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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Despite a surge of doping cases over the last four years, and an increasingly dysfunctional and now suspended drug-testing agency, Kenya’s athletes were cleared to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics by the IAAF. The International Olympic Committee, which has the final call on whether Kenya’s famed distance runners will run in Rio in August, also is unlikely to stop the country sending a team….

CLEVELAND (AP) — Like so many kids growing up in Ohio, Andy Billman learned to love Cleveland’s sports teams. And to have his heart broken. But true to the passion of a proud city whose long-suffering fans haven’t celebrated a major professional championship since 1964, the director of an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary chronicling Cleveland’s half-century of sports misery has undying hope a title will come. One day. “It’s…

Rafael Benitez is believed to have a break clause in the three-year contract he signed with Newcastle Rafael Benitez says he could continue as Newcastle manager after holding “positive” discussions with the relegated Premier League club. The Magpies’ second relegation to the Championship in seven years was confirmed on Wednesday. Benitez, 56, succeeded the sacked Steve McClaren in March, winning two of his nine league games in charge. “If I’m…

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CLEVELAND (AP) — Like so many kids growing up in Ohio, Andy Billman learned to love Cleveland’s sports teams. And to have his heart broken. But true to the passion of a proud city whose long-suffering fans haven’t celebrated a major professional championship since 1964, the director of an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary chronicling Cleveland’s half-century of sports misery has undying hope a title will come. One day. “It’s…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Like so many kids growing up in Ohio, Andy Billman learned to love Cleveland’s sports teams. And to have his heart broken. But true to the passion of a proud city whose long-suffering fans haven’t celebrated a major professional championship since 1964, the director of an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary chronicling Cleveland’s half-century of sports misery has undying hope a title will come. One day. “It’s…

(Reuters Health) – Many sports organizations need to do a better job of protecting athletes against not just sexual harassment and physical abuse but also neglect and psychological taunts, the International Olympic Committee argues in a recent article. Despite the well-recognized benefits of participating in sports, there are also negative influences on athlete health, wellbeing and integrity caused by harassment and abuse, the IOC noted in a consensus statement published…

(Via CSN) If you’re a D.C. sports fan, you’re probably familiar with the humorous bits that Comcast SportsNet anchor Michael Jenkins weaves into his shows. During the Capitals’ first-round series against the Flyers, Jenkins endeared himself to Philadelphia sports fans after they threw wristbands on the ice in Game 3 with a brutal takedown that opened with the following question: “At what point did you wake up and, as a collective group of people, decide that…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Like so many kids growing up in Ohio, Andy Billman learned to love Cleveland’s sports teams. And to have his heart broken. But true to the passion of a proud city whose long-suffering fans haven’t celebrated a major professional championship since 1964, the director of an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary chronicling Cleveland’s half-century of sports misery has undying hope a title will come. One day. “It’s…

(Via CSN) If you’re a D.C. sports fan, you’re probably familiar with the humorous bits that Comcast SportsNet anchor Michael Jenkins weaves into his shows. During the Capitals’ first-round series against the Flyers, Jenkins endeared himself to Philadelphia sports fans after they threw wristbands on the ice in Game 3 with a brutal takedown that opened with the following question: “At what point did you wake up and, as a collective group of people, decide that…

Sports Authority Holdings Inc. will head to auction next week with bids in place from two groups of liquidators plus smaller offers from rivals Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. and Modell’s Inc., according to people familiar with the situation. However, the bids from Dick’s and Modell’s were considered “disappointing” and for fewer stores than initially expected, one of the people said. Dick’s, which one equity analyst said could make an…

The bad news: It’s Friday the 13th. The good news: It’s the only Friday the 13th in 2016. In honour of a day often considered one of the most unlucky on the calendar, here’s our list of the 13 best superstitions, curses and spooky coincidences in sports: 1. Raptors look to clinch in game lucky No. 13 The Toronto Raptors are in the midst of their most impressive playoff push in franchise…

Caption Close Online games already have their own professionals, making money off their finger-tapping skills, and superstars followed by devoted fans. Now they have their own sports association. A coalition of video game industry leaders on Friday said they have formed the World ESports Association (WESA) to give their growing sport a regulatory structure similar to soccer’s ruling body, FIFA. The formation of WESA comes at a time when the…

Russia won 13 gold medals at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 – including those won by Zubkov (left) and Legkov Two Russian athletes named in doping allegations by the nation’s former anti-doping chief have rejected the claims as “nonsense and slanderous”. In a New York Times report, Dr Grigory Rodchenkov alleges dozens of athletes, including at least 15 medallists at the 2014 Winter Olympics, were part of an extensive…

THE seventh congress of the Workers’ Party was meant to be North Korea’s most notable political shindig in nearly four decades. The sixth, in 1980, was a coming-out party for its then dictator-in-waiting, Kim Jong Il. At this one the late Kim’s son, Kim Jong Un (pictured), spoke for interminable hours to more than 3,000 clapping delegates, lauding a recent nuclear test and missile launch (subjects know nothing of the…

WASHINGTON — According to the Capital Weather Gang, Washington, D.C. has received measurable rain (at least .01 inches) every day for 15 consecutive days. This is unprecedented weather for the district, which since 1871 has witnessed no more than 10 consecutive days of precipitation (on separate occasions in 1938 and 1873). This fact, combined with the Capitals’ dramatic exit from the playoffs, has a very retributive and karmic feel to it….

LOS ANGELES — The dump will jump no more. The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, the building that Bruce Springsteen affectionately dubbed “the dump that jumps” was sent off with one last national anthem and a champagne toast from city leaders on Thursday. In recent decades, it has lived in the shadow of the younger, sexier Forum and Staples Center. But the Sports Arena was once home to the Lakers, Clippers…

“You guys like to drink?” THERE is nothing more demoralising in the world of a diehard sports fan than their team failing to live up to their potential. For Michael Jenkins, the elimination of his beloved Washington Capitals from the Stanley Cup play-offs was just too much to handle. A sports anchor for US broadcastor Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, Jenkins took his frustrations to the workplace. In what was clearly designed…