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YouTube It’s one thing to get acquired. It’s another to do it in a video where you call your new boss the “big swinging d— at the cracker factory.” But if you’re a Barstool Sports fan, you’re not shocked. The crude, funny, sports-guy lingo is right in line with the brand that founder Dave Portnoy has spent years building, and about 5 million monthly readers have come to love. Barstool Sports,…

GLOBE FILE PHOTO Denna Laing was one of four players on the Pride practice squad before she was called up for Winter Classic duty. Boston Pride forward Denna Laing, 24, remains hospitalized one week after she left the Outdoor Women’s Classic game on a stretcher. Late in the first period, she stepped on a stick and went headfirst into the boards at Gillette Stadium. There have been no updates on…

print NEW YORK — Ken Griffey Jr. was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame on Wednesday with the highest voting percentage ever, and Mike Piazza will join him in Cooperstown this summer. A star slugger during the steroids era who was never tainted by accusations of drug use, Griffey appeared on 437 of 440 ballots in his first appearance on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot. His 99.3 percentage…

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• Multi-year partnership with China’s leading digital sports media platform • First time club’s dedicated channel will be available to fans in China (NYSE: MANU) Manchester United has today announced a groundbreaking deal with Sina Sports, the number one digital media platform for sports fans in China. As part of the deal, Sina Sports has secured exclusive rights to broadcast the club’s dedicated 24-hour MUTV channel,…

No Philadelphian need be reminded of the city’s awful sports performance in 2015. But we’ll go ahead and do the honors anyway. The perennially rebuilding Sixers were a ghastly 17-69 during the past calendar year. The 2015 Phillies had the worst record in baseball (63-99). The Eagles just fired head coach Chip Kelly, whose many offseason moves backfired. The Flyers missed the playoffs. It was enough to drive Philly’s famously…

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Ronda Rousey’s shoot for the ‘Sports Illustrated’ Swimsuit Issue looks like it’s going to be sexier than we even imagined! The MMA fighter is just about naked in the pics, wearing nothing but a painted-on bathing suit, newly-leaked photos from the shoot reveal. Oh baby! Looks don’t matter when she’s in the ring, but Ronda Rousey, 28, sure knows how to turn on the sex appeal when the time is right! Just…

GLOBE FILE PHOTO Denna Laing was one of four players on the Pride practice squad before she was called up for Winter Classic duty. Boston Pride forward Denna Laing, 24, remains hospitalized one week after she left the Outdoor Women’s Classic game on a stretcher. Late in the first period, she stepped on a stick and went headfirst into the boards at Gillette Stadium. There have been no updates on…

Caption Close Soccer parents and players of a Santa Clara youth league were left frustrated — but not defeated — on Tuesday when a judge rejected their second request to stop an NFL takeover of three prized fields next to Levi’s Stadium ahead of Super Bowl 50. The Santa Clara Youth Soccer League sued the NFL on Monday when crews began altering the soccer fields set to be used as…

Baseball’s Hall of Fame welcomed two new members Wednesday night in outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. and former Mets‘ catcher Mike Piazza, voted in by the Baseball Writers’ of America Association. Griffey received 99.3 percent of the vote—the highest percentage ever for a player—while Piazza received 83.0 of the vote. (A total of 440 ballots were cast.) Both will be inducted into Cooperstown later this year. Below is everything you may have missed…

Goodbye, steroid era.

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Will the U.S. national pasttime score with Chinese web users? We’re about to find out. Major League Baseball just announced at the CES convention a three-year deal giving China’s Le Sports — part of LeTV Holdings Co. —  the first-ever right to live stream up to 125 games per season in the mainland, Hong Kong, and Macau. It can offer its Mandarin-language programming to computers, mobile platforms, and streaming TV devices. The line…

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RELATED: Top moments in Gordon’s career Well of course it was a fellow named Jeff Gordon who discovered a fellow named Jeff Gordon‘s celebrated inaugural NASCAR winning car – the debutante drive of what would become a Hall of Fame racing career.   And now — after years of effort to historically and meticulously restore the former Busch Grand National car that Jeff Gordon first drove to a NASCAR Victory Lane in 1992,…

Temperatures are dropping across the continent, leading to 99 bad outcomes and a singular good one: the construction of backyard hockey rinks. There is something, dare I say, magical, about constructing a rink in a backyard or nearby pond for everybody in the neighborhood to play in. It’s practically the only good thing about living north of Los Angeles. But because we are an unworthy species, there inexplicably exists people…

BOSTON (CBS) – She was living out her dream, playing in the Women’s Winter Classic at Gillette Stadium, but now Denna Laing may be facing a long recovery. For the 24-year-old forward it was a landmark moment. Her Boston Pride professional women’s hockey team playing a game that was a massive step forward for the sport. “This could be the most exciting day of my life,” she wrote on her…

SANTA CLARA — In a blow to the youth sports community, a judge on Tuesday denied the Santa Clara Youth Soccer League’s request to temporarily kick the NFL out of a soccer park next to Levi’s Stadium — the latest salvo in what’s become an all-out legal war pitting soccer parents against the city and the NFL just one month before the Super Bowl lands in the Bay Area. The…