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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Spring has finally arrived, and baseball is back once again. Ah yes, the sport that builds nations, foments revolution, distracts from scandals and massacres, propagandizes national policy, becomes a tool of war and espionage, and may have been the reason why Gen. George Armstrong Custer made his last stand. At least that’s baseball according to Scott Rowan, author of the new book, “Weaponized Baseball: Declassified, Withheld Stories Reveal…

Stanford University freshman Greta Meyer is a talented and thoughtful lacrosse player with a voice that had to be heard. The former Germantown Friends School standout made that known last July when she wrote to ESPN to express her dismay that the boys’ Senior Under Armour All-America high school lacrosse game was televised live on the same day the…

i Neil Leifer took this photograph of sprinter Carl Lewis during the 1984 Olympics. Lewis won four gold medals that year. Photo from Relentless: The Stories behind the Photographs, by Neil Leifer with Diane K. Shah (University of Texas Press, 2016) Neil Leifer/ Courtesy of Sports Illustrated Content Management hide caption toggle caption Neil Leifer/ Courtesy of Sports Illustrated Content Management Neil Leifer took this photograph of sprinter Carl Lewis…

Oregon’s state government released a set of guidelines for schools Thursday informing educators that students must be allowed to use whatever locker rooms they want and play on opposite-sex sports teams as long as they say it reflects their chosen gender identity. Not only that, but if the student doesn’t want his or her parents to know, teachers don’t have to tell them. The 15-page document makes Oregon one of just a handful of…

Estimates vary as to how much promotion to the Premier League is worth. With the new TV deal next season, it’s conservatively worth £170m, but that’s just the broadcast cash. When you add in increased sponsorship, commercial revenue, gate receipts, marketing and the like, it’s considerably more. And when you think Floyd Mayweather took home $100m for beating Manny Pacquiao last year, the £200m-plus payday for getting out of the Championship…

i Neil Leifer took this photograph of sprinter Carl Lewis during the 1984 Olympics. Lewis won four gold medals that year. Photo from Relentless: The Stories behind the Photographs, by Neil Leifer with Diane K. Shah (University of Texas Press, 2016) Neil Leifer/ Courtesy of Sports Illustrated Content Management hide caption toggle caption Neil Leifer/ Courtesy of Sports Illustrated Content Management Neil Leifer took this photograph of sprinter Carl Lewis…

Colin Cowherd finally apologized. On air. It drew gasps, and came only after passionate hectoring by arguably the most famous person in sports media. You can see the reluctance on Cowherd’s face as he says the words: “I apologize right now to John Wall.”  And so ends the extended pillorying of Wall, an ascendent NBA superstar, by Cowherd, one of the loudest voices in sports-talk radio.  Maybe. At least for now. …

The Madison Sports Hall of Fame will induct its 54th class on June 1. The class features hockey goalie Marc Behrend, football player Tyrone Braxton, basketball player Karen O’Malley-Crowley and professional golfer Dennis Tiziani. The dinner and enshrinement ceremony is scheduled June 1 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. According to a release from the Madison Sports Hall of Fame: Behrend was a multi-sport athlete…

FLORIDA TODAY sports writer Brian McCallum on his Mother’s Day series coming Sunday. Video by Brian McCallum and John Torres. Posted May 6, 2016. Buy Photo Chauncey Gardner stands with his mother Delatron Johnson in their Cocoa home.(Photo: Craig Bailey, Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY)Buy Photo The number of reasons to celebrate Mother’s Day are as many as the number of mothers. The number of stories about the relationships between mothers and…

Amir Khan meets Saul Alvarez for the WBC middleweight title British boxing legend Lennox Lewis says Amir Khan can upset the odds and beat Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez on Saturday, if he sticks to his game-plan. Khan, 29, has jumped two weight divisions to challenge his Mexican rival for the WBC middleweight title at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. At Friday’s weigh-in, both men scaled 155lb, bang on the catch-weight…

Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s affinity for NASCAR history is well-known, as he is a collector of classic memorabilia and even goes online to track down videotapes of races from the 1970s and early 1980s, his favorite era of the sport. But even Earnhardt admits he didn’t know all he could about NASCAR’s roots, forged in the backwoods of Georgia and the Carolinas where bootleggers supped up their cars to outrun…

Conceived to embody a winner-take-all, no-holds barred mentality paying homage to the sport’s short track roots, NASCAR’s All-Star Race recently has been more fizzle than sizzle. In an effort to juice things up and revert the increasingly blasé attitude fans have toward the exhibition race that awards $1 million to its winner, NASCAR unveiled a rapidly revised format Friday that should rectify the humdrum affair and add significantly more…

What is the absolute worst, most jarring way to learn your team is leaving town? Nope, not that. Nope, that’s pretty bad, but this is worse: Scott Prue of Biddeford was in the Pirates’ office at 4 p.m. to pick up a jersey won by his son in a raffle and to renew three season tickets. Ben Locke, director of ticket operations, was helping Prue with the transaction when an…

The Los Angeles City Council on Friday unanimously approved plans for a privately financed $250-million stadium in Exposition Park, clearing the way for the expansion Los Angeles Football Club to begin construction on the most expensive soccer-specific project in Major League Soccer history. The 22,000-seat stadium will be the centerpiece of a 15-acre complex that will include a conference center, restaurants and a soccer museum. It will be built next…

When was the last time you felt genuine excitement over discovering something you’re passionate about? Like, actually stumbling upon something that makes you want to share your happiness with others? Most recently for me, it was when I found this random girl on Instagram who consistently shares the best food finds in New York City, and every recommendation has been spot-on. The one downside is that she’s weirdly obsessed with…

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Welcome to another night of AHSAA playoffs. It’s the quarterfinal round for high school baseball, y’all. Remember to check back throughout the evening, or simply refresh this page, for the latest info. RELATED: See tonight’s AHSAA playoff schedule for baseball & soccer RELATED: Live updates from today’s AHSAA Track and Field Championships RELATED: Look ahead to Saturday’s playoff soccer schedule TONIGHT’S GAMES (May 6, 2016): 9 PM, Free baseball: In…

i Neil Leifer took this photograph of sprinter Carl Lewis during the 1984 Olympics. Lewis won four gold medals that year. Photo from Relentless: The Stories behind the Photographs, by Neil Leifer with Diane K. Shah (University of Texas Press, 2016) Neil Leifer/ Courtesy of Sports Illustrated Content Management hide caption toggle caption Neil Leifer/ Courtesy of Sports Illustrated Content Management Neil Leifer took this photograph of sprinter Carl Lewis…