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There were few African-Americans in the major leagues when Frank Robinson arrived in 1956. It was only nine years after Jackie Robinson had shattered baseball’s color barrier. “I didn’t have a role model,” the 79-year-old former Oriole said Wednesday at a baseball clinic at Carroll Park. “I respected Jackie Robinson and some of the other guys that were playing. But my mother was my role model.” Nearly six decades after…

Kickoff is just over two weeks away, which means it’s time to open Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy Football! Building on the newly launched Daily Fantasy, we’re now allowing entries for the first week of football season, starting things off with a $1 Million Kickoff contest. [Yahoo Daily Fantasy Football: Enter our $1 Million Week 1 contest] For just a $10 entry fee, daily fantasy players have an opportunity to win…

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Earlier today I spent about four hours researching my latest book project inside the Sports Illustrated library on the 32nd floor of the Time Life Building. It’s a place I consider to be my editorial home. Over the course of the past decade, through seven book projects, I’ve probably spent, oh, 200 hours inside the library, digging through files, photocopying clips, combing through yellowed Sports Illustrateds from decades past. I…

Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesOlympic gold medalist and US national-champion sprinter Allyson Felix. See Also On Tuesday, the team behind Los Angeles’ 2024 Olympics bid released a draft of the bid and a budget projection. The big takeaway: LA expects to make $161 million on the 2024 Olympics. It’s fair to treat this projection with a healthy dose of skepticism. The Olympics almost always go over budget and economic-impact estimates are almost…

0 Shares Print Clint Bowyer became the biggest NASCAR name looking for a 2016 job when he announced last week he wouldn’t go with Rob Kauffman, a co-owner of Michael Waltrip Racing, who is shutting down MWR and becoming part-owner of Chip Ganassi Racing. Bowyer hasn’t announced where he will drive in 2016; he was vague in his answers when he met with the media Friday. Does he want a…

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Peace in the Middle East could start on the soccer field … with Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreeing to put aside their differences and hold talks … for the good of the sport.  Leaders from both sides met today — after FIFA officials created a special task force aimed at getting everyone to work TOGETHER to improve the soccer experience for Palestinians and Israelis.  It’s a big step … considering…

Today’s episode of NASCAR America, which airs from 5 to 6 pm ET, takes another look at the stories from the weekend at Bristol. Dave Briggs hosts from our studio in Stamford (Conn.) and will be joined by Jeff Burton and Frank Stoddard from Burton’s Garage. On today’s episode: · “Stories of NASCAR”: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Joey Logano and Kurt Busch. · Logano once again showed he belongs among the Sprint…

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Earlier today I spent about four hours researching my latest book project inside the Sports Illustrated library on the 32nd floor of the Time Life Building. It’s a place I consider to be my editorial home. Over the course of the past decade, through seven book projects, I’ve probably spent, oh, 200 hours inside the library, digging through files, photocopying clips, combing through yellowed Sports Illustrateds from decades past. I…

Justin Wilson, the 37-year-old Verizon IndyCar Series driver from Great Britain, died Monday from injuries suffered in Sunday’s ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway. Wilson’s death was announced by Hulman & Company CEO Mark Miles at a news conference at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Monday night. “This is a monumentally sad day for IndyCar and the motorsports community as a whole,” Miles said. “Justin’s elite ability to drive a race…

By Tom Fordyce Chief sports writer in Beijing The Usain Bolt v Justin Gatlin re-match is on after both men dominated their semi-finals to charge into Thursday’s 200m final. Bolt, looking to retain his other individual sprint title after that extraordinary 100m…

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrance Williams (83)exits the field after defeating the Detroit Lions in a playoff game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, on Sunday, January 4, 2015. The Dallas Cowboys defeated the Detroit Lions 24-20 to advance in the playoffs. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News) The Dallas Cowboys and DraftKings, which calls itself the leading U.S.-based destination for daily fantasy sports, announced a long-term partnership on Wednesday. Tony Romo’s sacked…

On Tuesday night, the Houston Astros were blowing out the New York Yankees (a weird sentence to type being a baseball fan for the last two decades) when Carlos Gomez just missed tagging a Chris Capuano pitch. The Astros were up 9-0, but Gomez was still upset with himself for flying out, so he flipped his bat towards his own dugout and muttered something to himself. The Yankees did not…

At the Brera Ballroom inside the Cosmopolitan hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip on Saturday night, two former NFL players sit about 30 feet away from each other. One is Bo Jackson, the marquee attraction at FanDuel’s World Fantasy Baseball Championship. Jackson, who hosted a home-run derby for the best of the daily fantasy sports world at a nearby baseball facility on Friday evening, holds court at the…

Baseball teams have a way of dragging their fans’ moods with their fortunes on the field. It’s no fun to root for a perpetually losing team, especially if its performance seems unlikely to improve. Conversely, an unexpected contender has a way of lifting one’s spirits. But wins and losses are much easier to measure than happiness. We do have a proxy, though: the masses at Reddit. I scraped comments from…

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click to enlarge Courtesy of the UTSA Library Special Collection One of the Alamo City’s first baseball teams. Texas held its first high school baseball state championship four years after World…

Marlins’ Gordon torments Pirates Major-league batting leader Dee Gordon tied a career high with four stolen bases, had two infield hits and scored twice Tuesday night, helping the Miami Marlins beat the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2. Miami’s Brad Hand (4-3) pitched into the ninth inning. He came into the game 7-20 as a starter, worst among all active pitchers, according to STATS, but has won three of his past four…