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The rumors about Caitlyn Jenner’s appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated proved to be only partially true. She’s not nude, although she is wearing a nude jumpsuit covered in sparkles. She is wearing her Olympic gold medal, which she won in the decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Games. The medal appeared on a table in the Vanity Fair story that introduced Caitlyn to the world, but writer Tim Layden…

x Embed x Share EW News Flash: In the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, Caitlyn Jenner reflects on how her 1976 Olympic win shaped her, and opens up about her decision to come out as transgender. Time In celebration of winning the Olympic gold medal in the decathlon 40 years ago, Caitlyn Jenner graces the cover of Sports Illustrated. In an in-depth interview and an SI Films documentary, Jenner: 40 Years…

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Few companies have come forth to buy Sports Authority’s stores as the retailer goes through the bankruptcy process. That’s a good sign for Dick’s Sporting Goods dks , according to investment banking giant Goldman Sachs gs in a Monday note to clients. The bank is so convinced about the company’s upside, that it added Dick’s to its “Conviction Buy List”—a step above “Buy.” Sports Authority first filed for bankruptcy in…

Pat Summitt leaves this world far, far too soon at the age of 64 and as one of the greatest coaches ever in any sport. Don’t add the qualifier of greatest women’s coach ever. Just “coach” will suffice. Vince Lombardi, Bill Belichick, Bear Bryant, Nick Saban, John Wooden, Mike Krzyzewski, Red Auerbach, Phil Jackson, Gregg Popovich, Connie Mack, Casey Stengel, Scotty Bowman — pick any great coach you want and…

Media playback is not supported on this device Former England manager Roy Hodgson ‘unhappy’ with England media call Roy Hodgson says England’s 2-1 loss to Iceland and exit from Euro 2016 will cause longer-term “damage” to the team. And Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn said it is now “imperative” to find out why England are “brittle” at tournaments. Hodgson, who resigned after Monday’s game, repeatedly questioned why he had…

Summitt and son Tyler cut down the net after winning the championship in 1996. (Pat Sullivan/AP Images) The story of women’s basketball is so incomplete without Pat Summitt, it’s almost not worth telling. Not just the winningest coach in D1 history, Summitt is the modern game, her success mirroring its rise, her ascendancy propelling the sport out of obscurity. And now she’s gone. Summitt died Tuesday morning at age 64….

Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of “Sports Illustrated.” (Photo: Yu Tsai, Sports Illustrated) In celebration of winning the Olympic gold medal in the decathlon 40 years ago, Caitlyn Jenner graces the cover of Sports Illustrated. In an in-depth interview and an SI Films documentary, Jenner: 40 Years After Gold, the former athlete turned activist revisits her journey to winning gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games with stops at the University of…

<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Brendan Rodgers’ Parkhead pre-season got off to a bumpy start after Celtic’s flight set for Slovenia ended up in the wrong country – over the Croatian border in Zagreb. (Various) Rangers are poised to make Northern Ireland right-back Lee Hodson their eighth summer signing upon his return from Euro 2016. (Scottish Daily Mail) <!– Celtic arrived at Zagreb after Maribor airport was shut – then faced a…

Each year, The Oregonian/OregonLive names an overall athlete of the year for every major high school sport. Staff and readers voted for 2016’s best in baseball, softball, boys golf, girls golf, boys tennis, girls tennis, boys track and girls track. Here are The Oregonian/OregonLive’s 2015-16 spring athletes of the year:

Lesa France Kennedy, CEO of International Speedway Corporation and Vice Chairperson of NASCAR, was named one of ADWEEK’S ’30 Most Powerful Women in Sports’ in their July issue, on newsstands now. This is the inaugural ’30 Most Powerful Women in Sports’ list.  ADWEEK’S annual Sports Issue will feature the list yearly. Kennedy is featured along with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver Danica Patrick, and other elite athletes, league executives, sports…

Lewis-Palmer head coach Dustin Tupper walks the sidelines during the first quarter against Discovery Canyon Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Don Breese Stadium in Monument, Colo. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)  When Lewis-Palmer football coach and P.E. teacher Dustin Tupper was in high school he played football, wrestled and ran track. He wasn’t the only one. Playing just one sport was relatively unheard of, and the three-sport athlete reigned supreme. Now…

Lesa France Kennedy, CEO of International Speedway Corporation and Vice Chairperson of NASCAR, was named one of ADWEEK’S ’30 Most Powerful Women in Sports’ in their July issue, on newsstands now. This is the inaugural ’30 Most Powerful Women in Sports’ list.  ADWEEK’S annual Sports Issue will feature the list yearly. Kennedy is featured along with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver Danica Patrick, and other elite athletes, league executives, sports…

Tom Kelly, a frequent golfer at Riviera Country Club as he was here in 2007, began calling USC football and basketball during the 1961-62 seasons. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker) Tom Kelly, the signature voice of USC sports starting in the early 1960s and spanning five decades, died Monday morning at his home in Encino after a long…

The field of sport* is one of the most influential contexts for shaping norms/normativities and (con)forming identities, while operating in different shapes, scales, levels and locations. It does so through gender discrimination/policing and LGBTIQ* invisibility/oppression, from labor exploitation/body norming, to evictions around mega-sporting events and propaganda for nation-state oligarchies—in personal, institutional, global ways with everything in between and in the forms of racism, sexism, (neo)colonialism, homo/bi/transphobia, ageism, ableism, nationalism, along…

Media playback is not supported on this device Highlights: England 1-2 Iceland Roy Hodgson resigned as England manager after his side’s 2-1 defeat by Iceland saw them knocked out of Euro 2016. The 68-year-old had been in charge for four years after replacing Italian Fabio Capello but has won just three of 11 games in major tournament finals. Iceland – with a population of just 330,000 – were among the…

In the depths of Tropicana Field – between the Tampa Bay Rays and San Francisco Giants clubhouse and below a sea of more than 40,000 fans – a United States military veteran approached Billy Bean. Sidebar NBA, WNBA March in NYC LGBT Pride Parade » Major League Baseball’s ambassador for inclusion, Bean was talking to people all night the evening of June 17th. He threw out the first pitch,…

Lesa France Kennedy, CEO of International Speedway Corporation and Vice Chairperson of NASCAR, was named one of ADWEEK’S ’30 Most Powerful Women in Sports’ in their July issue, on newsstands now. This is the inaugural ’30 Most Powerful Women in Sports’ list.  ADWEEK’S annual Sports Issue will feature the list yearly. Kennedy is featured along with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver Danica Patrick, and other elite athletes, league executives, sports…

Media playback is not supported on this device Wimbledon 2016: Novak Djokovic beats Britain’s James Ward Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer both made serene progress to the second round of Wimbledon with straight-set wins on the opening day. Defending champion Djokovic – trying to win a calendar Grand Slam – beat Briton James Ward 6-0 7-6 (7-3) 6-4. Third seed Federer, troubled by injury problems this year, saw off Argentina’s…

Good morning. As Cleveland sports fans nurse celebration hangovers, pundits are left to weigh the fallout of Cleveland finally winning a major sports title. Such as…which major American city now assumes Cleveland’s spot as the unluckiest spectator sports market? Bill Barnwell of ESPN.com, indulging his zest for sports analytics, devised a Sports Misery Index. When the point-tallying was done, the successor to Cleveland was, predictably, Cleveland West. San Diego, you…