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Three Harford County field hockey teams played for region titles Wednesday and two, Bel Air and Patterson Mill, both won, while Fallston fell short. At Patterson Mill, the Huskies squared off with Perryville for a second straight year in the region final setting. And for the second consecutive time, the Huskies beat the Panthers. This year, the Huskies overcame an early deficit en route to a 3-1 Class 1A North…

The concept evolved over the past year in the midst of one doping scandal after another. In the latest chapter, Rita Jeptoo, a Kenyan who was a two-time Chicago and Boston marathon champion, had her titles stripped and was given a four-year suspension for testing positive for EPO. Also within the past week, a World Anti-Doping Agency report highlighted the failings and shortcomings of drug testing at the Rio Olympics,…

CLEVELAND — The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in a mind-blowing, nerves-jangling, heart-stopping mess of a game, a 10-inning acid trip that tested the limits of your sanity, made baseball history, and ended 108 years of anxiety. Every inning of this game pushed the night closer and closer to becoming a Salvador Dali painting brought to life. It was surreal, it was painful, it was delirious. It was…

Hillary Clinton is an Illinois native and grew up a Cubs fan. But she’s also the Democratic nominee for president six days before election day. And so there was no breaking from her schedule to watch a decisive Game 7 of the World Series. Clinton delivered her more than 40-minute speech as scheduled on the campus of Arizona State University as Chicago battled the Cleveland Indians.  But the baseball gods…

They tossed their hats and gloves into the air after the final out like joyous Little Leaguers and then threw themselves into each other’s arms like brothers — and this will connect them forever. They sang along with “Go, Cubs, Go” as thousands of fans who wouldn’t miss World Series Game 7 for the world broke into song. They carried retiring catcher David Ross on their shoulders and wore wide-eyed…

Michael B. Jordan and Michael Strahan will each executive produce a sports-themed drama which will join the increasing slate of scripted sports TV including Fox’s ‘Pitch,’ Starz’s ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ and HBO’s ‘Ballers.’ <!–[CDATA[ Scripted television increasingly is looking to score with sports. With Fox’s Pitch, Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, HBO’s Ballers and Audience Network’s Kingdom already on the air, the development bench includes LeBron James’ NBC sports-medicine drama, NFL…

Take a look at the CBS Sports All-America teams from the 2015-16 season and what you’ll find is that only one of the 15 players honored — Duke’s Grayson Allen — is actually back in school. In other words, we’re basically starting from scratch, which is normal for the sport of college basketball, where new and/or unknown players annually become the faces of the sport. We put it up to…

Each Wednesday SB Nation’s NASCAR reporter Jordan Bianchi answers your questions about the latest news and happenings within the sport. If you have a mailbag question email jordanmbianchi@gmail.com. Seeing how Martinsville is such a great track and even its bad races are usually better than good races at most other tracks, doesn’t it make sense that it should host an elimination race over other tracks? No offense to Dover…

The concept evolved over the past year in the midst of one doping scandal after another. In the latest chapter, Rita Jeptoo, a Kenyan who was a two-time Chicago and Boston marathon champion, had her titles stripped and was given a four-year suspension for testing positive for EPO. Also within the past week, a World Anti-Doping Agency report highlighted the failings and shortcomings of drug testing at the Rio Olympics,…

Southampton, the Premier League football club based on the south coast of England, is in exclusive talks to be taken over by Lander Sports Development Co. of China, according to people familiar with the situation. Katharina Liebherr, the club’s Swiss owner, has been engaged in the talks for several weeks, said the people, who declined to be identified because an agreement has yet to be completed. The price could be as…

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As if the 2016 Rio Olympics weren’t bad enough on their own (you know, what with the city’s massive corruption problem, its infested water, and its unpaid cops), the event is still terrible over two months after the competition ended. Why? Because the organizers still haven’t paid hundreds of people who worked their asses off to make the Olympics possible. Now, said workers are ready to sue. According to the…

Life cannot give you everything. It is too fleeting, too cruel, too rooted in reality to allow the fulfillment of fantasy. But baseball, in doses both large and small, can serve as a salve, as a distraction, as a reason to believe in infinite possibility. Baseball can give you everything.  On Wednesday evening in Game 7 of the World Series, inside a ballpark packed to its capacity with fans of…

Take a look at the CBS Sports All-America teams from the 2015-16 season and what you’ll find is that only one of the 15 players honored — Duke’s Grayson Allen — is actually back in school. In other words, we’re basically starting from scratch, which is normal for the sport of college basketball, where new and/or unknown players annually become the faces of the sport. We put it up to…

They tossed their hats and gloves into the air after the final out like joyous Little Leaguers and then threw themselves into each other’s arms like brothers — and this will connect them forever. They sang along with “Go, Cubs, Go” as thousands of fans who wouldn’t miss World Series Game 7 for the world broke into song. They carried retiring catcher David Ross on their shoulders and wore wide-eyed…

Michael B. Jordan and Michael Strahan will each executive produce a sports-themed drama which will join the increasing slate of scripted sports TV including Fox’s ‘Pitch,’ Starz’s ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ and HBO’s ‘Ballers.’ <!–[CDATA[ Scripted television increasingly is looking to score with sports. With Fox’s Pitch, Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, HBO’s Ballers and Audience Network’s Kingdom already on the air, the development bench includes LeBron James’ NBC sports-medicine drama, NFL…

The concept evolved over the past year in the midst of one doping scandal after another. In the latest chapter, Rita Jeptoo, a Kenyan who was a two-time Chicago and Boston marathon champion, had her titles stripped and was given a four-year suspension for testing positive for EPO. Also within the past week, a World Anti-Doping Agency report highlighted the failings and shortcomings of drug testing at the Rio Olympics,…

Nine’s delightfully chirpy sports broadcaster Ken Sutcliffe announced his retirement from the news desk yesterday, after a 50-year career that probably involved him forcibly watching at least 30-something Ironman championships, which itself deserves a round of applause (that’s a lot of Trevor Hendy). As a kid growing up in the ’90s, permanently fixed to my couch, my TV dial and a stack of Nutella sandwiches, Sutcliffe remains a significant figure in…

Southampton, the Premier League football club based on the south coast of England, is in exclusive talks to be taken over by Lander Sports Development Co. of China, according to people familiar with the situation. Katharina Liebherr, the club’s Swiss owner, has been engaged in the talks for several weeks, said the people, who declined to be identified because an agreement has yet to be completed. The price could be as…