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Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Sports Bars and restaurants in South Florida say they’ll come out winners no matter who wins Saturday’s fight  between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. At the Sports Grill in Kendall, preparations are already underway for a big night. “We’ll probably sell anywhere between 13,000 and 16,000 chicken wings,” said general manager Daniel Diaz. “I  expect it to be standing room only, probably record breaking. It’s…

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A single victory will almost certainly be enough to put a driver in NASCAR‘s Chase for the Sprint Cup field, and with Talladega Superspeedway acting as a true wild card, an unexpected title contender could emerge Sunday. Talladega is a tough track to tame, and while there are certain drivers who excel at it more often than not, things can change quickly when multi-car crashes strike. Perhaps no venue in…

The Tennessee baseball team’s offense, which came into Friday’s game with the fewest hits in the SEC, pounded out 14, with every player in the starting lineup collecting at least one. Full story available to subscribers only.Log in | Subscribe Already a subscriber? Activate

The AHSAA baseball quarterfinals are tonight, with doubleheaders in each best-of-three series scheduled. RELATED: See tonight’s quarterfinal schedule RELATED: Vote in fan poll for Alabama’s most stylish high school baseball cap 10:30 PM, final update: Here are the final scores with Saturday’s Game 3 times. 10:19 PM, series split: Spanish Fort 9, Opelika 8 with Game 3 on Saturday at noon. 10:16 PM, series recap: Thompson over Vestavia Hills by Jeff Sentell….

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Major League Soccer promised more clarity and a streamlined player acquisition process, and on Friday, the league delivered with the unveiling of the 2015 Roster Rules.  Included in the rules is a revision to the process by which MLS clubs can acquire players. The streamlined process goes into effect May 1, 2015. A SIMPLIFIED ALLOCATION PROCESS The Allocation Process has existed in MLS for a while, used mainly as a…

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For the first time since 2009, Danica Patrick has to worry about securing sponsorship for the next racing season. Longtime sponsor GoDaddy announced Wednesday it would not return in 2016 as the primary sponsor on Patrick’s No. 10 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet, but would like to continue its personal-service agreement with her. Facing questions about her future with SHR and in NASCAR, Patrick on Friday called the sponsor’s departure “bittersweet,” but…

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Come Monday of every race week, the race fans will email, tweet or ask me on the street, “So who do you like this week?” My normal response is, “Let’s wait a get a couple practice sessions in and then I’ll have a better answer for you.” Well, that answer never really works where we are racing this weekend — Talladega Superspeedway. It doesn’t matter if we are six days…

2015 Stats: .205 BA, 10 R, 2 HR, 2 RBI, 1 SB (90 PA) Right now, Adrian Beltre’s owner is freaking out over the fact that his second-round selection has been really bad so far this year. Like, so bad that maybe even you, dear fantasy reader, are cringing at his numbers above and wondering if it’s actually worth targeting him as a buy-low candidate. If that’s the case, ask yourself…

Over two decades of coaching youth baseball, John McCarthy has learned that dads often have trouble with the most important parts of the game. They’re too competitive, he says, and too emotionally wrapped up in the success of their children. Dads don’t want to hear why batting practice is more important than games. They don’t want a lesson about how to bury their own egos or why they need to…

STARKVILLE, Miss. — Coming off a red-hot month of April, the No. 1-ranked LSU baseball team is as hot as anybody in the country and is charging toward a potential top-8 national seed. Come join me for a lunchtime chat about the surging Tigers at noon Friday. LSU finished off the month in memorable fashion Thursday with a 14-inning 5-3 victory over rival Mississippi State at Dudy Noble Field. That elevates the Tigers into a…

When Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao finally confirmed their long-anticipated bout would go down on May 2, sports fans immediately circled the date on their calendar. 2015 Kentucky Derby The 141st “Run for the Roses” at Churchill Downs in Louisville It just so happens that the “most exciting two minutes in sports” (aka The Kentucky Derby) will be held on the same day. Those two events alone have thrust…

The Dark Knight of Gotham, aka Matt Harvey, has been on fire all season, and he should be your top choice for a pitcher in DraftKings lineups Friday. Harvey and the surprising New York Mets host the Washington Nationals in what figures to be a pitchers’ duel. Opposing Harvey for the Nats will be Max Scherzer. We’re likely looking at two candidates for the National League Cy Young Award…

By Michael Salfino Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria is one of our daily fantasy plays because of his strong track record against Orioles starter Chris Tillman. Reuters The Methodology: As hard as it is to project a player’s performance in any given season, projecting his performance on any single day is even more difficult. Daily fantasy baseball is all about trying to maximize each day’s matchups using historic batter…

(CNN)Grab some buddies. Stock up on the beer and pizza. And put fresh batteries in the remote. This Saturday is a sports fan’s dream — an all-you-can-watch TV buffet of big sporting events, from the NFL Draft to Red Sox-Yankees to the NBA and NHL playoffs to the Kentucky Derby to the long-anticipated Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight. Whew! It’s the greatest sports day of 2015 and arguably the most action-packed…

By Neil Hughes Friday, May 01, 2015, 11:39 am PT (02:39 pm ET) In the midst of the NHL playoffs and hype for the Kentucky Derby, a number of users have found that the Apple TV channel to stream those events, NBC Sports Live Extra, has unexpectedly disappeared from their set-top box. The NBC Sports Live Extra channel, which debuted earlier this week, is the exclusive home of popular sports…