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Are you tired of having to dust off old copies of NHL 94 to get your Pavel Bure and Teemu Selanne fix? Well, dust no more: The World Legends Hockey League is coming soon!  Bure is the chairman of this new “non-commercial” league that will feature players 45 years and older from Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Czech Republic and Germany. From the press release, via Euro Hockey: The formation of…

Walks in baseball are way down. Way, WAY down. Through August, Major League Baseball saw an average of 2.8 walks per game. If the season were to end there, that would be the lowest level since the 1920s. Similarly, a lot of the stats show that pitching is dominant over hitting. Strikeouts are up, batting average is down, among other key statistics. What’s going on here? Could the decline in…

Lost in the manic hustle of the trade deadline’s aftermath was some of the most significant news for the upcoming baseball offseason. Dave Dombrowski, the general manager of the Detroit Tigers since 2002, was fired from his post, becoming perhaps the most valuable free agent in baseball. I say perhaps because valuing front-office employees is difficult. Their Baseball-Reference.com pages are filled with transactions, not stats, and a team’s record is…

Walks in baseball are way down. Way, WAY down. Through August, Major League Baseball saw an average of 2.8 walks per game. If the season were to end there, that would be the lowest level since the 1920s. Similarly, a lot of the stats show that pitching is dominant over hitting. Strikeouts are up, batting average is down, among other key statistics. What’s going on here? Could the decline in…

SOUTH BEND — Peter Yarbro has witnessed a whole bunch of baseball in South Bend. In fact, he’s seen more than most the past 12 seasons — from the routine to the bizarre. …

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — With his seventh straight season without a major title officially in the books, Tiger Woods was asked about his future plans.  “I’m going to go home and watch the leaders tee off and play,”  said Woods on an idyllic summer Saturday morning, his private jet presumably already idling in a nearby airfield. “Probably in Florida. Actually I’ll go to my sports bar, how about that?” Woods grinned a…

FOOTBALL GOSSIP Scott Allan says he’s “delighted” to have signed a four-year deal at Celtic after leaving Hibernian. (Daily Express)  Rangers will seek a third loan signing after missing out on signing Scott Allan. Rangers have already brought in Tottenham Hotspur duo Nathan Oduwa and Dominic Ball this week. (Daily Record)  But Warburton insists he is “not disappointed” at not…

PGA SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) The second round of the PGA Championship offered a little bit of everything Friday. Except a conclusion. On one side of the golf course, Jordan Spieth was piling up enough birdies to momentarily tie for the lead at Whistling Straits. On the other side with far less attention, Hiroshi Iwata ran off five birdies and an eagle and tied the major championship record with a 63….

Lost in the manic hustle of the trade deadline’s aftermath was some of the most significant news for the upcoming baseball offseason. Dave Dombrowski, the general manager of the Detroit Tigers since 2002, was fired from his post, becoming perhaps the most valuable free agent in baseball. I say perhaps because valuing front-office employees is difficult. Their Baseball-Reference.com pages are filled with transactions, not stats, and a team’s record is…

Friday, August 14, 2015 News 12 at 6 O’Clock NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW)– Disappointed by the actions of those that they trust with their children. “I’m just disappointed in the actions of the educators,” said Melissa Jarrard, mother of Noah a student at Fox Creek High School, who will…

Residents who use local sports centres run by not-for-profit organisations also said they had not noticed prices falling. Organisations refusing to cut fees were “pulling the same stunt as the airport shops”, they alleged. Stores in Heathrow, Gatwick and other British airports typically ask for boarding passes so they can claim a 20 per cent VAT discount if the customer is flying outside the EU. But many charge the same…

PGA SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) The second round of the PGA Championship offered a little bit of everything Friday. Except a conclusion. On one side of the golf course, Jordan Spieth was piling up enough birdies to momentarily tie for the lead at Whistling Straits. On the other side with far less attention, Hiroshi Iwata ran off five birdies and an eagle and tied the major championship record with a 63….

Following Sprint Cup Series qualifying Friday afternoon at Michigan International Speedway, NASCAR officials told drivers, crew chiefs, engineers, owners and manufacturers that the 2015 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup will be run with the same rules package teams began the season with. Recently, NASCAR has used three different rules packages, including the original 2015 package; a low-downforce aerodynamic package used at Kentucky Speedway and scheduled for Darlington Raceway on…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are in dispute with Barcelona over the £21.3m buyout clause in 28-year-old forward Pedro’s contract at the Nou Camp. (Daily Mail)  West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino, 22, is wanted by Tottenham Hotspur, who are ready to pay £15m after offloading Roberto Soldado to Villarreal. …

Not sure where it started, but it might have been at the National Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 1987. Ford C. Frick Award winner Jack Buck got up and waxed eloquently about his town: “I don’t want to be belligerent about it,” Buck said. “But I kind of think, Mr. (George) Steinbrenner and others, that St. Louis is not only the heartland of America, but the best baseball…

Modern baseball statistics are much like restless leg syndrome, like gluten or sleep numbers. You know, crap someone made up for no good reason. In fact, I think CRAP is one of the new baseball stats. It stands for Creepy Ratios And Percentages. Or maybe not. One of my favorites is LIPS (Late Inning Pressure Situations) though it was much more fun when it belonged to Morganna, the Kissing Bandit….

Lost in the manic hustle of the trade deadline’s aftermath was some of the most significant news for the upcoming baseball offseason. Dave Dombrowski, the general manager of the Detroit Tigers since 2002, was fired from his post, becoming perhaps the most valuable free agent in baseball. I say perhaps because valuing front-office employees is difficult. Their Baseball-Reference.com pages are filled with transactions, not stats, and a team’s record is…

By the time the Blue Jays and Tigers finished their whirlwind nine-hour trade discussion that sent ace left-hander David Price a couple hundred miles, from Detroit to Toronto, it was quite clear the Blue Jays had completed one of the great double plays in trade-deadline history. And it hasn’t taken too much longer than that to fully understand the magnitude those two bold moves — Price plus franchise shortstop Troy…

Ed Feng, a sports data expert who runs The Power Rank subscription service, cited a classic baseball movie to explain the phenomenon. “In Moneyball, we learned about on-base percentage as the most important stat. A hitter should get on base, even if it means taking a walk,” Feng said. “The converse for pitching is that you shouldn’t walk guys. That just beefs up their OBP [on-base percentage],”…

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