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Sanctuary City? I’d settle for a cot. Perhaps you saw that video, last week. At the London weigh-in for Saturday’s middleweight fight between champ Billy Joe Saunders and Willie Monroe, the boxers were muscle-posing for the cameras when Saunders’ son, roughly 8 years old, wandered in front of Monroe. Smiling, Monroe reached down to make nice, to greet the kid with a pat on his head, when the kid, also…

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Clemson moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, jumping Oklahoma and closing in on Alabama after beating a team ranked in the Top 15 for the second straight week. The Tigers received 15 first-place votes, the most the defending national champions have received this season, and 1,446 points after beating Louisville 47-21 on the road. Alabama remains No. 1 with 45 first-place votes…

Bobby “The Brain” Heenan has died at the age of 73, according to a tweet by wrestling announcer Jim Ross. “The news of Bobby “The Brain” Heenan’s passing today gutted me,” Ross wrote on Twitter. “I loved our time together. No one ever did it better than the Wease.” The WWE confirmed Hennan’s death and issued the following statement: “WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Bobby Heenan, regarded…

Photo: Sean M. Haffey/Getty We are still in the part of the year where the Sunday counterprogramming schedule is chunky with other sports—early season European soccer, regular season baseball, the WNBA playoffs—which is good for sports fans in general, because the NFL’s product so far this season has been poor. Just five of 15 NFL games played so far have been settled by fewer than nine points, and of those…

reader comments 41 We usually pay for our own travel expenses, but in this case Audi provided flights to New York City and two nights’ accommodation. While we have paused all sponsored travel opportunities at this time, this event took place in July before that moratorium began. SALISBURY, Conn.—Success on the racetrack doesn’t sell cars like it used to. That said, plenty of car companies still go racing. And it’s…

reader comments 25 We usually pay for our own travel expenses, but in this case Audi provided flights to New York City and two nights’ accommodation. While we have paused all sponsored travel opportunities at this time, this event took place in July before that moratorium began. SALISBURY, Conn.—Success on the racetrack doesn’t sell cars like it used to. That said, plenty of car companies still go racing. And it’s…

Dean Blandino: Joey Bosa’s hair-pull tackle on Jay Ajayi is legal 15 mins ago

reader comments 9 We usually pay for our own travel expenses, but in this case Audi provided flights to New York City and two nights’ accommodation. While we have paused all sponsored travel opportunities at this time, this event took place in July before that moratorium began. SALISBURY, Conn.—Success on the racetrack doesn’t sell cars like it used to. That said, plenty of car companies still go racing. And it’s…

The city of Ashgabat in Turkmenistan is famous for two characteristics. It has the highest concentration of marble buildings in the world and is capital of one of the most repressive regimes in the world. The two are not unrelated: all-powerful central Asian dictators with natural resource wealth are able to construct ostentatious monuments to themselves with little concern for their citizens. But the current Turkmen leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has…

By: Alysha Tsuji | September 17, 2017 12:23 am Follow @alyshatsuji

Lewis Hamilton drove a masterful race to win the Singapore Grand Prix and take a stranglehold on the title as rival Sebastian Vettel crashed out. Hamilton, who started fifth after struggling in qualifying, was leading by the first corner after Vettel collided with Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at the start. It could be a defining moment in the championship. Vettel was expected to re-take the…

Valencia opened the scoring for Manchester United at Old Trafford after just four minutes. The Ecuadorian right-back was picked out by summer-signing Nemanja Matic on the edge of the 18-yard box. Valencia had enough time to watch the ball and unleash a stunning volley past Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. “Everton were so deep,” Neville said on Sky Sports. “Fellaini runs in, Sigurdsson vacates the edge of the box.

LAS VEGAS – On the night boxing showcased its best, an audience of millions got its worst. On the night two of the sports biggest stars waged a terrific fight in the ring, one of its most controversial judges stole the spotlight out of it. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin lived up to expectations in their middleweight showdown on Saturday, and, unfortunately, Adalaide Byrd lived up to hers. First,…

A week after Hurricane Harvey devastated the state of Texas and the Gulf Coast, Florida and surrounding states were hit by Hurricane Irma, displacing many and claiming the lives of more than 68 people.  College football was one of the many entities to show solidarity to victims of the hurricanes, with many programs across the nation showcasing helmet decals in support of victims of Harvey last weekend. This…

BOISE, Idaho — At least 11 people were injured Saturday after a sports car struck a crowd of pedestrians near a car show in Boise, Idaho, CBS affiliate KBOI-TV reports. Six of the injured were transported to the hospital via ambulance, while five went by private vehicles. The incident took place after a Cars and Coffee event around 11 a.m. Saturday morning. Authorities with the city’s police and fire departments…

On an early Virginia night, brought to Emancipation Park by the intersection of UConn football and a passion for our democracy, I look up at an unsightly tarp covering a Civil War general and his horse, Traveller. The first urge is to break out my Twitter snark and wonder if ESPN announcer Robert Lee is hiding under there. The second is to go on a 140-character Jemele Hill rampage against…

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Players who have taken time off to deal with mental health problems are seen as weak or somehow not “focused” enough to overcome them. “To show weakness, we’re told in sports, is to deserve shame,” the former tennis star Mardy Fish, who withdrew from a 2012 U.S. Open match against Roger Federer because of anxiety, told USA Today. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Emotional states in male athletes can…

Bournemouth and Brighton kicked off Gameweek 5 down at the Vitality Stadium last night.  And Merson correctly predicted the Cherries would take three points over minnows Brighton.  Jermain Defoe’s well-taken strike earned Eddie Howe’s side their first win of the season.  Crystal Palace host Southampton in the early kick-off today and Merson is expecting a 1-1 stalemate in Roy Hodgson’s first game as the Eagles boss.  But the former Gunners…

Qualifying and the race are live on 5 live, sports extra and the BBC Sport website Red Bull’s Max Verstappen headed title contenders Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton in a tight final practice session at the Singapore Grand Prix. The Dutchman was 0.072 seconds quicker than Vettel, who was 0.07secs up on Hamilton, setting up a potentially close three-way fight in qualifying. Verstappen’s team-mate Daniel Ricciardo may have been near…