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Texas high school baseball players are accused of running a “fight club” in the batting cages after a school district’s investigation also found that the team’s coaches subjected players to demeaning comments. Complaints from the players’ parents led to the revelation of the fight club, as well as reports that Plano East High School head baseball coach Travis Collins and assistant coach Reagan Allen subjected players to demeaning, and…

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A number of technology startups are devising creative new ways of detecting concussions in pro and amateur athletes, using apps, tablets and sensors to monitor the often debilitating brain injury. Play Video Sports organizations increasingly are looking for better concussion detection methods, and a sense of urgency has grown with the release of the 2015 film “Concussion” starring Will Smith on the problem of chronic brain injury suffered by American…

Media playback is not supported on this device FA Cup: Carlisle Utd 0-3 Everton highlights Arouna Kone, Aaron Lennon and Ross Barkley scored as Everton progressed to the fifth round of the FA Cup with a comfortable victory at Carlisle. Everton took the lead inside two minutes when a ball from Tom Cleverley released Lennon down the right and he crossed low for Kone to tap in. Lennon effectively ended…

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Bill Self didn’t like playing this game. Not now, in the belly of conference play. So there was no way he was going to declare that his Kansas team beating Kentucky in overtime Saturday night was something grand and glorious. “It’s a good game,” he said after the 90-84 thriller was over. “But the timing doesn’t give it the same juice.” Self can hold firm to that…

Buy Photo Join Andrew Luck and more Indy sports celebs for the inaugural Indiana Sports Awards.(Photo: Michelle Pemberton / IndyStar)Buy Photo Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck and Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White will join IndyStar to celebrate Indiana’s high school athletes at a new sports award banquet April 28 at Lucas Oil Stadium. The inaugural Indiana Sports Awards will also feature WNBA All-Star Tamika Catchings and two-time Indianapolis 500 pole winner Ed Carpenter. Other local celebrities…

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With exactly 925 youth soccer games under his belt, a San Diego-based referee has hung up his whistle and retired from the field. American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) ref Ron Newby, who recently turned 78 years old, told NBC 7 Friday that he refereed his first soccer game back in 1979 – sort of by mistake. …

Texas high school baseball players are accused of running a “fight club” in the batting cages after a school district’s investigation also found that the team’s coaches subjected players to demeaning comments. Complaints from the players’ parents led to the revelation of the fight club, as well as reports that Plano East High School head baseball coach Travis Collins and assistant coach Reagan Allen subjected players to demeaning, and…

This is Your Brain on Sports By L. Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers Crown 280 pages, $26 By Budd Bailey L. Jon Wertheim apparently likes to hang out with smart people. You might remember his book “Scorecasting,” which came out about four years ago. He and co-author Tobias Moskowitz took something of a “freakonomics” approach to sports. For example, they crunched some numbers and figured out that football…

Andy Murray has been to four Australian Open finals. He’s accumulated a grand total of two sets, 56 games and four defeats. In 2010, Roger Federer was too good and Murray was too passive. In 2011, Novak Djokovic could have won with one hand behind his back and his shoelaces tied together. In 2013, Djokovic again, Murray spooked by a feather in the pivotal second-set tie-break. In 2015, Djokovic completed…

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The North American professional racing season kicked off Saturday afternoon when the green flag dropped on the 54th running of the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the twice-around-the-clock endurance race featuring four classes of cars in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season. Six hours in, and the race was startlingly dramatic, with massive problems for the highest-profile entries, the two Ford GTs. This was the first outing…

Tom Osiecki remembers a high school hockey season, somewhere around the time his Burnsville boys’ squad won back-to-back state titles in the mid-1980s, when he had 120 youngsters between grades 10 and 12 try out for the team. Times have changed. Burnsville’s youth numbers are way down from Osiecki’s era, just like they are in the Bloomington Jefferson and Kennedy associations, also one-time state powers. And youth numbers are down…

America’s particular obsession with celebrity, our elaborate, artificial, often misleading, hero-creation industry, reflects a deep national craving, a vast emptiness in the heart of the American soul. The nineteenth century novelist Henry James complained that America—the homeland he abandoned for Great Britain—lacked institutional anchors. The center of the New World, he lamented, has “No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service,…

The Trinity College baseball team played host to dozens of kids and coaches from the Hartford Little League on Saturday. Helping the younger players improve their ball-playing skills was only part of reaching a much bigger goal. “They’re ready for spring right now,” said Bryan Adamski, Trinity College Head Baseball Coach. Adamski is one of the organizers of the Hartford chapter of the RBI program. Here, ‘RBI’ stands…

Buy Photo Asher Loera, 4, gets a tennis lesson from instructor Anthony Lara at the Palm Desert Civic Center as part of DisAbility Sports Festival. (Photo: Omar Ornelas/The Desert Sun)Buy Photo Elizabeth Roth climbed a rock wall on Saturday for the first time in a decade. She experienced a traumatic brain injury nine-and-a-half years ago and now lives with apraxia, a neurological condition. In short, although she wants to move, her…

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