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John Terry has won the Premier League four times Chelsea captain John Terry has not been offered a new contract and looks set to leave at the end of the season. The 35-year-old defender, who joined the Blues at the age of 14 and played 696 games for the club, has won four Premier League titles, five FA Cups and the Champions League with the Blues. “Ideally, I would have…

It’s an old Wall Street truism: “Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.” Two months ago, TV was drowned in ads for FanDuel and DraftKings, obnoxious, can’t-lose, get-rich-fast sports betting come-ons starring young men. That avalanche coincided with a gold rush of multi-million dollar investors — pro sports leagues, their partner TV networks, teams and team owners, even the NFL players’ union — who didn’t seem to have…

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A number of technology startups are devising creative new ways of detecting concussions in pro and amateur athletes, using apps, tablets and sensors to monitor the often debilitating brain injury. Play Video Sports organizations increasingly are looking for better concussion detection methods, and a sense of urgency has grown with the release of the 2015 film “Concussion” starring Will Smith on the problem of chronic brain injury suffered by American…

Media playback is not supported on this device FA Cup: Carlisle Utd 0-3 Everton highlights Arouna Kone, Aaron Lennon and Ross Barkley scored as Everton progressed to the fifth round of the FA Cup with a comfortable victory at Carlisle. Everton took the lead inside two minutes when a ball from Tom Cleverley released Lennon down the right and he crossed low for Kone to tap in. Lennon effectively ended…

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Bill Self didn’t like playing this game. Not now, in the belly of conference play. So there was no way he was going to declare that his Kansas team beating Kentucky in overtime Saturday night was something grand and glorious. “It’s a good game,” he said after the 90-84 thriller was over. “But the timing doesn’t give it the same juice.” Self can hold firm to that…

Buy Photo Join Andrew Luck and more Indy sports celebs for the inaugural Indiana Sports Awards.(Photo: Michelle Pemberton / IndyStar)Buy Photo Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck and Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White will join IndyStar to celebrate Indiana’s high school athletes at a new sports award banquet April 28 at Lucas Oil Stadium. The inaugural Indiana Sports Awards will also feature WNBA All-Star Tamika Catchings and two-time Indianapolis 500 pole winner Ed Carpenter. Other local celebrities…

This is Your Brain on Sports By L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers Crown 280 pages, $26 By Budd Bailey L. Jon Wertheim apparently likes to hang out with smart people. You might remember his book “Scorecasting,” which came out about four years ago. He and co-author Tobias Moskowitz took something of a “freakonomics” approach to sports. For example, they crunched some numbers and figured out that football…

Andy Murray has been to four Australian Open finals. He’s accumulated a grand total of two sets, 56 games and four defeats. In 2010, Roger Federer was too good and Murray was too passive. In 2011, Novak Djokovic could have won with one hand behind his back and his shoelaces tied together. In 2013, Djokovic again, Murray spooked by a feather in the pivotal second-set tie-break. In 2015, Djokovic completed…

Buy Photo Asher Loera, 4, gets a tennis lesson from instructor Anthony Lara at the Palm Desert Civic Center as part of DisAbility Sports Festival. (Photo: Omar Ornelas/The Desert Sun)Buy Photo Elizabeth Roth climbed a rock wall on Saturday for the first time in a decade. She experienced a traumatic brain injury nine-and-a-half years ago and now lives with apraxia, a neurological condition. In short, although she wants to move, her…

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Prior to the launch of Fox Sports 1 nearly three years ago, Fox Sports executives announced they were creating a late-night news and highlight show in an attempt to siphon viewers from ESPN’s SportsCenter. The thesis at the time, as laid out by executives, was that Fox Sports 1 would make a significant investment in news to provide around-the-clock coverage. It was a welcome message for those viewers who wanted…

Ole Miss has been charged with 30 NCAA violations. (USATSI) Ole Miss has reportedly been charged with 30 NCAA violations across three sports — football, women’s basketball and track and field — according to Yahoo! Sports’ Pat Forde. It is not known the breakdown of violations by sport, but according to ESPN’s Joe Schad the majority of the violations are not associated with football and those that are predate the…

Last September, a small army of workers with bulldozers, backhoes, trucks, and other heavy equipment finally began clearing a portion of a 140-acre wooded area that Attleboro officials had long eyed as the site of a future industrial park. In coming weeks, private developers plan to start pouring the foundations of four buildings totaling nearly 400,000 square feet of space. But the site, tucked just off Interstate 95 near Rhode…

The 16th Annual Greater Cleveland Sports Awards presented by Medical Mutual and FirstMerit honored the best of Cleveland sports Thursday night at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. Heisman Trophy winner and Super Bowl MVP Desmond Howard – a graduate of Cleveland St. Joseph’s High School – hosted a sell-out crowd of over 1,200. The event is the primary annual fundraiser for the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission. The Sports Commission, a 501c(3)…

View photo . Ole Miss has been charged for NCAA rules violations in three sports, including football. (Getty Images) The NCAA has formally charged the University of Mississippi with dozens of rules violations in three sports, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports. The school has received a Notice of Allegations from the NCAA enforcement staff alleging roughly 30 violations in football, women’s basketball and track and field, sources told Yahoo. It…

BBC coverage How to follow: Live on BBC One, BBC Radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website. TEAM NEWS Derby head coach Paul Clement has no fresh injury concerns. Long-term absentees Max Lowe, Craig Forsyth and Will Hughes remain unavailable. Midfielder Michael Carrick could return for Manchester United after four games out with a knee injury. Defender Matteo Darmian is ruled out having been hospitalised with a rib injury…

Land Rover has made its Southern California reputation by selling cars capable of fording rocky streams and climbing icy slopes to drivers who rarely face anything more challenging than a lentil soup spill in the Trader Joe’s parking lot. But with a powerful El Niño bearing down upon us, the 2016 Range Rover Sport might be the best vehicle on the market for handling wicked winter weather — in our…

Last September, a small army of workers with bulldozers, backhoes, trucks, and other heavy equipment finally began clearing a portion of a 140-acre wooded area that Attleboro officials had long eyed as the site of a future industrial park. In coming weeks, private developers plan to start pouring the foundations of four buildings totaling nearly 400,000 square feet of space. But the site, tucked just off Interstate 95 near Rhode…

When Quaker Valley and Cornell school districts formed a football cooperative in 2012, the uniforms reflected the agreement. While the Cornell players wore Quaker Valley’s colors of black, white and gold on jerseys emblazoned with “Quakers,” a gold “C” painted on the back of their helmets paid tribute to their true school. That small gesture reflected how the…