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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” —Nora Ephron Living in the 21st century, where we have devised the technology to monitor robots to do our bidding, there’s still one aspect where we fall grossly short when it comes to progress — gender equality. Rant as we might, the truth is that although the world may have moved three inches forward since the time of the World…

Photo: Stevica Mrdja/Getty Images/iStockphoto In 1985, Nature published a paper arguing that women would outrun men in marathons by 2000. Like so many other things that were supposed to happen “in the year 2000,” this prediction never came to fruition. Women’s finishing times were indeed improving rapidly as compared to the rate of men’s improvements, but that was likely because women were so much newer to distance running as compared…

SATURDAY, Sept. 10, 2016 — Pain can be a problem for young athletes, so it’s important for parents to know how to deal with it, a pain specialist says. “Now that kids are back in school and fall sports are well underway, there are many things parents can do to help their children avoid getting hurt while still enjoying sports,” said Dr. Anita Gupta. She is a member of the…

Tim Tebow said goodbye to football, but that wasn’t the end of his sports career. NPR’s Rachel Martin talks sports with Mike Pesca of The Gist podcast.

The legendary sports broadcaster Norman May has died at the age of 88. May, who was affectionately nicknamed “Nugget” due to his stout body type when he was young, was widely loved for his unique sports commentary. — Drew Morphett OAM (@drewmorphett) September 11, 2016 Sad to hear of the passing of the great Norman May – a mentor & inspiration of some of our greatest sports broadcasters Growing up…

Gennady Golovkin beat Kell Brook with a fifth-round stoppage to retain his WBC and IBF middleweight titles. Kell Brook’s audacious bid to dethrone middleweight king Gennady Golovkin came to nothing as the Briton was stopped in the fifth round at London’s O2. Brook, 30, the reigning IBF welterweight champion, jumped two divisions to challenge Golovkin. He showed tremendous bravery and got plenty of shots through the Kazakh’s defences, but was…

Kerber is the first German to win the US Open since Steffi Graf in 1996 Germany’s Angelique Kerber backed up her status as the new world number one with a thrilling win over Czech Karolina Pliskova in the US Open final. Kerber, 28, won 6-3 4-6 6-4 in New York to add the US Open to her victory at the Australian Open in January. Pliskova’s semi-final win over Serena Williams…

Barcelona had won their previous seven La Liga games Barcelona suffered a shock home defeat by newly promoted Alaves as manager Luis Enrique left Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez out of the starting XI. Brazilian forward Deyverson silenced the Nou Camp when he stabbed home Kiko Femenia’s cross from seven yards. Defender Jeremy Mathieu headed the equaliser from Neymar’s corner. Ibai Gomez scored the winner – beating debutant keeper Jasper…

TENNIS NEW YORK (AP) — For quite a while, Novak Djokovic‘s opponent in the U.S. Open semifinals, Gael Monfils, looked as if he didn’t want to win – or even be there at all. That premeditated ”great strategy” of hoping to lull the No. 1 seed and defending champion into complacency and mistakes did not prevent Monfils from falling into a two-set deficit. So he transformed back into his entertaining,…

Media playback is not supported on this device Man Utd 1-2 Man City: Jose Mourinho’s rotten luck v Pep Guardiola continues Pep Guardiola emerged victorious from his first Premier League battle with old adversary Jose Mourinho as Manchester City secured a fully deserved win in a frantic Old Trafford derby. Kevin de Bruyne’s cool finish and Kelechi Iheanacho’s tap-in after the Belgian hit the post put City in complete control…

TENNIS NEW YORK (AP) – For quite a while, Novak Djokovic’s opponent in the U.S. Open semifinals, Gael Monfils, looked as if he didn’t want to win – or even be there at all. That premeditated “great strategy” of hoping to lull the No. 1 seed and defending champion into complacency and mistakes did not prevent Monfils from falling into a two-set deficit. So he transformed back into his entertaining,…

TENNIS NEW YORK (AP) For quite a while, Novak Djokovic’s opponent in the U.S. Open semifinals, Gael Monfils, looked as if he didn’t want to win – or even be there at all. That premeditated ”great strategy” of hoping to lull the No. 1 seed and defending champion into complacency and mistakes did not prevent Monfils from falling into a two-set deficit. So he transformed back into his entertaining, athletic…

Amazon is pursuing video rights to a wide range of sports, including the French Open tennis championship and professional rugby, as the company looks for ways to draw new customers to its online TV service, people with knowledge of the matter said. The world’s largest online retailer has expressed interest in sports with global appeal, such as tennis, golf, soccer and auto racing, said the people, who took part in…

Snowboarders have higher concussion rates than most other adventure athletes.Laurent Salino/Agence Zoom/Getty Images When we talk about brain injuries in sports, we talk a lot about football. We mention boxing and mixed martial arts and might talk about repeated head trauma in soccer or hockey, but we mostly talk about football. There’s good reason for that, but that doesn’t mean that less traditional sports are incident free or brain injury free. The…

The report explains that Amazon hired a former Sports Illustrated executive, James DeLorenzo, to head up a sports division earlier this year. In addition, the company poached a former YouTube executive, Charlie Neiman, to look into partnering with sports companies and build new business opportunities. Amazon has refused to make a public comment, but these preliminary negotiations could be the start of a whole new broadcasting platform. One of the…

For the first time ever in the sport F1 teams could invest in shares to help develop it further Formula 1 teams are to be given the chance to buy shares in the sport for the first time following a takeover by US giant Liberty Media. The first stage of a buyout was completed on Wednesday, with Liberty taking 18.7% in a deal that values F1 at $8bn (£6.25bn). The…

The inflation-busting deals being secured by sports rights owners around the world demonstrate the unwavering value of live sports. Sky and BT Sport paid more than £5 billion for live Premier League TV rights for three seasons from 2016-17, representing a 70 percent increase on the previous cycle. Meanwhile, Comcast reportedly paid around $12 billion for rights to the Olympics through 2032 and the cost of a 30-second slot for advertisers in the Super Bowl…

Strasburg walks off the field. (Photo by John McDonnell / The Washington Post) Some sports towns measure time and place by championships. Where were you during Game 7? Or during the championship parade? Or when the banner was raised to the rafters? Washington sports fans do not measure time and place by championships. They use MRI results. I remember exactly where I was when Robert Griffin III fell to the ground, his…