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NEW YORK/TORONTO – The National Hockey League (NHL®) and adidas today announced a seven-year partnership in which adidas will become the authentic outfitter of on-ice uniforms as well as an official supplier of licensed apparel and headwear for the League starting with the 2017-18 season. adidas Group-owned CCM will remain an official on-ice equipment supplier, delivering world-class product for NHL players, including sticks, skates, helmets, gloves and goaltending gear. …

0 Shares Print This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s September 28 Transactions Issue. Subscribe today! JULIO FRANCO HAS a translator standing a few feet away, but at the moment, he doesn’t need him, yelling to his players in Japanese. The three hitters taking batting practice in the grassless infield seem hesitant, so Franco switches to English and lowers the volume. His translator, a 25-year-old former salesman named Keita Sugano,…

Everything in Dave Dombrowski’s baseball soul was telling him he was not overseeing a very good team. The standings said the Tigers were in the AL wild card race, but Dombrowski’s eyes revealed something else. Still, he knew the mandate. The Tigers were big spenders with huge expectations and an aging owner, Mike Ilitch, wanting a championship in his lifetime. So Dombrowski, Detroit’s general manager, kind of closed his eyes…

EATON, Colo. – The embattled, iconic coach of Eaton High School’s baseball team will keep his job. At least for now. During a packed, sweltering hot board meeting in Eaton Monday night, the board opted to hold off on a decision regarding the long-time coach’s future. Eaton High School baseball coach Jim Danley is not your typical coach. He has the all-time winningest record of any high school baseball coach…

Play hard, but not too hard. Be excited, but not too excited. And, whatever you do, don’t do anything with your play that might hurt your opponents’ feelings. But hurting their bodies if you get upset? That’s OK. MORE: Worst MLB teams of the last 30 years | ’80s-’90s baseball cards, ranked These statements summarize much of the silly collection of alleged truths that make up baseball’s unwritten rules, a supposed…

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They will look at possible bids for post-2024 Olympics, soccer’s World Cup, a world’s fair, and other events that could use facilities built for the Pan Am Games, Tory said.

Six years ago, Dom Dwyer’s career was going nowhere. Released by Norwich City as a schoolboy, he entered semi-professional football, turning out for King’s Lynn and Staines Town, who play in the Ryman Premier Division. It was there, in the foothills of the English game, that he looked west and decided to move to the United States. Dwyer signed up to a firm who…

The 16-driver field for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup has been set. Now what? If you need a refresher on exactly how the NASCAR playoffs work, FS1’s “NASCAR Race Hub” is here to help with this fun whiteboard animation. 

0 Shares Print This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s September 28 Transactions Issue. Subscribe today! JULIO FRANCO HAS a translator standing a few feet away, but at the moment, he doesn’t need him, yelling to his players in Japanese. The three hitters taking batting practice in the grassless infield seem hesitant, so Franco switches to English and lowers the volume. His translator, a 25-year-old former salesman named Keita Sugano,…

The Hudson Valley Sportsdome — a smaller complex in Marlborough and located on about 50 acres — has an assessed property value of $1,617,800, according to Ulster County’s 2015 Final Assessment Roll.   The town received $10,147.89 in January for the year, Assessor Cindy Hilbert said. That includes town, county, highway, fire and special districts taxes. A call and email to the Marlboro Central School District Director of Finance Patrick Witherow waswere not returned. The Marlborough sports complex opened in December 2004 and, Sportsdome President…

The start of the NFL season draws renewed focus on fantasy sports, a chance to assemble imaginary teams featuring your favorite players. While fantasy sports leagues often cover an entire season, an emerging trend involves one-week or daily fantasy sports, offering a shorter window, but the potential for an immediate payoff. Daily fantasy football has become big business, and the rewards can be substantial. But do the leagues represent a…

Mixed Leagues Wilin Rosario, C/1B, Colorado Rockies Billy Butler, 1B, Oakland Athletics Jean Segura, SS, Milwaukee Brewers Eugenio Suarez, SS, Cincinnati Reds Anthony Gose, OF, Detroit Tigers James Paxton, SP, Seattle Mariners Kyle Barraclough, RP, Miami Marlins   AL-Only Mikie Mahtook, OF, Tampa Bay Rays Shawn O’Malley, OF, Seattle Mariners Rich Hill, RP, Boston Red Sox Felix Doubront, SP/RP, Oakland Athletics   NL-Only Kelly Johnson, 1B/2B/3B/OF, New York Mets Daniel…

EATON, Colo. — Tensions boiled over at a school board meeting in Weld County. People there are upset about the way the district is handling their head baseball coach. Coach Jim Danley has been the head coach for Eaton High School’s baseball program since 1972. He has led the Reds to 11 state championships and has an 83% winning record. He was recently presented with a Performance Improvement Plan. The…

They saw sparkling big league baseball diamonds. And they saw poverty. For three Clark County boys, an August trip to the Dominican Republic for the Latin American Baseball Classic provided some top-notch baseball competition and a glimpse of life outside America. Ethan Bausch, Dylan Buhrmester and Brady Majewski also came home champions. Their team of 13 players from across the United States won the 13-U age division of the tournament…

Virginia’s goalie celebrated his shutout a period too early. (Instagram) Fans of comedies of the 1970s and early 1980s might appreciate what happened during a preseason hockey game Friday night between the club teams at the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth. It was something like Animal House meets Slap Shot. With UVA taking it to VCU through two periods with a 7-0 lead heading into the third, Virginia goalie…

If Jerry Jones was as good at putting together football teams as he is at making money, then the Cowboys would’ve won every Super Bowl since 2006. For the ninth straight year, the Dallas Cowboys are No. 1 on Forbes’ annual list of the NFL’s most valuable franchises. Jones is pretty much printing money in Dallas — and then not giving any of it to DeMarco Murray. Zing. The latest…

Sept. 14, 2015: U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch attends a news conference on Swiss criminal proceedings. (Reuters) U.S. authorities have expanded their investigations into corruption within global soccer and expect to file additional criminal charges, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Monday. As part of a separate Swiss investigation, Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber said his office had seized property and flats in the Swiss Alps in connection with its…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Newcastle are planning to offer £6m for QPR’s England striker Charlie Austin, 26, in the January transfer window. (Telegraph)  Arsenal are considering making a £14m bid in January for Anderlecht’s 18-year-old Belgian midfielder Youri Tielemans, who is also a target for Chelsea. (Calciomercato – in Italian)  …