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By Stephanie Stahl PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Tennis is a sport that many young athletes are turning to out of the growing concerns about concussions associated with some contact sports. And a special kind of tennis program in our area is providing children with a lot more than just hitting the ball back and forth over a net. Fifteen year old Max Steinman is a great example, smashing his way back…

Follow Extra Mustard on Facebook | Follow Andy on Twitter Seinfeld and Sports The Brooklyn Cyclones will be hosting their third annual Seinfeld Night in July, including an “Izzy Mandlebaum’s Feats of Strength,” and a black-and-white cookie-eating contest. In honor of this important event, we present the gallery above of Seinfeld and Sports. (Click here for full-size version.) You Know You’re Rich When… A Manhattan millionaire will soon be reunited with the Picasso painting…

Josh Norman has agreed to sign with the Washington Redskins in a whopping deal worth a $75 million over five seasons, with $51 million coming to Norman in the first three years, FS1 NFL Insider Mike Garafolo reports. This makes him the highest-paid cornerback in the league.  Norman posed for photos with a pen and his new contract and smiled ear to ear alongside Redskins general manager Scot McCloughan and family…

11:02 PM ET print RICHMOND, Va. — Tony Stewart spoke out and NASCAR fined him. So what else is new? Well, for starters, you don’t often see the NASCAR Driver Council immediately issue a statement in support of a fined driver, along with a pledge to pay the fine — $35,000 in Stewart’s case. And it isn’t every day that a senior NASCAR official publicly admits “it’s time for us…

NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France, right, speaks at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Valdosta State University on Feb. 29.(Photo: Andrew Harnik, AP) So much for trying to be inclusive, NASCAR. At a time when other sports are leading the charge toward a brighter social future, the good ol’ boys seem intent on returning us to a more divisive era. NASCAR has been on quite a…

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You may as well cut the cord and watch the NBA playoffs and finals without a cable or satellite subscription. Channels are already pulling the plug on sports broadcasts as we know them. At the start of the National Basketball Association playoffs, I received a message from Chris Brantner, who goes by the handle Mr. Cable Cutter, asking if I’d…

John “Doomsday” Howard, who has a 23-12 record in his 13-year career of hitting guys until they cry mercy, rolls into an LA Fitness in the Boston suburbs. He’s three hours late to his workout, but not because he slept in. It had snowed that morning, the schools started late, and he needed to drop off his three daughters. “I got kids, man,” Howard says. Many professional athletes might hire…

International relations have been a priority for LA 2024 over the past few months, with representatives of Los Angeles’ Olympic bid committee traveling to visit sports officials around the world. Some of the meetings have been with International Olympic Committee members who will eventually vote to select a host for the 2024 Games. Others have focused on the international federations that govern each sport. On Friday, LA 2024 sport director…

In the face of increasing driver criticism about safety, NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Scott Miller said Friday afternoon that the sanctioning body will re-examine its lug nut rules. Starting with the 2015 season NASCAR stopped requiring teams to tighten five lug nuts on all four wheels during pit stops. That has resulted in some times using only four lugs on one side and three on the other. In…

Caption Close The Katy baseball team hoped its next game would be another step toward the playoffs. But making the playoffs is now out of the question. The 19-6A Executive Committee unanimously voted Friday that senior Katy baseball players Hayden Baker and Grant Jackman violated the UIL amateur athletic rule when they were paid to help coach a local Little League baseball team. The executive committee also unanimously…

The first National League baseball game was played on April 22, 1876, between the Boston Red Stockings and the Philadelphia Athletics. But it would take nearly a century before baseball fans and officials recognized that day as the birthday of Major League Baseball. See More: Start the Season Right With These 19th-Century Baseball Portraits As MLB historian John Thorn has explained, there were a few different dates in the running…

WCAV UVa team bus crashes The screenshot from WCAV in Charlottesville shows the UVa team bus and two cars involved in the crash. Posted: Thursday, April 21, 2016 10:15 pm Bus carrying UVa baseball team involved in crash in Miami BY ANDREW RAMSPACHER The Daily Progress Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia baseball players and staff members came away without injury following a bus crash in Miami late Thursday afternoon. The Cavaliers, in…

A good leadoff hitter is hard to find. This is true in actually baseball team-building, to be sure, but also in Fantasy baseball. Leadoff hitters typically won’t help you out much with RBI, but if you’re at the top of the order of a great offense and can get on base consistently, runs will flow in. When you think great offenses in 2016, your mind should go pretty much right…

Boys dominate high school baseball, but maybe it’s time to encourage girls to play. (via K.M. Klemencic) Major League Baseball is the biggest corporation associated with baseball. In many ways, it affects the way we see and interpret the game, but it is not the only place where the game is played. People play baseball all over the world, with varying rules and at very different skill levels. Some people…

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UK Sport has said it is aware of reported threats towards a senior figure in an Olympic sport and is offering support. The Daily Mail reported that the British performance director of a leading Olympic sport has received threats to himself and his family before the Rio Games in August. UK Sport, which funds Olympic and Paralympic sport, is offering assistance to the individual and the national governing body of…

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS 7 p.m. Eastern Conference first round, Game 5: Philadelphia at Washington » CSN, NBC Sports Network, WJFK (106.7 FM) 8 p.m. Eastern Conference first round, Game 5: New York Islanders at Florida » CNBC 9:30 p.m. Western Conference first round, Game 5: Minnesota at Dallas » NBC Sports Network 10:30 p.m. Western Conference first round, Game 5: San Jose at Los Angeles » CNBC NBA PLAYOFFS 7…

A third WNBA title, in five seasons, was a sweet enough prize for Minnesota Lynx guard Lindsay Whalen, who grew up west of Minneapolis and starred for the University of Minnesota in the early 2000s. But that evening’s revised post-title party plan, says Whalen, “brought the excitement to a whole other level.” Back in October, Prince unexpectedly showed up to Target Center in Minneapolis to watch the fifth and deciding…