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TAMPA, Fla. — FOX Sports Sun, the statewide television home of the Tampa Bay Rays, announced the network will televise five Rays Spring Training games throughout March. The five game slate will provide Rays fans with their first look at the Rays as the they prepare for Opening Day. Full schedule below: Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. More from FoxSports Game: Tampa Bay Rays vs….

(By Nick Wass / AP) The Capitals are the NHL’s best team. It isn’t close. That development has prompted a range of emotions from local sports observers, including this one: We’ve seen this before, regular-season dominance doesn’t much matter, please get back to me in June. And by the way, do you like my fashionable new hairshirt, made with only the coarsest of goat hair? I’d like to congratulate those cynics…

Archer’s three female lead characters appear on SI.com’s Swim Daily. FX If this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue feels a little more animated than usual, it’s likely because of the characters from FX’s Archer. As part of the marketing campaign for the hit animated comedy’s upcoming seventh season, the network partnered with Sports Illustrated to feature faux swimsuit shots of its female characters in both…

Reuters sports schedule at 0600 GMT on Monday: FIFA Infantino to visit Robben Island in FIFA campaign finale FIFA presidential candidate Gianni Infantino will round off his election campaign with a visit to Robben Island, the former apartheid-era prison in South Africa, a source close to the Swiss’s campaign told Reuters. (SOCCER FIFA/INFANTINO, moved, by Simon Evans, 300 words) We have also moved factboxes on the five candidates in the…

Would the world be different if Neil Armstrong had worn a Fitbit wristband when he set foot on the moon? What if Nixon had been equipped with a cardiac sensor during Watergate? Quantified self for all The Sports & Innovation series n°1 on high-level athletes described how technologies have become essential to monitor athletic performances. Technology is also becoming a part of regular sports practice: Sophisticated high-tech equipment is now accessible for…

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers are starting to get comfortable in marquee games under new coach Tyronn Lue. Kevin Love scored 29 points to help the streaking Cavaliers roll past the Oklahoma City Thunder 115-92 on Sunday. On Jan. 30, the Cavaliers beat the San Antonio Spurs, who have the NBA’s second-best record. Now, they have beaten the Thunder, who entered the game with the league’s fourth-best mark….

Because an incident involving Peyton Manning at Tennessee — previously settled out of court — emerged into the public domain following his run to a Super Bowl win with the Broncos, a number of old legal documents are suddenly becoming relevant. This includes a 2003 affidavit from Manning detailing the 1996 incident in question and now a deposition of Manning from 2003 in the defamation suit filed by Jamie Naughright,…

Here are the best highlights from #THON2016, featuring @Dev_Still71‘s speech & and a dance-off. snpy.tv/1owifNL — Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) February 21, 2016 Penn State sports teams flashed their dance moves on the stage Saturday at THON 2016, the world’s largest student-run philanthropy. [ MORE: Follow @THON on Twitter! ] Needless to say, the student-athletes were a hit, entertaining the dancers and volunteers roughly halfway through their annual 46-hour fundraiser at the…

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England 171 (19.4 overs) Buttler 54 (28), Morgan 38 (23) Root 34 (17) Bowling figures: Rabada 3.3-0-29-1; Abbott 4-0-26-3; Morris 4-0-33-2; Wiese 3-0-40-0; Tahir 4-0-25-1; Duminy 1-0-16-1 Fall of wickets: 10-1 (Roy 9), 60-2 (Root 34) , 61-3 (Hales 16), 157-4 (Buttler 54), 157-5 (Morgan 38), 158-6 (Stokes 1), 160-7 (Moeen Ali 1), 166-8 (Jordan 1), 166-9 (Billings 5) 171 all out (Rashid 2) (Topley not out 1) Full scorecard

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Veteran forward David Lee is expected to sign with the Dallas Mavericks, league sources told The Vertical. View photo . David Lee played in 30 games for Boston this season. (AP Photo) Lee, a two-time All-Star, is planning to sign with the Mavericks for the prorated NBA room exception of $2.1 million after he clears waivers Sunday. Lee was bought out by the Celtics on Friday and has said he…

View post on imgur.com There have been a lot of Sports Dogs. Good Sports Dogs with pedigree and prowess — abilities beyond our imagining. This Sports Dog has taken their legacies and crumpled them up. You watch this and say “that’s a pretty good jump,” and then you realize the second jump is coming. The jump that sends this pup into the stratosphere. We love you,…

<!– For a list of all the complete deals, check out the transfers page. Van Gaal out, Mourinho in? Inter Milan’s honorary president Bedy Moratti, the sister of the club’s former president Massimo, has said on camera that Jose Mourinho is going to Manchester, presumably to United. (calciomercato.com, in Italian) Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has lost the confidence of several of the club’s senior players and former Chelsea…

View gallery . Rico Abreu is prepping for his first full season in NASCAR’s Truck Series. (Getty Images) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The fan sensation of NASCAR’s Truck Series stands 4-foot-4, operates from a custom-built cab, possesses an oversized personality, has produced world-class celebratory burnouts and is one of the most promising young drivers in racing. “I’m a little person,” Rico Abreu said. “Or my name’s Rico. That’d be fine…

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) – Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred expects to have a decision within a few days on two of the first three cases covered by the sport’s new domestic violence policy. Major League Baseball has been investigating New York Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman, Colorado Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes and Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig. Any discipline under the policy must be for “just cause.” Manfred says “The…

View photo . Leonys Martin defected from Cuba in 2010. (AP Photo) Agent Bart Hernandez was arrested Friday morning after a federal grand jury indicted him on human-trafficking charges related to the smuggling of Seattle Mariners outfielder Leonys Martin into the United States from Cuba, according to sources and documents obtained by Yahoo Sports. The sealed indictment, filed in a Florida federal court Feb. 12, alleges that Hernandez – who…

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