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Mike Reddy for the Huffington Post How College Students Are Bankrolling The Athletics Arms Race By Brad Wolverton, Ben Hallman, Shane Shifflett and Sandhya Kambhampati SUNDAY, NOV. 15, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT Deep within the stadium, the team gathered for a college football ritual. The marching band gave its cue, and the players bounded through a long tunnel, a blue and white blur, pumping fists and high-fiving students who had…

Buy Photo Little Chute’s Lindsey Grams runs toward the finish line during the Division 2 girls race at the 2015 State Cross Country Championships at the Ridges Country Club in Wisconsin Rapids, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015.(Photo: Megan McCormick/Gannett Wisconsin Media)Buy Photo When you talk, write and read about sports for a living, it doesn’t take long to get a little jaded and cynical. It happens to almost everyone. There’s just…

CHICAGO – It was quite a weekend for sports fans in Chicago. On Saturday Duncan Keith returned early from in a Blackhawks win in St. Louis. On Sunday the Bears not only beat the Rams but crushed them in the home building by 24 points. Tim Baffoe of CBSChicago.com along with The Cauldron came on Sunday’s Sports Feed to talk about all of those subjects in Chicago sports. To watch…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A court ruling that Cleveland’s so-called “jock tax” violates players’ due process rights could end up costing the city millions in tax refunds. The Ohio Supreme Court last week upheld a ruling that rejected the city’s appeal over its formula for taxing visiting professional athletes. Former NFL players Hunter Hillenmeyer and Jeff Saturday sued to have Cleveland tax visiting players based on the number of days they…

Russia’s athletics federation has met in Moscow to begin what the sports minister said would be a purge of its staff after the country was suspended from international competition over doping. Russia will undertake reforms and appeal to the International Association of Athletics Federations within three months to return to competition, the sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, said. At stake is the country’s participation at the world indoor championships in March…

Tears in the octagon. So many were shed, so many others held in by a state of shock. Holly Holm cried her face red as she ran circles inside the cage late Saturday night, looking for someone to share the moment with, a moment that just couldn’t be real, could it? The UFC 193 main event had just ended suddenly and stunningly, and Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, was rocking…

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“It is a standing insult to sportsmen to have to play under a rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents, and behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney.” So said Charles Burgess Fry, one of England’s all-time sporting greats, arguing against football adopting the law that in 1891 brought into existence the penalty area and the penalty kick. Related: Football doesn’t want to…

When an athlete as dominant as Ronda Rousey loses as suddenly and as violently as she did to Holly Holm on Saturday in the main event of UFC 193, the finger-pointing begins instantly. Holm had a brilliant game plan against Rousey, the part-time movie star and full-time superstar, and executed it to perfection, knocking her out with a kick to the head at 59 seconds of the second round in…

“It is a standing insult to sportsmen to have to play under a rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents, and behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney.” So said Charles Burgess Fry, one of England’s all-time sporting greats, arguing against football adopting the law that in 1891 brought into existence the penalty area and the penalty kick. Related: Football doesn’t want to…

UPDATE: All sports events in Paris this weekend have been canceled following the terrorist attacks. A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed at least 120 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. President Francois Hollande condemned it as terrorism and pledged that France would stand firm against its foes. The worst carnage…

The action by IAAF, the international sports federation that rules over track and field, followed an explosive report that detailed widespread doping in Russian athletics. It said officials at all levels of sport were party to the cheating. The report — commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and led by former WADA President and International Olympic Committee Vice President Dick Pound — detailed a “deeply rooted culture of cheating at…

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Media playback is not supported on this device Message could not be stronger – Coe Russia’s athletics federation has been provisionally suspended from international competition – including the Olympic Games – for its alleged involvement in widespread doping. The IAAF took action after the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report that alleged “state-sponsored doping”. Its council members voted 22-1 in favour of Russia being banned. “This is…

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BEIJING—China is filled with sports fans, from President Xi Jinping on down. Now Chinese companies are betting big that those fans will pony up to watch their favorite teams. Chinese media and Internet companies have struck big deals in recent months for the rights for everything from the Los Angeles Clippers to Spanish soccer-club matches, often paying many multiples to the prices they paid in the past. The companies are…

I get it. You see a headline like “Real Madrid Star Karim Benzema Charged In Sextape Blackmail Case” or “Transcript: Karim Benzema Helped Facilitate Blackmail Plot Against Teammate Over Sextape” and you aren’t quite moved. Sure, words like sex tape and blackmail seem juicy, but who is Karim Benzema to you, the typical American sports fan? You might know about Real Madrid—though even that is no guarantee—but why, you think,…

I get it. You see a headline like “Real Madrid Star Karim Benzema Charged In Sextape Blackmail Case” or “Transcript: Karim Benzema Helped Facilitate Blackmail Plot Against Teammate Over Sextape” and you aren’t quite moved. Sure, words like sex tape and blackmail seem juicy, but who is Karim Benzema to you, the typical American sports fan? You might know about Real Madrid—though even that is no guarantee—but why, you think,…

Media playback is not supported on this device Russia doping crisis in 60 seconds Russia hopes to prevent its athletes being banned from next year’s Rio Olympics by claiming “irregularities” around its drug-testing system were down to the sport’s “old leadership”. The country’s athletics federation has written to athletics’ governing body after allegations of “state-sponsored doping” were made by a World Anti-Doping Agency independent report. The response will be discussed…

I get it. You see a headline like “Real Madrid Star Karim Benzema Charged In Sextape Blackmail Case” or “Transcript: Karim Benzema Helped Facilitate Blackmail Plot Against Teammate Over Sextape” and you aren’t quite moved. Sure, words like sex tape and blackmail seem juicy, but who is Karim Benzema to you, the typical American sports fan? You might know about Real Madrid—though even that is no guarantee—but why, you think,…