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This baseball season I cheered for the Seattle Mariners, the Oakland A’s, the Toronto Blue Jays, the New York Mets, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. On the ice, I’ve rooted in the last year for the Vancouver Canucks, the Chicago Blackhawks, and the New York Rangers; I once screamed for Canada to pummel the U.S. in the Olympics because I happened to be visiting British Columbia that weekend. I had…

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…

A lawmaker plans to introduce a bill that would regulate daily fantasy sports in the state, putting an agency widely considered the toughest gambling regulator in the country in charge of it. Sen. Jim Whelan, a Democrat and former Atlantic City mayor, said Monday he’ll introduce a bill after conferring with the state Division of Gaming Enforcement, which would oversee daily fantasy sports play in New Jersey. His plans come…

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich was in peak form during his pregame meeting with the media on Monday, revealing that he, a professional sports coach, actually isn’t all that much of a sports fan. Pop, asked about the World Series, “Why would I want to watch a baseball game when I can go to dinner and relax…sports are boring.” — Chris Mannix (@ChrisMannixSI) November 2, 2015 Of course, this is the same…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United play “disgusting” football and resemble “robots” under manager Louis van Gaal, according to the club’s former winger Andrei Kanchelskis. (Sun)  Chelsea will sack under-pressure manager Jose Mourinho, 52, if there is evidence of the club’s fans turning against him. (Daily Star)  Mourinho will…

(Grantland / ESPN) A genial windbag named Grantland Rice was the pre-eminent voice of America’s first golden age of sports, larding his newspaper columns, radio shows, speeches, and newsreel appearances with metaphors and pseudo-classical allusions that included this famous (though typical for him) lede: “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only…

Bryan Tucker who recently took over the head writer position at Saturday Night Live, just unveiled a new sports comedy website, the Kicker. The site is part of SNL head honcho Lorne Michaels’s Above Average digital network – home to web series like Hudson Valley Ballers and Vanessa Bayer’s Sound Advice – hopes to become the go-to digital destination for fans of sports, comedy, and naturally, sports comedy. The site…

Former Auburn baseball coach Sunny Golloway’s rocky two-year tenure came to an abrupt end at the university’s athletic complex on Sept. 27. Athletic director Jay Jacobs asked for a meeting with Golloway that Sunday at 1 p.m. After arriving in the receptionist’s area, Jacobs escorted Golloway to his office, where Jacobs didn’t even invite the coach to sit down to deliver the news that he was being relieved of his…

The former treasurer of a Houston-area youth baseball league, who was accused of stealing thousands of dollars, has taken a plea bargain in an effort to avoid trial and prison. Trace Werner, 44, entered a guilty plea to theft and misapplication of property by a fiduciary. He said little while standing before Fort Bend County District Court Judge Maggie Perez-Jaramillo, but briefly muttered an apology while fighting back tears. “I…

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…

The baseball season ended Sunday night when the Royals rallied to beat the Mets. Now starts what could be a franchise-altering few months for the Red Sox. Within a few days, the Sox will announce a decision on whether they will pick up Clay Buchholz’s $13 million option for 2016. All indications are that they will. Continue reading below It will be the first of what are sure to be…

(Grantland / ESPN) A genial windbag named Grantland Rice was the pre-eminent voice of America’s first golden age of sports, larding his newspaper columns, radio shows, speeches, and newsreel appearances with metaphors and pseudo-classical allusions that included this famous (though typical for him) lede: “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only…

Danica Patrick (10) runs into the back of David Gilliland (38) during Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway.(Photo: Don Petersen, AP) NASCAR could announce a decision Tuesday on whether to issue penalties for rough driving incidents in Sunday’s Martinsville Speedway race. How officials will rule is anyone’s guess, but here’s a look at some notable on-track incidents from the past decade and what NASCAR did — or didn’t do — about them….

NASCAR announced Monday morning that Brett Jewkes, senior vice president and chief communications officer, will leave the organization following the season-finale winner-takes-all race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Jewkes, who has been with NASCAR since 2011, will join the Atlanta-based AMB Group, LLC, the investment management and support arm of Arthur Blank’s family of businesses.  In his current role with NASCAR, Jewkes led the Integrated Marketing Communications department and oversaw the sanctioning…

After bouncing for years from city to city and country to country, professional soccer player Joey Tavernese thought he had a plan for the future. After a standout season with the now-defunct Rochester Lancers last winter, multiple teams reached out to the midfielder. But a new club in Hartford offered an enticing mix of benefits: a location not far from his family on Long Island, plans for indoor and outdoor…

After a wild first race in the Eliminator Round of the Chase, NASCAR next heads to Texas. It’s a full slate of racing as the Sprint Cup, Xfinity and Camping World Truck series will also be in action at Texas Motor Speedway starting on Thursday. It’s all capped with the AAA Texas 500 (334 laps, 501 miles), which will air Sunday at 2 p.m. on NBC. Jimmie Johnson is the…

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…

Every now and again, there happens one day per year when no sports fan should go wanting, and many have taken to calling it the “Sports Equinox.” It is a perfect confluence of schedules where every major North American, and many European, sports compete. According to fivethirtyeight.com, there have been 15 of them since 1971, and Nov. 1, 2015, was the first one since 2010. Additionally, it appears that the…

0 Shares print We can’t have it both ways. We can’t watch Matt Kenseth pile-drive Joey Logano so hard that they damn near knock down the Turn 1 wall and then cry outrage and spew righteous anger and question the sanity and humanity and unsportsmanlike conduct of it all. Not at the end of the same week when we all wondered giddily aloud if that exact scenario might take place….

After bouncing for years from city to city and country to country, professional soccer player Joey Tavernese thought he had a plan for the future. After a standout season with the now-defunct Rochester Lancers last winter, multiple teams reached out to the midfielder. But a new club in Hartford offered an enticing mix of benefits: a location not far from his family on Long Island, plans for indoor and outdoor…