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25 years ago, the Baltimore Stallions ruled CFLVideo
Twenty-five years ago, the Baltimore Stallions become the only U.S. team to win the CFL title. The Stallions won their final 13 games in 1995 in what turned out to be the CFL’s final season of a three-year run in the United States. This came after the team started 5-3,...
Heat is on: Hectic NASCAR tests drained drivers at HomesteadVideo
MIAMI — Some fans will be back. Some flags will be gone. And after an exhausting few days, NASCAR is about to offer another daunting test at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Cup Series returns to the track for the third time in eight days Sunday at Homestead, which has previously hosted...
NBA gives teams, players more detailed schedule for restartVideo
The NBA gave teams a more definitive timetable for the restart to the pandemic-interrupted season Friday, including required coronavirus testing that is set to begin this month and mandatory individual workouts in early July before training camps. The league still is working on completing the health and safety protocols that...
Djokovic defends large crowd at charity tennis eventVideo
BELGRADE, Serbia — There was no social distancing, and few among the thousands of fans wore face masks — and Novak Djokovic approved. The fans filled the makeshift stands Friday at Djokovic’s Belgrade tennis club on the banks of the Danube River for the opening day of his charity tennis...
Anxious moments ahead for undrafted baseball players, MLB teamsVideo
NEW YORK — They sat anxiously by their phones, computers and TVs, hoping to hear their names called by big league teams. Instead, the waiting continues for hundreds of young baseball players. MLB’s amateur draft wrapped up Thursday night, shaved to only five rounds over two days from the usual...
Tokyo Olympic head says 80% of facilities lined up for 2021
TOKYO — About 80% of the facilities needed for next year’s postponed Tokyo Olympics have been lined up, the president of the organizing committee said Friday. Two of the largest venues have not yet been secured, however. “For a significant number of facilities, about 80% of them, we have already...
Rose, Varner lead at Colonial as PGA Tour resumes in quiet settingVideo
FORT WORTH, Texas — The start was even more quiet than usual for a Thursday morning on the PGA Tour, only the silence never left over the next 12 hours as golf was back to business at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Sung Kang made a hole-in-one on the 13th hole...
Confederate flag ban prompts obscure NASCAR driver Ray Ciccarelli to announce retirementVideo
While some NASCAR fans took to social media to disavow the sport over its ban on the Confederate flag, an obscure, part-time series driver did them one better. He announced he’s quitting. Ray Ciccarelli drives the No. 49 truck in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck series, according to...
NCAA football committee expected to approve extended preseasonVideo
The NCAA football oversight committee finalized a plan for an extended preseason that would include an additional two weeks for teams to hold walk-throughs. The proposal goes to the Division I Council, which meets Tuesday, and is expected to be approved. With the pandemic wiping out spring practice for most...
NASCAR braces for potential fallout after banning Confederate flagVideo
NASCAR’s decision to ban the Confederate flag from its races and venues grabbed headlines, and stars such as actress Reese Witherspoon and New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara were quick to praise the stock car series for ridding itself of a symbol long associated with slavery and racism. Now...
Baseball card set honors 100th anniversary of Negro Leagues
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, which produced sports legends from Hank Aaron to Jackie Robinson, a centennial set of baseball cards has been released featuring 184 members of the league. Created through a partnership between Dreams Fulfilled, which operates the NegroLeagueHistory.com website, and the National...
X Games star Sara Price joins Ganassi
Sara Price needed less than two days in an off-road truck to complete an 800-mile solo race in Mexico. But to escape in a dune buggy from an entire flock of CGI ostriches? That daring drive in the desert took about nine days. Price has her own IMDB page, in...
Former Mars pitcher Will Bednar making most of time at home after successful start at Mississippi State
Throughout his baseball career, Will Bednar has created countless memories, which has made his past two seasons quite different. First, as a senior at Mars, Bednar was able to pitch only three innings because of biceps tendinitis. During his junior year he went 8-0 with a 0.64 ERA and 120...
Truex ends 2020 winless skid with victory at Martinsville
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Martin Truex Jr. cruised down the stretch and won his first NASCAR Cup race of the season Wednesday night in the first race under the lights at Martinsville Speedway. Truex, the 2017 Cup champion, has been one of NASCAR’s biggest winners over the last three years, but...
US Soccer repeals rule that banned kneeling during anthemVideo
U.S. Soccer’s board of directors voted to repeal a 2017 policy that required national team players to stand during the national anthem, a rule adopted after Megan Rapinoe kneeled in support of Colin Kaepernick. The board made the decision during a conference call, U.S. Soccer announced Wednesday. Policy 604-1 states:...
Women sue USA Swimming over sexual abuse by coachesVideo
Six women have filed civil lawsuits against USA Swimming, its local associations in California and three now-banned coaches claiming the national governing body failed to protect them from abuse by those coaches. Debra Grodensky, Suzette Moran and Tracy Palmero, along with three other women who remain anonymous, filed three lawsuits...
Golf passes initial test with no positive results from virusVideo
FORT WORTH, Texas — The PGA Tour is not simply picking up where it left off. Very little about the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial resembles the opening round of The Players Championship on March 12, the last professional golf played before the covid-19 pandemic shut down golf and most...
NASCAR bans Confederate flag from its races and propertiesVideo
NASCAR banned the Confederate flag from its races and venues Wednesday, formally severing itself from what for many is a symbol of slavery and racism. The move comes amid social unrest around the globe following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in Minneapolis while being...
Former Kiski Area wrestler leads Penn in pins as a freshmanVideo
Former Kiski Area wrestler Cam Connor always has had high expectations for himself. When he was a Cavalier, it helped him produce a 162-32 career record, two individual WPIAL championships, a 49-3 record as a senior and a state runner-up finish at 152 pounds. He finished his high school career...
On the Fringe: PGA Tour returns to a new normalVideo
FORT WORTH, Texas — Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson were together on the first tee Tuesday morning, just like they were three weeks ago at Seminole for a charity match that was the first live golf on television in 66 days. This was different. They were not wearing microphones, and...
NASCAR appears nearer to banning Confederate flag on its propertiesVideo
The familiar scene of Confederate flags waved by fans at NASCAR tracks soon could be a relic of racing’s good ol’ boy roots. Bubba Wallace, the lone black driver in the sport, wants the stock car series with deep ties to the South to ban the flag at its properties...
NASCAR to allow limited number of fans for upcoming events at Homestead-Miami, TalladegaVideo
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR is set to allow fans back at the track for races this month at Homestead-Miami Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. NASCAR will allow up to 1,000 Florida service members, representing the Homestead Air Reserve Base and U.S. Southern Command in Doral, to attend the Cup Series...
LPGA cancels Evian Championship major for 2020Video
The LPGA Tour lost its first major because of the covid-19 pandemic when it announced Tuesday the Evian Championship in France has been canceled this year. The LPGA Tour cited ongoing travel and border restrictions, along with government quarantine requirements for not holding the tournament Aug. 6-9. It will return...
Questions remain regarding U.S. Open tennis — if it is played as scheduledVideo
Novak Djokovic is fretting about “harsh” restrictions on players’ entourages and other “extreme” changes proposed for the U.S. Open, if it is played starting in August. As things stand, defending champion Rafael Nadal would not want to be in Flushing Meadows. While the tennis world awaits a decision, which could...
PGA Tour to leave 8:46 tee time vacant at Colonial in tribute to George FloydVideo
FORT WORTH, Texas — The PGA Tour is leaving the 8:46 a.m. tee time vacant this week at Colonial as part of a tribute to George Floyd and to support efforts to end racial and social injustice. In a memo to players Tuesday, vommissioner Jay Monahan said there would be...
