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Walking into a Major League Baseball clubhouse, James Sass knows what every player wants from him before anyone utters a word. “They’re all looking for the same thing,” he says. “The biggest barrel they can get with the lightest swing weight.” Mr. Sass, 50, is head of professional baseball sales for Louisville Slugger. He’s on the road at…

Related Coverage BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — Expect to see a lot of guns at the Battle Creek Bombers baseball game Friday for an event focused on the Second Amendment. Together with a sponsor, the Bombers are hosting “2nd Amendment Education Night” at Friday night’s 7 p.m. game at C.O. Brown Stadium in Battle Creek. “It’s as American as baseball and apple pie, right? Firearms are, too. They’re part of…

Las Vegas is getting a major league team. The National Hockey League voted Wednesday to add a franchise in Las Vegas, a city big-time professional sports leagues have until now avoided because sports betting is legal there. The team, which doesn’t have a name yet, will play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. “This is a tremendously exciting opportunity,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said at a press conference in…

Mrs Boyers posted the clip of Daniel’s unexpected triumph saying: “Well this afternoons Sports Day at St Oswald’s primary was amazing, after Daniel telling me he didn’t want to run the flat race, he ended up doing it in amazing style… surrounded by the best mates he could have. “Truly magical! This is inclusion, but the kind that you can’t teach, this comes from the heart. “Daniel LOVES the fact…

4:19 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Richard Schaefer, the former longtime CEO of Golden Boy Promotions who left after a nasty breakup with close friend, business partner and majority shareholder Oscar De La Hoya in June 2014, is returning to the boxing promotional business two years later. Schaefer has founded Ringstar Sports and plans to promote his first event late this summer, he told ESPN on Wednesday….

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x Embed x Share The jaguar was fatally shot after escaping its handlers and charging at an officer, according to the Brazilian army. Wochit The Olympic Torch, held by an athlete, is seen by a jaguar –symbol of Amazonia– during a ceremony in Manaus, northern Brazil, on June 20, 2016. The jaguar, who was named Juma and lived in the local zoo, had to be shot dead by soldiers shortly…

Walking into a Major League Baseball clubhouse, James Sass knows what every player wants from him before anyone utters a word. “They’re all looking for the same thing,” he says. “The biggest barrel they can get with the lightest swing weight.” Mr. Sass, 50, is head of professional baseball sales for Louisville Slugger. He’s on the road at…

If there’s one thing that Narrows Baseball Club does well, it’s getting players noticed. The select travel-program, which primarily draws from the Gig Harbor area, but also as far as Silverdale and Olympia, puts its players on the radars of college coaches and scouts. “Our program is well enough known now, that we get a lot of colleges calling and coming out,” said Jon Fuller, coach of the 18U Narrows…

In the season’s biggest moments, Mundelein turned to its best player. Junior pitcher Brendan Murphy led the Mustangs (31-10) to the Class 4A state championship game with a 13-strikeout performance against Warren to win a sectional title, then tossed a complete game as Mundelein rallied past St. Charles North in the state semifinals for its first berth in the title game. The Arizona State recruit led Mundelein with a 10-2…

Welcome to today’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! Also, please scroll to the bottom of this article to see the latest tweets from Ryan Fowler (@FOXSportsFowler), D.J. Foster (@FOXSportsFoster), Adam Meyer (@FOXSportsMeyer) and me (@jhalpin37). That way, if information surfaces for any last minute changes, you can see our thoughts…

For baseball prospects, choosing whether to turn pro right out of high school or accept a college athletic scholarship can be one of the most difficult choices of their young lives. Though turning pro is a dream for almost all players, minor-league ball comes with never-ending bus trips and a paycheck often between $1,100 and $2,500 a month, in-season only. Players drafted in the early rounds usually receive a substantial…

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There are two ways to absorb the U.S.’s 4-0 pantsing at the hands of an overwhelmingly superior Argentina side. The first is fatalist, and is espoused by ESPN’s Doug McIntyre. It holds that this drubbing was so utter and so complete that there’s nothing constructive to take from the loss, no insight to be applied going forward, nothing to do but throw up your hands and say fuck! After getting…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Three men have been arrested for allegedly attacking and beating NASCAR veteran Mike Wallace and his daughter after a North Carolina concert. Motorsport.com reported that Nathan Lucas, 22, of Indian Trail; Paul Lucas, 29, and Randolph Magnum, 24, of Monroe, face charges in the incident. Mike Wallace was brutally beaten by the suspects after attending a Rascal Flatts concert with his daughter Friday in Charlotte, according to his…

What’s new in FIFA? There are three flagship features for FIFA 17: a new story mode, a revamped set piece system and a switch to DICE’s Frostbite game engine. First built for Battlefield, Frostbite now powers a vast number of EA titles, including Star Wars Battlefront, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, and the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda. The switch in engine has been hotly anticipated by FIFA fans, who have been playing…