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It was the kind of throw from center field at Dodger Stadium that would have made Willie Mays or Roberto Clemente nod with approval. Daniel Moreno of El Camino Real retrieved a single by Chatsworth’s Andrew Renteria in right center after one bounce. He was moving forward when he released the ball with all his might. It landed straight into the glove of catcher Eric Yang, who tagged out Daniel…

OMAHA, Neb. – The Iowa baseball team did without drama Saturday. A day after rallying from a 4-0 ninth-inning deficit to beat Ohio State 5-4 in 10 innings, the Hawkeyes piled on 11 runs on 14 hits for an 11-0 semifinal win over Maryland. The game was scoreless until the fourth when Robert Neustrom’s single followed two straight walks and put Iowa in front. Daniel Aaron Moriel added an RBI…

Cameron Spencer/Getty When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, legend has it that King Gustav V of Sweden presented him the medal and said, “You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.” “Thanks, king,” Thorpe is rumored to have responded. Exactly 100 years later, at the 2012 Olympics in London, Oregon-native Ashton Eaton became the…

New Orleans Pelicans forward Bryce Dejean-Jones died early Saturday morning in Dallas from injuries sustained from an apparent gun-shot wound. Dejean-Jones, 23, was a promising rookie who went undrafted in 2015 and played 14 games for the Pelicans last season. View photo . Bryce Dejean-Jones (NBAE/Getty Images) “It is with deep sadness that the Pelicans organization acknowledges the sudden passing of Bryce Dejean-Jones,” the team said in a statement. “We…

NEW YORK — The red signs are up — Sports Authority began its going-out-of-business sale months before it’s slated to close all 450 stores nationwide. Sports Authority started the sale Thursday just in time for Memorial Day weekend. “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS,” the retailer wrote on the top of its site. “Everything now up to 30% off original ticketed price.” The liquidation sale varies in each location. The company said it will close all…

MOSCOW — Russia’s Olympic Committee says eight of the country’s athletes have registered positive in doping retests for the 2012 London Games. CBS Evening News New details in Russian doping scandal Secretly recorded conversations obtained by “60 Minutes” implicate at least three Russian gold medalists from the 2014 Sochi Olympics for the use… The brief statement from the ROC on Saturday did not give names or what disciplines the athletes…

With Brazil already swarming with Zika-loaded mosquitoes, hosting 500,000 foreign athletes and spectators for the 2016 Olympic games there in August poses unnecessary health risks and is downright “unethical,” according to an international group of 150 health experts. In an open letter to Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, the group strongly urged that the games be moved or postponed. The health experts appealed to WHO, a…

Caroline Wozniacki hits a forehand against Vania King on day three of the Miami Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center on Key Biscayne. Wozniacki won 7-5, 6-2. (Photo: Geoff Burke, USA TODAY Sports) PARIS — There lies only one problem with Caroline Wozniacki being Denmark’s flag-bearer at the Rio Olympics this summer, but it’s a big one: She might not be there. Wozniacki, a former world No. 1 and one of…

Cameron Spencer/Getty When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, legend has it that King Gustav V of Sweden presented him the medal and said, “You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.” (“Thanks, King,” Thorpe is rumored to have responded.) Exactly 100 years later, at the 2012 Olympics in London, Oregon-native Ashton Eaton became the…

Current NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Greg Biffle, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Jamie McMurray trace their racing legacy to the NASCAR Whelen All American Series.

Our daily fantasy baseball picks continue with starting pitcher rankings, strategy, and advice for Saturday’s MLB slate. The pitching is very deep today, whether you’re looking to pay up for an ace or go cheap. It reminds me a lot of trying to select a QB in NFL DFS most weeks. Difference is, the mid-tier pitchers are much more volatile than those mid-tier QBs, who can still give you big points…

Arthur Schott (Photo: Family photo) Arthur Schott, whose encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and New Orleans’ history in the game guided researchers, reporters and fans for eight decades, died Friday. He was 97. A baseball fan since childhood, Schott was always very generous with his knowledge and a frequent source of information for sports journalists. Legendary New Orleans newspaper columnist (and fellow baseball fan) Charles “Pie” Dufour once called Schott the…

8:17 PM ET print WASHINGTON — Well before St. Louis Cardinals players reach the major leagues, they undergo organizational brainwashing, if you want to call it that. “Cardinal Way, that sort of stuff,” outfielder Stephen Piscotty said. One of the first times Piscotty got an earful of how the Cardinals like to comport themselves on the field came a couple of years ago at the team’s spring-training camp for elite…

Post to Facebook Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. 1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 4 of 5 5 of 5 Last SlideNext Slide Xavier’s baseball team meets Creighton at 7 p.m. Friday in the Big East Championships in Maryland. The Musketeers won their opener over St. John’s in dramatic fashion, courtesy of Dan Rizzie’s walk-off single.(Photo: Provided) Late Friday night, Xavier’s baseball…

David Meeks admits he’s not an elite athlete, but he’s excited to help bring famous dual-sport pro Bo Jackson to Hilliard. “I was captain of the bowling team,” said Meeks, Hilliard’s economic-development director. Meeks has been negotiating to bring the Bo Jackson Elite Sports program to anchor a planned 100-acre sports complex on Cosgray Road in northwest Hilliard. It is proposed to be a $5.5 million, 129,000-square-foot facility with a…

“By November 2011, I felt like we had found a product that was ready,” he says. Through his contacts with Crystal Palace, Cherneski was able to send a pair to former Palace player Victor Moses. Within days he got a text back, asking for more. At the beginning of 2012, he flew to the UK and started to drive up and down the country, arranging meetings with players and giving…