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A collegiate baseball team in Georgia adopted a puppy as their “bat dog” after it was found abandoned in their stadium. The Savannah Bananas announced earlier this week that team president Jared Orton and his wife Kelsey adopted 7-week-old Daisy. The puppy was found crying in Grayson Stadium parking lot with no identifiable tags, according to the team’s website. The Savannah Bananas/Facebook A baseball team in Savannah Georgia, The Savannah…

We’ve got Mark Paquette from MLB DFS Weather bringing you daily reports on today’s baseball slate. He’ll point out the where the sun is shining, any trouble spots around the league and where the wind may be in your favor. Be sure to to also give him a Twitter follow at @DFSWeatherMark Now’s your chance to get DFSR Pro with MLB Optimal Lineups, Projections and Player Cards. Or try a…

The bad news: It’s Friday the 13th. The good news: It’s the only Friday the 13th in 2016. In honour of a day often considered one of the most unlucky on the calendar, here’s our list of the 13 best superstitions, curses and spooky coincidences in sports: 1. Raptors look to clinch in game lucky No. 13 The Toronto Raptors are in the midst of their most impressive playoff push in franchise…

Caption Close Online games already have their own professionals, making money off their finger-tapping skills, and superstars followed by devoted fans. Now they have their own sports association. A coalition of video game industry leaders on Friday said they have formed the World ESports Association (WESA) to give their growing sport a regulatory structure similar to soccer’s ruling body, FIFA. The formation of WESA comes at a time when the…

Latin America has emerged as the epicenter of the Zika epidemic—and that has foreign businesses, medical experts and tourists all weighing the risks of travel abroad. Fanning the flames of the debate this week was a provocative article by Canadian lawyer and biologist Amir Attaran declaring that the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil “must not proceed,” released on the heels of Major League Baseball’s decision to move two games from…

Photo Courtesy: Amy Williams, SGHS student GREENSBORO, N.C. – If you asked 15-year-old Kendal Clark if he was any different from other kids his age, his answer would be a swift and hard no. If you looked at the Southern Guilford High School Sophomore play a game of baseball, it would be difficult to tell Kendal only has one arm. Kendal was born without his left arm as a result…

Russia won 13 gold medals at the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 – including those won by Zubkov (left) and Legkov Two Russian athletes named in doping allegations by the nation’s former anti-doping chief have rejected the claims as “nonsense and slanderous”. In a New York Times report, Dr Grigory Rodchenkov alleges dozens of athletes, including at least 15 medallists at the 2014 Winter Olympics, were part of an extensive…

THE seventh congress of the Workers’ Party was meant to be North Korea’s most notable political shindig in nearly four decades. The sixth, in 1980, was a coming-out party for its then dictator-in-waiting, Kim Jong Il. At this one the late Kim’s son, Kim Jong Un (pictured), spoke for interminable hours to more than 3,000 clapping delegates, lauding a recent nuclear test and missile launch (subjects know nothing of the…

WASHINGTON — According to the Capital Weather Gang, Washington, D.C. has received measurable rain (at least .01 inches) every day for 15 consecutive days. This is unprecedented weather for the district, which since 1871 has witnessed no more than 10 consecutive days of precipitation (on separate occasions in 1938 and 1873). This fact, combined with the Capitals’ dramatic exit from the playoffs, has a very retributive and karmic feel to it….

LOS ANGELES — The dump will jump no more. The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, the building that Bruce Springsteen affectionately dubbed “the dump that jumps” was sent off with one last national anthem and a champagne toast from city leaders on Thursday. In recent decades, it has lived in the shadow of the younger, sexier Forum and Staples Center. But the Sports Arena was once home to the Lakers, Clippers…

“You guys like to drink?” THERE is nothing more demoralising in the world of a diehard sports fan than their team failing to live up to their potential. For Michael Jenkins, the elimination of his beloved Washington Capitals from the Stanley Cup play-offs was just too much to handle. A sports anchor for US broadcastor Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, Jenkins took his frustrations to the workplace. In what was clearly designed…

NEW YORK — A baseball pioneer who has rested in an unmarked grave since he died in 1899 will finally get the recognition he craved when a cemetery unveils his gravestone. The home-plate-shaped monument honoring James Whyte Davis will be unveiled at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn on Saturday. Davis started playing baseball in the 1840s at the dawn of the game and was president of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of…

Thomas Paine, hell-raising writer and Founding Father, today would have had to write it in reverse: “These are the souls that try men’s times.” Look what they’ve done to my game, Ma, Part I: The biggest big league baseball stories continue to make little news and noise as Rob Manfred and his Merry Band of Team Owners continue to rob from The Game and keep it. Sunday, the latest in…

John Lackey has had a great career renaissance over the past few years. This season with the Chicago Cubs, he has had a really nice start going 4-2 with a 3.54 ERA in seven appearances. But on Wednesday night, the 37-year-old showed why he’s exactly what’s wrong with baseball right now. Lackey was cruising against the San Diego Padres, having retired the first 14 batters he faced, when catcher Christian Bethancourt stepped…

A spot in history is now within the sights of the Plum baseball team. It’s a “perfect” spot for the Mustangs — right next to Joe Namath. You may ask what in the name of Broadway Joe would a WPIAL baseball team have in common with a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback? It’s about a baseball story with the perfect ending. …

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x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck previews the top story lines at the upcoming AAA 400 Drive for Autism. usa today sports Brad Keselowski has two victories in 2016, including the Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.(Photo: Stephen R. Sylvanie, USA TODAY Sports) As the freshness of the new NASCAR season wears off, there’s renewed concern over the Chase for the Sprint Cup’s impact on the…

A Canadian public health expert wants to delay or move the 2016 Olympics in Brazil because of the Zika threat. “But for the games, would anyone recommend sending an extra half million visitors into Brazil right now?” wrote University of Ottawa Professor Amir Attaran for the Harvard Public Health Review. He is a biologist and lawyer who researches health issues. Zika, which is spread by mosquitos, has been linked to…

John Lackey has had a great career renaissance over the past few years. This season with the Chicago Cubs, he has had a really nice start going 4-2 with a 3.54 ERA in seven appearances. But on Wednesday night, the 37-year-old Lackey showed why he’s exactly what’s wrong with baseball right now. Lackey was cruising against the San Diego Padres, having retired the first 14 batters he faced, when catcher Christian Bethancourt…

print LOS ANGELES — The dump will jump no more. The Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, the building Bruce Springsteen affectionately dubbed “the dump that jumps,” was sent off with one last national anthem and a champagne toast from city leaders on Thursday. In recent decades, it has lived in the shadow of the younger, sexier Forum and Staples Center. But the Sports Arena was once home to the Lakers,…