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CHICAGO – A no hitter, 16 runs, and three wins out of four on the road. Yup, the Cubs just keep on rolling in their first month of the season. All of the preseason expectations are holding for the team through the first set of their games in the 2016 campaign as they sport a 13-5 record following a successful weekend in Cincinnati. Jared Wylls of Baseball Prospectus and BP…

The reaction of Marian Catholic sophomore Haley Taylor echoed the thoughts of many throughout the lacrosse community. “I was just like, ‘Finally!’” Taylor said after the IHSA announced that boys and girls lacrosse would get their own state series beginning in 2018. “People look at lacrosse as just a club, but we put in just as much work as any sport and it’s exciting that we’re going be recognized as…

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 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’ safety was being compromised…

<!– –> Sports Breaking| Top News <!—-> ASSOCIATED PRESS This Feb. 11 photo provided by SCP Auctions shows the 1857 documents titled “Laws of Base Ball.” 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 today to an anonymous buyer after more than two…

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…

Almost 11,000 high street jobs are at risk with BHS set to fall into administration on Monday morning unless a last-minute rescue deal can be agreed with Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct. The collapse of the department store chain will be the biggest failure on the high street since the demise of Woolworths in 2008, providing the government with another headache as it attempts to save thousands of jobs in the…

The global esports market will grow to $463 million this year, according to Newzoo’s latest Global Esports Market Report. By 2019 the report says revenues will grow to a whopping $1.1 billion – not bad for a bunch of “geeks” sitting around playing computer games together, right? As a 22 year old with increasingly disposable income, I fall into the valuable sport-loving millennial target group for the advertising industry. I’m…

All personal realities being relative, my favorite annual sports-related holiday always has been Passover. Really? Really. When I was a kid, my parents kept a kosher home. That meant two sets of Passover-only dishes, one for meat meals the other for dairy. We kept those dishes, pots, pans, bowls, cups, spoons, forks and knives wrapped in newspapers and stored in tall vats — originally used to hold industrial-sized soap powder…

The drivers of a dozen or more high-end sports cars were cited for reckless driving Saturday after a state trooper clocked them at more than 110 miles per hour as they zoomed west on Interstate 394, just west of Louisiana Avenue, authorities said. One state trooper stopped seven of the vehicles as they doubled back and headed east on Hwy. 12 near Wayzata Boulevard (County Road 15), but five others…

USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck breaks down what to expect in Richmond. USA TODAY Sports

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Former Southern Regional High School standout and three-time state wrestling champion Frank Molinaro did not qualify for the Olympics at a qualifying event in Mongolia on Sunday. Molinaro, competing in the 65 kg weight class, needed to finish in the top three in the event to qualify the weight for the Olympics. He won his first match over Xuan Dinh Nguyen of Turkey, 12-0, but then ran into two-time world…

Only one thing was missing for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in Saturday’s dominant NASCAR XFINITY Series win at Richmond International Raceway — a burnout.   Later Saturday night on Twitter, Earnhardt Jr. explained why he didn’t send his No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet into a frenzy. Believe it or not, it was due to … Mark Martin ? For some reason I thought about @markmartin when I won and how he…

First it was Vijay Singh who said he was not going to play in the Olympics for his native Fiji, saying he was worried about contracting the Zika virus. Then Adam Scott, a two-time winner in 2016 and the No. 7 player in the world, said he would not play for Australia during the Summer Games in Brazil. A day later, Louis Oosthuizen…

11:35 AM ET print Documents laying out some of the original “Laws of Base Ball” sold for $3.26 million early Sunday morning, setting a new record for the highest-priced baseball document. A spokesman from SCP Auctions told ESPN that the buyer wished to remain anonymous. The price paid is the third-most for a piece of sports memorabilia. SCP sold a 1920 Yankees’ Babe Ruth jersey for $4.4 million in 2012,…

All personal realities being relative, my favorite annual sports-related holiday always has been Passover. Really? Really. When I was a kid, my parents kept a kosher home. That meant two sets of Passover-only dishes, one for meat meals the other for dairy. We kept those dishes, pots, pans, bowls, cups, spoons, forks and knives wrapped in newspapers and stored in tall vats — originally used to hold industrial-sized soap powder…

The drivers of a dozen or more high-end sports cars were cited for reckless driving Saturday after a state trooper clocked them at more than 110 miles per hour as they zoomed west on Interstate 394, just west of Louisiana Avenue, authorities said. One state trooper stopped seven of the vehicles as they doubled back and headed east on Hwy. 12 near Wayzata Boulevard (County Road 15), but five others…

All personal realities being relative, my favorite annual sports-related holiday always has been Passover. Really? Really. When I was a kid, my parents kept a kosher home. That meant two sets of Passover-only dishes, one for meat meals the other for dairy. We kept those dishes, pots, pans, bowls, cups, spoons, forks and knives wrapped in newspapers and stored in tall vats — originally used to hold industrial-sized soap powder…

Arizona Cardinals fan fire up the crowd in anticipation of the NFC Championship Game against the Carolina Panthers at Fitzgerald’s Irish Pub Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 in downtown Charlotte, NC(Photo: David Kadlubowski/azcentral sports) The Valley sports fan also has quirks: We refuse to make noise at baseball games. We set Olympic records in bandwagon jumping. We’re willing to sell our fandom for profit, even it means offering up our most valuable tickets…

Caption Close LOS ANGELES — 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 verified set of documents, titled “Laws of Base Ball,” being sold at an auction that ended Saturday, go a long way toward lifting him to legendary status. They lend him credit for the distance of the base paths at 90 feet,…