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The Washington Post has a long, revealing feature about the childhood of Donald Trump, an extremely rude ham hock. We’re most interested in the section that deals with Trump’s childhood love of baseball, and the description of what kind of player he was. From WaPo: By sixth grade, Donald’s power as a right-handed hitter was enough that fielders shifted to left field when he batted. “If he had hit the…

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…

Welcome to today’s daily fantasy baseball post! Remember that you can find our posts on the new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! 5 Things to Watch: 1. These are the four highest over/unders for Friday, provided by OddsShark… 2. Rain is in the forecast for the TB-BAL game. You saw that this game is projected to have a lot of runs, so be mindful…

11:31 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Cleveland finally got its trophy. Fifty-two years after the Browns won the 1964 NFL championship, the Cavaliers ended a drought that seemed like it would never end by roaring back from a 3-1 series deficit against the Warriors in the 2016 NBA Finals to bring glory back to Northeast Ohio. By my count, 151 teams representing Cleveland in the four major…

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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…

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So the votes are in. Britain’s status as a member of the European Union is now on borrowed time after the victory for the Brexit campaign. But what could that mean for professional sport in the United Kingdom? Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union establishes the procedures for a member state to withdraw from the EU. Once that is invoked, Britain will have a two-year window in which…

Despite bookmakers and polls forecasting a victory for the Remain camp last night, Friday morning brought the result that 52% of people voted in favour of leaving the EU. 72% of the country turned out to cast their vote and sports stars around the world have offered their take on the breaking news.

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…

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…

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’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…

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…

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,…

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…

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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…

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…