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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…

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’…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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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