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ENLARGE When Yoenis Cespedes shows up for work, New York Mets hitting coach Kevin Long greets him with an odd question. Long is not so meddlesome as to ask him how he slept or what he ate for breakfast. But there is one thing Long wants to know about how Cespedes spent his morning: Did he play golf? “If he played golf,” Long said, “most of the time he hits…

“The defendants are charged in a 124-count indictment with enterprise corruption,” it added, noting that they each face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. Fourteen were arrested Wednesday, including nine in the Los Angeles area. Three others were still being sought, the Queens County, New York, District Attorney Richard Brown’s office said in a statement. Read More Jeb Bush: Daily fantasy sports is…

NASCAR handed out warnings Wednesday afternoon for issues discovered in technical inspection last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, host to the final race of the Contender Round in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. While no Chase teams received a warning, the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team of six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson was issued a warning for twice failing NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform. Meanwhile, the Sprint Cup…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Chelsea forward Pedro, 28, has told friends he regrets moving to the club from Spanish giants Barcelona in the summer and would be happy to return to the Nou Camp. (Fichajes,  via Daily Express)  Manchester United target Neymar will be offered a new £500,000-a-week deal by…

NASCAR handed out warnings Wednesday afternoon for issues discovered in technical inspection last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, host to the final race of the Contender Round in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. While no Chase teams received a warning, the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team of six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson was issued a warning for twice failing NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform. Meanwhile, the Sprint Cup…

NASCAR handed out warnings Wednesday afternoon for issues discovered in technical inspection last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, host to the final race of the Contender Round in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. While no Chase teams received a warning, the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team of six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson was issued a warning for twice failing NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform. Meanwhile, the Sprint Cup…

Americans have been betting on sports since the first time a Puritan pilgrim boasted that his horse was the fastest in Massachusetts Bay Colony and another said, “Wanna bet?” But fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly and government gotta fret about gambling on fantasy sports. Torrential television advertising by DraftKings and FanDuel is creating millions of customers for these sports-fantasy businesses, thereby creating government anxiety lest Americans make unregulated choices…

NASCAR handed out warnings Wednesday afternoon for issues discovered in technical inspection last weekend at Talladega Superspeedway, host to the final race of the Contender Round in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. While no Chase teams received a warning, the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports team of six-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson was issued a warning for twice failing NASCAR’s LASER Inspection Platform. Meanwhile, the Sprint Cup…

Thomas Jakelich’s final moments were spent doing what he loved most – playing soccer with his friends. The 16-year-old sophomore, who went to the ritzy Loyola High School on the Upper East Side, died Monday night hours after an on-field collision during a varsity soccer match against the United Nations International School. “He was doing the thing he loved very much,” his tearful stepfather, Rick Newman, said. Newman received a…

Win Cash Live is offering gambling odds on which England national soccer players will reportedly come out as gay.(Photo: Andy Rain, EPA) A British bookmaker has sparked controversy by offering odds on which England national team soccer player will come out as gay. London’s Daily Mirror newspaper reported at the end of last week that two players, including one who has played for England in international matches, would reveal they…

CHICAGO (Oct. 27, 2015) – Abby Wambach, the leading scorer in the history of international soccer and one of the world’s all-time greatest players, has announced her retirement.  Wambach, 35, will end a spectacular 15-year international career that began in September of 2001 at the age of 21 when she debuted against Germany. She currently has 252 caps, which is fifth all-time in U.S. history, and 184 goals, far…

Less than three months after Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal committed to spend about $950 million to air English Premier League soccer games in the U.S., the deal is starting to look like a rare commodity in the hot market for sports rights: a bargain. In August, when the media company announced the new deal, which extends an earlier partnership and spans the 2016-17 season through 2021-22, NBC Sports Chairman Mark Lazarus…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Anyone who tells you baseball is dying hasn’t spent much time in Kansas City lately. Obviously, the Royals are in the World Series for the second straight year, and some portion of every city would embrace a baseball team in that spot. But what’s incredible, from an empirical standpoint, at least, is how widespread and unifying this town’s love for the Royals appears to be: The…

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While countless hours of preparation are dedicated to major broadcast sports events, incidents like that of the outage at the World Series Game 1 on Tuesday night exemplify Murphy’s Law — if it can go wrong, it will. For about four minutes, millions of television viewers couldn’t watch the Mets play the Royals. At the bottom of the fourth inning, when the Royals were at bat, the picture disappeared. “A…

Ironically, the combination of early specialization, playing on multiple teams during the same season, marathon weekend travel tournaments, and year-round participation, is unlikely to achieve the desired outcome: elite athletes who get accepted for college scholarships and professional careers. Quite the contrary, there is evidence demonstrating that kids who play multiple sports while they’re young and wait to specialize until the early teenage years are actually better athletes. For example,…