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The ascent of e-sports from nerdy niche to massive global spectacle has been impressive to behold. Now a leader in the industry wants to take things to the next level, launching a new venture that will have many of the trappings of a proper professional sports league. Run by Blizzard Entertainment, which has been big into e-sports since the first days of its wildly successful Starcraft series, the new league…

In a surprise revelation this week, five-time major winner Phil Mickelson underwent sports hernia surgery after the Safeway Open in October, an unannounced procedure that was unveiled by Golf Digest’s Tim Rosaforte this week. “It wasn’t an outie belly button per se, it just looked like it,” Mickelson told Golf Digest. “It was a walnut-sized hernia behind my belly button. It was no big deal, nor did it affect me…

Anna Turley, MP for Redcar, told The Telegraph that a woman entered the MP’s meeting room, ostensibly with the purpose of bringing in a tray of sandwiches, and placed a recording device underneath a chair. “I couldn’t believe it”, Ms Turley said. “I watched her put the device on the floor and when she left I said ‘bloody hell guys they are trying to record us’. It’s not James Bond, more Austin Powers.” When MPs…

The hammer has come down on Jon Jones. After speculation that Jones would receive a lighter suspension or none at all from USADA after failing a drug test and being pulled from the main event of UFC 200, the former light heavyweight champion has been suspended for the maximum of one year by an independent arbitration panel. The decision comes after Jones had his case presented to three arbitrators from…

SMITHFIELD, R.I. – In an effort to raise money and awareness for men’s health, the Bryant University baseball team is participating in No-Shave November for the second-straight year. Last season, the Bulldogs raised $2,395 during the month of November and have set their goal for $1,600 this year with the expectation of once again exceeding it. The Bryant baseball program has raised over $16,000 in support of various charitable organizations…

A scandal has hit South Korean Baseball, and it’s a bad one. It’s match-fixing, where the result of a game is predetermined to benefit a certain group of gamblers. This particular scandal is huge, with South Korean police accusing 21 people of some level of involvement. Of the 21 people accused by the South Korean police, seven are current and former players. Of the current players, two are pitchers: Yoo…

The pass was thrown on a line and a bit high. So Wisconsin’s Jazz Peavy jumped to catch it. The play was self-evident, the kind we’d seen hundreds of times. He jumped, caught it. But these are different times, thus ESPN/ABC analyst Brock Huard explained it for us, “He goes up and high-points the ball.” And away we go. FOX’s Gus Johnson said wide receiver KaVontae Turpin is a player…

RELATED: Race results | Updated Chase GridSHOP: Chase gear There’s one to go for the Round of 8 in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, and it’s desperation time for a few drivers after Sunday’s rain-shortened AAA Texas 500 from Texas Motor Speedway. Sixteen drivers came into this year’s Chase with high hopes for a championship, but we’re one week away from cutting the field to the Championship 4 at Phoenix…

Carl Edwards got the victory he desperately needed to earn a championship-contending spot in the NASCAR Sprint Cup finale, winning at Texas on Sunday night in a race shorted by 41 laps because of rain after the start was delayed nearly six hours.  With his fourth career win at Texas, Edwards joined Jimmie Johnson as drivers locked into the championship-contending spots in Homestead.  That leaves two spots up for grabs…

RELATED: History behind Dillon’s comment Austin Dillon had harsh words for Kevin Harvick after an on-track altercation in the late stages of Sunday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. Dillon, the pole-starter, and Harvick ran in close quarters in a contest for fifth place shortly after a restart. Harvick’s Stewart-Haas Racing No. 4 Chevrolet bumped Dillon’s Richard Childress Racing No. 3 Chevy from behind, sending his…

Of note: Several players competing in lesser leagues or with reserve squads are not listed. Americans with dual nationalities representing other national teams have also been omitted. *Named to U.S. roster for World Cup qualifiers vs. Mexico and Costa Rica ENGLAND Premier League Stoke City defender-midfielder Geoff Cameron: not in the 18 (injured) for 1-1 draw at West Ham Middlesbrough goalkeeper Brad Guzan*: not in the 18 for 1-1 draw…

SAN JOSE — On Wednesday, Jennifer Hall was honored by the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame as its Special Olympian of the Year. On Sunday, Hall experienced something perhaps even more thrilling — a chance to play floor hockey with San Jose Sharks stars Joe Pavelski and Mikkel Boedker. Hall was one of dozens of South Bay Special Olympians who took part in a scrimmage in a high school gym…

If it’s November, it’s time for winter baseball, and two likely top 25 teams, Chatsworth and Valencia, met on Saturday for a nine-inning game. Chatsworth came away with a 10-5 victory. Few of the top pitchers from either team pitched, though UCLA-bound Chase Farrell threw a scoreless inning for Valencia. Tyler Erne had three hits for Valencia and Shane Huey had two doubles. Center fielder Randy Mata led Chatsworth with…

After an almost six-hour delay due to rain, Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race is underway at Texas Motor Speedway. The AAA Texas 500 was originally scheduled for 2 p.m. ET, but rain began falling immediately following the national anthem. Because of ongoing showers and how difficult it is to dry the 1.5-mile oval, the start time was pushed to just before 8 p.m. ET. Texas is the latest…

MORE JUNIOR: Will Gordon race again? | In broadcast booth at Martinsville If you’ve ever wondered if NASCAR drivers are fast off the race track, Amy Reimann is here to answer this burning question. My little speed racer. #WheelingIt #warning pic.twitter.com/r1ES30FqjP — Amy Reimann (@Amy_Reimann) November 6, 2016 Reimann, Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s fiancée, snapped the 13-time NMPA Sprint Most Popular Driver Award recipient’s trouble on Sunday in Texas — sharing with…

Pop-out player Soccer fans around the world love to question the calls that the referees make during games. One common insult is to say the referee must not be able to see well. A new study says most referees can see just fine. Belgian and British researchers found that the best referees, however, are able to pay attention to the parts of a play where a foul is most likely…

In this March 13, 2016, file photo, people walk near Memorial Church on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. . (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) Harvard University told members of the men’s soccer team that their season was being canceled because for years some members of the team had given sexually explicit “grades” to recruits of the women’s soccer team based on their appearance. The men’s soccer team issued…

Media playback is not supported on this device Kay wins omnium by a single point Britain won two more gold medals on the final day of the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow to take their tally for the event to five. Emily Kay, 21, won the new-look omnium – reduced from six races over two days to four in one – by one point to add to her win…

Jerry Thornton will return to Barstool Sports after two years with WEEI. Jerry Thornton, who has been the third voice on WEEI’s Dale and Holley program for two years, is leaving the station to return to Barstool Sports. The station hired Thornton, a part-time comedian who wrote frequently about the Patriots, in November 2014, in part to try to attract some of Barstool’s large and demographically desirable audience to WEEI.com….

My old friend and former colleague Michael Wilbon – we haven’t spoken in years, since he ascended to a higher social and professional stratosphere – used to often talk about how Washington, D.C., was a bad sports town and Chicago was a good sports town, and he’d go on and on and on about bad sports towns and good sports towns. Actually, I should consider it a blessing that Wilbon…