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It’s the middle of July, the heart of the baseball season. But good luck finding an extensive amount of talk about the sport on the national TV network gabfest shows unless you’re tuned to MLB Network. Many of these programs are being dominated by sports that aren’t even in season. The NBA, especially Kevin Durant’s move from the Thunder to the Warriors and Dwyane Wade’s departure from…

A dozen years ago, the athletic director at Syracuse was a gray-haired, cardigan-wearing, Winston-smoking man named Jake Crouthamel. The job he held immediately prior was head football coach at Dartmouth. Crouthamel’s tenure ended in 2005, which doesn’t seem that long ago. In the realm of college sports, it might as well be eons. That was when sports people ran athletic departments, because the most prominent feature of college sports was…

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ATHENS — There were so many Olympians in the house, they couldn’t use one room to do interviews. The University of Georgia on Thursday invited the press over to Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall for an opportunity to meet and interview the Bulldogs who have qualified to compete in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, next month. To accommodate all the athletes and media coming there to see them,…

ANALYSIS/OPINION I guess even baseball’s Minister of Fun has his limits when it comes to making baseball fun again. Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper – who crowned himself baseball’s Minister of Fun when he declared before the start of the season that he was on a mission to “make baseball fun again” – says he won’t be taking part in one of baseball’s fun events at the upcoming All-Star festivities,…

Being Australian, I don’t have much time for baseball. That doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy baseball video games, though. Especially when they’re from the future. Super Baseball 2020 is a game developed by SNK and was first released in 1991 for its Neo Geo platform. It is, as the name suggests, an idea of what baseball may have looked like thirty years in the future, as envisaged not by Major…

Updated: Jul 7, 2016 – 7:53 PM ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A children’s baseball coach from Wisconsin is being held on no bond Thursday evening after Orange County deputies arrested him for inappropriately touching young boys. Nicholas Groth, 20, admitted to deputies that he touched three boys’ buttocks Sunday night while in the pool at Disney’s Pop Century Resort, according to an arrest report. Related Headlines Man accused of groping teens…

June 22, 1999 — Phyllis and Claude Robers, left, who have two lots, and Jean and Stan Heiligenthal, who have three lots behind their homes on Crestwood Drive in Burlington, have an area set aside with a small ballpark where children can practice for ballgames and their younger siblings can enjoy the playground equipment that Stan built. Stan Heiligenthal is being inducted posthumously into the Burlington Baseball Hall of…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The wildest of pitches were often tossed long after the lights went down on the field of dreams. When the bar stools, not the bases, were loaded and the shots came off a bottle not a bat. Raise a glass and sing along:                           Take me out to the ball game Take me out to the bar Buy me some whiskey, a stiff shot of Jack I don’t…

Sports talk continued its dominance of Boston radio in the spring as 98.5 The Sports Hub finished first and WEEI second during the three-month Nielsen Audio Ratings period. The Sports Hub earned an 11.0 share overall in the men 25-54 demographic from the period of March 24-June 15. WEEI earned an 8.1. Last spring, the Sports Hub was first (9.0) and WEEI was fifth (6.8). The Sports Hub has been the…

Kevin Durant signing with the loaded Golden State Warriors invites all kinds of on-court analysis. How much will Durant improve the Warriors’ already fearsome “death lineup”? Can Durant be a capable rim protector when the Dubs roll out those small, terrifying fivesomes? And how the hell is anyone going to stop a Steph Curry-Kevin Durant pick-and-roll? That’s not what the masses are talking about, though. The visceral reaction to Durant…

Syracuse’s Carrier Dome is one of college basketball’s largest venues. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli) A dozen years ago, the athletic director at Syracuse was a gray-haired, cardigan-wearing, Winston-smoking man named Jake Crouthamel. The job he held immediately prior was head football coach at Dartmouth. Crouthamel’s tenure ended in 2005, which doesn’t seem that long ago. In the realm of college sports, it might as well be eons. That was when sports…

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/ NCAA Logo Posted: Thursday, July 7, 2016 12:32 pm ‘Power 5’ conferences reach agreement on limiting time students spend on sports From staff reports Richmond Times-Dispatch Commissioners of the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC have agreed in principle on new regulations designed to limit the amount of time college students can be required to participate in athletics. The changes, which will be considered at…

ANALYSIS/OPINION I guess even baseball’s Minister of Fun has his limits when it comes to making baseball fun again. Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper – who crowned himself baseball’s Minister of Fun when he declared before the start of the season that he was on a mission to “make baseball fun again” – says he won’t be taking part in one of baseball’s fun events at the upcoming All-Star festivities,…

Four people were arrested after a 30-person brawl broke out at a Gates, New York, Walmart on Sunday. The melee reportedly began when two 17-year-old girls insulted a 24-year-old woman’s clothing. The families of the parties got involved as the confrontation erupted. “It was in total chaos when the officers got there,” Gates Police Chief Jim VanBrederode told WHEC. “It’s just disgusting to see that kind of behavior happening right…

Kevin Durant signing with the loaded Golden State Warriors invites all kinds of on-court analysis. How much will Durant improve the Warriors’ already fearsome “death lineup”? Can Durant be a capable rim protector when the Dubs roll out those small, terrifying fivesomes? And how the hell is anyone going to stop a Steph Curry-Kevin Durant pick-and-roll? That’s not what the masses are talking about, though. The visceral reaction to Durant…

Media playback is not supported on this device Wimbledon 2016: Serena Williams beats Elena Vesnina to reach ninth final Holder Serena Williams will play Angelique Kerber in the women’s singles final at Wimbledon on Saturday. Six-time champion Serena, 34, thrashed Russia’s Elena Vesnina 6-2 6-0 in 48 minutes to reach her ninth final. Fourth-seeded German Kerber, 28, prevented a fifth all-Williams final by beating Serena’s older sister Venus, who looked…

Following news that Jon Jones had been flagged for a potential doping violation after a drug test administered on June 16, USADA released a statement about the interim light heavyweight champion’s current situation. USADA (United States Anti-Doping Agency) handles the UFC’s anti-doping policy and they administered the testing and notified Jones and the promotion about the result on Wednesday. According to USADA spokesman Ryan Madden, who spoke to FOX Sports…

Of the 23 tracks that currently host one or more NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events, Kentucky Speedway remains the only venue that hasn’t seen a Chevrolet driver celebrating in Victory Lane. The 1.5-mile track, which will host Saturday night’s Quaker State 400 Presented (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) held its’ first Sprint Cup race in 2011. This weekend’s race will be just the sixth premier series event…