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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Baseball’s Hall of Fame has again revamped its veterans’ committees, attempting to increase consideration for more contemporary players, managers, umpires and executives.

Welcome to Sunday’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the brand-spanking new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! Let’s get to Sunday’s interesting facts, using DraftKings prices. Five Things to Watch: 1. Here are the three highest projected over/unders, provided by OddsShark… ATL-COL 12 MIN-BOS 9.5 ARI-CIN 9.5 2. Weather: Pittsburgh and Miami both have strong chances of thunderstorms, but we…

Outfielder Ken Griffey and catcher Mike Piazza will be inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Sunday, July 24, 2016. Here’s what you need to know: What: 2016 Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Where: Clark Baseball Center, Cooperstown, N.Y. When: Sunday, July 24, 2016 Time: 1:30 p.m. Eastern TV: MLB Network Livestream: www.baseballhall.org Piazza will enter as a Met A former Mets great, Piazza, who was in his fourth year…

To paraphrase Walter Matthau on poker, it seems baseball card collecting combines all the worst aspects of capitalism (and investing) that have made our country so great. Well, maybe not all of them. After all, no baseball card company, that I know of, ever fabricated the statistics of a player to make his card more valuable, as Enron and others have done and will do with their…

His baseball career has taken him all over the U.S. and to Japan, South Korea, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Great Britain.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (July 23, 2016) — NASCAR and Chevrolet today announced the launch of the second annual NASCAR Chevrolet Diversity Scholarship Contest during a press conference at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Through this initiative, NASCAR and Chevrolet continue their longstanding commitment to Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) education and promoting opportunities for college students pursuing technology related careers. The contest challenges students to identify a technology or innovation within NASCAR…

Ken Griffey Jr. was baseball’s last pop culture icon.(Photo: Marc Serota, Getty Images) CINCINNATI — Kevin Falls is a Giants fan, so when he was writing the movie ‘’Summer Catch’’ and (spoiler alert) it came to the end when his main character, Ryan Dunne, makes the big leagues and is facing his first big test, Falls wanted that player to be Barry Bonds. He got Ken Griffey Jr. instead. In…

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Sports Authority Holdings Inc.’s vendors and landlords are looking to pull the plug on the retailer’s bankruptcy case. The retailer’s unsecured creditors filed court papers Friday calling for the lights to be shut off permanently, saying Sports Authority faces mounting administrative claims on which it will never be able to get a grip. …

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

Ken Griffey Jr. was baseball’s last pop culture icon.(Photo: Marc Serota, Getty Images) CINCINNATI — Kevin Falls is a Giants fan, so when he was writing the movie ‘’Summer Catch’’ and (spoiler alert) it came to the end when his main character, Ryan Dunne, makes the big leagues and is facing his first big test, Falls wanted that player to be Barry Bonds. He got Ken Griffey Jr. instead. In…

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Associated Press MOSCOW The International Olympic Committee is weighing up whether to ban Russia from next month’s games in Rio de Janeiro after revelations of a massive doping cover-up, but relations between the two were once much sunnier. When IOC president Thomas Bach was elected in 2013, he was called almost immediately by Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country was then gearing up to host the Winter Olympics in Sochi….

Vladimir Putin says officials named in the McLaren report will be suspended, pending a thorough investigation Russian President Vladimir Putin said “there can be no place for doping in sport” after his country’s athletes were told their ban from this summer’s Olympics remained in place. Russian track and field athletes are banned from Rio 2016 after claims of a state-sponsored doping programme. Putin said: “Sport must be clean and the…

COLORADO SPRINGS — Outside it was a beautiful spring day with Pikes Peak looming majestically to the west, but as Desiree Linden pounded out miles on a treadmill in a hermetically sealed room at the Olympic Training Center, it was a Sunday morning in August in Rio de Janeiro. And she wasn’t at 6,100 feet, she was at sea level imagining the Olympic marathon. Linden was sweating hard in the…

RELATED: Practice 1 results | Final practice results Kyle Busch closed out final NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice atop the leaderboard Friday afternoon, recovering from a spin earlier in the day and landing the fastest speed at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Busch, the defending race winner, lapped the track with a best speed of 184.619 mph in the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Toyota as teams made mock qualifying runs ahead…

Paul Konerko readily admits there are times when he misses baseball. He doesn’t miss it enough consider a full-time role yet, but misses it enough to keep his options open. The former White Sox captain who retired after the 2014 season maintains a busy schedule without being around the game. Besides serving as an assistant coach for his son’s youth baseball team, Konerko fills his days with being a father,…

i Beep baseball player Kerry Kuck practices at Ruby Hill Park in Denver, Colo. Hyoung Chang/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hyoung Chang/Getty Images Beep baseball player Kerry Kuck practices at Ruby Hill Park in Denver, Colo. Hyoung Chang/Getty Images There sure has been a lot of sports in the news these days. NBA Finals, UEFA Cup, Wimbledon, the ongoing endurance test which is Major League Baseball. Sports is a…