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Nico Rosberg has stunned the motor racing world by announcing his retirement from the sport, just five days after winning the World Championship. Rosberg says he made the decision on Monday evening, after partying until 9 a.m. that morning and flying to Kuala Lumpur for a PR event. He announced it at a press conference ahead of Friday’s FIA Awards in Vienna. His decision leaves Mercedes with the difficult task…

Any way you look at it, Sunday’s game between the Chicago Bears and the San Francisco 49ers will be a drag. Two inept, injury-wracked franchises are staggering toward the end of a season long ago given up for dead, and with nothing but draft position at stake, losing is the optimal outcome. But what if I told you there’s a way to infuse dreary contests like this with a jolt…

The private bid committee seeking to bring the Olympics back to Southern California for a third time has released a new budget estimating it would spend $5.3 billion to stage the Games. The total exceeds the initial $4.6 billion estimate included in LA 2024’s original budget from the summer of 2015. However, that budget also had $1.7 billion in costs not tied to the local organizing committee, bringing the total…

Maggie Bill has mastered the art of the middle back for the Tar Heels, who play West Virginia on Friday in the College Cup semifinals. SAN JOSE, Calif. — University of North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance has some experience when it comes to the NCAA Women’s College Cup. The coach has so much experience, in fact, that he has won three times as many national championships in the San Jose-Santa…

Any way you look at it, Sunday’s game between the Chicago Bears and the San Francisco 49ers will be a drag. Two inept, injury-wracked franchises are staggering toward the end of a season long ago given up for dead, and with nothing but draft position at stake, losing is the optimal outcome. But what if I told you there’s a way to infuse dreary contests like this with a jolt…

It’s BBC Sport and A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz – have you been paying attention to what’s been going on in the world of sport in the past week? If you missed last week’s sports quiz, try it here. Picture credits: Getty, Rex, PA

A general view of the Rocinha favela on June 9, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.(Photo: Richard Heathcote, Getty Images) From the front steps of Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theater, the ballet company danced, and opera singers belted out the strident “Carmina Burana.” It was last month, and the show was an artistic public protest. The performers, all state employees, haven’t been paid for weeks and won’t be getting paychecks until Dec. 5….

Maggie Bill has mastered the art of the middle back for the Tar Heels, who play West Virginia on Friday in the College Cup semifinals. SAN JOSE, Calif. — University of North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance has some experience when it comes to the NCAA Women’s College Cup. The coach has so much experience, in fact, that he has won three times as many national championships in the San Jose-Santa…

RELATED: NASCAR, Monster Energy announce entitlement deal LAS VEGAS — Mark Hall called it “a rare opportunity that doesn’t come along every day.” “If you would have asked me five years ago if I’ve ever contemplated something like this, the answer would be never in a million years,” said Hall, Chief Marketing Officer for Monster Energy. Time flies. Contemplation became reality Thursday as NASCAR and officials with the energy drink…

Around 350 victims have reported child sexual abuse within United Kingdom soccer clubs, following a former player’s allegation that he was sexually assaulted as a young boy by a coach in the 1980s. Here’s everything you need to know about the ongoing scandal: How did it start?On Nov. 17, The Guardian published a front page story in which Andy Woodward, a former lower league soccer player, broke his silence to…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay Demerson Costa’s face fell Thursday as he stood at the entrance of the soccer field where a week ago his team celebrated their advancement to the Copa Sudamericana final. The father of three did not travel on the doomed flight that crashed in Colombia on Monday, killing 71 people including 19 team members of his team from Chapecó, Brazil. “Everything in our…

John Gaustad, who died in June, argued that “the best sports books are about life itself, as much as sport”. The range, depth and ambition of the books published in 2016 prove his point. The judges for Gaustad’s creation, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, did him proud with a winner so leftfield – William Finnegan’s exquisitely observed surfing memoir Barbarian Days (Corsair) – that even its author…

Maggie Bill has mastered the art of the middle back for the Tar Heels, who play West Virginia on Friday in the College Cup semifinals. SAN JOSE, Calif. — University of North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance has some experience when it comes to the NCAA Women’s College Cup. The coach has so much experience, in fact, that he has won three times as many national championships in the San Jose-Santa…

RELATED: NASCAR, Monster Energy announce entitlement deal LAS VEGAS — Mark Hall called it “a rare opportunity that doesn’t come along every day.” “If you would have asked me five years ago if I’ve ever contemplated something like this, the answer would be never in a million years,” said Hall, Chief Marketing Officer for Monster Energy. Time flies. Contemplation became reality Thursday as NASCAR and officials with the energy drink…

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5:45 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment The owners and players have a tentative five-year labor deal that will go through the 2021 season, and Cubs starter Jon Lester is happy with the agreement even if his primary request wasn’t granted: While my efforts to eliminate pitchers from having to throw to 1B didnt pass, I’m proud of the PA & Owners for coming together on a new…

Hooray, there’s a new CBA today! The owners and the players reached an agreement several hours before midnight on Wednesday, meaning there won’t be a lockout and baseball will continue. Both parties got things that they wanted, though not everyone was totally satisfied. While my efforts to eliminate pitchers from having to throw to 1B didnt pass, I’m proud of the PA & Owners for coming together on a new…

x Embed x Share MLB’s All-Star Game will no longer decide World Series home-field advantage, which will now go by which team has a better record. USA TODAY Sports Shohei Otani is Japan’s version of Babe Ruth.(Photo: Koji Sasahara, AP) There is a new collective bargaining agreement, with plenty of new wrinkles, but unless you count the personal chefs now required in each clubhouse, there will be no dramatic changes…

3:29 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment BUFFALO, N.Y. — The NHL Players’ Association is expected to reject the NHL’s verbal proposal to extend the current collective bargaining agreement in exchange for Olympic participation in 2018. The players’ association is expected to notify the league of its decision before next week’s board of governors meeting in Florida. An NHLPA spokesperson said Thursday that the group has not officially…

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