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Barcelona will “fight” to stop the best players joining the Premier League, says the club’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu. The new £5.1bn television deal will give English clubs huge financial power from the 2016-17 season. But European champions Barcelona feel they can combat the threat. “We are going to fight against the Premier League. We want to have the best players in…

By JENNA FRYER, AP Auto Racing Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A new rules package for Indianapolis Motor Speedway provided visibility issues for drivers. More troubling for NASCAR, though, is that after nearly five hours of practice Friday, there was little indication the changes will produce better racing. NASCAR, in its effort to improve the on-track product, is using four track-specific aerodynamic packages to see what could be a better fit…

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With my father’s recent passing and this weekend’s Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony I was reminded of one of the greatest sports experiences I ever had. About five years ago I took my dad and father-in-law to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. As the Author of The 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live and being in the business of creating hospitality experiences around major sporting events…

BASE parachuters jump from the 1,381 foot high Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, China, in 2004.(Photo: EUGENE HOSHIKO, AP) Standing atop peaks around the world preparing to jump hundreds of feet down, Ian Flanders brought a calming presence with him. For Donald Schultz, that was a good thing. BASE jumpers usually fall into two groups — hyper excited or hyper focused — and Flanders’ ability to be the latter was an…

Journalistic language can be hackneyed. Sportswriters are particular malefactors. The collective lexicon requires periodic pruning. Here are nine words and concepts the Instant Historian recommends we excise.  Historic: Historic implies grand magnitude, something that alters the course of human events. Historic in sports journalism has come to mean anything important. Historic could even mean something trifling, if it’s the first instance. This word has been distorted and deadened by overuse. Sports are trivial. They reflect…

It’s probably never a good idea to anger a baseball slugger who goes by the nickname Joey Bats, as Colin Cowherd, the ESPN radio host, might have just learned. On his show Thursday, Cowherd took a trip down tangent boulevard while talking about the Miami Marlins and ended up proclaiming that baseball can’t be “too complex” since it’s played by so many Dominicans. Oof. [Play a Daily Fantasy contest for…

Buy Photo Brandon Williams, a junior, stretches with the rest of the Monroe High School football team before a scrimmage at East High School on Thursday.(Photo: LAUREN PETRACCA/@LaurenPetracca/ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)Buy Photo Walking between the lines of young football players, coach Jason Muhammad shouted commands mixed with encouragement, at times carrying on a one-sided conversation, punctuated by clapping. “Got a little crowd out here. All right, all right. Sunshine!” he…

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With my father’s recent passing and this weekend’s Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony I was reminded of one of the greatest sports experiences I ever had. About five years ago I took my dad and father-in-law to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. As the Author of The 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live and being in the business of creating hospitality experiences around major sporting events…

BASE parachuters jump from the 1,381 foot high Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, China, in 2004.(Photo: EUGENE HOSHIKO, AP) Standing atop peaks around the world preparing to jump hundreds of feet down, Ian Flanders brought a calming presence with him. For Donald Schultz, that was a good thing. BASE jumpers usually fall into two groups — hyper excited or hyper focused — and Flanders’ ability to be the latter was an…

Colin Cowherd, a person paid tremendous amounts of money to discuss his opinions on professional sports, said on Thursday that he doesn’t believe baseball to be a complex sport. Then, to add insult to insanity, he cited as evidence the fact that Major League Baseball includes many Dominican-born ballplayers. For real. Here’s the quote: “It’s too complex? I’ve never bought into that ‘baseball is too complex.’ Really? A third of…

After an almost unprecedented lull in trading action, two trades of some significance finally were completed Thursday. The Astros became the first to land a viable starting pitcher when they brought Scott Kazmir back home to his native Houston, and the Pirates filled a gaping hole on the left side of the infield created by a couple tough injuries when they imported ex-Pirate Aramis Ramirez, who began his career in…

0 Shares Print TORONTO — After pitching a shutout in the Little League World Series last summer, 13-year-old Mo’ne Davis made the cover of Sports Illustrated, threw out the first pitch at a World Series game and was the focus of a Spike Lee short documentary for Chevrolet. Earlier this summer, French 16-year-old shortstop Melissa Mayeux became the subject of widespread media coverage when she was added to baseball’s international…

Start with the player who was traded. Scott Kazmir has been a lot of things — prospect, disappointment, All-Star, lottery ticket — but he was mostly remembered as what could have been. Take a second there to consider the verb. He was remembered. He was a what-happened-to article that people were writing ahead of time for a slow day. He was broken at 25 and out of affiliated baseball at…

Just a few months before joining the U.S. women’s national baseball team in the summer of 2010, Jenna Marston didn’t even know the program existed. “That’s really sad because I consider myself a sports fan and more importantly a huge baseball fan,’’ said Marston, a Principia High and University of Missouri product currently competing in the Pan Am Games in Toronto. “Even here, when we tell people we play baseball,…

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WRGB (CBS-6) announced this morning the creation of a half-hour weeknight live local sports program, which will air on sister station WCWN (CW-45) beginning Aug. 31. “Upstate Sports Edge” will air Monday through Friday at 10:30 p.m. WRGB Assistant sports director Kelly O’Donnell will be the host. Sports director Doug Sherman will serve as c0-host while continuing his duties as the 6, 6:30 and 11 p.m. anchor of the WRGB…

WWE announced Friday that it has terminated its contract with Hall of Fame wrestler Hulk Hogan. “WWE terminated its contract with Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan),” the statement reads. “WWE is committed to embracing and celebrating individuals from all backgrounds as demonstrated by the diversity of our employees, performers and fans worldwide.” Specific details about Hogan’s termination were not provided, but on Friday morning, Hogan acknowledged it was related to…

1. Cyril Gautier, 20 pts 2. Pierre Rolland, 17 pts 3. Michael Rogers, 15 pts 4. Dylan Van Baarle, 13 pts 5. Nicolas Edet, 11 pts 6. Stef Clement, 10 pts 7. Tony Gallopin, 9 pts 8. Joaquim Rodriguez, 8 pts 9. Alberto Losada, 7 pts 10. Romain Bardet, 6 pts 11. Romain Sicard, 5 pts 12. Stephen Cummings, 4 pts 13. Adriano Malori, 3 pts 14. Ruben Plaza, 2…