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Ron Mason, who guided the Michigan State hockey team to the 1986 national title, died Sunday night, the university confirmed.(Photo: David Guralnick / Detroit News) East Lansing – Ron Mason, who won more than 900 college hockey games and delivered the national championship to Michigan State in 1986, died suddenly on Sunday night at the age of 76. The longtime coach of the Spartans who went on to become the…

Texas A&M’s ‘ball’ chant will rattle any pitcher. Twitter screengrab One of the great differences in college sports vs. professional sports is the fan atmosphere. This isn’t to say professionals sports fans are bad in any shape or form. It’s just that there aren’t taunting chants like you’ll see below in any pro sports setting. Texas A&M, hosting the Super Regional against TCU for the right to go to the…

While Sutton predicts that fans won’t be bothered by another instance of sponsorship in sports, the true test of jersey advertisements will be when teams with iconic, minimalist uniforms, such as the Lakers or the Celtics, announce sponsorship deals. “Those are the ones that are going to draw attention, because those are the fabric of American sport,” Sutton says, adding, “If there’s going to be a large outcry, it’s going…

The 2016 NHL playoffs are over, and perhaps not a moment too soon for broadcasters. We will wait to see how ratings for Game 6 – the season’s finale – which featured the Pittsburgh Penguins claiming their fourth Stanley Cup, seven years to the day since they won their last one, in 2009. Yet, chances are the numbers are not good. And it might seem besides the point to bring…

Kasey Kahne, front, said it was “definitely hairy” driving in traffic Sunday at Michigan International Speedway.(Photo: Aaron Doster, Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports) BROOKLYN, Mich. — NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers said immediately after the FireKeepers Casino 400 that they liked the low downforce package used at Michigan International Speedway today. “I absolutely love it,” said Tony Stewart, who finished seventh. “The package is good. The aero package is starting to catch up…

Credit: Sandusky Scanner Live SANDUSKY, OH (WCMH) – Fire gutted the Ohio home of a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team early this morning. It happened shortly after midnight at ThorSport Racing on Campbell Street in Sandusky. Video shows flames shooting from the roof of the team’s 100,000 square foot facility. A statement from ThorSport indicates the fire broke out in the basement of the racing shop. ThorSport says they…

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Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this for Louisville. The No. 2 national seed Cardinals were the Vegas favorite to win the College World Series this year, until UC Santa Barbara came along and spoiled that fun in ridiculously dramatic fashion: a bottom of the ninth one-out grand slam and the Gauchos have punched their ticket to Omaha. This is UCSB’s first ever trip to Omaha, and they join Arizona has…

(Photo: The Associated Press) BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) — Joey Logano plopped into a seat, getting a much-needed break, when the 26-year-old driver found out he was just a part of history. Logano pulled away from the pack to win the FireKeepers Casino 400 and was followed by 20-year-old Chase Elliott and 23-year-old Kyle Larson, the youngest top three in NASCAR Sprint Cup history. “That’s pretty cool,” he said when informed…

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It wasn’t supposed to happen like this for Louisville. The No. 2 national seed Cardinals were the Vegas favorite to win the College World Series this year, until UC Santa Barbara came along and spoiled that fun in ridiculously dramatic fashion: a bottom of the ninth one-out grand slam and the Gauchos have punched their ticket to Omaha. This is UCSB’s first ever trip to Omaha, and they join Arizona has…

This is the way it’s always going to be with New England college baseball: The season starts, the season ends, and nobody really cares. For those who do care — and, really, we’re talking mostly parents, buddies, students, a few alums and a roving cast of connoisseurs — it ain’t easy. The games get rained out, get re-scheduled, get moved to different sites. Bring a parka and a Thermos and…

The Horned Frogs (47-16) got a masterful outing from 6-foot-9 starter Brian Howard (9-2). He allowed two hits, and one of those was to the Aggies’ first hitter, J.B. Moss. The rangy junior settled in and kept the Aggies (49-16) off-balance for seven innings. TCU coach Jim Schlossnagle then turned to hard-throwing reliever Durbin Feltman to close out the stunned Aggies. A&M led 1-0 nearly half the game before TCU…

In a year with no consensus top player, the Philadelphia Phillies led off Major League Baseball’s draft Thursday by taking Mickey Moniak, a high school outfielder from California. It could be a while before we’ll have a sense of whether Moniak is worthy of that selection. Even the top picks need time to develop, and that certainly figures to be true of Moniak, who was the first prep outfielder taken…

The baseball field in Village Hall Park in Prairie Grove was full of 19th century lingo Sunday as the McHenry County “Independants” – spelled incorrectly in a newspaper clipping from more than 150 years ago – faced the Grayslake Athletics. The teams, in semi-authentic garb of white button-up shirts and black trousers, played as if it were 1858. That meant underhand pitching, barehanded play and outs on balls caught after…

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<!– For a list of all the completed deals, check out the transfers page. <!– Crowd disturbances at Euro 2016 dominate the British press Manchester United are ready to make a £79m bid for Paris St-Germain’s 23-year-old midfielder Marco Verratti. (Corriere dello Sport, via Daily Star) Zlatan Ibrahimovic has promised to reveal the next club he will play for “soon” amid continued speculation about a move to Old Trafford. (Daily…

RELATED: Results | Post-Michigan standings | Chase Grid | Day in photos BROOKLYN, Mich. — It won’t silence all those “he needs to win” comments following Tony Stewart through his final season as a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver, but Sunday’s seventh-place finish was deemed a success just the same. “We haven’t been running good enough to worry about just winning,” the co-owner/driver of the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet said on the…