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With his team’s season already in a dangerous downhill spiral, coach Dave Joerger is ready to make changes designed to get the Sacramento Kings steadily flying again. He’ll see if they have any effect Sunday when Sacramento welcomes the Toronto Raptors, one of the few teams they’ve beaten this season. A new starting lineup is expected on the floor for the Kings at Golden 1 Center. Joerger pointed to the…

LAS VEGAS – This one had the look and smell of a loss for Andre Ward. He was being bullied around the ring Saturday for by the bigger and more powerful Sergey Kovalev. He was dropped in the second round by a straight right by the Russian bear, who by about the third or fourth round seemed ready to crush Ward, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist. But Ward is one…

Caption Close While Stanford and Cal were tussling in the rain at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, another battle between the two schools raged down the road in a much more surprising setting. In front of a crowd of a few thousand people at Oracle Arena and nearly 40,000 more watching online, Stanford defeated Cal 27-26 in a League of Legends “Big Game show match” during the Intel Extreme Masters, one…

It resembles the symbol for infinity: a sideways “S” that Kara Goucher, Molly Huddle and other elite U.S. athletes suddenly are sporting on biceps, wrists and shins. The tattoos are temporary. But the campaign they represent is an all-out attempt to permanently purge competitive athletics of doping. “People are getting the impression that everyone’s dirty,” Goucher, a top-ranked marathoner based in Boulder, Colorado, told The Associated Press. “We need to…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment HOMESTEAD, Fla. — NASCAR’s final four, er, sorry, Championship 4, have been jetted from city to city, talk show to talk show and media conference to media conference. Now, finally, it is time for Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson and Joey Logano to get on with the business of one of those four actually winning that championship. Exactly what that…

Today’s Six Hours of Bahrain marks the end of an era for sports car racing, as Audi’s factory LMP1 program draws to a close after a remarkable 18-year involvement in top-level prototype racing. Launched in 1999 at the Twelve Hours of Sebring, the German manufacturer’s ever-present prototype effort amassed 106 victories, more than a dozen championships worldwide and 13 overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans through its…

Mike Tomlin might not have the backing of the armchair coaches who criticize him for going for two-point conversions more than any other head coach in the NFL. But you won’t hear any criticism from those in the world of sports analytics who praise him and say a simple math equation supports his penchant for two-point conversions, including the controversial second attempt Sunday afternoon against the Cowboys that…

David Boloker is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Emerging Technologies. How to join the network Smart technology continues to streamline and transform nearly all aspects of our lives — monitoring our sleep patterns, allowing us to work from anywhere at any time and even helping to find cures for diseases like Zika. But more than optimizing tedious workflows or gamifying daily activities, smart technology has helped to increase…

Barbara Strycova of Czech Republic falls over as she attempts to play a forehand. Steve Bardens/Getty Images for LTA From the time that we’re young until the end of our lives, we’re most likely to injure ourselves while engaged in sports or recreational activities in a simple way. We fall down. That’s one of the main takeaways from a newly released CDC study that documents sports- and recreation-related injuries. Every…

In this Aug. 21, 2015, file photo, former NBA star and current owner of the Charlotte Hornets, Michael Jordan, smiles at reporters in Chicago. (Photo: AP) It feels like we’re in the golden age of sports commercials, doesn’t it? Seemingly every week, brands and ad-makers find a way to use big names to hawk their products while catching eyeballs with biting, topical humor or incredible Hollywood-film-like scenes. So it’s about time…

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Only a couple of weeks are left in this season of Fantasy Movie League, and I hate everything. I’m desperately trying to claw my way up the leaderboard. But as I learned last season, I can’t for the life of me predict kids movies. And in a game that’s all about box office predictions, this is a problem. So naturally, in my capacity as a tech writer, I reached out…

Editor’s note: Part 1 of ESPN’s future of sports betting series focused on the paths to legalization in the United States and what the resulting marketplace could look like. Part 2 looked at future bettors — humans and robots. Part 3 focuses on the pitfalls, or what could go wrong if sports betting is legalized. Trout happy to see hard work pay off with MVP MVP just the beginning for…

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How well do they work, though? It’s hard to quantify, since there are other factors that go into an athlete’s success beyond their receptiveness to training: the quality of that training, the athlete’s other traits and, of course, the competition. Oakland Raiders cornerback TJ Carrie is having a good year so far after wearing the Halo Sport, but the Olympians who used them? Their results are… mixed. Natasha Hastings helped…

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After last season, the NFL released a report that showed an uptick in concussions, ACL sprains, and MCL sprains. It was important information, but it was hardly surprising given the nature of the NFL. Players are stronger and faster than ever before and they’re playing a game that involves smashing into each other on every single play. Football is violent and no matter how many rules the NFL changes, it’ll…

If the Tigers want to trade second baseman Ian Kinsler to a team on his limited no-trade list, he only will approve the deal if granted a contract extension, according to his agent, Jay Franklin. The Dodgers, a team in need of a second baseman, are one of 10 clubs that would require Kinsler’s permission for a trade, Franklin said Wednesday. Kinsler, 34, is coming off his best offensive season…

Former UFC champion Lyoto Machida has been suspended for 18 months after admitting use of a banned substance as well as failing a subsequent drug test administered by USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency). Machida accepted the sanction according to USADA officials in a release sent to FOX Sports on Wednesday. “During an out-of-competition test conducted on April 8, 2016, Machida, 38, declared the use of a product containing 7‐keto-dehydroepiandrosterone (7‐keto‐DHEA)…