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Janet Marie Smith of Jackson is leading a renovation of 63-year-old Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. As an architect and designer, Smith has become one of the game’s most valuable assets.(Photo: Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers) She has never hit a curveball or stolen a base. Never made a diving catch or turned a double play. But Janet Marie Smith, who grew up in Jackson and is a proud member of Callaway…

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Athletics faces a “long road to redemption” over allegations of bribery to cover up doping violations, says IAAF president Lord Coe. An independent commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency will report its findings on Monday. The report into claims of cover-ups and money-laundering will show “a different scale of corruption” even compared to Fifa, says co-author Richard McLaren. “These are…

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Shohei Otani struck out 10 batters over six scoreless innings as Japan beat South Korea 5-0 in the opening game of the Premier12 baseball tournament on Sunday. Otani, billed as Japan’s ace, lived up to expectations in the game played at Sapporo Dome. The 21-year-old right-hander notched three consecutive strikeouts in the fifth inning after South Korea had runners at first and second with no outs. The quadrennial tournament, which…

Janet Marie Smith of Jackson is leading a renovation of 63-year-old Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. As an architect and designer, Smith has become one of the game’s most valuable assets.(Photo: Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers) She has never hit a curve ball or stolen a base. Never made a diving catch or turned a double play. But Janet Marie Smith, who grew up in Jackson and is a proud member of…

Athletics faces a “long road to redemption” over allegations of bribery to cover up doping violations, says IAAF president Lord Coe. An independent commission set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency will report its findings on Monday. The report into claims of cover-ups and money-laundering will show “a different scale of corruption” even compared to Fifa, says co-author Richard McLaren. “These are…

FOOTBALL GOSSIP Manager Ronny Deila has admitted his squad lack European experience in the wake of their latest defeat and reiterated a desire to re-sign a former Celtic star, such as Aiden McGeady or Shaun Maloney, although he refused to name a specific player. (Sunday Herald)  Ronny Deila says he has coached four clubs and made every one of them better as he…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Chelsea have a shortlist of three potential interim managers – former bosses Roberto Di Matteo and Guus Hiddink, and ex-Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers – if Jose Mourinho is sacked. (Sunday Express)  The Blues are also “on red alert” as Argentine coach Diego Simeone, 45, is set to quit…

Janet Marie Smith of Jackson is leading a renovation of 63-year-old Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. As an architect and designer, Smith has become one of the game’s most valuable assets.(Photo: Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers) She has never hit a curve ball or stolen a base. Never made a diving catch or turned a double play. But Janet Marie Smith, who grew up in Jackson and is a proud member of…

Missouri truly was the baseball state in television consumption of the sport this year. St. Louis led the way nationally in ratings for the World Series among markets outside those of the competing teams. Nielsen says 17.2 percent of homes in the market tuned in to the five-game event in which Kansas City beat the New York Mets and was televised by Fox. KC led the way, with a massive…

A baseball field at the Bob Forrest Youth Sports Complex in Carlsbad.(Photo: Maddy Hayden – Current-Argus) Baseball season is over and the Kansas City Royals are champions, but that does not mean you can’t enjoy America’s pastime. Here are some baseball movie suggestions from the Current-Argus to get you out of the “pickle” that is the offseason. The Sandlot (1993) Every World Series player starts out playing baseball in his…

An 18-year-old Hank Aaron boarded a bus in Mobile, Ala., in 1952 bound for Indianapolis, where he’d join the Clowns of the Negro Leagues. Aaron didn’t even own a change of clothes, traveled with only a small bag and had $2.50 in his pocket. “You have start somewhere,” Aaron said Saturday at Bartle Hall, where he was the guest speaker during the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum’s 25th Anniversary Gala, “and…

The general managers meetings take place this coming week in Boca Raton, Fla., and we’ll see, in person, the changing face of baseball front offices. Formulas, calculations, models, concepts, and projections have overshadowed in some cases instincts and scouting. Smart has replaced street smart. Continue reading below This is baseball 2015, except in Kansas City and San Francisco, the homes of the last two World Series champions, where traditional baseball…

London 2012 medallists are among suspected Russian drugs cheats who escaped bans when bribes were allegedly paid to the heads of world athletics. The Sunday Times  claims it has obtained a list of eight athletes who officials recommended should be banned in 2011. But it is alleged Lamine Diack, then head of athletics’ world governing body the IAAF, and Dr Gabriel Dolle, the…

Britain’s first sports strategy in 13 years will aim to get physically inactive people involved in support roles, such as preparing pitches, and help disaffected young people by highlighting initiatives such as police running football clubs.  A New Strategy for Sport is about to be drafted and will be published before Christmas. A consultation, launched in August, has attracted more than 3,000 submissions.  The previous strategy, from 2002, has been…

James Harrod was taken aback when he learned York High was instituting a $100 activity fee for each of its sports seasons. “It was not like I was going to say, ‘No, my kids can’t participate,’ but I was somewhat annoyed by how it just sort of happened,” said Harrod, whose daughter, Julia, is a three-sport athlete. “Why am I paying extra money to have my children participate in activities,…

On Super Bowl Sunday of 1985, the FBI raided 43 locations across 16 states in an attempt to take down the Computer Group, maybe the most successful gambling syndicate of all-time. A round of follow-up indictments based on some off-kilter assumptions was all it took for the bane of sportsbooks everywhere to close up shop. Anyone with any money tied to the daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry—especially the people implicated…

The general managers meetings take place this coming week in Boca Raton, Fla., and we’ll see, in person, the changing face of baseball front offices. Formulas, calculations, models, concepts, and projections have overshadowed in some cases instincts and scouting. Smart has replaced street smart. Continue reading below This is baseball 2015, except in Kansas City and San Francisco, the homes of the last two World Series champions, where traditional baseball…