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For someone who’s torn both MCLs, had a broken tooth lodged in his cheek and occasionally asked his wife to pull thumbtacks and glass from his back, nothing hurt more for Corey Graves than being told he could no longer be a pro-wrestler. It’s an obsession that drove him to …

The Iditarod, the annual thousand-mile sled-dog race across Alaska, starts with something in between a parade, a dog show and a wilderness carnival. The streets of downtown Anchorage fill with more than a thousand yapping huskies, tied to trucks, harnessed to sleds and fitted into trucks specially outfitted to haul …

Craigslist announced Friday that it removed personal ads – a popular, albeit potentially dangerous service – from its regional websites following the passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) in Congress. FOSTA, or H.R. 1865, repealed a previous law that provided “legal protection to websites that unlawfully promote …

Randy Lanier walks alone and unnoticed through the Homestead-Miami Speedway. The racetrack is quiet. The grandstands are empty. The infield is deserted but for a huddled clutch of millennials and a husky Floridian wearing a view to a grill T-shirt. Next to the garages, Lanier greets a young man named …

Though Seattle has already set aside a budget for safe injection sites, Philadelphia city officials announced Tuesday that it is pushing to become the first U.S. city to open supervised drug-injection sites to combat its rampant opioid overdose epidemic. Safe-injection sites, also called safe-consumption sites, are centers where people can …

The Vikingsentered the divisional round of the playoffs as the home team and the favorite, which didn’t quite seem fitting for a team well past its days of megastar offensive players like Randy Moss, Daunte Culpepper, and Adrian Peterson. By the last play of the game though, Minnesota had managed …

Max Holloway’s year consisted of just two fights, both of which came against the same opponent. However, it’s who that opponent was and how the UFC Featherweight champion handled himself in those contests which makes him our“Fighter of the Year” for 2017. Going into the year, there was little argument …

UPDATE: Omarosa Manigualt sat down for an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America Thursday to contend that she had not, in fact, been fired, but had decided to resign after one year in the White House. “I resigned, and I didn’t do that in the residence as reported,” she said. …

At one time, baseball, boxing and horse racing dominated sports lore for decades, with names like Muhammad Ali, Babe Ruth and Secretariat making headlines in American – and around the globe. But in a 1972 Gallup poll, football overtook baseball as the most popular sport among Americans for the first …

In an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Lee Jenkins, Los Angeles Clippers star player Blake Griffin explained his “love-hate” relationship with dunking. Known for being one of the best dunkers in NBA history, Griffin says he always wanted to be a complete player and felt as though dunks started to “overshadow …