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The sexual assault controversy involving the Baylor University football program has rocked the sports world over the last year. A new lawsuit filed on Friday contends that the controversy was much more extensive and disturbing than previously known. The lawsuit also suggests that Baylor’s ambition to move past the controversy may be slowed dramatically by lawsuits and accompanying litigation. Elizabeth Doe’s account On Friday, a Baylor graduate identified…

Disgraced former Sky News presenter Richard Keys’ wife has branded him a “pathological liar” after it was revealed he is still seeing his daughter’s friend – while begging for a second chance at their marriage. This week 59-year-old Keys was spotted with lover Lucie Rose, now 28, at a five-star hotel in the West End of London. Keys, who landed a £420,000 job in Qatar after leaving Sky Sports after…

Media playback is not supported on this device Highlights: Liverpool 1-2 Wolves Championship side Wolves held on to stun Liverpool and reach the FA Cup fifth round with a deserved victory at Anfield. Richard Stearman put the visitors ahead after only 53 seconds, left unmarked to head in Helder Costa’s free-kick. Costa then set up Andreas Weimann to round Liverpool keeper Loris Karius and double Wolves’ lead before the break….

Many Clouds (right) finished strongly to beat Thistlecrack Many Clouds collapsed and died after narrowly beating Thistlecrack to win the Cotswold Chase at Cheltenham’s Festival Trials Day. King George winner Thistlecrack caught Many Clouds close to the finish but the 2015 Grand National winner, ridden by Leighton Aspell, fought back to win. Many Clouds collapsed after the winning post and was treated by veterinary staff before he was pronounced dead….

Media playback is not supported on this device Wenger’s history of touchline clashes Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been given a four-match touchline ban and £25,000 fine after accepting a Football Association charge of misconduct for his behaviour in the win over Burnley. Wenger, 67, was charged with verbally abusing and pushing fourth official Anthony Taylor after being sent off. His ban starts immediately so he misses Saturday’s FA Cup…

This week I cheat. Most of the column is by Justice Donal O’Donnell of the Supreme Court. It is part of his June 2015 judgment in the case of O’Connell vs the Turf Club. It is incidental. All modern sports, Justice O’Donnell said, “are related to games played from time immemorial, whether of throwing or kicking a ball of different dimensions, striking it with a stick, running the fastest, or…

Photo courtesy of Jessica Harthcock and edited Kendrick Daye Jessica Harthcock was 17 years old when she suffered a devastating sports-related injury, which ultimately paralyzed her from the chest down. Almost instantly, she was thrust into the medical system, where she saw first hand the gaps in care quality care for patients with neurological conditions. She set out to solve the problems she experienced via Utilize Health, which is a…

GOLF SAN DIEGO (AP) Tiger Woods had a rough return to the PGA Tour. A slow one, too. Woods, playing in a PGA Tour event for the first in 17 months, fell apart on the back nine of the South course at Torrey Pines and wound up with a 4-over 76, leaving him in danger of missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open. More from FoxSports He…

GOLF SAN DIEGO (AP) Tiger Woods had a rough return to the PGA Tour. A slow one, too. Woods, playing in a PGA Tour event for the first in 17 months, fell apart on the back nine of the South course at Torrey Pines and wound up with a 4-over 76, leaving him in danger of missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open. More from FoxSports He…

It might have come a few hours after “Throwback Thursday” ended, but sports fans got an old-school treat on Friday morning that will surely make them nostalgic for the glorious, long-lost days of the mid-2000’s: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer will once again face each other in a Grand Slam final. With that classic matchup about to happen (along with the Williams sisters squaring off in the women’s final), it also…

Two events that occurred recently in the world of sport not only challenged our imagination but also offered us a peek into the future of sports. But think deeply about them and they may not surprise us. For, both sportsmen and sports equipment, the latter more so, have been evolving at a mind-boggling pace and we are left playing catch-up, jaws dropped, mind reeling. The incremental leaps in technology that…

Ryan Mayer College basketball season rolls along as we draw nearer to March Madness. This past week has been a rough one for teams ranked in the AP’s Top 10, with five of them falling in upsets to conference opponents. Villanova (#1), Kansas (#2), Kentucky (#4), Florida State (#6) and UCLA (#8) all suffered losses to unranked conference foes, opening the door for some movement at the top of the rankings….

You smell that? For some, it’s the scent of spring. But for others, it’s the aroma of urgency. With Grapefruit and Cactus League camps just over two weeks away, there’s some unfinished business to tackle on the trade market. It isn’t necessarily panic time for every contender with a void – not with some talented free agents still available. And sellers simply can wait for a need to develop…

Who might retire at 65? Who led the Saints to glory? And who is Superman?

In 2015, Wieden brought the sharks that danced alongside Katy Perry during the Super Bowl halftime show to the ESPN office to have fun with staffers. Wieden & Kennedy has worked with ESPN since 1992, creating the sports network’s most iconic campaigns, and now the independent creative shop is parting ways with the company to take a shot at Fox Sports. Fox Sports has named Wieden & Kennedy New York,…

In 2015, Wieden brought the sharks that danced alongside Katy Perry during the Super Bowl halftime show to the ESPN office to have fun with staffers. Wieden & Kennedy has worked with ESPN since 1992, creating the sports network’s most iconic campaigns, and now the independent creative shop is parting ways with the company to take a shot at Fox Sports. Fox Sports has named Wieden & Kennedy New York,…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Greater Cleveland Sports Awards not only celebrated excellence by athletes and teams in the city, it was a continuation of championship excellence that dominated the headlines in 2016. And the Cleveland Cavaliers, just as they did for winning the 2016 NBA Finals, collected even more hardware on Thursday night at the Renaissance Hotel downtown. The Cavaliers won the award for Best Moment in Cleveland Sports and…

Heading into that rookie year, though, Carter was third on the depth chart. Golden State’s Antawn Jamison, the former North Carolina teammate Vince Carter was dealt for, was assumed by many to be the league’s most NBA-ready Rookie of the Year candidate. A month into the season, it was the seasoned Paul Pierce (drafted into Boston after three years in Kansas, a rarity even by the fie de siècle) who…

We knew Russell Westbrook was a lock to be selected as an All-Star reserve, thanks to his triple-double average on the season. Most of the rest of the choices were obvious, too, but as always, a couple of players have the right to feel they were snubbed. Here are the All-Star reserves for 2017 who will suit up in New Orleans on Feb. 19 (all stats are courtesy of…

If the New York Knicks can’t turn the season around by the 2017 NBA Trade Deadline, then it will be time to move on from the Carmelo Anthony era. The Phil Jackson and Carmelo Anthony saga is getting uglier by the day. As the New York Knicks continue to struggle to piece together victories, the trade rumors have grown more incessant and the future indiscernible. If the Knicks are unable to reverse the…