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Star center fielder Jim Edmonds, league championship series Most Valuable Player Jeff Suppan and Cardinals leader in career saves Jason Isringhausen will be among the members of the 2006 World Series champion Cardinals to be honored next Sunday night at the 58th St. Louis Baseball Writers’ Dinner at the Marriott Grand. Suppan, who won his award for his pitching in the league championship series victory over the New York Mets…

Denna Laing, the professional women’s hockey player who has been hospitalized with severe spinal damage since crashing into the boards during an exhibition before the NHL Winter Classic, said that the injury didn’t spoil “the best day of my life.” “We made history that day and I would never take those moments back,” she wrote in a Facebook post, accompanied by a dozen pictures of her and her teammates trying…

Hendersonville High School baseball coaches Mike Hendrix and Andy Gilley recently showed off the school’s newly installed turf infield at Drakes Creek Park.(Photo: Tena Lee/Hendersonville Star News) They were coming before it was built. Still, Hendersonville High School’s baseball coaches have dubbed their newly installed turf infield – the first one in the state for a high school team – their own “Field of Dreams.” Located in Hendersonville’s Drakes Creek…

Star center fielder Jim Edmonds, league championship series Most Valuable Player Jeff Suppan and Cardinals leader in career saves Jason Isringhausen will be among the members of the 2006 World Series champion Cardinals to be honored next Sunday night at the 58th St. Louis Baseball Writers’ Dinner at the Marriott Grand. Suppan, who won his award for his pitching in the league championship series victory over the New York Mets…

Luzerne County’s lawsuit aiming to gain half of the $14.6 million sale of the Moosic-based Triple-A minor league baseball franchise might be moving closer to a settlement. Attorney Frank J. Tunis Jr., the lawyer representing the Lackawanna County Stadium Authority, said he and lawyers for Lackawanna and Luzerne counties will likely meet soon again for another mediation session to attempt a resolution. They last met…

Appreciators of baseball history have a fairly common list of greatest players from the Negro leagues. Satchel Paige is usually at the top. Then Josh Gibson. Buck Leonard. James “Cool Papa” Bell. Then there’s Joe Williams. A regular on various lists Negro league bests, but not often considered the best. Perhaps it was his earlier start, with professional pitching records dating back to 1911, 16 years before Paige’s pro debut….

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Media playback is not supported on this device Russia doping crisis in 60 seconds UK Athletics has suggested world records should be reset to help achieve a “new era” of clean competition. The sport’s governing body has made several proposals, including a public anti-doping register of tested athletes and longer bans for drug cheats. UKA chairman Ed Warner said it was time for “radical reform”, adding: “The integrity of athletics…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Chelsea have tabled a £30m bid for Shakhtar Donetsk attacking midfielder Alex Teixeira, 26, who has scored 26 goals in 26 games this season. (Star) The Blues are also eying a deal for AC Milan striker Carlos Bacca, 29, and are willing to meet the £30m asking price. (Gazzetta dello Sport via Express) Everton will make a…

SAN JOSE — A new soccer field complex planned for a 13-acre parcel near the Earthquakes’ Avaya Stadium might be moved to a larger piece of land at the Guadalupe River Park and Gardens — but city officials say the move faces several hurdles and lots of red tape. San Jose elected leaders on Tuesday were getting ready to award a construction contract to build the four-field Coleman Soccer Field…

Hendersonville High School baseball coaches Mike Hendrix and Andy Gilley recently showed off the school’s newly installed turf infield at Drakes Creek Park.(Photo: Tena Lee/Hendersonville Star News) They were coming before it was built. Still, Hendersonville High School’s baseball coaches have dubbed their newly installed turf infield – the first one in the state for a high school team – their own “Field of Dreams.” Located in Hendersonville’s Drakes Creek…

For the decade of the 1990s, there was surely no baseball player more popular across America than Ken Griffey Jr.. His smooth swing, graceful defense, infectious smile and backwards cap made him a athletic and pop culture icon, and on Wednesday, that combination of overwhelming popularity and remarkable talent left him with the largest percentage of Hall of Fame votes in history. Griffey and Mike Piazza were announced this week…

The 2016 Baseball Prospect Book is progressing well and we are still accepting pre-orders. The book will contain analysis and scouting information for approximately 1000 minor league players from all 30 MLB organizations. The book is not available in stores and can only be ordered directly from me. You can use Paypal via Johnsickels.net, or you can send a check or money order to John SickelsPO Box 4066Lawrence, KS …

I try very hard not to care about baseball’s Hall of Fame. It’s a complete sham–a lot of the players enshrined in Cooperstown are there because they played at the right time, with the right teammates. Frankie Frisch and his cronies, who held sway over the Veterans Committee in the late ’60s and ’70s, packed the place with old-timers who had a good season or two back in the 1930s….

The e-sports industry is getting big. Really big. More people watch Twitch than CNN. Riot, Valve, Activision-Blizzard and EA all have e-sports initiatives. The largest tournaments attract tens of millions of viewers and offer multi-million dollar prize pools for the best players in games like League of Legends and Dota 2. However, the focus on superstar players, marquee tournaments and comparisons to traditional sports misses the mark on one of the most interesting aspects…

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Everyone finds a sense of hope in the New Year. There may not be another group of people more happy to be in 2016 than Philadelphia sports fans. For the four major teams, 2015 was bad, but did you know it was historically bad? TIME was curious about where Philadelphia’s 2015 ranked among the worst years in sports for a city with all four of the major professional…

Believe it or not, it’s not always about stock cars for NASCAR drivers. That much was apparent through numerous social-media postings by NASCAR types who obviously were very impressed with the AMA Supercross season opener on Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif. Among those who commented were Sprint Cup drivers Clint Bowyer, AJ Allmendinger, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Chase Elliott as they caught the action televised on FS1. XFINITY Series driver…

My 5-year-old is learning to skate. Soon, he wants to play hockey. And I’m going to let him. Because when I watch him on the ice, my sensitive son seems inquisitive, animated, brave. Not when I’m around, of course. When I took him skating, he wouldn’t let go of my hand. He cried that it was hard. I rewarded him with a donut for skating 10 feet on his own….

Want to buy a true old-school NASCAR race car? You’ll have your chance at the upcoming Barrett-Jackson Collector-Car Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. And when we say old school, we mean old, old school. In 1957, Chevrolet decided to create a race car that would dominate NASCAR and establish Chevrolet as the car to beat in the minds of buyers across the country. Known as the “Black Widow,” the…