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Netflix-and-Cheer Night: All fans in attendance can watch “Mean Girls” on the Jumbotron while rooting for the home team. Unless “Mean Girls” isn’t on Netflix. (It was last time I checked, but that doesn’t mean anything.) If “Mean Girls” isn’t available, the crowd can look on as someone scrolls through other movie titles until the game is over or another worthwhile option is found—whichever occurs first. Followed by fireworks. Heartburn-Prevention…

Ever since the steroid era, baseball fans have been cautious about reading too much into unexpected leaps in player performance. Today’s jaded rooters assume that performance-enhancing drugs are to blame, somehow, whenever a player experiences a breakout or the league undergoes a transformation. So it’s no surprise that, with home runs flying out of parks at nearly an all-time high in 2016, many have reacted by assigning the responsibility to…

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Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Special needs children throughout South Florida will soon have the opportunity of a lifetime when they get to play baseball on their own dedicated and specially designed baseball field. That’s because the Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department and the Parks Foundation of Miami-Dade in partnership with the Miracle League of Miami-Dade County (MLOMD) and the Marlins Foundation will break ground on Saturday afternoon on the…

Two fans ignore the rain delay and celebrate atop the Minnesota Twins dugout during a rain delay in a baseball game against the Houston Astros Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016 in Minneapolis. The Houston-Minnesota game was postponed Wednesday by persistent rain that started in the third inning and was forecast to last throughout the night. (AP Photo/Jim Mone) In a few years from now, we’ll fondly recall the days when people…

The website of the organization that oversees competitive swimming in Australian has come under cyber attack, allegedly in connection with an Australian swimmer calling a Chinese competitor at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics a “drug cheat,” according to a report. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that the site remains operational despite a denial of service (DoS) attack where the site is overwhelmed by requests and stops functioning. The site’s operators…

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Who to Watch: Men: The men’s individual all-round can be seen Wednesday. Japan’s Kohei Uchimura is the favorite to take gold (Update: he won gold); watch out, though for China’s Deng Shundi, widely viewed as the gymnast most likely to upset Uchimura. Brazil’s Arthur Zanetti, the defending Olympic champion, is also in the mix. Women: The spotlight is on USA’s Simone Biles, 19, viewed as the…

Racing 31 miles on foot is no easy feat. And let’s say you also have to always have at least one foot on the ground. And your knee has to be locked straight whenever you take a step forward. And you can’t float mid-stride to propel yourself forward. This is what happens in the Olympic race walk, where competitors break seven-minute miles under these constraints….

Om Yun-Chol of North Korea competes during the men’s 56 kg category at the 2016 Olympic Games’ weightlifting events in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 7. (Nic Bothman/European Pressphoto Agency) It’s hard to fathom the excitement and stress athletes from all over the world feel when competing at the Olympic Games. But imagine if you were in Rio representing one of the most notoriously authoritarian regimes in the world. How would you feel then? Would you…

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“I am so happy because it is my first competition in the Olympics,” the Ethiopian told Reuters. “It didn’t matter where I finished.” Well, it kind of did matter. Footage of Habte’s race ricocheted around social media, as did pictures of Habte’s, shall we say, less than svelte physique. Standing 5-foot-9 and weighing in at 178 pounds, complete with Dad Bod paunch, Habte looked more like those of who watch…

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Jack Laugher and Chris Mears win diving gold Joe Clarke: who is the Team GB canoe slalom gold medallist? Max Whitlock ends Team GB’s 108-year wait in gymnastics Team GB defeat Argentina in sudden death in rugby Team GB’s Rio 2016 gold rush is well and truly underway after historic victories for kayaker Joe Clarke and synchro divers Chris Mears and Jack Laugher. Clarke, 23, kick-started GB’s quest for Olympic gold with…

Fehaid Al-Deehani, competing for the Independent Olympic Athletes, defeats Italian Marco Innocenti in the double trap gold medal match. Al-Deehani, 49, is of Kuwaiti descent, but sanctions forbid the nation from participating in the Olympics. This is the first Olympic gold medal for the IOA, and first medal since the 1992 Barcelona Games. All of the medals have come in shooting competitions.  A solider in Kuwait, Al-Deehani ruled himself out…

BOSTON – It’s only natural to assume Tim Tebow’s quest to play professional baseball is little more than a publicity stunt, but the former major-leaguer training the Heisman Trophy winner believes his protégé can make a successful transition to a new sport. Chad Moeller, a former Yankees catcher who played for seven teams during an 11-year big-league career, has been working with Tebow since late-May, helping the former…

Every year, we hear about different sports that are allowed to become official Olympic events, or sports that are events on a temporary basis, but they’re often just the same old sports, like baseball and softball. While I’m not necessarily coming up with some sports that should be in the Olympics, I’m talking about some physical sports disciplines that should definitely be Olympic events. I’ll try to cite examples as…

x Embed x Share Here are the best photos from Wednesday’s action in Rio. The U.S. team celebrates after winning the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay.(Photo: Jack Gruber, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANEIRO — Add another gold medal to Katie Ledecky’s ever-growing pile. Ledecky anchored the U.S. women’s 4×200 freestyle relay, leading the Americans cruise to victory ahead of Australia and Canada, who won silver and bronze respectively. In the…

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