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CLEMSON, SC (FOX Carolina) - Clemson University’s director of athletics announced Thursday that the university was parting ways with head baseball coach Jack Leggett. Leggett led the Tigers’ baseball program for 22 years. Leggett had 955 wins during that time and took the Tigers to the College World Series six times, the last time being in 2010, according to a news release. “This decision was not an easy one,” said…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester City have made official contact with Liverpool over a potential deal for 20-year-old winger Raheem Sterling. (Sun)  Liverpool will not sell Raheem Sterling to Manchester United. Liverpool insist Sterling is not for sale, to United or any other club. (Sky Sports)  Arsenal have made…

Indiana University Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Fred Glass welcomes Mark Cuban during the announcement for the Mark Cuban Center for Sports Media and Technology at Indiana University on June 5, 2015. (IU Athletics’ photo by Mike Dickbernd)(Photo: Mike Dickbernd / IU photo) BLOOMINGTON — Mark Cuban is giving Indiana University $5 million to build a state-of-the-art sports media technology center inside the renovated Assembly Hall. But from…

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In the end, our nearly $50,000 brought the usual welcoming committee of premium-car comfort and convenience items, such as heated leather seats, heated steering wheel, push-button start, powered tailgate, surround-view camera, navigation, and a large color touch-screen infotainment system. We also got a big panoramic sunroof, although it’s fixed in place and doesn’t open.   Electronic crash-avoidance systems included lane-departure and forward-collision warning with autonomous braking. Oddly, though, blind-spot…

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According to a 2014 report, there was a net loss of 1.2 million fishing participants in the previous year: Overall, 9.9 million people gave up fishing, while only 8.7 participants picked up the sport, representing a decrease of 21%. The poll shows that households with kids are more likely to fish: 17.5%, versus 12% of households without young children. But teenagers are the group least likely to be interested in…

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For the uninitiated, it’s easy to dismiss NASCAR as a bunch of good ol’ boys (and the occasional girl) driving cars plastered with ads around in a circle, wasting fuel and turning left for hours at a time. Take a closer look and you’ll see the sport requires incredible precision for marathon stretches of time. NASCAR isn’t about peak performance. It’s about identifying bottlenecks and weaknesses, eliminating mistakes to shave…

Bend it like Beckham! Harper Seven Beckham is only 3 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 on Instagram Friday. In the photo, the adorable toddler faces a soccer net, poised to kick a ball in with her tiny cleats. “Mia Hamm eat your heart out,”Beckham, 40, wrote. “Harper Seven taking lessons from…

The sun was out, the Twins were fighting for first place and Mona Mitchell came out of the gift shop at Target Field with a new team T-shirt. She had already bought tickets for two upcoming games, and she was flirting with buying more. “I love it when you go to a game that matters,” she said. It has been four years since the Twins have played games that mattered,…

I’ll be honest: as thrilling as last weekend’s 101-game, Bases Loaded-surfing, nonstop first round was, it’s kind of relaxing to open up Friday’s super regional slate and see just four games on the schedule. This time last Friday, we were bracing for a 32-game onslaught, with as many as eight games on at a time. With only two contests overlapping each other today, we’ll be able to sit back and…

Beating the top overall seed in the NCAA baseball tournament in consecutive seasons has significant benefits, Maryland Coach John Szefc said. It certainly will have an impact on recruiting and also could help jump-start renovations to the team’s 50-year-old home stadium, Shipley Field, which Szefc said “needs a lot of upgrades.” But the immediate payoff from Monday’s 2-1 win at UCLA is a repeat trip to the super regionals against…

Part of life as a small-market, low-revenue team like the Cleveland Indians is experimentation. Papering over mistakes with more cash simply isn’t an option, so it forces creativity, ingenuity and, most important, unanimity. No organization in baseball embraces and applies new ideas quite like the Indians, and what’s already the richest starting staff in the game is bound to get better because of it. With Corey Kluber, Carlos Carrasco, Danny…

And then there were 16. Down from 64 teams in the span of just four action-packed days, the college baseball tournament’s chaotic first round coasts into the less frenetic super regional round. For those new to this tourney, a super regional consists of two teams playing a best of three series at the home stadium of the host site. The winners of each of the eight supers advance to…

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Nike Inc.’s entanglement with the biggest scandal in the soccer world began with a headlong plunge into unfamiliar territory two decades ago. Fresh off the U.S.-hosted World Cup and desperate for a real foothold in the world’s most popular sport, Nike’s top officials aggressively pursued an endorsement with Brazil’s soccer federation. The effort culminated in a $200 million 10-year deal in 1996 that was staggering in size and put…

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