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Springfield High cruises into Class 3A baseball state title game – The State Journal-Register
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NCAA baseball Super Regionals: Scores, live updates on road to College World Series – NCAA.com
The 2016 baseball championship is down to 16 teams competing at eight Super Regional sites this weekend for the right to advance to the College World Series in Omaha. Four sites host games for their best-of-three series on Friday and Saturday with an if-necessary Game 3 on Sunday, while the other four sites will play Saturday and Sunday with the possibility of Monday. The College World Series begins…
Sports reporter’s racist insults get her thrown off air – New York Post
From calling Kevin Love “a little bitch” to saying she “didn’t even know that Mexicans were that smart” and the “Chinese guy is always the smartest guy in the class,” a Fox Sports Florida sideline reporter’s derogatory spew likely has cost her a job. Emily Austen appeared on a Barstool Sports video Thursday, and made a series of racist remarks during the 35-minute broadcast. In another segment, Austen was asked whether…
With more sports stars than ever, expect more morbid years ahead – New York Daily News
This has been an especially tough year and you better get used to it. In just the last week, the world lost sports legends Muhammad Ali and Gordie Howe. They were the latest in a too-long list of celebrities who died in 2016, a year that also claimed icons like Prince and David Bowie. Indeed, this has been an especially tough year in terms of…
Queen’s Birthday Honours: Alan Shearer & Alastair Cook made CBEs – BBC Sport
Alan Shearer played for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle in the Premier League Former England footballer Alan Shearer and England cricket captain Alastair Cook have been made CBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Formula 1’s Claire Williams and former jockey Hayley Turner become OBEs. Davis Cup captain Leon Smith and player Jamie Murray, Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson and Welsh Rugby Union president Dennis Gethin are made OBEs. There are…
Sports Video Games We Wish Existed – ‘Fight Night Champion 2’ – Forbes
Is beIN Sports the Future of Televised Sports? – Houston Press
The new broadcast partner for Conference USA is known as beIN Sports. Its original owner, Al Jazeera, launched the sports network in 2012. beIN Sports supposedly claims 45 million subscribers in the United States, yet to receive the network, one must subscribe to a premium sports package. It primarily airs soccer, and other European-based sports, and it’s not really known for its involvement with U.S.-based sports. Still, beIN Sports is…
A Hockey Luminary, Gordie Howe Glowed With Modesty – New York Times
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USA Swimming bans Brock Turner for life – CNN
Euro 2016 begins, Forbes’ rich list – Sport quiz of the week – BBC Sport
It’s BBC Sport and A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz – have you been paying attention to what’s been going on in the world of sport in the past week? A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz It’s BBC Sport and A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz – have you been paying attention to what’s been going on in the world of sport in the past week? You must have javascript…
Sports reporter’s racist insults get her thrown off air – New York Post
From calling Kevin Love “a little bitch” to saying she “didn’t even know that Mexicans were that smart” and the “Chinese guy is always the smartest guy in the class,” a Fox Sports Florida sideline reporter’s derogatory spew likely has cost her a job. Emily Austen appeared on a Barstool Sports video Thursday, and made a series of racist remarks during the 35-minute broadcast. In another segment, Austen was asked whether…
Muhammad Ali: memorial service begins in Louisville for boxing legend – live – The Guardian
Friday morning, hundreds of mourners and admirers gathered at an Ali memorial outside the Muhammad Ali Center in downtown Louisville. They added wreaths and banners and signs to a pile of others that had accumulated over the past week. Louisville resident Vanessa Moore and her daughter, 26-year-old Marcela, stood shoulder to shoulder and stared at the photos and drawings of the city’s hero. ‘We just can’t tear ourselves away,’ Vanessa…
Sports Video Games We Wish Existed – ‘Fight Night Champion 2’ – Forbes
The old college try: beIN Sports’ shrewd gambit for American eyeballs – The Guardian
In one corner, the House of Thani; in the other, Waffle House. As you might imagine, what rocks the socks off of Hattiesburg doesn’t necessarily translate in Doha. Or even London, much to John Duff’s chagrin. “When I was selling it internationally and on the discussion (phase) of it, I had to first start at the beginning and explain what college sports was,” Duff, the director of business development and…
Baseball Cards 2.0 – WNYC
Immediate gratification is now possible for baseball card collectors thanks to the Topps Company. They’ve given an update to the old-school classics for this year’s season with its new initiative, Topps Now. The company originally started selling baseball cards 65 years ago as a way to increase candy sales. Topps would place a few cards in a pack along with a slab of bubblegum. The candy would leave a sugary…
NCAA Baseball Tournament 2016: Bracket, schedule and scores for super regional round – SB Nation
The 2016 NCAA Baseball Tournament’s first weekend featured 101 games in the round of 64. The field has now been whittled down to 16 teams paired off into eight super regional sites, where they’ll play a best of three head-to-head series for the right to go to Omaha for the College World Series proper. Opening weekend saw a handful of upsets send some powerhouses packing. No. 7 national seed Clemson…
MLB Draft 2016: Tracking the Ole Miss baseball prospects – Red Cup Rebellion
Thought last weekend’s ugly regional sweep meant you could stop stressing about Rebel baseball until next February? Think again. The MLB Draft, which runs Thursday through Saturday, will have a major say in whether Ole Miss can improve its postseason performance in 2017. Depending on how high they’re selected, draft-eligible guys like J.B. Woodman, Errol Robinson and Brady Bramlett will be deciding whether to turn pro or come back to…
Tigers say two-sport star Matt Manning’s future is in baseball after picking him in first round – MLive.com
Matt Manning was planning to play baseball and basketball in college after excelling in both sports for Sheldon High School in Sacramento, Calif. But the Detroit Tigers expect Manning’s long-term future to be on the baseball field despite the fact he committed to play both sports at Loyola Marymount. The Tigers selected the hard-throwing right-handed pitcher with the ninth pick in the first round of Thursday’s Major League Baseball draft…
Marking time with the deaths of the baseball cards of my youth – MyAJC
One by one, chronicled by no less a chronicler than The New York Times, the baseball cards of my youth are dying. Back in December, it was former Boston Red Sox third baseman Frank Malzone. More recently, it was former Detroit Tiger second baseman Dick McAuliffe. Even more recently, it was Jim Ray Hart, who many years ago made something of a name for himself as a solid, if…
This Girl Can chief: Sport won’t be a man’s game for much longer – Telegraph.co.uk
Some 340,000 more people got active in the last 12 months – exercising one or more a week. And 75 per cent of that increase has come from women, in particular women over 40. That huge surge – equivalent to over 260,000 women and girls – actually means women are now as active as they were just after the London 2012 Olympic Games. But we don’t just report the numbers. We spend a…
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