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A suspected car bomb outside a soccer stadium in central Istanbul wounded around 20 people on Saturday, hours after the end of a match between two of Turkey’s top teams, in what appeared to be an attack targeting riot police. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, speaking in parliament during a budget hearing, said around 20 people had been wounded, many of them police officers, and that initial indications were that a…

Russia is building a $30 million complex for acrobatic rock ’n’ roll, a niche sport in which President Vladimir Putin’s daughter is a leading dancer and has a senior role for development, a Reuters review of public documents has shown. The Zhavoronki Acrobatic Rock ’n’ Roll Centre will be built on the western outskirts of Moscow at a cost of 1.9 billion rubles, according to state tender documents available online,…

TORNTO – Hosting MLS Cup is, without a doubt, a milestone for Toronto FC and the city of Toronto. “We were told that if we could turn the franchise around we’d be amazed by the support we’d get and that’s what we saw,” TFC coach Greg Vanney said in reference to the team’s fans on Thursday. “They’re ready to explode and get behind our group and help get us across…

Lion hunting is an age-old tradition for Maasai tribes in southern Kenya, which used the sport as a rite of passage from adolescence to manhood for young male tribe members. With the encouragement of conservationists, amid a drop in the lion population, Maasai warriors are finding other ways to maintain their cultural identity and prove their leadership.  The third edition of the Maasai Olympics, which are being held…

LA PAZ Bolivian authorities have jailed the second suspect accused of wrongdoing in the air crash that wiped out Brazil’s Chapacoense soccer team last month, prosecutors said on Saturday. Gustavo Vargas Villegas, a former official with Bolivia’s aviation authority was arrested and will be held until trial on charges that he misused his influence in authorizing the license of the Bolivian plane that crashed in Colombia while taking the team…

x Embed x Share An investigation found that Russian athletes were involved in a state-run doping system. USA TODAY Sports Russia flag bearer Sergei Tetyukhin leads the team into the stadium during the opening ceremonies for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games.(Photo: Jack Gruber, USA TODAY Sports) The indignation of the International Olympic Committee and its president, Thomas Bach, was rich. Russia’s state-sponsored doping program was a “fundamental attack on…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court seems to agree with Kevin Costner that there’s no better place to play baseball than on fields cut out of the corn. The court on Friday cleared the way for a 24-field baseball complex at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville, upholding a lower court’s decision that the City Council properly rezoned the property from agricultural to commercial. The…

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins organization confirms a baseball player signed to their minor league team was killed in a car accident in Venezuela early Saturday morning. 22-year-old Yorman Landa had been signed with the Twins since 2010 when he was 16, according to the team’s website. Landa had been on the Twins’ 40-man roster, before signing to a minor-league contract earlier this week. “The Minnesota Twins are deeply saddened…

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OLYMPICS LONDON (AP) Russia’s sports reputation was ripped apart again when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast ”institutional conspiracy” that covered more than 1,000 athletes in over 30 sports and corrupted the drug-testing system at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics. The findings were handed over to the International Olympic Committee, which will be under pressure to take action against the Russians ahead of the 2018…

Lion hunting is an age-old tradition for Maasai tribes in southern Kenya, which used the sport as a rite of passage from adolescence to manhood for young male tribe members. With the encouragement of conservationists, amid a drop in the lion population, Maasai warriors are finding other ways to maintain their cultural identity and prove their leadership.  The third edition of the Maasai Olympics, which are being held…

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Thursday marked the end of MLB’s Winter Meetings, when each team’s top brass converge on a hotel and jam pack a bunch of offseason trades into one week.  For baseball fans, it’s heaven, the first major MLB event since the World Series. But it also tends to be heavy on conjecture and rumor — a lot of “X team talking to X players about a deal.” If you’re not a…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court seems to agree with Kevin Costner that there’s no better place to play baseball than on fields cut out of the corn. The court on Friday cleared the way for a 24-field baseball complex at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville, upholding a lower court’s decision that the City Council properly rezoned the property…

OLYMPICS LONDON (AP) Russia’s sports reputation was ripped apart again when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast ”institutional conspiracy” that covered more than 1,000 athletes in over 30 sports and corrupted the drug-testing system at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics. The findings were handed over to the International Olympic Committee, which will be under pressure to take action against the Russians ahead of the 2018…

Russia is building a $30 million complex for acrobatic rock ’n’ roll, a niche sport in which President Vladimir Putin’s daughter is a leading dancer and has a senior role for development, a Reuters review of public documents has shown. The Zhavoronki Acrobatic Rock ’n’ Roll Centre will be built on the western outskirts of Moscow at a cost of 1.9 billion rubles, according to state tender documents available online,…

With ESPN’s film OJ: Made In America emerging as an Oscars frontrunner this year, Onion Sports looks back at some of the greatest sports documentaries of all time. Baseball: Ken Burns’ 1,000-hour documentary follows the evolution of baseball from the Neoproterozoic Era 900 million years ago all the way to the 1994 MLB strike. When We Were Kings: An intimate account of the buildup to 1974’s Rumble in the Jungle…

<!– We are showcasing each of the 16 contenders in the run-up to the Sports Personality of the Year award on 18 December. Today – Alistair Brownlee and Sophie Christiansen. Alistair Brownlee – Age: 28 Sport: Triathlon Year in a nutshell Became the first man to retain the Olympic men’s triathlon title, finishing ahead of brother Jonny, who claimed the silver. The Yorkshireman later made headlines across the world when…

TORONTO — With 10 days to anticipate MLS Cup 2016, BMO Field and the Toronto sports culture have been top of the ticket as anticipation builds among a fanbase hungry for its first championship in more than 20 years. BMO will be rocking with the full-throated force of its expanded attendance of 36,000; the game sold out earlier this week – in three minutes. And yet, it’s not time to…

Cycling, Britain’s most successful sport at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, has suffered a 4.29 million-pound ($5.4 million) funding cut in the build-up to the 2020 Games in Tokyo, UK Sport announced on Friday. Four of Britain’s less successful Olympic sports — archery, badminton, fencing and weightlifting — have lost all their funding completely along with the Paralympic sport of wheelchair rugby. Britain’s cyclists won 12 medals in Rio,…