NPR's Scott Simon talks with ESPN's Howard Bryant about the Stanley Cup, the NBA and the Minnesota Twins making history.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • What's on your agenda for this long holiday weekend? Catching up on sleep? How about battling the backyard's weeds? A long bike ride ...

The importance of having a difference-maker at quarterback can not be understated in today's college football. Elite teams all have a player they can count on ...

Spending your weekends on the field with your kids? Here's are some tips to stay comfortable and stay motivated to cheer them on.

A year on from ending his 22-year reign as Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger insists he is still keen on a return to management.

Lance Armstrong is talking again. Oh lucky us. He says he “wouldn't change a thing” about the doping that made him the most notorious cheater in sports history, ...

COLLEGE. Ayden Eickhoff of Bates finished second in the 1,500-meter run to lead six athletes from Maine colleges earning All-America distinction by finishing in ...

Winning the Championship playoff is worth £170m, making Aston Villa and Derby's clash at Wembley (live on ESPN+) the richest single game in sport.

Start your engines -- and charge your electronic devices -- to get revved up for a sports-packed Memorial Day weekend.

University of St. Thomas's separation from its conference -- for too much success -- has reinforced the disparities in wealth and size among Division III ...

Kawhi Leonard had 27 points and 17 rebounds, leading the Toronto Raptors into the N.B.A. finals for the first time with a 100-94 victory over the Milwaukee ...

Harvey gave up four home runs in 2 2/3 innings of a 16-7 loss to the Minnesota Twins.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower once reportedly proclaimed, “The true mission of American sports is to prepare young people for war.” Today, Ike might have ...

Two area graduating senior football players, Altoona Area High School defensive tackle Gaige Hill and Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School ...

Janet Guthrie changed motor sports when, in 1977, she became the first woman to qualify for and compete in the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor ...

On a slow night in the early '80s, a message on the Astrodome's scoreboard invoked baseball patrons to make some noise for the home team, inciting...

Tennessee officially legalized sports betting on Friday, setting more than one precedent for the young industry in the US.

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A GRIP ON SPORTS • There was an awful old-time movie entitled “It Happens Every Spring.” It was so bad, it's good, if you get my drift. It was also, ostensibly, ...

Thanks to a doubleheader in Kansas City, Saturday brings us an extra full 16-game slate of big-league action. Will a record number of home runs be hit?

Sports drafts aren't fair to players, and they don't even work on their own terms. We should just get rid of them.

While all hockey goalies have their individual quirks, a very particular set of skills is required to succeed — even survive — at hockey's highest level. An NHL ...

To the crowd in the stands, Thursday night's basketball game in Guilderland may look like your average high school match up, as the Dutchmen take on the ...

From athletes who broke the color barrier to multi-sport stars and hometown heroes, Asian Americans have been a part of the United States' sporting heritage.

In his latest step on the path to global domination, Milwaukee's Christian Yelich came off the injured list and immediately launched yet another dinger. It was his ...

VIENNA - Sherman High's Autumn Thompson threw a shutout and belted a home run to lead Sherman to an 8-0 win in the Class A Championship game over ...

Universities have been trying to portray themselves as victims in the college basketball recruiting scandal. But J.A. Adande believes the real victims could be the ...

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Ty Duvall drove in four runs and Ethan Paul three, powering Vanderbilt into the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship game with a 13-4 victory ...

Recently, The Outer Line examined the complex moral dilemmas cycling often faces in its sporting and business decisions, and waded into the difficult question ...

Area athletes posted dozens and dozens of all-state finishes in the Class 3 track and field championships Saturday afternoon at Mizzou's Walton Stadium in ...

Romando Dixson, a long-time journalist in the USA TODAY Network, will be the new sports editor for the Clarion Ledger and Hattiesburg American. Dixson has ...

Tennessee realized that bringing online sports betting into the light, regulating and taxing it here was a brilliant and forward-looking move.

The Greenville News Upstate Sports Awards honored 22 outstanding high school athletes and coaches on Thursday, May 23, 2019.

NFL Network's coverage of NFL 360 'I Am Shaquem Griffin' won a 2019 Sports Emmy for Outstanding Short Feature.

Earlier in May, I took a different approach to ranking college football's coaches by assigning them to tiers based on common traits. With spring practices in the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Memphis Sports Council announced the inaugural class of the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame on Wednesday at AutoZone Park.

Go Gold captured the $20000 Roman Zipper Stakes on Saturday at Horsemen's Park.

Atlanta United were thoroughly outplayed on the road against Real Salt Lake but were somehow on the precipice of a point before RSL's “Jefferson Savarino” ...

The Toronto Raptors are in the NBA Finals for the first time in team history. They've ripped off thrilling win after thrilling win, seemingly all of them led by franchise ...

Michael Gulberg hit a three-run homer, his first home run of the season, and Georgia Tech advanced to the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament ...

Atlanta United FC was named Sports Team of The Year and Mercedes-Benz Stadium was honored as Sports Facility of the Year at the 12th annual Sports ...

John Barrowman gets it spot-on encouraging gay athletes to come out.

"This weekend, per our severe weather policy, we broke into programming with the tornado warning and allowed you to continue watching Game 7 on a split ...

The image of Bobby Orr flying through the air after scoring the game-winning goal in the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals at Boston Garden is indelibly imprinted into the ...

IOWA CITY — Dan Sabers sees a growing inequity in big-school Iowa high school football, and a shrinking list of true contenders. Success has fled the cities ...

Deland McCullough's story, "Identity," won a Sports Emmy this past week at the 40th annual event.

DraftKings Sportsbook and FanDuel Sportsbook are not taking a proposed bad-actor clause in Illinois sports betting legislation lying down.

It didn't take long for Drake to respond to Mallory Edens following the Toronto Raptors' 105-99 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 5 of the Eastern ...

HD MediaBILOXI, Miss. - Rice Owls relief pitcher Kendal Jefferies blanked Marshall University for the final 4 2/3 innings of a 6-3 victory Friday in the Conference ...

In Norway, 93 percent of children participate in organized sports. What can we learn from that country's approach to youth sports?

The list of robots in sports is surprisingly long and diverse. There are robot skiers, tumblers, soccer players, sumos, and even robot game jockeys.

Pay is not the only notable gap in women's soccer. There is also the matter of federation support. Fund-raising in Florida, Jamaica's Reggae Girlz know this as ...

The following is an excerpt from the new book The Logic of Sports Betting by Ed Miller and Matthew Davidow. So far, the betting markets I've talked about are ...

FEW ATHLETES have been as blessed and cursed as Caster Semenya. All that the 28-year-old South African has ever done is run as fast as her legs could ...

Given an improbable choice, which golden hoop phenom would you prefer: Kevin Durant or Kawhi Leonard? Like an eclipse of the moon, the N.B.A. playoffs this ...

It's been a good couple of months for Tom Brady. First, a Super Bowl win. Now, the documentary that followed him for a season won an Emmy. "Tom vs.

The Michigan Sports Hall of Fame's 10-member 2019 class unveiled Tuesday is highlighted by stars of the 1990s such as Grant Hill, Charles Woodson and ...

VIENNA - When Hurricane High School opened the softball season with a 2-3 record some people thought the dynasty built by the Redskins might be ending.

HD MediaOKLAHOMA CITY - For the fourth consecutive season, the No. 17 West Virginia University baseball team advanced to the Big 12 Championship ...

A GRIP ON SPORTS • The Pac-12 decided to share its financial information with everyone yesterday and, while the transparency is appreciated, the idea the ...

With OTA's beginning and with the NBA Finals around the corner and with baseball in full swing, it's time to figure out which athlete is the face of Dallas.

Parents are spending hundreds, thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars for their kids to play sports. Channel 2 Sports Director Zach Klein looked into ...

The Kentucky Wildcats had an incredible 2018 season, going 10-3 and reaching a double-digit win total for the first time since 1977. However, the Wildcats lost ...

The University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota, will have to find a new sports league to play in within two years, because the other 12 private colleges in the ...

A decade ago, I wrote a book that comprehensively surveyed the landscape of youth sports. I wanted to know: How did the United States become the world's ...

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Sports analytics track every movement and heartbeat, and help coaches optimize teams and play.

The San Diego Padres' flagship station, 97.3 The Fan, will begin airing the "Ben and Woods" show starting June 10.

Parents are spending more than ever on their children's sports with the hopes that they will make it to the big leagues. And dads are often the ones likely to shell ...

I'll just state it right now: Strength of Schedule (aka SoS) is one of the more fluid stats in sports, and we shouldn't take it too seriously this early. What looks like a ...

The Big Ten Conference has established a new benchmark in the how-high-is-up world of college sports finance: It recorded nearly $759 million in revenue ...

Sinclair Broadcast Group said Friday that it had agreed to acquire 21 regional sports networks from Walt Disney Company in a deal worth $10.6 billion, giving ...

The decision on intersex athletes was narrow. But for sports federations, new complaints of unfair advantages seem likely.

Mark Spencer says he's done worrying about the day-to-day maintenance. It's time, he says, to raise UE's vision.

The upcoming 243-acre sports-themed campus dubbed Olympus is expected to open around 2025 in Clermont.

I've recently become a bona fide sports parent. I think it's going fine. I've yet to get arrested for sumo-wrestling another parent in the parking lot. Of course, there's ...

Iowa is the third US state to legalize sports betting this year, and Tennessee appears likely to add its name to the roster this week.

Three topics recently covered in my Spring 2019 Sport Management course at Washington University in St. Louis were: - (1) Leadership, Innovation, and ...

UFC star Paige VanZant shared new photos from her steamy Sports Illustrated Swimsuit photo shoot.

John Hayes was offered induction to the Pennsylvania Scholastic Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame a couple of times over the years, but he politely ...

Iowa became the latest state to allow gambling on college and pro sports since the Supreme Court opened the door for sports betting last year.

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Sinclair Broadcast Group expanded its media holdings in two realms when it announced Friday that it was buying 21 regional sports networks from Disney for ...

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Any fan of a Miami sports team can describe a never-ending chest of regret. There has been so much good, but it's the other possibilities — for better or worse ...

A 14-year-old recently featured in Sports Illustrated as one of six teens “who will rule the future in sports,” died after he was shot at a party in Illinois on Saturday ...

GRESHAM — South Eugene entered the final event of the OSAA Class 6A girls track and field championships in third place, but the two schools ahead of the ...

Ben Roethlisberger went above and beyond to praise Antonio Brown this week, expressing remorse for the way his former teammate departed the Pittsburgh ...

The Nittany Lions schedule doesn't seem all that daunting on paper.

The transfer portal has thrown a wrench into college football roster management, and it's just beginning.

Female track athletes with naturally elevated levels of testosterone must decrease the hormone to participate in certain races at major competitions like the ...

Who is the best team in baseball? More than a handful of teams have a claim.

Jones took the field for four NFL teams during a career that included multiple suspensions and arrests.

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was apparently assaulted at an event in South Africa. In a video now making the rounds on social ...

Between Brett Brown, Ben Simmons and two max-level players, the Sixers face several franchise-altering questions this offseason.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed SF 617 into law after weeks of deliberation, making Iowa sports betting a reality. Montana and Indiana enacted the first two laws.

Ben Baby, Texas A&M beat writer for SportsDayDFW.com and The Dallas Morning News, answered your questions about the team and the SEC in a...

The weekend of June 1-2 no one will be required to own a state fishing license, either resident or nonresident. The weekend first started in Oklahoma 35 years ...

Here's how the NBA Draft might go after the order was set by a wild lottery drawing.