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It’s a lesson in sheer determination. A baseball player from Cuba has been sleeping on the sidewalk outside Dodger Stadium for 17 days, waiting and dreaming about one thing: baseball. Loah Linares wants to follow in the footsteps of other Major League Baseball players from Cuba and just wants a chance to show the Los Angeles Dodgers what he’s got. “If I didn’t know how great a baseball player I…

Does anyone else feel like this was the fantasy football draft weekend of the summer? I’m in three leagues, and all three of my drafts were this weekend. What’s the deal? Football is still 11 days away. I don’t want to have to shift my focus from baseball to football yet. Hopefully you don’t either. Let’s jump right into today’s baseball primer.    Nathan Eovaldi ($7,400) at Braves …

One adorable Dachshund — better known as a wiener dog — won the hearts of minor league baseball fans on Saturday night when the canine escaped from its handlers and ran wild around the field. The wiener dog, whom owners eventually got ahold of, was just one of several wiener dogs on the field for a dog race hosted by the El Paso Chihuahuas (that’s the name of the baseball…

All dogs are good dogs. This is objective fact and I will not hear any arguments against it. But some dogs, like Miss Babe Ruth of Greensboro, N.C., are better dogs. Since she was a nine-month-old puppy, the black labrador retriever has worked for the Class A Greensboro Grasshoppers, living up to her breed’s namesake and doing some retrieving. Starting on August 2, 2006, Babe has tirelessly retrieved both bats…

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FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic are targeting 25-year-old Anderlecht left-back Fabrice N’Sakala, who has a £1.5m price tag and who is under contract for three years at the Belgian club. (Sunday Express) Southampton boss Ronald Koeman is thought to be prepared to wait until January to try to sign Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk rather than go above his £10m limit to meet Celtic’s £13m asking price….

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Bayern Munich have joined Paris St-Germain in trying to sign Everton defender Seamus Coleman, 26. (Daily Star Sunday)  Manchester United are refusing to lower their £30m valuation of Real Madrid target David De Gea. (Sunday Mirror)  But Real Madrid are putting the details in place…

FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic are targeting 25-year-old Anderlecht left-back Fabrice N’Sakala, who has a £1.5m price tag and who is under contract for three years at the Belgian club. (Sunday Express) Southampton boss Ronald Koeman is thought to be prepared to wait until January to try to sign Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk rather than go above his £10m limit to meet Celtic’s £13m asking price….

When Los Angeles City Council members vote on pursuing the 2024 Summer Olympics this week, they will be deferring an issue that will probably return to haunt them: Whether city taxpayers should be made liable for budget overruns on the event, which is expected to cost at least $5.8 billion. Boston’s bid for the Games collapsed in July after the city’s mayor balked at the fiscal guarantee, which the International…

Can the Olympics and democracy co-exist? It’s a question being asked again this summer after Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Beyond the fact that the International Olympic Committee put the biggest event in winter sports in a smog-ridden megalopolis without any real snow, people are concerned about China’s demonstrated record of human rights violations during the last games it hosted, the 2008 Summer Olympics. But…

Getty Images Harry Kane, a star for the English soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, says he’d like to give kicking an American football a try some day. “It depends on how my football career goes but, when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game it is something I would like to do. It’s a long…

A fan died after falling from the upper deck into the lower-level stands at Turner Field on Saturday night during a game between the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees. Lt. Charles Hampton of the Atlanta Police Department homicide unit confirmed the death hours after the fall in the seventh inning. Hampton said the man was in his early 60s and was pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital. There was…

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A local charity drive continues to honor one of the 12 victims of the Aurora theater shooting. 9NEWS at 5 p.m. 08/29/15.

After collapsing on the 18th tee box, golfer John Daly was taken by ambulance from a golf course in Canton, Miss., to a hospital in Jackson for tests Saturday, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports. View photo . John Daly squares up for a shot on Saturday. (Special to Yahoo Sports) Zack Hamm, an emergency room technician at Baptist Medical Center, confirmed to Yahoo Sports on Saturday night that Daly was…

A lawyer for a race car driver who was killed when he was run over by Tony Stewart’s car says legal claims by the NASCAR star in response to a lawsuit are “appalling.” Attorney Mark Lanier said Saturday in an email that Kevin Ward Jr. was killed last year as he walked on a dirt track in upstate New York even though Stewart is one of the world’s best drivers….

Getty Images Harry Kane, a star for the English soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, says he’d like to give kicking an American football a try some day. “It depends on how my football career goes but, when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game it is something I would like to do. It’s a long…

The NASCAR Xfinity Series will race at Road America for the sixth consecutive year with Saturday’s Road America 180 Fired Up by Johnsonville. Here are the particulars (all times are ET): START: Steve Johnson, vice president of Manufacturing Johnsonville will give the command for drivers to start their engines at 3:08 p.m. ET. The green flag is scheduled for 3:22 p.m. DISTANCE: The race is scheduled for 45 laps (182.16 miles) around the 4.048-mile, 14-turn road…

This will be Indian eves’ only second Olympic appearance after their maiden participation in the event way back in 1980 where they ensured a fourth-place finish. (Source: PTI) Thirty-six years after they last competed, the Indian women’s hockey team will return to the Olympics next year after their qualification was confirmed by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Saturday. The fifth-place finish at the Hockey World League semi-finals earlier in…