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As Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on Friday, athletes around the world watched and reacted to the news online. Some in the NBA, NFL and MLB offered advice to their fellow Americans, while some simply provided commentary on the event. One soccer club—Dulwich, of a lower-division soccer league—even made a quip about the early turnout at the event. Below are…

Edwin Pope realized his life’s calling before he reached puberty. By 11, he was writing about sports for his hometown Athens (Georgia) Banner-Herald. By 15, he was the newspaper’s sports editor, the youngest person in America to hold that position. By 28, he was crafting columns for the Miami Herald, destined to become universally recognized among the premier sportswriters of his generation. Pope, who chronicled South Florida sports, Super Bowls,…

Photo credit: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Many of the 1.5-mile oval tracks on NASCAR’s schedule have an unfortunate nickname: “cookie cutter.” They’re not known for the most interesting racing in the world. However, most do have an alternate, often unique road course layout that other series use. Why doesn’t NASCAR race there instead? Advertisement Some kind soul at NASCAR may share our disdain for racing at the same track in different…

At a news conference at Atlanta Motor Speedway in March of 2009, Parks and his family announces their intentinos to donate many of their NASCAR awards, trophies and other memorarbilia to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Among those in attendance were (from L-R), NASCAR president Mike Helton, Parks’ wife Vi, Parks and NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty. “He set the standard,” Petty once said of Parks. “Mr. Parks…

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Delia Bushell, Managing Director, BT TV and BT Sport Delia Bushell became managing director of BT TV and head of BT Sport in 2014, moving from a role as chief commercial officer at Sky Italia. BT has invested large sums of money in recent years in seeing off its competitors – particularly Bushell’s former employer, Sky – by securing exclusive rights, and notably acquired the rights to the UEFA Champions…

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum held its annual post-election press conference to introduce the Class of 2017 to the media. As the St. Regis Hotel in New York City hosted the hour long press conference in the shadows of Trump Tower, Baseball Writers’ Association of America secretary-treasurer Jack O’Connell couldn’t help himself but partake in some good natured humor pertaining to President-elect Trump. In his opening remarks,…

Now 34 and preparing for his 13th year in major league baseball, Baltimore Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy is perceived by some to be in a state of athletic decline. The same player who slugged 30 home runs as recently as 2011, for example, belted just 8 last year, and injuries have forced him to miss about 30 percent of his team’s games over the past two years. But there are…

Forget Bryce Harper and Mike Trout … one of the most valuable autographs you can get on a baseball right now is Donald Trump.  We spoke with multiple sports memorabilia experts who tell us the value of a Trump signed baseball used to be around $100 ($200 tops) … now, it’s worth around $1,000 depending on the quality of the signature.  Both Brandon Steiner of Steiner Sports and Joe Coppola…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — This is a story about four Cleveland Indians, an abstention and the muddled process by which baseball determines those who get to be remembered as the best who ever played the game. 1. Maybe it’s fitting that the Baseball Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, N.Y., a quaint village whose place as the actual birthplace of baseball is as big a myth as the Scottish village Brigadoon,…

Like a cold snap to ring in the new year, one certainty for area baseball fans existed each January from the late 1950s through the early 1990s: Willie Duke, resplendent in coat and tie with baseball cap, pitched tickets for the annual Raleigh Hot Stove League banquet. Duke played 14 seasons of minor-league baseball and left his mark in the Durham Bulls record book with a .385 batting average in…

“Sometimes it’s not enough to change laws, you have to change hearts. And sports has a way of changing hearts.” — Barack Obama What a nice thought. What bunk. The times being what they are, and what they are unsettles the times, sports is here to take credit for being a place where, as a Supreme Court justice once mused, we can find people’s accomplishments. Actually, Earl Warren was talking…

The Dallas Cowboys is examining whether to become the first NFL team to purchase an e-sports team. Credit: James D. Smith/Dallas Cowboys “America’s team” might be on the cusp of entering another competitive arena: e-sports. The organization has quietly spent more than a year mulling over whether it should buy an established e-sports team of teens and 20-somethings who competitively play video games in front of fans for cash prizes….

Delia Bushell, Managing Director, BT TV and BT Sport Delia Bushell became managing director of BT TV and head of BT Sport in 2014, moving from a role as chief commercial officer at Sky Italia. BT has invested large sums of money in recent years in seeing off its competitors – particularly Bushell’s former employer, Sky – by securing exclusive rights, and notably acquired the rights to the UEFA Champions…

WHEN JOE Greenspan, a standout soccer player out of Westfield (N.J.) High, chose to attend the Naval Academy over offers from William and Mary and other Division I programs, he knew he would be pursuing one dream at risk of possibly abandoning another. Yes, he would have the opportunity to serve his country, armed with a degree in economics. But he also knew that his five-year postgraduate active duty requirement…

Alibaba Group Founder and Executive Chairman, China’s Jack Ma speaks during a panel session on the second day of the World Economic Forum, on January 18, 2017 in Davos. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images In 2014, billionaire Jack Ma said that “China’s soccer industry needs somebody to help stir up things.” Whether he had been thinking about stirring up the Olympics at the time is unknown. The Financial Times reports that e-commerce giant Alibaba has…

Delia Bushell, Managing Director, BT TV and BT Sport Delia Bushell became managing director of BT TV and head of BT Sport in 2014, moving from a role as chief commercial officer at Sky Italia. BT has invested large sums of money in recent years in seeing off its competitors – particularly Bushell’s former employer, Sky – by securing exclusive rights, and notably acquired the rights to the UEFA Champions…

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Photo credit: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Many of the 1.5-mile oval tracks on NASCAR’s schedule have an unfortunate nickname: “cookie cutter.” They’re not known for the most interesting racing in the world. However, most do have an alternate, often unique road course layout that other series use. Why doesn’t NASCAR race there instead? Advertisement Some kind soul at NASCAR may share our disdain for racing at the same track in different…

Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe discuss what they are looking forward to in 2017, analyse the changes to the WorldTour calendar and rules, assess the Vuelta a España route, which was announced last week, and weigh-up the Giro d’Italia wild card selections. The Cycling Podcast in association with the Telegraph is supported by Rapha and Science in Sport