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It’s another afternoon with day baseball on the MLB schedule, so daily fantasy baseball players should take advantage of the early opportunities to play in a FanDuel or DraftKings contest. As always, we have plenty of stats to help you put together the best lineups. With four lefties among the starters in the four early games, there are some nice potential stacks, including the A’s and Indians. The evening games feature stacking opportunities from the…

The Trinity Tigers take game two 10-7 over the Keystone Giants to win the series 2-0 and take home the 2016 DIII Baseball Championship in Appleton, Wisconsin.

SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP. — Lehighton needed to win its regular-season finale to qualify for districts. The Indians are now one victory from celebrating a championship. Down three runs after four innings Tuesday, Lehighton capitalized on Southern Lehigh’s defensive meltdown to extend its postseason run. The eighth-seeded Indians produced back-to-back three-run innings in the fifth and sixth, then held on for a 6-4 win in the first District 11 Class 3A…

Last summer, on a family vacation in a house with 10 very loud children, I attempted to watch a baseball game on the only available television set. It did not go well. My nieces and nephews acted like I was forcing them to watch a process hearing in the state legislature. They groaned and booed. They rolled their eyes. They dropped to the floor and pretended to sleep. Frantic to…

Frampton has relinquished his IBF super-bantamweight title Former world champion Carl Frampton and a number of other high-profile fighters have hit out at the decision to allow professionals to box at the Olympics. International boxing federations voted in the rule change just weeks before the Rio Games start on 5 August. Northern Irishman Frampton says amateur and pro boxing are “two different sports”, claiming: “It’s like a badminton player playing…

COLLEGE FOOTBALL DESTIN, Fla. — Alabama coach Nick Saban wants a college football commissioner. Speaking at the Southeastern Conference annual meetings, Saban said satellite camps are “bad for college football” and added “there needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big Ten or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the…

Unless you’re part of Martin Truex Jr.’s immediate family, a member of his fan club or an employee of Furniture Row Racing, you likely weren’t enthralled by Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. NASCAR’s longest race had a mere nine lead changes with Truex leading 392 of a possible 400 laps. And even outside of Truex turning the event into a runaway, there was an absence of…

Last summer, on a family vacation in a house with 10 very loud children, I attempted to watch a baseball game on the only available television set. It did not go well. My nieces and nephews acted like I was forcing them to watch a process hearing in the state legislature. They groaned and booed. They rolled their eyes. They dropped to the floor and pretended to sleep. Frantic to…

Last summer, on a family vacation in a house with 10 very loud children, I attempted to watch a baseball game on the only available television set. It did not go well. My nieces and nephews acted like I was forcing them to watch a process hearing in the state legislature. They groaned and booed. They rolled their eyes. They dropped to the floor and pretended to sleep. Frantic to…

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Pedro Strop is a really fun player. He’s the only relief pitcher in baseball who runs out walk-off home runs like the third member of The Bushwackers. He reacts to putting a cheeseburger in Jorge Soler’s Chinese food container like it was Chris Rock’s closer from Bring the Pain. And he celebrates a strikeout like he only found out two seconds ago that the Allies won World War II. To…

By Sam McPherson A lot of fantasy baseball owners like to look smart at the draft in March, picking a minor-league star that is expected to get promoted to the major leagues by June. If all goes well, that owner gets Buster Posey from 2010: a player that performs so well for the remaining four months of the season, he wins a Rookie of the Year award. If all doesn’t…

SALT LAKE CITY — Perennial bottom feeders of the Pac-12, Utah baseball has since moved to the top and is enjoying the limelight of success. It’s a feeling that is “much more special” having known the insurmountable leap Utah made in a single season to be named the outright Pac-12 champion in a league of excellent baseball programs. “This group believed, and I think they had it in their minds…

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Last summer, on a family vacation in a house with 10 very loud children, I attempted to watch a baseball game on the only available television set. It did not go well. My nieces and nephews acted like I was forcing them to watch a process hearing in the state legislature. They groaned and booed. They rolled their eyes. They dropped to the floor and pretended to sleep. Frantic to…

x Embed x Share Officials said joint federal and state forces helped rescue Pulido just before midnight on Sunday.Video provided by Newsy Newslook Mexico’s Alan Pulido consoles teammate Javier Hernandez (14) after the Netherlands defeated Mexico 2-1 during the World Cup round of 16.(Photo: Eduardo Verdugo, AP) CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico – Caught in a real-life win-or-lose challenge, soccer forward Alan Pulido overpowered a kidnapper, freed himself and then called police for…

This is Strength in Numbers, a column exploring the science of sports and athleticism. I welcome your feedback, suggestions and news tips. Email me, leave suggestions in the comments section or tweet to me @CragCrest. Pole vaulter Yelena Isinbaeva wants an opportunity to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro this summer. Problem is, she’s Russian. More Science & Health Isinbaeva is the world record holder in her…

Pedro Strop is a really fun player. He’s the only relief pitcher in baseball who runs out walk-off home runs like the third member of The Bushwackers. He reacts to putting a cheeseburger in Jorge Soler’s Chinese food container like it was Chris Rock’s closer from Bring the Pain. And he celebrates a strikeout like he only found out two seconds ago that the Allies won World War II. To…