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For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Former Tottenham winger David Ginola believes Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, 30, and Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, 52, will move to Ligue 1 champions Paris St-Germain next year. (BT Sport)  Chelsea want Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann, 24, and will make a £40m bid for the French forward….

It’s strange to think that there was ever a “first” trade. After all, baseball and the trading of players to strengthen your roster have been around long before you, or I, were ever on this Earth. So it seems absurd that two teams wouldn’t sit down and say, “Hey, we’re bad at pitching and you’re really good at it; meanwhile, we’ve got a bunch of second basemen whereas you currently…

One of the most famous moments in baseball history occurred in game one of the 1954 World Series when New York Giants centerfielder Willie Mays made a spectacular catch, followed by an equally extraordinary throw, of a long fly ball off the bat of Cleveland Indians slugger Vic Wertz. Most baseball fans know that play and have seen the image of Mays with his back towards home plate sprinting into…

He was a college baseball player so legendary in his time that he was inducted into his school’s athletic hall of fame, even though he only attended two years. Then he broke a color barrier and became the first man of his race to play professional baseball. Then he became a professional baseball star, in spite of being subjected to the vilest of racial prejudice and violations of his civil…

There was a time when a philanthropist, entrepreneur and community-minded man wanted to bring Major League Baseball here. That team would have played in a ballpark he wanted to build next to what is now Raymond James Stadium. He didn’t plan to ask taxpayers to foot the bill for that ballpark. His plan was that his Tampa Bay Baseball Group would pay for it. That man…

USA Today Sports’ Jeff Gluck breaks down the Quicken Loans Race For Heroes 500. USA TODAY Sports

There was a time when a philanthropist, entrepreneur and community-minded man wanted to bring Major League Baseball here. That team would have played in a ballpark he wanted to build next to what is now Raymond James Stadium. He didn’t plan to ask taxpayers to foot the bill for that ballpark. His plan was that his Tampa Bay Baseball Group would pay for it. That man…

There was a time when a philanthropist, entrepreneur and community-minded man wanted to bring Major League Baseball here. That team would have played in a ballpark he wanted to build next to what is now Raymond James Stadium. He didn’t plan to ask taxpayers to foot the bill for that ballpark. His plan was that his Tampa Bay Baseball Group would pay for it. That man…

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“It is a standing insult to sportsmen to have to play under a rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents, and behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney.” So said Charles Burgess Fry, one of England’s all-time sporting greats, arguing against football adopting the law that in 1891 brought into existence the penalty area and the penalty kick. Related: Football doesn’t want to…

When an athlete as dominant as Ronda Rousey loses as suddenly and as violently as she did to Holly Holm on Saturday in the main event of UFC 193, the finger-pointing begins instantly. Holm had a brilliant game plan against Rousey, the part-time movie star and full-time superstar, and executed it to perfection, knocking her out with a kick to the head at 59 seconds of the second round in…

EACO baseball team An integrated team played for Waseca County 46 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in professional baseball. Photo courtesy Waseca County Historical Society Posted: Saturday, November 14, 2015 7:00 pm EACO sponsored integrated baseball team By Sheila Morris Waseca County Historical Society Mankato Free Press Even though the 2015 baseball season is over, we all know that old baseball stories never die, and Waseca County…

Carlsbad Hard Knocks third baseman Sebastian Garcia scores a run off a wild pitch against Roswell Rox pitcher Major Byrd in the bottom of the first inning Saturday.(Photo: Matt Hollinshead — Current-Argus) CARLSBAD – Even in the cool November air, with the 2015 World Series already in the books, Bob Forrest Youth Sports Complex preserved the spirit of baseball with a one-and-one regional tournament all day Saturday. “I’m really excited….

By Seth G. Macy A mod for Fallout 4 has added the jersey of famed Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz to the game, and Major League Baseball wants it stopped. According to the Boston Globe, Texas resident Richie Branson created the mod to make the game feel more authentic. Branson told the Globe while many of Boston’s most recognizable geographic and architectural pieces are included in the game, the…

No pain, no gain might be the mantra of the modern baseball front office.

BOCA RATON, Fla. >> Major League Baseball’s general managers have become the brainy bunch. Ivy in the major leagues these days isn’t just a reference to Wrigley Field’s vine-covered walls. Four GMs hired in the last two months have Ivy League backgrounds. The 30 current GMs include four Harvard graduates, two each from Cornell and Dartmouth, and one apiece from Princeton and Penn. There are…

“It is a standing insult to sportsmen to have to play under a rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents, and behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney.” So said Charles Burgess Fry, one of England’s all-time sporting greats, arguing against football adopting the law that in 1891 brought into existence the penalty area and the penalty kick. Related: Football doesn’t want to…

UPDATE: All sports events in Paris this weekend have been canceled following the terrorist attacks. A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed at least 120 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. President Francois Hollande condemned it as terrorism and pledged that France would stand firm against its foes. The worst carnage…

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Russia’s Olympic committee has said it would lead efforts to reform Russian athletics, with the sport’s head saying he is prepared to resign as a doping scandal threatened to cost Russia its place at the 2016 Olympics. The International Association of Athletics Federations voted overwhelmingly on Friday to suspend the Russian Athletics Federation for widespread and state-sponsored doping. “The Russian Olympic Committee is ready to take the initiative to reform…