for a tee time. Bill had been a pitcher on the baseball teams I had coached at Cochise College, circa 1969 and 1970. He is presently a resident of Harrison, Arkansas. My memories…

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A sport-by-sport look at the US prospects for the XXIIIrd Winter Games, which begin in Pyeongchang a year from this week, with 2014 and projected 2018 medals in parentheses: Alpine skiing (5/2): If the Americans can stay out of the operating room they could match their Sochi haul. Mikaela Shiffrin will be favored to repeat her slalom victory and also should medal in the giant slalom. Ted Ligety, who won…

File photo. With the 2017 season approaching, the Texas State men’s baseball team is preparing for the new year by combining both returning players with new ones. At the end of every season, there are players who leave the team to graduate, get drafted and/or leave their collegiate athlete days behind. However, the beginning of each season also brings along new faces for the team. The 2017…

Washington Post sports columnist Kevin Blackistone, conservative commentator Lenny McAllister and ESPN magazine writer Pablo Torre discuss whether sports and politics can be separated.

The lack of unanimity within UK Sport over how it spends its budget of £550 million over the next four years raises further questions about a strategy that has already led to redundancies on the elite programmes of those sports that have lost out. As will the revelation that the quango’s latest board meeting on Wednesday deferred for the second time a decision that threatens to strip wheelchair tennis of all…