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Keith Holcombe’s in for a busy spring. Two years after playing his last baseball game at nearby Hillcrest High School, the Alabama linebacker is back on the ball field. It was time to give baseball another try, this time at the collegiate level. Alabama baseball coach Mitch Gaspard spoke highly of Holcombe, a 37th-round MLB draft pick in 2014. It’ll make for a tricky few weeks when spring football practice…

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Robby Howard’s return to baseball didn’t happen without some rigorous tugging at his heartstrings. That’s why he’s offering no guarantees for a lengthy second stint as South-Doyle High School coach. Howard, who coached the program for 28 years before retiring in 2008, formally was hired back to the post on Thursday,…

The new book, This is Your Brain on Sports, gets inside the minds of the players on the field, the fans in the stands, and the coaches on the sidelines. NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Tufts psychologist Sam Sommers and Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated about what sports tell us about how we think.

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Robby Howard’s return to baseball didn’t happen without some rigorous tugging at his heartstrings. That’s why he’s offering no guarantees for a lengthy second stint as South-Doyle High School coach. Howard, who coached the program for 28 years before retiring in 2008, formally was hired back to the post on Thursday,…

Tommy Morrell has coached football. He’s coached basketball. Until now, however, he’s never coached baseball. Morrell is the new Grace Baptist diamond coach and the only stipulation he had for taking the job was for the school’s administration to get a baseball-minded person to help him. “They sure did that,” Morrell said Thursday. The person who will be Morrell’s right-hand man is former big league…

Gophers football coach Tracy Claeys and his staff did a tremendous job of not only holding onto key recruits, but bringing in some big names late in the recruiting period to secure what Rivals.com called the 50th-best recruiting class in the nation. One recruit looking to follow in the steps of former Gophers great Eric Decker is Drew Hmielewski, the wide receiver and defensive back from Marshall (Minn.) High, who…

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OAKLAND — A smile exploded on the face of Miyante Ringo, like a motion-captured sunrise, as he displayed his hoop skills. The ball spun rapidly on his right index finger, so fast the silver NBA letters disappeared. He seamlessly transferred it to his left finger, just to show off a bit, then slid his left hand underneath the spinning ball so it bounced on the back of his wrist. Marques…

“After a goal is scored, the result is transmitted to a server in Malta and shows up on a screen, before people in the stadium even jump up and scream.” http://c.espnradio.com/s:5L8r1/audio/2672406/whatsthepoint_2016-02-04-132006.64k.mp3?ad_params=zones%3DPreroll%2CPreroll2%2CMidroll%2CMidroll2%2CMidroll3%2CMidroll4%2CMidroll5%2CMidroll6%2CPostroll%2CPostroll2%7Cstation_id%3D3138 Subscribe: iTunes | Download | RSS | Video As you’re watching the Super Bowl this weekend, keep in mind that behind the scenes, loads of data — and money — is shifting with each and every play. And as…

Today we’re launching the Sports Illustrated App, a new place to connect with our audience while showcasing SI’s unparalleled storytelling and reporting from our award-winning journalists. With all-new modes of personalization, a clean in-app navigation experience and distinct SI editorial curation—along with the scores, videos, notifications and up-to-the-minute news that sports fans want—we’re excited to introduce this new product. Download the SI App now on iOS and Android. This is the brand’s first native…

Sports Authority is preparing to file for bankruptcy, according to a Bloomberg report that cited sources with knowledge of the situation. The sporting goods retailer has a debt payment due in less than two weeks and is discussing a reorganization deal with lenders, the sources told the news service. Part of the plan includes the previously rumored move to close as many as 200 of its roughly 450 stores. In…

Rangers has moved to end its turbulent commercial relationship with Sports Direct after the football club saw off a legal challenge from the retail chain. In a message to supporters, the Rangers chairman, Dave King, said he had written to Sports Direct formally giving notice to end the joint venture. The statement came a day after the retailer dropped a high court attempt to prevent the disclosure of details behind…

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11:52 AM ET print Rain. When asked recently about the NASCAR’s biggest challenge, chairman Brian France blamed woes on the rain. Let’s give France the benefit of the doubt that he dodged the question — and an opportunity to explain how he will tackle an important issue — to avoid creating a negative storyline. If NASCAR had no serious issues it actually could control, then it would start 2016 with…

Last week, Bill Nye started a bit of a storm with this post on Aeon: “If NASCAR embraced electric cars it could change the world.” In it, Nye expands on a chapter from his most recent book, where he calls for NASCAR to ditch its internal combustion engines and replace them with electric ones. “We could convert all of our racecars to electricity — right now — and show the…