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Photo by Lelands The custom cap Jackie Robinson wore to shield him from bean balls. Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, seldom lost any baseball contests. But at 1:43 AM this morning his cap was no longer the most valuable in the sports memorabilia world. Jackie Robinson’s special cap to protect him from beanings sold for $590,994 in a Lelands auction. Robinson’s headgear eclipsed the previous record. In 2012 SCP…

Ponder’s gripe with Barstool Sports ultimately prevailed. On Monday, ESPN abruptly canceled the 10-day-old partnership with Barstool Sports. Skipper belatedly realized his network could not separate itself from Barstool’s controversial reputation. “Effective immediately, I am canceling Barstool Van Talk,” Skipper said in a statement. “While we had approval on the content of the show, I erred in assuming we could distance our efforts from the Barstool site and its content.” Beyond the “Pardon…

Getty The International Olympic Committee recently said that e-sports gaming could be a sanctioned sport for the Games. The IOC sees allowing e-sports as a promising way to grow viewership with younger audiences. Global audiences for e-sports are expected to reach 385.5 million this year. Competitive e-sports could be part of the Olympic experience as long as it adhered to Olympic values, the International Olympic Committee said on Saturday. The rapidly growing…

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Catalonia’s audacious attempt to secede from the rest of Spain represents a threat to one of the world’s sporting powers. For more than a decade, Spain has punched above its demographic weight in sports. The Mediterranean country of 42 million citizens has produced stars in sports ranging from its most beloved football, to tennis, basketball, racing, golf, and even water sports. But if Catalonia manages to overcome stiff opposition from…

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x Embed x Share CLOSE SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports’ Nancy Armour breaks down the current security concern for 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea. USA TODAY Sports The IOC intends to decide in December on Russia’s participation in the Pyeongchang Olympics.(Photo: JEON HEON-KYUN, EPA-EFE) The International Olympic Committee intends to decide on Russia’s participation in the Pyeongchang Games in December. The IOC has been waiting on the findings…

The racist gesture made by the Houston Astros’ Yuli Gurriel toward the Dodgers’ Yu Darvish on Friday night called for somebody in power to swing for the fences. Instead, baseball bunted. After a nation witnessed Gurriel tugging on the corners of his eyes while using an ethnic slur about Darvish, Commissioner Rob Manfred needed to make a powerful statement Saturday that included an immediate suspension. Instead, he offered words backed…

“Obviously,” Manfred said, “World Series games are different than regular-season games.” Among the other reasons Manfred cited for delaying the suspension, this stands out: “I felt it was unfair to punish the other 24 players on the Astros roster,” he said. “I wanted the burden of this discipline to fall primarily on the wrongdoer.” Denying Gurriel a chance to help his team in the World Series would have severely impacted…

Manfred then met with Gurriel, who is 33, on Saturday and said the player was contrite. Still, Manfred said Major League Baseball needed to act and send a message. Photo Yu Darvish warmed up on Saturday before Game 4 of the World Series in Houston. Credit Matt Slocum/Associated Press “Notwithstanding Mr. Gurriel’s remorse, there needs to be disciplinary consequences to make clear that Major League Baseball is an institution that…

Ponder’s gripe with Barstool Sports ultimately prevailed. On Monday, ESPN abruptly canceled the 10-day-old partnership with Barstool Sports. Skipper belatedly realized his network could not separate itself from Barstool’s controversial reputation. “Effective immediately, I am canceling Barstool Van Talk,” Skipper said in a statement. “While we had approval on the content of the show, I erred in assuming we could distance our efforts from the Barstool site and its content.” Beyond the “Pardon…

HOUSTON – As there is no reasonable way to fully take the baseball out of a young man’s decision to publicly mock another’s ethnicity from a World Series dugout, there is but one outlier in Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred’s decision to stay Yuli Gurriel’s suspension until the 2018 season, and that is Manfred’s reluctance to punish “the other 24” Houston Astros. Gurriel, whose squinting gesture was intended to…

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ARLINGTON, Texas — A Texas school district apologized Friday after a high school football broadcaster repeatedly used a racial slur when referring to African-American players on the opposing team. The Cleburne Independent School District apologized for online audio comments made last week in a matchup between Cleburne High School and Seguin High School in Arlington, according to Leslie Johnston, spokeswoman for the Arlington Independent School District. Seguin is in Arlington,…

First they were underdogs. Then they were just a trap game. Now the Iowa State Cyclones are Big 12 contenders. Get used to hearing it. With a 14-7 victory over No. 4 TCU in Ames on Saturday, the No. 25 Cyclones are now the hottest team in the conference and the one no one wants to face. Unfortunately for Oklahoma State and West Virginia, there’s no avoiding Iowa State. And, if…

Let’s say you’re a professional soccer goalkeeper and you’ve stayed properly hydrated over the course of a game. Things are apt to get a little dicey over the course of those 90 minutes, if you catch my drift. If you’re Sam Crocombe, a goalkeeper for Salford City of the National League North in England, you’re simply not going to wait. On Saturday during a game against Bradford Park Avenue, he received a red…

Hailey Dawson is already a veteran of tossing the ceremonial first pitch at the ripe old age of seven. She’s got two Major League games under her belt and is about to add a third, with her biggest audience yet, as she kicks off Game 4 of the World Series in Houston. Dawson is in the midst of a 30-ballpark tour, throwing the first pitch for every MLB team, with…

Former Santa Monica High and UCLA standout Tim Leary pitched 13 years in the big leagues and had his best season for the 1988 World Series-champion Dodgers, going 17-11 with a 2.91 ERA in 35 games. The right-hander threw three scoreless innings in Game 1 of the 1988 series against Oakland and 32/3 one-run innings in Game 3. Now 58, Leary is serving as a guest analyst for the World…

The Southern University Board of Supervisors approved the baseball fieldhouse to be renamed the Cador Baseball Operations Center last week in honor of longtime head coach Roger Cador. The official unveiling of the name change will take place at a ceremony on a later date to be decided. Cador spent more than 30 years at the helm of the Jaguars before retiring at the end of…

“I just feel bad,” Gurriel said through an interpreter. “If anybody got offended over there, it was not my intention.” Yuli Gurriel under fire after gesture made in dugout after homering off Yu Darvish: https://t.co/CoY4gEYRDG pic.twitter.com/TmF1HJNUTo — Deadspin (@Deadspin) Oct. 28, 2017 Commissioner Rob Manfred is in Houston to attend the Series, and he was expected to meet with Gurriel on Saturday before Game 4. It seemed likely that Manfred…