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With Brazil already swarming with Zika-loaded mosquitoes, hosting 500,000 foreign athletes and spectators for the 2016 Olympic games there in August poses unnecessary health risks and is downright “unethical,” according to an international group of 150 health experts. In an open letter to Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, the group strongly urged that the games be moved or postponed. The health experts appealed to WHO, a…

Caroline Wozniacki hits a forehand against Vania King on day three of the Miami Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center on Key Biscayne. Wozniacki won 7-5, 6-2. (Photo: Geoff Burke, USA TODAY Sports) PARIS — There lies only one problem with Caroline Wozniacki being Denmark’s flag-bearer at the Rio Olympics this summer, but it’s a big one: She might not be there. Wozniacki, a former world No. 1 and one of…

Cameron Spencer/Getty When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, legend has it that King Gustav V of Sweden presented him the medal and said, “You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.” (“Thanks, King,” Thorpe is rumored to have responded.) Exactly 100 years later, at the 2012 Olympics in London, Oregon-native Ashton Eaton became the…

Current NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Greg Biffle, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Jamie McMurray trace their racing legacy to the NASCAR Whelen All American Series.

Our daily fantasy baseball picks continue with starting pitcher rankings, strategy, and advice for Saturday’s MLB slate. The pitching is very deep today, whether you’re looking to pay up for an ace or go cheap. It reminds me a lot of trying to select a QB in NFL DFS most weeks. Difference is, the mid-tier pitchers are much more volatile than those mid-tier QBs, who can still give you big points…

Arthur Schott (Photo: Family photo) Arthur Schott, whose encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and New Orleans’ history in the game guided researchers, reporters and fans for eight decades, died Friday. He was 97. A baseball fan since childhood, Schott was always very generous with his knowledge and a frequent source of information for sports journalists. Legendary New Orleans newspaper columnist (and fellow baseball fan) Charles “Pie” Dufour once called Schott the…

8:17 PM ET print WASHINGTON — Well before St. Louis Cardinals players reach the major leagues, they undergo organizational brainwashing, if you want to call it that. “Cardinal Way, that sort of stuff,” outfielder Stephen Piscotty said. One of the first times Piscotty got an earful of how the Cardinals like to comport themselves on the field came a couple of years ago at the team’s spring-training camp for elite…

Post to Facebook Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5 Last SlideNext Slide Xavier’s baseball team meets Creighton at 7 p.m. Friday in the Big East Championships in Maryland. The Musketeers won their opener over St. John’s in dramatic fashion, courtesy of Dan Rizzie’s walk-off single.(Photo: Provided) Late Friday night, Xavier’s baseball…

David Meeks admits he’s not an elite athlete, but he’s excited to help bring famous dual-sport pro Bo Jackson to Hilliard. “I was captain of the bowling team,” said Meeks, Hilliard’s economic-development director. Meeks has been negotiating to bring the Bo Jackson Elite Sports program to anchor a planned 100-acre sports complex on Cosgray Road in northwest Hilliard. It is proposed to be a $5.5 million, 129,000-square-foot facility with a…

“By November 2011, I felt like we had found a product that was ready,” he says. Through his contacts with Crystal Palace, Cherneski was able to send a pair to former Palace player Victor Moses. Within days he got a text back, asking for more. At the beginning of 2012, he flew to the UK and started to drive up and down the country, arranging meetings with players and giving…

Time and history have long since confirmed Maxim Gorky’s dim view of the Soviet Union. So perhaps we ought to pay a little more attention to something the Russian novelist said about sports. “Sport,” Gorky wrote in 1928, “has a single clear purpose: to make people even more stupid than they are.” (Before anyone asks,…

I’m beginning to think some sports fans hate LeBron James more than they love sports, and it’s a shame.  MORE: Must-see conference finals photos  Following the Cavaliers’ series-clinching 113-87 win against the Raptors in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday, you knew it was coming from ESPN’s Skip Bayless. The former junior varsity bench warmer just can’t help himself. He gets his rocks off on being hypercritical of…

Tottenham’s new 61,000-seater stadium is expected to be completed in two years Tottenham have reached a deal to play their Champions League home games at Wembley next season. The Premier League club also has the option to play all home league and cup matches, as well as any European games, at the national stadium during the 2017-18 campaign. Spurs are having a new £400m stadium built next to their existing…

Only four teams remain in the hunt for an SEC Tournament championship. The tournament reverts back to single elimination for today’s baseball semifinals at the Hoover Met. LSU and Ole Miss have yet to lose in the SEC Tournament, but a loss today eliminates the Tigers and Rebels. Today’s games are on SEC Network and streamed at WatchESPN. City of Hoover aiming to keep SEC Tournament in town Here is…

Brian Snitker’s 2016 baseball team is, by any objective measure, rather a mess. (Just Google major league standings or statistics). Simply eyeballing Snitker’s 1971 team, the Macon (Ill.) Ironmen, you would have thought it similarly ill-equipped for the fray. But they wrote a book about that team. High school baseball at that time in that sparsely peopled part of central Illinois was not a flashy production. The Ironmen, for whom…

Baseball in Israel? Yes that most American of games is growing in popularity thanks to individuals like Peter Kurz. The son of a father who fought in the Russian army in World War II and a mother hidden during the Holocaust in her native Hungary, Kurz grew up in Manhattan and was drawn early-on to two things: baseball and Zionism. He attended his first N.Y. Mets game at Shea Stadium…

There are nine day games on Saturday’s MLB schedule, including six that start between 4:05 pm ET and 4:10 pm ET, and only three games that start in the early evening. Those in daily fantasy baseball contests better be ready for a slight change in their normal routines. Fortunately, we’re here to help with a load of splits and BvP numbers to incorporate into your DFS strategy. Based on the numbers, there…

The third day of the 2016 Big Ten Baseball Tournament is complete. Maryland scored one run in the ninth inning but Michigan State pulled off a game-ending double play to win 4-3 in the first of four Big Ten Baseball Tournament games Friday. Iowa followed that with a thrilling win as Mason McCoy hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Hawkeyes a 4-3…

Time and history have long since confirmed Maxim Gorky’s dim view of the Soviet Union. So perhaps we ought to pay a little more attention to something the Russian novelist said about sports. “Sport,” Gorky wrote in 1928, “has a single clear purpose: to make people even more stupid than they are.” (Before anyone asks,…