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Virginia today signed into law the “Fantasy Contests Act,” a bill outlining how daily fantasy sport sites like DraftKings and FanDuel can operate legally in the state. The law is the nation’s first formal recognition of the industry after months of heated legal activity in multiple states. Regulators and lawmakers around the country have sought bans on the websites on the grounds they constitute illegal online gambling. The Virginia legislature…

“Texas has their Friday night lights, Indiana has their barnyard hoops — here in Minnesota, it’s the land of 10,000 locks,” says the narrator in the intro of the “Best Minnesota High School Hockey Hair” awards video. “Hockey is king.” The competition to crown the best hair was stiff this year, but in the end, a quartet from Burnsville, Minn., took the top spot. “At No. 1, I’m sure this…

A baseball game nearly turned into a disaster this weekend when an errant bat almost hit a little boy in the face. The near-miss happened Saturday when the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing the Atlanta Braves in a spring training game and a Pirates’ player lost his grip on a bat that headed toward the stands. Christopher Horner, a photographer for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, caught the moment on camera when the…

Stanton hobbled by knee injury Miami Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton missed Monday’s exhibition game against Washington in Viera, Fla., because of a sore right knee and visited team physician Dr. Lee Kaplan. Marlins executive Mike Hill said the team first became aware of Stanton’s knee soreness when he came in for his workout Sunday. Hill said there are no plans for Stanton to have an MRI,…

“Texas has their Friday night lights, Indiana has their barnyard hoops — here in Minnesota, it’s the land of 10,000 locks,” says the narrator in the intro of the “Best Minnesota High School Hockey Hair” awards video. “Hockey is king.” The competition to crown the best hair was stiff this year, but in the end, a quartet from Burnsville, Minn., took the top spot. “At No. 1, I’m sure this…

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A quick-thinking Pittsburgh Pirates fan is being called a hero for saving his son from being hit in the face by a flying baseball bat. This happened Saturday in Florida at a spring training game against the Atlanta Braves. Pirates outfielder Danny Ortiz was the one who lost his grip on that swing, sending the bat flying into the stands. “I went home and my wife said to me, ‘You almost killed…

Stanton hobbled by knee injury Miami Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton missed Monday’s exhibition game against Washington in Viera, Fla., because of a sore right knee and visited team physician Dr. Lee Kaplan. Marlins executive Mike Hill said the team first became aware of Stanton’s knee soreness when he came in for his workout Sunday. Hill said there are no plans for Stanton to have an MRI,…

“Texas has their Friday night lights, Indiana has their barnyard hoops — here in Minnesota, it’s the land of 10,000 locks,” says the narrator in the intro of the “Best Minnesota High School Hockey Hair” awards video. “Hockey is king.” The competition to crown the best hair was stiff this year, but in the end, a quartet from Burnsville, Minn., took the top spot. “At No. 1, I’m sure this…

Donald Trump has lapped the field in some recent state primaries, but he caused a caution flag Monday when he claimed that he had NASCAR’s endorsement in a speech in Concord, N.C., just miles from the NASCAR Hall of Fame and the Charlotte Motor Speedway. “NASCAR endorsed Trump,” Trump said. “Can you believe that?” At first glance, one might be tempted to believe it. Trump did,…

A baseball game nearly turned into a disaster this weekend when an errant bat almost hit a little boy in the face. The near-miss happened Saturday when the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing the Atlanta Braves in a spring training game and a Pirates’ player lost his grip on a bat that headed toward the stands. Christopher Horner, a photographer for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, caught the moment on camera when the…

The best-selling book Moneyball by Michael Lewis changed the way people thought about sport, particularly for those owners, managers, and players with the biggest vested interests. Lewis’s book helped bring about a revolution in which player performance was measured and assessed using an evidence-based approach rather than a tradition dominated by anecdote and intuition. Since then, sports scientists have attempted to replicate the success of this approach in sports such…

Maria Sharapova has been provisionally banned from tennis after she revealed on Monday she tested positive at the Australian Open for a recently banned drug that she has been taking for 10 years for health reasons. The drug is called meldonium, though Sharapova said she had been using it under the name of mildronate and was unaware of both the different name and the fact it is on the World…

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A jury awarded Erin Andrews $55 million on Monday in her lawsuit against a stalker who bought a hotel room next to her and secretly recorded a nude video, finding that the hotel companies and the stalker shared in the blame. After a full day of deliberations, the panel said the stalker was responsible for 51% of the verdict and that the two hotel companies should share the rest, which…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A Hendrick Motorsports airplane made an emergency landing early Monday morning because smoke was discovered in the cabin. The plane was returning from Las Vegas Motor Speedway and made a fuel stop in Oklahoma before taking off again to return to North Carolina. Roughly an hour later, the plane was forced to land at Memphis International Airport in Tennessee. Team spokesman Jesse Essex said there were no…

HAMILTON – The East Windsor teen struck and killed by an NJ Transit train Sunday was a star soccer player for Notre Dame High School who recently signed a letter of intent to play in college. Jacob J. St. Phard, 18, was struck on the tracks just west of the Hamilton train station around 8:20 p.m. by a train heading for maintenance in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, NJ Transit spokesman Jim Smith…

Target Field will host its first soccer match when Minnesota United FC welcomes Club León, a powerhouse team in Mexico, for a friendly encounter on June 25. The pitch will be situated with the end lines stretching from the first-base line to the left-field wall, the Minnesota Twins explained in its announcement Monday. The field dimensions will be 109 yards long by 74 yards wide, just a touch on the…