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Sometime in the not-so-distant future, nobody will blink about what Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey announced he was doing on Monday – skipping the team’s upcoming appearance in the Sun Bowl. Why is he doing it? “So I can begin my draft prep immediately,” McCaffrey said in a statement. McCaffrey had already declared he was turning pro after his junior season. That was earlier in the month. This was the realization that…

Monday 19 December 2016 10.02 EST

If you’re a little sick of the quarterback controversy talk out of Dallas this NFL season, you now at least have someone to blame. Rookie quarterback Dak Prescott has been a major weapon for the Cowboys this year. He played well enough out of the gate to steal the starting job from Tony Romo while the veteran recovered from a back injury suffered in preseason. With only a few weeks left…

Unveiling the survey and the blueprint, Sarah Troughton, the SCSTG’s chairman, said: “Our vision for Scotland’s fishing, shooting and stalking industry is that it will become the global country sport tourism destination of choice known for its sustainable, premium quality and diverse Scottish offering, unsurpassed by any other country in the world.” The report said the industry’s strengths included the heritage and long tradition of country sports in Scotland, its…

Anyone But Murray, eh? The ABM meme could hardly seem more tatty and irrelevant now, seven years after it was spawned with spite and ignorance, before the difficult Scot had proved Little Englanders and other snipers wrong with his eloquent tennis racket. Instead, the question that is now being asked – and answered in the affirmative – across nearly every media platform is an uplifting one: is Andy Murray this…

There are all sorts of ways to lose to the Packers, and the Bears have experienced most of them during the past 25 years. But it would be hard to find one as Bear-ish as the way they lost Sunday. Thirty-six seconds left in the game, the score tied after a valiant Bears comeback and the Packers at their own 26-yard line on third-and-11 without a timeout left. In literature,…

I have just got off the phone with BT “customer services” in South Shields and, as usual with BT, I am fuming. I decided to check my latest BT bill online – I opted for paperless bills many months ago – only to discover I am being charged £6 a month for access to BT Sport. This is odd, as I never watch it, and nor did I ever agree…

Unveiling the survey and the blueprint, Sarah Troughton, the SCSTG’s chairman, said: “Our vision for Scotland’s fishing, shooting and stalking industry is that it will become the global country sport tourism destination of choice known for its sustainable, premium quality and diverse Scottish offering, unsurpassed by any other country in the world.” The report said the industry’s strengths included the heritage and long tradition of country sports in Scotland, its…

Andy Murray capped a glorious year, in which he lifted the Wimbledon title, stormed to Olympic gold and became the first British tennis player to reach No 1 in the world, by winning Sports Personality of the Year for a record third time. Murray, a massive 1-7 on favourite with bookmakers beforehand, beat the gold medal-winning triathlete Alistair Brownlee into second place, with 58-year-old showjumper Nick Skelton, who became the…

Andy Murray became the first three-time winner of the BBC award, with fellow Olympic gold medallists Alistair Brownlee and Nick Skelton second and third Report: Murray wins Sports Personality of the Year 2016

They are tipped for big honours in the New Year’s Honours list. And Jason Kenny and Laura Trott led the glamour as they arrived at the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Awards at Birmingham’s Genting Arena on Sunday. The Rio Olympic cyclists, who married in a secret ceremony in September, turned heads in their glamorous cocktail attire as the put on a loved-up display at the prestigious awards show…

BRITISH sports stars got more than involved in the Icelandic Thunderclap at the Sports Personality of the Year award…even though Iceland dumped England out of the Euros in most embarrassing result in their history.  The Iceland national team made the viking war chant world famous after their surprise run in the Euros, with the supporters using the thunderclap to cheer on their team and intimidate the opposition. British sports stars…

Media playback is not supported on this device Overseas Sports Personality of the Year American gymnast Simone Biles has won the 2016 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award. The 19-year-old broke new ground with a series of dazzling routines as she secured four gold medals at the Rio Olympics. Victory in the floor event added to her all-around, vault and team titles. Described by some observers as the…

The youngest head coach in the NFL and the Miami Dolphins’ oldest position player (with apologies to 38-year-old Dolphins long snapper John Denney) deserve some attention in the postseason awards. Head coach Adam Gase (age 38) and pass rusher Cameron Wake (age 34) are having terrific seasons, and they were big reasons why the Dolphins overcame a slow start to take care of business Saturday night, 34-13, over the downtrodden New…

2.38pm EST14:38 The focus is now on Cox and Storey, two of the most extraordinary athletes on this, or any shortlist. Cox won golds and set two world records in two sports – athletics and cycling – just two years after a stroke led to a diagnosis of MS. Storey, meanwhile, is nothing less than a gold medal machine – two golds in Rio made her Britain’s greatest female Paralympian,…

The youngest head coach in the NFL and the Miami Dolphins’ oldest position player (with apologies to 38-year-old Dolphins long snapper John Denney) deserve some attention in the postseason awards. Head coach Adam Gase (age 38) and pass rusher Cameron Wake (age 34) are having terrific seasons, and they were big reasons why the Dolphins overcame a slow start to take care of business Saturday night, 34-13, over the downtrodden New…

The public will decide which of the 16 nominees will be named 2016’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year tonight in a live ceremony at Birmingham’s Genting Arena. Andy Murray is the hot favourite for the big award, but will need the public’s vote to win his third SPOTY after an incredible year on the court which climaxed with him finishing as world No.1. The other contenders are boxer Nicola…

The greatest single-game performance by a freshman in the storied history of Kentucky basketball ended Saturday night in the most fitting possible way. It finished with Malik Monk sinking a shot they’ll be talking about for years in Lexington. With sixth-ranked Kentucky trailing seventh-ranked North Carolina by two and less than 30 seconds to go, De’Aaron Fox sped up the floor in transition and whipped a pass to Monk spotted…

Jason McAteer filling out the credit-card application form is one of football’s most cherished, if perhaps apocryphal, anecdotes. For the section ‘position at company’, the man they called Double Trigger of course wrote “full-back”. Watching Sunday Supplement, the viewer might have wondered: what position would Gary Neville say that he holds? Is he a former footballer, a former football manager, a future football manager, a pundit, a journalist, an entertainment…

The youngest head coach in the NFL and the Miami Dolphins’ oldest position player (with apologies to 38-year-old Dolphins long snapper John Denney) deserve some attention in the postseason awards. Head coach Adam Gase (age 38) and pass rusher Cameron Wake (age 34) are having terrific seasons, and they were big reasons why the Dolphins overcame a slow start to take care of business Saturday night, 34-13, over the downtrodden New…