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Indiana high school sports polls – Indianapolis Star

Monday, April 03, 2017

CLOSE x Embed x Share Former Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee is the keynote speaker at this year’s Indiana Sports Awards, April 27 at Clowes Hall. The Indiana Sports Awards honor the state’s best high school athletes. Promo for High School Sports results(Photo: Star file art) Updated state polls for spring high school sports. BASEBALL (April 2) CLASS 4A 1. Carmel (2-0) 2. Lake Central (1-0) 3. Fishers (4-1) 4….

Jim Ross ‘back on his home team’ at WWE amid bittersweet times – FOXSports.com

Monday, April 03, 2017

ORLANDO, Fla. — ”I don’t want this thing to be a wake,” Jim Ross says from the passenger seat of a rented Nissan SUV, adjusting his trademark black cowboy hat and staring straight ahead through his red and white Oakley sunglasses as we merge onto Interstate 4 and head east toward downtown Saturday morning. The legendary wrestling broadcaster is talking about his show that afternoon, the first of two weekend matinees…

UB will drop four sports teams in athletics budget cutback – Buffalo News

Monday, April 03, 2017

The University at Buffalo will eliminate four sports teams at the end of this school year in a belt-tightening that ultimately will save $2 million a year in athletic department spending. Men’s soccer, men’s swimming and diving, baseball and women’s rowing no longer will be sponsored, the university revealed Monday. “This has been a very difficult decision made only with extensive deliberation,” said UB President Satish K. Tripathi. “The unfortunate…

Vegas Experts: Raiders’ Move Shows Goodell and NFL Could Embrace Sports Betting – Bleacher Report

Monday, April 03, 2017

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Texas lawmakers consider declaring fantasy sports legal – Texas Tribune

Monday, April 03, 2017

A year after Texas’ attorney general questioned whether fantasy sports are legal, state lawmakers are considering proclaiming that they are. In a non-binding opinion in January 2016, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton equated paid fantasy sports sites to online gambling, which is illegal. But one fantasy football-playing Democrat in the Legislature has filed a measure that he says would protect Texans who play the online games from repercussion. The measure will be considered…

Sports bar security man shot by unruly patron in northern Harris – Chron.com

Monday, April 03, 2017

Caption Close A man working security at a Houston-area sports bar was shot Sunday morning. A man working security at a Houston-area sports bar was shot Sunday morning. A man working security at a northern Harris County sports bar was shot by an unruly patron Sunday morning, according to authorities.  Around 2:30 a.m., a security guard at Trevino’s Tejano Sports Bar asked a patron to leave the bar at Bauman…

South Carolina grinds its way past Mississippi State for first national title – Yahoo Sports

Monday, April 03, 2017

No. 1 seed South Carolina got coach Dawn Staley her long-awaited national title Sunday, taking control early and withstanding several second-half punches to beat No. 2 seed Mississippi State, 67-55, to win the women’s Final Four. The Gamecocks went old school, eschewing the long ball and instead dominating inside. They controlled the paint throughout the night, with A’Ja Wilson proving too much to handle. The junior forward finished with 23…

Major League Baseball counting on swaggering Cubs to help grow sport – Chicago Tribune

Monday, April 03, 2017

It’s one thing to win a World Series, and another to revitalize a sport. The Cubs did both last year, and now they’re going to be baseball’s prime time team, shoved down the throats of national TV viewers for the next several years, like the Red Sox and Yankees. The 2016 World Series ratings were the highest since 2004, when the Red Sox ended their prolific drought with a four-game…

Loughnane: Division 1A hurling is like a blood sport – RTE.ie

Monday, April 03, 2017

Ger Loughnane believes that hurling’s Division 1A teams are burned out by the time the League quarter-finals come around and that’s why they’re dropping like flies. Three sides from the tier two Division 1A are through to the semi-finals having beaten higher ranked opposition. On Sunday Limerick beat Cork, Wexford knocked out Kilkenny and Galway took care of Waterford. The League has been won the last two years by teams…

8 takeaways from a magical weekend at Martinsville – FOXSports.com

Monday, April 03, 2017

Sunday’s STP 500 at Martinsville Speedway was everything a classic, old-school NASCAR short-track race should be. Five times over the final 100 laps, the lead changed hands back and forth between Kyle Busch and Brad Keselowski, with Keselowski ultimately prevailing in a battle between two of the sports best drivers and two of the sport’s best teams. And over 500 laps, there was plenty of drama, lots of trading…

This Week In Sports Law: Betting On Vegas Raiders, Lakers Lawsuit Over, All In The Familia – Forbes

Sunday, April 02, 2017

How Does The Raiders Move To Las Vegas Affect Sports Betting? It seems as though the shift of the Raiders from Oakland to Las Vegas (officially to occur in 2020) should not heavily affect the way that gambling is treated in Nevada, other states and by the NFL. The league remains outwardly against legalized sports betting and Nevada casinos will still seemingly be able to accept wagers on the Raiders,…

Can the Padres save San Diego sports fandom? – The San Diego Union-Tribune

Sunday, April 02, 2017

As the chef at Bub’s at the Ballpark sports bar just a few minutes’ walk from Petco Park, Todd Nash spends a good chunk of his time marinating in the blood, sweat and tears of Padres fandom. His restaurant is the site of pre-game happy hours and post-game parties (or post-mortems), and if the team is having a good night, the cheers from Petco make the Bub’s walls rattle. So…

WrestleMania 33 full match card and start time – FOXSports.com

Sunday, April 02, 2017

The Showcase of the Immortals is finally here. The biggest stars in WWE will step onto the biggest stage in the sport Sunday in Orlando at Camping World Stadium, home of WrestleMania 33. The WrestleMania 33 main card will begin at 7:00 p.m. ET on the WWE Network. The kickoff show, which includes two matches, will begin at 5:00 p.m. ET. You can read our predictions for…

When will sport stop treating women as a joke? – The Guardian

Sunday, April 02, 2017

British cyclist Lizzie Armitstead, former world race champion, and reigning Commonwealth road race champion, has just published Steadfast: My Autobiography. In a Guardian interview she recounts several examples of sexism, which left this reader with a range of emotions, from mildly irritated to: “Just reading this makes me feel unclean.” Women were forced to borrow helmets from male riders. On the day that Armitstead became world champion in Richmond, Virginia,…

A Small Guard Upends UConn and ‘Breathes a Little Life’ Into Her Sport – New York Times

Sunday, April 02, 2017

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Final Four 2017 predictions: National title game picks, lines for UNC vs. Gonzaga – CBSSports.com

Sunday, April 02, 2017

This NCAA Tournament started with 68 national-title-hopeful teams.  Bracket Central Expert Picks Latest odds It’s now down to two.  After winning their respective Final Four matchups on Saturday, No. 1 seed Gonzaga will battle No. 1 seed North Carolina for the national title Monday night. It’s a matchup between two teams that have shared the “best team in the country” label at different points this year. This is a big-boy…

Gonzaga, N Carolina feature beastly bigs in NCAA title game (Apr 2, 2017) – FOXSports.com

Sunday, April 02, 2017

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Their pedigrees are different, but both teams are loaded with veterans. Both have some heft in the middle. When Gonzaga meets North Carolina for the NCAA national championship on Monday night, it could be quite a brawl. ”They’re big just like us and they match up with us pretty well,” North Carolina’s Theo Pinson said. ”Their guards are really good. We just got to play the game…

A Small Guard Upends UConn and ‘Breathes a Little Life’ Into Her Sport – New York Times

Sunday, April 02, 2017

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Final Four: International players, parents reunite on sport’s biggest stage – NCAA.com

Sunday, April 02, 2017

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The questions kept streaming in. South Carolina’s Maik Kotsar sat inside the Gamecocks’ locker room here and answered them all, often with a smile. One topic in particular, though, seemed to make the freshman from Estonia glow brighter. MARCH MADNESS ON SOCIAL MEDIA JOIN THE TEAM. Follow @marchmadness A reporter wanted to know if Kotsar’s parents would be traveling…

WWE flexes sports entertainment muscle at WrestleMania – ABC News

Sunday, April 02, 2017

The World Series never would have a 52-year-old pitch in Game 7. But Major League Baseball doesn’t have a dead man like the Undertaker. Could a 50-year-old NBA star return after a 13-year layoff and become the MVP in the Finals? No, but the NBA didn’t sign Bill Goldberg. Imagine a hot NFL prospect, a No. 1 draft pick, billed as a franchise savior that has all the tools to…