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Former Heisman Trophy winner and either subpar or blackballed NFL quarterback — depending upon who you ask — Tim Tebow would like to make a career of being a Major League Baseball player. (Pause for laughter.) As is bound to be the case when anything happens regarding the Tebow lightning rod, there was some completely and utterly dumb stuff being said on the internet on Tuesday. Let’s run through the…

One year after its shares began a 12% slide driven by concerns over ESPN’s growth trajectory, Walt Disney Co. has come up with an answer for Wall Street: The media giant said Tuesday it will spend $1 billion to acquire a 33% stake in BAMTech, the streaming media unit created by Major League Baseball. As part of the deal, ESPN will later this year launch a new digital service, separate…

Rangers DH Prince Fielder recently underwent major neck surgery for the second time in his career. At the very least, Fielder will miss the remainder of the 2016 season, but now comes this from Fox’s Ken Rosenthal: Sources have confirmed to multiple Rangers writers that Fielder is indeed done. The Rangers will reportedly be able to get some financial relief from insurance, according to Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning…

We’re on the ground in Rio covering the 2016 Summer Olympics. Check out all our coverage here. Does Brazil have a home-field advantage in Rio? More Sports Again and again, research has shown that home-field advantage is a constant in sports across the world. Basketball referees call more fouls on the visitors. Pitchers for the home team in baseball get a wider strike zone. Home teams in soccer receive fewer…

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Rangers DH Prince Fielder recently underwent major neck surgery for the second time in his career. At the very least, Fielder will miss the remainder of the 2016 season, but now comes this from Fox’s Ken Rosenthal: Sources have confirmed to multiple Rangers writers that Fielder is indeed done. The Rangers will reportedly be able to get some financial relief from insurance, according to Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning…

The most heated fight at the Rio Olympics lasted just a minute and four seconds. It was a battle between good and evil, the fair and unfair, the clean and the cheaters, with a hint of a Cold War twist. The conflict: a 100-meter breaststroke battle between two swimmers, American Lilly King and Russian Yulia Efimova. In Sunday’s qualifying race, King and Efimova came in first and second place,…

USA TODAY Sports’ Martin Rogers discusses what you should be watching at the Olympics on Tuesday. USA TODAY Sports

Tebow throws during a workout in July 2015.(Photo: Gary A. Vasquez, USA TODAY Sports) Tim Tebow is serious about his professional sports rebirth as a baseball player and his representatives said the former NFL quarterback’s workout for major league scouts won’t be a sideshow. Tebow has trained for the last several months in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Los Angeles at a sport he hasn’t played regularly for more than a decade. Tebow has…

An upcoming Fox drama about the first woman to play Major League Baseball is not merely about baseball, said its co-creator and co-executive producer, Dan Fogelman. “It’s a show that takes place in the world of baseball,” he said, “It’s about this young woman coming of age with the lens of the world watching her.” Fogelman doesn’t believe the series is based in folklore either, but more a…

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,…

On Sunday morning, the New York Yankees announced that Alex Rodriguez would play his final game for them this Friday. The 22-year veteran infielder and designated hitter departs with a star-crossed legacy. Rodriguez was amongst the top 10 professional athletes, in terms of pure talent, of the past two decades. Yet none invited more scorn throughout the better half of their careers—not even Tiger Woods. As the 14-time All-Star takes…

1. Basketball. Olympic basketball has typically devolved into overfed American basketball players bringing down 200 pounds and at least six and a half feet of national greatness onto opponents’ heads. I would have a problem with this, but a.) there’s more competitive parity in international basketball than ever before, and b.) I am American. VINCE CARTER OWNS EIGHT HUNDRED SQUARE FEET OF HIS CHOICE IN THE LOUVRE AND ALWAYS…

i Gold medal winner Lilly King, right, seen here celebrating with her U.S. teammate and bronze medalist Katie Meili, won the 100m breaststroke over her rival, Russia’s Yuliya Efimova. Adam Pretty/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Adam Pretty/Getty Images Gold medal winner Lilly King, right, seen here celebrating with her U.S. teammate and bronze medalist Katie Meili, won the 100m breaststroke over her rival, Russia’s Yuliya Efimova. Adam Pretty/Getty Images…

Former NFL quarterback and current ESPN broadcaster Tim Tebow is actively pursuing a career in professional baseball and plans to hold a workout for Major League Baseball teams later this month, according to his agents Jimmy Sexton and Nick Khan. For almost the past year, Tebow has been training in Arizona and Los Angeles to hone his play as a professional batter and outfielder in a sport he has not…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. –  Marine veteran Joyce Ralph sometimes stays at home in Massachusetts instead of going for a bike ride or doing other things she likes to do. She feels too anxious because of her post-traumatic stress disorder. Army veteran Paul Miosek sometimes feels isolated at his home in New York. No one else he knows is in a wheelchair. The two were among a group of about…

In the end, the most compelling drama took place in a press conference room in the bowels of the aquatics centre. At one end of the table sat the new Olympic breaststroke champion Lilly King from the United States. Further down sat her controversial Russian rival, the silver-medallist Yulia Efimova, keen to explain why people should have more sympathy over her previous 16-month ban for taking steroids. As a symbol…