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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…

“ESPN is about sports.” It is “not a political organization.” That’s what ESPN president John Skipper said in a memo to staffers on Friday afternoon, after a bruising week for the sports network. Skipper’s memo came in the wake of anchor Jemele Hill’s calling President Trump a “white supremacist” in a series of tweets on Monday that triggered days of news coverage, criticism, and a presidential broadside against the network….

“Wait, did you just say you believe in the First Amendment and … wait, hold on, hold on,” she said. “I just want to make sure I heard you correctly as a woman anchoring this show. Did you say — what’d you just say? You believe in the First Amendment and B-O-O-B-S?”

ESPN’s Jemele Hill, center. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post) Americans have often identified sports as iconic and patriotic symbols of Americana. That’s especially true for America’s pastimes of baseball, NASCAR and football. And it’s why some sports fans don’t appreciate it when people within the sports world get political — particularly if their politics are viewed as liberal or anti-American. This week, sports, race and politics clashed in a way that attracted the attention…

x Embed x Share CLOSE Our Big Ten football power rankings for Week 3. With Ohio State losing to Oklahoma, who’s the class of the conference? By Brian Manzullo, DFP. Wochit Michael Fletcher of Carman-Ainsworth (Flint).(Photo: Rivals) One of the top two-sport athletes in the Midwest for the class of 2019 is Michael Fletcher of Carman-Ainsworth (Flint). The 6-foot-6, 235-pound defensive end already has multiple scholarships in football and basketball, and is…

In the 40 weeks we’ve been running this column, this was the jerkiest week of them all. Since last Saturday, the world of sports has been steamrolled by a circus train of freaks and imbeciles who have soiled the landscape with their despicable actions and deplorable behavior. A steady stream of clowns continues to emerge from the cesspool that runs beneath the world of sports, and this week…