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Get all of Michael Beller’s columns as soon as they’re published. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. The Cubs have plenty of ways to cover Kyle Schwarber’s injury, and they just got another back over the weekend when Javier Baez returned from the DL. There’s no doubt, however, that the best-case scenario for the Cubs includes Jorge…

Teamwork! Joint article by Gorbachev and Jessica! How painfull can the sweep by the Twins be? Answer: very.  Bullpen issues and weak bats are already rearing their ugly head and these issues were the chief concern for the Angels coming out if the post season. Did  they do enough? Probably not. The game began well enough with a Yunel Escobar walk followed, two outs later, by a mammoth…

A baseball stadium that was a linchpin to the redevelopment of the Camden waterfront will sit mostly empty this season after the minor league team that played in it for 15 years folded, leaving the public on the hook for millions more of the cost to build it. The independent Camden Riversharks stopped play when they couldn’t reach a deal to stay at Campbell’s Field after Camden County purchased it…

Total revenue for the 50 public schools in the Power Five conferences rose by $304 million in 2015, but spending rose by $332 million from the year before, according to a USA TODAY Sports analysis.(Photo: Jupiterimages) Bubble, in a sports context, typically refers to college basketball teams with middling résumés, or perhaps the sort of gum that comes with trading cards. Economist Andrew Zimbalist suggests college sports may be facing…

Defending race-winner Matt Kenseth didn’t repeat after going behind the wall to fix damage incurred on Lap 327 of Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.   The Joe Gibbs Racing driver had rebounded from an early race brush with the wall after a right front tire went down to get back into the top three, but a similar issue cropped up with a little less than 200 laps to go to send the No. 20…

This was expected to be a big year for HScott Motorsports, with the addition of veteran Clint Bowyer to its driver lineup and a closer working relationship with Stewart-Haas Racing helping to stabilize a team that is only in its third full season of full-time competition.   While Bowyer’s stay at HSM will be brief — he leaves to take over the No. 14 entry at Stewart-Haas Racing next year — he had expressed…

A baseball stadium that was a linchpin to the redevelopment of the Camden waterfront will sit mostly empty this season after the minor league team that played in it for 15 years folded, leaving the public on the hook for millions more of the cost to build it. The independent Camden Riversharks stopped play when they couldn’t reach a deal to stay at Campbell’s Field after Camden County purchased it…

Get all of Michael Beller’s columns as soon as they’re published. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. The Cubs have plenty of ways to cover Kyle Schwarber’s injury, and they just got another back over the weekend when Javier Baez returned from the DL. There’s no doubt, however, that the best-case scenario for the Cubs includes Jorge…

Welcome to today’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the brand-spanking new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! 5 Things to Watch: 1. First things first, here are the three highest over/unders for Sunday, provided by OddsShark… 2. Keep an eye on BAL@TEX for rain, but as of Saturday night, everything looks clear for Sunday baseball.  3. The Cardinals are on…

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Close calls don’t count in sports retailing, and that helps explain why it will soon be lights out for the Sports Authority store in Cherry Hill. Slideshow The…

Despite Logan Ice belting his sixth home run of the season, the No. 7 Oregon State Beavers baseball team lost the final game of its series at Washington State on Saturday, falling 8-3 to the Cougars. WSU won two of three in the series. Here’s more on the game from Oregon State athletics: PULLMAN, Wash. – Logan Ice hit his team-leading sixth home run of the season but seventh-ranked Oregon State…

Every now and then, an actor comes along who just owns an entire genre of movies. Think about the Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks heyday of romantic comedies, Will Ferrell in sports comedies — or of course, Kevin Costner and baseball. Over the years, the actor has starred in two of the greatest baseball films ever made (1988’s “Bull Durham” and 1989’s “Field of Dreams”), and an underrated near-classic (1999s “For Love…

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Believe it or not, we’re already halfway through the conference season in MIAC baseball. Once again, everybody is chasing St. Thomas, who has a perfect conference record. The St. Thomas baseball team is in a familiar place…first place. By a lot. The Tommies are 10-0 in conference play after two more wins today, and 17-3 overall. “A lot of it’s some of our upper classmen really stepping…

Jackie Robinson(Photo: Detroit News archives) So often when you reach the late 80s and you are fortunate, there are precious flashbacks to your boyhood. You were young and impressionable then and every sight was brand new. And it was when baseball became the first game that mattered. There is Lou Gehrig, who played with style and dignity, and the memory of a home run he hit into right field at…

The familiar clank of bat against ball, fans munching on pretzels and hot dogs in the stands and young children scampering to be the first to the treasured foul balls — yes, baseball has returned from its winter hiatus. The prep baseball season began Saturday with three non-league games at Bartlett High. Service coach Willie Paul said he’s never seen the season start this early in his 14 seasons as…

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Do boundary ropes in cricket really guarantee player safety? © Getty Images The breathtaking finish to the World T20 was an assault that, much as Ben Stokes would like to erase it from his memory, no one who saw will ever forget. Carlos Brathwaite‘s four mammoth consecutive sixes to win the world title in the final over was an incredible achievement and a…

Jackie Robinson(Photo: Detroit News archives) So often when you reach the late 80s and you are fortunate, there are precious flashbacks to your boyhood. You were young and impressionable then and every sight was brand new. And it was when baseball became the first game that mattered. There is Lou Gehrig, who played with style and dignity, and the memory of a home run he hit into right field at…

Every now and then, an actor comes along who just owns an entire genre of movies. Think about the Meg Ryan-Tom Hanks heyday of romantic comedies, Will Ferrell in sports comedies — or of course, Kevin Costner and baseball. Over the years, the actor has starred in two of the greatest baseball films ever made (1988’s “Bull Durham” and 1989’s “Field of Dreams”), and an underrated near-classic (1999s “For Love…