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Russell Westbrook has won the All-Star Game MVP award in each of the past two seasons, and he’s averaging a triple-double so far this season. But he won’t be in the starting lineup for the West on Feb. 19 in New Orleans. The voting was done by a combination of fans, media members and players, and they collectively decided that Stephen Curry and James Harden were both more deserving…

DAVOS, Switzerland Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba has become a major sponsor of the Olympics after signing a deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that runs until 2028, the two parties said on Thursday     Alibaba, which becomes the official e-commerce and cloud services partner, joins 12 other companies – including Coca-Cola and McDonald’s – as top Olympic sponsors.     No financial details were disclosed. IOC sources have previously told…

U.S. Figure Skating President Sam Auxier said Thursday that Russia should be banned from the 2018 Olympics because of accusations of a mass doping cover-up at the Sochi Games three years ago. World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren has said there is evidence that doping test samples given by 12 Russian medal winners at the 2014 Olympics were tampered with. Leaders from 19 national anti-doping agencies, including the U.S., have…

NASCAR has confirmed they will allow Daniel Suarez to compete in the Advance Auto Parts Clash at Daytona International Speedway (Feb. 18, FS1). Suarez has replaced Carl Edwards in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Camry. NASCAR came to the decision after it was determined the team was already in the advanced stages of preparing the car and sponsorship for the race. The rookie will be the first Mexican-born…

Today we’re publishing FiveThirtyEight’s club soccer predictions interactive, which includes team ratings, odds for upcoming matches and forecasts for the top five European domestic soccer leagues — the Premier League (England), La Liga (Spain), Bundesliga (Germany), Serie A (Italy) and Ligue 1 (France) — along with the UEFA Champions League, Europe’s premier club competition. Our forecasts are available in both English and Spanish, and we‘ll be adding more leagues in…

The word symbiosis conjures up cheerful images of unlikely animals paired by evolution for their common good: clownfish and sea anemones or oxpecker birds and rhinos. Yet the term also covers parasitic relationships when one species harms the other – think fleas and dogs. Top revenue generator Man United The partnership between England’s top soccer league and the companies Sky Plc and BT Group Plc that screen its games every…

Now that the dust has settled on the 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame class, we can start to look ahead to next year’s ballot. Sure, we’ll go far more in depth come next December and January, but we can at least begin to think about which players might be going in next year. We have several carryovers with a good shot at induction, but there are also some worthy first-timers….

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Brett Williams knew he wanted to commit to play baseball at South Carolina in late December, telling his head coach Charles Assey he “felt like it is where I need to be.” Less than two weeks later, South Carolina coach Chad Holbrook said the same words to Assey, the Lexington White Knoll baseball coach, when Assey delivered the news that Williams was in the intensive care unit….

Viewers may soon see a big change coming in the way they experience the chills and thrills of live sports broadcasts. It’ll be customizable, interactive, and it will put them at the center of the experience. If it goes as envisioned, Intel’s multi-year plan will allow viewers to tailor their own live sports broadcasts, and watch events as if they were on the field. The live sports broadcasts will be…

DAVOS, Switzerland Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba has become a major sponsor of the Olympics after signing a deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that runs until 2028, the two parties said on Thursday     Alibaba, which becomes the official e-commerce and cloud services partner, joins 12 other companies – including Coca-Cola and McDonald’s – as top Olympic sponsors.     No financial details were disclosed. IOC sources have previously told…

The word symbiosis conjures up cheerful images of unlikely animals paired by evolution for their common good: clownfish and sea anemones or oxpecker birds and rhinos. Yet the term also covers parasitic relationships when one species harms the other – think fleas and dogs. Top revenue generator Man United The partnership between England’s top soccer league and the companies Sky Plc and BT Group Plc that screen its games every…

London (AP) — Bridge players who want the card game recognized as a sport have lost their latest legal bid in Britain. The Court of Appeal in London on Thursday upheld an October 2015 ruling backing Sport England’s refusal to put bridge in the same category as badminton, billiards and ballroom dancing. The English Bridge Union, which has some 55,000 members, had sought the designation. The union had argued that…

Ever wonder who the fastest driver is, regardless of what vehicle is being driven? Well wonder no more, because stars from Formula 1, NASCAR, IndyCar, Le Mans, MotoGP and Rally X will compete for supremacy Sunday in the Race of Champions. The unique event will take place at Marlins Park in Miami and air live on the CBS Sports Network with coverage beginning at noon ET. The race will feature…

Rick Hendrick Born: July 12, 1949, Palmer Springs, Va. Residence: Charlotte. Family: Wife Linda, daughter Lynn Carlson, son Ricky (deceased). Career highlights: Hendrick founded All-Star Racing, which evolved into Hendrick Motorsports, in the late fall of 1983 with Geoff Bodine as driver and Harry Hyde as crew chief. Many thought the mix of conflicting personalities wouldn’t work, but Hendrick obviously knew better. Bodine gave the operation its first victory on…

Now that the dust has settled on the 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame class, we can start to look ahead to next year’s ballot. Sure, we’ll go far more in depth come next December and January, but we can at least begin to think about which players might be going in next year. We have several carryovers with a good shot at induction, but there are also some worthy first-timers….

Three baseball stars who avoided convincing connection to steroid use during their playing days — Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, and Ivan Rodriguez — were elected to Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame Wednesday. The stars all received 75 percent of the ballots cast by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Houston Astros longtime first baseman and four-time All-Star Jeff Bagwell is pictured announcing his retirement from baseball in 2006. Bagwell…

The Baseball Hall of Fame announced that Tim Raines, Jeff Bagwell and Ivan Rodriguez gained induction via the BBWAA vote on Wednesday. As always, the voting results were met with a tide of happiness, anger, smart commentary and a deluge of ignorance. On the latter point, let’s blow up two of the dumbest things I routinely see bumping around. 1. How can someone’s vote total change? There are two groups…

On MLB Network Monday evening, contemporaries Dan Plesac and John Smoltz opined that Bo Jackson could have been a Hall of Famer, at least a regular All-Star, had he committed to baseball. Jackson produced a career wRC+ of 111 and 7.7 WAR over parts of eight major-league seasons, hardly the stuff of bronzed immortalization in Cooperstown. But had Jackson fully committed to the sport, what could he have been?…

The Baseball Hall of Fame announced three new members to its fraternity on Wednesday but a spike in voting for Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, two of the most controversial candidates ever, was creating just as much buzz. Bonds and Clemens, whose MLB career achievements would ordinarily have earned them landslide entry into the Hall of Fame, have yet to reach the necessary 75 percent threshold for election with both…

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