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Time and history have long since confirmed Maxim Gorky’s dim view of the Soviet Union. So perhaps we ought to pay a little more attention to something the Russian novelist said about sports. “Sport,” Gorky wrote in 1928, “has a single clear purpose: to make people even more stupid than they are.” (Before anyone asks,…

WBC cruiserweight champion Bellew comforts Makabu after his third-round knockout win at Goodison Park The inside of Tony Bellew’s head must have been a wild place on Monday morning. What’s real? What’s fantasy? Did that actually happen? Certainly did. Ask any one of 17,000 fellow Everton fans who screamed you to victory. Or ask Ilunga Makabu, the poor bloke whose head you almost took off. Come to think of it,…

Marcus Rashford and Cameron Borthwick-Jackson (right) both made their first-team debuts this season Manchester United’s 18-year-old striker Marcus Rashford has signed a new deal which will keep him at Old Trafford until June 2020. He scored twice on his first-team debut against Midtjylland in February and finished the season with eight goals in 18 appearances. Rashford was selected in England’s 26-man squad for Euro 2016 and scored on his debut…

Time and history have long since confirmed Maxim Gorky’s dim view of the Soviet Union. So perhaps we ought to pay a little more attention to something the Russian novelist said about sports. “Sport,” Gorky wrote in 1928, “has a single clear purpose: to make people even more stupid than they are.” (Before anyone asks,…

Beginning this fall, low-income student-athletes will not be able to get grants to offset the cost of playing sports, because legislators did not reauthorize a sales tax exemption on tickets for high school sporting events. Legislators did not include the comparatively minuscule measure in the chaotic final days of the legislative session, where it got lost amid proposals for billions of dollars in spending and borrowing. Gov. Mark Dayton said…

Texas A&M won an SEC Championship in baseball today almost three months after clinching the regular season title for basketball. That only adds more pressure on Kevin Sumlin.  Athlon Sports came out with its early predictions on arguably Sumlin’s most important season. In the article, the Aggies are picked to finish 5th in the SEC West. In addition, Athlon Sports previews A&M’s offense, defense and special teams as well as what to expect this…

Andy Murray beat Roger Federer to win Olympic gold in London in 2012 Andy Murray will seek medical guidance on the Zika virus before travelling to Rio for the Olympics. The 29-year-old British defending champion said he had been influenced by recent reports of scientists saying it was “unethical” for the summer Olympics and Paralympics to go ahead. “I will speak to a couple of doctors about it and see…

Olympic chiefs have announced 23 competitors at the London 2012 Games have failed retrospective doping tests. Those athletes are from five different sports and six different countries. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) retested 454 selected doping samples from the 2008 Games in Beijing and a further 265 from London 2012. It said the retests, conducted using the latest scientific methods, were focused on athletes who could take part at this…

Time and history have long since confirmed Maxim Gorky’s dim view of the Soviet Union. So perhaps we ought to pay a little more attention to something the Russian novelist said about sports. “Sport,” Gorky wrote in 1928, “has a single clear purpose: to make people even more stupid than they are.” (Before anyone asks,…

Alexander Rossi celebrates after winning the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Photo: Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports) INDIANAPOLIS — Running on fumes on the final laps of the race, rookie Alexander Rossi ran out of fuel coming out of Turn 4 — and still managed to win the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. Rossi, a 24-year-old native of California, coasted to…

The bids for Sports Authority’s bankrupt assets are in, but no one will be coming to its rescue. Instead, a group of liquidators have staked a claim on the inventory and will soon begin going-out-of-business sales. It’s been rumored that Dick’s Sporting Goods (NYSE:DKS) would swoop in and take over some Sports Authority locations. That could still happen as landlords for Sports Authority’s leased locations will auction those terms at a later…

  Everything you need to know for today’s 100th running of the Indianapolis 500: START TIME: Green flag at 12:17 p.m. ET TV SCHEDULE: ABC. Coverage begins at 11 a.m. ET DEFENDING RACE WINNER: Juan Pablo Montoya POLE-SITTER: After a brutal crash in practice before last year’s Indianapolis 500 almost killed James Hinchcliffe, he bounced back to win this year’s starting spot. NATIONAL ANTHEM SINGER: Darius Rucker — of Hootie & the…

Cameron Spencer/Getty When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, legend has it that King Gustav V of Sweden presented him the medal and said, “You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.” “Thanks, king,” Thorpe is rumored to have responded. Exactly 100 years later, at the 2012 Olympics in London, Oregon-native Ashton Eaton became the…

New Orleans Pelicans forward Bryce Dejean-Jones died early Saturday morning in Dallas from injuries sustained from an apparent gun-shot wound. Dejean-Jones, 23, was a promising rookie who went undrafted in 2015 and played 14 games for the Pelicans last season. View photo . Bryce Dejean-Jones (NBAE/Getty Images) “It is with deep sadness that the Pelicans organization acknowledges the sudden passing of Bryce Dejean-Jones,” the team said in a statement. “We…

NEW YORK — The red signs are up — Sports Authority began its going-out-of-business sale months before it’s slated to close all 450 stores nationwide. Sports Authority started the sale Thursday just in time for Memorial Day weekend. “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS,” the retailer wrote on the top of its site. “Everything now up to 30% off original ticketed price.” The liquidation sale varies in each location. The company said it will close all…

David Meeks admits he’s not an elite athlete, but he’s excited to help bring famous dual-sport pro Bo Jackson to Hilliard. “I was captain of the bowling team,” said Meeks, Hilliard’s economic-development director. Meeks has been negotiating to bring the Bo Jackson Elite Sports program to anchor a planned 100-acre sports complex on Cosgray Road in northwest Hilliard. It is proposed to be a $5.5 million, 129,000-square-foot facility with a…

“By November 2011, I felt like we had found a product that was ready,” he says. Through his contacts with Crystal Palace, Cherneski was able to send a pair to former Palace player Victor Moses. Within days he got a text back, asking for more. At the beginning of 2012, he flew to the UK and started to drive up and down the country, arranging meetings with players and giving…

Time and history have long since confirmed Maxim Gorky’s dim view of the Soviet Union. So perhaps we ought to pay a little more attention to something the Russian novelist said about sports. “Sport,” Gorky wrote in 1928, “has a single clear purpose: to make people even more stupid than they are.” (Before anyone asks,…

I’m beginning to think some sports fans hate LeBron James more than they love sports, and it’s a shame.  MORE: Must-see conference finals photos  Following the Cavaliers’ series-clinching 113-87 win against the Raptors in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday, you knew it was coming from ESPN’s Skip Bayless. The former junior varsity bench warmer just can’t help himself. He gets his rocks off on being hypercritical of…