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A grass-roots coalition that opposes holding the Olympics in Los Angeles staged its first public protest Friday, walking in on a private meeting that included bid officials. Showing up at a Van Nuys hotel with placards that read “No! No! No!,” about 20 members of the group NOlympics LA were quickly ushered out of a Chamber of Commerce breakfast where LA 2024 bid officials had been invited to give a…

Olympics organizers are eager to get the ball rolling, or rather bouncing, as they look toward the 2020 program in Tokyo. According to the Associated Press, the International Olympic Committee is all but certain it will add 3-on-3 basketball to its ever-changing list of events. “It would certainly be a perfect fit,” Patrick Baumann, the secretary general of world basketball’s governing body, told the news service on Friday. Baumann points…

FILE – In this Dec. 2, 2016 file photo, 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee President Yoshiko Mori, left, speaks as IOC Vice President John Coates listens during their joint press conference of the IOC coordination commission in Tokyo. The cost of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is nearly twice the initial estimate despite a major cost-cutting effort. A major reason is that cities exclude large amounts of associated costs…

Mike Fisher, a.k.a. Mr. Carrie Underwood, plays during Game 2 in Pittsburgh.(Photo: Keith Srakocic / Associated Press) Nashville, Tenn. — Terry Crisp sorely wishes that he and fellow broadcaster Pete Weber had recorded their “Hockey 101” sessions from the early days of the Nashville Predators. The expansion franchise had tapped the original broadcast team to teach hockey rules in a market where fans knew what a sack meant in football…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour has announced the appointment of Jeff Kampersal as the second head coach in the history of the women’s hockey program. One of the nation’s most successful coaches, Kampersal (Camp-er-saul) comes to Happy Valley after serving as the head coach at Princeton for the past 21 seasons, where he won 327 contests. “We are thrilled to have Jeff Kampersal…

x Embed x Share CLOSE While the Predators are out of town, the Smashville fan base has descended on the Nashville bar scene. Autumn Allison/USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee Buy Photo Billy Ray Cyrus sings to the Stanley Cup during its visit to the Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, May 31, 2017.(Photo: Lacy Atkins / The Tennessean)Buy Photo Country music, catfish, craft beer, slapshots, moonshine. Nashville’s bar scene, like the…

ROME — Upon winning the Vatican’s annual soccer championship last week, the victorious team honored Christians in Egypt who have faced increasingly brutal persecution in recent years. “I would like to dedicate this trophy to our friends from the Coptic Church,” said Deacon Sama Joan Romeo of Cameroon, the team captain of the Urban Lions. Catholic seminarians and clergy drew soccer teams from the pontifical universities and colleges of Rome…

x Embed x Share CLOSE While the Predators are out of town, the Smashville fan base has descended on the Nashville bar scene. Autumn Allison/USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee Buy Photo Billy Ray Cyrus sings to the Stanley Cup during its visit to the Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, May 31, 2017.(Photo: Lacy Atkins / The Tennessean)Buy Photo Country music, catfish, craft beer, slapshots, moonshine. Nashville’s bar scene, like the…

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s national soccer team is due to play its first game on home soil in years on Thursday — taking to the field in a city that suffered some of the worst violence after Saddam Hussein. But the match against neighboring Jordan is about much more than sports. It is widely seen as a sign the country is moving beyond the conflict and bloodshed that has plagued it…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// Did you see LeBron James’ monologue Wednesday? Let me give you a moment. It’s remarkable. James is honest and vulnerable. The most famous athlete in the U.S. using his podium to speak about racism after his Los Angeles home was vandalized with a racial epithet. James used the platform…

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s national soccer team is due to play its first game on home soil in years on Thursday — taking to the field in a city that suffered some of the worst violence after Saddam Hussein. But the match against neighboring Jordan is about much more than sports. It is widely seen as a sign the country is moving beyond the conflict and bloodshed that has plagued it…

Photo credit: Jerry Marklund/Stringer/Getty Images Before the 2017 race season, the powers that be in NASCAR decided to overhaul the sport’s rules—like, seismic levels of change here. But they couldn’t leave it alone for more than 11 races, changing the race format for the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday. And now, they’re considering more rule changes for 2018. The idea to change things yet again appears to have come after the…

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Screencap via WBTV Fans leave behind all sorts of things at major race weekends—tents, coolers, old couches, and in the case of this weekend’s Coke 600, even one of their own. Over 100,000 people attended this weekend’s Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, per WBTV—including Jody Nash. Advertisement Nash fell asleep at some point during the Coke 600 weekend, which was somewhat understandable given the way NASCAR’s longest race suffered…

Screencap via WBTV Fans leave behind all sorts of things at major race weekends—tents, coolers, old couches, and in the case of this weekend’s Coke 600, even one of their own. Over 100,000 people attended this weekend’s Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, per WBTV—including Jody Nash. Advertisement Nash fell asleep at some point during the Coke 600 weekend, which was somewhat understandable given the way NASCAR’s longest race suffered…

Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Last summer, Rio de Janeiro put on an Olympic Games that should serve as a blaring warning siren to any potential host city stupid enough to want to pay billions for the rights to the Games. Before the Games had been out of town four months, Rio de Janeiro had to declare bankruptcy because they were $31 billion in debt. The power’s out and the medals are…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// I wasn’t lucky enough to be able to open up Sports Illustrated every few weeks and find a new Frank Deford story waiting for me, but I can still remember opening up “The World’s Tallest Midget” and reading his lyrical prose for the first time. Deford didn’t write for…

An agreement is “progressing” with the International Olympic Committee that would give Paris the summer games in 2024 with Los Angeles to follow in 2028, sources told The Wall Street Journal. There has been an ongoing saga in the bid for the 2024 Olympics between Los Angeles and Paris. There have been political climates and various bids to account for for the IOC. The victory by Emmanuel Macron in the French…

Two soccer coaches from a Chino Hills high school were among four people killed in a crash near the Desert Center area. Matt Hodges, 30, was the head coach of the varsity girls’ soccer team at Ayala High School, and Gabby Constante was the assistant coach of the team. Both coaches and two other people were killed Monday afternoon in a head-on collision between the car they were in, a…