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The Government is being urged to investigate whether the stripping of elite funding from wheelchair rugby indicates a “discriminatory” attitude to Paralympic sport, as the game known as ‘murderball’ fights to have its income restored. Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby, which was dropped from the Tokyo cycle, has written to Penny Mordaunt, the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work, and Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Culture, Media…

Middlesbrough’s new signing, Rudy Gestede, may have only played one match for his new team, but he has already set an unwanted record in the Premier League. The Benin forward now has the league’s longest winless streak – managing 32 games without victory. (He last won when Aston Villa beat Bournemouth 1-0 in August 2015.) But Gestede isn’t the only sportsperson to be ruing such a grim streak … Jack…

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Gegard Mousasi is looking for a fight and he’s tired of hearing excuses from top ranked middleweights on why they aren’t willing to face him. A winner of four fights in a row including three by knockout or TKO, Mousasi has been tearing through the competition lately and he’s itching for an opponent in the top five but he can’t seem to get any of them to accept a fight…

Mark Martin has a sound reason why his NASCAR Hall of Fame career didn’t include a championship at the sport’s highest level. “It’s because I never scored enough points to win one,” Martin said in his typical matter-of-fact, no-nonsense manner. “That’s that. I would have won (championships) if I had scored more points than anyone else.” To make the Hall of Fame – he will be inducted into the 2017…

Here we are. The homestretch. We’ve been talking about the Baseball Hall of Fame for the past month-plus and now the big reveal comes on Wednesday of this week. BBWAA voters can vote for zero to 10 players on the ballot and now I’m here to write about who I’d have on my ballot. If you hate me or my fictional votes here, you can rest easy knowing that I’ve…

With his new documentary “The Vietnam War” scheduled to premiere on PBS in September and multiple other films in the works, Ken Burns has a full plate. But he’s looking to add another project: an addendum to his 1994 series “Baseball,” pegged to the Chicago Cubs‘ 2016 World Series victory. “I’m sort of obligated,” to add another hour to the series, Burns — who last year said that he would…

And now it’s down to four. The NFL season is nearing its end and Fantasy Football will be in the rear view once again. For many the end of football is a sad time, but you don’t have to leave that void in your life. This year take your Fantasy Baseball game to the next level. The wide variety in formats and league sizes in Fantasy Baseball allows us…

  WASHINGTON – For all the Cubs did for generations of fans throughout a city, President Obama on Monday used their White House visit to hold them up as an example of unifying power in a much larger context. “It is entirely appropriate that we celebrate the Cubs today, here in this White House, on Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday,” the Obama said during the final White House ceremony of…

The Government is being urged to investigate whether the stripping of elite funding from wheelchair rugby indicates a “discriminatory” attitude to Paralympic sport, as the game known as ‘murderball’ fights to have its income restored. Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby, which was dropped from the Tokyo cycle, has written to Penny Mordaunt, the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work, and Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Culture, Media…

That’s one fired-up, foul-mouthed cheerleader right there! Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin certainly was happy for his team’s win over the Kansas City Chiefs that will advance the Steelers to the AFC championship game on Sunday against the New England Patriots, and he showed it in a Facebook Live video that Steelers receiver Antonio Brown posted on his Facebook page. But Tomlin was not happy about the perceived advantage he…

Mark Martin Born: Jan. 9, 1959, Batesville, Ark. Family: Wife Arlene, son Matt, four step-children. Career highlights: Winner of 40 races in NASCAR’s top series, now the Monster Energy Cup. … Four-time champion in both the International Race Of Champions Series (IROC) and the American Speed Association tour. …. Five-time runner-up in points races for the championship of NASCAR’s foremost circuit – 1990,’94, ’98, 2002, ’09. … His first victory…

Halfway through the season, Antonio Conte, the excitable, tactically savvy manager of Chelsea, is running ahead of rivals in first place in England’s top soccer league. The Italian also stands out in another way: his team is the only one of the major teams whose television viewership has risen this season (albeit only very slightly). Elsewhere, the trend of fewer people tuning in to the country’s biggest sport that was detected…

OKLAHOMA CITY –  Think it’s hard for firefighters to rescue a cat in a tree? Try a cow in a swimming pool. Firefighters in Oklahoma City were summoned Sunday morning after a homeowner reported hearing some sort of “snorting” coming from his swimming pool area. Emergency responders arrived and discovered a hole in the swimming pool’s liner and a cow trapped in the water. Related stories… Neglected dogs become…

Less than a month before the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s “Super Bowl,” FS1’s NASCAR Race Hub takes the show to Houston, site of Super Bowl LI, in the week leading into FOX’s live broadcast of the big game. In the days preceding FOX’s live broadcast of Super Bowl LI (Sunday, Feb. 5 at 6:30 p.m. ET), NASCAR Race Hub, NASCAR’s most-watched daily news and information program, airs live from Discovery Green…

The Government is being urged to investigate whether the stripping of elite funding from wheelchair rugby indicates a “discriminatory” attitude to Paralympic sport, as the game known as ‘murderball’ fights to have its income restored. Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby, which was dropped from the Tokyo cycle, has written to Penny Mordaunt, the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work, and Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Culture, Media…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment The Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the Baseball Writers’ Association of America election results at 6 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Seventeen voters from ESPN submitted ballots this year, and their votes are listed below. 2017 Hall of Fame election coverage Who will get elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Jan. 18? Here is all of ESPN.com’s coverage of who’s…

Here we are. The homestretch. We’ve been talking about the Baseball Hall of Fame for the past month-plus and now the big reveal comes on Wednesday of this week. BBWAA voters can vote for zero to 10 players on the ballot and now I’m here to write about who I’d have on my ballot. If you hate me or my fictional votes here, you can rest easy knowing that I’ve…

With his new documentary “The Vietnam War” scheduled to premiere on PBS in September and multiple other films in the works, Ken Burns has a full plate. But he’s looking to add another project: an addendum to his 1994 series “Baseball,” pegged to the Chicago Cubs‘ 2016 World Series victory. “I’m sort of obligated,” to add another hour to the series, Burns — who last year said that he would…

That’s one fired-up, foul-mouthed cheerleader right there! Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin certainly was happy for his team’s win over the Kansas City Chiefs that will advance the Steelers to the AFC championship game on Sunday against the New England Patriots, and he showed it in a Facebook Live video that Steelers receiver Antonio Brown posted on his Facebook page. But Tomlin was not happy about the perceived advantage he…