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Terry Cannon, executive director of the Baseball Reliquary, recently launched an exhibit at the Burbank Central Library called “Feeling the Heat: Cuba’s Baseball Heritage,” which highlights Cuba’s extensive history in the sport. The Baseball Reliquary is a nonprofit organization that Cannon, a Pasadena librarian, runs and is a traveling baseball museum of sorts. It has organized numerous exhibits that have been on display in Burbank, Pasadena, South Pasadena and Arcadia….

SANTA ANA, Calif., Sept. 1 (UPI) — Baseball superstar Mike Trout was involved in a serious car crash Wednesday evening in which two other people were injured, authorities said. Trout, the All-Star outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels was driving home after the teams’s Wednesday evening game and his car collided with one or more cars as they tried to avoid another accident on the freeway. Trout was uninjured, but…

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At the plate, Tebow struggled to make contact, though he did crush one fastball well out of the park. In the field, ESPN reported, he “looked mechanical at times, had a misstep or two with his footwork, and showed a throwing arm that one scout gave a 40 grade.” (On baseball’s 20 to 80 scouting scale, with 80 being the highest, baseball website Fangraphs says 50 is the major league…

As we turn the calendar to September, MLB teams can expand their rosters. We’ll see some minor-league depth come up, we’ll see players return from injury without necessarily having to displace a player on the roster and — the most exciting part — we’ll see some prospects. The top one is coming, too. The Red Sox announced on Wednesday night that infielder Yoan Moncada will join the team from Double-A…

Terry Cannon, executive director of the Baseball Reliquary, recently launched an exhibit at the Burbank Central Library called “Feeling the Heat: Cuba’s Baseball Heritage,” which highlights Cuba’s extensive history in the sport. The Baseball Reliquary is a nonprofit organization that Cannon, a Pasadena librarian, runs and is a traveling baseball museum of sorts. It has organized numerous exhibits that have been on display in Burbank, Pasadena, South Pasadena and Arcadia….

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Sometimes it’s hard to separate our true beliefs from our lip service. One minute we encourage people to chase their dreams. The next minute we call them foolish and unrealistic. On one hand, we say nothing beats failure but a try. On the other hand, we say don’t waste your time on the near-impossible. One day we’re telling folks to believe in themselves and take chances. The next day…

By Peg Brickley, The Wall Street Journal Sports Authority executives will receive bonuses, despite the company’s bankruptcy and store closings. Sports Authority executives on Wednesday won the right to collect bonuses after a bankruptcy liquidation that erased some 14,000 jobs. Judge Mary Walrath cleared the company to pay up to $1.5 million to three unnamed senior executives over the protests of a federal bankruptcy watchdog, who called the bonus proposal unfair. With…

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Media playback is not supported on this device Watch some top goals from deadline day’s main men Premier League clubs spent more than £155m on transfer deadline day as the summer window outlay reached a record £1.165bn. Teams had already spent a combined £1.005bn as of 08:30 BST on Wednesday, shattering last year’s record £870m. Thirteen top-flight teams broke their own transfer records. The 20 clubs in the Premier League…

Photo credit: Christophe Ena/AP Images The history of professional cycling has been one long march towards trying to find the most interesting, spectator-friendly way to present what is, at its core, kind of a boring sport. Over one hundred years ago, a French newspaper created the Tour de France as the ultimate endurance competition and covered it extensively in order to sell papers. In recent years, race organizers have tried…

A group of Britain’s medal-winning cyclists from the Rio Olympics have written to Theresa May to tell her the best way to honour their achievements would be for the government to invest heavily in everyday bike-riding. The signatories, including Laura Trott, Jason Kenny, Mark Cavendish, Joanna Rowsell Shand and Becky James, as well as Sir Chris Hoy, jointly with Kenny the country’s most successful Olympian, told May: “You were widely…

The head coach of South Korea’s national swimming team resigned on Wednesday as police investigate allegations that two male swimmers secretly filmed female members of the squad after installing a spy camera in their locker room at a training facility in 2013. Ahn Jong-taek, who was named head coach in 2012, felt responsible for what allegedly happened under his watch, but maintained he and other coaches didn’t know what went…

x Embed x Share The former NFL player and Heisman Trophy winner held an open baseball workout at the University of Southern California for professional scouts. USA TODAY Sports Tim Tebow takes batting practice in front of scouts in Los Angeles.(Photo: USA TODAY Sports Images) LOS ANGELES — Clutching a baseball bat, Tim Tebow, the former NFL quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner, strolled toward the batter’s box. “All right, man,’’…

Terry Cannon, executive director of the Baseball Reliquary, recently launched an exhibit at the Burbank Central Library called “Feeling the Heat: Cuba’s Baseball Heritage,” which highlights Cuba’s extensive history in the sport. The Baseball Reliquary is a nonprofit organization that Cannon, a Pasadena librarian, runs and is a traveling baseball museum of sorts. It has organized numerous exhibits that have been on display in Burbank, Pasadena, South Pasadena and Arcadia….

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Photo credit: John Locher/AP Millions of Americans are gearing up for their fantasy football drafts. And thanks to the scores of lobbyists and lawyers employed by the daily fantasy sports industry, DraftKings and FanDuel are back in business in New York and many other states, just in time for the start of the NFL season. For the price of an “entry fee,” you can win a valuable “prize,” not to…

After Sky Sports News’ Alan Irvine was assaulted with a purple sex toy in 2014, clubs have allowed journalists to report from inside club grounds. But, despite being granted access to the club’s training ground, a strange number of journalists chose to talk to camera at a number of seemingly random locations. Roving reporter Vinny O’Connor, who was covering the comings and goings from Everton, opted to present the latest transfer…

Caption Close University of Houston football coach Tom Herman will not continue this season his weekly appearances on KILT (610 AM), a school spokesman and the station said Wednesday. Herman, who had a public disagreement with some of the station’s current and former hosts about a recruiting topic last year, will appear at 8:30 a.m. Thursdays on KBME (790 AM), which broadcasts UH games. ALSO SEE: UH coach Tom Herman…

Trials found that tall people maintained this superior ability even when they were sitting down and their shorter counterparts were standing on a box or a stool, showing that the advantage is somehow “hardwired” in the brain. Researchers at Ohio State University asked 24 participants – 12 tall and 12 short – to predict distance in a fully lit room, in the pitch dark with a green light as a…