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LONDON The mystery package at the center of a UK Anti-Doping investigation into British Cycling contained a flu treatment, Team Sky chief Dave Brailsford told Members of Parliament on Monday. British Cycling and Team Sky have been under scrutiny over the package delivered to the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine in which Bradley Wiggins was riding. Wiggins’ then coach Shane Sutton, giving evidence to a Parliamentary inquiry into doping in sport,…

2:15 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment We’ve already gone through an exercise in seeing which goaltenders and defensemen rated highest to this point of the season on the ESPN Player Rater. Seems fitting we should check in with the forward ranks, too. Tortorella’€™s biggest strength as a coach A coach doesn’t get to 500 NHL wins by accident. Here’s how John Tortorella did it, plus other takeaways…

ZURICH World soccer governing body FIFA’s independent ethics committee on Monday imposed life-long bans on two former Honduran officials for involvement in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme to which both have pled guilty. Rafael Callejas, former president of the Honduran Football Association (FENAFUTH) and a former member of the FIFA Marketing and TV Committee, and Alfredo Hawit Banegas, former acting president of CONCACAF – the confederation that runs soccer in North…

9.36am EST09:36 Summary So it took a while but Brailsford finally gave us some clarity about what was in the package that was delivered to Bradley Wiggins at the Dauphiné in 2011. Questions will inevitably be asked as to why Team Sky and British Cycling went to such lengths to deliver such a trivial-seeming medication (fluimucil) and why something that it is advised should not be used to treat an…

BURLINGTON, Vt.—A 32-save performance from senior goaltender Alex Sakellaropoulos and a timely Jeff Taylorpower-play goal lifted the No. 12/13 Union College men’s hockey team to a 2-1 win and a weekend sweep against No. 10/11 Vermont, Sunday evening at Gutterson Fieldhouse. The Dutchmen, who extend their win streak to six, go to 14-3-2, while the Catamounts move to 10-6-2. Sakellarpoulos was nearly perfect, turning away 18 shots over the first two…

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HEBRON, West Bank –  For over a week, Palestinian soccer fans have been enjoying a special Christmas-season present: the first visit by Chilean soccer club Deportivo Palestino to the West Bank. Two-time winners of Chile’s Premier Division and quarter finalists in this year’s Copa Sudamerica, Palestino was founded in 1920 in the capital city Santiago by Palestinian immigrants. The team has a huge following among Palestinians and President Mahmoud…

Manuja Veerappa | TNN | Updated: Dec 19, 2016, 08.01 AM IST Highlights Harendra Singh was a promising player who was dumped from the national team India beat Belgium 2-1 to win the Jr Hockey World Cup on Sunday The juniors ended a 15-year-old World Cup drought. They last won the trophy in 2001 “You’ve asked a critical question”, said the Indian junior hockey team’s coach Harendra Singh, before tears…

The rivalry between #CR7 and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has gone back and forward for close to a decade since the two players finished second and third respectively in the voting for the 2007 Ballon d’Or. The intense rivalry has also been played out through the lens of their respective clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona and to a lesser extent their countries, Portugal and Real Madrid. Each has pushed the other…

I have just got off the phone with BT “customer services” in South Shields and, as usual with BT, I am fuming. I decided to check my latest BT bill online – I opted for paperless bills many months ago – only to discover I am being charged £6 a month for access to BT Sport. This is odd, as I never watch it, and nor did I ever agree…

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The rivalry between #CR7 and Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has gone back and forward for close to a decade since the two players finished second and third respectively in the voting for the 2007 Ballon d’Or. The intense rivalry has also been played out through the lens of their respective clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona and to a lesser extent their countries, Portugal and Real Madrid. Each has pushed the other…

It’s probably not well known but Africa has been represented at every Winter Olympics since 1984. Morocco and Algeria are some of the most regular participants these days. South Africa did take part as early as the 1960 games in Squaw Valley, USA, but that was during apartheid, and it was subsequently banned from participation till 1994. Since then it’s taken part in every games except the last one in…

Not long after Jay Rodriguez trotted onto the field for his Southampton debut in 2012, he quickly became one of England’s brightest young prospects. He went on to make close to 80 first team appearances and earned his first England cap over the next two years when, at the tail end of 2013-14 season, his career was totally derailed by a horrific knee injury. As his teammates were becoming staples in the England team…

Washington University on Friday suspended the men’s soccer team for comments about the women’s team that were “degrading and sexually explicit.” The university said the comments—which were reported by members of the women’s team on Wednesday—were made in an online document from 2015, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The university is the latest in a series of schools to suspend athletic teams over lewd or offensive comments, often about female…

Team USA hockey defenseman Anne Schleper(Photo: Carlos Osorio, AP) The public address announcer let the crowd know Canada was penalized for “too many men on the ice,” during the first period Saturday evening at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth. The statement was somewhat quizzical and turned more than a few heads because the U.S. women’s national team was hosting Canada in an exhibition match, which Canada won, 5-3. It was the…

It’s probably not well known but Africa has been represented at every Winter Olympics since 1984. Morocco and Algeria are some of the most regular participants these days. South Africa did take part as early as the 1960 games in Squaw Valley, USA, but that was during apartheid, and it was subsequently banned from participation till 1994. Since then it’s taken part in every games except the last one in…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS — The men’s soccer team at Washington University in St. Louis has been indefinitely suspended for what the university calls sexually explicit comments and other inappropriate behavior toward the women’s soccer team. Members of the women’s team alerted administrators Wednesday. The suspension of the men’s program was announced Friday night. The university said in a statement that comments made toward members of…

India take on Belgium in the final of the Junior Hockey World Cup. The winner of the Junior Hockey World Cup would be decided on Sunday in Lucknow when home team India take on Belgium. A win for either teams would be a historic occasion for them. India would be winning the Junior Hockey World Cup for a second time – after a gap of 15 years – to replicate…

Team USA hockey defenseman Anne Schleper(Photo: Carlos Osorio, AP) The public address announcer let the crowd know Canada was penalized for “too many men on the ice,” during the first period Saturday evening at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth. The statement was somewhat quizzical and turned more than a few heads because the U.S. women’s national team was hosting Canada in an exhibition match, which Canada won, 5-3. It was the…