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Relay the Way, the 9.49-mile baseball toss set for the Royals’ opening day, is already a success — and it’s about to get even better. It took less than three days to sign up the 2,500 people needed to throw the ball, about 20 feet each, from Union Station to Kauffman Stadium, where it will be used Sunday for the first pitch of the world champions’ 2016 season. And everyone…

3:20 PM ET print The Sprint Cup Series heads to Martinsville Speedway this week, and while the participants of the most notable wreck from November have tried to move on, no one will forget that race anytime soon. Many would view the Nov. 1 race as the ultimate in NASCAR retaliation and vigilante stock-car justice, an act that resulted in NASCAR’s harshest penalty ever to a Sprint Cup driver for…

He shoots, he scores! Watch the Americans try to put the ball in the net against Guatemala online in this 2018 World Cup Qualifying match on March 28th at 7:00 pm EST. Check out the game’s live stream here! The United States Men’s National team is in a must-win situation in this match-up against their neighbors to the south, Guatemala. The American’s will be hosting the game in the heartland at…

Baseball sure loves a manufactured controversy, especially if the terms “respect,” “class,” or “the right way” are involved. No team attempts to uphold the unwritten rules of the game quite like the Kansas City Royals. Last year, the Royals cleared benches six times — five times in April alone — and despite ending the season as World Series champions, the Royals are keen to clear the benches again to start 2016. You…

The “Is David Ortiz washed up?’ stories are an annual tradition. Because Ortiz’s career peak came relatively late and his game is exclusively predicated on the ability to hit the ball hard, we’re constantly on the lookout for the end, and have been for years. Every 0-for-4 performance in April brings about an avalanche of “IS DAVID ORTIZ WASHED UP” histrionics, and every year, he just keeps hitting. I fell…

When veteran pitcher Bronson Arroyo heard the news, he texted Baker, “Hey, back at it again.” Baker replied: “Yeah, one last album.” Baker’s last album could be his final chance to win the championship that has evaded him. The challenge for the old-school baseball lifer is to guide the stacked Nationals — led by Bryce Harper, Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg, Ryan Zimmerman and Jonathan Papelbon —…

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3:20 PM ET print The Sprint Cup Series heads to Martinsville Speedway this week, and while the participants of the most notable wreck from November have tried to move on, no one will forget that race anytime soon. Many would view the Nov. 1 race as the ultimate in NASCAR retaliation and vigilante stock-car justice, an act that resulted in NASCAR’s harshest penalty ever to a Sprint Cup driver for…

I hope everyone had an enjoyable and safe Easter. I know the teams, especially the road crews, were really looking forward to the Easter break. Remember too, they don’t get another off-weekend in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series until Father’s Day weekend in June. I was looking at all the notes I had taken over the last three races and found some interesting things I learned on the West Coast…

Jurgen Klinsmann and the U.S. national team face a critical match against Guatemala at Mapfre Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. (Saul Martinez/Reuters) It’s a massive day for U.S. soccer as the national team and under-23s play critical matches in Hunt-built MLS stadiums 1,000 miles apart. In Columbus, Jurgen Klinsmann’s senior squad looks to rebound from a shock defeat at Guatemala with a rematch against Los Chapines at Mapfre Stadium. In Frisco,…

On Tuesday, a group of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley officially announced that they will be starting a professional soccer team in San Francisco. The San Francisco Deltas, as the team will be known, have also declared it their intention to compete in the North American Soccer League, America’s second tier, and will take to the field in 2017. Though this was the first official announcement the club have made to…

England, buzzing after their recent spirited comeback against Germany, face off against the Netherlands on Mar. 29 at Wembley Stadium in London, England at 3 p.m. EST. It should be a game full of goals you won’t want to miss, so click for the live stream and watch all the action! After their epic 3-2 win over the old enemy Germany, England returns to back to their Wembley HQ on…

Baseball sure loves a manufactured controversy, especially if the terms “respect,” “class,” or “the right way” are involved. No team attempts to uphold the unwritten rules of the game quite like the Kansas City Royals. Last year, the Royals cleared benches six times — five times in April alone — and despite ending the season as World Series champions, the Royals are keen to clear the benches again to start 2016. You…

Texas baseball signee Kyle Muller struck out the first 18 hitters he faced Monday and finished with 21 strikeouts in eight innings as Jesuit beat Irving 3-0.   By striking out 18 in a row to start Monday’s game, then getting the first out in the bottom of the seventh on a strikeout after allowing a single, Muller had recorded 36 outs in a row on strikeouts over three games. The streak…

JERSEY CITY — You’d think Jersey City could keep the politics out of youth baseball. You’d be wrong. Tensions are flaring between two groups vying to oversee youth baseball at Pershing Field, with one group accusing the other of attempting to hijack baseball leagues for political gain, and the second group saying the first is fighting to keep men with criminal histories coaching baseball. The battle has moved from the baseball…

Mitch Gaspard knew this day was coming. Schedules aligned for a while, but with his Alabama baseball team hitting the road for the next few weekends, they’re going to be without outfielder Keith Holcombe. He’s got a linebacker job to win. The two-sport juggle will take a break in the final three weeks of Alabama’s spring football practice. The Tide baseball team will play Auburn at 7 p.m. Tuesday in…

On Tuesday, a group of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley officially announced that they will be starting a professional soccer team in San Francisco. The San Francisco Deltas, as the team will be known, have also declared it their intention to compete in the North American Soccer League, America’s second tier, and will take to the field in 2017. Though this was the first official announcement the club have made to…