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The public often wants athletes and coaches to stay out of politics. But many sports figures are Americans, too, and in this highly contentious campaign, they’re weighing in with endorsements and donations for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. While Trump has received some money and many endorsements from high-profile sports figures, Clinton dominated the number of donations from people in sports, according to a CBS Sports analysis of data at…

Starting next year, Africans will be able to watch more American sports than ever before. Kwesé TV, a sports website owned by Econet Media, has partnered with American cable TV channel ESPN in a deal which will see Kwesé exclusively air hours of licensed content from ESPN including its iconic SportsCenter show across 19 countries in Africa. Kwesé and ESPN will also collaborate to launch an African edition of the…

Only one professional sports team is named after a 300-year-old devil. When the Colorado Rockies moved to New Jersey in 1982, they traded mountain peaks for the boggy swamps surrounding the Brendan Byrne Arena, and needed a new nickname. Local newspapers ran a contest, and more than 10,000 fans chose the nickname Devils – named after the state’s most twisted, violent legend. Why would New Jersey, the second-most Catholic state…

USA TODAY Sports’ Lorenzo Reyes looks at the three biggest story lines heading into Week 8.

Anthony Davis offered the basketball-watching world two reminders on Wednesday night. After a 2015-16 season plagued by injuries that wound up knocking him off the gold-medal-winning U.S. squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics, he reminded us exactly what kind of monster he is, beginning the 2016-17 campaign with a historically productive game the likes of which the league had literally never seen. Unfortunately, he also reminded us just how little…

Microsoft is expanding its Arena platform by letting players create their own competitive gaming tournaments. First launched in preview back in October, Arena is an e-sports platform that lets players compete in organized tournaments through Xbox Live. Previously Arena tournaments were organized by Microsoft, game developers, and e-sports organizations, but today’s news means that eventually players will be able to start their own custom tournaments as well. “We want to…

CLEVELAND — The Cavaliers and Indians play in the same footprint in Cleveland, the same city block. This was an uninteresting factlet for 20 years or so. The two teams shared a general geographic area because it was a marriage of convenience. A bunch of rich people decided that was where all the sports should go, so that’s where they put all the sports. On Tuesday night, though, Progressive…

So here on a sports day out of Cleveland’s wildest dreams, one that would end with that banner-raising courtesy of LeBron and a rollicking Indians victory, an old Catholic-educated Cleveland kid who never saw it coming did the penance he had to do. He jumped in Lake Erie. “It was cold.” ***** Joe Babin is 100 years old. He has multiple forms of proof. There’s a birth certificate, of course….

11:54 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment This is what it looks like when a city finds true love after a lifetime of sports heartbreak: Strangers high-five and hug one another. Hardened cynics find themselves wiping away a stray tear. Fans young and old don goofy costumes and paint their faces, dancing to live music in the cool night air; friends and family snap countless selfies, trying to…

AT 6PM on a sweltering weekday evening, a street junction in Ahmedabad in western India is abuzz. On a footpath outside a big stadium, a hawker peddles colourful jerseys and wrist bands as young men line up to have the country’s flag painted on their faces. Selfies abound. A long queue snakes around the stadium’s corner, waiting for its gates to be opened. Tilak Patel, an engineering student, has driven six…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay As the Indians took on the Chicago Cubs in game one of the World Series on Tuesday, Cleveland fans were grappling with a new and not unpleasant reality — when it comes to sports, they’re not losers anymore. In June, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA finals and ended the city’s 52-year major championship drought. And while the Cleveland…

Competitive videogaming, or e-sports, is becoming a significant new category of entertainment with the potential to even disrupt traditional sports viewership, strategist Michael Wolf predicts. By 2020, e-sports will make up roughly 10% of U.S. sports viewing, according to a presentation prepared by Mr. Wolf’s consulting firm Activate Inc. for WSJDLive, The Wall Street Journal’s global tech conference. E-sports will reach 88 million fans in the U.S. and 495 million…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay As the Indians took on the Chicago Cubs in game one of the World Series on Tuesday, Cleveland fans were grappling with a new and not unpleasant reality — when it comes to sports, they’re not losers anymore. In June, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA finals and ended the city’s 52-year major championship drought. And while the Cleveland…

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CLEVELAND — People here are trying to comprehend what has happened over these past few months, how to process a delirious and wholly unfamiliar confluence. A visitor flying in might hear a Southwest flight attendant, minutes before takeoff, declare the plane is bound for “Cleveland, the land of champions.” One might see along Prospect Avenue the construction of a television stage for a national NBA pregame show, and another one…

 There’s two weeks left in the regular season for football, and Mater Dei, Corona Centennial and St. John Bosco hold down the top three spots in the Southern Section Division 1 football poll. Here’s the link to complete rankings. In water polo, Harvard-Westlake is No. 1 and Huntington Beach No. 2 in Division 1. Here’s the link to complete rankings. Here’s the link to this week’s cross country rankings. Here’s the link…

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Official release Oct 24, 2016 2:01 PM ET