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BBC Sport’s football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season. Lawro’s opponent for this weekend’s Premier League fixtures is American hip hop artist Fatman Scoop, who has been taking part in Sport Relief’s Battle of the Five-A-Sides. During the match, Fatman Scoop had a few words to say about one game in particular this weekend. He told BBC Sport: “Arsenal are going…

Brandi Chastain, whose penalty kick gave the United States the 1999 Women’s World Cup title, has pledged her brain for concussion research. The 47-year-old Chastain announced her donation to the Massachusetts-based Concussion Legacy Foundation on Thursday. Upon her death, her brain will go to the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, a joint project with the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University School of Medicine. “It is really about: how I can…

i One of seven identical Ty Cobb baseball cards — a baseball card find of a lifetime — that were found in a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house. AP hide caption toggle caption AP One of seven identical Ty Cobb baseball cards — a baseball card find of a lifetime — that were found in a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house. AP The crumpled brown paper…

There is no stronger union in American sports than the MLBPA, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary during the 2016 season. There have been union efforts in baseball almost since the sport’s beginning, but the MLBPA as it exists now was born in 1966. That year, players made Marvin Miller, a Brooklyn-born economist and a former negotiator for the United Steelworkers, their first executive director, a move that immediately began to…

Butch Duhe Playground in Kenner will now become known as a sports academy after the Kenner City Council approved the status change during its meeting Thursday(March 3).  The new designation means the former playground can become a training facility for more skilled athletes and elite travel sports team. “When people pass a playground and see the lights off, that’s not good for the community,” said council president Dominick Impastato, III who sponsored…

Photo via Getty On February 18, construction crews began knocking down sections of St. Elizabeth’s, the Washington, D.C. psychiatric hospital famous for having housed, among others, John Hinckley, Josh Gibson. and the Shotgun Stalker. Mayor Muriel Bowser got in an excavator to kick off the demolition of Buildings #124 and #119 on the federally-owned campus, which opened in 1855 as the Government Hospital for the Insane. They had to disappear…

i One of seven identical Ty Cobb baseball cards — a baseball card find of a lifetime — that were found in a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house. AP hide caption toggle caption AP One of seven identical Ty Cobb baseball cards — a baseball card find of a lifetime — that were found in a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house. AP The crumpled brown paper…

Brandi Chastain, whose penalty kick gave the United States the 1999 Women’s World Cup title, has pledged her brain for concussion research. The 47-year-old Chastain announced her donation to the Massachusetts-based Concussion Legacy Foundation on Thursday. Upon her death, her brain will go to the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, a joint project with the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University School of Medicine. “It is really about: how I can…

i U.S. soccer player Brandi Chastain clears the ball during a friendly match against Iceland in 2004. Gene J. Puskar /AP hide caption toggle caption Gene J. Puskar /AP U.S. soccer player Brandi Chastain clears the ball during a friendly match against Iceland in 2004. Gene J. Puskar /AP Retired soccer player Brandi Chastain, who became a superstar when she scored the game-winning goal for the U.S. in the 1999…

RELATED: Speeds from Thursday’s test sessions at Las Vegas   LAS VEGAS – About an hour into Thursday’s afternoon open test session at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Denny Hamlin‘s No. 11 FedEx Toyota hit the wall coming out of Turn 2, causing the Joe Gibbs Racing team to pull out a back-up for the official race weekend beginning here tomorrow.   After surveying the side of his damaged car, Hamlin still was optimistic about his chances…

i One of seven identical Ty Cobb baseball cards — a baseball card find of a lifetime — that were found in a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house. AP hide caption toggle caption AP One of seven identical Ty Cobb baseball cards — a baseball card find of a lifetime — that were found in a crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house. AP The crumpled brown paper…

U.S. Women’s Soccer star Brandi Chastain has announced she will donate her brain to researchers studying chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, to protect future players, according to statement from the Concussion Legacy Foundation. Chastain made headlines after making a penalty kick in the 1999 World Games that clinched victory for the U.S. Women’s Team. She said she wants to protect athletes by taking part in the study on CTE, which…

Chairman Brian France sent an email to all NASCAR employees this week defending his decision to endorse Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and vowed NASCAR would remain “a model of a progressive organization.” In the email, several copies of which were obtained by Motorsport.com, France said, “I made the personal decision on Monday to announce my support of Donald Trump. I have known Donald and his family for…

print Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR: Turn 1: After the first week of the new reduced-downforce package, who is in good shape and who may be in trouble? Rundown: New aero package draws rave reviews NASCAR isn’t willing to call it a success yet, but the new lower-downforce aero package used at Atlanta was a big hit with drivers, Bob Pockrass writes in…

12:39 PM ET print When I was a kid, I would get so excited for our family’s annual vacation that about an hour into our 11-hour drive, every year, I would throw up my morning Apple Jacks behind a large tree on a winding country road heading to the Interstate. As I aged, my morning cereal sickness subsided and my anxiety/anticipation stomach-excitement stew was replaced with deep, cavernous canker sores…

When a Florida man walked into his backyard Tuesday afternoon to see if a stray golf ball had found its way into his swimming pool, he found something much larger — a 9-foot alligator lying at the bottom of the pool. Lakeland resident Craig Lear, 38, lives on a golf course and assumed the bubbles he saw in his pool were from a ball that had been hit into it….

i One of seven identical Ty Cobb baseball cards — a baseball-card find of a lifetime — that were found crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house. AP hide caption toggle caption AP One of seven identical Ty Cobb baseball cards — a baseball-card find of a lifetime — that were found crumpled paper bag in a dilapidated house. AP The crumpled brown paper bag looked like trash. But luckily…

I spent the last two days sifting through more than 5,000 different pictures from Photo Day. You might think this is a fun way to spend several hours. You are wrong. These pictures are not for us. They are usually functional, unremarkable pictures, ostensibly to be used on scoreboards and at the top of baseball articles about baseball. There are thousands of them. They are practical. Yet every year,…

12:04 PM ET print It’s about the process, not the results. Baseball is an engrossing, yet sometimes downright maddening game, full of twists and turns that challenge our wits. To illustrate, let’s flash back four-plus months: Fantasy baseball is back! CREATE OR JOIN A LEAGUE TODAY New York Mets closer Jeurys Familia had his team two outs away from winning Game 1 of the 2015 World Series before Alex Gordon…

Look, I think you should brace yourself. I just want you to be prepared, because this conspiracy theory is … troubling. It involves professional sports, an adorable, heartwarming tale and a very good dog. Maybe two very good dogs. First, the backstory: In 2014, a little white pup turned up at the Milwaukee Brewers’ spring training facility in Arizona. The Brewers were, of course, completely charmed, because duh. Just check out this doggie: Hank!!! (Rick…