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Chelsey Brown lost her finger after her wedding ring got caught on the fence. (Chelsey Brown ) The injury tore her tendon from the elbow, canceling any hope for reattachment (Chelsey Brown) Now a month post-injury, Brown said the pain has subsided. (Chelsey Brown) A Tennessee mother who felt some pain after catching her left ring finger on the fence at her son’s T-ball practice said she initially thought…

Adam Glanzman/Getty Images Joba Chamberlain, after parts of 10 big-league seasons with four clubs, hasn’t pitched since July of 2016, and now says he’s done. “No, it’s time to be a dad,” the 32-year-old Chamberlain said. “Karter is in junior high and obviously this year I got to see him play a lot. It was fun to watch. We went to Cooperstown [for a tournament] and that was fun for the…

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…

In Tuesday night’s American League Wild Card contest, the New York Yankees fell behind in a hurry. Luis Severino, the 23-year-old flamethrower, gave up two home runs to the first four Minnesota Twins he faced, and the manager Joe Girardi removed him just one out into the game—a decision he’d never have made in August. The Yankees pulled even with a homer of their own in the bottom of the…

If you want all your favorite athletes to “stick to sports” and stay out of politics, you’re going to wind up disappointed, the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay says. On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Gay argued that, as a huge part of American culture, sports have always been political. He said the NFL players like Colin Kaepernick who have knelt during the national anthem to…

Watching a sports match can stress your heart just as much as playing in the game itself, suggests a small new study in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. Researchers found that people’s pulses increased by 75% when they watched a hockey game on television and by 110% when watching one in person—equivalent to the cardiac stress of vigorous exercise. Previous studies have linked watching sporting events to an increased risk…

The Warriors‘ run the last few years has been a mix of incredible team building, smart use of assets and, yes, a whole lot of luck. They changed basketball with revolutionary offense and a defense that can maintain a high level even at a high pace. However, none of that is possible if Stephen Curry doesn’t become the greatest shooter ever. What he did for the Warriors set up everything…

The 2017 MLB postseason is now two games old, as the Yankees beat the Twins in the AL Wild Card Game (NYY 8, MIN 4) and the Diamondbacks beat the Rockies in the NL Wild Card Game (ARI 11, COL 8). New York and Arizona now move on to the LDS round, which begins Thursday. Here is the full postseason schedule. Now that we’re into the ALDS and NLDS, it’s…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Carlos Nuzman served as president of the Rio 2016 Olympics organising committee Brazilian police have detained the head of the country’s Olympic committee in Rio de Janeiro. Carlos Nuzman has been investigated as part of a cash-for-votes probe after the bid for the Rio 2016 Olympics was won. The arrest is part of the corruption investigation, known as Operation Unfair Play. Mr Nuzman has previously…

Now we get to the good part. Last week’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover, Del., eliminated four playoff drivers – Kasey Kahne, Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman, and Austin Dillon . That leaves 12. Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson … they’re all still alive. And now they’re going to go straight at each other. The thing is, while the playoffs have been going on for three races, the…

NASCAR fans have nothing to worry about. That was the message NASCAR CEO Brian France delivered during a Wednesday appearance on SiriusXM satellite radio. His optimism comes during a time when there is diminishing interest in the sport, the lowest television ratings since 2000 and the imminent retirement of the sport’s most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr. But France says NASCAR is just stuck in an annual cycle….

If you want all your favorite athletes to “stick to sports” and stay out of politics, you’re going to wind up disappointed, the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay says. On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Gay argued that, as a huge part of American culture, sports have always been political. He said the NFL players like Colin Kaepernick who have knelt during the national anthem to…

At the start of the 2014 National Football League season, the Baltimore Ravens unveiled a statue of their star linebacker Ray Lewis outside the team’s stadium. During his 17-year career, Lewis had been named All-Pro seven times, made the Pro Bowl a dozen times, and led the Ravens to two Super Bowl titles. For maximum dramatic effect, the last one took place on 4 February 2013, in Lewis’s final game….

Watching a sports match can stress your heart just as much as playing in the game itself, suggests a small new study in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. Researchers found that people’s pulses increased by 75% when they watched a hockey game on television and by 110% when watching one in person—equivalent to the cardiac stress of vigorous exercise. Previous studies have linked watching sporting events to an increased risk…

Cardiff was the host city for the 2017 Champions League Final as Real Madrid were crowned champions The Football Association could bid to host the Champions League final in 2023, according to confidential UK Sport documents obtained by the BBC. The game is one of a number of “hosting targets” and a “strategic priority”. The staging of parts of the Tour de France in 2021 and athletics’ World Championships “in…

By Kelly McElroy Staff Writer A collection of some of the top current and former homegrown college baseball players to come through the area in recent years are uniting to hold a youth baseball camp in December. The second annual Brock Hebert Baseball Camp will take place Dec. 20-22 at the South Terrebonne High School in Bourg and is open to players in first through eighth…

Fox Sports’ cable network FS1 has been dealt a rough hand over the past 24 hours. Colin Cowherd is continuing to receive harsh criticism after calling Philadelphia the “dumbest sports city in America.” Katie Nolan, a rising star at the network, is heading to ESPN. And Fox Sports was forced to pull back from an odd advertising campaign…

What tech gadgetry and apps do you always have with you when you’re on assignment? I always have my iPhone, my battered Olympus digital recorder, a small spiral notebook and a pocketful of pens taken from cheap hotels. (I figure the hotels owe me for all the free advertising I have given them over the years.) I’m learning I can have nothing but an iPhone and I’m fine. I don’t…

Those watching the spectacle live experienced an average heart increase of 110 per cent, while there was a 75 per cent increase for those watching remotely. The study, published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, advised doctors to warn sports-supporting patients at risk of cardiovascular ill-health to be aware of possible symptoms during games. “Our analysis of elements of the hockey game associated with peak heart rates supports the notion…

Pity the mid-priced sports car, carrying neither bragging rights with a stratosphere sticker, nor winning you points with the millionaire next door who boils an egg, eats half and puts the other half in a plastic bag in the fridge. That said, there are a plethora of stylish, speedy machines under the $50,000 price tag. We recently tested and fell for BMW’s 230i Xdrive, for example, a steal beginning at…