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There are a lot of ways to make a name for yourself in sports media these days. You could go the traditional route of getting a degree in journalism, getting your start at a newspaper, and working your way up to beat reporter. You could be a former athlete with good looks and charismatic wit. Many others even start through blogging, podcasting and social media accounts. But perhaps the fastest…

1. The only thing better than a good feud is a dumb feud. We have one on our hands with Nets guard Jeremy Lin and former NBA player, Kenyon Martin. For reason, Martin went on Instagram and decided to go off about Lin’s current hairdo — dreadlocks. “Do I need to remind this damn boy that his last name Lin?” Martin said in the video. “Like, come on man. Let’s…

When it came down to it, FC Barcelona – mes que un club, remember – could not bring themselves to go all in. The threatened loss of six points – three for the defaulted match, three more as a penalty – was enough to persuade them to stage their match against Las Palmas behind locked doors in a deserted Camp Nou, while outside the streets of the city rang with…

It’s getting harder nowadays for sports organizations like NASCAR to just stick to sports. Even as they face the challenge of wooing an increasingly diverse and distracted fan base, politics keep trickling in. The issue has been highlighted recently with NFL players protesting during the national anthem. President Donald Trump brought new attention to the controversy when he reprimanded protesting players while praising NASCAR fans who did not kneel. Like…

Such cases have generated enough anxiety that teams have pulled out all the stops to eradicate the germ or to prevent it from settling in. Although the most recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2015, reported a decrease in MRSA infections in the general public since 2005, it is difficult to tell what is happening in locker rooms because there has been no study specifically…

For a primer on the risks to trade from Brexit, just ask the Irish horse industry. The 1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) bloodstock sector – made up of racing and breeding – employs close to 15,000 people in Ireland, according to Deloitte LLP. Much of the business centers around the U.K., leaving one of the world’s biggest bloodstock producers vulnerable to its nearest neighbor’s departure from the European Union. “Eighty…

RELATED: Cast your vote now! DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. (Oct. 5, 2017) – The NASCAR Foundation announced on Thursday the four finalists for its seventh annual Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award Presented by Nationwide, which honors NASCAR fans who are also accomplished volunteers working for children’s causes in their communities throughout the United States. The award winner will be determined via an online vote now underway and running through Nov. 29…

It’s a Thursday night in Mooresville, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is racing cars like usual. Well, sort of. He’s actually racing go-karts, not stock cars, and instead of being under the bright lights of Charlotte Motor Speedway or any other NASCAR track, Stenhouse and his guests are cooped up inside a converted warehouse. And he’s wearing a T-shirt and jeans, not the typical fire suit. So, kind of still racing….

If Altuve does win AL MVP next month, he will be one of the least likely honorees in recent history. As unpredictable as baseball-player development can be, most of the best athletes were still either top draft picks or big-money international signees. Take the last eight AL MVPs, for example: 2016: Mike Trout—former first-round pick 2015: Josh Donaldson—former first-round pick 2014: Trout 2013: Miguel Cabrera—$1.9 million signing bonus out of…

Adam Lind of the Nationals gets a hit against the Braves last month. (John Bazemore/AP) With Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: In Cleveland last weekend, I completed a personal quest to visit all 30 major league baseball stadiums. As the Washington Nationals begin what will hopefully be a long run in the playoffs tonight, I’ve been thinking about what I learned during the five-year journey. The country has…

It’s September 8, 2017, at 7:10 p.m., and the Boston Red Sox are taking the field against the Tampa Bay Rays. The atmosphere is relaxed. It’s a home game, and the Sox are leading the American League East, coming into this series off a two-game win streak. But nothing is over until it’s over, and it’s only the top of the first. Four levels above the on-field action, Josh Kantor,…

Such cases have generated enough anxiety that teams have pulled out all the stops to eradicate the germ or to prevent it from settling in. Although the most recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2015, reported a decrease in MRSA infections in the general public since 2005, it is difficult to tell what is happening in locker rooms because there has been no study specifically…

Ahab had his whale in “Moby Dick.” The newsreel reporter in “Citizen Kane” had Rosebud. For Wile E. Coyote, there always will be the Road Runner. And, going into the playoffs last year, there was the Cubs’ century-plus quest for a World Series title. Some chases are so enduring and epic that their stories eclipse everything else around them. So it was with the Cubs, who at last in November…

A-Rod: ‘The Cleveland Indians are the class of baseball’ 6 hours ago

The baseball soared into the early-morning blackness, heading toward the left-field foul pole. Tracking the flight of the ball he’d just hit, Carlton Fisk began to frantically flap his arms in an effort to will it fair. Time seemed to stop as 35,205 fans in Fenway Park, along with 76 million TV viewers, watched the Red Sox catcher watch the ball in the bottom of the 12th inning of Game…

Major League Baseball’s postseason is here, and everyone’s fired up: the hard-core baseball nuts, the October bandwagoners, those greedy Cubs fans who now want two World Series titles in 109 years, and, of course, the Journal’s superb baseball writer, Jared Diamond, who still sleeps in his Bernie Williams pajamas, and sobs tears of joy when a meaningless mid-August game rolls into extra innings. I do not want to rain on…

Ahab had his whale in “Moby Dick.” The newsreel reporter in “Citizen Kane” had Rosebud. For Wile E. Coyote, there always will be the Road Runner. And, going into the playoffs last year, there was the Cubs’ century-plus quest for a World Series title. Some chases are so enduring and epic that their stories eclipse everything else around them. So it was with the Cubs, who at last in November…

The baseball soared into the early-morning blackness, heading toward the left-field foul pole. Tracking the flight of the ball he’d just hit, Carlton Fisk began to frantically flap his arms in an effort to will it fair. Time seemed to stop as 35,205 fans in Fenway Park, along with 76 million TV viewers, watched the Red Sox catcher watch the ball in the bottom of the 12th inning of Game…