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John Young, founder of youth baseball program, dies at 67 – ESPN
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…
Fox Sports Radio tweets ESPN’s Jessica Mendoza would be fired ‘if she was a man’ – Washington Post
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The Scientific Reason Men Like Sports More Than Women – TIME
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,…
Fox Sports’s Trashman-In-Chief Portrayed As Visionary In Gushing New York Times Profile – Deadspin
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,…
Which Sport Benefits the Most From Analytics? – Huffington Post (blog)
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.
Six Startups Primed To Disrupt The Sports Industry Thanks To 500 Accelerator – Forbes
Puig calls Harper his idol, plans to join ‘Make Baseball Fun Again’ campaign – CBSSports.com
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…
LSU, Tulane climb forward in national baseball rankings after sweeps – NOLA.com
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…
Bryce Harper’s Frustrating Weekend Shows Baseball Will Always Struggle To Market Its Superstars – Forbes
Mike North: Jessica Mendoza is the Worst Baseball Announcer Ever – The Big Lead
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How on Earth did this college pitcher throw a baseball through a falling, baseball-sized tube? – SB Nation
There’s throw-the-ball-over-the-plate accuracy, and then there’s throw-the-ball-through-a-cylindrical-object-that’s-falling-50-feet-away accuracy. Ryan Mason has the second one. .@Cal_Baseball‘s Ryan Mason w/ the INSANE accuracy pic.twitter.com/HpxBPUli11 — Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) May 7, 2016 We have questions: – How many tries did this take? – Where is this cylindrical object falling from? – Why do they just happen to have a perfectly cylindrical object that fits the size…
Fox Sports Radio tweets ESPN’s Jessica Mendoza would be fired ‘if she was a man’ – Washington Post
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Michel Platini Resigns as Head of European Soccer – New York Times
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West Ham 19:45 Man Utd – BBC Sport
Upton Park stages its final competitive match on Tuesday after 112 years TEAM NEWS West Ham goalkeeper Adrian is the only injury absentee for the club’s final game at Upton Park after 112 years. The Spaniard is out with a calf injury so Darren Randolph will deputise. Manchester United forward Anthony Martial is a doubt after withdrawing from Saturday’s win at Norwich because of a tight hamstring. Matteo Darmian is…
Daily Fantasy Sports Gets Its Day In Washington DC – Forbes
Michel Platini: Uefa president to resign after ban appeal fails – BBC News
Michel Platini played 72 times for France, scoring 41 goals, and was regarded as one of the best players in the world at the time Uefa president Michel Platini will resign from European football’s governing body after failing to have a six-year ban from football overturned. A Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) panel reduced the ban to four years on Monday. Following the judgement, the 60-year-old said he would…
Forza Motorsport 6 NASCAR Expansion Leaked – IGN
By Luke Reilly It looks like Forza Motorsport 6 could be set to receive another expansion, if new images of what appears to be a download card for some unannounced Forza 6 DLC are to be believed. Spotted on Reddit, the supposed card was snapped at a UK retailer. If the card is legitimate the pack will cost £15.99 in the UK. The text on the back of the card…
Platini to resign after CAS imposes 4-year ban from soccer – Fresno Bee
Michel Platini will resign as UEFA president after failing to overturn his ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which cut his sanction from six to four years. Platini called the verdict a “deep injustice” and said he will now step down from the UEFA position he has held since 2007. CAS effectively removed Platini from world soccer by ensuring his ban “corresponds to the duration of a presidential…
City planners tap into wealth of cycling data from Strava tracking app – The Guardian
Sheila Lyons recalls the way Oregon used to collect data on how many people rode bikes. “It was very haphazard, two-hour counts done once a year,” said the woman in charge of cycling policy for the state government. “Volunteers, sitting on the street corner because they wanted better bike facilities. Pathetic, really.” But in 2013 a colleague had an idea. She recorded her own bike rides using an app called…
Road To Rio: Can The Olympics Save Golf? – International Business Times
Daniel Stapff was once a chubby, 11-year-old tennis player from Curitiba, Brazil, the son of a former pro whose entire family lived racket-in-hand. But one day Stapff found himself bored and near a golf course. He whacked a few balls. Stapff left the course underwhelmed. Striking the tiny dimpled ball with an awkwardly shaped club was a towering task. The game was tedious to learn — and besides, Stapff’s dream was to turn pro in his father’s sport. The only…
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