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‘SNL’ writer launches sports comedy site, ‘The Kicker’ – Mashable

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Watch out, Donkey Teeth — you’ve got some new competition. Bryan Tucker, co-head writer of Saturday Night Live, and Above Average Productions, the digital arm of Broadway Video, have officially launched their sports-comedy online platform, The Kicker. Built “for sports fans by sports fans,” the website features videos starring athletes and celebrities including Kenan Thompson, Andy Samberg, Perez Hilton, Wyclef Jean, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Jamaal Charles, Odell Beckham Jr. and…

Sports Halloween Costumes for 2015 – Wall Street Journal

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

For the past six years, The Wall Street Journal has done society a noble service by providing parents with Halloween costume ideas for their children based on the least inspiring moments from the previous year in sports. Some years we have to dig deep to find enough suitable sports antiheroes to fill an entire display page. 2015 wasn’t one of those years. Here are this year’s “winners.” The FIFA corruption…

Major League Baseball’s pace of play not ideal for the casual fan – The Denver Post

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

For the same reason that many fans loved the Royals’ thrilling 5-4, 14-inning win in Game 1 of the World Series Monday night, others were turned away. It’s America, everybody is going to have different tastes. A passion for baseball is sort of like a passion for coffee, you are either going to love it or hate it. On a night where MLB’s opening game of its championship series went…

The Sublime Simplicity of Baseball-Reference.com – RollingStone.com

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Not long ago, a mild-mannered former mathematics professor named Sean Forman met Cal Ripken at a Baseball Hall of Fame gathering. This is the sort of thing that Forman could never have imagined he’d be doing 16 years ago, before he created a website, Baseball-Reference.com, that completely altered the way Internet-savvy fans consume the sport. In fact, this is the sort of thing that still blows Forman’s mind, especially when…

Inside Baseball: Humble Moore takes unusual route to become top GM – CBSSports.com

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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Brad Bohannon hired as first Auburn baseball assistant – Montgomery Advertiser

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Kentucky assistant coach Brad Bohannon accepted an offer to join Butch Thompson’s staff at Auburn. (Photo: Chet White | UK Athletics) AUBURN — The two national assistant coaches of the year will be in the same Auburn dugout for the 2016 season. Auburn head coach Butch Thompson announced the first member of his staff Tuesday afternoon with the hiring of Kentucky assistant coach Brad Bohannon. Bohannon won the 2015 Baseball America…

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum a must-see for baseball history fans – CBSSports.com

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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The Fastest Pitchers in Baseball – New York Times

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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Yu Darvish’s brother arrested for allegedly taking bets on baseball games … – Washington Post

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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Epic World Series opener on historic date – The Boston Globe

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — No sports institution values history, and gets stuck in history, like Major League Baseball. And you never know when history will be made. Continue reading below Let’s take the opening game of the 2015 World Series on Tuesday night, for example. The 5-4 Royals win in 14 innings — tied for the longest game in Series history — was heartfelt and historic. One for the ages….

Game 1 of World Series delayed after Fox Sports telecast lost power – USA TODAY

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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Abby Wambach to Retire From Soccer at End of 2015 – New York Times

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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NASCAR’s Brian France addresses controversial Talladega finish – FOXSports.com

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

There were definitely a lot of NASCAR fans upset with the outcome of Sunday’s Chase elimination race at Talladega Superspeedway, and NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France feels their pain. “We understand that if you’re a Dale Jr. fan, you are very disappointed,” France told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio’s Dave Moody Tuesday afternoon. “Your driver did everything possible, put on an unbelievable performance, raced from the back of the field to…

Mets, Unlike Royals, Have Yet to Join Baseball’s Bronze Age – New York Times

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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Fantasy Sports Industry to Create Outside Control Board – Wall Street Journal

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

WASHINGTON—The fantasy sports industry, facing a federal criminal probe and scrutiny by state regulators, plans to create an outside control board to ensure ethical behavior in the industry, officials said Tuesday. A Fantasy Sports Control Agency, designed to monitor daily and nondaily fantasy sports companies, will be led by a former Obama administration official, lawyer Seth Harris, who was deputy labor secretary from 2009 to…

Can An Astrophysicist Change The Way We Watch Sports? – FiveThirtyEight

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Illustration by Mike McQuade Truth No. 1: Most of us watch sports to see the unexpected. Truth No. 2: Plenty of us want to predict the future. Somewhere, where those two contradictory truths meet, there has been a movement afoot. For decades now, sports-crazed statheads — the sabermetricians and forecasters and moneyballers bent on winning their fantasy leagues, assembling an actual professional team or simply understanding the sports world —…

Baseball|The Fastest Pitchers in Baseball – New York Times

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

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