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In what could seemingly be called the State of the Union for the No. 88 team at the near-midway point of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series regular season, Dale Earnhardt Jr. proclaimed that the team has “got a lot of work to do” on Dirty Mo Radio’s “The Dale Jr. Download.” Those words and more below came after Earnhardt’s involvement in an 18-car wreck on Lap 355 in the AAA 400 Drive for Autism…

During a season when victories continually slipped away, it would have been easy for Matt Kenseth to question and point fingers at himself and those around him. Through it all, though, Kenseth, knew eventually circumstances would eventually work in his favor. He and his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing team were simply too talented and their cars too fast to not eventually win. Thus, Kenseth didn’t bemoan when…

FC Cincinnati fans in The Bailey section cheer on the team before the start of the USL soccer game between the Pittsburgh Riverhounds and FC Cincinnati, Saturday, May 14, 2016, at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati.(Photo: Kareem Elgazzar) I went, I watched, I enjoyed. I wrote. As the legendary futbol fanatico Robert Montgomery Knight might put it, if soccer is inevitable, relax and enjoy it. And it is. Or appears to…

Why the Jose Bautista punch is a good sign for baseball The New York Post’s Joel Sherman also likes what the fight means for the game, but for different reasons: Baseball is a very popular local sport now: You care about your team, but not much about those in other cities. But if the Rangers and Blue Jays were playing again tonight, would you watch? After all the niceties —…

HAVERHILL (CBS) — A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting near a Little League field in Haverhill on Saturday afternoon. Police patrols were increased after a pair of men were shot on a basketball court near Swasey Field where kids were playing. The shooting happened around 4 p.m. Two baseball teams of 13-year-olds were playing in the first inning when the shots rang out. The arrest…

Sunday afternoon was a doozy, as the Blue Jays and Rangers rivalry heated up to the surface of the sun. Matt Bush threw at Jose Bautista, ostensibly revenge for Bautista’s bat flip in the ALDS last year. Bautista then slid late into second baseman Rougned Odor on a ground ball double play attempt. Odor wasn’t happy, so he threw some punches at Bautista, one of which landed cleanly. Blue Jays…

Look: If you want to lament any one particular aspect of the ongoing feud between the Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays — the one that escalated to full-blown fisticuffs between Rougned Odor and Jose Bautista on Sunday — make it the 96-mph fastball that Rangers reliever Matt Bush fired at Bautista. By probabilities, it appears the most dangerous of all real and perceived blows in the battle, because a…

3:36 PM ET print So the Blue Jays and Rangers got into it Sunday afternoon. But that was nothing. Here are 10 of my favorite basebrawls of all time — or, at least those that are officially available on YouTube via Major League Baseball. (For example, some famous brawls don’t have official video posted, like the Juan Marichal-Johnny Roseboro bat incident from 1965, or the White Sox-Tigers brawl — actually,…

LSU has ridden a season-best eight straight wins back into the top 10, with Tulane not far off from either distinction. The Tigers (36-16) climbed three spots to No. 8 in the latest Baseball America rankings and six spots to No. 10 in the D1Baseball.com rankings after a 5-0 road trip with two midweek wins at Notre Dame (27-23) and a three-game sweep of Tennessee (26-26)  in Knoxville, Tenn. LSU…

Caption Close DARIEN — By and large the hardest thing about developing a successful sports program at the high school level is the turnover of athletes from year to year. In most cases, it is the team with the most seniors that thrive, largely because of experience and leadership. That being said, Darien is in the midst of something special in 2016. A year removed from one of the best…

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Braves legend Chipper Jones joined the For The Win podcast on Monday morning on behalf of Delta and the airline’s season-long Delta Dugout fan-loyalty initiative. Audio from the full podcast is embedded below. Jones weighed in on the on-field brawl between the Rangers and Blue Jays on Sunday, the escalation of a feud that started with Jose Bautista’s emphatic bat-flip in Game 5 of the ALDS. In what looked certain…

It’s upfront season in the US, the time when broadcast and cable networks make their glitzy annual pitches to marketers, and secure half their advertising sales for the year. As the highest-rated US cable network, the sports-focused Disney-owned channel ESPN has historically held an enviable position during the upfronts. But on Tuesday (May 17) when it makes its presentation amid uncertainty and increasing competition from younger rivals such as NBCSN…

The survey results show those changes may continue. More than 90 percent of respondents who identified as sports fans said they are willing to pay for sports programming. Sixty-three percent of fans said they would pay for an over-the-top subscription, while 56 percent added they would spend more of their budget on online streaming than cable or satellite channels. Thirty-two percent of older millennials, from ages 29 to 36, said…

Virtual reality’s ability to immerse viewers in new worlds has fueled talk of a fundamental change in how consumers experience media. While interest is growing in the emerging technology, and companies are racing to ship virtual reality headsets and content, one of the most popular areas of media consumption — sports — is unlikely to see major changes. Some virtual reality experts say the experience of watching a sports game on…

FILE – In this file photo taken on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko gestures while speaking during a news conference after he addressed the upper chamber of the Russian parliament in Moscow.(Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko, AP) Russia’s Minister of Sport apologized for athletes and coaches who have broken anti-doping rules as the country’s track and field athletes face a ban from competing at the Summer Olympics in…

Police sniffer dogs were used at Old Trafford as part of the security check An “urgent” inquiry has been demanded after a dummy bomb used in a security exercise caused a Premier League match at Old Trafford to be postponed. The game between Manchester United and Bournemouth was called off after the item was discovered close to kick-off. A controlled explosion was carried out on the device, which police said…