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Venus and Serena Williams focused on skill development and schoolwork before they each turned pro at the age of 14. Outside of a Ronda Rousey fight, there are few outcomes in sports today as sure as a Serena Williams push deep into the fortnight of a Grand Slam tournament. She has won the past three US Opens, and given her resolve to become the first player since 1988 to take…

Sports Direct chairman, Keith Hellawell, is expected to come under renewed pressure to step down from the retailer’s board at its annual meeting next week as a result of new rules giving increased rights to minority shareholders. New guidance from the Financial Conduct Authority, the financial watchdog, means that for the first time, Sports Direct’s executive deputy chairman, Mike Ashley, who owns a 55% stake in the company he founded,…

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GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) – Jimmy Smothers, a longtime sports editor for The Gadsden Times who covered everything from Little League to the opening of the Talladega Speedway and college football, died Monday. He was 82. Smothers joined The Gadsden Times in 1961 and became sports editor two years later. He retired in late 2006, but continued to write columns and articles for the newspaper. In 2011, he became the fifth…

View photo . Lawrence Phillips has been charged with murder in the death of his cellmate at a Central California prison. (A … Lawrence Phillips, once one of the biggest stars in college football and a top-10 NFL draft pick, has been charged with first-degree murder. In April, Phillips was investigated in the death of his cellmate, 37-year-old Damion Soward, who was strangled to death at Kern Valley State Prison in…

The Yoga Federation of India is likely to receive more funding to conduct its national championships as well as host international events. Very soon, athletes might start competing for a medal in yoga at multi-discipline events. The sports ministry on Monday recognized yoga as a sports discipline and placed it in the ‘priority’ category alongside disciplines like football, swimming, squash and chess, among others. In continuation with the Narendra Modi…

For a list of Tuesday’s transfer day deals, check out the transfers page and for reaction follow Sportsday live on Wednesday. Arsenal refused to pay £50m for 28-year-old Paris St-Germain forward Edinson Cavani, 28, as he has no sell-on value. (Daily Mirror)  West Brom forward Saido Berahino has gone on strike, the front page of the Daily Telegraph’s…

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NEW YORK (AP) OLYMIPCS LOS ANGELES (AP) – With Boston out, Los Angeles appears on the verge of stepping in as the U.S. candidate for the 2024 Olympic Games. The City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a proposal to authorize Mayor Eric Garcetti to execute agreements related to the Olympic bid. If approved, the U.S. Olympic Committee is expected to announce LA is the candidate. Rome, Paris, Hamburg,…

SPORTS by Porter Dickie | Aug 31 2015 | 10 hours ago Share on Twitter There are a lot of significant aspects of Virginia culture, and sports are an important part. When people across the country think of the University of Virginia, they don’t just think of the outstanding academics or Thomas Jefferson. More and more people are quick to recognize Virginia for its widespread success in sports. This past season,…

He is 15 years old, 5-foot-9 and 185 pounds of cartoonish muscles on top of muscles. He had six-pack abs when he was 6. Today, he bench-presses one-and-a-half times his body weight and can leap from a standing position to the top of a car. He averages four touchdowns per game and hasn’t lost a wrestling match since 2012, making him the nation’s top-ranked football player and wrestler for his…

Sports broadcasts — long viewed by the entertainment industry as a way to lure viewers and ad dollars — are losing some luster. American media companies including Walt Disney Inc., Time Warner Inc. and 21st Century Fox could see their profits shrink due to the surging cost of broadcasting professional sports at a time when subscriber numbers are falling and viewership is hitting a plateau. TV networks including Disney’s ESPN,…

Those darned Twins, they’re making fools of us all. They started the season by getting swept in Detroit by a combined score of 22-1, then fell to 1-6 faster than you can say, “Sano.” They rebounded to lead the Royals-dominated AL Central as late as June 8, with statistical analysts hissing “regression,” the unkindest sabermetric cut of all. Then, the cute little Twinkies fell to 59-61 after getting swept at…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page and follow Sportsday live on Monday. Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is considering a third bid of £22m for West Brom striker Saido Berahino, 22. (Daily Mirror)  Levy could also make a late move to bring Newcastle forward Ayoze Perez, 22, to White Hart Lane in a £15m deal….

“This is Your Brain on Sports” is a new podcast from Sports Illustrated in which SI executive editor Jon Wertheim and Tufts University psychology professor Sam Sommers explore the intersection of sports and human nature—what the world of sports has to teach us about who we are, what we care about, and the forces that shape our behavior. In this week’s episode we discuss action bias in sports organizations. In this week’s…

CHICAGO – Sports and the law have mixed a little bit more than fans in Chicago would like this summer. There is the rape investigation going on with Patrick Kane in New York. There is a recently filed lawsuit against Derrick Rose. Each have been debated among fans and pundits since the news of each broke. One man who knows all about the legal side of things is Chicago attorney…

EAST LANSING – Many high school football and soccer teams share the same field and play under the same lights. It might come as a surprise which sport generates more ejections and sportsmanship concerns. According to the Michigan High School Athletic Association Officials Report Summary for the 2014-15 school year, boys varsity soccer led all sports in player ejections with 223 and officials’ concerns with 280. Varsity football was second…

Sports broadcasts — long viewed by the entertainment industry as a way to lure viewers and ad dollars — are losing some luster. American media companies including Walt Disney Inc., Time Warner Inc. and 21st Century Fox could see their profits shrink due to the surging cost of broadcasting professional sports at a time when subscriber numbers are falling and viewership is hitting a plateau. TV networks including Disney’s ESPN,…

Sports broadcasts — long viewed by the entertainment industry as a way to lure viewers and ad dollars — are losing some luster. American media companies including Walt Disney Inc., Time Warner Inc. and 21st Century Fox could see their profits shrink due to the surging cost of broadcasting professional sports at a time when subscriber numbers are falling and viewership is hitting a plateau. TV networks including Disney’s ESPN,…

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