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RELATED: Latest updates, timeline on Dale Jr. Dale Earnhardt Jr. said problems with balance and nausea prevented him from driving in Sunday’s New Hampshire 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and he is encouraged by concussion test results that match his baseline test.   Earnhardt Jr. spoke for about three minutes in “The Dale Jr. Download” on his weekly audio update on Dirty Mo Radio, providing his first comments on…

reader comments 19 A former executive for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, Christopher Correa, was sentenced Monday to 46 months in prison. In 2013, he successfully guessed a password to access an online database for confidential data held by another baseball team, the Houston Astros. Correa pleaded guilty earlier this year to five counts under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a notorious 1980s-era hacking statute. “You have made it harder…

(CBS) It’s no secret across baseball that the Yankees are leaning toward selling at the fast-approaching trade deadline and that they also are enamored with Cubs slugger Kyle Schwarber, who’s out for the season with a knee injury. So naturally, speculation has ensued as to whether the Cubs — in need of bullpen help — would entertain the thought of parting with Schwarber to acquire lights-out lefty reliever Andrew Miller from the Yankees….

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The Sports Authority, a 28-year-old retailer, is shutting its doors in August. Getty Images The Sports Authority is shutting down its more than 400 stores by the end of August, so NinthDecimal ran a study to figure out which retailers may benefit from the 28-year-old sports gear brand’s absence. The measurement player said it tracked 135 million shoppers recently and learned that—based on their behavior—Big…

x Embed x Share An investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency released Monday says Russian engaged in a state-directed cheating program that resulted in at least 312 falsified results from 2011 though at least last year’s world swimming championships. AP An Olympic Games flag and a Russian flag waving during the closing ceremony of the Sochi Olympics.(Photo: Kirill Kudryatstev, AFP/Getty Images) We now know it’s not just Russian track and field….

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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,…

Baseball is too healthy. You can see the problem with that, what with all the money rolling in and the steady attendance. It’s like a fault line, continually building pressure, just waiting for that one little slip. Where’s the drama? Where’s the tension? Are we going to be engulfed in an 8.4 dramaquake after this unprecedented stability? Probably not anytime soon, but the Collective Bargaining Agreement is up after…

By Joe Uchill – 07/18/16 04:56 PM EDT The former St. Louis Cardinals employee who illegally accessed Houston Astros computers was sentenced to prison.  Christopher Correa, a 36-year-old former director of baseball development for the Cardinals Major League Baseball team, was sentenced to 46 months in prison.  Correa pleaded guilty Jan. 8 to five counts of unauthorized access to a computer.   Correa first accessed email and internal research of…

Former big-league pitcher Roger Clemens is still going to give this whole “playing baseball” thing a go at the age of 53. And he’s going to be joined by the most random assortment of former MLB players that we could ever think of. It was announced Sunday that an “MLB Star” team of sorts will compete in the summer’s National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kan. The NBC World…

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Former big-league pitcher Roger Clemens is still going to give this whole “playing baseball” thing a go at the age of 53. And he’s going to be joined by the most random assortment of former MLB players that we could ever think of. It was announced Sunday that an “MLB Star” team of sorts will compete in the summer’s National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kan. The NBC World…

The report looks into claims dozens of Russian athletes were doped in the build-up to Sochi 2014 Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme for four years across the “vast majority” of summer and winter Olympic sports, claims a new report. It was “planned and operated” from late 2011 – including the build-up to London 2012 – and continued through the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics until August 2015. An investigation commissioned…

NBC Sports Group has acquired Sport Ngin, which claims to have more than 5 million active users of its app for youth and amateur sports leagues to stay connected on the latest schedules, scores and activities. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. With the acquisition, NBC Sports is rebranding the startup as SportsEngine. Sport Ngin, based in Minneapolis, had raised about $39 million from investors including Causeway Media Partners, El…

When the Eagles largely cleaned house of Chip Kelly’s coaching staff this winter, only five assistants from last season remained. Intriguingly enough, one was Director of Sports Science and Reconditioning Shaun Huls.  Huls was hired by Kelly when he became the Eagles’ head coach in 2013 and helped implement key elements of sports science such as practice schedules, on-field GPS systems worn by the players during practice, protein infused smoothies after practice,…

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Former big-league pitcher Roger Clemens is still going to give this whole “playing baseball” thing a go at the age of 53. And he’s going to be joined by the most random assortment of former MLB players that we could ever think of. It was announced Sunday that an “MLB Star” team of sorts will compete in the summer’s National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kan. The NBC World…

Former big-league pitcher Roger Clemens is still going to give this whole “playing baseball” thing a go at the age of 53. And he’s going to be joined by the most random assortment of former MLB players that we could ever think of. It was announced Sunday that an “MLB Star” team of sorts will compete in the summer’s National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kan. The NBC World…