Blog

A roundup of news Monday from the Television Critics Association winter meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs. ——— Jackie Robinson’s widow said Major League Baseball has yet to fully honor her husband’s legacy. “There is a lot more that needs to be done and that can be done in terms of the hiring, the promotion” of minorities in the sport, Rachel Robinson…

print Editor’s note: In the days leading up to Rob Manfred’s one-year anniversary as commissioner on Jan. 25, we asked our writers what one change or innovation they would make to improve baseball if the sport were starting over today. The change: Implement automated strike zones. How it would work: Szymborski: It’s time for MLB to add robot umpires behind home plateStrang: Implement mandatory dugout-to-dugout netting for fan safety Computer…

After Tuesday’s announcement that the Hit King will be joining the Reds Hall of Fame, WLWT heard from one of his longtime supporters. Baseball’s “Hit King” will be inducted into a Hall of Fame this summer. More Watch this story Retired Hamilton County Judge Norbert Nadel ruled in favor of Pete Rose back in 1989, the year he was banned from baseball. Nadel said all this time, he’s never understood…

To save articles or get newsletters, alerts or recommendations – all free. Don’t have an account yet?Create an account » Subscribed through iTunes and need an NYTimes.com account?Learn more » Need to connect your Home Delivery subscription to NYTimes.com?Link your subscription »

“This is like a secret on the tour that everybody knows, but we don’t talk about it,” said the player A South American tennis player has told the BBC that match-fixing is commonplace and even some elite players are “a little bit dirty in some way”. He also claimed fixing is not just limited to lower-ranked professionals and is “a secret that everybody knows”. The player, who requested anonymity, said…

These days, ESPN faces two questions more than any others: When are you going to go “over the top” by offering the sports network to cord-cutters? And how are you possibly going to make enough money in the future to cover ever-rising sports rights payments if cable subscribers are declining? John Skipper, the network’s president, outlined in an interview with The Wall Street Journal why the sports behemoth won’t be…

CLEVELAND – The visitors’ locker room at Quicken Loans Arena was much drier, much quieter on Monday night than the last time the Golden State Warriors were here. No plastic was needed to cover the stalls or the carpeted floor. The only bottles being opened were waters and sports drinks to help them down plates of chicken wings and catered food from Morton’s steakhouse. There certainly wasn’t much of a…

NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France made the first headlines of the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour Tuesday morning, announcing that the sanctioning body would about playoff formats for the NASCAR XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series. Both of NASCAR’s junior divisions will have seven-race Chases, with 12 drivers competing in the XFINITY playoff and eight drivers in the Truck Series playoff. Both series will end their respective seasons exactly the…

The 34th annual Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour presented by Technocom kicks off Tuesday morning, when NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France will present his annual state-of-the-sport update at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Then, the Toyota teams will meet with more than 100 media members from across the country. Wednesday, the Ford teams will be up and Thursday it will be the Chevrolet teams. The Media Tour is not open to the public, only…

Sure, The Bachelor this week contained about 20 girls bickering and engaging in questionable methods of convincing a guy to like them. What else is new? But buried in all that angst and drama was one of the greatest sporting events of all time, a tale of triumph against the odds, a story of victory when defeat seemed the only possible option. I’m talking, of course, of 12 girls…

Deeming baseball a “bourgeois indulgence for the rich,” Mao Zedong, China’s longtime communist leader, banned the game in 1966 during his Cultural Revolution. Fifty years later, even as the popularity of other Western sports such as basketball booms in mainland China, baseball remains largely unfamiliar. But the Baltimore Orioles are in the leadoff spot for a mounting effort by Major League Baseball to revive the game there. Xu Guiyuan, a…

Someday in the not-too-distant future, friends may huddle around a screen to watch “League of Legends” instead of football on a Sunday afternoon, according to a report released Monday.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Roger Federer has heard enough speculation about match-fixing in tennis. If players are suspected of corruption, he wants names. Federer was responding to reports by BBC and BuzzFeed News that tennis authorities have suppressed evidence of match-fixing and overlooked suspected cases involving players ranked in the top 50, including Grand Slam singles and doubles winners. The reports said that none of these players had faced sanctions…

CONCORD, N.C. (Jan. 18, 2016) — WIX Filters has joined Hendrick Motorsports as a key technical partner with an agreement that will supply innovative filtration products and provide critical development support to the 11-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions through 2019. With a four-year pact, WIX’s air and oil filters will be used in competition by the four Sprint Cup Series teams of Hendrick Motorsports with drivers Kasey Kahne, Chase Elliott, Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Its logo…

Jeff Gordon made his 2016 season debut with the FOX NASCAR broadcasting team on FS1’s “Race Hub” Monday. Danielle Trotta and Adam Alexander kicked off the episode with Alexander saying, “We’ve done a lot of shows in this studio, but this is one we’ll remember forever.” “It’s been a great offseason, but I can’t wait to get to Daytona and be part of the FOX team,” Gordon said. The Gordon family…

MELBOURNE – Scott Ferguson, once the head of education at Betfair, consults on the subject of sports gambling and runs the website Sports is Made for Betting. We checked in with Ferguson on Monday, after the first day of the 2016 Australian Open was overshadowed by the BBC/Buzzfeed match-fixing report. Jon Wertheim: To what extent are you surprised by the contents of the report? Scott Ferguson: Very little. There have…

News Sports Life Money Tech Travel Opinion Settings Full Forecast Crosswords Elections 2016 Investigations Video Stocks Apps Best-Selling Books Classifieds College Corrections Interactives Newsletters Photo Galleries Portfolio Tracker Scores Newsstand Audio Search Hi Already a subscriber? Sign In Subscribe today to additional USAToday products. Subscribe Now Already a print edition subscriber, but don’t have a login? Activate your digital access. Manage your account settings. My Account Log Out Get the…