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Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford has a place on a midseason list he’d probably prefer to avoid.(Photo: Daniel Mears, Detroit News) Looks like Jim Caldwell and the Lions are getting hit with negativity from the national media now, too. Sports Illustrated released its “NFL Midseason All-Overrated Team” on Tuesday, and it was colored in Honolulu blue and silver. Included on the team are quarterback Matthew Stafford, the entire offensive line and…

My hunch is that, like me, many of you have fond childhood memories that involve playing recreational pickup games and sports. Over time, youth sports have become more organized, more structured, more costly, more time consuming, and include more parental involvement. How did we get here and how do we right the youth sports ship? Tens of millions of children participate in youth sports, and tens of millions of parents…

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Patrick Kane wanted to talk about hockey. He didn’t have much to say about his legal situation. On Tuesday, the Buffalo News reported the woman who accused Kane of sexual assault has told the Erie County (New York) District Attorney’s Office she doesn’t want to cooperate in the investigation. Per the Buffalo News report, the woman has signed an “affidavit declining prosecution” and that the “investigation has caused tremendous stress…

Orlando City has made a surprising hire at the top of its front office after just one season in MLS. The club announced Tuesday it hired a former Portuguese soccer club executive as its Chief Soccer Officer to oversee all of soccer operations. Armando Carneiro had extensive success at SL Benfica as general director, where he oversaw everything from the Benfica B team to the club’s academy and its scouting…

The next manager of the Washington Nationals will — officially now — be Dusty Baker. Taken out of context, the hiring is uncomplicated, logical and defensible: A team desperate for a manager with experience and credibility hired a baseball man with four decades in the professional game, two as a manager. But context complicates the hire, because it was shaped by more than baseball logic. Fitting, because despite 40-plus years…

David J. Phillip Kansas City World Series champs’ parade planned for Tuesday Kansas City Royals’ Salvador Perez dunks manager Ned Yost after Game 5 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the New York Mets Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, in New York. The Royals won 7-2 to win the series. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Posted: Tuesday, November 3, 2015 6:50 pm Weinberg: Late start times hurting baseball By DAVID…

There’s no sphere of television more depressingly homogenous than sports broadcasting, not only in demographics, but also in formatting. Ninety percent of the content on channels like ESPN involves ex-athletes and talk-radio hosts batting around scripted talking points, and the lack of new voices is one reason there’s so little real discourse about controversial issues in sports. But since it debuted in March, Fox Sports 1’s Garbage Time With Katie…

NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France said Tuesday morning that the sanctioning body is still debating what penalties to dole out to Matt Kenseth for intentionally wrecking Joey Logano at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday. A ruling on Kenseth, which could include any or all of a suspension, fines and a points penalty, is expected Tuesday afternoon. Appearing on SIRIUS/XM NASCAR’s “Morning Drive” show, France said he was very disappointed with…

The Chicago Blackhawks will host “Hockey Fights Cancer Night” at the United Center on Wednesday, Nov. 4, when the team faces off against the St. Louis Blues. In support of cancer awareness, Blackhawks players will wear one-of-a-kind warm-up jerseys (pictured above), while coaches and broadcasters will wear lavender ties. Each warm-up jersey will be auctioned off online, in addition to the ties worn by coaches, broadcasters and players, which…

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The president of the German soccer federation and two former high-ranking officials are the targets of a tax evasion probe over a payment to FIFA in connection with the 2006 World Cup, authorities said Tuesday. Police officers and tax inspectors searched the premises of the federation and three private homes, seizing written and electronic documents, Frankfurt prosecutor Nadja Niesen said. Niesen said the prosecutors’ office was…

Baseball fans are a dedicated bunch. For many of us it’s our constant companion. We watch well over 100 games a year. That’s three hours a night for half the year, longer if you count the spring training and the playoffs. It honestly sucks when it’s done and gone from our lives. I’ll admit to feeling rather melancholy for a while after the season ends. It doesn’t last long…

BASEBALL: Nationals hire Riverside native Dusty Baker as manager Share Pin It More Galleries MOST WINS BY AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MANAGER IN MLB HISTORY 1,671 – Dusty Baker, 20 seasons 1,065 – Frank Robinson, 16 seasons 894 – Cito Gaston, 12 seasons 704 – Jerry Manuel, nine seasons 664 – Ron Washington, eight seasons 627 – Don Baylor, nine seasons 499 – Lloyd McClendon, seven…

Congratulations to the Kansas City Royals on their World Series victory. So while the Mariners season was done the first week in October (or even before that), the Royals’ closing out the series on Sunday night in New York means baseball’s offseason officially begins on Monday. For a reference point, here are some key dates to remember … Nov. 2 — Eligible players become free agents at the conclusion of the…

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NEW YORK • The legend of the 2015 Kansas City Royals came to a full and insane completion at Citi Field on Sunday night as the team from Missouri did a “Show Me” tap dance on the heads and hearts of every New York Mets fan in the fifth and ultimately final game of the 111th World Series. The Royals are baseball’s champs for the first time in 30 years, 7-2…

There’s no sphere of television more depressingly homogenous than sports broadcasting, not only in demographics, but also in formatting. Ninety percent of the content on channels like ESPN involves ex-athletes and talk-radio hosts batting around scripted talking points, and the lack of new voices is one reason there’s so little real discourse about controversial issues in sports. But since it debuted in March, Fox Sports 1’s Garbage Time With Katie…

ENLARGE FRANKFURT—German authorities on Tuesday raided the headquarters of the country’s governing body for soccer in connection with a tax-evasion probe related to the World Cup hosted by Germany in 2006, Frankfurt prosecutors said. Tuesday’s search of the Deutscher Fußball-Bund’s premises comes as German prosecutors investigate whether a €6.7 million ($7.4 million) payment made ahead of the tournament by the German World Cup organizing committee to FIFA, soccer’s world governing…

Breaking news: Vince McMahon announces headline heavyweight championship match — Matt Kenseth vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts — in next Wrestlemania. Everybody has jokes about NASCAR these days, and understandably so, since the sport has gone all-in on the “Boys Have It” brand of racing, which means hidden foreign objects, the occasional pull of the firesuit, and smashing into other cars. It’s all perfectly legal as long as the ref…

Congratulations to the Kansas City Royals on their World Series victory. So while the Mariners season was done the first week in October (or even before that), the Royals’ closing out the series on Sunday night in New York means baseball’s offseason officially begins on Monday. For a reference point, here are some key dates to remember … Nov. 2 — Eligible players become free agents at the conclusion of the…