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It’s not about the money or the fame … Tim Tebow says he’s simply pursuing a baseball career for the love of the game. Tebow appeared on “Good Morning America” in NYC Monday morning — even though he’s got a game tonight in Arizona — and told Robin Roberts he’s having a blast playing minor league baseball.  “I’m so passionate about the game and pursuing it and playing every day…

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The teams have been selected, the stadiums are getting prepped, and the 2016 World Series is so close that you can practically smell the hot dogs cooking. But the Fall Classic isn’t quite here yet, so in the meantime, let’s look back at the NCAA careers of the players on each team. Many major league players sign with the team that drafted them directly out of…

If it’s October, it’s time for fall baseball in sunny Southern California. Defending City Section champion El Camino Real took on Division 1 semifinalist West Ranch on Saturday, and there were plenty of individual efforts to admire. Tim Josten, the ace left-hander for West Ranch headed to Cal State Fullerton, had one shutout inning and also had a triple, double and single. For El Camino Real, the next star player…

Consumers in sporting goods stores today are faced with seemingly countless choices of footwear. But are any of those innovations really helping you run longer or jump higher? And are those expensive sneakers any better? At the Portland, Oregon, headquarters of sportswear maker Adidas, footwear developers are using motion capture technology to design their latest shoes. It’s called ARAMIS — technology that NASA has used to analyze stresses on the…

MOSCOW Russia has dismissed a deputy sports minister at the heart of the doping scandal that led to its track and field athletes being banned from the Rio Olympics, the government said on Monday. Yury Nagornykh was named as a key player in an investigation into state-sponsored doping by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published weeks before the 2016 games. The report said Nagornykh was routinely informed about positive doping…

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The two teams squaring off in Major League Baseball’s World Series, which begins Tuesday night, have not won the fall classic for a combined 176 years. The Cleveland Indians, which will host the first two games in the best-of-seven series, last won the World Series (annual championship of Major League Baseball in North America) in 1948. The Chicago Cubs have not won the fall classic for 108 years – since…

Tim Tebow said his passion for the sport of baseball is making it “so much fun” to play with the New York Mets after transforming from a football star. “It’s amazing when you do something for the love of it,” Tebow, 29, said today on “Good Morning America.” “I’m so passionate about the game and pursuing it and playing every day is just so much fun.” The former NFL star,…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – 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 got…

RELATED: Race results | Standings | Chase Grid SHOP: Logano gear | Chase gear TALLADEGA, Ala. — If Joey Logano‘s victory in Sunday’s Hellman’s 500 at Talladega Superspeedway was decisive — in relative terms — the race between Denny Hamlin and Austin Dillon for the final spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup‘s Round of 8 was anything but. In an overtime race that went four laps past its scheduled distance,…

Sounders defender Zach Scott speaks on stage at the 2016 GeekWire Summit. Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire Growing up in Hawaii and working in pineapple fields, Zach Scott probably didn’t think he’d spend the first 15 years of his professional career playing soccer. But with perseverance, determination, a little luck, and a lot of hard work, Scott has defied stereotypes during his remarkable career with the Seattle Sounders FC. The 36-year-old will…

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Sophomore Andrew Sturtz netted his team-leading fourth goal of the season in overtime to lift Penn State past third-ranked Notre Dame 3-2 in non-conference men’s ice hockey action Saturday evening from the Compton Family Ice Arena. This marks the highest ranked team Penn State has ever defeated in the young history of the program. The win moves the Lions to 3-1-1 on the season while…

Former U.S. women’s national team star Lauren Holiday had surgery on Thursday to remove a brain tumor. She was diagnosed with a benign, operable brain tumor in June while carrying her child with New Orleans Pelicans player Jrue Holiday, and doctors induced birth early to expedite surgery which was slated for Thursday. Many friends and fans sent well-wishes to Holiday on social media as she prepared to undergo surgery: One…

You’ve probably heard talk about the rise of “e-sports,” the currently exploding business of professionals playing videogames—and, more important, audiences excited to watch professionals playing videogames. The Journal’s Sarah E. Needleman has been all over this topic for a while now. Investors, advertisers and media companies are lining up to get a piece of what they view as the next great sports phenomenon. There is indeed a lot of money…

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Ed Orgeron’s odds just improved to land the LSU head coaching job full time after his Tigers thumped Ole Miss 38-21. Orgeron still probably needs to win at least three of the Tigers’ four games left to have a good shot at getting the job permanently, and that’s still an uphill climb with Alabama, Texas A&M, Florida and Arkansas remaining. Could he still get LSU if he ends up 5-2 in the…

CLEVELAND – The atmosphere. Everyone remembers the atmosphere. How unique it was for a high school baseball game, how there had to be just the right combination of factors to create an environment jammed with students, scouts, energy and possibility. “It was a special night,” said Tom McNamara, then the Mariners scouting director. “We go to hundreds and hundreds of games. That one I remember.” On Feb. 17, 2011, Javier…

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