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4 Images  Find News Near Me Fayetteville, N.C. — Two men were arrested Sunday afternoon after one person died early Sunday following an assault in a Fayetteville parking lot. Around 12:30 a.m., officers with the Fayetteville Police Department responded to an incident at 301 Wingz, a sports bar located along the 400 block of North Eastern Boulevard. At the scene, they determined that two men had assaulted Michael Mansfield, 52,…

The modern baseball broadcaster provides a public service to sports fans everywhere: He receives our hatred; he’s a magnet, or a receptacle, for our frustration. To talk for three-plus hours extemporaneously, particularly during a game as leisurely and mannered as baseball, is to invite listeners to pounce on every poorly researched remark. Each year the baseball site Fangraphs.com asks its readers to rank all 30 teams’ announcers; perhaps the nicest…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

The Chesapeake Sports Club (CSC) will hold its monthly luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 12 at the Chesapeake Conference Center, 700 Conference Center Drive. Guest speaker for the luncheon will be Tommy Graves, a former football player from Norfolk‘s Lake Taylor High School. Graves went on to play college football for Michigan State University in the Big Ten. He was later signed by the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers,…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

Discovery Communications boss David Zaslav has been going deep into the sports world, meeting sports federations around the globe and having chats with the International Olympics Committee. The Olympics arrive on Discovery’s Eurosport network in 2018. So no wonder his end-of-the summer bash was scheduled to be thick with sports stars. Slated to attend the Saturday night party in East Hampton were tennis legends Serena Williams, Henri Leconte and Mats…

If only it were as easy as it used to be. Back in the day, year after year, the Giants and the Dodgers would play each other 22 times a year, 11 times at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan and 11 times at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, and there was little doubt about this: They were each other’s greatest rivals. Period. That’s how it was in 1903 and 1923…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

Serena Williams won her first Grand Slam singles match at the 1998 Australian Open Serena Williams powered to a record 307th Grand Slam match win to reach the fourth round of the US Open. The world number one moved ahead of Martina Navratilova for most match wins in a major by a woman, and tied Roger Federer’s mark for men with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Sweden’s Johanna Larsson. “That’s…

Mike Ashley and the board of Sports Direct face a showdown with shareholders this week over a host of problems – including treatment of its employees, corporate governance and ailing performance. Investors in the controversial firm, which has faced months of pressure over working conditions for staff, get their chance to quiz directors at Sports Direct’s annual meeting in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, on Wednesday. Ashley, who founded the company and still…

The Italian Grand Prix is live on the BBC Sport website and 5 live on Sunday Jenson Button will not race in Formula 1 in 2017 but will remain with McLaren as an ambassador. The 2009 world champion will work with the team and could race again in 2018, having signed a two-year contract. Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne will be promoted from reserve driver to partner double world champion Fernando Alonso….

TENNIS NEW YORK (AP) — Before Jack Sock took on 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic in the third round, the 23-year-old American acknowledged that, as of a couple of years ago, simply making it that far would have made him, to use two of his words, ”satisfied” and ”excited.” Now Sock wants more. Sock overwhelmed No. 7-seeded Cilic 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a little more than 1 1/2 hours…

UK Athletics is to launch an inquiry into the classification of Paralympic track and field athletes following claims that some have been allowed to compete against those who are significantly more impaired, resulting in a boost to their medal chances. Tanni Grey-Thompson, Britain’s most decorated and best-known star of the Paralympics, is among those who have complained in recent months, expressing her concern that some athletes have obtained a competitive…

Schweinsteiger has been training alone, or with the Under-23 squad, since Mourinho took charge this summer Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger has been left out of Manchester United’s Europa League squad. The ex-Germany captain, who has trained alone or with the Under-23s under new boss Jose Mourinho, was named in their 25-man Premier League squad on Friday. The 32-year-old World Cup winner retired from international football this week after 24 goals and…

Major League Baseball distributed iPad Pros to its clubs this season. (Photo via MLB) Since at least the 1930s, according to baseball historians, Major League Baseball clubs have kept phones in their dugouts and bullpens. Historians aren’t really sure when the first one appeared, but the earliest mention of one came in a 1930 article in The Sheboygan Press about Yankee Stadium. Managers use the phones to call the bullpen,…

Peg Holecek has to get up at 5:20 every morning, but lately, she’s been staying up past 10 p.m., just to watch TV. Why? Mikey’s back in town. Mikey Berman is one of the Glenbrook North High School teacher’s old broadcasting students, and, since Aug. 15, he’s been working as a sports reporter at Chicago’s NBC 5. “I’m so excited, I stay up late to look for him on the…

Fall sports are starting up again. Soccer, football and volleyball. And that means brain injuries are a topic of concern for athletes and parents. This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview. PRI.org Yet there are still plenty of questions about concussions. That’s what sports writer Joanne Gerstner, along with neurologist Jeffrey Kutcher, set out to address in their new book, “Back in the Game: Why Concussion Doesn’t…