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As a 2-year-old court battle rages over whether minor league baseball players should receive minimum wage and overtime pay, two congressmen introduced a bill last week that says the answer should be no. Under the bill, minor leaguers would be added to the list of jobs exempted from the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) and Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), is intended to…

Batters up. Two female baseball players will join the Sonoma Stompers on July 1, the Independent League team announced. Seventeen-year-old Kelsie Whitmore, a pitcher and outfielder from Temecula, California, and 25-year-old Stacy Piagno, a pitcher and infielder from St. Augustine, Florida, will be in the lineup on Friday against the San Rafael Pacifics. Whitmore graduated from the California Baseball Academy and will attend Cal State Fullerton…

LAWRENCE – Rider University unveiled a new bachelor’s degree in sports media Wednesday. The major field of studies will provide students with the opportunity to build skills in multimedia production, writing, storytelling, social media and sports communications, university professor A.J. Moore said in a statement. “Whether students aspire to work in the sports industry as journalists, on-air broadcasters, public relations strategists, bloggers or producers, the program’s innovative interdisciplinary approach will give…

ESPN has nothing on this summer’s Republican national convention.  Donald Trump’s campaign aides are lining up a slate of iconic sports figures to appear at the convention in Cleveland next month—including former Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight, and NASCAR chief Brian France, people familiar with the planning told Bloomberg Politics. QuickTake How the U.S. Elects Its Presidents Talks are in the works with a broad slate of other celebrities and top athletes, so the…

Your teams. Your favorite writers. Wherever you want them. Personalize SI with our new App. Install on iOS or Android.​ OMAHA, Neb. — New blood has been ruling the pool so far at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials as emerging stars made their first teams and veterans struggled to keep pace on Tuesday. Here are five observations from the trials. New faces thrive Sure there will be some familiar names in Rio, but through…

Serena Williams thinks athletes skipping out on the Olympics because of the Zika virus are missing an incredible experience. “I think it is sad,” she told USA Today. “But at the same time I obviously understand where they’re coming from and how they feel. Part of me feels that way, too, which is why I’m going in, you know, with a whole mindset of how do I…

Cadel Evans AM. Stuart O’Grady OAM. Bradley McGee OAM. Katherine Bates. These are just some of the high-achieving former Australian cyclists whose images adorn the Champions Walk at the High Performance Unit (HPU) in Adelaide. Every day, when Australia’s current generation of cycling stars arrive at their training base, they must pass these photos as they descend into the bowels of the velodrome. Inspiration and pressure, in equal measure. Run…

With the Summer Olympics in complete disarray, Stephen Colbert examined the mess in Rio: “I am pumped for the Rio games. They are less than two months away … or never,” Colbert said. Sidebar Zika: The Epidemic at America’s Door » “Just yesterday, Rio’s acting governor warned ‘The Olympics could be a big failure,’ which is actually an improvement because until yesterday, it looked like a massive catastrophe,” Colbert said….

x Embed x Share Belmar native Dave Schofield is set to retire as the team photographer for the Lakewood BlueClaws and Trenton Thunder. Buy Photo Ed Bush, owner of GameDay Sports, in his store in the Ocean Co. Mall—June 20, 2016 -Toms River, NJ.-Staff photographer/Bob Bielk/Gannett NJ(Photo: Bob Bielk/Gannett NJ, Bob Bielk/Asbury Park Press)Buy Photo Growing up in Toms River, Ed Bush always loved sports. “I played youth soccer, practically…

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Take a trip. Go around to every swimming pool, track, gymnastics practice, fencing academy, dojo, wrestling tournament and (sighs) dive meet in your town and ask the kids, the ones who haven’t hit their teenage years and figured out their own athletic limitations, what they want to do in their sport. Where do they want to be? What’s the ultimate goal? “The Olympics,” is all you’ll hear. It won’t be “gold medal…

Several of the NBA’s best American-born players elected to skip the 2016 Olympics in Brazil due to various reasons (the need for rest, injury recovery and the impending birth of their children among them). Naturally, some brave soul with a byline is willing to shame those stars for daring not to don the stars and stripes in Rio. And that brave soul is Brian T. Smith of the Houston Chronicle….

What is gender? It might sound like the kind of question that college students debate in a liberal arts class.1 But for the International Olympic Committee, it’s a practical question that demands a hard and fast answer. As at previous Olympic Games, athletes competing in Rio de Janeiro will be segregated into women’s events and men’s events, and that means the IOC needs a way to sort women from men….

If this were anywhere in the world but a well-to-do American suburb, the sight wouldn’t have seemed so odd: a pack of children of varying ages and abilities playing soccer on their own without a peep of direction from coaches or parents. Of course, this being suburbia — Evanston, specifically — this form of pickup soccer wasn’t exactly what you’d find in the streets of Rio de Janeiro. A coach…

You’ll recall that Hall of Fame relief ace Goose Gossage is not particularly enamored of the contemporary ballplayer’s flourishes. We’re talking bat-flips, admiration from the batter’s box, and the like. These matters and many others — anything, really — fall within the nebulous heading, “the unwritten rules of baseball.” Indeed, oral tradition has always been the game’s guide when it comes to throwing a righteous tantrum over the behavior of…

Waking up and rushing to check the standings following a night of baseball action is a time-honored tradition. It’s one that crescendos, too — as the season advances and every game makes a bigger difference, checking the standings can be as tense and terrifying as a horror film.  For some people, even that’s not enough. They want to be an active participant in the ebbs and flows of a baseball…

A public celebration of life services for Summitt has been scheduled for 7 p.m. ET July 14 at Thompson-Boling Arena on the Tennessee campus.(Photo: Saul Young, AP) You don’t have to care about sports to care about her Role model. Hero. Legend. Champion. Pat Summitt was an extraordinary woman, who lived an extraordinary life and touched people in extraordinary ways. She showed that a woman could be tough and unrelenting and powerful…