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Regular season baseball and playoff baseball are different. If the Atlanta Braves, the region’s favorite Major League team, have taught us anything, it’s that. South Carolina fans were reminded of that Sunday, when Oklahoma State ended the Gamecocks’ season with a 3-1 victory at Founders Park. USC finished the season 46-18 and won one of college baseball’s toughest divisions in the SEC East, but it didn’t win a game in…

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Dozens of teams ventured out for the Jimmy DeBoy Classic Baseball Tournament. The 10th annual event honors the late Jimmy DeBoy who was killed by an impaired driver in 2006 (WLFI). LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — Dozens of teams ventured out this weekend for the DeBoy Classic Baseball Tournament. The 10th annual event honors the late Jimmy DeBoy, a Lafayette boy who was killed by an impaired driver in 2006. Lafayette…

Texas A&M is playing for a trip to the College World Series. The stage is big, which provides the perfect opportunity for a videobomb. Did anyone else notice this? I’m dead. pic.twitter.com/yVZtdgrbT9 — Carter Karels (@CarterKarels) June 13, 2016 Classic millennial move! Well done, ma’am!

The Seattle Mariners used one of their 2016 draft picks to select someone who doesn’t even play baseball. In the 24th round, the team drafted Trey Griffey, a six-foot-three redshirt senior wide receiver with the University of Arizona Wildcats. Trey Griffey, son of Ken Griffey Jr., who played 11 seasons with the Mariners, does not play baseball. The younger Griffey reportedly hasn’t played baseball competitively since before he started high school. The Mariners listed…

Texas A&M would cruise to a 7-1 win over TCU in Game 2 of the Super Regional in College Station, TX to force a Game 3. The Aggies were helped by the home run tonight as the team finished with four.

For most people, what Jay Johnson has accomplished in his first year at Arizona doesn’t happen in a lifetime. Maybe the Wildcats didn’t win a Pac-12 Championship. But they’ve done better. They’re going to the College World Series. “I’m speechless,” Johnson said after winning Saturday night’s game 6-5 to advance to Omaha. “I’m so proud of these guys, their teammates that I can’t really put it into words….

x Embed x Share Louisville coach Dan McDonnell and key players talk about their loss to UCSB and exit from the NCAA tournament. Sam Upshaw Jr./The CJ Buy Photo Louisville Cardinals head baseball coach Dan McDonnell, right, gets a hug shorty after UC Santa Barbara overcame a 3-run deficit in the bottom of the 9th inning to win with a grand slam by freshman pinch hitter Sam Cohen. 12 June, 2016(Photo:…

Brooks Thompson, a first-round NBA draft pick and former Oklahoma State basketball player, has died.

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I’ll never forget the first time I saw a naked woman who wasn’t my mum. I was 12; she was a grown-up and standing in the showers at our local swimming pool, soaping her pubic hair into a lather. I don’t remember anything about her face, just her body: sinewy with some wobbly bits, and a big bush down below. At the time the sight of women displaying their bodies…

Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. plans to award $1 million over the next year to top players of its latest “Madden NFL” title. The prize money is a selling point for a new, four-tournament series beginning this fall, marking the first e-sports initiative from the nation’s second-most-profitable gamemaker since it launched a competitive gaming division in December. The “Madden NFL 17” Championship Series, announced Sunday, comes two days before the…

 Golden State Warriors All-Star Draymond Green has been suspended for Game 5 of the NBA Finals after collecting his fourth flagrant foul point of the 2016 playoffs in an altercation with LeBron James late in Game 4. The NBA announced the decision on Sunday to level a flagrant-1 after Green struck James in the groin with 2:48 left in the Warriors’ 108-97 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night….

The sports world reacted strongly Sunday to the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Baseball teams across the country held moments of silence after a gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday. At least 50 people were killed and the gunman died in a gunfight with SWAT officers, according to police. “We begin with our thoughts and…

PARIS – UEFA opened disciplinary proceedings against Russia on Sunday for crowd disturbances and racist behavior by its fans during a European Championship game against England. The governing body of European soccer also said it would strengthen security at stadiums in France in response to the disorder. The English Football Association, whose fans fled the stadium in Marseille after being attacked by a large group of Russian fans, has not…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck previews the top story lines for NASCAR’s upcoming “FireKeepers Casino 400” at Michigan International Speedway. Joey Logano is among a group of drivers in the top 16 in points still searching for their first win of 2016.(Photo: Matthew O’Haren, USA TODAY Sports) BROOKLYN, Mich. – It is NASCAR race day at Michigan International Speedway, and we’ve got all the information you…

International soccer can get a bit messy. Teams don’t have much time to train together, so games usually end up looking quite a bit sloppier than their elite club counterparts. Games where both teams play the same style can get a bit messy too, and that’s what happened between Croatia and Turkey on Sunday. Both teams wanted to pressure and win the ball high up the pitch, then counter…

UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Miesha Tate has briefly traded in her gloves for a NASCAR headset this weekend as she serves as the Grand Marshal of the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Managed by Kevin Harvick‘s management team Kevin Harvick Inc., Tate is no stranger to the track. But that wasn’t always the case: The UFC star considered herself a novice when she was first introduced to the racing world. RECAP: Miesha’s big UFC…

RELATED: Race results | Drivers react to Suarez’s win DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (June 11, 2016) — Daniel Suárez earned his first career NASCAR XFINITY Series win on Saturday at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan, becoming the first Mexican-born driver to capture a NASCAR national series victory. With the victory, Suárez clinches a spot in the NASCAR XFINITY Series Chase. Suárez, a graduate of both the NASCAR Drive for Diversity and NASCAR…

Texas A&M would cruise to a 7-1 win over TCU in Game 2 of the Super Regional in College Station, TX to force a Game 3. The Aggies were helped by the home run tonight as the team finished with four.