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9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Sometimes in baseball, we need to look down, not up. We need to look south, not north. We need to turn our gaze away from the usual suspects — the Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, the … aw, you know who we mean. So today, let’s stare at the basement. We know there’s hope for…

ST. LOUIS • The cover is so iconic that Sports Illustrated did it twice with the same team. In 1968, the Cardinals fresh off a World Series championship, the leading magazine for sports writing put nine players and manager Red Schoendienst on the cover of an October issue. The headline read, “The Highest-Paid Team in Baseball History.” And alongside the picture, listed as if for tax purposes,…

Alistair Brownlee has admitted his surprise that Mo Farah yet again failed to make the top three of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday night and suggested it might be because “some people don’t see him as British”. Brownlee said he would have voted for Farah, who came fourth in the awards despite retaining his Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m titles in style in Rio, and felt it…

4:31 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Ringstar Sports promoter Richard Schaefer — back in boxing after 2 1/2 years away after resigning as chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions, which he co-founded with Oscar De La Hoya — continued to beef up his stable of young talent on Monday. Schaefer announced that he has signed 22-year-old welterweight Eimantas Stanionis, a highly coveted 2016 Lithuanian Olympian. “Being able…

Just 61 days before the Clash kicks off the 2016 season at Daytona, NASCAR’s top series finally and officially has a new name. At 4 p.m. ET, NASCAR announced that the new series will be called the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Earlier this month in Las Vegas, NASCAR and Monster Energy announced that Monster would replace Sprint as the Premier Series title sponsor. At the time the deal was…

If I’ve got the first pick in the draft, out of all the sports, if I can take anybody and start a team, I go with LeBron, just because it’s always going to be easier for a basketball player to dominate, because it’s only five to a side. What we’re basically talking about here is picking the guy you think is better than everybody in team sports the way Serena…

CHICAGO – Fans have seen this ending before. In this season, against this team and especially the quarterback. Aaron Rodgers has made a habit of ripping out Bears’ fans hearts for the majority of his career and on Sunday he did so again on a frigid day at Soldier Field. A long completion to Jordy Nelson in the closing seconds set up the game-winning field goal for the Packers who…

RELATED: New premier series mark, name revealed DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR today unveiled a new official brand identity which will replace the bar mark used by the sanctioning body since 1976. The announcement was made in conjunction with the news that Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series™will be the new name of the sport’s premier series beginning January 1, 2017. The new brand mark and Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series…

Noriana Radwan was an 18-year-old freshman soccer player at the University of Connecticut when her team won the 2014 American Athletic Conference championship game. An ESPNU television camera focused on Radwan as she cheered and hugged her teammates on the field, and she enthusiastically threw up her left middle finger. She never imagined this one gesture ― for which she says she has since “profusely apologized” ― would destroy her career…

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9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Sometimes in baseball, we need to look down, not up. We need to look south, not north. We need to turn our gaze away from the usual suspects — the Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, the … aw, you know who we mean. So today, let’s stare at the basement. We know there’s hope for…

ST. LOUIS • The cover is so iconic that Sports Illustrated did it twice with the same team. In 1968, the Cardinals fresh off a World Series championship, the leading magazine for sports writing put nine players and manager Red Schoendienst on the cover of an October issue. The headline read, “The Highest-Paid Team in Baseball History.” And alongside the picture, listed as if for tax purposes,…

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4:31 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Ringstar Sports promoter Richard Schaefer — back in boxing after 2 1/2 years away after resigning as chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions, which he co-founded with Oscar De La Hoya — continued to beef up his stable of young talent on Monday. Schaefer announced that he has signed 22-year-old welterweight Eimantas Stanionis, a highly coveted 2016 Lithuanian Olympian. “Being able…

“I would have voted for Mo to win,” said Brownlee, a prodigiously talented 10,000m runner himself, with a personal best of 28min 32sec. “His achievements are incredible. What stands out about them is that no one from Britain has done them before, and there is a good chance that no one will again. It’s not as if someone does it every year. This is a complete one-off in what are…

Just 61 days before the Clash kicks off the 2016 season at Daytona, NASCAR’s top series finally and officially has a new name. At 4 p.m. ET, NASCAR announced that the new series will be called the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Earlier this month in Las Vegas, NASCAR and Monster Energy announced that Monster would replace Sprint as the Premier Series title sponsor. At the time the deal was…

RELATED: New premier series mark, name revealed DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR today unveiled a new official brand identity which will replace the bar mark used by the sanctioning body since 1976. The announcement was made in conjunction with the news that Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series™will be the new name of the sport’s premier series beginning January 1, 2017. The new brand mark and Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Sometimes in baseball, we need to look down, not up. We need to look south, not north. We need to turn our gaze away from the usual suspects — the Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, the … aw, you know who we mean. So today, let’s stare at the basement. We know there’s hope for…

ST. LOUIS • The cover is so iconic that Sports Illustrated did it twice with the same team. In 1968, the Cardinals fresh off a World Series championship, the leading magazine for sports writing put nine players and manager Red Schoendienst on the cover of an October issue. The headline read, “The Highest-Paid Team in Baseball History.” And alongside the picture, listed as if for tax purposes,…