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WADA report released on Monday revealed huge scale of Russian doping  Those fighting war on drugs have been betrayed by Russia and the IAAF Athletics is lost if any Russians are allowed to compete at 2016 Olympics A ban is needed until it is proven that Russian athletes are running clean They have already corrupted the London 2012 Olympics with doping  Lord Coe has finally woken up to the scale…

SOUTH WINDSOR — At the orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where South Windsor junior Daniel Eddy and his sisters Edeline and Shelove lived, the electricity came and went. On Barbara Eddy’s final night at the orphanage during a mission trip in 2010, the lights stayed on. “You could never count on there being electricity, but there was electricity that night,” Eddy, a high school English teacher, said Saturday, remembering the night…

An abridged version of this story appears in the Nov. 16, 2015, issue of Sports Illustrated. To subscribe, click here. For almost five days in the fall of 2014, the most decorated Olympian in history lay curled in a fetal position in his Baltimore home, crestfallen and fearful, embarrassed at his behavior and uncertain of his future. Over three Olympics, from 2004 through ’12, Michael Phelps had won 18 gold medals and 22 medals…

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I think what we saw Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway just goes to show you what a fickle sport NASCAR can be. It’s one of the few sports where no matter what’s happening you better not walk away or leave early because the outcome is never clear until the checkered flag falls. I say that because it was pretty evident to me that during Sunday’s race that the only driver…

LONDON — The Russian security forces were behind a massive drug-cheating program that “sabotaged” the London Olympics in 2012, according to a stunning report by the World Anti-Doping Agency. It has long been suspected that Russian athletes used performance-enhancing drugs. But the allegations published Monday claim that Russia’s FSB—the successor to the KGB—teamed up with state apparatchiks to intimidate and bribe officials into covering up a plot to help Russian…

Call it the Texas corollary to the Sprint Cup doctrine. NASCAR officials told drivers on Sunday they don’t want to see another instance of retaliation at Sunday’s AAA Texas 500. Delivered at the pre-race driver’s meeting, the mandate comes after Matt Kenseth wrecked Joey Logano at Martinsville. It clarifies NASCAR’s stance that hard racing is desired, but within limits. MORE: Must-win race at Texas | Word of weekend: weepers |…

NASCAR’s Chase for the Cup is coming down the stretch, and this week the Sprint Cup Series visits Texas Motor Speedway for a race that will be a pivotal event in crowning the next champion. This is potentially great news for championship points leader Jeff Gordon. He leads Kyle Busch by just 8 points entering this event. With the cut for the championship round looming after Phoenix, Gordon will be…

Charles Ivey climbed to the top of his bus parked on the infield campground at Texas Motor Speedway and proudly hoisted the Confederate battle flag on Thursday afternoon. He’d never flown the flag during a race weekend but felt compelled to do so for this weekend’s NASCAR tripleheader event at TMS, which concludes with Sunday’s AAA Texas 500. This is the first race weekend at the speedway since NASCAR and…

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Last SlideNext Slide Angela Ruggiero is the fourth woman to make the Hall of Fame, following Cammi Granato, Angela James and Geraldine Heaney.(Photo: Bruce Bennett Getty Images) She was in the middle of preparing for it when her cell phone rang. The speech. It was shortly after 6 p.m. on a recent Thursday, and Angela Ruggiero was about to pursue an enormous challenge, somehow condensing a lifetime of gratitude into…

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NEWARK, N.J. — Patrick Kane said “there’s probably a date and time to address” his off-ice behavior and his future with the Blackhawks, but for now, he’s simply focused on playing hockey — the one thing that has given him a sense of normalcy over a tumultuous three months. “When I’m on the ice, I’m not thinking about it too much,” Kane said Friday morning, a day after Erie County district attorney…

0 Shares print FORT WORTH, Texas — While Matt Kenseth pleaded his case to NASCAR’s final appeals officer in one last-ditch effort Thursday for NASCAR to permit him to race this weekend, Erik Jones talked about possibly driving Kenseth’s car. Jones, at just age 19, knew the drill. He couldn’t say he for sure would drive the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 car at Texas Motor Speedway. All he would…

Now in her third full season in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series, Danica Patrick is in a period of transition. About to part ways with the primary sponsor of her car, and nearing the end of a bumpy season with her team, Stewart-Haas Racing, she is still driven to equal or surpass the kind of achievements that made her the most successful female driver in the history of American open-wheel racing: the first to…

Brenda Perez is a professional Spanish soccer player who happens to be female. Crazy, we know. She is a female and also does a sports thing! For a segment on Spanish TV program “El Hormiguero,” Perez went undercover as a male footballer named Dani Perez. They throw a wig and fake facial hair on her, and she indeed looks like a dude. A pretty, petite dude, but a dude. She…

A pair of first-half goals and a stout defensive effort allowed the Rutgers women’s soccer team to advance to its first Big Ten Tournament championship game berth. Colby Ciarrocca and Jennifer Andresen scored 31 minutes apart in the first half and goalkeeper Casey Murphy notched her conference-leading 15th shutout of the season as the third-seeded Scarlet Knights blanked seventh-seeded Ohio State, 2-0, on Friday afternoon in University Park, Pa. ONTO THE…

“The Code” is what Joey Logano apparently broke and what Matt Kenseth was enforcing when he purposefully crashed Logano Sunday at Martinsville Speedway. Like baseball’s unwritten rules, the manner of how drivers police themselves is vague, open to interruption, based who is the offending party and who is aggrieved. But unlike baseball, NASCAR drivers sometimes outright dismiss these rules as nothing more than an archaic justification to commit acts…

On Friday, NASCAR finally announced the drivers and teams handed warnings this week for issues related to technical inspection last weekend at Martinsville Speedway. The teams of Denny Hamlin and Matt DiBenedetto were each given a written warning for failing NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform twice during pre-qualifying inspection. The No. 34 team of driver Brett Moffitt flunked NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform twice, as well — during pre-race inspection. Of the three…