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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – While his contemporaries pace the halls of the Gaylord Opryland Resort at this week’s baseball Winter Meetings, Floyd Youmans traverses this city in his white GMC Yukon Denali. Once a talented young pitcher with an encouraging future, Youmans, now 51, spends his days driving for Uber. He made his major-league debut a month after his 21st birthday, for the 1985 Montreal Expos, as…

NASHVILLE — It’s a phrase you hear thrown around a lot, but most of the time you ignore it as it’s something of a place-holder. A seemingly empty phrase that is preferable to an “ummm . . .” and maybe a bit more refined than “he’s a real competitor,” but which is somewhat less illuminating than actual silence. The phrase: “baseball man.” As in someone in or around the game…

Mike Francesa invited New York Assemblyman Dean Murray on his show to talk about Daily Fantasy Sports and in typical, rather entertaining Mike Francesa fashion, proceeded to shout over Murray for not agreeing with him. Murray has been an outspoken defender of Daily Fantasy Sports, claiming they aren’t a form of a gambling and even sponsoring bills to protect these companies from the Attorney General’s claims that they are (a New York court…

The irony is that this may not only be ineffective, it may also be counterproductive, with a growing body of evidence indicating a correlation between time devoted to PE and improvements in academic attainment. That has certainly been the experience of one of the UK’s largest multi-academy trusts, which has dramatically increased not only the number of pupils playing sport in its secondary schools, but has done so while improving…

A flopped-over traffic cone named Donald Trump who is uncomfortably close to controlling America’s nuclear arsenal has spent the last several days whipping up a xenophobic frenzy against Muslims, and among other things expressed bafflement at the possibility that there existed Muslim sports heroes. http://deadspin.com/donald-trump-w… Donald Trump Wants To Know If There Are Any Muslim Athletes Donald Trump Wants To Know If There Are Any Muslim Athletes Donald Trump Wants…

Greg Rutherford and Tyson Fury have become embroiled in an explosive public row after the long jump champion told the BBC that he did not want to share a stage with the controversial boxer at next week’s Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Offended by Fury’s homophobic and sexist remarks, made during an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Olympic when he even equated homosexuality with paedophilia, Olympic, world, European…

A panel of college football writers, analysts and experts across CBS Sports convened and now present the CBS Sports 2015 College Football All-America team. While Alabama and Florida led the way with three first-team selections each, Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey holds the distinction of being the only unanimous selection, receiving every first-team vote as the top all-purpose player in college football this season. McCaffrey became the sport’s all-purpose king with 3,276…

Retired NHL player Patrick O’Sullivan suffered through horrific abuse at the hands of his father growing up and now, in a new a piece for The Players’ Tribune, the former NHL journeyman is sharing some of the shocking details. Since the age of five, O’Sullivan says he endured daily beatings from his dad who hoped to “toughen him up” into a better hockey player. From the moment I got my…

The 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season ended with a lot of emotions: There was Kyle Busch’s remarkable championship run and Jeff Gordon’s classy end to a Hall of Fame career. On a more solemn note, Michael Waltrip Racing shut down, which meant the end of the No. 15 and No. 55 Cup cars, at least for the near future. The No. 15 dates back all the way to 1949…

Keith Ballard didn’t realize Wednesday was the one-year anniversary of his last hockey game until he called to make an appointment with a neurologist, and the receptionist asked the date of his last concussion. It has been one year since that frightening sight on the Xcel Energy Center ice, a headfirst collision with the top of the boards between the benches that left Ballard convulsing and with three facial fractures….

NASHVILLE — Major League Baseball has issued recommendations to all 30 Major League Clubs with respect to fan safety at games. Specifically, recommendations related to expanding the number of seats covered by protective netting and expanding the ways in which clubs warn fans about the dangers of sitting near the field. The recommendations are as follows: Teams will be encouraged to shield the seats between the near ends of both dugouts (i.e., the…

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Charles M. Conlon was an early 20th century American photographer who was among the first to regularly photograph baseball games and players. Although he shot many iconic early photos of the sport, his name was largely unknown until 1990, when 8,000+ of his negatives were found in the archives of Sporting News. Many of the photos were heavily marked, and the Digital Archive Project at the National Baseball Hall…

Monique Tello and Steven Statter only had one crack at making their baby’s sex announcement a big hit — and they scored, as photos (one of which is seen above) of Statter whacking a “baseball” to release a dazzling pink explosion are going viral this week. The couple, from Corona, Calif., both true-blue Dodger fans, decided on a baseball theme for their announcement. “Since pregnancy is typically more focused on…

I hate the offseason. I hate the offseason because I actually end up thinking about baseball more than I do in September, when there is actually Major-League baseball being played. That may sound like a silly statement, but I mean, you’re reading this on a website that covers the Seattle Mariners, and now I don’t think I need to justify what I just said any further. The mental break…

Mike Francesa invited New York Assemblyman Dean Murray on his show to talk about Daily Fantasy Sports and in typical, rather entertaining Mike Francesa fashion, proceeded to shout over Murray for not agreeing with him. Murray has been an outspoken defender of Daily Fantasy Sports, claiming they aren’t a form of a gambling and even sponsoring bills to protect these companies from the Attorney General’s claims that they are (a New York court…

Greg Rutherford and Tyson Fury have become embroiled in an explosive public row after the long jump champion told the BBC that he did not want to share a stage with the controversial boxer at next week’s Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Offended by Fury’s homophobic and sexist remarks, made during an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Olympic when he even equated homosexuality with paedophilia, Olympic, world, European…

At a hearing in Albany on Tuesday, members of the New York State Assembly gathered to discuss daily fantasy sports. And discuss. And discuss. And discuss. (The hearing lasted nearly five hours.) Its purpose, according to a public notice, was to “examine daily fantasy sports games in New York State and their impact on New York consumers and the State.” DraftKings and FanDuel, the market-share leaders of an exploding industry,…

He feels the same way about digital photography and Photoshop, two tools he said have elevated the ways in which we are able to appreciate sports photography. He doesn’t believe photographers should use those tools to add or remove parts of an image, but feels basic adjusting, including contrast or saturation, should be allowed, pointing out that when photos were printed in the darkroom, dodging and burning were standard practice….

Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Wednesday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EST: – LAUSANNE, Switzerland – The political and economic turmoil in Brazil will ”inevitably” affect next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, a senior IOC official said, as Brazilian organizers declared that preparations remain on track for the games. With the opening ceremony less than eight…