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Forget “This One Counts.” Forget the fan voting. Forget the Home Run Derby and national anthems (please forget that) and pregame ceremonies. Tuesday’s All-Star Game wasn’t just an exhibition game — it was a delineation point, a clear juncture between the old guard and the next era of baseball stars. The man who bridged the gap was the last holdout of the prior era’s greats. Jeter and Rivera are retired,…

LENOIR COUNTY, NC (WITN) – A former high school coach accused of being sexually involved with a student made a brief court appearance this morning. Donnell Garris, III was released from the Lenoir County jail Tuesday night. The judge set July 27th as his next court date. The Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office received word Monday afternoon that there was possibly an inappropriate relationship going…

ALEXA WELCH EDLUND PRINCE GEORGE MATOACA BASEBALL 050316 Matoaca’s Robin Traylor pitches to Prince George Tuesday, May 3, 2016. ALEXA WELCH EDLUND COSBY HYLTON BASEBALL Cosby’s Ryan Clawson pitches to Hylton during the regional championship baseball game Friday June 3, 2016. Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 3:40 pm VHSL to set a pitch-count policy for baseball BY ERIC KOLENICH Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond Times-Dispatch The Virginia High School League is implementing…

To keep its nationwide bankruptcy liquidation from crashing to a halt, Sports Authority Holdings Inc. has cut a deal with senior lenders that portends bad news ahead for landlords and suppliers to the failed sports retailer. Going-out-of-business sales are still in full swing at many stores, as liquidators sell off the last bicycles, skateboards and rest of the gear and apparel still on the shelves. Sports Authority auctioned off its…

Think, for a second, about the most famous fans of D.C. sports teams. There’s Wolf Blitzer and Chris Wallace, Luke Russert and David Gregory, Alan Greenspan and Chuck Todd, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, Charles Krauthammer and Ben Bernanke. These are household names in many cases, important and serious men from Official Washington. But they’re not exactly Jack Nicholson or Spike Lee. Which isn’t to say D.C. teams have no celebrity supporters. The…

x Embed x Share Zika, pollution, political turmoil, muggings, doping, floating corpses among concerns Time The Christ the Redeemer statue is an iconic symbol of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which will host the Olympics in August.(Photo: Mario Tama, Getty Images) The 2016 Olympics are highly unlikely to spread Zika worldwide, federal officials said, noting that the 500,000 people expected to travel to Brazil for the August games account for less than 1% of…

Even now, eight years later, I’m not completely over it: The US softball team lost in the gold medal game of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It was the first time in Olympic softball history that the US didn’t win gold. It was horrible. I felt that we’d let down the tradition of USA softball. That we’d fallen short for all the women who’d paved this golden tradition for…

Photo via: Morry Gash/AP Images The Rio Olympics formally begin August 5th with the opening ceremony from the Maracanã stadium. Proceedings start at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, only you won’t be able to watch them on NBC until at least an hour later. At a press conference yesterday, NBC execs announced plans to broadcast the ceremony at 8 p.m. Eastern Time and 7 p.m. Central Time, each on one hour…

After finishing my last race at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, I went back to the arena and climbed the highest tower overlooking the pool. I sat there and looked out at all those empty seats, thinking, “What’s next?” I was 17. I’d already competed in two Olympic Games, winning two gold medals. Over the course of my career I’d set 18 fastest times and world records. And…

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Forget “This One Counts.” Forget the fan voting. Forget the Home Run Derby and national anthems (please forget that) and pregame ceremonies. Tuesday’s All-Star Game wasn’t just an exhibition game — it was a delineation point, a clear juncture between the old guard and the next era of baseball stars. The man who bridged the gap was the last holdout of the prior era’s greats. Jeter and Rivera are retired,…

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SAN DIEGO — This place rules. I know what you’re thinking: I’m saying that because I’m here right now, enjoying myself in the beautiful Southern California sunshine for All-Star Week and falling victim to the trappings of recency bias. But in fact, I am on record naming Petco Park my favorite in all of baseball during last year’s All-Star Week in Cincinnati. I’ve attended games in 28 of the 30…

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Northrop High School pitcher Garrett Schoenle can testify to the reality of a sophomore slump, and how to turn it into a junior jump. Schoenle burst onto the season as a freshman in 2014, proving to be one of the top pitchers around. His sophomore season didn’t go nearly so well, as he struggled to match his debut season. “As a sophomore, he over-thought the process,” Northrop coach…

Think, for a second, about the most famous fans of D.C. sports teams. There’s Wolf Blitzer and Chris Wallace, Luke Russert and David Gregory, Alan Greenspan and Chuck Todd, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, Charles Krauthammer and Ben Bernanke. These are household names in many cases, important and serious men from Official Washington. But they’re not exactly Jack Nicholson or Spike Lee. Which isn’t to say D.C. teams have no celebrity supporters. The…

‘Xavi Torres of Spain sets off at the start of the 200-meter freestyle heats,’ by Bob Martin Paralympic Games, Athens, 2004 Mr. Martin wrote numerous letters to the Paralympic Games committee seeking permission to shoot from a catwalk above the swimming events. From that vantage, he saw that a swimmer at the far end of the pool, Xavi Torres, had taken off his prosthetic legs as he prepared to race….

The two days after the All-Star Game is what’s known in my household as the worst sports days of the year. None of the four major professional sports leagues based in the U.S. have regular-season games scheduled (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL). With due respect to soccer, I’m just a casual fan of the U.S. national teams — a silly American if you will. Probably a dozen times between Monday and…