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Baseball’s decline in black players tied to absent fathers, study finds – Washington Times
With the World Series set to begin, a glance at the rosters for the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs could prompt the question, “Where have all the black baseball players gone?” When Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones was asked about NFL-style national-anthem protests, he said they aren’t happening in Major League Baseball because is a “white man’s sport.” While the number of black players in baseball and baseball-playing black youths…
The 9:01: A baseball dilemma, the best view in Memphis – The Commercial Appeal
Bob Miller has turned the front yard of his house on Greer Avenue into a shrine for the Cubs.(Photo: Submitted) Good morning, in Memphis, where the World Series matchup poses a dilemma for a certain local baseball coach … What would you do? Casey Callaway, the baseball coach at Germantown High School, is a serious fan of the Chicago Cubs. How serious? His son is named Wrigley. That’s how serious….
Red Sox lose another baseball ops staffer to Arizona – ESPN (blog)
12:40 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment BOSTON — Another longtime member of the Boston Red Sox baseball operations staff is leaving for the desert. Nine days after the Arizona Diamondbacks hired away general manager Mike Hazen, Amiel Sawdaye is set to become his assistant GM, multiple sources confirmed Monday night. Sawdaye has been a mainstay in the Red Sox’s amateur scouting department since 2002, most recently serving…
The Big League Prospect Who Became a Mob Hit Man – New York Times
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Baseball’s decline in black players tied to absent fathers, study finds – Washington Times
With the World Series set to begin, a glance at the rosters for the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs could prompt the question, “Where have all the black baseball players gone?” When Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones was asked about NFL-style national-anthem protests, he said they aren’t happening in Major League Baseball because is a “white man’s sport.” While the number of black players in baseball and baseball-playing black youths…
Too Good to Be Ignored: Women Who Reached the Top in Sports – New York Times
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NASCAR removing Talladega as elimination race makes no sense – FOXSports.com
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t understand, especially on the heels of what we saw Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, as to why NASCAR is switching the dates of the Kansas Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway races in the Chase in 2017. Next year, it will be Kansas that is an elimination race, and not Talladega. From what I’ve picked up from the grapevine is that it was switched…
Chicago, Cleveland are kindred spirits in more ways than baseball – Chicago Tribune
“Hello, Cleveland!” as they say in the movies. The Cubs and Indians meet Tuesday in the opener of a World Series at least partly defined by their decades-long struggles and the epically elusive epic quest the winning ballclub will at last complete. There’s no need for introductions between the cities. Chicago knows Cleveland as surely as it knows itself. Cleveland knows Chicago, another notch in the Rust Belt. They share Great…
Indiana’s rich baseball history – Indianapolis Star
sheet music for the song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”(Photo: Star file) Indiana has a rich baseball history. Not only the site of the first-ever major league baseball game ( Cleveland Forest Cities and Ft. Wayne Kekiongas on May 4, 1871), but Indiana has had five major league baseball teams throughout history, including the 1914 Federal League pennant-winning Hoosiers. Here are some other highlights of baseball’s connections to Indiana. Albert Von…
In Cleveland, sports prosperity is almost too much to believe – Washington Post
CLEVELAND — People here are trying to comprehend what has happened over these past few months, how to process a delirious and wholly unfamiliar confluence. A visitor flying in might hear a Southwest flight attendant, minutes before takeoff, declare the plane is bound for “Cleveland, the land of champions.” One might see along Prospect Avenue the construction of a television stage for a national NBA pregame show, and another one…
This week’s Southern Section sports polls – Los Angeles Times
There’s two weeks left in the regular season for football, and Mater Dei, Corona Centennial and St. John Bosco hold down the top three spots in the Southern Section Division 1 football poll. Here’s the link to complete rankings. In water polo, Harvard-Westlake is No. 1 and Huntington Beach No. 2 in Division 1. Here’s the link to complete rankings. Here’s the link to this week’s cross country rankings. Here’s the link…
Russian Sports Official Suspended Over Doping Resigns – New York Times
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Turner Sports to present special ‘Open Court: Sports and Society Show’ – NBA.com
Official release Oct 24, 2016 2:01 PM ET
Blockchain Players Look To E-Sports, See Dollar Signs – Forbes
Should Kids Be Allowed to Play Soccer? – Scientific American
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Heading a football may look effortless but many scientists have suspected it might actually harm the player’s brain. There could be real consequences—we know that brain injury is linked to an increased risk of dementia, for example. However, it has proven surprisingly difficult to find out the true impact of football heading, partly…
Nashville Soccer Club hires MLS exec to be team CEO – The Tennessean
x Embed x Share Court Jeske talks about the future of pro soccer in Nashville. Joey Garrison Court Jeske(Photo: Chris Trotman, Getty Images) Nashville Soccer Club, the city’s new United Soccer League franchise, has hired the team’s first chief executive officer, a key front office decision as the organization prepares to begin play in 2018. Court Jeske, who previously worked as vice president of international business for Soccer United Marketing, the commercial…
In soccer-crazed Brazil, game central to mayoral runoff – Fox News
RIO DE JANEIRO – In soccer-crazed Brazil, the game is proving central to the sport of electoral politics in one major city amid growing disgust with career politicians. The mayoral runoff in Belo Horizonte, the country’s sixth largest city, features two candidates associated with the first division Atletico Mineiro club based there, one as a former player and the other as its ex-chairman. Retired goalkeeper Joao Leite, who…
Watch college soccer player net incredible goal for overtime-winner – FOXSports.com
Unless you’re a Portland State University superfan, there’s a good chance you missed the best soccer goal of the weekend. It came off the foot of PSU player Breanne Chilton-Eddy, who sniped an awesome long shot into the top corner of the net from about 20 yards out. The sick strike was delivered in sudden death overtime and gave PSU a 2-1 comeback win over Weber State, so it was as clutch…
Texas soccer coach, an undocumented immigrant, accused of abusing 8 players – Fox News Latino
A soccer coach in Texas was arrested after he was accused of sexually abused eight of his players — boys between 10 and 15. Police say more players are likely to come forward. Marcos Ramos, an undocumented immigrant living in Corsicana, Texas, is also is wanted in his native Guatemala for sexually assaulting children, police said. He faces three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and five counts…
National Baseball Day Redux – Memphis Flyer
click to enlarge Can’t you just hear a long-suffering Chicago Cubs fan in 1958 — a half-century since his team won the World Series — whining? “You know, the Cubs will win the World Series the day a…
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