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Tennis Trend? Many Top Players Are Older Than 30

8:22am September 03, 2014

by Shankar Vedantam

Over the last decade, the average age of the top 100 tennis players has steadily increased. We look at why players over 30 are likely to be strongly represented in the upcoming U.S. Open.

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Japanese Baseball Games Goes 50 Innings

7:55am September 01, 2014

The game started on Thursday and it ended on Sunday with the final score 3-0. The game was played in the semi-final round of the National High School Rubber Baseball Tournament.

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Len Elmore: Black Athletes Need To Speak Out About Ferguson

8:39pm August 30, 2014

NBA veteran Len Elmore sees something missing in conversations around Ferguson: the voices of black professional athletes. He talks to Arun Rath about his op-ed in USA Today.

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Bringing Ice Hockey To A Land With No Ice

12:33pm August 30, 2014

Former NHL star Graeme Townshend was the first Jamaican-born player in the professional hockey league. Now he wants to bring hockey to Jamaica. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Townshend about his campaign.

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U.S. Open, Football's New Rules: The Week In Sports

12:33pm August 30, 2014

Howard Bryant of ESPN joins NPR's Scott Simon from the U.S. Open to talk about tennis and a new amendment to the NFL's personal conduct policy that's meant to curb domestic violence.

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Jamaica Sets Its Sights On Winter Olympic Hockey Team

7:20am August 28, 2014

Payers recently gathered in Toronto for the Jamaica Olympic Ice Hockey Federation trials. The Toronto Sun is accusing Jamaica of "poaching" Canadians of Jamaican descent.

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3 Grads Of Historically Black Schools Enter Football Hall Of Fame

11:56am August 25, 2014

by Phil Harrell

The Pro Football Hall of Fame inducts seven new members Saturday, and three of them attended historically black colleges or universities — which haven't always gotten recognition from the NFL.

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Rosol Takes Title in WS Open

9:24am August 25, 2014

by David Ford

Monday is the start of the US Open in New York, but for the past week, the eyes o

Bob Motley began calling balls and strikes while in the military, eventually landing with the Negro League in Kansas City.

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Bob Motley, Last Surviving Negro League Ump, Recalls Baseball History

7:18pm August 24, 2014

by NPR Staff

The 91-year-old former Marine went from borrowing a mask at an Okinawa hospital to umpiring in the Negro League, where he made calls against legends like Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays.

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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is the only player in the newest edition of the Madden NFL video game franchise to have his signature tattoos faithfully rendered in the game.

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For The First Time, Real Tattoos Make Their Madden Debut

7:13pm August 24, 2014

by Becky Sullivan

Fear of lawsuits had kept tattoos out of previous editions of the video game, but San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick put those worries to rest when he secured the rights to his tattoos.

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