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Buy Photo Indian River’s Ryan Engh signed his national letter of intent to play baseball at High Point University.(Photo: Staff photo by Ryan Marshall)Buy Photo Ryan Engh is a baseball player. The way the Indian River senior talks, walks and presents himself, it’s pretty clear. Baseball is the life for Engh. Whether it is 100 degrees or snowing, Engh is working on his game, his parents, Andy and Natalie said. Playing…

A Los Angeles Dodgers official was overheard to say at the recent owners meeting in Dallas that they’d like to move their payroll to $200 million from a record $300 million, and co-owner Todd Boehly told the Los Angeles Times that they’d like to get it “much closer to $200 million” than $300 million. Whichever it may be, it won’t be easy. Not this year, anyway. The Dodgers appear to…

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Sacha Kljestan of New York Red Bulls heads the ball in front of Steve Birnbaum of D.C. United.(Photo: Getty Images) Incredible as it may seem today, hardly anyone recruited Sacha Kljestan as a high school senior in Huntington Beach, Ca. One guy from New Jersey was an exception. Seton Hall men’s soccer coach Manny Schellscheidt saw something others overlooked. Maybe he didn’t envision a future Major League Soccer star and…

If only there were performance-enhancing substances designed to boost sporting administrators. Not for leisure activities, you understand. Most of them are so incongruously corpulent that I already assume they rely on Viagra for that. But for their day jobs, to help them go faster, higher – more within 50 miles of competence. We really need a Victor Conte for the blazer class, who could mix something illicit to build up…

The Clippers and Cleveland Indians will announce a two-year extension of their player development agreement today that will keep the Tribe at Huntington Park through the 2018 season. The Indians moved their triple-A operation to Columbus in 2009 to coincide with the opening of Huntington Park. The baseball marriage has been a piece of baseball heaven for both organizations. The Clippers have drawn 4,388,734 fans over the past seven seasons…

i New York’s attorney general’s office has filed lawsuits against the two biggest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel and DraftKings, demanding that they stop taking bets in New York. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images New York’s attorney general’s office has filed lawsuits against the two biggest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel and DraftKings, demanding that they stop taking bets in New York. Scott Olson/Getty Images…

If only there were performance-enhancing substances designed to boost sporting administrators. Not for leisure activities, you understand. Most of them are so incongruously corpulent that I already assume they rely on Viagra for that. But for their day jobs, to help them go faster, higher – more within 50 miles of competence. We really need a Victor Conte for the blazer class, who could mix something illicit to build up…

Former Herald-Leader sports writer Mike Fields was among seven individuals named Tuesday as winners of the fifth annual Bluegrass Sports Awards. Fields, who retired last spring after 35 years at the newspaper covering high school sports, is joined by Larry Conley, Mike Battaglia, Donna Brothers, Kenny Rice, Van Florence and Bill Farish. The awards will be presented by Alltech at the Bluegrass Sports Awards banquet on Jan. 26 in Lexington….

CHICAGO – The holiday week will be a busy one for Chicago’s professional teams. The Bears actually play on Thanksgiving Day in Green Bay as they take on the Packers for a second time this season. It follows a close loss to the Broncos on Sunday that dropped their record to 4-6 on the season. On top of that, the Blackhawks play a game on the West Coast before and after…

The final tickets for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2015 in Belfast will go on sale on Friday, 27 November from 09:00 GMT. Taking place in Northern Ireland for the first time, this year’s event is live at The SSE Arena on 20 December. Tickets cost £45 and will be restricted to six per person. They can be bought on the arena’s website, by calling the box office on…

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View gallery . (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images) Major League Baseball teams will be spending this holiday season just like you: Searching for the cheapest deals and the best bargains. That’s right, free agency is upon us, and not every team can afford to throw around money like the Los Angeles Dodgers.  Some clubs have real payroll concerns and can’t go out and spend millions of dollars on multiple players. Those teams…

View gallery . (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images) Major League Baseball teams will be spending this holiday season just like you: Searching for the cheapest deals and the best bargains. That’s right, free agency is upon us, and not every team can afford to throw around money like the Los Angeles Dodgers.  Some clubs have real payroll concerns and can’t go out and spend millions of dollars on multiple players. Those teams…

WASHINGTON Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays, sporting running shoes with his suit and tie, rose slowly from his chair and waved his baseball cap as President Barack Obama decorated him on Tuesday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mays, 84, one of the first black players in Major League Baseball and considered among the game’s all-time greats in a career spent mostly with the New York and San Francisco…

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View gallery . (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images) Major League Baseball teams will be spending this holiday season just like you: Searching for the cheapest deals and the best bargains. That’s right, free agency is upon us, and not every team can afford to throw around money like the Los Angeles Dodgers.  Some clubs have real payroll concerns and can’t go out and spend millions of dollars on multiple players. Those teams…

A three-run homer by Byung-Ho Park capped a five-run fourth inning as South Korea rolled past the United States, 8-0, to claim the inaugural Premier 12 baseball championship in front of 40,411 fans at the Tokyo Dome. For South Korea, the victory marked their first global baseball title since the 1982 Baseball World Cup hosted in Seoul. The championship comes on the heels of a gold medal at…

Next season, Major League Baseball will take its biggest step toward cord-cutting to date. Commissioner Rob Manfred has announced a three-year deal with Fox that will bring streaming of all games, including home games to the local market, for 15 teams, good for half the league. The immediate impact of the deal might be largely symbolic — you’ll still need a cable subscription — but it’s still a big step toward the…