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Hokie basketball standout among seven set for induction January 19, 2017 PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Virginia Sports Hall of Fame has announced that Virginia Tech men’s basketball great Bimbo Coles will be inducted into its class of 2017, as chosen by the statewide Honors Court committee. Coles played at Virginia Tech under Virginia Sports Hall of Fame coaches Charlie Moir and Frankie Allen for his four years. Coles…

As a sportswriter, I live in a strange place: a realm where facts are still facts. And fans of sports live there, too. How is this possible? Aren’t we living in the well-publicized “post-fact age”? Hardly a week passes when we don’t see more theories on how our Information Age devolved into a post-truth disinformation pox. Americans are divided, often angry and sometimes enraged about the basic facts under discussion…

USA TODAY Sports’ Lorenzo Reyes breaks down Sunday’s matchup between Pittsburgh and New England. USA TODAY Sports

This is not a great quarterback class.  It lost one of its top prospects, Wyoming quarterback Josh Allen, and added more than a few that could have used another year of maturation in college.  But it’s the most important position in football, and that, combined with the lack of a clear pecking order makes this exercise fun. For the first time in a long time (the Jets are excluded…

Alibaba has bagged a big Olympic deal. For 12 years, the Chinese e-commerce giant will supply technology to the International Olympic Committee to help organize the Games, support a new shopping platform for merchandise and run a Chinese version of the Olympic internet TV channel. Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba (BABA, Tech30), announced the deal at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, alongside IOC President…

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…

RELATED: See the paint scheme Chip Ganassi Racing announced Wednesday that Credit One Bank will return to the team in 2017 with an expanded role on the No. 42 Chevrolet driven by Kyle Larson. Credit One will serve as the primary sponsor on CGR entries in eight Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series events, one NASCAR XFINITY Series event and the non-points Advance Auto Parts Clash exhibition at Daytona International Speedway….

Major League Soccer’s 2017 season doesn’t kick off until March, but the league has already been plenty busy. Last week the league revealed its 2017 schedule, and on Tuesday it wrapped up this year’s SuperDraft. Now the league and one of its new teams both have scored a major corporate partner: Target. The retail giant joins MLS as a league sponsor on a new multi-year deal. As with the league’s…

DENVER — Youth sports are an important part of a child’s formation, yet the cost to participate is skyrocketing across the country. Despite these setbacks, a Denver inner city soccer club is working to make sure low-income children have an opportunity to succeed in sports and life. Soccer is a refuge for Skyline Denver coordinator Neil Alvarado, and has been since his family emigrated to inner city Los Angeles from…

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…

Wildcard Denis Istomin has shocked the tennis world by dumping Novak Djokovic out of the Australian Open. The world number 117 showed incredible stamina to go the full five-set distance and win 7-6, 5-7, 2-6, 7-6, 6-4 against the six-time champion. It was clear from the outset that Istomin would not allow the Serbian megastar’s presence on court rattle him and the first game lasted a full 16 minutes. Read…

Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Hulu is preparing to launch a live TV service, which will compete with cable and be priced at “under” $40 per month. The service will work much like a regular cable or satellite TV package, except that it will be delivered over the internet to your smart TV, phone, tablet, and so on. It will also be “sports-centric,” Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins revealed in a new interview…

BASEBALL NEW YORK (AP) — Bags and Rock and Pudge are heading to Cooperstown. After a vote that could prove to be a turning point how Steroids Era stars are viewed, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens could be joining them in the next few years. Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez were elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, earning the honor as Trevor Hoffman and Vladimir Guerrero fell just…

RELATED: See the paint scheme Chip Ganassi Racing announced Wednesday that Credit One Bank will return to the team in 2017 with an expanded role on the No. 42 Chevrolet driven by Kyle Larson. Credit One will serve as the primary sponsor on CGR entries in eight Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series events, one NASCAR XFINITY Series event and the non-points Advance Auto Parts Clash exhibition at Daytona International Speedway….

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RELATED: See the 2016 Darlington retro schemes DARLINGTON, S.C. (Jan. 18, 2017) — Another historic celebration of the sport is in store for Darlington Raceway in 2017. The track is pleased to announce “Year 3” of its award-winning throwback campaign for the Bojangles’ Southern 500 race weekend on Sept. 1-3, 2017. The Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR will be celebrating the 1985-89 era of the sport in 2017, which like the 1975-84 period it celebrated in…

A season of transition is just beginning at NASCAR’s Stewart-Haas Racing. There’s change at the top, where Tony Stewart has retired as a Cup driver. He will now devote all – or at least most – of his energy into his duties as a co-owner of the Kannapolis-based team. In Stewart’s carbon fiber-built seat in the No. 14 car is Cup veteran Clint Bowyer, who is coming off a tumultuous…

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…

Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Hulu is preparing to launch a live TV service, which will compete with cable and be priced at “under” $40 per month. The service will work much like a regular cable or satellite TV package, except that it will be delivered over the internet to your smart TV, phone, tablet, and so on. It will also be “sports-centric,” Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins revealed in a new interview…