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TOKYO –  Tokyo held a groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday for a $1.5 billion National Stadium to host the 2020 Olympic Games. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and other dignitaries launched the construction at the site of the demolished National Stadium, which was used during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, by putting their hands on a glass sphere that rotated through pastels of the colors of the Olympic…

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…

Turkish police officer cordon off the roads leading to the area of the Besiktas football club stadium, in Istanbul, late Saturday. Two loud explosions have been heard near the newly-built soccer stadium. Turkish authorities have banned distribution of images relating to the Istanbul explosions within Turkey. Emrah Gurel/AP hide caption toggle caption Emrah Gurel/AP Turkish police officer cordon off the roads leading to the area of the Besiktas football club…

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…

Steve Fischer doesn’t recall the exact age at which he first learned of his grandfather’s big victory, but he remembers the circumstances. “As soon as I had shown interest in baseball,” Fischer said. Back in 1961, Fischer’s maternal grandfather, Bill Neder, won a name-the-team contest for the new Major League Baseball franchise coming to Houston the following year. Neder submitted the winning entry, the Colt .45s, after the famed single-action…

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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…

The last four times Notre Dame had faced the reigning national champ, the Irish sprung an upset. Only because of the brilliance of Josh Hart did that streak end Saturday afternoon. With top-ranked Villanova trailing by nine midway through the second half and in desperate need of a spark, Hart hoisted his team onto his back. Eighteen of the senior guard’s career-high 37 points came during the final 13 minutes of the…

There are thousands of people who possess the skill set to help athletes in their careers, but without the ability to attract and sign athletes, actually practicing as a sports agent will simply stay an unfulfilled dream. The first step is to have a philosophy and principles which guide your business. My approach has been to understand an athlete’s deepest anxieties and fears and greatest hopes and dreams and bond…

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…