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Opinion: Baseball has no choice but to expand outside the US – MarketWatch

Monday, April 25, 2016

WSJ If Major League Baseball wants to expand to 32 teams, it’s going to have to get more people interested in the 30 it already has. During a meeting with sports editors from the Associated Press last week, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred suggested that “multiples of fours just work better than multiples…

Giancarlo Stanton hit a baseball straight out of AT&T Park – For The Win

Monday, April 25, 2016

By: Andrew Joseph | April 24, 2016 8:02 pm Follow @andyj0seph

NASCAR’s Tony Stewart: ‘I’m always going to speak my mind’ – Charlotte Observer

Monday, April 25, 2016

Tony Stewart didn’t back down Sunday from the statements that got him fined $35,000 last week by NASCAR. “I’m always going to speak my mind,” Stewart told Fox before he finished 19th in Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Speedway. NASCAR fined Stewart last week after he was critical of a recent policy that doesn’t require all five lug nuts to be replaced during pit stops. Stewart said drivers’…

Last-Lap Bump And Run Gives NASCAR’s Carl Edwards The Win At Richmond – Jalopnik

Monday, April 25, 2016

GIF via YouTube The good ol’ bump and run is alive and well in NASCAR. This time, it gave us the first last-lap pass ever at Richmond International Raceway, with Carl Edwards nudging Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch out of the way for the win. Busch led going into the final two laps at the .75-mile track, with Edwards right on his bumper. Edwards thanked crew chief Dave Rogers…

U.S. Women’s Soccer Stars Are Finally Set to Score Olympic-Size Endorsements – Adweek

Monday, April 25, 2016

Alex Morgan wrote an op-ed on pay equality for Cosmopolitan. Nike The U.S. women’s soccer team captivated the entire country during its thrilling World Cup win last summer, and before gearing up to do it again at the Rio Olympics in August, the players’ fight for equality off the field has attracted waves of attention and support. Brands are taking notice, and analysts say that…

Vote: Carl Edwards’ last lap move — clean or dirty? – Nascar

Monday, April 25, 2016

RELATED: Edwards: ‘I’m gonna give him a little nudge’ The end of Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway saw a thrilling bump and pass for the lead to give Carl Edwards his second straight win. Only problem? He bumped his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Kyle Busch. So what do you think about Edwards’ move, NASCAR Nation — clean or dirty?

Hockey gods side with Tavares in Islanders’ long-awaited win – Sportsnet.ca

Monday, April 25, 2016

Thomas Drance April 25, 2016, 1:27 AM Thomas Drance   April 25, 2016, 1:27 AM BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Over the course of a thrilling, extraordinary six-game series, the Florida Panthers carried the play and often outplayed their opponent. And in the end it didn’t matter. It didn’t matter because hockey is a weird game. In a fast, free-flowing sport where players change on the fly and ugly bounces or strange deflections…

Giancarlo Stanton hit a baseball straight out of AT&T Park – For The Win

Monday, April 25, 2016

By: Andrew Joseph | April 24, 2016 8:02 pm Follow @andyj0seph

Baseball’s "Magna Carta" sells for $3.3M, reveals new "father" – CBS News

Monday, April 25, 2016

LOS ANGELES – Documents that baseball historians have called the Magna Carta of the game have sold at auction for nearly $3.3 million. SCP auctions says the 1857 papers called the “Laws of Baseball” sold early Sunday to an anonymous buyer after more than two weeks of bidding. The auction house had predicted prior to the auction’s April 7 start that they could sell for more than $1 million. The…

‘Magna Carta’ of baseball sells at auction for nearly $3.3 million – Los Angeles Times

Monday, April 25, 2016

Documents that baseball historians have called the Magna Carta of the game have sold at auction for nearly $3.3 million. SCP auctions of Southern California says the 1857 papers called the “Laws of Base Ball” sold early Sunday to an anonymous buyer after more than two weeks of bidding. The auction house had predicted prior to the auction’s April 7 start that they could sell for more than $1 million….

Baseball’s regional sports network gravy train could end – The Seattle Times

Monday, April 25, 2016

Inside sports business NEW YORK – Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred looked like a hitter already down two strikes to Felix Hernandez with a changeup headed his way. Manfred had just been asked about a regional sports network (RSN) carriage dispute preventing 60 percent of viewers in Los Angeles from watching the Dodgers on local television this final season of legendary broadcaster Vin Scully’s career. Answering such a question is usually…

NASCAR’s Tony Stewart: ‘I’m always going to speak my mind’ – Charlotte Observer

Monday, April 25, 2016

Tony Stewart didn’t back down Sunday from the statements that got him fined $35,000 last week by NASCAR. “I’m always going to speak my mind,” Stewart told Fox before he finished 19th in Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Speedway. NASCAR fined Stewart last week after he was critical of a recent policy that doesn’t require all five lug nuts to be replaced during pit stops. Stewart said drivers’…

Last-Lap Bump And Run Gives NASCAR’s Carl Edwards The Win At Richmond – Jalopnik

Monday, April 25, 2016

GIF via YouTube The good ol’ bump and run is alive and well in NASCAR. This time, it gave us the first last-lap pass ever at Richmond International Raceway, with Carl Edwards nudging Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch out of the way for the win. Busch led going into the final two laps at the .75-mile track, with Edwards right on his bumper. Edwards thanked crew chief Dave Rogers…

U.S. Women’s Soccer Stars Are Finally Set to Score Olympic-Size Endorsements – Adweek

Monday, April 25, 2016

Alex Morgan wrote an op-ed on pay equality for Cosmopolitan. Nike The U.S. women’s soccer team captivated the entire country during its thrilling World Cup win last summer, and before gearing up to do it again at the Rio Olympics in August, the players’ fight for equality off the field has attracted waves of attention and support. Brands are taking notice, and analysts say that…

Tony Stewart cuts tire in first Sprint Cup race of 2016 – Nascar

Monday, April 25, 2016

MORE: Full race results | Top moments for Stewart | Recap all his wins Tony Stewart had a tire go down in his first race back behind the wheel of his No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet in Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond International Raceway.   On Lap 268 of 400, Stewart and Team Penske driver Joey Logano made contact, cutting the left-rear tire of the No. 14 to bring out the caution.   The…

Baseball’s "Magna Carta" sells for $3.3M, reveals new "father" – CBS News

Monday, April 25, 2016

LOS ANGELES – Documents that baseball historians have called the Magna Carta of the game have sold at auction for nearly $3.3 million. SCP auctions says the 1857 papers called the “Laws of Baseball” sold early Sunday to an anonymous buyer after more than two weeks of bidding. The auction house had predicted prior to the auction’s April 7 start that they could sell for more than $1 million. The…

You ARE the father: Who is Doc Adams, baseball’s dad? – San Jose Mercury News

Monday, April 25, 2016

Click photo to enlarge LOS ANGELES (AP) — Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams may never be a household name like baseball’s imagined inventor Abner Doubleday or basketball’s actual inventor James Naismith. But a newly verified set of documents, titled “Laws of Base Ball,” sold at auction early Sunday for nearly $3.3 million, go a long way toward lifting him to legendary status. They lend him credit for the distance of the…

Giancarlo Stanton hit a baseball straight out of AT&T Park – For The Win

Monday, April 25, 2016

By: Andrew Joseph | April 24, 2016 8:02 pm Follow @andyj0seph