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Newnan High School baseball team helps clean up storm

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Georgia High School Association allows athletes to make sponsorship deals

The group's executive director, Robin Hines, said the vote by the association's board Monday was inevitable after 31 other states already allowed such agreements.

 

October 03, 2023
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  • Orlando Montoya
The Miami Marlins' Kim Ng is the first female general manager in MLB history to lead her team to the playoffs.

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The Miami Marlins' Kim Ng is the first female GM to lead an MLB team to the playoffs

Ng made history when she took the top executive job in Miami back in 2020. Now, just three years later, she has steered the Marlins to their best winning percentage since 2009.

October 03, 2023
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  • Becky Sullivan
Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies at bat during a game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Truist Park, September 20, 2023.

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New MLB rules helped boost attendance during 'joyful' 2023 season

Major League Baseball games saw its biggest attendance increase in 30 years during the 2023 regular season. GPB's Peter Biello dives into the reasons why.

October 03, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
Sprinter Lalit Kumar ran next to empty lanes in the men's final 100-meter race at the Delhi State Annual Athletics Championships. The no-shows cited cramps and other issues, but their withdrawals also came after anti-doping officials showed up.

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Runners at a track meet in India wanted to avoid drug tests — so they ran away

Some athletes just didn't show up. One young woman ran her race — and then kept running after crossing the finish line, forcing a doping control officer to run after her, a coach said.

October 02, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
Singer Taylor Swift and actor Ryan Reynolds are seen ahead of the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium on Sunday in East Rutherford, N.J.

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Taylor Swift's stadium stop hikes up ticket prices for Chiefs-Jets game

Taylor Swift means business. The popstar brought an economic boost to the NFL after she was seen at a Chiefs game. Her appearance at MetLife Stadium gives the franchise another opportunity to cash in.

October 02, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman and
  • Andrew Limbong
Boston Red Sox starter Tim Wakefield works in the second inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves in Atlanta, June 27, 2009. Wakefield has died at age 57.

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Retired Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield dies at 57

His role in the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry of the early 2000s turned Wakefield into a fan favorite whose impact went far beyond his numbers.

October 01, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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A Dallas high school football referee ripped off a player's helmet during a game

A referee pushed and pulled off the helmet of a student football player after the two collided during a game Friday night. The Texas high school athletic association is investigating.

September 30, 2023
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  • Juliana Kim
Michael Oher speaks to the media during the first day of the Carolina Panthers' offseason conditioning program in Charlotte, N.C., April 20, 2015. Oher, the former NFL tackle known for the movie "The Blind Side," filed a petition Aug. 14, 2023, in a Tennessee court accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of having him sign papers making them his conservators rather than his adoptive parents.

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A judge orders the end of the conservatorship between Michael Oher and the Tuohys

Tennessee Judge Kathleen Gomes said she'd never seen such a conservatorship for someone who isn't disabled. She isn't dismissing Oher's case to receive accounts of his finances from the Tuohys.

September 29, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Donna Kelce, wearing her son Travis' No. 87 jersey, and Taylor Swift are seen during the Kansas City Chiefs' game with the Chicago Bears in Kansas City, Missouri. Sales of Kelce's jersey soared after Swift appeared at the game.

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Taylor Swift's star power sends Travis Kelce's jersey sales soaring

It takes 106 football players to sell out an NFL stadium — or one Taylor Swift. So when the pop superstar was linked to Travis Kelce, fans immediately took action.

September 27, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
Former Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson speaks during a ceremony to unveil a statue of him in Baltimore on Sept. 29, 2012. Robinson, whose deft glovework and folksy manner made him one of the most beloved and accomplished athletes in Baltimore history, has died.

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  • Obituaries

Brooks Robinson, Hall of Fame Orioles third baseman, dies at 86

Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson, whose deft glovework and folksy manner made him one of the most beloved and accomplished athletes in Baltimore history, has died. He was 86.

September 26, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The end section of a balance beam is pictured. The 2022 incident was widely viewed on social media and condemned by many, including U.S. gymnast Simone Biles.

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  • Sports

Irish gymnastics group apologizes after a Black girl was skipped at a medal ceremony

Gymnastics Ireland has apologized for the incident. But the girl's mother says the group hasn't done enough. Video shows an official giving medals to a line of girls except the only Black participant.

September 26, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
"Obviously, it's very disheartening to be accused of cheating," chess grandmaster Hans Niemann said. Asked about a bizarre idea that vibrating anal beads could signal players about the best moves, he replied, "That is not a serious theory."

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Hans Niemann pooh-poohs a chess cheating theory that's based on vibrating beads

Chess prodigy Hans Niemann is competing in the World Junior Chess Championship — but he's also answering questions about an outlandish cheating theory.

September 26, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
The king of R&B? It depends who you ask.

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  • Music

Usher will soon have Super Bowl halftime validation. But can he top Rihanna?

In the immortalized-by-meme words of Usher: Watch this.

September 26, 2023
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  • Mallory Yu
Kamila Valieva, then 15, of the Russian Olympic Committee, competed at the 2022 Beijing Olympics despite testing positive for a banned substance. Her case goes before an international sports tribunal this week.

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  • Sports

Kamila Valieva doping scandal that rocked the Beijing Olympics may finally be settled

The Court of Arbitration for Sport begins a hearing Tuesday into the doping scandal of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva. U.S. skaters still haven't received team medals from the 2022 Winter Games.

September 26, 2023
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  • Brian Mann
Megan Rapinoe waves to the crowd before her final game on the U.S. national team on Sunday in Chicago.

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  • Sports

Megan Rapinoe, an icon bigger than soccer, takes a bow for the U.S. national team

Taking it all in one last time while wearing the U.S. Soccer crest, Rapinoe reflected on how she and her generation had changed the game during her 17 years on the team.

September 25, 2023
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  • Laurel Wamsley
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