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On Friday night, at Albert Park, in San Rafael, California, the Sonoma Stompers ran onto the pitching mound, hugged one another, laughed, and sprayed champagne. Jose Flores, their six-foot-four closer, had just sailed a fastball by the San Rafael Pacifics slugger Brent Gillespie, leaving the bases loaded and preserving the team’s 5–4 victory. With it, the Stompers claimed the Pacific Association title. Five hundred and ninety-two fans were on hand…

Cam Tringali always envisioned playing baseball at South Carolina. Now he’ll get the chance. The Cardinal Newman senior pitcher committed to the Gamecocks Tuesday. “It is my dream school to play at since I was six years old and going to games at Sarge Frye Field,” Tringali said. “It seemed far fetched at the time, but I have been working for a long time.” The 6-foot-4, 185-pound right-handed pitcher had…

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<!– For the latest rumours, gossip and debate, check out our Sportsday rolling news service every weekday, and for a list of all the completed deals, see our transfers page Paris St-Germain defender David Luiz could be in line for a shock return to Chelsea. The Premier League club have offered £30m plus add-ons for the Brazil international, who left Stamford Bridge for France two years ago in a £50m…

Revelations of Russian doping have been one of the worst scandals in the recent history of sport An overhaul of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has been proposed in a bid to restore trust in international sport. The leaders of 17 national anti-doping organisations met at a special summit in Copenhagen this week. The group says the fight for clean sport is now “at a crossroads”. Damning reports into Russian…

LOS ANGELES — Tim Tebow showcased his baseball skills Tuesday before a bevy of scouts on the University of Southern California campus, in a spectacle broadcast by dozens of television cameras, many live. The 29-year-old former college All-American and NFL quarterback ran a 60-yard dash, threw, caught flies and grounders in the outfield, took standard batting practice and then faced two pitchers with big league experience in live batting practice….

It’s baseball … but not really. It’s the latest thing! But also super old.  Meet vintage baseball, a new fad embraced by hipsters and historians, as profiled by the Guardian Tuesday. Vintage baseball looks a bit like the sort you’ll see in MLB, but vastly stripped down and returned to the roots of the game.  The playing field looks like an open plot of land. Uniforms are baggy with floppy hats….

Revelations of Russian doping have been one of the worst scandals in the recent history of sport An overhaul of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has been proposed in a bid to restore trust in international sport. The leaders of 17 national anti-doping organisations met at a special summit in Copenhagen this week. The group says the fight for clean sport is now “at a crossroads”. Damning reports into Russian…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay When he announced his reasons for not standing during the “Star-Spangled Banner,” San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick entered a decades-old debate over the song’s straddling of politics and sport. A number of teams and individual players have dropped the anthem, or refused to acknowledge it, since it became part of gameday routines in the early half of the 1900s. In just…

Located down the street from Wilshire Country Club and in the fashionable Los Angeles neighborhoods of Hancock Park and Windsor Hills, Marlborough School, an all-girls school, has completed a $27 million project that should be a boon for its sports program. There’s a new aquatics center featuring a pool that’s 33 meters by 25 yards. There’s an expanded sports field with all-weather turf composed of cork and sand rather than…

Hope Solo had a rough Olympic experience this year. Not only did she and the rest of her USWNT teammates fail to medal, but Solo also then proceeded to call the Swedish team “a bunch of cowards” after they eliminated the Americans. It was enough to earn the veteran goalkeeper a six-month suspension from USA Soccer, possibly ending the 35-year-old’s international career. As it turns out, documentary cameras were present…

Betty Jane France speaks during the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series awards banquet.(Photo: Chris Trotman, Getty Images for NASCAR) Betty Jane France, wife of the late Bill France Jr. and mother of racing executives Brian France and Lesa France Kennedy, died Monday night. Though her husband and children were involved in making NASCAR what it is today, France was perhaps best known for her charitable efforts. She founded the NASCAR Foundation…

x Embed x Share Katie Ledecky talked about getting ready for dorm life, swimming at Stanford, inspiring young swimmers and maybe getting her driver’s license. USA TODAY Sports After dominating the marquee distance events, how can Katie Ledecky keep growing as an elite athlete and as a competitor?(Photo: Peter Casey, USA TODAY Sports) If it’s not obvious by now, it should be: The only thing Katie Ledecky chases is history….

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Only four days after signing a new contract with Al Ittihad, a club in Egypt’s Premier League, Cameroonian Samuel Nlend is on the look-out for a new club. His chances of finding one, however, are, all of a sudden, very slim. Nlend’s contract at the 102-year old Egyptian club was reportedly canceled after a routine medical test found the player tested positive for HIV. BREAKING: Ittihad of Alexandria terminate Samuel…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

Welcome to today’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! Also, please scroll to the bottom of this article to see the latest tweets from Ryan Fowler (@FOXSportsFowler), D.J. Foster (@FOXSportsFoster), Adam Meyer (@FOXSportsMeyer) and me (@jhalpin37). That way, if information surfaces for any last minute changes, you can see our thoughts instantly….

On Friday night, at Albert Park, in San Rafael, California, the Sonoma Stompers ran onto the pitching mound, hugged one another, laughed, and sprayed champagne. Jose Flores, their six-foot-four closer, had just sailed a fastball by the San Rafael Pacifics slugger Brent Gillespie, leaving the bases loaded and preserving the team’s 5–4 victory. With it, the Stompers claimed the Pacific Association title. Five hundred and ninety-two fans were on hand…

The rigors of the long season were starting to get to the Golden State Warriors . Back-to-backs, cross-country flights in the middle of the night, the mental and emotional toll of staying sharp through a seemingly endless season — all of these factors were wearing down the winningest team in the league. That’s when Steve Kerr and a couple other members of his staff got an idea: Let’s mock the…

Gran Turismo’s PlayStation 4 debut will have to wait a little while longer. Sony has announced that Gran Turismo Sport — which was originally slated to launch on the PS4 in November, with additional support for PlayStation VR — has been delayed until 2017. “As we approach our planned release date in November, we realize we need more time to perfect GT Sport, which we’ve already dedicated so much effort…