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The narrative around Clayton Kershaw is more entrenched than deserved. Has he been stellar in his postseason career? Hardly — not by his incredible standards, at least — but his postseason performances haven’t been all terrible, either. This is a guy who won Game 4 of last year’s NLDS with a three-hit, one-run outing, after all. Still, the best pitcher in the world had something to prove in Game 4…

SAN FRANCISCO — Game 5, couldn’t you just see it happening? Johnny Cueto starting for the Giants, against a Cubs team that he dominates. Madison Bumgarner stomping out of the bullpen, the way he did in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series. The entire city of Chicago babbling about curses, staging a massive freakout at Wrigley Field. “It would have been really tense, to put it mildly,” Cubs president…

The club’s new digs will be at an old fish camp, and club leaders believe the new facility will help them greatly expand rowing’s popularity in the Gainesville area. By Justin Ford Correspondent As storm clouds threatened and steady rain rolled in, fishermen and strollers at Powers Park rolled out, leaving the glassy surface of Newnan’s Lake to Gainesville Area Rowing’s master class. Rain or shine,…

Tim Tebow warms up before his first practice in the Arizona Fall League. (Rick Scuteri/AP) The Scottsdale Scorpions got their first real-game taste of Tebowmania Tuesday, and they darn near got the total package. The 29-year-old former quarterback, now a Mets prospect making his Arizona Fall League debut, got his first real-game taste of the outfield wall with a memorable face-plant while chasing a hard-hit ball. Oh, and he also laid his hands on…

If you’re following major league baseball this season, you’re watching a game that has gotten more powerful recently. After the MLB put its foot down on performance enhancing drugs in the early 2000s, the league saw a serious drop in the number of home runs hit, but the power hitter seems to be back: players hit a lot more home runs than usual this season. And the rise of the…

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It depends on who’s wearing them. We’re not going to be like those awful magazines and smug websites that try and impose their stupid style commandments upon the world and then judge those who deign disobey their decrees. You know what I’m talking about – the folks who say men can’t wear shorts (especially of the cargo variety), jerseys, shoes without socks, etc. Nonsense. Hey, you do you, fellow men…

Unless you’re a teacher or work for the government, you probably won’t be getting a pension. And even if you’re in a union and will be getting one, it probably won’t be for hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. But if you’re a Major League Baseball player who’s managed to stick around in the big leagues for a while,…

Cities used to covet the Olympic Games. Hosting them meant glamour and prestige. Not anymore. Rome became the latest city to abandon a bid for the 2024 Summer Games when it withdrew on Tuesday because of worries over the cost. Budget concerns have led city after city to drop their Olympic dreams in recent years. Hamburg, Germany, previously bailed on 2024. Stockholm and Krakow, Poland, pulled the plug on bids…

At No. 5 Experimental Primary School in the coal-mining city of Taiyuan, the red carpet is out. School girls in pink and white stand at the entrance, while fellow students sit in perfect rows inside, awaiting the arrival of a VIP. With the city’s education chief and other local dignitaries on the stage and TV cameras hovering in the background you might expect a foreign leader or Communist Party bigwig,…

Second-generation NASCAR driver Harrison Burton is the newest addition to KHI Management’s expanding list of high-profile athletes after signing a multi-year deal with Kevin Harvick’s marketing company. Burton, the son of former NASCAR driver Jeff Burton, is scheduled to make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut at Martinsville Speedway on Oct. 29. He will also run a partial Truck Series schedule in 2017. “I realize how fortunate I am…

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GameStart’s Elicia Lee says response this year for her event has been phenomenal. Aloysius Low/CNET Not content with topping education rankings globally for math and science, Singapore’s well on its way to becoming a gaming powerhouse — as GameStart Asia showed when it returned for a third year. With numbers surpassing last year’s 17,000 attendees, last weekend’s event attracted over 20,000 attendees. It’s become one of the two big cons…

A VR documentary series will chronicle the journey of four climbers and their attempt to ascend Everest this year. There’s no exact date for when the “multipart, multi-platform production” will premiere just yet, only an “early 2017” estimate. Time says that this “Capturing Everest” series will be the first VR project from Sports Illustrated that will debut on its Time Life VR platform that was announced in September. It’s not…

VenueNext Inc. has raised $15 million in Series B funding to bring its venue management technology to Europe, and beyond the live entertainment industry. Among other things, using VenueNext apps, people can wave their mobile tickets at the gate to get into a game or concert, order food, drinks or merchandise to be delivered to their seats, and get information and amenities that they need when they are in the…

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You can’t kill the San Francisco Giants. No matter many blows you land, no matter how lopsided the fight is, the Giants refuse to go down. Call it even-year magic or the Bruce Bochy effect, but the Giants have won three World Series this decade not necessarily because they were the best team, but because they were the team that more so than all others refused to die. Monday’s (Tuesday’s…

The former first baseman for the Brother Elephants, Taiwan’s equivalent of the Yankees, now spends most of his days and nights deep in a local stadium, in a spartan room with all the charm of an old warship.   He sleeps on a thin bed. Sports gear towers above him on metal cabinets. A coffee table overflows with snacks, ashtrays and teacups.   It is the coach’s quarters, where the…

Joe Panik hit a walk-off double to rightfield, scoring Brandon Crawford, to give the Giants a walk-off 6–5 win over the Cubs in Game 3 of the NLDS. San Francisco forces a Game 4, now trailing 2–1 in the best-of-five series. Game 4 will be played on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. ET. After Conor Gillaspie’s two-run triple gave the Giants a 4–3 lead in the eighth, and Brandon Crawford…

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