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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….

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…

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Mario and his friends are starring in another sports game, Mario Sports Superstars, which is on the way to Nintendo 3DS in spring 2017, Nintendo announced today during a Nintendo Direct presentation. Mario Sports Superstars will feature five different sports: baseball, soccer, tennis, golf and horse racing. While the game doesn’t look like it’s intended to offer a simulation experience, it will be realistic in terms of how the…

With NFL roster-cutting having begun this week, many veterans, rookies and free agents across the league are without an employer and their playing future is uncertain. But there’s new hope thanks to a promising upstart that can connect them with off-the-field employment opportunities. Starters  is a platform  that provides football players (NFL)  access to an innovative community of sports tech and business connections – that can use their network of…

Updated September 01, 2016 16:02:12 Photo: The ASC says a lottery would help fund future Australian Olympic teams. (AP Photo: Jae C. Hong) The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) wants a national lottery to help fund the nation’s next Olympic team, after admitting the Rio squad fell short of expectations. The ASC wants more funding for Australian athletes and today proposed a replica of Great…

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…

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…

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…

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…