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It has made me passionate about dispelling the idea you cannot be a successful sportsperson if you are not a certain size. But every sport is different, with any and many body types. For swimming, my body was my tool and I tried different things to make it work for me, but when I did weights, I got muscly, so that did not work for me in water. The biggest…

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On a recent episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Fox Sports 1’s Skip Bayless explained why arguing on TV is a lot harder than it looks. You can read some of the highlights from Peter’s interview with Skip at that link, or listen to it in the audio player above. Below, we’ve posted a lightly edited complete transcript of the conversation. If you like this, be sure to subscribe…

Fox Sports announcer Joe Buck feared for his broadcasting career five years ago when he suffered a paralyzed left vocal cord. The ailment struck him a few weeks before the start of the 2011 baseball season, and it wasn’t until October of that year that he truly felt his voice was back. At the time, Buck told people that he had developed a virus in the laryngeal nerve of his…

On a recent episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Fox Sports 1’s Skip Bayless explained why arguing on TV is a lot harder than it looks. You can read some of the highlights from Peter’s interview with Skip at that link, or listen to it in the audio player above. Below, we’ve posted a lightly edited complete transcript of the conversation. If you like this, be sure to subscribe…

It has made me passionate about dispelling the idea you cannot be a successful sportsperson if you are not a certain size. But every sport is different, with any and many body types. For swimming, my body was my tool and I tried different things to make it work for me, but when I did weights, I got muscly, so that did not work for me in water. The biggest…

The sports journalist Rebecca Wilson has died after a “secret” battle with breast cancer, her family has revealed. News that the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph columnist and broadcaster had died at 54 came as a shock to the media and sports communities on Friday morning because her illness was “a closely guarded secret”. The forthright sports commentator who worked at every network in her high-profile career was married to…

Saturday’s LSU-Florida game has been canceled due to Hurricane Matthew, the conference announced Thursday.  The schools will work to reschedule the game but they do not have bye weeks that line up. The parties “will work to reschedule the game later in the 2016 season if possible,” the SEC said. “[T]he schools and SEC Office will make every effort to find a scheduling solution with the possible movement of…

Fox Sports announcer Joe Buck feared for his broadcasting career five years ago when he suffered a paralyzed left vocal cord. The ailment struck him a few weeks before the start of the 2011 baseball season, and it wasn’t until October of that year that he truly felt his voice was back. At the time, Buck told people that he had developed a virus in the laryngeal nerve of his…

One of the world’s leading anti-doping scientists cringes at finger-pointing toward the World Anti-Doping Agency by leaders in international sports and tells The Associated Press that with so much conflict, “the only people who can be happy these days are the dopers and the cheaters.” Christiane Ayotte, the director of the WADA-accredited anti-doping laboratory in Montreal, said in an interview with AP this week that she is wary of the…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports gets an inside look at the remarkable technology that will soon change the way people across the world consume sports. USA TODAY Sports Jeremy Jacobs, chairman of sports concessionaire Delaware North, has commissioned a second report looking at the future of sports.(Photo: Jack Gruber, USA TODAY Sports) BUFFALO — Sports is more often about the present (today’s ballgames) and the glorious past (Babe…

Gov. Nikki Haley is urging South Carolina residents in threatened zones to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Matthew. USA TODAY NETWORK

UFC middleweight Josh Samman has passed away after spending nearly a week in a coma at a hospital in Hollywood, Fla. He was 28 years old. Samman’s manager Gary Ibarra confirmed the news to FOX Sports on Wednesday while also saying that the fighter’s family is in mourning but will be releasing a statement at some point later in the day. Samman was found unresponsive in his apartment last Thursday…

Abstinence before competing has long been the norm for athletes  New review of research suggests that the opposite could be true Researchers admit that more investigation on the subject is needed  By Libby Plummer For Mailonline Published: 10:08 EST, 5 October 2016 | Updated: 10:38 EST, 5 October 2016 e-mail 18 View comments Abstinence from sex before a major sporting competition has long been part of the training regime for…

Soon, the viral clip donned a nickname — the “Sobbing Sooner.” The Israels recall ESPN or Sports Illustrated using it as their “Picture of the Week.” That’s when it really took off. A Longhorn fan promptly sold T-shirts featuring Jonah’s crying face. Posters were created. Virtually overnight, what began as an Internet sensation turned into a nightmare. It escalated so far that the Israel family hired a lawyer. They sent out cease-and-desist…

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Recently, I picked up an old book from my modest collection and started reading it — Noam Chomsky’s Understanding Power — all over again and was struck by a solitary paragraph that got me thinking. “Well, in our society, we have things that you might use your intelligence on, like politics, but people really can’t get involved in them in a very serious way — so what they do is…