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After several months of negotiations failed to produce a new collective bargaining agreement ensuring better pay and higher quality training, the Australian women’s soccer team decided they’d had enough. This week they went on strike. “For the past two months the players have been unpaid and have made every attempt to reach an agreement that gives the women’s game a platform for growth,” goalkeeper Lydia Williams said. “This is about…

by Ed Sherman Published Sep. 10, 2015 7:20 am Orioles-Mets box score from Aug. 20, 2015 (Flickr Photo Mike Fitzpatrick) Forget “Dick and Jane.” I learned to read by studying the baseball box scores in the newspaper. Many of you probably did the same if sports dominated your early years. Once you deciphered the code, the box score provided almost everything you needed to know about a game. It told…

The national governing bodies of Britain’s most popular sports will continue to make their major events available on free-to-air television. Cricket, football, golf, tennis and rugby union and league have re-signed a voluntary code first set up in 2009. This means free-to-air broadcasters like the BBC will be given access to highlight packages, at the very least. It also commits these sports to allocating…

(CNN)Here’s one campaign Donald Trump likely didn’t foresee when he decided to run for President. A new ad from a Mexican television station featuring Trump’s controversial remarks on immigrants is being used to rally the men’s Mexican national soccer team to victory over the U.S. next month in California. The commercial from Mexican TV Azteca opens with the American flag flowing in wind, while Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of “Star Spangled…

Red Sox Notes: Dave Dombrowski Announces Moves In Baseball Operations BOSTON — The Red Sox are firing on all cylinders right now. Unfortunately, they appear a bit too far behind for a photo finish. Boston has been on a pretty impressive run of late, going 6-3 over a 10-day homestand that culminated Wednesday night in a 10-4 bashing of the Toronto Blue Jays, one of the hottest teams in baseball. After taking…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Yoenis Cespedes hit a go-ahead homer in the eighth inning moments after pinch-hitter Kelly Johnson connected for a tying shot, and the New York Mets rallied past the Washington Nationals 5-3 Wednesday night for a pivotal three-game sweep. Jacob deGrom (13-7) pitched seven strong innings in a tight duel with Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg, who struck out a season-high 13. Johnson’s leadoff drive against Strasburg (8-7) tied…

The national governing bodies of Britain’s most popular sports will continue to make their major events available on free-to-air television. Cricket, football, golf, tennis and rugby union and league have re-signed a voluntary code first set up in 2009. This means free-to-air broadcasters like the BBC will be given access to highlight packages, at the very least. It also commits these sports to allocating…

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(CNN)Here’s one campaign Donald Trump likely didn’t foresee when he decided to run for President. A new ad from a Mexican television station featuring Trump’s controversial remarks on immigrants is being used to rally the men’s Mexican national soccer team to victory over the U.S. next month in California. The commercial from Mexican TV Azteca opens with the American flag flowing in wind, while Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of “Star Spangled…

Dave Dombrowski said at his opening news conference that he did not arrive in Boston to “blow things up.” And the Red Sox’ president of baseball operations hasn’t. Continue reading below While Dombrowski said there will be changes, he kept some continuity Wednesday by naming Gus Quattlebaum the team’s director of pro scouting, and he hired former major league pitcher Brian Bannister to the newly developed role of director of…

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The heat wave enveloping Southern California enhances the appeal of being inside a chilly hockey rink, and there’s a promise of relief from soaring temperatures (and a lack of hockey) when NHL rookie camps open in a few days. Looking a little further down the road, the NHL and NHL Players’ Assn. on Wednesday announced details of the World Cup of Hockey tournament, which will be contested among eight teams…

NASCAR has issued warnings to a pair of Sprint Cup Series teams and docked practice time from two XFINITY Series teams following issues in inspection this past weekend at Darlington Raceway. NASCAR announced Wednesday afternoon that a warning has been delivered to Denny Hamlin’s No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team for flunking pre-race inspection four times prior to Sunday night’s Bojangles’ Southern 500, a race in which Hamlin went on…

Buy Photo Bob Oldis, Iowa City resident and 1960 World Series champion with the Pittsburgh Pirates, poses in his kitchen with his World Series trophy on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015.(Photo: David Scrivner / Iowa City Press-Citizen)Buy Photo When Steve Bratkovich of St. Paul, Minn., learned that World Series champion baseball player Bob Oldis lived in Iowa City, he knew he had to meet him. Bratkovich was growing up in western…

The Chicago Cubs had no trouble scoring runs to secure a series win in St. Louis, and they could have a key bat back as they try for the sweep. Kyle Schwarber may return to the starting lineup from a six-game absence Wednesday as the streaking Cubs try to put up big numbers for Jon Lester in a second straight start. Schwarber has been sidelined with a sore rib cage,…

0 Shares Print This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s September 14 New Orleans Issue. Subscribe today! HE DOESN’T HAVE time for this. On a patch of dirt 50 miles north of Houston, Ron Wolforth’s baseball students are taking turns hurling a blue medicine ball at a green wall as hard as they can, which isn’t hard enough, and Wolforth doesn’t have time to keep pushing them, to “ride you…

Last month, given the chance to affirm that college athletes have basic labor rights, the National Labor Review Board punted. It’s rare that a sports metaphor so perfectly crafted for lazy headline writers is so fitting, but punting—the most cowardly, spineless, and responsibility-evading decision routinely made in American sports—perfectly describes the thought process of the NLRB’s decision, a ruling that brought the most energized campus athletic rebellion in decades to…

The National Football League season that kicks off this week will provide a reality check for an investor darling that has yet to make a profit: the daily fantasy-sports industry. The fantasy-sports operators allow customers to draft virtual teams of professional athletes and compete against each other based on the teams’ real-world performances that day or week. The companies put customers’ contest entry fees toward cash prize pools…

The new Apple TV remote supports motion controls, and it looks like Apple is taking a leaf out of Nintendo’s book when it comes to teaching new users how to play games on the device. Harmonix, the developers behind Rock Band and the original Guitar Hero, appeared on stage to show off a new game called Beat Sports — and, well, it’s pretty much Wii Sports baseball in rhythm game…

Heh, imagine our faces when this is the only product Apple announce at today’s keynote. “To … create … this product, we asked ourselves ‘what do consumers most want from this announcement?’ The answer, of course, is not a new iPhone, but a different coloured strap for their Apple Watch. Our engineers worked tirelessly to design a product which was both functional and gorgeous. The strap … sympathetically wraps around…