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0 Shares Print When I was a kid, I talked a lot. Like, a lot. During the summers I would spend a good bit of time at my grandparents’ house, and looking back, I drove them crazy with all my yammering and the racket coming from video games and other noisy toys. Sometimes I’d be going on and on and then I’d ask a question and get no answer, only…

It was intended as a playfully snarky jab about the TMZ-esque transcendence of the most potentially transformative personality that NASCAR has. When Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Amy Reimann announced their engagement as dawn broke Wednesday – ensuring a full day of nonstop chatter about a sport desperately fighting for a larger slice of water-cooler relevance in the crowded American cultural and sports landscape – Yahoo Sports! writer Nick Bromberg cracked…

FOX Sports continues its inaugural golf coverage Friday with the second round of the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay. The first day, with a scoreboard meltdown and fans complaining on social media about the lack of basic scoring graphics when each golfer was shown on the screen, didn’t go so well for the network. Plus, a lot of sports fans — especially golf fans — don’t know where to…

All Tiger Woods could do, at the end of another awful round of golf in a season full of them — this time in the opening round of the U.S. Open chamber of horrors at Chambers Bay — was engage in a bit of gallows humor. “At least I kicked Rickie’s butt,” quipped the 14-time major champion, who won his last grand slam event seven years ago at the…

Real Madrid’s Sergio Rodriguez, considered the top point guard in Europe, has plans to negotiate a return to the NBA in summer free agency, league sources told Yahoo Sports. View photo . Real Madrid’s Sergio Rodriguez, right, is considered the top point guard in Europe. (AP) Front-office executives regard Rodriguez as an elite backup point guard in the NBA, a playmaker at 6-foot-3 who could successfully run a good team…

We’re required to remind you that these strong takes are SATIRE. Sorry, not sorry. All spelling errors are intentional, we think. -Ed. Attention all sports writers. You might not like what I have to say, but I will defend to the death my right to say it: Stick. To.Sports. As a sports writer, I’m going to go off on a little tangent here. Because I’m sick…

It’s easy to be a great sports dad. Unfortunately, it’s just as easy to become a terrible one. With Father’s Day approaching FTW lists 11 ways to become the former and avoid being the latter. 1. Your child is not getting a college scholarship. (AP) Go in with that mentality, please. If he or she happens to be good enough to get one, fantastic. But don’t think of your chid’s…

Rich Lam—Getty Images Megan Rapinoe #15 of the United States and Ngozi Okobi #13 of Nigeria during the Group D match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 in Vancouver on June 16, 2015. Zocalo Public Square is a not-for-profit Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism. The World Cup shouldn’t be the only time my son roots for female sports stars He sat on the edge…

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay—In 1996, Nicolás Leoz, then president of the South American Soccer Confederation, wrote to a Paraguayan senator with an unusual request: Grant the confederation immunity from prosecution. In exchange, Mr. Leoz said, the federation would base itself permanently in this poor, landlocked country. Paraguay’s congress passed legislation giving the confederation, known as Conmebol, an untouchable status in this…

The Rev. Sharonda Singleton was a celebrated track and field coach for Goose Creek High School and revered as a “positive light” to all who knew her, according to the South Carolina High School League. She had three children. Her oldest child, Chris Singleton, is a baseball player at Charleston Southern University. On Wednesday night Singleton tweeted, “Something extremely terrible has happened to my mom tonight, please pray for her…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

A fascinating new era in television golf coverage began Thursday when Fox Sports broadcast the first day of the US Open Championship, the first significant golf event the network has carried. Whether it’s a fulfilling new era for viewers remains to be seen and heard, but the 38 hours of coverage Fox and Fox Sports 1 are dedicating through Sunday’s final round at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place,…

There are some really nice pitching options available on Friday for DraftKings players. It starts with Chris Sale, the long and lanky ace for the Chicago White Sox. He’s been on a tear of late, and he’s averaging 40.2 fantasy points per game in his last four starts.  That’s a heck of a haul from one pitcher spot for a DK lineup. “Randy Johnson was my man,” Sale told Bob…

OMAHA, Neb. — TCU has been riding the “Energy Train” all postseason, and the locomotive showed no signs of letting Thursday’s CWS elimination game against LSU be its last stop. The Horned Frogs beat the Tigers for the second time this week, this time by an 8-4 score to advance to a Friday matchup with Vanderbilt. “We have this thing we started in the regional called…

Fox Sports coordinating producer Mark Loomis vowed ahead of the U.S. Open to not overdo the technical graphics and gadgetry at his disposal. And Loomis delivered on that Thursday, sometimes to a fault, as the network launched coverage of its first major golf tournament in a 12-year, $1.2 billion partnership with the United States Golf Association. Within hours of Fox Sports 1 opening to broadcasters Joe Buck and…

New Yorker sportswriter John Tunis made a compelling argument in his 1928 book $port$: Heroics and Hysterics that America’s sporting institutions were powered by something he called The Great Sports Myth. As Tunis conceives the myth, we see superstar athletes, the Babe Ruths and Jack Dempseys of the sports world, as “cleansed (and so sanctified) in the great white heat of competition,” and that young Americans, through participation in organized…

Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene doesn’t do uncool as a rule, but even he could not avoid looking a little foolish after ambling into the path of an oncoming Formula 1 car during first practice in Austria. The silver-haired Italian obviously had other things on his mind – the car of Sebastian Vettel was in pieces…

Rich Lam—Getty Images Megan Rapinoe #15 of the United States and Ngozi Okobi #13 of Nigeria during the Group D match of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 in Vancouver on June 16, 2015. Zocalo Public Square is a not-for-profit Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism. The World Cup shouldn’t be the only time my son roots for female sports stars He sat on the edge…

OMAHA, Neb. — TCU has been riding the “Energy Train” all postseason, and the locomotive showed no signs of letting Thursday’s CWS elimination game against LSU be its last stop. The Horned Frogs beat the Tigers for the second time this week, this time by an 8-4 score to advance to a Friday matchup with Vanderbilt. “We have this thing we started in the regional called…

Jasper High School’s Scott Kluesner (center) is congratulated by teammates June 27, 1998, after hitting a first-inning, two-run home run to start a four-run inning for Jasper against Westfield in the Class 3A Indiana High School Athletic Association state baseball finals in Indianapolis. Jasper won the title, 11-2.(Photo: Chuck Robinson / AP) When Ray Howard arrived in Jasper in 1976, he was a stranger in a strange land. “A complete…