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As the number of NFL players joining Colin Kaepernick’s silent protest grows by the game, the movement has yet to spread to baseball, where players usually stand for the National Anthem and salute the flag six days per week. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] Why is that? According to Baltimore Orioles star Adam Jones, it’s a matter of numbers and demographics and the same type of inequality…

You can do better, ESPN.  The network’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcasts are generally solid. The team of Dan Shulman (play-by-play) with Aaron Boone and Jessica Mendoza (analysts) and Buster Olney (roving reporter) does an excellent job providing insights into the game, and the game behind the game. That’s why this criticism of a moment during Sunday’s broadcast — Cubs at Astros — might seem a bit nitpicky, but it’s such…

Editor’s note: With fantasy football content ramping up, we will only publish three fantasy baseball DFS posts a week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (which will include some weekend picks, too). Thank you for understanding and I hope you continue to enjoy our content. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming… For those who are unfamiliar with my thought process, I aim to add as many home run hitters as possible…

Walking into the Padres clubhouse is like stepping into a testosterone-fueled, sweaty man cave. Half-naked players roam the halls lined with team logos from decades past; others play video games on the overhead TVs, surrounded by jockstrap-stuffed lockers adorned with photos of gorgeous pin-ups. The attention to detail makes it easy to forget you’re not actually in the team’s hallowed halls in San Diego, but on a soundstage on the…

It’s never too late for closer turnover. In fact, for the contending San Francisco Giants , it couldn’t come soon enough. With his eighth blown save Friday, his fourth outing in six in which he allowed at least one earned run, Santiago Casilla is out as the ninth-inning option, at least in exclusivity, with manager Bruce Bochy saying he’d go with whichever pitcher he thought gave his team the best…

Walking into the Padres clubhouse is like stepping into a testosterone-fueled, sweaty man cave. Half-naked players roam the halls lined with team logos from decades past; others play video games on the overhead TVs, surrounded by jockstrap-stuffed lockers adorned with photos of gorgeous pin-ups. The attention to detail makes it easy to forget you’re not actually in the team’s hallowed halls in San Diego, but on a soundstage on the…

Adam Jones, an 11-year major league veteran, was among just 69 African Americans on opening-day rosters.(Photo: Evan Habeeb, USA TODAY Sports) DETROIT – We see the silent, powerful and contentious protests now almost every time we turn on the TV and watch an NFL game. It started with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sitting, and later kneeling, during the national anthem during the NFL exhibition season. He was soon joined…

CID manages VIP packages for Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. PrimeSport, a leading sports VIP, travel and hospitality firm based in Atlanta, Ga., has acquired Philadelphia-based CID Entertainment, an innovator in the world of VIP music packages and enhanced experiences for events like Coachella and last year’s Fare Thee Well, Billboard has learned. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move expands PrimeSport’s roster of more than 150 official teams, leagues and…

Why is violating a sports ritual such a big deal? Rather than focus on either the nobility, courage, arrogance or ungratefulness of Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand up for the national anthem, I think it is more revealing to consider why it seems so important to sports fans that he stand up for the national anthem. It has been pointed out that when Donald Trump claims he wants’ to “make…

BRISTOL, Tennessee — Bristol Motor Speedway CEO Marcus Smith stood a few feet from the back of an end zone Saturday night admiring what he and his family had wrought. Essentially, they had staged the largest college football event in history without losing the charm, feel and experience of the game itself. But collegiality only goes so far. Smith smiled because he’d already heard via social media what Bristol fans…

The big differentiator between the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus is the latter’s dual-camera system, which Apple promises will offer the best photography ever in a smartphone. We’ve not been able to test this claim for ourselves, as reviews of the new iPhones are yet to be published, but we can now get a look at the sorts of images the iPhone 7 Plus produces thanks to a photo…

NFL Opening day in the NFL saw Kansas City cornerback Marcus Peters raise a black-gloved fist during the national anthem, a protest amplified later when four Miami Dolphins kneeled on the sideline with hands on their hearts as ”The Star Spangled Banner” played in Seattle. The protests were inspired by San Francisco backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick , the first NFL player who chose to sit and take a knee during…

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” —Nora Ephron Living in the 21st century, where we have devised the technology to monitor robots to do our bidding, there’s still one aspect where we fall grossly short when it comes to progress — gender equality. Rant as we might, the truth is that although the world may have moved three inches forward since the time of the World…

CHICAGO — Soccer injuries are sending soaring numbers of U.S. children to emergency rooms, a trend driven in part by young players with concussions seeking urgent medical care, a study has found. The findings, based on 25 years of data, partly reflect soccer’s growing popularity. But the researchers and sports medicine experts say the trend also is a result of greater awareness about concussions and their potential risks. Coaches and…

The “Hipster Highway,” the nickname for a stretch of Milwaukee Avenue heavily used by bicyclists, is caught in a paradox. The popularity of biking along the Northwest Side arterial, with its stretches of marked or protected bike lanes and its connections to downtown and The 606 trail, has contributed to the appeal of surrounding neighborhoods. But the trendiness of Goose Island and Logan Square and the improved economy have prompted…

Photo: Stevica Mrdja/Getty Images/iStockphoto In 1985, Nature published a paper arguing that women would outrun men in marathons by 2000. Like so many other things that were supposed to happen “in the year 2000,” this prediction never came to fruition. Women’s finishing times were indeed improving rapidly as compared to the rate of men’s improvements, but that was likely because women were so much newer to distance running as compared…

SATURDAY, Sept. 10, 2016 — Pain can be a problem for young athletes, so it’s important for parents to know how to deal with it, a pain specialist says. “Now that kids are back in school and fall sports are well underway, there are many things parents can do to help their children avoid getting hurt while still enjoying sports,” said Dr. Anita Gupta. She is a member of the…