World Sports

Last summer, on a family vacation in a house with 10 very loud children, I attempted to watch a baseball game on the only available television set. It did not go well. My nieces and nephews acted like I was forcing them to watch a process hearing in the state legislature. They groaned and booed. They rolled their eyes. They dropped to the floor and pretended to sleep. Frantic to…

The World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Olympic Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federations are facing a real dilemma. Having pushed Kenya towards improving its anti-doping environment, the question remains whether to follow through and deliver the ultimate sanction – disqualification from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Such a move would potentially prove disastrous for Kenyan sport. Athletes would lose the opportunity of participating in the most prestigious event….

I was a horrible lacrosse player in high school: bad at catching the ball, slow, and not very aggressive. Yet I’d spend hours at a handball wall with my stick: throwing, catching, repeating. I played on winter leagues, and woke up early for 6 am pickup games. Freshman and sophomore years, I made it on to the junior varsity team — a miracle. By 11th grade, it was time to…

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…

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…