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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…

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne has hinted Dodge could make a return to NASCAR. According to multiple reports, Marchionne talked about the possibility during the Ferrari Finali Mondiali at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday afternoon, stating he recently spoke to NASCAR Executive Vice President Jim France. “Yes, I’d love to,” said Marchionne when asked if he’d like Dodge to return to the sport. “I talked to Jim France just last…

As the College Football Playoff selection committee spent Saturday night and Sunday morning choosing the teams that would make the sport’s final four, two separate arguments raged in the college football-loving world. Only one of them mirrored a discussion in the committee room. Argument No. 1: Ohio State should not make the playoff over Penn State because Penn State beat Ohio State and won the Big Ten title. This…

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne has hinted Dodge could make a return to NASCAR. According to multiple reports, Marchionne talked about the possibility during the Ferrari Finali Mondiali at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday afternoon, stating he recently spoke to NASCAR Executive Vice President Jim France. “Yes, I’d love to,” said Marchionne when asked if he’d like Dodge to return to the sport. “I talked to Jim France just last…

In 2015, Kyle Busch won Toyota’s first Premier Series drivers’ championship, but it was Chevrolet that collected another manufacturers’ title. But in 2016, the tides turned Toyota edged out Chevy for the honor with 16 wins on the season, while Jimmie Johnson won his record-tying seventh championship. NASCAR NASCAR via Getty Images

CHAPECO, Brazil — The final round of matches in Brazil’s top soccer league was postponed after a deadly plane crash last week killed most members of the Chapecoense soccer team. Players on many teams have said they don’t want to play, and the Brazilian Football Confederation has not clarified if matches will take place next weekend.  CBS Evening News New details emerge in tragic Colombia plane crash Coffins of some of…

CHAPECO, Brazil –  The president of Brazilian football team Chapecoense was buried Sunday as fans paid their final tributes, trying to put behind them the worst moment in the club’s history. Sandro Pallaoro was on the plane that crashed almost a week ago as the club was traveling to Colombia to play the first of two games to determine the Copa Sudamericana champion — the No. 2 club tournament…

Bruce Arena, back in charge of the U.S. national soccer team for the first time in a decade, was hired two weeks ago to replace Jurgen Klinsmann. (Kyle Terada/USA Today Sports) When Bruce Arena took the U.S. men’s national team helm for the first time, Christian Pulisic was 38 days old. In Arena’s second U.S. tour, Pulisic is the program’s prized young marvel. When Arena left D.C. United in the…

A pair of former baseball executives were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday when Bud Selig and John Schuerholz were voted in by the Today’s Game Era Committee at baseball’s winter meetings in Maryland. A total of 12 votes were needed from the 16-member committee, the newer version of the veterans’ committee, which provides a chance to honor contributors to the game and takes extra looks…

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…

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…

Mike McQueary Made $5 Million Richer Maybe this marks the end of a long, treacherous journey for Mike McQueary. The former Penn State football assistant has scored his second victory in the courts, taking home $5 million most recently and a total of $12.3 million altogether from his legal battles. Former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary has made more than $10 million through the courts. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty…

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…

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The sport’s main offseason showcase once was about general managers making trades in hotel lobbies, huddling in a corner or behind a potted palm and chatting over cocktails deep into the night until a deal was done. As free agency took over the game, agents took over the winter meetings. The biggest signings became the biggest news. Trades seemed smaller scale. This year’s meetings could be a throwback because trades…

For the next four days, the baseball world will revolve around an unlikely sun – the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Md., home to the 2016 Winter Meetings. There, across the Potomac from D.C., in the shadow of a giant ferris wheel not usually present at proceedings like these, Major League Baseball’s offseason will spin into a frenzy. Few teams will be more central to the…

Pittsfield native Tom Grieve, a first-round draft pick who built a long-term career in major league baseball, heads the Western Massachusetts Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017. Announcement of the new class came from Hall of Fame chairman Clark Eckhoff, owner/president of the Valley Blue Sox of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Grieve also will serve as keynote speaker at the induction banquet, set for Jan. 26 at…

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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…

Pittsfield native Tom Grieve, a first-round draft pick who built a long-term career in major league baseball, heads the Western Massachusetts Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017. Announcement of the new class came from Hall of Fame chairman Clark Eckhoff, owner/president of the Valley Blue Sox of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Grieve also will serve as keynote speaker at the induction banquet, set for Jan. 26 at…