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Baltimore — Adam Jones scored the winning run in the 10th inning on a low throw to the plate by pitcher Jordan Lyles, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Colorado Rockies 3-2 on Monday night for their fifth straight victory. Jones reached on a one-out single off the third-base bag and took third on a single by Jonathan Schoop. Manny Machado followed with a comebacker to Lyles, who fumbled…

Few things in baseball make me more uncomfortable as a television viewer than when a pitcher is making his Major League debut and the camera is trained on his parents. It’s not as big a deal when a hitter plays in his first big league game, because if he strikes out, hey, strikeouts happen all the time — get back out there, rook. But when a pitcher takes the mound,…

A Manassas, Virginia, teenager went into cardiac arrest after an unusual play on a baseball diamond in mid-July. His life was saved by the quick actions of a teammate, bringing the two players and friends closer. Steve Smith is fortunate to be able to play ping pong with Paul Dow, a friend and baseball teammate who Smith said saved his life. “I shouldn’t be alive, and I’m just blessed to…

The IOC’s ruling against a blanket Olympic ban for Russia was met with disappointment by many.(Photo: James Lang, USA TODAY Sports) Thomas Bach asserted, reiterated and repeated that, yes, indeed, the International Olympic Committee’s decision not to ban Russia from the Rio Olympics was in the interest of clean sport. In delegating the decisions about the eligibility of athletes in a state-sponsored doping program, the IOC was respecting the rights…

A Russian whistleblower who helped uncover the biggest doping scandal in decades has told Reuters that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is more concerned about protecting the organization than ridding world sport of drugs cheats. A day after the IOC rejected a request by his wife, former Russian drugs cheat Yulia Stepanova, to run in the Rio Games as an independent athlete, Vitaly Stepanov said an invite to attend the…

x Embed x Share IndyStar’s Curt Cavin and Gregg Doyel discuss Sunday’s Brickyard 400. Kyle Busch dominates, Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon have a nice moment and where are the fans? Clark Wade/IndyStar Buy Photo Nearly empty stands on the front stretch at the Brickyard 400, Sunday, July 24, 2016.(Photo: Robert Scheer/IndyStar)Buy Photo Attendance at NASCAR races is down across the country, as are television ratings. While the sport and…

Photo credit: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Athletes are arriving in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics, and have been greeted at the Athletes’ Village with gas leaks, power outages, and “a small fire.” The Australian Olympic Committee already declared the Village “uninhabitable”, and according to The Guardian, 19 of the 31 apartment towers (all of which are 17 stories tall) that comprise the Village have not passed safety tests. The list…

Few things in baseball make me more uncomfortable as a television viewer than when a pitcher is making his Major League debut and the camera is trained on his parents. It’s not as big a deal when a hitter plays in his first big league game, because if he strikes out, hey, strikeouts happen all the time — get back out there, rook. But when a pitcher takes the mound,…

BASEBALL: Kelsie Whitmore chases dream of being a pro baseball player Share Pin It More Galleries Focus on your game, Kelsie Whitmore told herself. Just play ball. It was a Friday, the first weekend of July, a few hours before Whitmore’s first game with the Sonoma Stompers, an independent-league men’s baseball team in California that plays in the Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs. Whitmore, a 5-foot-6 outfielder/pitcher,…

The Chicago Cubs acquired hard-throwing reliever Aroldis Chapman in a trade with the New York Yankees on Monday, giving the N.L. Central leaders a boost as they try for their first World Series title in more than a century. The Cubs paid a steep price, parting with top shortstop prospect Gleyber Torres, versatile pitcher Adam Warren and minor league outfielders Billy McKinney and Rashad Crawford. Chapman, who was rumored to…

By Dan Jenkins@DanTJenkins Sometimes it’s hard to sift through the internet and find inspiring things in today’s world, but every now and then there’s a story that captures people’s hearts. This video from over the weekend shows how rewarding having children can truly be. A dad from Oakland, California pretends like he completely forgot about his son’s birthday as they head off to the boy’s little league baseball game. The boy…

Mike Berman No one at WMAQ-Channel 5 is saying when — if ever — we’ll see the return of veteran sports anchor Mike Adamle, who’s been on personal leave since mid-March. But on Monday, the NBC-owned station announced the hiring of a new sports reporter and fill-in anchor. Mike Berman, a Chicago native who grew up in Northbrook and most recently worked at WTTV, the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis,…

The IOC’s ruling against a blanket Olympic ban for Russia was met with disappointment by many.(Photo: James Lang, USA TODAY Sports) Thomas Bach asserted, reiterated and repeated that, yes, indeed, the International Olympic Committee’s decision not to ban Russia from the Rio Olympics was in the interest of clean sport. In delegating the decisions about the eligibility of athletes in a state-sponsored doping program, the IOC was respecting the rights…

Having the Rio 2016 Olympics in a country with an ongoing Zika epidemic has some athletes and physicians concerned. But a growing number of scientists are predicting few new infections from the virus during the Games. A new report, published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, predicts that in a worst-case scenario there will be between six to 80 new cases of Zika among travelers at this summer’s…

The IOC was banking on the federations adhering to the criteria laid down and not putting forward individuals whose subsequent expulsion would cause them huge embarrassment. As of Monday, only three of the 23 governing bodies affected had announced they were satisfied the Russians in their competitions met the IOC criteria, those of tennis, triathlon and archery. World Archery said the country’s three qualified archers, Tuiana Dashidorzhieva, Ksenia Perova and Inna…

Kyle Busch has done it all—at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, anyway. The reigning Sprint Cup champion started on the pole and dominated both the Combat Wounded Coalition 400, the featured event, and Saturday’s Xfinity Series race, the Lilly Diabetes 250. No one else has ever done that on the same NASCAR weekend. The race today was boring…i love Indy but a 330 start, 100+ degrees and coupled with no…

We had a pretty strange Brickyard 400 Sunday that only saw three cautions in the first 130 laps. Then in the last 40 laps, because we did go into “Overtime”, we had five cautions. We had a red flag and two overtimes. When the checkered flag finally did wave, we had Kyle Busch and his No. 18 Toyota team kissing the bricks. That No. 18 was as close to flawless…

Stewart-Haas Racing will field a full-time, single-car team in the NASCAR XFINITY Series in 2017, the organization announced Monday.   The driver and sponsor of the team will be announced before the end of the 2016 season, SHR said. The team will be run from SHR’s headquarters in Kannapolis, North Carolina.    “In order to maintain the competitiveness that has earned SHR two championships since our debut in 2009, we…