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For those who are unfamiliar with my thought process, I aim to add as many home run hitters as possible to my daily fantasy baseball lineups. One way of doing that is to look at a player’s isolated power numbers (ISO). The ISO statistic removes singles and provides a larger weight for each extra-base hit. I also use the weighted on-base average (wOBA) metric. This stat takes every positive outcome into consideration. Last year,…

FOX Sports GO has now arrived on Apple TV, allowing viewers to watch up to four games at the same time, thanks to an innovative split-screen interface that lets you arrange video feeds side-by-side, picture-in-picture style, or in a mosaic pattern. With the app, you’ll be able to stream from channels including Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Fox Soccer Plus, Fox Deportes, and Fox College Sports, as well as…

We have a problem that needs to be addressed. One that has been going on for the last 13 summers, and likely much longer. One I’d like very much to rectify. Every summer I compile the list of the 25 Most Influential People in Oregon sports. I’ve been publishing the list since 2004. The glaring problem again this year? If my list were a movie, it would be titled, “Sausage…

It used to be that college football fans cared if their team was better than your team. Now they also care if their conference is better than your conference. We at USA TODAY Sports wanted to help clarify the answer by collecting and analyzing performance data for every FBS team in every conference. By combining strength of schedule data, rankings from the College Football Computer Composite, points per game differential,…

BETHESDA, Md.—Olympic swimming champion Katie Ledecky has broken records in pools around the globe. But in this affluent Washington, D.C., suburb, not even gold medals are enough to win quick entry into the Little Falls Swimming Club. Using an arcane set of rules, the club each spring welcomes a few newcomers into its membership, which is capped at 377 families. Competition is so intense that residents have been known to…

Some fools came to the Rio Olympics and opted to stay in their own hotel rooms, alone. Bold move, but I stayed in the Olympic media village, a newly built complex about 45 minutes away from the main Olympic park that will hypothetically be turned into condos in the near future. It had its quirks — it wasn’t really a hotel, so the inexperienced staff took about three hours to…

A rainbow arches across the sky over Lake Olmstead Stadium during the playing of the national anthem as Class-A Augusta GreenJackets play the Delmarva Shorebirds in Augusta on July 15. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post) AUGUSTA, Ga. — They trickled into the mid-July night, a rain-shortened loss beginning their Friday night early. A 25-year-old catcher hung back. Matt Paré chatted with teammates and underwent a long treatment session as other Augusta…

Minor league baseball is the gift that keeps on giving. Not only do they have some of the weirdest promotions you’ll ever see at a sporting event, but some of those promotions go awry and lead to livestock marching across the entire length of the outfield in the middle of a game. That’s what happened during Thursday night’s Class A game between the Batavia Muckdogs (Marlins) and the State College…

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 OK, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

In my view, God invented baseball to provide a sanctuary from the fallen world of politics. I believe I’ve missed two televised Red Sox games this year. To me, the seven-month major league season is the sporting equivalent of, say, ”Downton Abbey” — a complex, seemingly endless narrative filled with surprising events and unforgettable characters. My earliest specific baseball memory is racing into the bathroom where the old man was…

Twenty Major League teams will attend Tim Tebow’s baseball workout, suggesting there are some who believe he actually has a chance to make a positive impact on an organization. Like many other level-headed people, I am skeptical. Tebow’s trainer and Gary Sheffield previously expressed belief the former Heisman Trophy winner is secretly a spectacular baseball player just waiting for an opportunity. Former closer David Aardsma also believes Tebow is legit…

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The scene in Chimay, Belgium, in a fatal explosion. Vince Crate/Facebook An accidental explosion rocked a sports center in the Belgian city of Chimay shortly after midnight local time on Friday, Reuters and The Associated Press reported. At least one person was killed and as many as four were believed to be injured, two of them seriously, Reuters said. A report from the Guardian noted that there may have been five people…

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – One of the largest indoor sports complexes in Northeast Florida could soon be coming to St. Johns County. Project Family is a dream that’s been about five years in the making and could become a reality. For moms like Kristi Stovall, driving children to all their after-school activities can be a struggle to say the least. “We’re driving all over the place. We’re driving to…

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Tim Tebow’s High School Coach Gives A Glimpse Into QB’s Baseball Past, MLB Future Tim Tebow has been aiming high his entire life. But this might be his most ambitious goal yet. The 29-year-old will take the field Aug. 30 not as a quarterback but as a baseball player, holding a workout for reportedly more than 20 Major League Baseball teams — including the Boston Red Sox — in an attempt to kick-start a…

The fourth installment of the World Baseball Classic takes place next spring and, as expected, three of the host ballparks will come from Major League Baseball. MLB revealed Thursday that WBC games will take place in Dodger Stadium, Marlins Park and Petco Park. Dodger Stadium gets the top billing here, as it will host the semifinals and finals March 20-22. It previously held those two rounds in 2009. Dodger Stadium…