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SECAUCUS — Young baseball players are picking up their bats and grabbing their gloves early this year.  The Secaucus Recreation Department kicked off a baseball clinic today to help prepare young athletes for the upcoming season, with help from a former professional baseball player.  “I wanna see the town win, not just specific teams,” said Mike Hartung, who was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1994. “So if I can get one…

Sunday night at the Oscars, we’ll see a bunch of well-dressed people speak in reverential tones about the unimaginable challenges that come with making movies. We’ll hear rambling speeches, absorb excessive musical numbers, then wonder where those four hours just went. If that’s your jam, hey … mazel tov. For the rest of us, the Oscars offer an excuse to discuss what’s really important: the best sports movies of all…

The daily fantasy sports debate has spilled into state capitols nationwide, with nearly 30 legislatures considering proposals to regulate, ban or affirm the games played by millions of Americans. The flurry of recent legislative activity represents a sea change for the industry, which for years was content to operate largely unregulated. “We’ve been operating in this gray area for a long time, and, up until now, it hasn’t really been…

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Richard Childress Racing‘s three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series cars had trouble in pre-race inspection Sunday.   After multiple trips through the line, NASCAR pulled the Nos. 3 of Austin Dillon, 27 of Paul Menard and 31 of Ryan Newman out of inspection and confiscated the braces in the right rear corners of their respective vehicles.   According to NASCAR, the parts in question were optional braces (brackets) in the rear-wheel area of the cars. NASCAR officials…

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Each new Stephen Curry highlight brings a fresh round of debate about whether or not he’s the best shooter ever, better than LeBron — you name it. That’s perfectly normal in the sports fan universe. What’s not is seeing so many other sports stars dropping into the conversation, amazed by Curry just like the rest of us. That happened again Saturday night after Curry stunned the Thunder. @StephenCurry30 needs to…

Rachel Martin chats about sports with Mike Pesca of Slate’s The Gist.

Jimmie Johnson looks for a win in Hampton, Ga. for the second year in a row and the fourth time in his career as the NASCAR Sprint Cup season moves to the Atlanta Motor Speedway for the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 on Sunday afternoon. Johnson finished a disappointing 16th place in the season-opening Daytona 500 last Sunday in Florida, but is a three-time champion of the QuikTrip 500,…

The memory book is a couple of inches thick, a heartfelt testament to a child lost and a life well-lived. Thomas Knox was a comet of goodwill, gone too soon, but here long enough to brighten the lives of many others in ways that burst from the red-covered scrapbook. The book offers solace to Lisa and Jim Knox as they page through its letters, photos and artwork in their quiet…

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Sport has a corruption problem, but rather than handwaving it away by focusing only on the good bits, Corrupt Cup Contest chooses to embrace this shady side of organised competition. It’s a strategy game where you pick a country then attempt to snaffle as many sports tournaments as possible. You do this by gaining favour from the voting countries, something that tends to—but doesn’t necessarily—involve a spot of money changing hands. “How you…

Each new Stephen Curry highlight brings a fresh round of debate about whether or not he’s the best shooter ever, better than LeBron — you name it. That’s perfectly normal in the sports fan universe. What’s not is seeing so many other sports stars dropping into the conversation, amazed by Curry just like the rest of us. That happened again Saturday night after Curry stunned the Thunder. @StephenCurry30 needs to…

E-Mail Alerts & Newsletters All Things Avs Blog Colorado Avalanche photos Avs Mailbag archive. Ask Mailbag questions Avs stats, roster, schedule NHL standings Following the puck wasn’t a priority Saturday night at Coors Field, and to some, the score was secondary. Hockey at the home of baseball’s Rockies between the Avalanche and Red Wings was a celebration, a cold and frosty toast to the growth of the game in Colorado….

Gianni Infantino was the big winner in Friday’s FIFA elections, becoming the ninth man chosen to run soccer’s global governing body in a taut six-hour vote that took two ballots to decide. But another man who wasn’t even in the race did almost as well. By switching his allegiance from Jordan’s Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein to Infantino between the two rounds of voting, then actively encouraging others to do…

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FT. MYERS, Fla. — Enough with the click-bait silliness, from Pablo’s gut to Cespedes’ cars to the Marlins’ new rules on facial hair. The true meaning of spring training was on display Saturday, on display in a dim, narrow walkway between the Twins’ clubhouse and the field. Rod Carew quietly joined hands with his wife, Rhonda, and walked slowly past the batting cages. Moments later, the Hall of Famer emerged…