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View gallery . (1991 Score Dream Team Jose Canseco ) If you love baseball like we do, one thing is assured: At some point in your life, you owned baseball cards. Opening your first pack of cards is a rite of passage for fans. Maybe you saved up your allowance in order to buy your first pack, maybe your mom bought them for you after you brought home a strong…

AUGUSTA, Maine — Momentum to bring pitch-count restrictions to Maine high school baseball is growing. The baseball committee of the Maine Principals’ Association discussed the use of pitch counts during its winter meeting Tuesday, and while nothing will change for the 2016 season, all signs indicate that adoption of the practice statewide is inevitable at all levels of high school baseball. “It’s something that’s being talked about a lot nationally,”…

We’ve made our way through the position player and DH rankings (previous rankings: C | 1B | 2B |SS | 3B | LF | CF | RF | DH), and now it’s time to give the starting pitchers their due. As was the case with previous rankings, let’s keep these things in mind: 1. We are ranking the players based upon which ones we’d most want to have for the…

This is a study in contrast. Earlier this month, MLB.com released top-10 prospects for each position. The Giants had one entrant, Class-A catcher Aramis Garcia. He was 10th. If you want a thumbnail sketch about the state of the Giants’ farm system, that will do nicely. There’s a little depth, but there aren’t a lot of elite talents. However, those lists are culled from a pool that includes every…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – For the third time in five seasons, the Missouri State baseball squad has been tabbed the Missouri Valley Conference favorite by the league’s coaches in their annual preseason poll, which was announced Wednesday (Feb. 3). Three Bears were selected for the Valley’s preseason all-conference squad, including returning All-Americans Jake Burger and Bryan Young, as well as three-year starter Spencer Johnson. The defending Valley champs of head coach Keith…

Steve Elling made the biggest mistake of his career in 2001, though he wouldn’t realize it for a decade. He gave up covering Florida State football at the Orlando Sentinel to join CBS Sportsline.com and cover golf and its young ascending star, Tiger Woods. Elling was one of the country’s most prominent golf writers in the early 2000s. CBS Network televised the premier golf events; Elling traveled the world covering…

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Olympic organisers have insisted that the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro this August will not be affected by the outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil, but also warned athletes and visitors to smother themselves in mosquito repellent to minimise the risks. At a press conference staged the day after the World Health Organisation declared that the clusters of brain-damaged babies – linked to but not proven to be…

A Russian teenage ice hockey prospect has died in hospital three weeks after he was hit in the neck by a puck that was travelling at more than 100mph. Alexander Orekhov, a junior with Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the KHL, suffered a broken neck in the second period of a game on 14 January. The shot struck Orekhov, 16, with enough force that it “damaged the carotid artery and broke several…

When 11-year-old Mary Kippenhan showed up for her Special Olympics basketball game in Hanover last night, she was stunned to find that the young boys who have embraced her as an honorary member of their elite hockey team had skipped practice to cheer her on. Decked out in their Boston Junior Terriers uniforms, a raucous cheering section of 10-year-old boys crowded into the stands at the Cardinal Cushing Centers gym,…

Sports Direct has dramatically backed down from its legal battle with Rangers football club and abandoned efforts to prevent disclosure of the pair’s joint venture, which has made the Old Firm club about 4p from every pound spent in its Ibrox store. An interim gagging order was imposed last summer, blocking Rangers from publicly revealing details of its agreement with the retailer, which contains swingeing clauses and was already subject…

The government has moved to pressure sports organisations into recognising gender equality in travel policies for Australian athletes. Federal sports minister Sussan Ley is demanding the policy as a condition of federal government funding, and along with Australian Sports Commission chairman John Wylie, has written to the top 30 funded organisations on the issue. “In 2016 we can think of no defensible reason why male and female athletes should travel…

On sale this week. First time since 1966 (George Peeples) an Iowa hoops player on the cover of Sports Illustrated. https://t.co/ygtvck07hw — Iowa Basketball (@IowaHoops) February 02, 2016 Jarrod Uthoff and Iowa are kind of a big deal. [ MORE: Dienhart: Midseason report cards | BTN analysts pick best of the first half ] At the unofficial midpoint of the Big Ten conference season, Uthoff is the frontrunner for Big…

RELATED: Stewart through the years NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart has been hospitalized with a back injury after an all-terrain vehicle accident, according to a spokesperson from his Stewart-Haas Racing team. According to the SHR statement, Stewart was hurt in an accident Sunday afternoon while driving an all-terrain vehicle on the West Coast. He was transported to a hospital in an undisclosed location and is able to move all his…

Does this scenario sound familiar? In a popular uprising, voters rally behind an insurgent outsider candidate. The establishment panics and tries to quash the outsider’s campaign. But voters are undeterred, rallying around their candidate by the tens of thousands and leading him to an upstart victory. Bernie Sanders? Donald Trump? Nope. I’m talking about a professional hockey player named John Scott. For those who don’t follow hockey, Scott is a…

Competitive cycling has been rocked by the discovery of a motor concealed in a bike at the world cyclo-cross championships in Belgium on Saturday, the first high-profile discovery of its kind. The UCI, the sport’s governing body, confirmed the news. The Belgian cyclist Femke Van Den Driessche has been reported to have been riding the bike but has denied that the bike that was seized was in fact hers, insisting…

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Randle was arrested again in February 2015 in his hometown of Wichita, Kan., where police responded to a domestic violence call from his hotel room. Randle said the incident stemmed from an argument with his ex-girlfriend, Dalia Jacobs, who is the mother of his toddler son. Randle was cited for marijuana possession, but the drug charge was later dropped. In April, Kansas authorities said there was a lack of evidence…