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Women’s cricket was held up as one of the positives by the study “No real progress” is being made to address gender inequality in sport, says a body set up to get more women into leadership roles. Women on Boards carried out a study in 2014 which looked at how many governing bodies had women among their leaders. Its first report since that study has found the number of women…

The father of former NASCAR driver Robby Gordon died Wednesday in apparent murder-suicide in Orange, Calif., according to multiple news reports. The bodies of Robert Gordon, 68, and his wife Sharon, 57, were found Wednesday afternoon in a home in the 1400 block of North Kennymead Street, CBS news in Los Angeles reported. Robert Gordon was known to race fans as “Baja Bob.” Police reported that they received a 911…

Major League Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. on Wednesday cautioned parents against believing their high-spending on athletics will pave their kids’ way to a professional sports career. The Baltimore Oriole turned entrepreneur counts a youth sports tournament company among his post-baseball business pursuits. Ripken said he’s come across some parents who harbor outsize expectations. “Sometimes the fever to say, ‘OK, I’ve got to have my kid playing more baseball…

Major League Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. on Wednesday cautioned parents against believing their high-spending on athletics will pave their kids’ way to a professional sports career. The Baltimore Oriole turned entrepreneur counts a youth sports tournament company among his post-baseball business pursuits. Ripken said he’s come across some parents who harbor outsize expectations. “Sometimes the fever to say, ‘OK, I’ve got to have my kid playing more baseball…

<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP The Scottish Professional Football League and top clubs were left staggered by Stewart Regan’s decision to help Slovenia’s Aleksander Ceferin win the vote to become Uefa’s new president when they were expecting the Scottish FA chief executive to back Dutchman Michael van Praag, who had promised to rip up controversial plans to restructure the Champions League.(Daily Record) Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan has condemned the “misbehaviour”…

Major League Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. on Wednesday cautioned parents against believing their high-spending on athletics will pave their kids’ way to a professional sports career. The Baltimore Oriole turned entrepreneur counts a youth sports tournament company among his post-baseball business pursuits. Ripken said he’s come across some parents who harbor outsize expectations. “Sometimes the fever to say, ‘OK, I’ve got to have my kid playing more baseball…

Major League Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. on Wednesday cautioned parents against believing their high-spending on athletics will pave their kids’ way to a professional sports career. The Baltimore Oriole turned entrepreneur counts a youth sports tournament company among his post-baseball business pursuits. Ripken said he’s come across some parents who harbor outsize expectations. “Sometimes the fever to say, ‘OK, I’ve got to have my kid playing more baseball…

Forget the football. The latest pastime to become a full-fledged sports phenomenon is drone racing. Competing for supremacy in the air at small scale isn’t a new phenomenon: people have been going head to head with remote-controlled aircraft in fields for a long old time. But in the last few years, technology has provided competitions with a huge shot of adrenaline, in the form of the first-person view. Nowadays, the…

Major League Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. on Wednesday cautioned parents against believing their high-spending on athletics will pave their kids’ way to a professional sports career. The Baltimore Oriole turned entrepreneur counts a youth sports tournament company among his post-baseball business pursuits. Ripken said he’s come across some parents who harbor outsize expectations. “Sometimes the fever to say, ‘OK, I’ve got to have my kid playing more baseball…

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<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic goalkeeper Dorus De Vries has suggested that his Champions League debut turned into a “nightmare” in Tuesday’s 7-0 hammering by Barcelona as the Glasgow team were up against “the best side of the last 10 years”. (Daily Star, print edition) Manager Brendan Rodgers has refused to be critical of his players after Celtic were handed a football lesson in a 7-0 defeat by Barcelona in their…

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Tim Tebow boldly thrust himself back into professional sports last week by signing a minor-league contract with the New York Mets. In his hype-spinning return to competition, though, he may have made one crucial mistake: He picked the wrong sport. Tebow should be playing handball. A sport that rewards size, prizes speed and fetishizes…

Last week, the 2016 Paralympics opened in Rio with enough pomp, ceremony, stunts and celebration to almost conceal the disgraceful plundering of its funding and shoddy state of the facilities. There were epic stunts, heartfelt moments and the obligatory booing of allegedly corrupt politicians. The British press, perhaps empowered by the 2012 London “best ever” Paralympic games have been following the current games closely, but likely few American readers have…

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Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters raises his fist in the air during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP) Let a thousand raised fists bloom. As the National Football League’s regular season kicked off this weekend, players on a number of teams joined San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in protests…