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Lorry driver Alexander Lamb, of Featherstone, Yorkshire, told the inquest he would have stopped if he had seen a cyclist. He said: “I couldn’t believe it happened. I didn’t hear anything, feel anything or see anything. If I had seen anything I would have stopped and tried to help.” Cyclist are banned from wearing headphones in competitive events, but they are not illegal in the UK. Kevin Clinton, from the…

Dodge wants to get back into NASCAR, Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said on Sunday. Marchionne was at Daytona International Speedway as part of the Ferrari Challenge World Finals, which wrapped up Sunday. FCA owns Ferrari, and Marchionne is CEO of that brand. When asked if he wanted to see Dodge back in NASCAR, he didn’t hesitate. “Yes I’d love to,” he said. “I talked to Jim…

How much can a change in team-manufacturer affiliation affect the balance of power in NASCAR? Plenty. If you don’t believe it, just look at the statistics from the just-completed NASCAR Premier Series season. In 2016, Toyotas won 16 Premier Series points races, to 12 for Chevrolet and eight for Ford. Toyota also won its first NASCAR Premier Series Manufacturers’ Championship this year after 10 years of trying. That meant that…

For those of you hoping that fighting remains in hockey forever, an obscure junior hockey game in Sweden offers some good news. J-18 Allettan Östra teams Strängnäs HC played Flemingsbergs IK on Sunday in Akers Ice Hall in Strangnas, Sweden. It’s a small town of 34,000 people, and only 67 fans were in the crowd. But boy, did they witness some old-time hockey. Flemingsbergs IK won in a 5-0 rout,…

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Baseball’s Winter Meetings have begun, meaning you can count on a week of free-agency rumors and trade innuendo. It’s a mid-December tradition! This year’s Winter Meetings ought to be especially interesting because the free-agent class is historically weak and the man who had the No. 1 spot on the list, Yoenis Cespedes, is already off the market. When Jeremy Hellickson qualifies as a top-10 free agent,…

As a sports fan with a DVR, I record every game played by New York’s Jets, Knicks and Mets, and sometimes I don’t start watching until hours after the game’s over in real life. It works great, as long as I avoid Twitter and fellow fans who can “spoil” the result. Turns out I’m not alone. An online survey by Thuuz Sports finds that about 84 percent of sports fans…

Last year, Americans collectively spent 31 billion hours watching sports on TV —  a 40% increase from a decade ago.  They watched football, baseball, basketball, hockey, horse racing, NASCAR, rowing, rugby, soccer and volleyball — even Little League championships and poker games. “Live sports is the most valuable content on the planet,” said Adam Ware, head of digital media at Tennis Channel, based in Santa Monica. Pay-TV distributors like DirecTV and Charter Communications have…

Every fan who doesn’t spend the majority of each day sporting team face paint has asked themselves this question at least one time: “Why do I care so much about sports?” After all, it’s just a game, right? None of it ultimately means anything. You’re just rooting for laundry. The players aren’t your friends or family. There are far more important things in the world. And on it goes. The…

At this point, it’s a hoary old saw that sports networks and broadcasts of live sporting events are one of the main reasons your pay-TV bills continue to rise. We all kind of “know” that sports are expensive, and that the costs come through to everyone else… but as millions of dollars in charges and fees become billions, are consumers and viewers going to stick around? That’s what the Los…

In just their fifth season as an FBS team, UTSA is playing in their first bowl game ever, which is pretty awesome. Also, if you can’t get down with a team nicknamed “the Roadrunners,” we can’t be friends.

Linebacker Luke Kuechly was on the Carolina Panthers sideline, in street clothes as he recovers from a concussion, ranting and raving at the officials and everyone else nearby after a long Seattle Seahawks touchdown. Earlier, Derek Anderson started at quarterback because Cam Newton apparently didn’t wear a necktie. He didn’t start because he was disciplined for a dress-code violation. Anderson played one play. He threw an interception. It was all…

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Welcome cleveland.com readers and voters to your first year-end cleveland.com Sports Awards, where you cast the votes and decide the winners for the most amazing, most interesting and most deserving Cleveland athletes, teams and moments of 2016. Categories will be released Dec. 5 through Dec. 15, with winners announced the week of Dec. 19. Voting for each category lasts one week.  Today’s category: THE BELIEVELAND BEST MOMENT…

In an NFL season filled with bizarre moments, plays and stories, the opening to the Panthers-Seahawks Sunday Night Football game might take the cake. Carolina took the opening kickoff and then, without any fanfare or notice, backup quarterback Derek Anderson walked onto the field for the opening series while a healthy Cam Newton stood on the sideline watching. Coach Ron Rivera later revealed that he benched the reigning NFL MVP for…

It is win-win-win. • This generates additional revenue, because, for the most part, college stadiums are larger than bowl sites. More notably, third-party middlemen (bowl directors) are cut out of profiteering off “amateur” sports as college football finally frees itself of the fiscally irresponsible act of outsourcing its most valuable asset, the football playoff. Bowls can continue (and will) to serve non-playoff teams, but the bowl industry no longer gets…

Dante Sparaco dreamed of playing big-time college football, and his parents were willing to do just about anything to help him achieve his goal. Sparaco started his career as a quarterback at Glenwood Springs High, where he helped lead the Class 3A Demons to the playoffs as a sophomore. Then he transferred across state to perennial Class 5A heavyweight Cherry Creek for his junior year, where he played tight end…

It’s pretty easy to root for Berry. One of the NFL’s best stories got even better on Sunday. Detroit Lions and their newfound defense: You don’t go into the Superdome and shut down New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees. Even the great Denver Broncos defense gave up 303 yards and three touchdowns to Brees earlier this season. So what do we make of what the Lions did on Sunday? Detroit,…

1:12 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Bud Selig spent 22 years as the commissioner of baseball. John Schuerholz built World Series champions in Atlanta and Kansas City. On Sunday night, they were elected together to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Schuerholz was elected unanimously by the 16 members of the Hall’s newly formed Today’s Game Era committee. Selig received 15 of 16 possible votes. No one else…

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Andrew McCutchen, Chris Sale, Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander could be available for the right price. As baseball teams gathered for the start of the winter meetings Monday, star players were dangled along with the usual crop of free agents. ”When clubs take a dramatic change in direction or even a subtle one, that type of player can become available – although often it’s just…

The 115th annual Baseball Winter Meetings are finally upon us and for five days this week the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland will be the temporary home for the business of baseball. One of the most intriguing aspects of the Baseball Winter Meetings occurs at its outset when the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announces its annual Eras Committees election results. While the…

CHICAGO – When “The Best Dressed Man on TV” come on the show, there is always a lot of good conversation. That was certainly the case on Sunday when sports legal analyst Exavier Pope came on Sports Feed. There was the Bears’ victory over the 49ers in the snow to discuss along with the impact of Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest, which he continued on Sunday afternoon at Soldier Field….