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In Baseball’s Postseason, Slumping Batters Embrace the Unorthodox – New York Times
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Cubs Banish Decades of Anguish From Wrigley – New York Times
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Minnesota History: Rekindling a baseball great’s legacy – Minneapolis Star Tribune
Upward of 25,000 scraps of paper and yellowed newspaper clippings in Peter Gorton’s northeast Minneapolis basement tell dual stories that intersect at an improbable place: the central Minnesota town of Bertha. That mountain of research chronicles the dominant but largely forgotten career of a black baseball pitcher named John Wesley Donaldson. The other plot line centers on Gorton, a 46-year-old speech consultant and tireless researcher. For 14 years, Gorton has…
Mets’ Tim Tebow has yet to impress scouts with baseball skills – Newsday
MESA, Arizona — Regarding Tim Tebow’s future in baseball, the needle has not moved very much. After six games for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League, Tebow is hitting just .100, with two hits and an RBI in 20 at-bats, including seven strikeouts. Tebow, the former NFL quarterback who turned 29 in August, started out 0-for-12 in Arizona, but has picked it up a bit this week with…
The sad decline of baseball hero Curt Schilling: From “bloody sock” to right-wing afterthought – Salon
As we watch embers fly from the conflagration that is Donald Trump’s unhinged campaign for America’s presidency, it is tempting to start probing questions of its legacy. What will remain after this bad hombre retreats to Trump Tower and ascends the escalator from which he once entered our lives to announce his noxious candidacy? Much has been written about the toxic brew of misogyny, racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia that Trump…
Number-crunching the NBA vs rival US sports – Yahoo Sports
Los Angeles (AFP) – As the 2016-2017 NBA season gets under way next week, AFP crunches the numbers behind the world’s most popular basketball league and its rival US sports: – Money, money money – Top salaries in the National Basketball Association are among the highest across the world of team sports, with LeBron James due to pocket just under $31 million this season after negotiating a new three-year deal…
This Week In Sports Law: Louisville Violations, Derrick Rose Returns, Indians Keep Name And Logo – Forbes
Chelsea 4 Man Utd 0 – BBC Sport
Jose Mourinho, speaking to Sky Sports: “It started badly after a few seconds. We are close to the 1-1 and after another defensive mistake and it is 2-1. “You come with a strategy, you can not concede a goal in the way we did. “We were coming to have an offensive approach, we wanted to create chances, we showed that after the 1-0. The second and the third were counter-attack…
How two men brought hope back to the Chicago Cubs – FOXSports.com
It was the summer of 2011. As I walked from the first-base dugout toward the batting cage behind the right-field wall, I stopped to take in the ivy. How could you not? The ivy was perfect and so obviously well cared for. It seemed like the only thing in Wrigley with growth potential. In those days, like the stadium they played in, the Chicago Cubs were run down. They had…
LiveRelive an exciting fourth day in Chittagong – BBC Sport
Sabbir does Taijul no favours with a first-ball single, leaving him with five balls of Stokes, who stands at the end of his run licking his lips. The batsman backs away, he prods, he pokes, he cowers, but he survives as Stokes fail to bowl at the sticks.
In Baseball’s Postseason, Slumping Batters Embrace the Unorthodox – New York Times
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Chicago Cubs: City parties as baseball ‘curse’ ends after 71 years – BBC News
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Cubs leapt for joy on the field Chicago has been celebrating after the Cubs beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, taking the team into the baseball World Series for the first time since 1945. They partied outside Wrigley Field stadium after the Curse of the Billy Goat – supposedly placed on the Cubs by a disgruntled fan – was finally lifted. The team’s decades in…
Minnesota History: Rekindling a baseball great’s legacy – Minneapolis Star Tribune
Upward of 25,000 scraps of paper and yellowed newspaper clippings in Peter Gorton’s northeast Minneapolis basement tell dual stories that intersect at an improbable place: the central Minnesota town of Bertha. That mountain of research chronicles the dominant but largely forgotten career of a black baseball pitcher named John Wesley Donaldson. The other plot line centers on Gorton, a 46-year-old speech consultant and tireless researcher. For 14 years, Gorton has…
Theo Epstein’s Shrewd Moves Fortify Cubs With Impact Players – New York Times
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Mets’ Tim Tebow has yet to impress scouts with baseball skills – Newsday
MESA, Arizona — Regarding Tim Tebow’s future in baseball, the needle has not moved very much. After six games for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League, Tebow is hitting just .100, with two hits and an RBI in 20 at-bats, including seven strikeouts. Tebow, the former NFL quarterback who turned 29 in August, started out 0-for-12 in Arizona, but has picked it up a bit this week with…
The Cubs victory that was 71 years in the making – Yahoo Sports
CHICAGO – There’s still time for despair. But enough about that. You should’ve seen them, the Chicago Cubs, running around and shrieking in each other’s ears, celebrating one season and honoring about a century’s worth of others, loving the whole damned thing. That’s right. It will be said these Cubs, these very Cubs, have rubbed out a long, dreary history of bad baseball, dumb baseball, unfortunate baseball, some might suggest…
JGR cars sent back through Talladega qualifying inspection – Nascar
TALLADEGA, Ala. — NASCAR asked three Joe Gibbs Racing teams to make adjustments on their Toyotas just before Coors Light Pole Award qualifying Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway. The cars driven by reigning Sprint Cup champion Kyle Busch and his JGR teammates Denny Hamlin and Matt Kenseth were flagged in the minutes before qualifying. As the cars were being rolled out to the track, NASCAR noticed the right rear…
‘Big One’ hits Talladega Truck Chase race – Nascar
RELATED: Race results | Updated Truck Series Chase Grid A severe multi-truck crash thinned the field in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series’ fred’s 250 Powered by Coca-Cola at Talladega Superspeedway. The melee was triggered in the 59th of 94 laps, when Ben Rhodes‘ ThorSport Racing No. 41 Toyota was shuffled out of line after a push from Timothy Peters heading into the 2.66-mile track’s first turn. After bouncing…
Number-crunching US sport | Bangkok Post: news – Bangkok Post
LOS ANGELES – The 2016-2017 NBA season gets under way next week. Here AFP crunches the numbers behind the world’s most popular basketball league and its rival sports: LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers is due to pocket just under $31 million this season after negotiating a new three-year deal in August worth $100 million – Money, money money – Top salaries…
Penn State men’s hockey pulls off stunner over No. 3 Notre Dame – Centre Daily Times
When it comes to milestone wins, this one ranks right up there. The Penn State men’s hockey team left Notre Dame’s Compton Family Ice Arena on Saturday night with a statement to the rest of the college hockey world. Thanks to an Andrew Sturtz overtime goal, the Nittany Lions stunned No. 3 Notre Dame 3-2, to go with a tie the previous night. “It’s hard to close a team like…
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