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To get “equal pay”, would the US women’s soccer team give up its salaries? It’s a strange question, but it illustrates the complexity of comparing deals that were negotiated at different times with different goals. The US women’s soccer team, for better or for worse, consists mostly of salaried employees. The men’s team, whose players usually draw the bulk of their income from professional clubs, gets mostly bonus money. Related:…

The Colorado Rockies’ Trevor Story has become quite the … phenomenon early in the 2016 season. His hot start to the season has prompted several … articles, and he’s … the talk of baseball. I would also like to create a … narrative around these specific events, so here is an … account of some other hot Aprils in recent memory. My first season as a national baseball writer…

The Hurricanes didn’t get to play as many games this weekend as they wanted. But the one they did get in — a 10-2 victory over Notre Dame in chilly South Bend — helped make them the nation’s top-ranked baseball team. Miami, which has won nine straight games and 20 of its last 22, took the top spot in the most recent Baseball America Top 25 which was released early…

The Emmy award-winning film-maker Ken Burns has made documentaries about the American civil war, jazz, the famous case of the five black and Latino teenagers wrongly convicted of gang-raping a woman in New York’s Central Park and more. Now, he and co-directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon turn their attentions to baseball legend Jackie Robinson. Their four-hour film will air on PBS on 11-12 April. Related: Donald Trump and the…

Listen New season, new rules: The changing world of baseball 38min 51sec American League’s Brian Dozier, of the Minnesota Twins, hits a home run during the eighth inning of the MLB All-Star baseball game in July. John Minchillo | AP 2015 Subscribe to the MPR News with Kerri Miller podcast Today is the home opener for the Minnesota Twins at Target Field. With the start of another baseball season, MPR News…

Note: Don’t whiff on this special FanDuel offer. Win your first contest or get your money back (up to $10) to keep playing. Try FanDuel now! It seems like it has been a theme early in the season that the top pitchers have been matched up against bad teams that also offer the best pitchers to stack against. This is a problem on FanDuel of course, because you can only…

Since the digital video recorder became commonly used, the rights to professional sports have become steadily more valuable. That’s because while people may watch their favorite drama or sitcom on a delayed, time-shifted basis (while fast-forwarding through the commercials), sports are still generally watched live. That means the audience sees the ads as they air, which of course makes the commercial inventory more valuable. “Sports accounted for 93 of the…

Jordan Spieth stunningly blew his chance to repeat as Masters champion on Sunday with consecutive bogeys on the 10th and 11th holes followed by a blooper reel-worthy quadruple bogey on the par-3 12th turned a five-stroke lead to a three-stroke deficit. Where does it rank in the recent history of memorable sports meltdowns? Here are the top 10 worst sports collapses of the last 25 years. 10. Jana Novotna, 1993…

Team Fort Green: Johnson, Chapin-Rienzo, and Taylor Related Links Reverb Kitchen & Bar, the Polk Street sibling to Berkeley’s Gather, has closed Mister Jiu’s: Eight things to know about Brandon Jew’s new Chinatown restaurant It wasn’t that long ago that downtown Oakland was an extremely tough sell for business owners. Now it’s getting to the point where vacancies are hard to come by and restaurant/bar groups are doubling down on the area with additional locations….

Aston Villa have won only three Premier League games all season Aston Villa’s staff could face compulsory redundancy as the club prepare for relegation from the Premier League to the Championship. Saturday’s loss to Bournemouth all but sealed Villa’s fate. The club say “every effort” will be made to offer voluntary redundancy. Villa added: “The objective is to secure a sound financial platform from which the club can rebuild. We…

“Aston Villa’s football board plans to meet on Wednesday to formulate the next stage in the move to appoint a new manager. “Almost a fortnight after Remi Garde left the club,the board has a shortlist but next the respective claims of the candidates will be scrutinised by the four members together – chairman David Bernstein, Lord King, Adrian Bevington and former Villa player and chairman, Brian Little. Could one of these…

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RELATED: Buy Darlington tickets   The first formal reveal of a throwback paint scheme for this year’s Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway came Monday. Roush Fenway Racing released a video of the No. 17 Fastenal Ford of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. that showed the car getting wrapped, along with Stenhouse and Darrell Waltrip chatting about the car and the track.   Waltrip drove the No. 17 throughout his career, and…

The ancient walls of Fenway Park have seen some pretty unusual stuff since the last-place Red Sox slinked out of town at the end of September. In November, we witnessed Fenway football for the first time since Gino Cappelletti dropped field goals into the bullpens in the 1960s. The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame shook down the thunder against Boston College, and then Boston English, Boston Latin, and six other…

The Hurricanes didn’t get to play as many games this weekend as they wanted. But the one they did get in — a 10-2 victory over Notre Dame in cold South Bend — helped make them the nation’s top-ranked baseball team. Miami, which has nine straight games and 20 of its last 22, took the top spot in the most recent Baseball America Top 25 which was released early Monday…

Should Be Long Gone Tyler White, 1B/3B, Houston Astros Eugenio Suarez, 3B/SS, Cincinnati Reds Jorge Soler, OF, Chicago Cubs Juan Nicasio, SP, Pittsburgh Pirates Aaron Sanchez, SP, Toronto Blue Jays   Mixed Leagues Adonis Garcia, 3B/OF, Atlanta Braves Trayce Thompson, OF, Los Angeles Dodgers Bartolo Colon, SP, New York Mets Jeremy Hellickson, SP, Philadelphia Phillies Brandon Finnegan, SP/RP, Cincinnati Reds Trevor May, SP/RP, Minnesota Twins Hunter Strickland, RP, San Francisco…

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. The last time the Baltimore Orioles started a season 5-0, they won the World Series (1970). Today, they go for their sixth win, but are heavy underdogs against David Price and the Boston Red Sox. 2. Speaking…

Editor’s note: Evan Drellich is the Herald’s new baseball reporter. He’ll begin writing at today’s home opener. This is his introduction to Sox fans:  Do you have any idea how rare it is today for a news organization to send at least two writers to every baseball game? To foot the bill for all the memory-foam travel pillows I always lose but disguise on an expense report as lunch? Find…

NEW ORLEANS — Former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith was shot and killed in a case of road rage by a man who had rear-ended his car, police said. Smith was beloved by fans for his role in bringing a Super Bowl championship to New Orleans in 2009, though the defensive captain also found himself at the center of the NFL’s bounty probe in 2012. There was no indication…