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MLB said Manfred contacted Rose on Monday to inform him of the ruling. “Mr. Rose’s public and private comments, including his initial admission in 2004, provide me with little confidence that he has a mature understanding of his wrongful conduct, that he has accepted full responsibility for it, or that he understands the damage he has caused,” Manfred said in his decision. In his statement, Manfred also tried to clarify…

Pat Hughes doesn’t need to moonlight. As the radio voice of the Chicago Cubs, Hughes has a pretty good gig. The Cubs are positioned to be the favorites in the National League next season, right? Nevertheless, Hughes has produced the “Baseball Voices — Hall of Fame Series” CDs for the last decade. Hughes listened to commemorative records and CDs of baseball announcers, but felt something was missing. “They were all…

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0 Shares print Serena Williams, who won three Grand Slam events en route to a 53-3 record and her seventh WTA Player of the Year award, was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year on Monday. She was the first female athlete to be honored on her own by the magazine in more than 30 years. “She was the most deserving person for the award. She had an amazing year….

(Photo: The Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Phil Pepe, a revered baseball writer and radio voice who spent more than five decades covering sports in New York, died Sunday. He was 80. Pepe died of an apparent heart attack at his home in Englewood, New Jersey, his son, David, told The Associated Press. A longtime New York Yankees beat writer who chronicled franchise greats from Mickey Mantle to Reggie…

The crisis at Sports Direct escalated once again on Monday as the retailer was rounded on by MPs during an urgent parliamentary debate and the company was deserted by some of its leading City cheerleaders. Former shadow business minister Chuka Umunna branded the retailer as “a bad advert for British business” and said it had “a culture of fear in the workplace that we would not wish to see repeated…

Central High School’s new baseball coach, Ian Martinez-McGraw, brings some solid credentials to the job. Martinez-McGraw grew up in Pueblo. He understands the sports culture. Although he attended and played baseball at South, many members of his family attended Central and he knows all about the school’s athletic tradition. Martinez-McGraw also brings a solid baseball background. He played on a pair…

Serena Williams suddenly regained her composure and her strokes, coming back to win the last four games and beat No. 1-ranked Victoria Azarenka in three sets to win the U.S. Open on Sunday night. (Sept. 9) AP

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A Treasury minister has been summoned to the Commons to explain what the government is doing to ensure Sports Direct pays the minimum wage. The Speaker, John Bercow, granted a request for an urgent question on Monday afternoon from the former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna to ask ministers what they are doing to enforce the minimum wage in this case. Related: Revealed: how Sports Direct stripped USC assets before…

Infosys, the India-headquartered consulting and IT firm, is getting into sports and wearables after it announced a $3 million strategic investment in Whoop, a Boston-based company that provides performance data to professional athletes and sports teams. Whoop was spun out of the Harvard Innovation Lab and raised $12 million back in September, when it also announced the availability of its data evaluation system for athletes. Its core product, which is currently being…

No. 10: Grand Rapids, Michigan iStock.com/benkrut This Midwestern city, nicknamed River City for its location on Michigan’s Grand River, has a lot to offer retirees who enjoy winter sports such as ice fishing and cross-country skiing. Downtown Grand Rapids is less than 30 miles away from Lake Michigan and thus benefits from lake-effect snow. The city gets an impressive 75 inches of the white stuff every year, which means there…

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A third Women’s World Cup title and a few million pieces of confetti in New York. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) In 2015, American soccer celebrated a third Women’s World Cup title, fretted about the erratic men’s program and toasted MLS’s 20th season. It welcomed the annual parade of European clubs on summer tour and Loretta Lynch’s investigation of Sepp Blatter and FIFA. Dozens of matches and moments caught our eye, but 10…

News Pond style hockey at the Roseville Oval ice rink Posted:Dec 13 2015 11:14AM CST Updated:Dec 13 2015 11:14AM CST Unseasonably warm temperatures for the first annual Girls Outdoor Hockey Classic \n News Unseasonably warm temperatures for the first annual Girls Outdoor Hockey Classic Parents and their hockey players made the most of the unseasonably warm temperatures Saturday.  ROSEVILL, Minn. (KMSP) – Parents and their hockey players made the most…

• Box Score KANSAS CITY, KAN. — The STANFORD men claimed the second NCAA team title for the Conference of the 2015-16 campaign and the first soccer title in program history, winning the championship on Sunday, 4-0 over Clemson. Pac-12 institutions have won 480 all-time national team championships across all sports to lead the country. STANFORD, the 2015 Pac-12 champion, claimed its first NCAA crown in men’s soccer, defeating No….

This year, domestic violence became an issue Major League Baseball could no longer ignore. Officials observed the backlash the NFL faced over its bungling of the Ray Rice case and knew they weren’t prepared to face a similar incident. The league enlisted the help of Futures Without Violence, a well established domestic violence awareness organization, and partnered with the MLB Players Association, the sport’s union, to craft a comprehensive policy…

OLEAN — Baseball will be the lone sport at Bradner Stadium for most of next summer, per the city’s new stance. “The city of Olean has elected to keep the Bradner Stadium field in a baseball-only configuration from April 1, 2016 to August 13, 2016,” Mayor Bill Aiello wrote in a letter Wednesday to Southern Tier Diesel football coach JR Bennion. Aiello said it’s in the city’s “best interest,” noting…