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Google has teamed up with LG in a Nexus-style partnership to produce the first devices powered by Android Wear 2.0: the LG Watch Sport and LG Watch Style. The two companies will unveil these smartwatches on February 9 — at an event for the platform’s official launch — and begin selling them in the U.S. the next day, according to marketing material shared with VentureBeat. The rollout will continue to other…

Google has teamed up with LG in a Nexus-style partnership to produce the first devices powered by Android Wear 2.0: the LG Watch Sport and LG Watch Style. The two companies will unveil these smartwatches on February 9 — at an event for the platform’s official launch — and begin selling them in the U.S. the next day, according to marketing material shared with VentureBeat. The rollout will continue to other…

Missy Franklin, 21, is a competitive swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist. She is the author of “Relentless Spirit” (Dutton). She spoke with Marc Myers. My parents are my closest friends. I know that sounds corny, but with me it’s not a line. Throughout my life, my parents never tried to force me to be someone I wasn’t, and they’ve always supported me with unconditional love. I’m an only child,…

RELATED: Kurt Busch marries fiancee Ashley Van Metre With the season-opening festivities at Daytona International Speedway right around the corner, drivers are taking the last few weeks of the offseason to make sure they’re livin’ on the edge, not wanting to miss one thing on their downtime bucket list before they get back in the saddle again. Okay, now that we’ve got all of the cleverly-placed Aerosmith references out of…

Consider NASCAR pioneer Raymond Parks as a man ahead of his time. “Mr. Parks was Rick Hendrick before NASCAR had Rick Hendrick,” said David Sosebee, whose father Gober Sosebee was a longtime friend of Parks and raced against his multi-car teams during the sport’s early years. But that nod to team-owner Hendrick – who along with Parks and three others will be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on…

We’re used to a flukey team sneaking into the playoffs every year, riding an unsustainable record in close games to a close finish in the standings, but the Rangers elevated this to an art form. With 95 wins, they led the American League in 2016, and won their division by nine full games, despite posting the third-best run differential in their own division. Seven different teams finished with a better…

By the imperfect standard of Hall of Fame voting, Ken Griffey Jr. might be considered the most well-regarded baseball player of all time. Griffey received a record 99.3% of the vote last year, three votes shy of becoming the first player to be elected unanimously. Chipper Jones might get 100% of the vote next year, or Mariano Rivera two years from now, or Derek Jeter three years from now. It…

Google has teamed up with LG in a Nexus-style partnership to produce the first devices powered by Android Wear 2.0: the LG Watch Sport and LG Watch Style. The two companies will unveil these smartwatches on February 9 — at an event for the platform’s official launch — and begin selling them in the U.S. the next day, according to marketing material shared with VentureBeat. The rollout will continue to other…

Team-based sports don’t have a singular rallying cry (not counting Nike slogans), but perhaps it’s time they adopted one from the wise words of Celine Dion. Really, is there any better slogan than “You’re here, there’s nothing I fear” for a group of hardworking athletes? Titanic Hoops, as spotted by Select All, is a Twitter account that combines various sports clips with Titanic’s iconic theme, “My Heart Will Go On,”…

Virgin Sport is ready for its rookie season. The unit of billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s sprawling Virgin Group empire is betting it can carve a place for itself in the increasingly crowded amateur sports market by organizing “sports festivals” that blend different kind of events aimed at attracting a wide variety of people beyond hardcore jocks. Whereas many of its rivals, including marathon organizer Competitor Group or World Triathlon Corporation’s…

The once-viral Facebook live video (before it was removed) posted by Antonio Brown in the minutes following the Pittsburgh Steelers’ victory Sunday over the Kansas City Chiefs has been dismissed by New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and shrugged off by Patriots linebacker Dont’a Hightower. But Steelers head coach — the man throwing the salty bombs in the video — had a few serious things to say about it in his…

Yeah, those photos of Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman in Sports Illustrated pretty much slayed. She and all-around champ Simone Biles swapped their bedazzled leotards for bikinis to appear in the magazine’s Swimsuit issue. Raisman was a vision of poise and physical strength in her black two-piece. “I loved the photo shoot. It was such an empowering feeling to be so confident and happy with the way I looked. I work so hard…

In December we analyzed three drivers who are closing in on 40 wins in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. This week, we’ll look at those close to a lesser milestone, but a milestone all the same — 30 career wins.   In premier series history 24 drivers have reached the 30-win plateau, from Richard Petty (200 wins) to fellow Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett (32). Of those 24 drivers,…

There’s never a moment without banter around Roger Bennett and Michael Davies, the two co-hosts of NBC Sports’ soccer talkshow “Men in Blazers.” They sit around a long meeting table strewn with various papers. Above them is a large television illuminating pre-match coverage of the pivotal Tottenham-Chelsea Premier League game, and the air around them is littered with never-ending — but entirely good natured — shots at one another. The talk…

Virgin Sport is ready for its rookie season. The unit of billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s sprawling Virgin Group empire is betting it can carve a place for itself in the increasingly crowded amateur sports market by organizing “sports festivals” that blend different kind of events aimed at attracting a wide variety of people beyond hardcore jocks. Whereas many of its rivals, including marathon organizer Competitor Group or World Triathlon Corporation’s…

Two Scottish soccer stars — including a former member of the Scotland national team — have been branded rapists by a Scottish judge after the victim sued their asses in civil court.  The players — David Robertson and David Goodwillie — were accused of raping a drunk woman at an apartment in 2011 after a night of heavy boozing.   The two men were teammates for the Dundee United soccer team…

Geoghegan Hart is the latest to move on to the WorldTour, joining Team Sky for 2017, with Costa, who, aged just 18, finished second at last year’s Tour of Utah, tipped to follow him and perhaps even emulate the American to whom he has been compared, Greg LeMond. The regular podcast, with Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe, will return next week. The Cycling Podcast is supported by Rapha…

Baseball Hall of Fame voting becoming as heated as our elections By Henry Schulman January 17, 2017 Updated: January 17, 2017 7:00am ‘); } Like most great baseball debates, the annual back and forth over Hall of Fame elections used to be fun. Friends would sit on barstools as the new year dawned and good-naturedly gibe one another over which players they believed were the best of the best and…

Cardinals Winter Warm-Up came and went, but the march toward baseball continues as spring training nears. Next up: A chance to chat with Cardinals scouting director Randy Flores. Flores is a featured speaker at the second annual Midwest Baseball and Softball Coaches Convention, a not-for-profit event that benefits St. Louis Challenger Baseball. The former Cardinals reliever will participate in the convention’s Talkin’ Baseball and Softball Q&A…

8:55 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Wake up out there, all you trivia lovers. I’ve given you a couple of months to rest your brain cells. But it’s Hall of Fame election time. So, in a related development, that means it’s also time for the triumphant return of your favorite trivia extravaganza — Trivia Tuesday! This week’s edition looks at the five candidates at the…