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Is Our Dusty Old Cowtown the worst major professional sports market in the country at this exact moment? A lot of candidates, a litany of criteria and a legion of critics make the Most Awful Major League Sports City debate tempting. What about Cleveland, which hasn’t won any championship in pro sports since 1964 (NFL, pre-Super Bowl)? Or Buffalo, which lost four consecutive Super Bowls, didn’t rattle its Sabres to…

Michigan’s Carmen Benedetti(Photo: Timothy D. Easley AP) UPDATE: Michigan loses to Louisville, 13-4; season over LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With its season suddenly hanging in the balance, the Michigan baseball team put the pieces together to see at least one more game. After losing to No. 3 Louisville Saturday night to snap their six-game winning streak, the Wolverines responded less than 24 hours later, manufacturing runs and beating Bradley, 4-3. BOX…

Sprint Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin is part of a newly-formed NASCAR drivers’ council.(Photo: Marvin Gentry, USA TODAY Sports) DOVER, Del. — NASCAR drivers have formed a small drivers’ council that will meet with NASCAR officials on a regular basis, drivers and NASCAR confirmed Sunday morning at Dover International Speedway. Approximately six to eight drivers met with NASCAR on Saturday night at the Dover Downs Casino adjacent to the racetrack, speaking…

NASCAR makes its first of two trips to Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware on Sunday for the FedEx 400 Benefiting Autism Speaks. Heading into the race, Kevin Harvick is holding a 41-point lead in the Sprint Cup standings over Martin Truex Jr. Harvick will be looking to put some distance between himself, Truex and the rest of the field at Dover International Speedway. While most will be watching Harvick…

LAKE ELSINORE: Fans flock to NCAA baseball regional game Share Pin It More Galleries NCAA Regional at The Diamond Sunday’s schedule: • 3 p.m.: USC vs. loser of Virginia-San Diego State game • 7 p.m.: winner of Virginia-San Diego State game vs. winner of 3 p.m. game Tickets: Reserved $10, box $15, preferred box $20 Capacity: Approximately 8,000 with 6,066 fixed seats Address: 500 Diamond…

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Week nine of the Fantasy Baseball season begins Monday June 1st. There are some interesting waiver wire opportunities to look at, pitching streamers to consider, bullpens in disarray and so much more so let’s get started. Interleague Matchups for Week Nine Toronto Blue Jays at the Washington Nationals (3 Games Monday-Wednesday) Milwaukee Brewers at the Minnesota Twins (3 Games Friday-Sunday) Week Nine Bullpen Report Shawn…

Oregon survived its first elimination game. Now the Ducks are up for a rematch with the team that put them in the loser’s bracket. Follow along in the comments section for updates from this game, and stick around after for complete coverage from this NCAA baseball tournament elimination game.  No. 3 Oregon vs. No. 2 Iowa  When: 12 p.m. PT Where: Hammons Field, Springfield, Mo. Watch: ESPN 3 Listen: 95.3…

The arrangement eloquently illustrated the state of women’s college athletics. When the University of North Carolina volleyball season ended in the fall, player uniforms were not placed in storage. Instead they were passed along with travel bags and warm-ups for immediate use by members of the Tar Heel women’s basketball squad. In today’s world of multimillion dollar contracts between apparel companies and major-college athletic departments, with uniforms carefully tailored to…

Sprint Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin is part of a newly-formed NASCAR drivers’ council.(Photo: Marvin Gentry, USA TODAY Sports) DOVER, Del. — NASCAR drivers have formed a small drivers’ council that will meet with NASCAR officials on a regular basis, drivers and NASCAR confirmed Sunday morning at Dover International Speedway. Approximately six to eight drivers met with NASCAR on Saturday night at the Dover Downs Casino adjacent to the racetrack, speaking…

Secretary of State John Kerry broke his femur on Sunday when the bicycle he was riding struck a curb near Scionzier, France. Kerry, a life-long pusher of physical boundaries who has partaken in everything from stunt-flying to windsurfing, is no stranger to sports injuries, as these brutal-looking shiners and broken nose from an ice hockey game in 2012 remind us. Kerry attributed his 2009 hip surgery and 2005 knee surgery to…

Many sports fans in Chicago were facing a dilemma on Saturday with the Chicago Cubs scheduled to face the Kansas City Royals about an hour before their Chicago Blackhawks take the ice against the Anaheim Ducks in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals. Mother Nature solved that, sending a mix of rain, wind, cold and all around miserable weather to Chicago, resulting in the Cubs game being postponed and…

As part of wide-reaching cutbacks on a national scale at Fox Sports, Fox Sports Detroit’s entire roster of sportswriters is being let go on June 30, two sources confirmed to The Detroit News on Saturday night. The list includes veteran baseball writer Tom Gage, who joined FSD’s website in March after more than three decades at The Detroit News. Gage is set to be inducted into the writers’ wing of…

GENEVA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry broke his right leg in an accident while cycling a portion of the Tour de France route near Scionzier, France, on Sunday and is returning to the United States, his spokesman said. He has canceled visits to Madrid and Paris. Kerry broke his right femur but the injury is not life-threatening and he is expected to make a full recovery, spokesman John Kirby…

The 47th running of the FedEx 400 will be on Sunday at Dover International Speedway in Delaware, the 13th of 36 races in the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Jimmie Johnson enters the weekend fifth in points this season. He has won the event four times, one shy of Bobby Allison’s Dover record. Johnson has won the FedEx 400 two of the last three years, and starts in 14th…

ZURICH –  FIFA President Sepp Blatter criticized U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and an American federal investigation into soccer corruption which could yet lead directly to his door. In a defiant interview with his local Swiss broadcaster, Blatter said “there is something that smells” about the timing of dawn raids to arrest soccer officials in Zurich two days before his re-election Friday. Two FIFA vice presidents and a recently elected…

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The third day of action at the college baseball regionals takes place on Sunday with several teams facing do-or-die situations in the double-elimination format. Most notably the top-seeded UCLA Bruins are facing elimination if they can’t beat the Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners on Sunday. The Bruins fell 4-1 to the Maryland Terrapins and now face early elimination with another loss. UCLA now needs three wins in a row to advance….

It’s the final day of May, which means that nest egg for summer trips is finally coming to fruition. There’s no better way to keep building that up than finishing off the month by playing daily fantasy baseball on DraftKings. Before the massive slate of 15 games gets underway this afternoon, here’s a look at the best MLB position player picks for May 31.   Catcher: Brian McCann, New York…