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Russia, basically: “OK, fine, we doped athletes like crazy. But from now on, we’ll be good. Also, Putin knew nothing.” Russian officials for the first time have admitted to mass doping in the country’s sports system, the New York Times reported, but dismissed suggestions the “institutional conspiracy” was state-sponsored — meaning backed by President Vladimir Putin and his closest associates. The final part of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s independent report into doping in Russia…

Russian officials have admitted to working a far-reaching doping operation that implicated dozens of Russian athletes at not just the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi but across several Olympic Games, the New York Times reports. “It was an insitutional conspiracy,”  Russia’s national anti-doping agency acting director Anna Antseliovich told The Times. Over the past year, the New York Times has reported that former anti-doping lab chief Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov helped tampered with urine…

Russian officials have admitted to working a far-reaching doping operation that implicated dozens of Russian athletes at not just the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi but across several Olympic Games, the New York Times reports. “It was an insitutional conspiracy,”  Russia’s national anti-doping agency acting director Anna Antseliovich told The Times. Over the past year, the New York Times has reported that former anti-doping lab chief Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov helped tampered…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment MONTREAL — Kasper Krog made 34 saves and Denmark held on to upset defending champion Finland 3-2 on Tuesday in preliminary-round play at the world junior hockey championship. William Boysen and David Madsen scored to make it 2-0 for Denmark (1-1-0) after 20 minutes at Bell Centre, and Joachim Blichfeld added another in the second period for a three-goal lead entering the…

Former men’s U.S. national team soccer coach Bob Bradley was fired as manager of Swansea of the English Premier League after just 11 games. Bradley was the first American to be hired to manage a Premier League team, and his term lasted 85 days. In 11 league matches, the Swans picked up just eight points, and its defending was a major shortcoming. Monday’s 4-1 home loss to West Ham was…

On the seventh day of the Games, it seemed, for a brief, bewildering moment, as though a bomb had gone off in the Olympic Park. A thunderclap sounded around the aquatics stadium and echoed across the food court. No one fled. Instead everyone sped towards the scene. It turned out that Brazilian police had detonated a discarded rucksack – they later explained that it had contained a jacket and a…

“No technical factor was part of the accident, everything involved human error, added to a management factor in the company’s administration and the management and organization of the flight plans by the authorities in Bolivia,” Colombia’s Secretary for Air Safety Colonel Freddy Bonilla told journalists. Aviation authorities in Bolivia and the airline “accepted conditions for the flight presented in the flight plan that were unacceptable,” Bonilla added. Besides a lack…

Christmas may be over this year, but the NASCAR community still has the holiday spirit. Fans lined up as early as 8:45 p.m. on Christmas outside the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the annual UnDeck the Halls event on Dec. 26. Once the doors opened at 10 a.m., fans were permitted to enter for 45 seconds and select a NASCAR-themed gift off one of the decorated…

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BOGOTA Errors by the pilot, airline and Bolivian regulators are to blame for a plane crash in Colombia that killed 71 people last month, including most of Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team, Colombia aviation authorities said on Monday. The plane, operated by Bolivia-based charter company LaMia, crashed on a wooded hillside near Medellin because the pilot failed to refuel en route and did not report engine failures caused by the lack…

The most magical day of the year isn’t Christmas, it’s the day after. Why? Two words: world juniors. Let me explain what the holiday period means for Canadians. Of course it means presents, candy canes and spending time with family, but really, it’s about the hockey. At Christmastime, when outdoor-rink season is in full swing, you get to play against all your cousins and extended family. When you’re out there,…

August 7, 2012: Dodge announces that it is leaving the NASCAR Sprint Cup series (no, we’re not ready to call it the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup series yet). Then Dodge, driver Brad Keselowski and team owner Roger Penske go on to win the 2012 championship. This leaves Chevrolet, Toyota and Ford to compete in 2013 and beyond. December 4, 2016: Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, at Daytona International Speedway as…

So that was … interesting. One of the most common complaints about the modern NHL is that the league’s product is occasionally boring. And when it comes to the action on the ice, that’s often true. But in the bigger picture, 2016 couldn’t be accused of being dull. The year was a lot of things – ridiculous, controversial, head-scratching – but it was rarely boring. Here are 10 of the…

Boys in the Pride FC program scrimmage during soccer practice. Photo by Allison Steines. Robert “Biko” Baker and Tyrone Gordon, founders and coaches of the Pride Football Club soccer program, have been playing soccer all their lives. Baker played Division I soccer for Northeastern Illinois University and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and started coaching at age 21. Gordon played for the Minnesota Thunder for one season and Milwaukee Wave for two…

August 7, 2012: Dodge announces that it is leaving the NASCAR Sprint Cup series (no, we’re not ready to call it the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup series yet). Then Dodge, driver Brad Keselowski and team owner Roger Penske go on to win the 2012 championship. This leaves Chevrolet, Toyota and Ford to compete in 2013 and beyond. December 4, 2016: Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, at Daytona International Speedway as…

(L-R) Marcellus Gomes, Mervyn Fernandes, MK Kaushik, Mohd Shahid, Syed Ali, Charanjit Singh, Zafar Iqbal and Surender Sodhi during a camp in Patiala for the 1981-82 World Cup. Dhyan Chand, Shahid, Ali and Iqbal are all products of hockey nurseries in UP. The stadium had lost its voice. But Syed Ali couldn’t care less. He is on his feet, shaking his head in disbelief and applauding a fine goal. He…

Editor’s note: Images courtesy of Georgia Tech athletics/Danny Karnik   A college football player leaving school early to pursue his dream of being in a professional sport is not unusual. In that regard, Eason Fromayan will not be alone when he departs Georgia Tech following the team’s Dec. 31 bowl game with one season of eligibility remaining.   Fromayan, a large fellow at 6-foot-4, 285 pounds, has decided to step…

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  Hey remember a few years ago when they had the Olympics in Sochi, and USA Hockey produced a pretty underwhelming team? You know what I mean: When the brain trust left some of the best players at their positions in the whole world home because of things like a perceived lack of hustle or because they had bad dreams and really only wanted to beat Canada? That team ended…

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. – For any high school coach, all you can ask from your athletes is to play with heart. East Pennsboro Senior Joe Mansaray embodies that sentiment in a way you can’t even imagine. Two years ago, Mansaray was a rising star in high school soccer. But the summer before his junior year, he started having trouble breathing and he didn’t know why. The Pennsylvania teen thought it…