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A soccer league game in Romania’s top division on Friday (May 6) took a tragic turn after Patrick Ekeng, a 26-year-old Cameroonian player, collapsed after seven minutes in the game as a substitute for his club, Dinamo Bucharest. Ekeng’s collapse, which happened without contact with any other player, prompted treatment on the pitch, and when it became clear he required more medical attention, he was wheeled into an ambulance to…

Cal Ripken Jr. directs Damon Vargas, 9, during Scotts and MLB It’s Good Out Here Field Refurbishment Program at Tom Conley Field on Monday in Ladson, South Carolina. (Photo by Dan Hale/MLB Photos) They’re going about it different ways and in different roles, but few people are as committed to making baseball more appealing to kids than Cal Ripken Jr. and Bryce Harper. Ripken, who in December was hired as a…

The weather in Hyogo, Japan, was mostly sunny with a chance of fish. A half-digested fish that rained on the outfield of Koshien stadium in western Japan caused a baseball game to be delayed for a few minutes on Sunday. According to a spokeswoman for the Hanshin Tigers baseball team, the condition of the fish made it clear that it couldn’t have been thrown in from the stands and…

“My focus is caught between, ‘How am I going to let my guys know,’ versus, ‘We’ve got to play two games and we’ve got to win both of these games,’” Fischer said. “I’m going through the roller coaster of emotions that day.”

Looking for daily fantasy baseball picks, strategy and advice? You’ve come to right place. This is the DFS MLB Playbook for Tuesday, featuring all the MLB DFS info you need to know from Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Catcher is one of the most loaded positions tonight, and there’s value all over the board among the starting pitchers. However, with bad pitching at Coors Field, you can load up on hitters from the Diamondbacks-Rockies game. Oakland…

Whether young or old, rich or poor, Canadians are less active these days. In fact, according to a new study, our participation in sports is at an all-time low. But why? Are Canadians getting lazier? More complacent? More distracted?  In the first of two parts, we examine some of the problems with our approach to youth athletics. Part 2 will look at why adults are dropping out of sports. At…

On paper, a description of LawBreakers—the next game from ex-Epic and Gears of War developer Cliff Bleszinski—sounds niche at best, stale at worst. “An exhilarating role-based first-person shooter where the laws of physics can be shattered, creating unprecedented gravity-based combat in an ever-evolving bloody arena,” reads LawBreakers’ Steam page, sounding like something aimed at teenage boys with a penchant for the SyFy channel and a simple understanding of base adjectives….

There’s a lot of money in sports. Usually, that adage is associated with negativity — high player salaries, ticket prices, concessions — but on another level, it’s true on a small business level. Sports present a lot of small business opportunities to entrepreneurs and there are plenty of sports business ideas that don’t require any athletic ability whatsoever. In fact, there are a number of businesses that are…

Handout picture released by the Rio 2016 Olympic Committee showing transaction of flames of the Olympic torches in Pirenopolis, Goias State, Brazil, on May 5, 2016.(Photo: RIO2016/Fernando Soutello, AFP/Getty Images) On the morning of April 21, a 150-foot-long section of Rio de Janeiro’s spanking new coastal bike path was lofted into the air by a breaking wave and tossed into the churning ocean below. Several people plunged onto the rocks and waves…

The more things change, the more things remain the same. Last year, the top four teams in NASCAR combined to win 35 of 36 Sprint Cup Series races.  This year, the same four teams have won all 11 Sprint Cup races run so far, with one significant difference: Only one of the four power teams has had more than one driver win in 2016. Here’s how it shakes out: 4….

Last month, Nationals wunderkind Bryce Harper grabbed some attention for wearing a Trump-esque “Make Baseball Fun Again” hat. Here’s the photo, in case you’ve somehow missed it: Bryce Harper wearing a “Make Baseball Fun Again” hat. Love it, so much. pic.twitter.com/zESqRjO0qN — Mr. Schäfer (@misterschafer) April 5, 2016 Harper also called baseball “tired” a few weeks back, referring the game’s old school mentality and the way players are not allowed…

print John Young, who founded RBI, a youth baseball program designed to bring African-American youth back to the sport, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 67. “All of us at Major League Baseball are saddened by the loss of John Young, a trailblazer and champion of both professional and youth baseball,” commissioner Rob Manfred wrote in a statement Monday. John Young, who founded RBI, a youth baseball program designed…

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Gender politics and science have never gotten along very well. The patriarchal system was—and in some cultures still is—based on the premise that women are more mercurial, less deliberative and physically less sturdy than men. Those are perfectly easy beliefs to hold—at least until you subject them to the least bit of intellectual scrutiny or real-world testing, at which point they fall apart completely. In the 1970s, the script flipped,…

Screenshot via YouTube Last April, the New York Times’s Richard Sandomir wrote a soft-focus puff piece on Jason Whitlock and his then-role as head of ESPN’s The Undefeated. A month later ESPN president John Skipper told Sandomir exclusively that Bill Simmons wasn’t returning to ESPN, news Simmons himself found out from Twitter. A month later ESPN fired Whitlock. These things are all related. Today’s Times has another profile from Sandomir,…

Baseball has only about 27 possible base-out states (combinations of base-runners and outs) that it needs to deal with. Football, in contrast, has billions of possible combinations of down, distance, yardline, score, time, etc.) Baseball is an orderly serial sequence of pitcher-batter matchups, and defense is only marginally involved. Football is parallel, involving 22 players simultaneously colliding in apparent chaos.

Last month, Nationals wunderkind Bryce Harper grabbed some attention for wearing a Trump-esque “Make Baseball Fun Again” hat. Here’s the photo, in case you’ve somehow missed it: Bryce Harper wearing a “Make Baseball Fun Again” hat. Love it, so much. pic.twitter.com/zESqRjO0qN — Mr. Schäfer (@misterschafer) April 5, 2016 Harper also called baseball “tired” a few weeks back, referring the game’s old school mentality and the way players are not allowed…

Both LSU and Tulane moved forward in the national baseball rankings Monday after weekend sweeps of Arkansas and South Florida, respectively. The Tigers (31-16) jumped as many as six spots in the Collegiate Baseball poll and has high as No. 11 on the Baseball America list. Coach Paul Mainieri’s squad heads to Notre Dame for midweek matchups Tuesday and Wednesday as No. 11, No. 16 and No. 21, according to…