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On the heels of leading the Sooners to a Big 12 title over Oklahoma State, Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield told reporters he’ll return to school in 2017. Oklahoma won the annual Bedlam Game 38–20, with Mayfield throwing for 288 yards and three touchdowns for the No. 9 Sooners. The junior will skip his potential NFL career for one more season. After transferring from Texas Tech following the 2013…

HOME SPORTS NFL MLB NASCAR NCAA FB Soccer UFC NBA NHL NCAA BK Golf Motor Racing Tennis WWE Olympics Boxing Horse Racing Other Sports WATCH FANTASY MORE The door is officially closed on the 2016 NASCAR season and in the sport’s vernacular, you could make the case that it was one of those best-of-times/worst-of-times deals. But in the end, what I…

There was supposed to be a soccer game in Medellin, Colombia, last Wednesday. Instead Atletico Nacional and thousands of its fans filed into a packed stadium to pay homage to the Brazilian club they were scheduled to play. Before last week, few people outside Brazil knew much about Chapecoense, a hard-luck team of modest means and more modest talent. From the tiny town of Chapeco, in the southern state of…

It took almost two years from the time Sprint announced it’d be moving on from the top-tier NASCAR series sponsorship for the sport to find a replacement. In Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon, the announcement was made that Monster Energy will take over the duties of the entitlement sponsor for the Premier Series with a multi-year deal. We decided to see how fans weighed in on the news and the…

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – For a great idea to work, it has to work for everybody involved. Take a peanut butter sandwich. Now sprinkle a handful of M&Ms in the middle of it. Peanut butter and chocolate – it works for everybody. Now here’s a great idea that doesn’t work – the World Baseball Classic. Correction, it works fine for every country but the biggest baseball-playing nation in the world –…

Caption Close FILE – At left, in a March 17, 2015, file photo, Major League Baseball Players Association executive and former Detroit Tigers first baseman Tony Clark talks to the media before a spring training exhibition baseball game in Lakeland, Fla. At right, in a May 19, 2016, file photo, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks to reporters during a news conference at Major League Baseball headquarters in New York. Negotiators…

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CHAPECO, Brazil Brazil’s president on Saturday bestowed honors on the victims of an air crash as Air Force troops unloaded 50 coffins flown in overnight from Colombia, site of the disaster this week that killed 71 people and wiped out a rural soccer team. The Brazilian town of Chapeco, its streets wet with rain and buildings draped in the green of its devastated club, turned out to receive the bodies…

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Caption Close FILE – At left, in a March 17, 2015, file photo, Major League Baseball Players Association executive and former Detroit Tigers first baseman Tony Clark talks to the media before a spring training exhibition baseball game in Lakeland, Fla. At right, in a May 19, 2016, file photo, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks to reporters during a news conference at Major League Baseball headquarters in New York. Negotiators…

CLEVELAND, Ohio – For a great idea to work, it has to work for everybody involved. Take a peanut butter sandwich. Now sprinkle a handful of M&Ms in the middle of it. Peanut butter and chocolate – it works for everybody. Now here’s a great idea that doesn’t work – the World Baseball Classic. Correction, it works fine for every country but the biggest baseball-playing nation in the world –…

Not only did the league introduce a hard cap, because it had moved off its desire for an international draft, it asked for constraints on free agents – ones less restrictive than the qualifying offer but certainly stronger than the get-back from agreeing to an international draft. “We got hijacked,” one player told Yahoo Sports, echoing a word – “hijacked” – others frustrated with the international-draft fallout used as well….

There are many moments that can hit you upside the head with how quickly time passes, and one of them happened in the last month: Cody Paul, the 12-year-old whose amazing moves on the football field became the Internet’s first sports viral video, completed his college football career. The video above, produced by Paul’s brother and posted in July 2007, not only had millions with mouths agape at the kid wearing No….

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Make the right call, selection committee. Put newly anointed Pac-12 champ Washington in the College Football Playoff. No need to wait until Sunday to make up your minds, either. The now 12-1 Huskies handled your eighth-ranked Colorado Buffaloes, 41-10, here Friday. It marked the seventh time in 10 games against conference opponents that Washington has won by more than three touchdowns. The kind of pain Chris…

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Caption Close FILE – At left, in a March 17, 2015, file photo, Major League Baseball Players Association executive and former Detroit Tigers first baseman Tony Clark talks to the media before a spring training exhibition baseball game in Lakeland, Fla. At right, in a May 19, 2016, file photo, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks to reporters during a news conference at Major League Baseball headquarters in New York. Negotiators…

Not only did the league introduce a hard cap, because it had moved off its desire for an international draft, it asked for constraints on free agents – ones less restrictive than the qualifying offer but certainly stronger than the get-back from agreeing to an international draft. “We got hijacked,” one player told Yahoo Sports, echoing a word – “hijacked” – others frustrated with the international-draft fallout used as well….

In the weeks since a former professional soccer player told a British newspaper that as a child, he had been sexually abused for years by a youth coach, several other former players have gone public with similar allegations of abuse by coaches and scouts. And news reports say hundreds of people have reported abuse at U.K. youth soccer clubs to police. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Christopher Furlong/Getty…