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WASHINGTON — Rep. Cedric Richmond overcame shoulder surgery and tossed a seven-inning complete game, leading the Democrats to 5-2 victory over the Republicans in the 54th Annual Congressional Baseball Game. Heading into Thursday night’s contest at Nationals Park, the political foes had an even record against each other, dating back nearly 100 years. The victory Thursday gives the Democrats the overall edge, and perhaps more importantly, seven consecutive wins. “Whether I…

This game had everything. Tight pitching. Some slick fielding. Occasional hitting. Rowdy and partisan fans. And even a surprise visit by President Obama that seemed to help squelch a Republican rally. By the end of the annual Congressional Baseball Game for charity Thursday night at Nationals Park in Washington, the outcome still proved to be an all-too familiar one. Six straight defeats for Republicans turned to seven straight losses—a drought…

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facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest Editor’s note: Play one-day fantasy baseball for cash! FanDuel is hosting a $200,000 league for tonight’s MLB games, and first place wins $20,000. Starts at 7:05 p.m. ET. Enter now! Welcome to the free DFS MLB Playbook for Friday, June 12, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Every day, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com, who just won the 2015 FanDuel Playboy Championship, will publish their top daily fantasy baseball plays at…

Tug of war wants to return to the Olympics for the first time in 100 years, while football hopes to debut in the Olympics in 2020. A total of 26 sports applied for inclusion in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, organizers said Friday. Finalist sports are scheduled to be announced June 22 and will make presentations in Tokyo in early August. Tokyo 2020 organizers are expected to recommend which sports to…

At a certain point you wonder if Joe Hockey has been planted in the government by the ALP. Within 12 months the treasurer has told everyone that “the poorest people either don’t have cars or actually don’t drive very far in many cases”, and that half the people in “higher-income households pay half their income in tax”. And now he has informed us that “if housing were unaffordable in Sydney,…

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Team owner Jack Roush questions the consistency of NASCAR’s laser platform, raising issues with an inspection process noteworthy for the numerous warnings issued teams this season. Cars must go through NASCAR’s laser platform for inspection at the start of the weekend, before qualifying and before the race. The laser platform logs measurements of various parts, including front and rear wheel camber, wheel base and rear axle location. The laser platform…

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is a fan of the U.S. women’s national team. But he’s not a fan of how U.S. Soccer has handled Hope Solo’s domestic violence charges. Blumenthal sent a letter to U.S. Soccer president Suni Gulati to criticize the federation’s “failure to take adequate action to investigate” allegations of a June 2014 domestic violence incident involving Solo and her half-sister and nephew. Citing ESPN’s “Outside the…

Reed Bergman of Playbook, Inc, likes to tell a story about a famous sports broadcaster, when after leaving work one afternoon, was asked a College Basketball tournament question on Twitter about the Big 10 conference. The broadcaster, multi-tasking as usual, quickly responded, “I think the 10 teams will do… ”. Within seconds, his whole career was called into question given that he appeared not to know that there are 12…

Team owner Jack Roush questions the consistency of NASCAR’s laser platform, raising issues with an inspection process noteworthy for the numerous warnings issued teams this season. Cars must go through NASCAR’s laser platform for inspection at the start of the weekend, before qualifying and before the race. The laser platform logs measurements of various parts, including front and rear wheel camber, wheel base and rear axle location. The laser platform…

FORT WORTH, Texas — There is one season TCU senior shortstop Keaton Jones has tried his best to forget. It was 2013, when the Horned Frogs didn’t even make the NCAA tournament in their Big 12 Conference debut. “That was a bad season,” Jones said. “At that point, we were still just very young and inexperienced.” Now with as many as six seniors on…

Forget the peanuts and Cracker Jack. President Barack Obama apparently held out hope that complimentary White House beer would help a House vote on a major trade bill go down as smoothly as an ice cold one. Not known to particularly enjoy hobnobbing with anyone, let alone members of Congress, Obama nonetheless made a last-minute call Thursday night and headed to Nationals Park to spend some time schmoozing with lawmakers…

The 63rd annual Oregon Sports Awards will be handed out Thursday at the Stanford Theater at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton. The show starts at 8 p.m. Watch here as all of the 2015 winners are announced:  

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Gayle Anderson was live in Long Beach with a preview of the this weekend’s 2015 SPECIAL OLYMPICS SUMMER GAMES, Saturday, June 13th through Sunday, June 14th at California State University, Long Beach and Recreation Park Golf Course. Summer Games attracts more than 1,100 athletes from across Southern California who will compete for gold, silver, and bronze medals and ribbons. The games feature our six summer sports — aquatics, athletics (track…

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Another Sprint Cup Series race weekend, another plethora of warnings for issues in inspection. NASCAR confirmed to FOXSports.com late Wednesday that the teams of Jimmie Johnson, Danica Patrick, Sam Hornish Jr. and David Gilliland each received a written warning from NASCAR for issues in inspection last weekend at Pocono Raceway. In the case of Patrick and Gilliland, their cars had trouble passing pre-qualifying inspection — resulting in the warnings, respectively,…

AP Images These are good times for US national soccer teams of all genders and ages. 1. The US women’s team is on top of Group D (the Group of Death!) in the Women’s World Cup after a 3-1 win over Australia. The USWNT is still one of the tournament’s two big favorites. 2. The US men’s team just beat Germany (the reigning World Cup champions and No….

(Getty) Carmelo Anthony is the proud new owner of Puerto Rico FC, an expansion team in NASL that will begin play in 2016. This is Anthony speaking about soccer in ESPN FC: My passion for soccer has always been there. I just always kept it to myself and among my circle. Going to games, sneaking into games and just watching and being around the sport over the years. The more…