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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester City will make a £40m bid for Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere, 23, if they fail to land 22-year-old Paul Pogba from Juventus for £70m. (Daily Star)  Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri is confident the Serie A champions can hold on to Pogba as the France midfielder is happy…

It’s easy to be a great sports dad. Unfortunately, it’s just as easy to become a terrible one. With Father’s Day approaching FTW lists 11 ways to become the former and avoid being the latter. 1. Your child is not getting a college scholarship. (AP) Go in with that mentality, please. If he or she happens to be good enough to get one, fantastic. But don’t think of your chid’s…

FOX Sports continues its inaugural golf coverage Friday with the second round of the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay. The first day, with a scoreboard meltdown and fans complaining on social media about the lack of basic scoring graphics when each golfer was shown on the screen, didn’t go so well for the network. Plus, a lot of sports fans — especially golf fans — don’t know where to…

All Tiger Woods could do, at the end of another awful round of golf in a season full of them — this time in the opening round of the U.S. Open chamber of horrors at Chambers Bay — was engage in a bit of gallows humor. “At least I kicked Rickie’s butt,” quipped the 14-time major champion, who won his last grand slam event seven years ago at the…

Real Madrid’s Sergio Rodriguez, considered the top point guard in Europe, has plans to negotiate a return to the NBA in summer free agency, league sources told Yahoo Sports. View photo . Real Madrid’s Sergio Rodriguez, right, is considered the top point guard in Europe. (AP) Front-office executives regard Rodriguez as an elite backup point guard in the NBA, a playmaker at 6-foot-3 who could successfully run a good team…

We’re required to remind you that these strong takes are SATIRE. Sorry, not sorry. All spelling errors are intentional, we think. -Ed. Attention all sports writers. You might not like what I have to say, but I will defend to the death my right to say it: Stick. To.Sports. As a sports writer, I’m going to go off on a little tangent here. Because I’m sick…

It’s easy to be a great sports dad. Unfortunately, it’s just as easy to become a terrible one. With Father’s Day approaching FTW lists 11 ways to become the former and avoid being the latter. 1. Your child is not getting a college scholarship. (AP) Go in with that mentality, please. If he or she happens to be good enough to get one, fantastic. But don’t think of your chid’s…

A fascinating new era in television golf coverage began Thursday when Fox Sports broadcast the first day of the US Open Championship, the first significant golf event the network has carried. Whether it’s a fulfilling new era for viewers remains to be seen and heard, but the 38 hours of coverage Fox and Fox Sports 1 are dedicating through Sunday’s final round at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place,…

Fox Sports coordinating producer Mark Loomis vowed ahead of the U.S. Open to not overdo the technical graphics and gadgetry at his disposal. And Loomis delivered on that Thursday, sometimes to a fault, as the network launched coverage of its first major golf tournament in a 12-year, $1.2 billion partnership with the United States Golf Association. Within hours of Fox Sports 1 opening to broadcasters Joe Buck and…

New Yorker sportswriter John Tunis made a compelling argument in his 1928 book $port$: Heroics and Hysterics that America’s sporting institutions were powered by something he called The Great Sports Myth. As Tunis conceives the myth, we see superstar athletes, the Babe Ruths and Jack Dempseys of the sports world, as “cleansed (and so sanctified) in the great white heat of competition,” and that young Americans, through participation in organized…

Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene doesn’t do uncool as a rule, but even he could not avoid looking a little foolish after ambling into the path of an oncoming Formula 1 car during first practice in Austria. The silver-haired Italian obviously had other things on his mind – the car of Sebastian Vettel was in pieces…

Fox Sports coordinating producer Mark Loomis vowed ahead of the U.S. Open to not overdo the technical graphics and gadgetry at his disposal. And Loomis delivered on that Thursday, sometimes to a fault, as the network launched coverage of its first major golf tournament in a 12-year, $1.2 billion partnership with the United States Golf Association. Within hours of Fox Sports 1 opening to broadcasters Joe Buck and…

When the Warriors have a parade Friday around the Bay Area as NBA champions, their fans will fawn over Steph Curry and elbow each other out of the way to try to catch a glimpse of him. lRelated Aurora News Blackhawks fans overwhelmed by response to Stanley Cup wedding plan See all related When the Patriots won the Super Bowl, fans clamoring to get a photo of quarterback Tom Brady…

ATLANTA — A season drifting away from the Red Sox turned embarrassing on Thursday when third baseman Pablo Sandoval was benched for perusing a social media website during Wednesday’s loss against the Atlanta Braves. Sandoval admitted to team officials that he was on the photo-sharing site Instagram during the seventh inning when he left the bench to return to the clubhouse. He left a trail of evidence by “liking” two…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Argentina striker Sergio Aguero is happy to stay at Manchester City amid interest from Real Madrid. The 27-year-old wants to win the Champions League with the Citizens. (Daily Mirror)  The Daily Mirror leads on England-U21s’ defeat by Portugal at the European Championship Paris St-Germain will rival…

Fox Sports coordinating producer Mark Loomis vowed ahead of the U.S. Open to not overdo the technical graphics and gadgetry at his disposal. And Loomis delivered on that Thursday, sometimes to a fault, as the network launched coverage of its first major golf tournament in a 12-year, $1.2 billion partnership with the United States Golf Association. Within hours of Fox Sports 1 opening to broadcasters Joe Buck and…

When the Warriors have a parade Friday around the Bay Area as NBA champions, their fans will fawn over Steph Curry and elbow each other out of the way to try to catch a glimpse of him. lRelated Aurora News Blackhawks fans overwhelmed by response to Stanley Cup wedding plan See all related When the Patriots won the Super Bowl, fans clamoring to get a photo of quarterback Tom Brady…

Hideki Matsuyama watches his putt on the third hole during the first round of the U.S. Open on Thursday. (Matt York/AP) The condition of the course at Chambers Bay isn’t the only aspect of this year’s U.S. Open that people are complaining about. The coverage has also largely been disaster. For the first time, NBC isn’t airing the USGA event, but Fox Sports is. And, well, some, including renowned golf…

When the Warriors have a parade Friday around the Bay Area as NBA champions, their fans will fawn over Steph Curry and elbow each other out of the way to try to catch a glimpse of him. lRelated Aurora News Blackhawks fans overwhelmed by response to Stanley Cup wedding plan See all related When the Patriots won the Super Bowl, fans clamoring to get a photo of quarterback Tom Brady…