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LSU stayed unbeaten in the SEC Tournament with a 6-2 win over the first-place Mississippi State Bulldogs. Jared Poche got the win for LSU and Parker Bugg picked up the save. Dakota Hudson took the loss for MSU. See how the game unfolded. LSU advances to Saturday’s semis and Mississippi State plays Florida at 6:30 p.m. in an elimination game on Friday. FINAL SCORE: LSU 6, Mississippi State 2 NINTH INNING * Bugg gets…

Caption Close Troy One run allowed in the 2015 Section II Class AA final meant the first career loss for Shenendehowa pitcher Ian Anderson. Thursday night, Anderson did not allow a runner from Christian Brothers Academy to cross the plate. Senior standouts Nik Malachowski and Joe Fraser drove in runs in the third inning to stake Anderson to the lead and the 6-foot-3 senior right-hander scattered seven hits and struck…

SPRINGFIELD — Red and yellow signs advertise the sale in all caps. “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS,” blares one. “EVERYTHING MUST GO,” yells another. Sports Authority’s Springfield store is playing up the going-out-of-business sale that began this week at 21 company locations in New Jersey. The sports retailer has said its 463 stores across the country will close by the end of August.  In a news release, Sports Authority touted the “unprecedented values” it would sell its merchandise at before…

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – We compare the Toronto and Cleveland metro areas for sports and others things of interest as the NBA playoff series between the Toronto Raptors and the Cleveland Cavaliers moves back to Toronto for Game 6. Which city has the tallest building? How much bigger is Toronto’s population. What about fun things like comedy or trivial things about the longest streets? On the following slides, we compare the…

(Photo: The Associated Press) CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. put himself in good position for another strong showing at the Coca-Cola 600, a race he thought he should have won last year. Truex turned a lap of 192.328 to grab the pole away from Joey Logano on his final lap of qualifying Thursday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Logano, who had the top time in the first two…

The world champion U.S. women’s national soccer team asked a federal judge on Thursday to clear the way for it to strike over alleged pay inequities just two months before the start of the Summer Olympic Games. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, who heard arguments in Chicago from lawyers for the players’ union and for the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF), didn’t say when she might rule, The Associated Press…

Nothing comes easy for or against the Alabama baseball team. It’s the story of coach Mitch Gaspard’s seven-year tenure. As usual, the Crimson Tide battled from the first pitch to the last out Thursday in an SEC Tournament elimination game against Florida. As has been the case too often for the taste of Alabama fans, their team came up just short in a 5-4 defeat, and now comes the long…

(Photo: The Associated Press) CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. put himself in good position for another strong showing at the Coca-Cola 600, a race he thought he should have won last year. Truex turned a lap of 192.328 to grab the pole away from Joey Logano on his final lap of qualifying Thursday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Logano, who had the top time in the first two…

Martin Truex Jr.’s expectations were pretty low entering the final round of qualifying Thursday for Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Truex’s Toyota was 12th fastest in the first round and fifth in the second round. Then came the final round, during which Truex’s No. 78 Toyota found enough speed to overtake Joey Logano. Truex’s lap of 192.328 mph was good enough for the pole. [Our annual list of…

The world champion U.S. women’s national soccer team asked a federal judge on Thursday to clear the way for it to strike over alleged pay inequities just two months before the start of the Summer Olympic Games. U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, who heard arguments in Chicago from lawyers for the players’ union and for the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF), didn’t say when she might rule, The Associated Press…

Major League Baseball has completed its investigation into Saturday’s national anthem mix-up involving the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus and has reaffirmed the Padres‘ findings that it was caused by human error, according to a statement released Thursday. The investigation was announced early this week, after the choir’s performance was drowned out by a recording of a woman singing the national anthem prior to a home game against the Los Angeles Dodgers….

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Victoria Pendleton has claimed she would have performed better at the London Olympics, where she won silver and gold medals, and could now be heading to compete in Rio if it was not for the corrosive culture at British Cycling that forced her to quit. The former track cyclist, who successfully switched to jump racing in an experiment backed by a leading bookmaker, has been outspoken in her support for…

Jennie Finch is set to coach the Bridgeport Bluefish this Saturday in a move that will make her the first female manager in pro baseball history. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) Former Olympic great Jennie Finch’s name has been etched in the softball history books for nearly two decades; now, she will make her mark on America’s national pastime. With the help of a promotion from an independent team, Finch is set to become the first…

Major League Baseball has completed its investigation into Saturday’s national anthem mix-up involving the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus and has reaffirmed the Padres‘ findings that it was caused by human error, according to a statement released Thursday. The investigation was announced early this week, after the choir’s performance was drowned out by a recording of a woman singing the national anthem prior to a home game against the Los Angeles Dodgers….

If you don’t believe there’s magic in SEC baseball, you didn’t watch in person from the edge of your seat all 14 innings, 34 players, 19 hits, four errors, five great escapes, one inspired defensive shift and one successful replay review that made up the delicious gumbo of LSU 5, Florida 3 to close Day Two of the SEC Tournament, a game that started Wednesday night, ended Thursday morning and…

Hoover, Ala. The SEC will decide on potentially moving the SEC tournament from Hoover to another location next week at the spring meetings in Destin, Fla. It’s safe to say South Carolina would be happy with a change of scenery. USC was eliminated from the SEC tournament with a 4-1 loss to Texas A&M Thursday morning at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. The Gamecocks stranded eight runners and finished 0-for-6 with runners…

The high school baseball community is mourning the death of former Holliston High School coaching legend Harvey Krupnick. The 71-year-old Krupnick passed away this morning while in hospice care at the McCarthy Care Center in East Sandwich. “It’s sad to have to learn of this news, I heard he wasn’t doing well and actually just dropped a card in the mail to him,” said former North Reading baseball coach Frank…

About 22 years ago, ESPN made the fateful decision to air the later rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest on TV. In including the act of spelling difficult-to-spell words in front of an audience of mostly family members, ESPN was signaling then and there that those contestants are, and forever would be, considered athletes. (Case closed on that front, I’m afraid. No way around it.) And we all know…