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Players on a Kansas baseball team are mourning the tragic death of Kaiser Carlile, their 9-year-old bat boy, who died after he was accidentally struck by a bat during a game. “Kaiser will always hold a special place in my heart,” Brady Cox, one of the players with the Liberal Bee Jays summer team in Liberal, Kansas, said through tears at a news conference today. Cox recalled a day he…

Former college football television analyst Craig James on Monday filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against Fox Sports that contends he was fired because he had expressed opposition to gay marriage during a failed run for the U.S. Senate. The former running back for Southern Methodist University and the New England Patriots is seeking at least $100,000 in damages. Fox hired him in August 2013 — months after he lost the…

The increasing cost of funding success for Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes is “at odds with the current financial climate”, the Government has warned. Sports minister Tracey Crouch has launched a public consultation on sport in the UK which will be fed into the Government’s spending review – expected this autumn – and which is likely to lead to wide-ranging public sector cuts. The new strategy will take a close…

Every day, I work with corporate leaders who understand the power of business platforms to make a difference. Regardless of the specific professional missions of their companies, these executives recognize that there’s a natural social mission they can tap into that will transform their place in the world, greatly impacting their communities, employees and bottom lines. The companies that fully embrace this higher purpose open themselves up to an exciting…

NBA League Pass is offering in addition to the standard $199.99 full-season package for all out-of-market games. The NBA is also offering a $119.99 pass to watch all of an individual team’s games and a $6.99 single-game purchase option.(Photo: NBA) Sports continues to be one of the biggest barriers to those looking to sever or trim their pay-TV cord. That’s because we are still a long way from true die-hards being able to go…

The commercials for Boston-based DraftKings pitched a dream of winning big money and beautiful women by playing fantasy sports. But it wasn’t the bikini models in the commercials that enticed James Gardner, a 40-year-old custodian and father of four from Brockton. He responded to the lure of free money. Continue reading below That tantalizing offer in a DraftKings digital promotion, Gardner alleges, proved to be fraught with deception. Now he…

A teenage Special Olympics athlete vanished from Los Angeles International Airport early Monday, just hours after another missing competitor turned up safe 350 miles away in Northern California. Shion Isimel, 15, of the Ivory Coast, was last seen at 6:30 a.m. Monday at a Delta Air Lines ticket counter, airport police spokesman Rob Pedregon said. A security camera photo showed the French-speaking teen, who competed in table tennis, wearing a…

NASCAR announced today that the annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards — and all of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion’s Week –€“ will return to Las Vegas in 2015 as part of a renewed partnership with the destination. The agreement ensures that Las Vegas will continue hosting the week-long celebration, offering fans and industry members a chance to see the sport’s stars and congratulate the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series…

It was no surprise that the 1936 Summer Olympics were going to be complicated. The wrangling had begun months before the games, as the U.S. considered whether to pull out of the games over the suspicion that Jewish athletes were not being allowed to compete for spots on teams for the host nation, Germany. By the time Hitler and the German team opened the games that August, TIME noted that…

Lacking no shortage of peculiar moments or drama, a little bit of everything transpired during Sunday’s NASCAR race at Pocono Raceway. On a track where cautions are usually a rarity, the proceedings saw four yellow flags within the opening 30 laps, which took an hour to complete. Included was a 20-minute delay allowing track workers to repair damage to pit a road wall after Kasey Kahne was involved in…

Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Angela Ruggiero, left, with her brother Bill Ruggiero, speaks on Jan. 26, 2005, during a news conference in Tulsa, Okla. Angela Ruggiero, the defenceman for the U.S. Women’s hockey team and Bill Ruggiero, who is a goaltender, became the first brother and sister to play in a professional hockey game together when their Tulsa Oilers hosedt the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees…

i Kaiser Carlile, 9, the bat boy for a summer-league team in Kansas, died Sunday after being injured in a game Saturday. Liberal Bee Jays hide caption itoggle caption Liberal Bee Jays Kaiser Carlile, 9, the bat boy for a summer-league team in Kansas, died Sunday after being injured in a game Saturday. Liberal Bee Jays In a tragic accident that has left a Kansas community in mourning, a bat…

The sparkling new video board flashes a message that warns fans to be alert for objects flying into the stands. Screaming foul balls and helicoptering shards of bats, specifically. While fans have their attention diverted from the field to read that message, a screaming foul ball or helicoptering shard of a bat could be flying into the stands. Then the sparkling new message board has something else demanding fans’ attention…

It seems that my time is up. As a Hall of Fame voter, that is. Hall officials, who have ultimate authority over the selection rules, announced last week that anyone who has not covered the game actively for the last 10 years no longer would be eligible to vote. The Hall made this change after consulting the Baseball Writers of America, according to Jack O’Connell, secretary/treasurer of the BBWAA, whose…

Sam Kennedy: Red Sox’s ‘Baseball Experts’ To Handle Player Evaluations Sam Kennedy has been tabbed as the next Red Sox president, causing many to wonder how Larry Lucchino’s successor will handle the job and what role he’ll play in Boston’s roster construction. Kennedy obviously will have a lot on his plate, but he plans to leave the organization’s on-field baseball evaluations in the hands of those who know the game…

The Mets were a laughingstock just a week ago. Now they’re tied for the division lead. (Kathy Willens/Associated Press) The trade deadline has passed. August is here. Eleven American League teams are either in a playoff spot or within 3-1/2 games. Man, we learned a lot this week. 1. Mets: From laughingstock to division leader in a week. How to capture this stretch in Flushing? Wilmer Flores was crying, then…

It’s hard to get people to pay to use websites. It’s easier, for now, to get them to pay for TV. So here’s a compromise that could work: CBS is launching a new sports site, and hopes people will pay $10 a month to use it. You can visit CBS’s new SportsLine for free, but the network thinks you’ll want to pay up for full access to the site and its…

Sky Sports News are using Football Manager to rate players. Football is done. — Gaz Phiz (@blueboi1987) August 3, 2015 Feel like a proud mum seeing sky sports news using football manager as a way of looking at how good players are — jack (@JackHowell97) August 3, 2015 Sky Sports News actually using Football Manager stats to talk about new signings, it either shows how reliable FM is or how…

It wasn’t exactly “The Shot Heard ’Round the World,” but it sure made it to Chicago in a hurry. After Wilmer Flores’s soap-operatic home run ended Friday’s Nationals-Mets game, even Michael Kay and Paul O’Neill, working the Yankees-White Sox game on YES, couldn’t resist recapping and marveling at “Wilmer’s Excellent, Tear-Filled Four-Day Adventure.” Just when it seems time to swear off sports as a business predicated on doing one-way bad business,…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has dismissed reports linking Real Madrid’s 27-year-old striker Karim Benzema with a move to the club. (Evening Standard)  However, according to (AS),  Wenger has set aside £45.6m to bring the France international to London. The Gunners have beaten Manchester United to…