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Five TCU baseball players were selected preseason All-Americans on Monday by Collegiate Baseball, the most in the nation. Sophomore designated hitter Luken Baker and senior right-handed pitcher Brian Howard were first-team selections. Baker, the 2016 Big 12 Freshman of the Year, hit .379 with 62 RBIs and 11 home runs to lead the Horned Frogs. Howard went 10-2 with a 3.19 ERA, including 3-0 in the postseason. Junior catcher Evan…

“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…

The slip was innocent enough. Bob Bradley, the American manager of Swansea City, was bemoaning a defeat last weekend in a post-game interview with the BBC when he accidentally referred to a penalty kick as a “PK.” He corrected himself to say “penalty,” but the damage was done. A slice of English soccer fans on social media seized on it immediately. Bradley had committed what they saw as a cardinal…

Missouri Gov.-elect Eric Greitens said he opposes public funding for a Major League Soccer stadium in downtown St. Louis, according to a statement released by his transition team Monday. “This project is nothing more than welfare for millionaires,” Greitens said. “Right now, because of reckless spending by career politicians, we can’t even afford the core functions of government, let alone spend millions on soccer stadiums. “This back-room…

LONDON The mystery package at the center of a UK Anti-Doping investigation into British Cycling contained a flu treatment, Team Sky chief Dave Brailsford told Members of Parliament on Monday. British Cycling and Team Sky have been under scrutiny over the package delivered to the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine in which Bradley Wiggins was riding. Wiggins’ then coach Shane Sutton, giving evidence to a Parliamentary inquiry into doping in sport,…

2:15 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment We’ve already gone through an exercise in seeing which goaltenders and defensemen rated highest to this point of the season on the ESPN Player Rater. Seems fitting we should check in with the forward ranks, too. Tortorella’€™s biggest strength as a coach A coach doesn’t get to 500 NHL wins by accident. Here’s how John Tortorella did it, plus other takeaways…

ZURICH World soccer governing body FIFA’s independent ethics committee on Monday imposed life-long bans on two former Honduran officials for involvement in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme to which both have pled guilty. Rafael Callejas, former president of the Honduran Football Association (FENAFUTH) and a former member of the FIFA Marketing and TV Committee, and Alfredo Hawit Banegas, former acting president of CONCACAF – the confederation that runs soccer in North…

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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Guy Zinn played five major league seasons between 1911 and 1915, including a stint as a New York Highlander (later the Yankees). (Wikimedia Commons) Even if you’re a baseball history buff, you’ve probably never come across the name Guy Zinn. The major league outfielder played only five seasons between 1911 and 1915 for teams in New York, Boston and Baltimore and compiled a very ordinary .269 career batting average (to be fair, it’s…

Don’t count out Ryan Howard just yet. The former National League MVP may be 37 years old and unemployed for the first time in his major-league career, but he’s not ready to walk away either. That was evidenced in a new video posted by Whistle Sports titled ‘No Days Off.’ The video takes us behind the scenes in Howard’s rigorous offseason training, which his training partner says is aimed at…

Sometime in the not-so-distant future, nobody will blink about what Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey announced he was doing on Monday – skipping the team’s upcoming appearance in the Sun Bowl. Why is he doing it? “So I can begin my draft prep immediately,” McCaffrey said in a statement. McCaffrey had already declared he was turning pro after his junior season. That was earlier in the month. This was the realization that…

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9.36am EST09:36 Summary So it took a while but Brailsford finally gave us some clarity about what was in the package that was delivered to Bradley Wiggins at the Dauphiné in 2011. Questions will inevitably be asked as to why Team Sky and British Cycling went to such lengths to deliver such a trivial-seeming medication (fluimucil) and why something that it is advised should not be used to treat an…

BURLINGTON, Vt.—A 32-save performance from senior goaltender Alex Sakellaropoulos and a timely Jeff Taylorpower-play goal lifted the No. 12/13 Union College men’s hockey team to a 2-1 win and a weekend sweep against No. 10/11 Vermont, Sunday evening at Gutterson Fieldhouse. The Dutchmen, who extend their win streak to six, go to 14-3-2, while the Catamounts move to 10-6-2. Sakellarpoulos was nearly perfect, turning away 18 shots over the first two…

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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…