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We’ve lived all over the country, so they represent the places we’ve been. I was born in Chicago, so I’ve got Dick Butkus, Gale Sayers, Mike Singletary and even Devin Hester. Grew up in Philly, so there’s jerseys of Donovan McNabb, Brian Dawkins, Reggie White, Brian Westbrook and Jerome Brown. We lived in San Jose, so I have a Joe Montana Niners jersey. And now that we’re in Charlotte, we…

Thanksgiving night of 2016 is going to be remembered as a critical turning point in the history of two sputtering blue blood college football programs. For LSU and Texas, which are both facing high profile coach openings, the immediate trajectory of their hundred-million-dollar football programs will be linked back to the actions of Thursday night. There’s two ways Thanksgiving 2016 will be remembered. Either LSU badly outflanked Texas to hire…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick this week, during a conference call with sports reporters, defended wearing a t-shirt in August that depicted Fidel Castro, even going as far as to praise the Cuban dictator for his country’s “highest literacy rate.” Kaepernick was fielding question from South Florida sports reporters ahead of the 49ers game against the Miami Dolphins on Sunday. That’s when Cuban-born Miami Herald sports writer Armando Salguero…

Ilya Ilyin was stripped of two Olympic gold medals.(Photo: Andres Leighton, AP) LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Three Olympic gold medals and one silver medal were stripped on Friday from athletes caught in the latest round of positive doping retests from the 2008 and 2012 Summer Games. Seven athletes from Belarus, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan were retroactively disqualified after testing positive for steroids in a reanalysis of their stored doping samples, the International…

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If Texas’ decision to move on from head coach Charlie Strong wasn’t already set in stone entering Friday, it will be soon. The writing was on the wall after the Longhorns lost to lowly Kansas last week, but the school did not pull the trigger on the decision, leaving a slight glimmer of hope that Strong could keep his job with a win over TCU on Friday in Austin. That…

We’ve lived all over the country, so they represent the places we’ve been. I was born in Chicago, so I’ve got Dick Butkus, Gale Sayers, Mike Singletary and even Devin Hester. Grew up in Philly, so there’s jerseys of Donovan McNabb, Brian Dawkins, Reggie White, Brian Westbrook and Jerome Brown. We lived in San Jose, so I have a Joe Montana Niners jersey. And now that we’re in Charlotte, we…

LSU played its final regular-season football game Thursday night. Houston and North Carolina played theirs at noon ET Friday. Texas had its finale at 3:30 ET. As those games finished, more schools will start to lay their cards on the table in a high-stakes game of coaching poker. Thanksgiving night certainly upped the ante. There were various media reports that Houston coach Tom Herman had become the primary target at LSU,…

LONDON — Former English soccer players who were subjected to years of sexual abuse by youth team coaches entrusted with their care are breaking cover to expose the game’s dark secrets. Complete soccer coverage on CBSSports.com Harrowing stories of assaults on young players by men they relied on to turn them into professionals are forcing authorities and clubs to finally address how child abusers were able to exploit their positions…

Giant’s 2017 Anthem Advanced 1 offers a lot of off road performance for racing or recreation. As part of my annual series of Holiday Gift Guides, I tackle one of my favorite sports, cycling. But in addition to gear picks that make great gifts for cyclists on your list, I’ve included a round-up of five of my favorite bikes just in case you decide it is time for a gift…

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We’ve lived all over the country, so they represent the places we’ve been. I was born in Chicago, so I’ve got Dick Butkus, Gale Sayers, Mike Singletary and even Devin Hester. Grew up in Philly, so there’s jerseys of Donovan McNabb, Brian Dawkins, Reggie White, Brian Westbrook and Jerome Brown. We lived in San Jose, so I have a Joe Montana Niners jersey. And now that we’re in Charlotte, we…

A doping cover-up dubbed the “total protection project” shielded Russian medal winners at the 2012 London Olympics, allowing them to compete when they should have been banned, according to emails seized by French prosecutors.  The emails published Friday by French newspaper Le Monde and German broadcaster ARD suggest the scale of suspected wrongdoing involving Russian track and field and officials who were then at the IAAF, the sport’s global governing…

Green softballs were being hit all around the Crespi football field on the day after Thanksgiving. The annual over-the-line tournament was back. Suspended last year, the tournament was started by former baseball Coach Scott Muckey in the early 1990s. Muckey passed away last March at the age of 63, but the tournament returned on Friday with 19 four-man teams, and there was a dedication ceremony of a plaque honoring Muckey,…

MAPLEWOOD — More than two years after Columbia High School baseball team’s coaching staff was accused of bullying players, the coaches have been replaced. But supporters of the coaches say the accusations against them were not true, and the years-long battle over the coaches’ positions was an abuse of the state’s anti-bullying law. At a meeting earlier this month, the South Orange-Maplewood school district board of education voted to hire James…

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Last Friday, students in Matt Blessing’s baseball literature class witnessed some of the contents of the books they’ve been studying come to life, as they were regaled with tales of renowned baseball player Babe Ruth, straight from Ruth’s granddaughter herself. “They’ve heard about Babe Ruth,” said Blessing, an English teacher at South Kingstown High School. “We’ve discussed him in some of the books…

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Former English soccer players who were subjected to years of sexual abuse by youth team coaches entrusted with their care are breaking cover to expose the game’s dark secrets. Harrowing stories of assaults on young players by men they relied on to turn them into professionals are forcing authorities and clubs to finally address how child abusers were able to exploit their positions of power and why the behavior wasn’t…

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, SNS, Reuters

The Roxana Shells will be getting a new shine to their baseball program soon. In late September it was announced the Roxana baseball field was awarded a grant worth $81,909 for upgrades through the Baseball Tomorrow Fund, a joint initiative between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association. On Nov. 15, the Roxana School Board approved even more upgrades to accompany the grant. “They were…