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The Coros Linx smart cycling helmet was a Kickstarter success story in 2016, amassing an impressive $320,000 – six times its $50,000 funding goal . This year at CES, the company is showing off the cyclist safety product, which is now shipping. Three main features As a quick refresher, the Linx features three main hardware features that set it far apart from the cycling helmet of yesteryear. First of all, there…

In America, it’s still called the “national pastime,” and you can take kids getting to play baseball for granted. While it’s an international sport, baseball is still rare in some countries like Uganda. After graduating from Syracuse University in 2014, 25-year-old Newburyport native Evan Petty moved 7,000 miles from home to teach English and learn how to coach the game at the Allen VR Stanley Secondary School of Math and…

Wealthy Asian investors unwilling to splurge on owning their own European soccer teams are showing their enthusiasm by helping fund the sport. Sales of football finance notes, backed by television rights of soccer clubs, doubled to $11 million last month from the amount issued in April, when they were opened to investors in the region, according to data from Swiss-Asia Holding Pte. The Singapore-registered firm that operates the investment says total…

If you want to hear youth sports old-timers [or young-timers who sound like old-timers] gripe about something that isn’t about participation trophies, ask them about high school athletic transfers. You can do that with coaches (as quoted from the Dallas Morning News)… [Guyer football coach John] Walsh had these words about IMG [Academies, a multisport school in Florida that has recruited players nationwide]: “I think if I was going to answer any question…

Wealthy Asian investors unwilling to splurge on owning their own European soccer teams are showing their enthusiasm by helping fund the sport. Sales of football finance notes, backed by television rights of soccer clubs, doubled to $11 million last month from the amount issued in April, when they were opened to investors in the region, according to data from Swiss-Asia Holding Pte. The Singapore-registered firm that operates the investment says total…

The Coros Linx smart cycling helmet was a Kickstarter success story in 2016, amassing an impressive $320,000 – six times its $50,000 funding goal . This year at CES, the company is showing off the cyclist safety product, which is now shipping. Three main features As a quick refresher, the Linx features three main hardware features that set it far apart from the cycling helmet of yesteryear. First of all, there…

Bruce Arena. (Ted S. Warren/Associated Press) LOS ANGELES – Southern California is the hub of American soccer this week as players gather for training camps, leagues in varying degrees of stability prepare for a new year, and thousands from all corners of the sport converge for the annual National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention. The spotlight is tightest on the men’s national team, which, after a bruising autumn, will…

In this image from a video, these Georgia Tech swimmers practice their relay in the snow after their meet against Virginia Tech was canceled in Blacksburg, Va. The hardest part, said Matt Casillas, a sophomore from Georgia Tech who grew up in Southern California, was taking his shoes off. It was well below 20 degrees in Christiansburg, Va., their swim meet with Virginia Tech and the University of Kentucky had…

Manny Ramirez may be eligible for election to the Hall of Fame this year, but that doesn’t mean he’s done playing baseball. In fact, Ramirez will be playing in 2017. On Sunday, Japan’s Kochi Fighting Dogs of the Shikoku Island League announced that they’ve agreed to terms with Ramirez. The Fighting Dogs — possibly an unfortunate nickname — are an independent league team in Japan and not part of NPB….

Bruce Arena. (Ted S. Warren/Associated Press) LOS ANGELES – Southern California is the hub of American soccer this week as players gather for training camps, leagues in varying degrees of stability prepare for a new year, and thousands from all corners of the sport converge for the annual National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention. The spotlight is tightest on the men’s national team, which, after a bruising autumn, will…

Wealthy Asian investors unwilling to splurge on owning their own European soccer teams are showing their enthusiasm by helping fund the sport. Sales of football finance notes, backed by television rights of soccer clubs, doubled to $11 million last month from the amount issued in April, when they were opened to investors in the region, according to data from Swiss-Asia Holding Pte. The Singapore-registered firm that operates the investment says total…

Based on early returns and vote tracking, the Baseball Hall of Fame’s class of 2017 likely will include at least two inductees selected by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. To earn a plaque in Cooperstown, former major league players must be retired at least five years and receive votes on at least 75 percent of ballots cast by voting members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Here’s what…

TAMPA — ACC commissioner John Swofford raised concerns Sunday about people who work within college sports helping to determine NCAA penalties against schools. The NCAA has used peer review on the Committee on Infractions for decades, including SEC commissioner Greg Sankey’s current role as committee chairman while overseeing the panel for North Carolina‘s current academic fraud case. “Greg per se? No, Greg’s great,” Swofford said when asked if he has…

Cal has fired head coach Sonny Dykes, a source told FOX Sports on Sunday. The 47-year-old Dykes, who is making close to $3 million a year, was 19-30 in four seasons and 10-26 in Pac-12 play. The Bears were 5-7 this season after having to replace QB Jared Goff — the first pick of last year’s NFL draft — and the team’s top six receivers. Dykes has interviewed for several…

Wealthy Asian investors unwilling to splurge on owning their own European soccer teams are showing their enthusiasm by helping fund the sport. Sales of football finance notes, backed by television rights of soccer clubs, doubled to $11 million last month from the amount issued in April, when they were opened to investors in the region, according to data from Swiss-Asia Holding Pte. The Singapore-registered firm that operates the investment says total…

It won’t be long until the thunder rolls at Daytona International Speedway. Exactly seven weeks from today, the green flag will fall on the Daytona 500 on FOX, and already the anticipation is building. With 49 days left until the 2017 Daytona 500, here are a few pieces of trivia around the No. 49 and Daytona: • The No. 49 has appeared in 665 NASCAR Premier Series races, with seven…

More: Alpine Skiing Tina Maze bids farewell in bizarre fashion; Mikaela Shiffrin misses podium Tina Maze ponders 2018 Olympics Lindsey Vonn, Julia Mancuso could return next week Something strange happened during Mikaela Shiffrin‘s second and final run of a World Cup slalom on Sunday. Shiffrin was skiing with a two tenths of a second lead when, all of a sudden, a red gate she cleared popped off in Maribor, Slovenia. It…

Rory McIlroy caught a lot of flak, from all sides, when he told reporters at the British Open why he wasn’t taking part in golf’s return to the Olympic games. Among other things, McIlroy said he “didn’t get into golf to try and grow the game,” a saucy retort to many in the sport that opined participation in Rio was practically compulsory for the future of the sport. McIlroy didn’t…

Did the Olympics play a role in alleged Russian hacking that targeted the U.S. presidential campaign? The U.S. intelligence report released Friday, which says Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered the operation, raises that possibility. “Putin publicly pointed to the Panama Papers disclosure and the Olympic doping scandal as U.S.-directed efforts to defame Russia, suggesting he sought to use disclosures to discredit the image of the United States and cast it…

Baseball, a sport most commonly associated with the United States and perhaps Canada, has made inroads in popularity in countries as wide-ranging as South Korea, Venezuela and Curacao but has never gotten off the ground in Israel. That is, until now. A group of 10 past, current, and future Major League Baseball players including first-baseman Ike Davis and former outfielder Gabe Kapler are…