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In Baseball’s Postseason, Slumping Batters Embrace the Unorthodox – New York Times
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After 70 Barren Seasons, Cubs Reach an Oasis – 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…
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…
Number-crunching US sport – 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…
Ticket prices for the Cubs-Indians World Series are insane – FOXSports.com
You probably could’ve seen this coming, but World Series ticket prices are going to be very expensive this time around. With the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians going head-to-head in the Fall Classic, we’re witnessing a matchup of two historically hard-luck franchises. The Indians haven’t won the title since 1948. The Cubs haven’t since 1908, and haven’t even made it to the World Series since 1945. So it’s a rare…
No. 78 part confiscated in pre-qualifying inspection at Talladega – Nascar
RELATED: Truex scores pole for Talladega TALLADEGA, Ala. — Martin Truex Jr. will start on the pole in Sunday’s Hellmann’s 500 (2 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway. It was clear sailing around the 2.66-mile track for the driver of the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota on Saturday. Meanwhile, dark clouds had gathered elsewhere. NASCAR officials confiscated the left-front jack bolt…
In Baseball’s Postseason, Slumping Batters Embrace the Unorthodox – 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…
Will the Switch bring sports back to Nintendo? – Polygon
A robust list of publishing partners and the coy inclusion of NBA 2K17 in a promotional reel stirred hope in some that mainstream sports might be returning to Nintendo with the Switch console. It’s too soon to answer that. A better question to ask is why it matters. That isn’t to disparage either Nintendo, sports video games or fans of either. But it’s always interesting to me why the sports genre,…
Cubs’ Kyle Schwarber could return for World Series – Sports Illustrated
Cubs outfielder-slash-catcher Kyle Schwarber was added to the Mesa Solar Sox of the Arizona Fall League on Saturday, and ESPN reports the team is hopeful he might return for the World Series. With the team in position to advance to the World Series with a 3–2 series lead on the Dodgers, it is technically possible that Schwarber could come off the disabled list and return should the Cubs get there, conceivably as…
Staggering figures behind US sport – NEWS.com.au
Video Image More than 10,000 fans greeted LeBron James and the Cavaliers as they returned to Cleveland Tuesday after winning the NBA Championship. Photo: AP The MLB rakes in the views. 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: Top salaries in the National Basketball Association are among the highest across the world…
Scottie Pippen’s Divorce Triggered By Larsa’s Relationship With Future – TMZ.com
Scottie Pippen filed for divorce after it became apparent — at least to him — that his wife Larsa was hooking up with Future … TMZ Sports has learned. There’s certainly lots of smoke. Sources on both Scottie and Larsa’s side tell us … she’s been jumping on Future’s private jet, traveling with him to various cities, including Vegas last month. Sources from both sides also say Larsa and Future were…
Truex may face Chase-ending penalty after NASCAR confiscates parts – Motorsport.com, Edition: Global
NASCAR confiscated hollow front jack screw from the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota during pre-qualifying inspection on Saturday, Motorsport.com has learned. According to rule 20.14.5.1.a which covers the car’s suspension, “Front jack screws must be constructed of solid, magnetic steel.” The infraction could have Chase implications considering that NASCAR does not address penalties until after the race. Typically, a penalty of this nature would fall under a…
Shane Sutton hopeful of British Cycling return and expects to be cleared of bullying allegations – Telegraph.co.uk
Cycling’s national governing body is on the hunt not only for a new performance director to work alongside the technical director – whether that is Sutton or someone else – but also a new chief executive to replace its long-standing CEO Ian Drake, who this week announced his intention to quit the organisation next April. Former GB rider Sara Symington is the favourite for the performance director role. The results…
United Soccer League Sees Attendance Rise 33% – Forbes
Appeal of Women’s Soccer Growing, FIFA Chief Says in Jordan – Bloomberg
Amman, Jordan (AP) — The U-17 Women’s World Cup hosted by Jordan shows that the sport “is not only confined to some parts of the world,” FIFA’s president said after watching North Korea win the title in a 5-4 penalty shootout against Japan. The competition, which ended late Friday, marked the first time an international women’s soccer tournament was held in the Middle East. FIFA’s Gianni Infantino said more needs…
Another of NASCAR’s young guns to take step up to Sprint Cup – FOXSports.com
Another of NASCAR’s young guns is ready to step up to the Sprint Cup Series. Gray Gaulding, an 18-year-old NASCAR Next alumnus, will make his Cup debut one week from Sunday at Martinsville Speedway. Gaulding also will drive the No. 30 Feed the Children Chevrolet for The Motorsports Group (TMG) for the final two races of the 2016 Cup season at Phoenix International Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway, the team announced….
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