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Click here for more of the best of 2015. From bat flips to sports kids, 2015 was a great one for sports Vines. Below are the top 15 of the year: 15. This baseball dad really wanted to catch a ball. Just imagine this moment in Vine form. It comes in last place based on principle. Please don’t do this. 14. Kanye West won’t smile for your cameras. Stay cool,…

The Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley has pledged to spend £10m on raising the pay of the retailer’s staff above the minimum wage. Sports Direct said the increase will affect all directly employed and “directly engaged casual workers” and will take effect from 1 January. It will cost £10m a year, including “related costs and knock-on costs”, the company told the stock market in a statement. The move follows a…

The cyclists keep going round at the London Six Day event – 21 October35mm lens 1/800 f4 ISO 3200 Six-day cycling had returned to London, the first time the event, which is so popular on the continent, had appeared in Britain for 35 years. It was a real marathon for the riders as they competed in various events over each consecutive night. Wembley’s tribute to France after the Paris terror…

Caption Close Memories usually fade, but good sports fans pride themselves on having accurate memories — particularly about players, teams and events those fans deem most important. The past year in Bay Area sports included a no-hitter by a Giants pitcher, an epic season by a Stanford running back and two big-time golf tournaments separated by only a few days and a few miles. Still, nothing was more memorable than…

Photos via Getty Images In 2015, a chase for sports history captivated us across three continents and four countries. Football’s biggest win came not in the Super Bowl, but in a New York court room. A president was brought low, and a king’s rule ended. On the diamond, a phenom touted since his teens delivered on his promise in emphatic fashion. And on the ice, a criminal investigation forced a reconsideration of…

By STEPHEN WILSON, AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Sports organizations must work harder than ever in 2016 to clean up their act after a year of corruption and doping scandals that tarnished the Olympic movement, IOC President Thomas Bach said Wednesday in a New Year’s message. Bach said the entire Olympic world must live up to the public’s expectations of integrity and heed his call from a year ago…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Philadelphia Eagles fired Chip Kelly with one game left in his third season, dumping the coach after missing the playoffs in consecutive years. Kelly was released Tuesday night just before the end of a disappointing season that began with Super Bowl expectations. The Eagles are 6-9 after going 10-6 in each of Kelly’s first two seasons. They were eliminated from playoff contention after losing to Washington at…

For years, the highest-paid public employees in many states have been football and men’s basketball coaches at state universities. But as big-time college sports revenues have nearly doubled over the past decade, coaches are far from the only ones cashing in. Since 2004, many athletic directors have seen their pay soar and have gone on hiring sprees, surrounding themselves with well-paid executives and small armies of support staffs to help…

Sydni Stallworth scored a game-high 26 points and had four steals, and Pima College thumped Parkland College 99-71 in Tuesday’s Bruce Fleck Classic opener at the West Campus gym. The Aztecs put Parkland away with an 18-2 run in the third quarter. Pima led by 26 points with less than five minutes remaining in the game. Denesia Smith and Shalise Fernander each added 18 points. “Tonight was a great win…

From the moment “The Queen” parachuted out of that plane and into the Olympic Stadium, the nation was enraptured. For those two weeks the country seemed like a different place to the grey, pessimistic land of daily life. This time round there will be the time difference to contend with in Brazil with the British audience forced to stay up late into the night to watch events unfold in Rio….

CHICAGO – He’s one of the most recognizable voices in the history of Chicago sports radio. Fans remember him on B96 with Jobo and the many music functions which he’s hosted in the throughout the city. Now Eddie Volkman is a teacher of broadcasting and hosts a weekly podcast called “Eddie V’s Road Show.” He also keeps his eyes closely on the Chicago world of sports which has had a…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Newcastle boss Steve McClaren is planning a £10m bid for CSKA Moscow’s Russia midfielder Alan Dzagoev, 25, as he looks to add more quality to his squad in January. (Daily Mirror) The back page of Wednesday’s Sun Liverpool are considering making a £4m bid for Leicester left-back Ben Chilwell, 19. The England Under-20 international, who was targeted…

Less than a year after giving Chip Kelly full personnel control in addition to his head coaching duties, the Philadelphia Eagles announced they’ve fired their head coach. And with that, one of the NFL’s biggest experiments is over, before Kelly even completed his third season. Kelly came from the University of Oregon and was a bold hire because he had no NFL experience. He had an innovative offense that was a huge…

For the third time in 25 years, the Sport Zone soccer dome on Hill Avenue in Aurora has collapsed. “There’s quite a bit of damage in and around the dome,” owner Tom Clifford said on Tuesday after surveying the damage. No one was injured during the incident. Around 3 p.m. Monday, the giant, white fabric dome caved under the weight of the rain, snow and sleet. By Tuesday morning, all…

Would you rather watch AB or go to the opera? © Getty Images Doping, match-fixing, cover-ups, corruption: the story of sport in 2015 in a few words. Only, it isn’t. The bigger story is expansion, brilliance and robustness. Each time you hear that sport is facing “an existential crisis”, be thankful that sport’s general health is so good that its crises are often…

The League had threatened Leeds with action if they followed through with their plan to lock Sky out, but the club’s statement read: “The Football League regulations are supposed to be there to protect the integrity of the sporting competition, not to be used as a stick to beat the club on behalf of Sky. “Leeds United season-ticket holders have had enough of these fixture changes, the players and staff…

The reporter behind a blockbuster expose that accused Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and other top athletes of sports doping defended the story in an interview with MSNBC on Monday. Al Jazeera reporter Deborah Davies said Manning has not denied that he had HGH (human growth hormone — a drug banned by the NFL) secretly shipped to his wife in 2011 while he was still with the Indianapolis Colts and…