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We watch the games, and the players are just faces or numbers, millionaires paid to entertain us. Yet, for all their fame and fortune, nothing can prevent them from experiencing loss like the rest of us. Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas lost his mother, Connie, on Aug. 9. His teammate, right-hander Chris Young, lost his father, Charles, on Sept. 26. The two took a break on Sunday from the American…

So, this is actually happening — Roger Clemens in a real life pitching duel with Oil Can Boyd … in a real life baseball game … in the year 2015.  It’s all going down in the Men’s Senior Baseball League — 50 and over division — in Tempe, Arizona.  Both Roger’s Houston Old Stars and Oil Can’s Boston Wolf Pack beat a bunch of other old guys from around the…

Corina Hernandez is a massive Chicago sports devotee. From the Cubs to the Bears and the Bulls, there is rarely an idle moment in her year. But since moving to a new place on the Southwest Side, Hernandez has run into a slight obstacle as the Cubs push for the National League pennant : No cable. “It’s so expensive,” said Hernandez, 35, as she watched Game 2 of the National…

Following the unquestioned wave of success during its MLS debut season, Orlando City unveiled the next step for soccer in Central Florida. The club announced Tuesday the launch of the Orlando Pride, an expansion franchise in the National Women’s Soccer League that will begin play in 2016. The Pride become the 10th franchise in the league, which is entering its fourth season. It is the first iteration of a women’s pro soccer league…

0 Shares print As drivers sweat out potential elimination in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, the jockeying behind closed doors appears just as intense as NASCAR and owners furiously try to hash out a plan to make the team business a more stable one. NASCAR and the owners might not spin each other out, but they have plenty of details to work through. As with a car, any small…

As expected, NASCAR has changed its procedure on green-white-checkered finishes for Sunday’s Chase elimination race a Talladega Superspeedway. For Sunday’s CampingWorld.com 500, NASCAR will allow for just one attempt at a green-white-checkered finish. If the caution flag waves on the first lap of the first attempt, the race is over, rather than NASCAR lining up the cars for another attempt, as has been customary at all tracks for more than…

BROOKLYN, MI — While the Chase for the Sprint Cup heats up, NASCAR was looking to the future at Michigan International Speedway Tuesday, Oct. 20.  Drivers Erik Jones, Chris Buescher and Chase Elliott were on the two-mile oval in the Irish Hills testing out NASCAR’s new rules package, which will be implemented in the 2016 season. Jones, of Byron, leads the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings and served as Denny Hamlin’s replacement for Tuesday’s test. …

When Canada withstood a fierce comeback to defeat Russia 5-4 in the International Ice Hockey World Junior Championship final last January, 19,014 fans packed the Air Canada Centre in Toronto to witness. The scene was breathtaking, featuring dramatic hockey, an electric atmosphere and the world’s best young players locked in an epic battle. If Canada is the birthplace of hockey, Toronto is the mother ship. The setting and the circumstances…

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CLARK — Sure, Michael Riley is still in diapers, but put him in coach, he’s definitely ready to play. This 2-year-old, pint-sized slugger is obsessed with baseball, rarely misses a pitch and regularly dazzled beachgoers in Lavallette this summer with his hitting, his mother Nicole Riley said. “He’d draw crowds,” she said. “They would stand around and watch him and cheer, and he would just think that was the best. Or…

UPDATE: Rick Pitino released a statement to Yahoo! Sports: “The NCAA has asked me not to comment on this matter and I will abide by it. But I will say one thing … There’s only one person who can speak on this matter, and that’s Andre McGee. He owes it to his teammates, coaches and the university to tell the truth. The truth has got to come out, and not just…

Rick Hendrick is a pretty astute judge of driving talent. Hendrick Motorsports drivers Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt and Kasey Kahne have won 10 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships and 208 races among them. And before they came on the scene, Hendrick employed guys like Terry Labonte, Darrell Waltrip, Tim Richmond and Geoff Bodine. So when Hendrick uses the word “special” to describe a driver, well, chances are pretty…

When Canada withstood a fierce comeback to defeat Russia 5-4 in the International Ice Hockey World Junior Championship final last January, 19,014 fans packed the Air Canada Centre in Toronto to witness. The scene was breathtaking, featuring dramatic hockey, an electric atmosphere and the world’s best young players locked in an epic battle. If Canada is the birthplace of hockey, Toronto is the mother ship. The setting and the circumstances…

NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is breaking out a special helmet for this weekend’s race at Talladega.  Stenhouse, a Mississippi native, is wearing a helmet styled after the ones the Ole Miss football team wore its big win over Alabama in September. Stenhouse’s decision to wear the new helmet at Talladega (in the state of Alabama) can’t be a coincidence, can it? Unfortunately for Stenhouse, he’s already been eliminated from NASCAR’s Chase for the Cup….

I am upside-down on a stretch of bright green astroturf, encased in a plastic bubble. I’ve just attempted, with delusions of balletic grace, to execute a sort of standing backflip – and now I’m stuck halfway. My feet kick the air helplessly. My arms and head are safely inside the bulbous tomb. I feel like a turtle someone has cruelly flipped. It’s only with a galvanic full-bodied thrust that I’m…

0 Shares Print So you still don’t think the elimination-style Chase format is a good thing for NASCAR? Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth may agree with you, but the NASCAR suits in Daytona Beach and Charlotte surely don’t. They’re practically bursting with enthusiasm, because the constant pressure of being knocked out of championship contention has produced the kind of hard, ‘have at it, boys’ racing that NASCAR so desperately wanted…

fullscreen view fullscreen close New Yorkers looking for a novel way to break a sweat this weekend can sign up for a game of “Bubble Soccer,” a full-contact sport growing in popularity with adults. The rules are effectively the same as standard soccer, but with the addition of giant plastic bubbles encasing each player, to protect everyone from all the aggressive body-slams that make the game fun. What better way…

The second half of the Chase begins at Talladega. The sixth overall race and the third in the Contender Round will be run Sunday with the CampingWorld.com 500. Brad Keselowski is the defending champion, having won the race last season in the final Contender Round event to advance to the Eliminator Round. MORE:  Logano wins, Kenseth spinning | Results | Chase standings | Kansas photos The first two races in…