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56m ago
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Nick Kyrgios has been provisionally suspended since August 4 after a sample from the June Mallorca Open tested positive for a cocaine metabolite. He owned it, apologized, and hasn't appealed. Now it's up to a tribunal to decide how long he's gone.
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10h ago
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MLB owners unanimously approved the $3.8 billion sale of the San Diego Padres to José E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones, a record price for the franchise. The catch: the sale, plus a playoff field stuffed with low-payroll teams like Tampa Bay and Milwaukee, is making it harder for owners to sell the public on why they need a salary cap before the current deal expires December 1. The pitch is about fairness. The subtext is about franchise values.
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18h ago
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Bill Rasmussen, the ex-hockey PR man who built ESPN out of a borrowed $9,000 and a satellite transponder, died Tuesday at his Florida home from complications of Parkinson's disease. He got fired, bet everything on an idea nobody wanted, and changed how America watches sports. Then his own investors pushed him out a year after launch.
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19h ago
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Tyler Biadasz, the Chargers' big free-agent addition at center, was carted off Tuesday after a 49ers defensive tackle fell on his left knee during joint practice. No severity has been announced, but the team already has enough offensive line problems without this. Rookie Jake Slaughter took the first-team reps in his place.
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20h ago
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The Sydney Swans board met Tuesday night to impose club penalties on players it says committed a "serious breach" of conduct standards, separate from an ongoing Victoria Police sexual assault investigation. No one has been arrested or charged, and police say the exact circumstances remain unestablished.
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21h ago
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Indianapolis signed 34-year-old Keenan Allen after weeks of watching its receiver room fall apart in training camp. Alec Pierce still isn't practicing on an ankle that's had two injections, and Josh Downs is banged up too. The Colts needed a body who can actually catch a football, and they got one who already knows the offense.
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22h ago
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Roger Goodell told German broadcaster RTL/ntv he has 'no doubt' the NFL will eventually put a permanent franchise outside the United States. He wants a team overseas before an international Super Bowl, and this year's record nine international games look like the trial run.
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1d ago
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Actress Hayden Panettiere died Sunday, August 16, at an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina. Police found no signs of foul play, and an autopsy completed Monday found no trauma, but the cause of death remains pending further studies. She rose from child actor to household name in Heroes and Nashville while speaking openly about addiction and family tragedy.
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1d ago
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Scotland became the latest federation to publicly reject Gianni Infantino's 2027 re-election bid, while a nonprofit group formally asked FIFA to declare him ineligible over term-limit rules. CAF president Patrice Motsepe says let the 211 members vote and stop the drama, which is the most sensible thing anyone's said in this whole mess.
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1d ago
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Ketel Marte traveled with the Diamondbacks to Boston but never showed up at Fenway Park for Monday's game, forcing Arizona to yank him from the lineup minutes before first pitch and put him on the restricted list. Manager Torey Lovullo says Marte is dealing with a personal issue and is physically fine, but the team says communication with him has been minimal.
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1d ago
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Caitlyn Jenner went on Fox News @ Night and told the WNBA to settle its transgender eligibility fight with a simple chromosome test: XX in, XY out. Her comments land right after Enes Kanter Freedom formally declared for the 2027 WNBA Draft and Royce White announced the same, both saying they identify as women for basketball purposes to expose what they call the league's contradiction.
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1d ago
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ESPN reported the NBA's 11-month probe found no evidence Clippers owner Steve Ballmer funneled money to Kawhi Leonard through team sponsors. The NBA fired back, calling the story full of "significant inaccuracies" without saying which parts. The Raptors' trade for Leonard stays paused until the league actually finishes the investigation and says so on the record.
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1d ago
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FIFA confirmed Kevin Lamour's departure as chief operating officer on August 17, 2026, less than three weeks after he publicly accused president Gianni Infantino of misleading staff over a scrapped plan to sell World Cup commercial rights to private investors. FIFA's secretary general said the two sides "agreed to part ways"; multiple outlets call it a firing. Either way, the guy who blew the whistle is gone and the deal he blew up remains unexplained.
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1d ago
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LIV Golf has scrapped its $40 million Team Championship in Michigan, meaning this week's Indianapolis event is now the entire season's finale. It's the second event canceled in 2026, coming as the league searches for new investors after Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund pulled its backing.
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2d ago
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Von Miller agreed to terms with the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night, bringing the NFL's active career sacks leader back to the Dallas-Fort Worth area where he grew up. The 37-year-old joins a defense that gave up the most points in the league last season, hoping his 9-sack 2025 campaign in Washington translates to a rotational pass-rush role in Dallas.
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2d ago
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Caitlin Clark scored 26 points and Indiana rallied from a 10-point deficit to beat Atlanta 95-91 in overtime Sunday, August 16, at State Farm Arena. Angel Reese missed a potential game-winning layup at the buzzer, and cameras caught Clark laughing as she walked past her, sending the clip viral. The win pushes the Fever to 23-12 and into a stronger playoff seeding position with nine games left.
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2d ago
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Producer Jerry Bruckheimer confirmed at Disney's D23 Expo that he's talking with Johnny Depp about a return as Jack Sparrow, but there's no signed deal and no finished script. Sources cited by Deadline say the sixth film may actually center on Margot Robbie's character, with Sparrow in a supporting role, not the lead.
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2d ago
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Amy Hunt became the first British athlete to win four gold medals at a single European Athletics Championships, sweeping the 100m, 200m, women's 4x100m relay and mixed 4x100m relay in Birmingham. The 24-year-old Cambridge graduate did it while managing low blood pressure that left her nearly fainting after multiple 200m races this year.
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2d ago
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Since Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund announced in April it would stop funding LIV Golf after 2026, the tour has canceled two events, lost Brooks Koepka back to the PGA Tour, and is bracing to lose Jon Rahm. Now LIV original Ian Poulter says CEO Scott O'Neil has roughly until September 1 to close a $300 million deal or the whole thing collapses into bankruptcy.
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2d ago
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Tommy John, the pitcher who became the first athlete to successfully return from ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, died Saturday at his home in Florida. The surgery Dr. Frank Jobe performed on a washed-up 31-year-old in 1974 has since saved the careers of more than 2,600 major leaguers, including Shohei Ohtani and Justin Verlander.
