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5 Reasons To Watch The US Olympic Team Trials For Swimming – TeamUSA.org
Matt Grevers competes at the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool at Indiana University Natatorium on Dec. 11, 2015 in Indianapolis. The 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Swimming starts on Sunday in Omaha, Nebraska. Over the eight-day meet, hundreds of America’s top swimmers will vie…
US Olympic team rounding into form but won’t have LeBron James in Rio – ESPN
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment The United States men’s Olympic basketball team is taking shape. Star LeBron James confirmed Thursday that he won’t be a part of it. James, fresh off leading an MVP performance in the NBA Finals for the champion Cavaliers, told Cleveland.com on Thursday that he won’t join coach Mike Krzyzewski & Co. in Rio de Janeiro come August. “I could use the rest,” James told…
Man Who Discovered Hockey No-Shows NHL Awards – Deadspin
Anthony Holmes, the man who discovered that playoff hockey is fun, and then a month later discovered that the Blues will never win anything, was supposed to appear at Wednesday’s NHL Awards in Las Vegas. He never showed up. http://deadspin.com/man-discovers-… Man Discovers Hockey, Loves It Man Discovers Hockey, Loves It Man Discovers Hockey, Loves It The NHL convinced one more person to please like its sport last night. A man…
Brazil beefs up security for the Olympics after high-profile attacks – Los Angeles Times
Brazil’s government on Thursday announced additional security measures for the Summer Olympics after a string of violent incidents in Rio de Janeiro. On Sunday, Australian Paralympian Liesl Tesch was robbed of a bike at gunpoint while cycling near her hotel in the stylish Flamengo Beach area. The same morning, armed men invaded Rio’s largest emergency public hospital to free a drug trafficking suspect who was receiving treatment under police guard. Another patient was shot and killed…
Summer baseball team holding ‘Second Amendment Education Night’ – CBSSports.com
There’s going to be a “Second Amendment Education Night” in Battle Creek, Mich. on Friday, June 24. The event is sponsored by Freedom Firearms, who are actually calling it “Second Amendment Appreciation Night.” The Battle Creek Bombers are the host team. Though the Second Amendment is a particularly hot button topic due to what is going on in Congress right now, a local report indicates that this event has been…
IMPORTANT: Defenses shifted against baseball-playing sixth-grader Donald Trump – CBSSports.com
Did Donald Trump have game? USATSI The Washington Post has a lengthy batch of articles on presumptive Republican nominee for President, Donald Trump, as part of an upcoming book. All the links are on their site for those interested in what appears to be some incredibly in-depth work and involve lots of background on him. For our purposes, though, we stay in our lane. This is a baseball blog and,…
Undercover Tour Pro: Why Golfers Are Bailing On The Olympics – GolfDigest.com
What Baseball Can Really Teach Kids – Wall Street Journal
ENLARGE June 23, 2016 7:08 p.m. ET Pssssst! Do you want to read a really positive story about kids and baseball? I know: not what you were expecting, right? Seems like every other day, there’s some hand-wringing claim about baseball’s shrinking influence upon today’s youth. When we talk about baseball, geezers like us might as well be talking about pay telephones, vinyl records and hard candy! (We might as well…
Olympics 2016: Tracking Which Golfers Have Bowed Out of Rio – Golf.com
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US Olympic team rounding into form but won’t have LeBron James in Rio – ESPN
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment The United States men’s Olympic basketball team is taking shape. Star LeBron James confirmed Thursday that he won’t be a part of it. James, fresh off leading an MVP performance in the NBA Finals for the champion Cavaliers, told Cleveland.com on Thursday that he won’t join coach Mike Krzyzewski & Co. in Rio de Janeiro come August. “I could use the rest,” James told…
10 Dorky Ways the Congressional Baseball Game Will Restore Your Patriotism – Washingtonian.com
One night a year, lawmakers leave their smoke-filled rooms and pick up their bats and gloves for the Congressional Baseball Game, a bipartisan tradition dating back to 1909. The two teams—made up of 22 Democrats and 34 Republicans—will face off at Nationals Park today at 7:05 PM, and at only $10 a ticket, the game bills itself as a “fiscally responsible” evening out. Washingtonian asked writer Nathaniel Rakich, who has covered the event for…
Statistics Level Baseball’s Playing Field – Wall Street Journal
Last summer, an independent-league baseball team in California called the Sonoma Stompers entrusted its season to us, two writers with backgrounds in baseball statistics. We signed players, guided strategy and told the fielders where to stand for the most effective defense. We had no experience running a team, but we did have data, and we promised the owner of the Stompers that we would use it to build a new…
Movies|Paul Giamatti, a Baseball Commissioner’s Son, Makes His Own Calls – New York Times
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A Soccer Game, With an Orchestral Soundtrack – New York Times
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Rio Olympics: Here is a list of all the golfers who will not compete this summer – CBSSports.com
To this point, only nine golfers have withdrawn from the 2016 Olympics even though it feels like a lot more than that. Rory McIlroy is pretty clearly the biggest name, but he’s not the only big-time player not going. Here are the nine who have cited all manner of things from the Zika virus to a compressed PGA Tour schedule for why they will not be up for consideration this…
Swedish Soccer Player Farts Near a Ref, Gets Thrown Out of the Game – GQ Magazine
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Asking why the U.S. isn’t better at soccer is a really dumb question – Sporting News
It happens pretty much every time the United States men’s national team departs from another major international soccer tournament. It could be the World Cup or the Confederations Cup or, this time, the Copa America Centenario. MORE: Team USA in Copa America Centenario photos Whether the U.S. plays well and loses (as it did against Belgium in the 2014 World Cup) or plays miserably and is embarrassed (for instance, Tuesday night…
Death, destruction: 5 signs Rio’s not ready for the Olympics – USA TODAY
x Embed x Share The jaguar was fatally shot after escaping its handlers and charging at an officer, according to the Brazilian army. Wochit The Olympic Torch, held by an athlete, is seen by a jaguar –symbol of Amazonia– during a ceremony in Manaus, northern Brazil, on June 20, 2016. The jaguar, who was named Juma and lived in the local zoo, had to be shot dead by soldiers shortly…
Meet the crowd favorite at the Congressional Baseball Game – WTOP
WASHINGTON — The annual Congressional Baseball Game is an only-in-Washington kind of event. Played at Nationals Park in front of a healthy crowd of rowdy spectators, Democrats and Republicans from the House and Senate lace up their cleats, throw on uniforms and play honest-to-goodness hardball on the big-league diamond for bragging rights and to raise money for charity. And while the wonky cheers from the crowd may differ from your…
Statistics Level Baseball’s Playing Field – Wall Street Journal
Last summer, an independent-league baseball team in California called the Sonoma Stompers entrusted its season to us, two writers with backgrounds in baseball statistics. We signed players, guided strategy and told the fielders where to stand for the most effective defense. We had no experience running a team, but we did have data, and we promised the owner of the Stompers that we would use it to build a new…
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