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What baseball is, according to this lifetime fan – PBS NewsHour
Gail Mazur’s most recent collection of poetry is called “Forbidden City.” Gail Mazur says she’s been obsessed with baseball her whole life. “I grew up in Boston. My dad knew Ted Williams. Being a Red Sox fan is a lifetime mania and an important part of my lore.” In spite of that mania, Mazur says she resisted the temptation to write any poems about baseball because she worried about the…
Fantasy Baseball: Side-by-side comparison of Scott White’s and Heath Cummings’ 2017 rankings – CBSSports.com
This is only the start of the conversation. That’s important to remember when you see how far apart Heath Cummings and I are in our initial rankings. The goal isn’t to confuse you but to provide contrasting opinions. And in early November, you might get a little bit of both. For this initial run, we worked independently, retreating to our own separate corners and only comparing notes afterward. Also, these…
How turmoil in US women’s soccer could drive players to Europe – The Guardian (blog)
On the field, the US women’s soccer team has followed up a thrilling NWSL final with a couple of smashing debuts in friendlies against Switzerland. Off the field, the sport is bogged down in the courts and at the negotiating table. The talent pipeline is still intact, a fact US coach Jill Ellis celebrated by calling in a staggering 11 uncapped players for camp. Lynn Williams, fresh from winning the…
Olympic Gymnast Banned from Sport After ‘Mocking’ Islam – Breitbart News
SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER A British gymnast and Olympic champion has been banned from the sport for two months after appearing to ‘mock’ Islam in a leaked private video. British Gymnastics said in a statement that Louis Smith and his former teammate Luke Carson were found to have breached the sport’s standards of conduct in a formal disciplinary proceeding. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER Mr. Smith and Mr. Carson…
Can baseball return to being nation’s No. 1 sport? – Newsday
Neil Best Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted in 2005. Alex Rodriguez has a history of inaccurate public utterances, but in this case you have to admire the guy’s spunk, and his loyalty to a game that made him rich and famous. Last week the Fox analyst predicted baseball will be the No. 1 sport in America again “sometime soon.”…
Is Business Really Just Like Sports? – Forbes
In Cleveland’s Sports Revival, They Were Champions First – New York Times
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In Cleveland’s Sports Revival, They Were Champions First – New York Times
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A Question of Sport up for grabs as BBC look for ‘fresh and new perspective’ – Daily Mail
The BBC are planning to tamper with the hugely successful format of A Question of Sport, the corporation’s iconic and longest-running TV quiz show. The programme, which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2018, was last week put out to tender to independent producers for next year’s series which starts in the spring. The Beeb effectively asked bidders to come up with proposals to revamp all aspects of the programme,…
Football: Teenager Patrick O’Beirne quits sports to focus on joining the Navy – Los Angeles Times
Patrick O’Beirne is 6 feet 2, 175 pounds, 16 years old and waking up at 4:30 a.m. to work out. A couple weeks ago, he quit the football team at Monrovia High, where he was a kicker. He says his sports career is over even though he’s a junior. “I want to be different,” he said. “I’ve had many coaches tell me I had potential to be a DI kicker….
NASCAR got it right during scoring fiasco at Martinsville – FOXSports.com
I thought Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway was a pretty darn good race. There’s really nothing I can point to and say I didn’t like. Mother Nature graced us with unbelievable weather. The grandstands were full and we also saw some very hard racing. And on top of that, we saw two of the masters of Martinsville, Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin, beating and banging on each other. I think…
The Best Team in Baseball Is Now an Underdog – Wall Street Journal
Chicago For a manager whose team had just lost all probable hope at a championship, Joe Maddon was strikingly upbeat. It was late Saturday night, and the Chicago Cubs had just lost again, falling behind the Cleveland Indians, 3-1, in the World Series. But as he dissected the Cubs’ woes, Maddon saw a path forward: win Sunday, and a comeback…
In Cleveland’s Sports Revival, They Were Champions First – New York Times
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Football: Teenager Patrick O’Beirne quits sports to focus on joining the Navy – Los Angeles Times
Patrick O’Beirne is 6 feet 2, 175 pounds, 16 years old and waking up at 4:30 a.m. to work out. A couple weeks ago, he quit the football team at Monrovia High, where he was a kicker. He says his sports career is over even though he’s a junior. “I want to be different,” he said. “I’ve had many coaches tell me I had potential to be a DI kicker….
A Question of Sport up for grabs as BBC look for ‘fresh and new perspective’ – Daily Mail
The BBC are planning to tamper with the hugely successful format of A Question of Sport, the corporation’s iconic and longest-running TV quiz show. The programme, which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2018, was last week put out to tender to independent producers for next year’s series which starts in the spring. The Beeb effectively asked bidders to come up with proposals to revamp all aspects of the programme,…
Former NASCAR owner Robert Yates begins treatment for liver cancer – FOXSports.com
Former NASCAR team owner Robert Yates is beginning to receive treatment for liver cancer, according to his son, Doug, who tweeted about it on Monday. In 21 years as a NASCAR Premier Series team owner, Robert Yates won 57 races and had 49 poles. In 1999, NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Dale Jarrett won the championship driving the No. 88 Robert Yates Racing Ford Thunderbird. Early on, Yates built his…
Driver charged after injuring 22 pedestrians at NASCAR race – USA TODAY
x Embed x Share Motorist who injured 22 pedestrians after Sunday’s NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway was arrested on a reckless driving charge, Police announced Monday. USA TODAY Sports A vehicle struck pedestrians near the helipad at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday.(Photo: Roger Wolfe) The motorist who injured 22 pedestrians — all but five requiring treatment at two area hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries — after Sunday’s NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway was arrested…
UK Sport plan to launch investigations unit following its British … – Telegraph.co.uk
UK Sport has conducted independent reviews in other sports recently and its chief operating officer Simon Morton said: “What UK Sport will be doing is looking in the next year at whether we have the right structures in place in terms of an investigatory function. “We understand that there is an increasing need for British sport to have an investigatory function around independent reviews.” Citing Fifa’s ethics committee as one…
Mysterious ‘thing’ seen swimming in Alaska river – CNET
Is it a river monster, a rope or something else entirely? View the video evidence of an unexplained object or critter going for a swim.
Budding triple jump star Harleigh White is all in for Huntingtown’s soccer playoff run – Washington Post
Huntingtown forward Harleigh White (9) is eager to make the most of her final playoff run with the Hurricanes’ soccer team before she focuses exclusively on her budding track future. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) The shock of setting a new personal record in the triple jump had barely set in last July when Harleigh White realized life was about to change. She wanted to celebrate with her parents at the…
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