Sports

The 2016 Olympics, also known as the Rio Olympics, were held from August 5 to 21, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The games featured 14 sports and were officially opened by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on August 5, 2016. The Olympics were the first time that Brazil...

The Commission's new generation committee's first cognizance will improve the Polk County government internet site. Polk County Commissioners are attempting something new to enhance the enjoyment of each person and citizen by searching for one-of-a-kind ways the nearby government uses technology. So a new committee has been fashioned to address...

The Winter Olympic Games are right here, which can only mean one thing: time to come out of your hygge cave and don your maximum patriotic equipment to root in your u. S. A . (even as simultaneously ignoring the quiet specter of growing nationalism), and watch the greatest specimens...

From New York to California, lawmakers in at least 20 states are wagering that sports gambling could emerge as criminal using summertime. They are crafting legislation to make that show up within their borders. The rush of motion stems from a pending case earlier than the Supreme Court — Christie...

BOSTON — A public hearing is about a proposal that might adjust and tax day-by-day delusion sports operators in Massachusetts. The invoice could impose a fifteen percent tax on the gross sales of groups, consisting of Boston-primarily based DraftKings, that provide the net contests. Players compete for cash prizes by...

Jean Charest did not understand how profoundly the 1988 Olympic one-hundred-meter guys very last might shape sport in Canada. Still, he can consider the anticipation he felt 30 years ago as Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson prepared to race in Seoul. Three a long time on, with Russia at the center...

After a weekend wherein a fusillade of can't-consider-it political surprises was given to the world speak approximately Olympic-flavored worldwide family members in preference to just the thrill of victory, the 2018 Winter Games settled Sunday into what everybody came right here for at least for the moment. In a few...

Cape Town - Minister of Sport and Recreation Thulas Nxesi has expressed concern about transforming teams that represent South Africa at worldwide sporting events. Nxesi became speaker after the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee's (Committee'sferred assembly at Olympic House in Johannesburg this past weekend. "Let us remind" ourselves...

It's February, a perfect time to go to Las Vegas, especially if you live on the East Coast or in the Midwest. In honor of the house of the NHL's Golden Knights, one of the extraordinary sports memories of the past 12 months, here are a few 2018 sports activities...

'So I've booked a taxi to take us to the station and booked the teach tickets. That'll leave you an eleven-minute window between getting home and starting rugby. Is that okay?' That's an actual sentence that I stated on Saturday. My husband and I were going out for lunch with...