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The youngest head coach in the NFL and the Miami Dolphins’ oldest position player (with apologies to 38-year-old Dolphins long snapper John Denney) deserve some attention in the postseason awards. Head coach Adam Gase (age 38) and pass rusher Cameron Wake (age 34) are having terrific seasons, and they were big reasons why the Dolphins overcame a slow start to take care of business Saturday night, 34-13, over the downtrodden New…

The public will decide which of the 16 nominees will be named 2016’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year tonight in a live ceremony at Birmingham’s Genting Arena. Andy Murray is the hot favourite for the big award, but will need the public’s vote to win his third SPOTY after an incredible year on the court which climaxed with him finishing as world No.1. The other contenders are boxer Nicola…

The greatest single-game performance by a freshman in the storied history of Kentucky basketball ended Saturday night in the most fitting possible way. It finished with Malik Monk sinking a shot they’ll be talking about for years in Lexington. With sixth-ranked Kentucky trailing seventh-ranked North Carolina by two and less than 30 seconds to go, De’Aaron Fox sped up the floor in transition and whipped a pass to Monk spotted…

Jason McAteer filling out the credit-card application form is one of football’s most cherished, if perhaps apocryphal, anecdotes. For the section ‘position at company’, the man they called Double Trigger of course wrote “full-back”. Watching Sunday Supplement, the viewer might have wondered: what position would Gary Neville say that he holds? Is he a former footballer, a former football manager, a future football manager, a pundit, a journalist, an entertainment…

The youngest head coach in the NFL and the Miami Dolphins’ oldest position player (with apologies to 38-year-old Dolphins long snapper John Denney) deserve some attention in the postseason awards. Head coach Adam Gase (age 38) and pass rusher Cameron Wake (age 34) are having terrific seasons, and they were big reasons why the Dolphins overcame a slow start to take care of business Saturday night, 34-13, over the downtrodden New…

It’s probably not well known but Africa has been represented at every Winter Olympics since 1984. Morocco and Algeria are some of the most regular participants these days. South Africa did take part as early as the 1960 games in Squaw Valley, USA, but that was during apartheid, and it was subsequently banned from participation till 1994. Since then it’s taken part in every games except the last one in…

Team USA hockey defenseman Anne Schleper(Photo: Carlos Osorio, AP) The public address announcer let the crowd know Canada was penalized for “too many men on the ice,” during the first period Saturday evening at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth. The statement was somewhat quizzical and turned more than a few heads because the U.S. women’s national team was hosting Canada in an exhibition match, which Canada won, 5-3. It was the…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS — The men’s soccer team at Washington University in St. Louis has been indefinitely suspended for what the university calls sexually explicit comments and other inappropriate behavior toward the women’s soccer team. Members of the women’s team alerted administrators Wednesday. The suspension of the men’s program was announced Friday night. The university said in a statement that comments made toward members of…

India take on Belgium in the final of the Junior Hockey World Cup. The winner of the Junior Hockey World Cup would be decided on Sunday in Lucknow when home team India take on Belgium. A win for either teams would be a historic occasion for them. India would be winning the Junior Hockey World Cup for a second time – after a gap of 15 years – to replicate…

Team USA hockey defenseman Anne Schleper(Photo: Carlos Osorio, AP) The public address announcer let the crowd know Canada was penalized for “too many men on the ice,” during the first period Saturday evening at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth. The statement was somewhat quizzical and turned more than a few heads because the U.S. women’s national team was hosting Canada in an exhibition match, which Canada won, 5-3. It was the…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS — The men’s soccer team at Washington University in St. Louis has been indefinitely suspended for what the university calls sexually explicit comments and other inappropriate behavior toward the women’s soccer team. Members of the women’s team alerted administrators Wednesday. The suspension of the men’s program was announced Friday night. The university said in a statement that comments made toward members of…

Abbey D’Agostino toed the line before the first Olympic race of her career and felt at ease. This event, on this stage, among these people — the “epitome of athletic competition,” as she calls it — wasn’t about her. Still, as she prepared to take off, the American distance runner had her sights set on the final of the women’s 5,000 meters in Rio de Janeiro. She would have to…

ST. PETE BEACH — Jennifer McKenney stood alone on her old Little League field as the late afternoon shadows grew longer and longer, signaling the end to a chamber of commerce fall day along the Intercostal Waterway. Related News/Archive AP Exclusive: MLB rookie hazing rules ban dressing as women 4 Days Ago New Rays catcher Wilson Ramos says he’s ahead of schedule in rehab 5 Days Ago Rays open to…

We may be nearing the end of an era in baseball broadcasting. Joe Buck, the lead play-by-play voice for Fox Sports who has called 19 World Series since 1996, says he’s considering leaving his baseball responsibilities behind once his current contract expires. Buck first hinted at the life-altering decision during a podcast interview with Brad Straubinger on Dec. 7. He expanded on his comments this past Tuesday during a Q&A…

A dozen games into the season, the question surrounding UCLA has shifted. It’s no longer what it’s going to take for the Bruins to keep winning but what will be required for them to lose a game. UCLA played a ragged, turnover-filled first half Saturday afternoon at T-Mobile Arena and didn’t shoot particularly well over the final 20 minutes. None of it mattered. The second-ranked Bruins prevailed fairly comfortably, 86-73,…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS — The men’s soccer team at Washington University in St. Louis has been indefinitely suspended for what the university calls sexually explicit comments and other inappropriate behavior toward the women’s soccer team. Members of the women’s team alerted administrators Wednesday. The suspension of the men’s program was announced Friday night. The university said in a statement that comments made toward members of…

The University of Maine has named Nick Derba as its interim baseball coach, the school announced Saturday. Derba, associate head coach of the baseball team since 2015, replaces Steve Trimper, who is leaving Maine to become the baseball coach at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. Derba, 31, has been a member of the Maine staff for the past three seasons. He played six seasons as a catcher in the St….

Dec 16, 2016 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS – Within days of the St. Louis Cardinals missing the playoffs for the first time since 2010, the team’s front office met and quickly zeroed in on what the club needed to get back to World Series contention. General manager John Mozeliak laid the plan out for the public at the team’s annual postseason media conference. The Cardinals needed…

If you haven’t kept a close eye on the fitness industry recently, you might have missed a rather odd development. Athletic clothing company Under Armour has been busy snagging up fitness apps like Map My Run, Endomondo, and My Fitness Pal. It’s the key part of a larger strategy to integrate the various tracking services and devices that fitness nuts use under one banner. It should come as no surprise,…

Leicester City If the most important factor for the judges is which team’s achievement was the most unlikely, they should look no further than Leicester City. Money doesn’t just talk in the Premier League, it stands an inch from your ear and shouts into it with a megaphone, and no one, probably not even Claudio Ranieri’s mother, had Leicester down as title contenders. Promoted from the Championship in 2014, they…