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The summer is in full swing, and many parents are looking for fun and exciting experiences to keep their kids engaged and entertained! Rollercoasters, amusement parks, water slides, and local festivals are the tried-and-true summer entertainment venues. And of course, let’s not forget there’s no shortage of Major League Baseball games to attend in the Midwest! Let me introduce you to the shining diamond of South Bend Indiana: Four Winds…

It definitely ain’t over ‘til it’s over. The 116-win 2001 Seattle Mariners were one of the greatest teams, in any sport, to not win a championship. Led by Lou Piniella, the team was built for success: they boasted great pitching, an impeccable knack for getting on base (their .360 OBP was the highest in the majors), a historically good defense, and absolutely dominated the American League. Yet on Aug. 5,…

Dave Dombrowski has a .468 winning percentage as a general manager. Basically, every team he’s put together has gone 76-86, adrift and out of contention, on average. Heck, even Ruben Amaro, Jr. has a career .510 winning percentage. And we’re supposed to believe that teams are so excited about Dombrowski that there’s a bidding war for his services? That there’s even a MYSTERY CLUB? Seems unlikely. Unless there’s more…

Rowers practice for the 2015 World Rowing Junior Championships on Rodrigo de Freitas lake in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.(Photo: Silvia Izquierdo, AP) KAZAN, Russia (AP) — Water quality at next year’s Olympic venues is “not a big problem”, according to the head of swimming’s governing body. An Associated Press investigation last week showed a serious health risk to the 1,400 Olympic athletes who will compete at water venues around Rio…

By James Raia Published 3 hours ago BMC team doctor Eric Heiden (center) was on hand to witness Taylor Phinney’s return to cycling at Tour of Utah, along with Phinney’s father, Davis, and mother, Connie Carpenter-Phinney. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com Eric Heiden is now nearly 30 years removed by his pro cycling career. But the longtime physician for BMC Racing was preparing for another stage of…

These undated photos released by the Inglewood Police Department show missing Special Olympics athlete Abidjan Ouattara, originally from the Ivory Coast. Ouattara vanished near Los Angeles on Monday. (Inglewood Police Department via AP) A second member of the Special Olympics team from the Ivory Coast was reported missing Tuesday, hours after his teammate was found safe. Inglewood police said golfer Abidjan Ouattara, 24, was last seen leaving the Adventurer Hotel,…

This is so sad. A nine-year-old baseball lover, Kaiser Carlile, was working as a bat boy for his local baseball team in Kansas when the worst kind of tragedy struck this past weekend. [ Related: Bobbi Kristina’s Funeral Was A Sad, Meaningful Event ] Kaiser was running to get a bat between pitches for his beloved Liberal Bee Jays when the next batter coming to the plate didn’t see him,…

Nelson Cruz ($6,200) @ Rockies There was nowhere else to start other than this gem from the Elias Sports Bureau on just how rare Nelson Cruz’s season has been: HR in 5 straight games 2x in season via ELIAS Harmon Killebrew (1970) Frank Thomas (1994) Barry Bonds (2001) Chase Utley (2008) Nelson Cruz — ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) August 5, 2015 Cruz is on a tear!…

WICHITA, Kan. – The word tragedy means an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress. There is no better word, sentence or phrase to sum up what happened to Kaiser Carlile. Chances are you have heard his story by now. Kaiser was the bat boy for the collegiate summer-league Liberal Bee Jays baseball team. As the Bee Jays were playing their opening game of the Championship Week of the National…

The last time Adam Niemeyer and five other Ohio State teammates saw Zach Farmer, the talk did not center on hospitals, leukemia, hair loss and chemotherapy treatments. It was a group of young men talking baseball, watching baseball and having that good-to-be-alive feeling on a Sunday afternoon in the living room of the Farmer’s home in Piketon, Ohio. “It was just a normal day,’’ said Niemeyer, a redshirt sophomore to…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal forced Paris St-Germain to pay an extra £3m for forward Angel Di Maria after the 27-year-old posted a picture of himself with the French club’s owner in Qatar. (Daily Mirror)  United are on the verge of completing a £20m deal for Barcelona…

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Lord Coe has defended the IAAF’s drug-testing system and said it was time to “come out fighting” to protect the reputation of the sport. In an interview with the Associated Press, Coe commented on reports alleging the IAAF had failed to act on suspicious blood tests involving hundreds of athletes over a 10-year period. Related: IAAF denies turning blind eye to suspicious blood tests “It is a declaration of war…

The DeKalb County Commission voted 4-3 Tuesday to approve an incentive package for Atlanta United FC to build a $30 million soccer complex along I-285 near Memorial Drive. Atlanta United will construct a 3,500-seat stadium, three practice fields and a two-story team headquarters behind the DeKalb Jail, according to a Memorandum of Understanding. An indoor training facility and additional fields may be built later. Under the deal, DeKalb will spend…

Sport funding is facing a major overhaul in a bid to reverse recent disappointing participation figures. Amid increasing concerns that Britain is failing to live up to the legacy promise of the London 2012 Olympics, a public consultation has been launched to mark the start of a new strategy for sport. And the government has warned that the mounting cost of success for Britain’s Olympic and…

On Tuesday, Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) announced a $600 million deal with the National Hockey League (NHL), which will give the baseball group the rights to hockey’s out-of-market TV broadcasting and Internet streaming. According to Variety, Major League Baseball’s tech branch will pay $100 million per year to the NHL for six years for the rights to distribute the NHL’s out-of-market games in US markets and in some…

E:60 correspondent Bob Woodruff stands behind Chris Singleton at the memorial to the Charleston shooting victims. | E:60 Among the nine victims of the devastating shooting at a Charleston church in June was Sharonda Coleman-Singleton. Coleman-Singleton, 45, was a pastor at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and the mother of Chris Singleton, a baseball player at Charleston Southern University. Singleton is the focus of ESPN’s latest episode of “E:60,” airing Tuesday, Aug. 4….

It took a mere two months of summer baseball with the Liberal Bee Jays for 9-year-old Kaiser Carlile to wiggle his way deep into the hearts of the players and coaching staff. Maybe it was Kaiser’s constant smile despite the heat or a difficult game. Maybe it was his endless energy as he hopped over and under players on the team bus during road trips. “Kaiser will always hold a…

The Detroit Tigers made both a stunning and historic move Tuesday. They let go of longtime general manager Dave Dombrowski, architect of the Marlins’ 1997 World Series champion and two pennant winners in Detroit, and named South Florida native Al Avila his replacement, making the 57-year-old Hialeah High graduate the first Cuban-born general manager in baseball history. Avila was Dombrowski’s top assistant. Marlins president of baseball operations Mike Hill was…

It took a mere two months of summer baseball with the Liberal Bee Jays for 9-year-old Kaiser Carlile to wiggle his way deep into the hearts of the players and coaching staff. Maybe it was Kaiser’s constant smile despite the heat or a difficult game. Maybe it was his endless energy as he hopped over and under players on the team bus during road trips. “Kaiser will always hold a…