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Olden time hot-taker Jay Mariotti, now lost to history. Yesterday, we found Mt. Take, a place brimming with the hottest sports takes anyone on this good earth has ever seen. Some may have seen the discovery of this dark heart of sports opinions as a sign that the Take Industrial Complex is only getting stronger. I submit a different theory: the takes are dying. http://deadspin.com/we-have-found-… We Have Found It, The…

Jin Sung-chul/APRivaldo scoring against China in the 2002 World Cup. Brazilian soccer legend Rivaldo offered a foreboding message over Instagram on Sunday to fans considering traveling to Rio de Janeiro for this summer’s Olympics: Stay away. “Things are getting uglier here every day,” Rivaldo posted to his Instagram (via Yahoo). “I advise everyone with plans to visit Brazil for the Olympics in Rio — to stay home. You’ll be putting…

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…

Nigel Dawes, who was born in Winnipeg and played 212 games in the NHL, is now representing the nation of Kazakhstan in international hockey. Having played the last five seasons for Astana Barys, the Kazakhstan-based KHL franchise, he managed to gain citizenship to switch his international allegiance on the ice. Well, it’s a good thing he moved far away from Canada, because if Don Cherry ever gets a look at…

The ninth annual Warren Strelow National Goaltending Camp will feature a new look Friday when it opens for the first time at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan. But the location isn’t all that’s new for 2016. The event will also feature a first-time gathering of USA Hockey’s freshly appointed goaltending development coordinators, a group that will serve USA Hockey affiliates locally while also forming a nationwide network tasked with…

RELATED: See The Glen before and after the repave Five NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers and their teams will be the first to roll out onto Watkins Glen International following the track’s off-season repaving project this week when they participate in a Goodyear tire test scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.   2014 Sprint Cup champion Kevin Harvick (Stewart-Haas Racing), Kasey Kahne (Hendrick Motorsports), Trevor Bayne (Roush Fenway Racing), Carl Edwards (Joe Gibbs Racing) and Joey Logano (Team Penske) are scheduled to take part in the test….

It’s a simple question that demands an array of responses: Which sports lose the most appeal on television? Or, to flip it: Which are best to view in person? The NFL is absolutely the king of the tube, especially with an HD set. I’ll never forget the first time I saw the breath coming from players on a cold day. Might have been Brian Urlacher at Lambeau Field. The NFL…

WASHINGTON — Concussions and football have become synonymous. But as it turns out, athletes who play the perceived most-violent sport may not have the most danger for concussions. At the Knight Commission forum on Intercollegiate Athletics, former United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan asked panelists who were discussing the health, safety and well-being of college athletes to rank their level of concern for concussions in specific sports. Football was…

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…