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Tim Tebow on His Baseball Career: ‘I Don’t Want to Live a Life People Want Me to Live’ – PEOPLE.com

Thursday, November 03, 2016

  Despite his golden boy image, things haven’t always been perfect for Tim Tebow. In his new book, Shaken, the former quarterback talks about his the devastation he felt after losing his football career. “People can’t always identify with the highs I’ve experienced,” he tells PEOPLE, “but I think they can identify with the lows. Everyone has low points in their lives—their girlfriend breaks up with them, or they have a health problem, or things…

Twitchy, Sweaty, but Triumphant: Cubs Go Home as Winners at Last – New York Times

Thursday, November 03, 2016

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Stick to sports? These writers say no thanks. – Columbia Journalism Review

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Rob Neyer isn’t embarrassed to say he’s more than a little preoccupied with the number of people who follow him on Twitter. Neyer is a freelance baseball writer and sabermetrics guru, and the 64,000 readers who have added his daily MLB analysis and insight to their daily newsfeed make up his most regular audience. So earlier this year, when Neyer decided to start using the social medium as a platform…

How Philadelphia’s sports title droughts rank after Cubs’ World Series win – Philly.com (blog)

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Now that the Chicago Cubs have ended their 108-year wait to win a World Series, here’s a look at how the title droughts for Philadelphia’s four biggest pro sports teams rank. Baseball The Phillies’ World Series drought is eight years old. That’s the 24th-longest drought among active teams in Major League Baseball. The Cleveland…

TV’s New Creative Obsession: The Wide World of Sports … – Hollywood Reporter

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Michael B. Jordan and Michael Strahan will each executive produce a sports-themed drama which will join the increasing slate of scripted sports TV including Fox’s ‘Pitch,’ Starz’s ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ and HBO’s ‘Ballers.’ <!–[CDATA[ Scripted television increasingly is looking to score with sports. With Fox’s Pitch, Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, HBO’s Ballers and Audience Network’s Kingdom already on the air, the development bench includes LeBron James’ NBC sports-medicine drama, NFL…

Duke’s Grayson Allen is the CBS Sports 2016-17 Preseason Player of the Year – CBS sports.com (blog)

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Grayson Allen enrolled at Duke in the summer of 2014 as the least-heralded prospect in a four-player class. He averaged 9.2 minutes per game as a freshman, shot worse from the field and from 3-point range than the Blue Devils did as a team and was the only first-year player on the roster who didn’t enter the NBA Draft after winning the 2015 NCAA Tournament. Now he’s the CBS Sports…

Premier League’s Southampton Said to Be New China Soccer Target – Bloomberg

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Southampton, the Premier League football club based on the south coast of England, is in exclusive talks to be taken over by Lander Sports Development Co. of China, according to people familiar with the situation. Katharina Liebherr, the club’s Swiss owner, has been engaged in the talks for several weeks, said the people, who declined to be identified because an agreement has yet to be completed. The price could be as…

Hundreds of Olympics Workers Still Haven’t Been Paid for Rio – Esquire.com

Thursday, November 03, 2016

As if the 2016 Rio Olympics weren’t bad enough on their own (you know, what with the city’s massive corruption problem, its infested water, and its unpaid cops), the event is still terrible over two months after the competition ended. Why? Because the organizers still haven’t paid hundreds of people who worked their asses off to make the Olympics possible. Now, said workers are ready to sue. According to the…

The NHL’s Teenage Mutant Hockey Superstars – Wall Street Journal

Thursday, November 03, 2016

When Auston Matthews, the 18-year-old phenom taken No. 1 overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in this year’s NHL draft, introduced himself to the league by scoring four goals in the first game of the season, the feat had hockey fans wracking their brains for the last time a teenager notched such a prolific performance. It turns out they didn’t…

Patterson Mill, Bel Air claim region field hockey titles – Baltimore Sun

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Three Harford County field hockey teams played for region titles Wednesday and two, Bel Air and Patterson Mill, both won, while Fallston fell short. At Patterson Mill, the Huskies squared off with Perryville for a second straight year in the region final setting. And for the second consecutive time, the Huskies beat the Panthers. This year, the Huskies overcame an early deficit en route to a 3-1 Class 1A North…

Pros, Sponsors, and Recreational Runners Push Clean Sport Initiative – Runner’s World

Thursday, November 03, 2016

The concept evolved over the past year in the midst of one doping scandal after another. In the latest chapter, Rita Jeptoo, a Kenyan who was a two-time Chicago and Boston marathon champion, had her titles stripped and was given a four-year suspension for testing positive for EPO. Also within the past week, a World Anti-Doping Agency report highlighted the failings and shortcomings of drug testing at the Rio Olympics,…

Absurd Cubs-Indians World Series Game 7 was everything we love about baseball – CBSSports.com

Thursday, November 03, 2016

CLEVELAND — The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in a mind-blowing, nerves-jangling, heart-stopping mess of a game, a 10-inning acid trip that tested the limits of your sanity, made baseball history, and ended 108 years of anxiety. Every inning of this game pushed the night closer and closer to becoming a Salvador Dali painting brought to life. It was surreal, it was painful, it was delirious. It was…

How Hillary Clinton watched baseball history – Los Angeles Times

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Hillary Clinton is an Illinois native and grew up a Cubs fan. But she’s also the Democratic nominee for president six days before election day. And so there was no breaking from her schedule to watch a decisive Game 7 of the World Series. Clinton delivered her more than 40-minute speech as scheduled on the campus of Arizona State University as Chicago battled the Cleveland Indians.  But the baseball gods…

Cubs’ drought-ending World Series title has no peer in Chicago sports history – Chicago Tribune

Thursday, November 03, 2016

They tossed their hats and gloves into the air after the final out like joyous Little Leaguers and then threw themselves into each other’s arms like brothers — and this will connect them forever. They sang along with “Go, Cubs, Go” as thousands of fans who wouldn’t miss World Series Game 7 for the world broke into song. They carried retiring catcher David Ross on their shoulders and wore wide-eyed…

TV’s New Creative Obsession: The Wide World of Sports – Hollywood Reporter

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Michael B. Jordan and Michael Strahan will each executive produce a sports-themed drama which will join the increasing slate of scripted sports TV including Fox’s ‘Pitch,’ Starz’s ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ and HBO’s ‘Ballers.’ <!–[CDATA[ Scripted television increasingly is looking to score with sports. With Fox’s Pitch, Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, HBO’s Ballers and Audience Network’s Kingdom already on the air, the development bench includes LeBron James’ NBC sports-medicine drama, NFL…

CBS Sports’ 2016-17 Preseason All-America Team, Coach and Freshman of the Year – CBSSports.com

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Take a look at the CBS Sports All-America teams from the 2015-16 season and what you’ll find is that only one of the 15 players honored — Duke’s Grayson Allen — is actually back in school. In other words, we’re basically starting from scratch, which is normal for the sport of college basketball, where new and/or unknown players annually become the faces of the sport. We put it up to…

NASCAR mailbag: Is Jimmie Johnson vs. Denny Hamlin the next Chase feud? – SB Nation

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Each Wednesday SB Nation’s NASCAR reporter Jordan Bianchi answers your questions about the latest news and happenings within the sport. If you have a mailbag question email jordanmbianchi@gmail.com. Seeing how Martinsville is such a great track and even its bad races are usually better than good races at most other tracks, doesn’t it make sense that it should host an elimination race over other tracks? No offense to Dover…

Pros, Sponsors, and Recreational Runners Push Clean Sport Initiative – Runner’s World

Thursday, November 03, 2016

The concept evolved over the past year in the midst of one doping scandal after another. In the latest chapter, Rita Jeptoo, a Kenyan who was a two-time Chicago and Boston marathon champion, had her titles stripped and was given a four-year suspension for testing positive for EPO. Also within the past week, a World Anti-Doping Agency report highlighted the failings and shortcomings of drug testing at the Rio Olympics,…

Premier League’s Southampton Said to Be New China Soccer Target – Bloomberg

Thursday, November 03, 2016

Southampton, the Premier League football club based on the south coast of England, is in exclusive talks to be taken over by Lander Sports Development Co. of China, according to people familiar with the situation. Katharina Liebherr, the club’s Swiss owner, has been engaged in the talks for several weeks, said the people, who declined to be identified because an agreement has yet to be completed. The price could be as…