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Radio Play-By-Play Announcer Describes Game Disruption

6:20am September 15, 2016

Kevin Harlan of Westwood One was broadcasting during Monday Night Football when someone ran onto the field. Harlan described him as a "goofball in a hat" and more. Police eventually tacked the man.

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Hackers Release Data On 25 More Athletes From 8 Countries

5:20am September 15, 2016

by Tom Goldman

Hackers who this week published confidential medical records of top U.S. Olympic athletes are at it again. The World Anti Doping agency confirmed the hackers released data on 25 more athletes.

NFL Pledges Another $100 Million For Study Of Head Injuries, Safety In Football

6:07pm September 14, 2016

by Bill Chappell

The $100 million figure represents 1 percent of the roughly $10 billion in annual income that the league and its teams have been reported to pull in.

ACC Follows NCAA In Pulling Championships From North Carolina

4:28pm September 14, 2016

by Jeff Tiberii

The Atlantic Coast Conference decided to pull many post-season tournaments out of North Carolina this season due to a controversial state law. This move follows the NCAA decision to remove college championship games out of the state.

Hackers Release Medical Records Of U.S. Olympic Athletes

4:28pm September 14, 2016

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Christie Aschwanden, lead science writer for FiveThirtyEight, about the hacked medical records of U.S. Olympic athletes and therapeutic use exemptions in sports.

ACC Takes Its Biggest Championships Out Of North Carolina, Its Home State

2:57pm September 14, 2016

by Bill Chappell

The decision covers eight neutral-site championships in sports ranging from women's soccer to swimming and diving and from football to golf and baseball.

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NHL Revives World Cup Of Hockey; Team North America Features Rising Stars

2:54pm September 14, 2016

by Hemal Jhaveri

The World Cup of Hockey starts this week, and it features two nonnational teams: a Team Europe and a Team North America, which highlights the best U.S. and Canadian players under the age of 23.

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North Carolina GOP Blasts NCAA's Decision To Pull Championships

6:26pm September 13, 2016

by Jeff Tiberii

The NCAA penalized the state of North Carolina for its new law that removed some protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The NCAA pulled tournament games out of the state for the next academic year.

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"WADA has been informed by law enforcement authorities that these attacks are originating out of Russia," says Olivier Niggli, the anti-doping agency's chief operating officer and general counsel.

Russian Hackers Breached Athletes' Data, World Anti-Doping Agency Says

5:48pm September 13, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Some of the information listed athletes' therapeutic use exemptions, which allow banned substances to be taken if they're deemed to be necessary for medical reasons.

As NCAA Pulls Tournaments, Greensboro Takes A Hit

3:11pm September 13, 2016

by David Ford

On Monday night, the NCAA announced plans to relocate all championship tournament games that were originally scheduled to take place in North Carolina.

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