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Buy Photo Drew Sharp has been a columnist and has been at the paper since 1983.(Photo: ED HAUN, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo Drew Sharp, a Detroit Free Press columnist since 1999, died this morning at his home in Bloomfield Hills. He was 56. Sharp, a Detroit native who graduated from Detroit Catholic Central in 1978 and the University of Michigan in 1982, joined the Free Press in 1983. Initially, he had…

Whether it be as an athlete, a coach or a member of backroom staff, there is no shortage of career options in sport. But the industry is also one of the most competitive in the world. So if events such as Euro 2016 or the Rio Olympics have inspired you to work in a sector worth £20bn a year in the UK alone, what can you do to stand out…

Baby boomers are starting to outgrow their midlife crisis years, and that’s bad news for automakers who want to sell sports cars. It was a sign of things to come this month when Ford Motor Co. idled its Mustang plant for a week as sales for the year fell 9 percent. Other sports cars have faded at a similar rate, and even stalwarts like the Chevrolet Corvette and most Porsche…

reader comments 15 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known for cutting-edge engineers, and Lamborghini is known for super cars. Just this week, the two paired up to ponder the future of an ultra-light, strong, and innovative automotive brand. On Wednesday at the EmTech conference at MIT in Boston, Lamborghini Chairman and CEO Stefano Domenicali sat down with leaders from the university, other Italian companies, and the Italian Trade Agency. He was there…

It’s BBC Sport and A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz – have you been paying attention to what’s been going on in the world of sport in the past week? If you missed last week’s sports quiz, try it here. Picture credits: Getty

After torching Dodgers pitching en route to a 10–2 win in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series on Wednesday, the Chicago Cubs carried their impressive offensive output over to Thursday, taking a 3–2 series lead with a commanding 8–4 victory in Game 5. Jon Lester was brilliant through seven innings for the Cubs, who used a five-run eighth to break the game open. They’ll head back home to…

In the long history of NCAA enforcement – the first case dates back to 1953 – there’s never been a paragraph written like the one released Thursday from its case against the University of Louisville men’s basketball program. “[An assistant coach] provided impermissible inducements, offers and/or extra benefits in the form of adult entertainment, sex acts and/or cash at Billy Minardi Hall, a campus dormitory, or Louisville, Kentucky, hotels to…

The USA TODAY Sports Board of Coaches is made up of 32 head coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The board for the 2016-17 season: Randy Bennett, Saint Mary’s; Jim Boeheim, Syracuse; Tad Boyle, Colorado; Todd Bozeman, Morgan State; Glenn Braica, St. Francis Brooklyn; Scott Cherry, High Point; Tim Cluess, Iona; Jon Coffman, IP-Fort Wayne; Mick Cronin, Cincinnati; Keith Dambrot, Akron;…

CHESTERFIELD • The city has given preliminary approval to a deal that could add a monumental domed sports facility in the fast-growing retail hub paralleling Highway 40. St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny and nonprofit executive Dan Buck head the investment group proposing the construction of the “Chesterfield Dome Complex” on 30 acres along North Outer 40 Road. “They want to create the largest indoor sports facility…

The USA TODAY Sports Board of Coaches is made up of 32 head coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The board for the 2016-17 season: Randy Bennett, Saint Mary’s; Jim Boeheim, Syracuse; Tad Boyle, Colorado; Todd Bozeman, Morgan State; Glenn Braica, St. Francis Brooklyn; Scott Cherry, High Point; Tim Cluess, Iona; Jon Coffman, IP-Fort Wayne; Mick Cronin, Cincinnati; Keith Dambrot, Akron;…

The USA TODAY Sports Board of Coaches is made up of 32 head coaches at Division I institutions. All are members of the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The board for the 2016-17 season: Randy Bennett, Saint Mary’s; Jim Boeheim, Syracuse; Tad Boyle, Colorado; Todd Bozeman, Morgan State; Glenn Braica, St. Francis Brooklyn; Scott Cherry, High Point; Tim Cluess, Iona; Jon Coffman, IP-Fort Wayne; Mick Cronin, Cincinnati; Keith Dambrot, Akron;…

10 years since this picture, which is interesting in oh so many ways. — D.J. Short (@djshort) October 19, 2016 What you’re looking at here is a photo of Donald Trump taken a few seconds after Carlos Beltran watched a dematerializing Adam Wainwright breaking pitch cross the plate for the last out of the 2006 National League Championship Series. Or, more accurately, it’s more a photo of a bunch of…

AJ Styles has the Royal Rumble circled on his calendar. The Rumble returns to the Alamodome in Texas, and Styles wants to defend the WWE championship against the “Heartbreak Kid”— Texas native Shawn Michaels. “I would love the opportunity to wrestle him,” said Styles. “I’d love to learn from him, but who’s to say if that’s going to happen. Right now, it’s all speculation and rumors that I’m…

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It is not often that David Hockney and Dwayne Schintzius come up in the same conversation. The art of Jonas Wood, however, is one of the rare places that the British pop-art pioneer and the late N.B.A. journeyman can coexist. On the one hand, Wood’s brand of off-kilter realism is often compared to Hockney’s work, and Wood cites Hockney as one of his major influences. On the other hand, Wood’s…

IN A WAREHOUSE OUTSIDE Oakland, Calif., a massive chain saw is chewing through a washing machine, tearing and crumpling the white metal frame like paper, rattling the skid-steer loader to which it’s attached. For the next demonstration, we are advised to take cover. “I have high hopes for this one,” Matt Oehrlein, the 30-year-old co-founder of MegaBots, says with a grin. We crouch behind bulletproof plexiglass as a burly…

After the flawless success of last year’s forecast, once again, CBS Sports is ranking all of Division I men’s college basketball in advance of the start of the season. I may be out of my mind. So here it is, an all-encompassing, thoroughly engrossing, undeniably consummate echelon of the sport’s 351 teams, from Air Force to Youngstown State, Duke to …. well, you’ll have to scroll all the way to…

Jesse Hagopian, center, with his son and his son’s fourth-grade teacher in Seattle, Washington, on October 19, 2016. (Courtesy of Jesse Hagopian) For a city with a black population of just 8 percent, Seattle has always had a rich tradition of resistance to racism, stretching from the civil-rights movement to a particularly unique and effective chapter of the Black Panther Party to today’s movement for black lives.1 Ad Policy On…

Hayes perhaps first stole the affections of me and others during last year’s NCAA Tournament when he and several teammates became fascinated with the stenographers attached to the press pool who produce the “rush” transcripts of all postgame commentary. In a challenge to the stenographers’ skill, Hayes started his response to a question about how he’s improved his play by saying, “Well, before I answer that question, I’d like to…