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Earlier this week, a set of historical documents called “The Laws of Base Ball” sold at auction for $3.26 million, becoming one the most valuable of sports memorabilia artifacts ever discovered. The sale also opened up a new round of discussion about the origins of baseball in America. The story most people know – that Abner Doubleday invented the game in Cooperstown, New York – is a popular myth, but has…

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3:14 PM ET print LOS ANGELES — As a native of Novato, California, about 30 miles north of San Francisco, new Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff has long been an unabashed fan of baseball’s San Francisco Giants. Last year, Goff was even seen on television catching a ground-rule double that one-hopped to him in the left field bleachers in a Giants-Braves game, and he’s been known to tweet his…

It has not been a vintage week for women’s cycling, with one of the world’s top female riders accusing her coach of sacking her, criticising her bum and telling her to “go and have a baby” instead of training for the Rio Olympics. The 25-year-old Jess Varnish’s allegations against Shane Sutton, the technical director of British Cycling, led to his resignation and triggered a series of further accusations of misconduct…

Further pressure was heaped on British Cycling when the beleaguered governing body was criticised by the Orica-GreenEdge owner, Gerry Ryan, for its handling of the positive drugs test involving Orica’s British cyclist Simon Yates. Yates, world champion in the points race in 2013 and regarded as a strong hope for the Great Britain road race team in Rio, returned an adverse analytical finding for the asthma drug Terbutaline, due to…

A disastrous week for British Cycling got worse on Thursday night when it was announced that Simon Yates, a former points race world champion and a contender for a spot on the Olympic road team, had failed a drugs test. The news came a day after Shane Sutton stood down as technical director of British Cycling amid a welter of allegations of bullying and discrimination, and after claims that the…

South Africa’s sports minister has announced that he will no longer “beg for racial transformation”, but will start forcing the country’s sporting federations to fulfil racial quotas. Fikile Mbalula said in a speech on Sunday that the cricket, rugby, netball and athletics federations would be banned from bidding for any international tournaments until their numbers of black players improved. Related: South Africa Rugby Union facing ban from bidding for 2023…

Vanderbilt freshman Alonzo Jones touts the fastest 60-yard dash time in the history of Perfect Game showcases.(Photo: Steve Green / Vanderbilt) While the NFL Draft celebrates blazing 40-yard dash times this weekend, Vanderbilt touts one of the fastest sprinters in college baseball. Freshman Alonzo Jones ran the 60-yard dash in 6.17 seconds at a 2014 Perfect Game national showcase for prospects — the fastest time on grass in the history…

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Photo via AP Ohio State’s Eli Apple is one of the top cornerbacks available in this week’s NFL draft. But he’s not, in fact, the most impressive talent to emerge from his own family. That honor is reserved for his mom, Annie Apple, who is a LeBron James-, Andrew Luck-type superstar-in-the-making at the all-important position of Sports Mom. There are many different qualities one looks for in a Sports Mom….

A video of male sports fans reading “real comments about women sports reporters to their face” has been watched online by millions of people. The team behind Just Not Sports, a podcast dedicated to sports culture, asked “a mix of people,” including friends and family, to read mean and often harassing tweets to sports journalists Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro. “Sarah Spain sounds like a nagging wife on TV today,”…

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It’s BBC Sport and A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz – have you been paying attention to what’s been going on in the world of sport in the past week? Sport quiz of the week It’s been another busy week of sport – our quiz starting with Harry Potter and ending with the FA Cup. At the end of it all your score will match a side to feature in…

British rider tested positive after stage of Paris-Nice race last month Cyclist was contesting for place in British team for Rio Olympic Games The father of the Yates brothers declined to comment on Thursday night By Matt Lawton for the Daily Mail Published: 16:29 EST, 28 April 2016 | Updated: 17:22 EST, 28 April 2016 British Cycling descended deeper into crisis Thursday night after it emerged that one of their…

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Robin Ventura remembers the excitement in New York when the Mets and Yankees faced off in the World Series, and he can imagine what it would be like in Chicago if both teams made it. Wait, the Cubs and White Sox playing for the championship? Don’t start planning the parade just yet, but the teams with the two best records in the game through Wednesday just happen to call Chicago…

Buy Photo Adam Laskey, Haddon Heights(Photo: Kevin Minnick/Staff photographer)Buy Photo Each week, baseball beat writer Kevin Minnick will discuss a variety of topics with players from the South Jersey baseball scene. This week he spoke with Haddon Heights senior pitcher Adam Laskey. KM: What sold you on Duke University? AL: I love the coaching staff and I felt really comfortable. Once I got on the campus, I knew it was…

Once again, we find ourselves reading about the same story we were reading about a decade ago. A player, up and down on the minor league shuttle, is suddenly doing great things for a new team that’s unexpectedly winning their division. He’s putting up numbers that he’s never put up in the majors before. Somewhere, someone is whispering that he’s dirty. Is it fair? No, those first accusations aren’t…