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Ashley Graham’s history-making Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover was not photoshopped, and the size 16 model wants to make sure everyone knows it. Graham joined her fellow SI Swim cover model Hailey Clauson on Access Hollywood Live Monday, and shared that the cover image is 100 percent authentic. James Macari/Sports Illustrated “They [Sports Illustrated editors] did not retouch me,” she said. “They did not take out things. They didn’t reshape my…

Sports are cyclical by nature. They are, after all, defined by seasons — not quite winter, spring, summer and fall, but markers of time all the same. And much like the melting of the snow, the first truly glorious June day, the turning of the leaves and the first snow that sticks around, Minnesota sports have a way of repeating themselves. Here are five examples we’ve heard pretty much on…

The official cause of death for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be listed as a heart attack, Texas officials say. Video provided by Newsy Newslook

Buy Photo The Iowa Capitol(Photo: William Petroski/Des Moines Register)Buy Photo Democrats and Republicans were sharply divided Monday on an Iowa Senate bill that would require the home team at high school varsity collision sports to provide a licensed athletic trainer or other expert to assess concussions and other injuries. Senate Study Bill 3044 was approved on an 8-6 party line vote by the Iowa Senate Education Committee and was sent…

Facing legal questions that could threaten its survival, the fantasy-sports industry has initiated a lobbying blitz in statehouses across the country. Since Jan. 1, legislators in 16 states have introduced bills to carve out legal protections for fantasy-sports operators, nearly all of them supported by the operators themselves. Several other states have active bills that were introduced last year. Legislative bodies in California,…

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Shot last November in collaboration with VR outfit Wevr, the Swimsuit issue’s inaugural batch of VR content, which features past cover models Nina Adgal, Irina Shayk and Hannah Davis, will live inside Sports Illustrated‘s new Swimsuit app for Android and iOS. At launch, five Google Cardboard– and Samsung Gear VR–compatible videos will be made available for free — three of the individual models, a teaser and an instructional video —…

CHICAGO – It was the perfect day to cozy up to your significant other in the Windy City. That’s because it was windy…and cold….and snowy. The best thing to do on a winter day like is to stay in and enjoy the company of loved ones. Realizing this, we attributed part of our Sports Feed show on Sunday to the one holiday devoted to love-Valentine’s Day. Jarrett Payton and Josh…

<!– With Barcelona winning 3-1, Messi rolled his penalty to the right for Suarez to slot in When Barcelona’s Lionel Messi was felled inside the area against Celta Vigo on Sunday night, most people inside the Nou Camp wondered who would take the penalty. Messi, the usual taker, had deferred to Neymar on previous occasions this season, but both had poor recent records from the spot and Luis Suarez was…

CHICAGO – She has been seen on a number of ESPN’s platforms over the past few years covering sports both in Chicago and nationally. But when it comes to a charity in the Windy City, Sarah Spain wants to make sure her messages are heard. The ESPN host and reporter came on Sunday’s Sports Feed to discuss “Hear The Cheers,” a campaign by the Chicago Hearing Society to raise money…

CHICAGO – This weekend is a bit of a reprieve for Bulls fans who, frankly, have endured a lot over the past few weeks. They enter the break with a five-game losing streak and are just two games over .500 and just hanging on in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Fans and pundits are spreading the blame for their tumble in the new year and it remains a topic as…

CHICAGO – It was the perfect day to cozy up to your significant other in the Windy City. That’s because it was windy…and cold….and snowy. The best thing to do on a winter day like is to stay in and enjoy the company of loved ones. Realizing this, we attributed part of our Sports Feed show on Sunday to the one holiday devoted to love-Valentine’s Day. Jarrett Payton and Josh…

Sporting a purple-and-orange bikini and beachy hair, Graham oozes sex appeal and confidence in the sultry image captured by photographer James Macari. The 28-year-old model took to Instagram to express her heartfelt gratitude for landing the groundbreaking cover:  Truly speechless!!! This cover is for every woman who felt like she wasn’t beautiful enough because of her size. You can do and achieve anything you put your mind to. Thank you…

Like father, like son. Rookie Chase Elliott won the pole for next Sunday’s Daytona 500, putting the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in the top starting spot in NASCAR’s biggest race for the second year in a row. Jeff Gordon won it last year in the No. 24. Bill Elliott, Chase’s father and a NASCAR Hall of Fame member, set the three fastest Daytona 500 pole speeds in history and…

Madi Rowlands claimed gold with a score of 88.60 Great Britain won their first medal at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games when Madi Rowlands took gold in the ski halfpipe in Lillehammer, Norway. The 15-year-old from Kent scored 88.60 to easily claim top spot, while Paula Cooper from the United States was second with 79.00 and Austria’s Lara Wolf third with 74.20. It was Team GB’s first medal on…

Washington (AFP) – A 20-year-old sex assault accusation against Super Bowl champion quarterback Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos reportedly was cited by six former female students in a new lawsuit against the University of Tennessee. The Tennessean newspaper said the alleged incident was among those outlined in a suit filed last Tuesday in Nashville claiming the school has violated regulations requiring equal support for men’s and women’s athletic programs….

Graham, 28, has her own line of lingerie and is a founder of a group for larger models. Day described her confidence as contagious. “She owns her sexiness in a way that every woman should,” Day said. Fashion model Clauson, 20, is right at home on the cover. She has worked with major brands such as Gucci, and is described as the epitome of cool. “Hailey is the cool girl…

For this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, beauty isn’t measured by pounds or kilograms; it’s defined by Ashley Graham. The model just made history, becoming the first-ever size-16 body activist model to grace the cover of the magazine. And she almost started her celebration with a wardrobe malfunction. James Macari/Sports Illustrated “I see my cover and I wanted to drop to my knees but this dress would’ve ripped and I…

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday at the age of 79, was perhaps the most influential Supreme Court justice over the last three decades. In the coming weeks, his long list of significant opinions will be studied and debated. Justice Scalia’s sharply conservative views attracted praise from some and scorn from others. All who followed his career, however, would agree that Justice Scalia possessed a profound gift…