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Asked during last Sunday’s post-race winner’s press conference to comment on the new Sprint Cup Series drivers council, the normally super-polite Jimmie Johnson quickly turned atypically testy. “I missed that memo,” the six-time champion said following his win at Dover International Speedway. “I wasn’t there. … I don’t think I was invited to that meeting. I haven’t won enough races or championships.” Seemingly irritated by word of his exclusion from…

It’s D-Day, in more ways than one. It’s the LSU Fighting Tigers and the UL-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns in the NCAA tournament’s Baton Rouge super regional. It’s meaningful. It’s personal. It’s may be borderline delusional, given the passion that runs like hot sauce over…

The action is complete at Toms River, but our crew is still hard at work.  Keep checking back or REFRESH OFTEN for additional links into this evening and even into Sunday. Congrats to the champions and to all of N.J. baseball for a great season. 2015 NJSIAA STATE BASEBALL FINALSFULL COVERAGE: NON-PUBLIC A FINAL: No. 18 Christian Brothers 7, No. 1 Don Bosco Prep 0• CBA pulls the upset, hands…

After a brief warm-up act Friday, the 2015 College Baseball Super Regionals kicked into full gear Saturday, with all 16 teams in action around the country. Four teams had a chance to clinch their best-of-three series, while 12 others were fighting to take a series lead or stay alive for at least one more day.  There were running themes in the four games Friday, with pitching controlling things for…

(Reuters) – A woman who was struck in the head by a shattered baseball bat at a Red Sox game in Boston’s Fenway Park on Friday evening was in serious condition on Saturday, a local hospital said. Tonya Carpenter was sitting in the second row of Boston’s home game when the broken bat flew into the stands during the second inning and hit her. Photographs posted on local media showed…

The Latest from the Champions League final: ——— 8:01 p.m. No surprises from either Massimiliano Allegri or Luis Enrique. The Juventus and Barcelona coaches are sticking with the winning formulas that got their teams to the Champions League final. Barcelona is unchanged from the side that lost 3-2 loss at Bayern Munich in the semifinal, second leg, but which still advanced 5-3 on aggregate to the final. 2010 World Cup…

facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest The NCAA Baseball Tournament resumed Friday with the start of the Super Regionals. The round of 16 continues Saturday with eight games, and at least four games are scheduled for Sunday, although there could be more depending on Saturday’s results in the best-of-three series.  Arkansas, which won the Stillwater Regional, took on Springfield Regional champion Missouri State on Friday. Maryland and Virginia, who won their respective…

Baseball is, by its nature and repute, a sport of civility. Decorum is strictly enforced through unwritten rules, celebrations during the game are generally frowned upon and you’re supposed to tip your hat to the nice people when they cheer for you. There will be nothing civil about Louisiana-Lafayette vs. LSU in Baton Rouge on Saturday night. The two schools, separated by 58 miles of swampland and decades of…

BOSTON — A fan whose head was bloodied by a broken bat that flew into the stands at Fenway Park was in the hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. The game between the Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox was halted in the middle of the second inning Friday as emergency crews tended to the woman and wheeled her off the field on a stretcher. Oakland’s Brett Lawrie broke his…

“Just know, 1976 was the last time Washington State’s been to Omaha. I think that’s far too long.” Welcome to Pullman, Marty Lees. Less than a week and a half after athletic director Bill Moos opened the position of head baseball coach by firing Donnie Marbut, he was standing at the podium introducing his new coach Wednesday. Moos is famous for always keeping a short list of coaches on…

0 Shares Print Vlade Divac is laughing at the memory, some 15 years later, chuckling at the futility of his begging. He can still feel the sting of rejection even now. It was the dawn of a new millennium and a new day in the NBA, too. The long-dormant Sacramento Kings, with Divac suddenly flanked by two more fancy passers in Chris Webber and Jason Williams, were playing the most…

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After the Los Angeles Regional, most people just figured Maryland center fielder Lamonte Wade was a cleat-wearing superhero. In the span of four days, we’d seen make an insane home run theft, hose two guys at the plate and knock two pitches out of the park. So as Wade barreled toward the left-center wall in the eighth inning against Virginia — tracking a ball that, if caught, would snuff out…

A baseball fan sitting in the stands at Boston’s Fenway Park was seriously injured when she was hit by a broken bat on Friday night. The woman was bleeding from the head as she was carried out on a stretcher, and police said her injuries were life threatening, the Associated Press reports. She was hit in the second inning by a bat that broke after a swing by Brett Lawrie…

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This week we pass the halfway point in the run up to the Chase for the Cup as the series will pay a visit to Pocono Raceway for the first of two races at the track this summer. The three-turn oval located in the mountains of Pennsylvania is unlike any other oval track on the circuit. Pocono has been referred to many times over the years as the oval that…

i Robbie Keane scored in Ireland’s controversial World Cup qualifying match with France on Nov. 18, 2009 — but the country was eliminated by the aggregate score of 2-1. Ireland’s soccer association says FIFA paid 5 million euros — $7 million at 2010 exchange rates — over a blatant breaking of the rules by France. Michael Steele/Getty Images hide caption itoggle caption Michael Steele/Getty Images Robbie Keane scored in Ireland’s…

Jeff Vespa—Getty Images for Burberry Harper Beckham (L) and David Beckham attend the Burberry “London in Los Angeles” event in Los Angeles on April 16, 2015. “Mia Hamm eat your heart out” Bend it like Beckham! Harper Seven Beckham is only 3½ years old, but she’s already following in the footsteps of soccer’s biggest star — her father. David Beckham shared a photo of his daughter playing his former sport…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If the Vanderbilt Commodores are going to reach Omaha, Nebraska, and have a chance to defend their national championship at the College World Series, they must do something this program has never managed. Win a Super Regional on the road. Not that coach Tim Corbin and the Commodores sound the least bit daunted by the pressure of trying to follow up their feat…