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Before the Bills‘ Week 14 matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers, reports surfaced that echoed what we’ve known for weeks: Buffalo’s Rex Ryan was coaching for his job. If that’s the case — there’s little reason to believe it’s not — then the Bills players made the decision whether to keep or fire Ryan easy for ownership. Really easy. The final score of Sunday’s game might say that Buffalo lost to…

It’s been a rough year for Houston sports. It’s one thing to have low expectations for your teams — hey, every year can’t be our year. It’s a different ballgame entirely to have high expectations that your teams fail to meet, setting the stage for heartbreak and frustration. 2016 was a year of redemption for down-on-their luck cities. Cleveland, home of the hapless Browns, saw its first championship in 52…

Michael Jordan Earns Most Valuable Chinese Court Win Michael Jordan is not only the king of the basketball court; MJ has shown his prowess in the court of law. Even more impressive about his recent win is that it was abroad, through a Chinese legal system that is not always friendly to foreigners. The court ruled that Jordan owns the legal rights to the Chinese characters of the equivalent of…

OLYMPICS LONDON (AP) Russia’s sports reputation was ripped apart again when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast ”institutional conspiracy” that covered more than 1,000 athletes in over 30 sports and corrupted the drug-testing system at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics. The findings were handed over to the International Olympic Committee, which will be under pressure to take action against the Russians ahead of the 2018…

It’s been a rough year for Houston sports. It’s one thing to have low expectations for your teams — hey, every year can’t be our year. It’s a different ballgame entirely to have high expectations that your teams fail to meet, setting the stage for heartbreak and frustration. 2016 was a year of redemption for down-on-their luck cities. Cleveland, home of the hapless Browns, saw its first championship in 52…

OLYMPICS LONDON (AP) Russia’s sports reputation was ripped apart again when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast ”institutional conspiracy” that covered more than 1,000 athletes in over 30 sports and corrupted the drug-testing system at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics. The findings were handed over to the International Olympic Committee, which will be under pressure to take action against the Russians ahead of the 2018…

<!– We are showcasing each of the 16 contenders in the run-up to the Sports Personality of the Year award on 18 December. Today – Kadeena Cox and Mo Farah. Kadeena Cox – Age: 25 Sport: Cycling/athletics Year in a nutshell Cycling gold in Rio meant she was the first Briton since 1988 to win a medal in two sports at the same Paralympics. Cox, from Leeds, was diagnosed with…

OLYMPICS LONDON (AP) Russia’s sports reputation was ripped apart again when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast ”institutional conspiracy” that covered more than 1,000 athletes in over 30 sports and corrupted the drug-testing system at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics. The findings were handed over to the International Olympic Committee, which will be under pressure to take action against the Russians ahead of the 2018…

OLYMPICS LONDON (AP) Russia’s sports reputation was ripped apart again when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast ”institutional conspiracy” that covered more than 1,000 athletes in over 30 sports and corrupted the drug-testing system at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics. The findings were handed over to the International Olympic Committee, which will be under pressure to take action against the Russians ahead of the 2018…

The last four times Notre Dame had faced the reigning national champ, the Irish sprung an upset. Only because of the brilliance of Josh Hart did that streak end Saturday afternoon. With top-ranked Villanova trailing by nine midway through the second half and in desperate need of a spark, Hart hoisted his team onto his back. Eighteen of the senior guard’s career-high 37 points came during the final 13 minutes of the…

There are thousands of people who possess the skill set to help athletes in their careers, but without the ability to attract and sign athletes, actually practicing as a sports agent will simply stay an unfulfilled dream. The first step is to have a philosophy and principles which guide your business. My approach has been to understand an athlete’s deepest anxieties and fears and greatest hopes and dreams and bond…

A suspected car bomb outside a soccer stadium in central Istanbul wounded around 20 people on Saturday, hours after the end of a match between two of Turkey’s top teams, in what appeared to be an attack targeting riot police. Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, speaking in parliament during a budget hearing, said around 20 people had been wounded, many of them police officers, and that initial indications were that a…

Russia is building a $30 million complex for acrobatic rock ’n’ roll, a niche sport in which President Vladimir Putin’s daughter is a leading dancer and has a senior role for development, a Reuters review of public documents has shown. The Zhavoronki Acrobatic Rock ’n’ Roll Centre will be built on the western outskirts of Moscow at a cost of 1.9 billion rubles, according to state tender documents available online,…

OLYMPICS LONDON (AP) Russia’s sports reputation was ripped apart again when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast ”institutional conspiracy” that covered more than 1,000 athletes in over 30 sports and corrupted the drug-testing system at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics. The findings were handed over to the International Olympic Committee, which will be under pressure to take action against the Russians ahead of the 2018…

OLYMPICS LONDON (AP) Russia’s sports reputation was ripped apart again when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast ”institutional conspiracy” that covered more than 1,000 athletes in over 30 sports and corrupted the drug-testing system at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics. The findings were handed over to the International Olympic Committee, which will be under pressure to take action against the Russians ahead of the 2018…

Russia is building a $30 million complex for acrobatic rock ’n’ roll, a niche sport in which President Vladimir Putin’s daughter is a leading dancer and has a senior role for development, a Reuters review of public documents has shown. The Zhavoronki Acrobatic Rock ’n’ Roll Centre will be built on the western outskirts of Moscow at a cost of 1.9 billion rubles, according to state tender documents available online,…

With ESPN’s film OJ: Made In America emerging as an Oscars frontrunner this year, Onion Sports looks back at some of the greatest sports documentaries of all time. Baseball: Ken Burns’ 1,000-hour documentary follows the evolution of baseball from the Neoproterozoic Era 900 million years ago all the way to the 1994 MLB strike. When We Were Kings: An intimate account of the buildup to 1974’s Rumble in the Jungle…

<!– We are showcasing each of the 16 contenders in the run-up to the Sports Personality of the Year award on 18 December. Today – Alistair Brownlee and Sophie Christiansen. Alistair Brownlee – Age: 28 Sport: Triathlon Year in a nutshell Became the first man to retain the Olympic men’s triathlon title, finishing ahead of brother Jonny, who claimed the silver. The Yorkshireman later made headlines across the world when…

TORONTO — With 10 days to anticipate MLS Cup 2016, BMO Field and the Toronto sports culture have been top of the ticket as anticipation builds among a fanbase hungry for its first championship in more than 20 years. BMO will be rocking with the full-throated force of its expanded attendance of 36,000; the game sold out earlier this week – in three minutes. And yet, it’s not time to…

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