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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….

Performance Sports Group’s Easton bats have suffered amid declining youth participation in baseball.(Photo: Performance Sports Group) The maker of Bauer hockey gear and Easton baseball equipment filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday after its accounting came under scrutiny, baseball bat sales slumped and retail chain Sports Authority liquidated. Exeter, N.H.-based Performance Sports Group said Monday that it had filed for protection from its creditors in federal court in Delaware and…

Things got weird fast in the “Foul Play” comic strip in the May/June 1953 issue of The Haunt of Fear. Those who know me well know that I lead a double life: baseball by day, and horror by night. Or is it the other way around? Actually, it is a blending of these two passions, with each day representing a series of shifts from one subject to the other. Baseball…

The first time I went to a World Series game, in 1983, I woke up in a state of panic. I was 8 years old. Whenever I wore my lucky Phillies hat to Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, the home team won. I could not find it anywhere.   But we had to get going. This was an afternoon start in the brilliant October sunshine, the last World Series day game…

Baseball boosters want a fenced-in field. Neighborhood activists don’t want a fence at all. What’s Arlington County to do to quell the controversy? Remove a portion of the fence. That’s the new plan for a soon-to-be-renovated baseball field in Bluemont Park, as laid out in a county staff presentation. The plan calls for 162 linear feet of fence to be removed along the first and third baselines. The fence will remain…

British Cycling has benefited from the funds, earning unprecedented success in recent Olympics, with Katie Archibald, Laura Kenny, Elinor Barker and Joanna Rowsell-Shand among the gold medallists in Rio Sporting governing bodies must bring in more women or lose public funding, UK Sport and Sport England have warned. Under the new ‘Code for Sports Governance’, organisations must adhere to “gold standards” of transparency, accountability and financial integrity. The code sets…

“The Walking Dead” might beat the NFL in ratings here and there, but it’s rare for another sport to go head-to-head against the NFL and win. Major League Baseball must be feeling pretty good today. According to Austin Karp of SportsBusiness Daily, the World Series Game 5 between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians posted a monster 15.3 overnight rating, beating a good “Sunday Night Football” matchup between the Philadelphia…

As Alabama Crimson Tide returns from its off week, the discussion in the SEC turns to the biggest tests remaining for the undefeated Tide. LSU Tigers (No. 14 in the new CBS Sports 128 Rankings) steps in the ring next, hosting Alabama for what should be an epic edition of their rivalry on Saturday night in Death Valley, the conclusion of our CBS tripleheader that starts with Notre Dame-Navy and…

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…

Almost two dozen people at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia were hurt after a driver ran right into the crowd after a NASCAR race Sunday. Police said they took the unnamed driver into custody for questioning, Fox 8 reported. The crash unfolded about 30 minutes after the race when the driver jumped a traffic line, according to MotorSport.com. Many of the injured reportedly were fans waiting for racers to leave the…

By now, you probably have heard of Leslie Jones. She is one of the more well-known and hilarious cast members on Saturday Night Live. She grew up playing basketball, but it seems like she hadn’t been exposed much to soccer … until this weekend. Jones live tweeted about soccer all Sunday, especially the MLS Playoffs, and it was so funny it will make your stomach hurt. This all got started…

A slot in NASCAR’s record books is absolutely in reach for Jimmie Johnson.  Johnson earned one of four coveted spots in next month’s title-deciding season finale on Sunday when he scored his ninth career victory at Martinsville Speedway. The six-time NASCAR champion will race for his seventh championship, which would tie him for the all-time record with Hall of Famers Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Jr.  The victory blocked Joe Gibbs…

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Carl Edwards and Stewart-Haas Racing teammates Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch are facing sizable points deficits after the first of three races in the Chase for the Sprint Cup semifinal round. Edwards’ troubles began when he sped on pit road during his first pit stop, requiring he fall to the rear of the field. But his championship hopes took a significant hit when a blown tire…

Fabian Johnson, left, and Eintracht Frankfurt’s David Angel Abraham vie for ball during Moenchngladbach’s 0-0 draw in the Bundesliga. (Maja Hitij/EPA) Of note: Several players competing in lesser leagues or with reserve squads are not listed. Americans with dual nationalities representing other national teams have also been omitted. ENGLAND Premier League Stoke City defender-midfielder Geoff Cameron: vs. Swansea City on Monday (4 p.m., NBCSN) Middlesbrough goalkeeper Brad Guzan: in the…

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Like a certain Chicago professional baseball club, Dr. David Fletcher’s team has come close to realizing its dream a few times, only to have those hopes crash. Maybe the latest turn in his odyssey is an encouraging omen. For more than a decade, Fletcher’s dream has been to build the Chicago Baseball Museum, a gleaming 20,000-square-foot structure that would include a “Mt. Rushmore-like pantheon” of Chicago baseball figures, on-field virtual…

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