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Whether you’re a high school student or an NFL team owner, everybody texts. ReplyBuy, a finalist in the 1st and Future competition, wants to use the text message to get you tickets for sporting events. 1st and Future is a sports-centric startup competition produced as a joint effort between the NFL, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and TechCrunch. The current version of ReplyBuy works like this — the company sends a text message to all San…

The great Rio sportsfest is over. The Paralympians have arrived home, and they are recovering from their jet lag. The Olympians are already on to the next thing. Memories are fading of the state-sponsored doping scandal that overshadowed the opening of the Games in August and led to around 100 Russian athletes being excluded from the Olympics, and all Russian athletes being banned from the Paralympics. So there is a…

Barcelona tweeted shortly after the game that Lionel Messi will be out for three weeks Lionel Messi will be out for three weeks after suffering a groin strain in Barcelona’s draw with Atletico Madrid. The striker went off on 59 minutes on Wednesday after a Diego Godin tackle. He was forced to miss Argentina’s World Cup 2018 qualifier against Venezuela earlier this month with a groin injury, but has played…

With the start of the NBA season on the horizon, the Clippers and Fox Sports Prime Ticket announced Wednesday that they had  finally reached an agreement to extend their exclusive television deal. The deal will earn the Clippers around $50 million to $55 million per season — which just about doubles the $25 million annually Prime Ticket paid the team in the previous deal — according to officials who were not authorized…

Here’s some hard truths about NASCAR and racing in the wake of the sanctioning body’s decision not to penalize Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their cars flunked post-race inspection at Chicagoland Speedway. First, a quick recap of the news.  NASCAR decided — quite correctly — that giving a 10-point P2 penalty for both drivers for being minimally out of spec wasn’t fair. By virtue of his win, Truex…

NASCAR has decided not to penalize Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their cars both flunked post-race tech in the laser inspection station following Sunday’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway. In a late-afternoon teleconference on Wednesday, NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O’Donnell talked about the decision to not penalize the drivers and teams, and explained procedures going forward. Sunday night at Chicagoland…

Whether you’re a high school student or an NFL team owner, everybody texts. ReplyBuy, a finalist in the 1st and Future competition, wants to use the text message to get you tickets for sporting events. 1st and Future is a sports-centric startup competition produced as a joint effort between the NFL, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and TechCrunch. The current version of ReplyBuy works like this — the company sends a text message to all San…

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Dusty Baker is one of two African American managers in baseball currently. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) ATLANTA — As one of the few African American managers in the major leagues — and perhaps the most prominent over the past two decades — Dusty Baker knows he is a go-to voice on race at baseball’s highest level. He has expressed his beliefs on plenty of occasions and recently did on Jackie Robinson…

Dusty Baker is one of two African American managers in baseball currently. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) ATLANTA — As one of the few African American managers in the major leagues — and perhaps the most prominent over the past two decades — Dusty Baker knows he is a go-to voice on race at baseball’s highest level. He has expressed his beliefs on plenty of occasions and recently did on Jackie Robinson…

A youth sports coach in Evergreen Park has filed suit against Little League Baseball International claiming he suffered severe emotional distress after the organization dismissed his claims that the 2014 U.S. title-winning Jackie Robinson West baseball team had cheated by using ineligible players. Chris Janes, vice president of the Evergreen Park Athletic Association Little League, said he received death threats, suffered public humiliation and feared for his life after voicing…

This Thursday, 28 ballplayers will step onto Brooklyn’s MCU Park baseball diamond wearing blue-and-white uniforms with “Israel” written across the chest, as they compete against Great Britain in the first round of the qualifying tournament of the World Baseball Classic, the sport’s equivalent to the World Cup. Win and the Israeli team will face either the Pakistani or Brazilian club, or both. The winner of the entire four-team, double-elimination contest will be awarded the 16th and final spot at the…

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NASCAR is being sued on allegations that it blocked efforts to racially diversify U.S. motor sports, according to multiple media reports. The lawsuit, filed Friday by Diversity Motorsports CEO Terrance Cox, charges that the stockcar racing organization “has intentionally interfered with the efforts of Cox and Diversity Motorsports to integrate the U.S. motorsports industry by perpetuating, condoning and actively participating in actions designed to humiliate, degrade, ostracize and exclude Cox.” Cox…

Dusty Baker is one of two African American managers in baseball currently. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) ATLANTA — As one of the few African American managers in the major leagues — and perhaps the most prominent over the last two decades — Dusty Baker knows he is a go-to voice on race at baseball’s highest level. He’s expressed his beliefs on plenty of occasions and recently did on Jackie Robinson Day…

Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow took the field again Monday, but this time making his minor-league baseball debut. The 2007 Heisman trophy winner joined the New York Mets for their three-week instructional league at Tradition Field in Port St Lucie, Florida. It’s a training camp that allows young players to develop their skills within a structured environment, something that will benefit Tebow as someone who hasn’t played organized baseball since…