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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…

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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….

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 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…

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 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…

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.

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…

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…