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When a young girl was injured by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium last week, a cry went up across the baseball world for increased protection for fans from batted balls. In the search for an answer, perhaps Major League Baseball can look to Japan, where the danger of foul balls has been monetized. The good news is that the girl who was hit by a foul ball crushed by…

O.J. Simpson’s story represents one of the most dramatic falls from grace in the history of American pop culture. A beloved football hero in the 1960s and ’70s, he transitioned effortlessly to movie star, sports commentator and TV pitchman in the years that followed. He kept that role until the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend. A jury acquitted him, but many still believe he carried out the…

Legal sports betting could be offered in 32 states within five years if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of New Jersey’s quest to offer such gambling, according to a new report. Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, LLC, which tracks state-by-state gambling legislation, says a new market would be worth more than $6 billion. If all 50 states got on board, legal sports betting could be worth $7.1 to $15.8…

Two of my grandmother’s favorite athletes were Venus and Serena Williams, who grew up in South Los Angeles in the nineteen-eighties. The Williams sisters have lately been named by Los Angeles’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, as the poster children for the benefits of the Olympics, because they played in tennis programs funded with money for youth sports that came from the 1984 Games, hosted by L.A. While people in other cities…

RELATED: Blaney rolls to Dover victory | XFINITY Playoffs standings DOVER, Del. — As highly-motivated race car drivers are prone to be, William Byron was admittedly conflicted standing on Dover International Speedway pit road Saturday afternoon following the “Use Your Melon. Drive Sober 200.” He won the pole position, led laps (62), won the opening stage, and took the checkered flag in third position behind JR Motorsports teammate Justin Allgaier…

When a young girl was injured by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium last week, a cry went up across the baseball world for increased protection for fans from batted balls. In the search for an answer, perhaps Major League Baseball can look to Japan, where the danger of foul balls has been monetized. The good news is that the girl who was hit by a foul ball crushed by…

(Reuters) – Demonstrators unfurled a banner that read “Stop Killing Us” at a Major League baseball game on Friday in St. Louis, where they were protesting the acquittal of a white former police officer who was accused of murdering a black man, local media reported. A video posted on Facebook showed a group of demonstrators high above the playing field holding a banner with the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot drawn…

O.J. Simpson’s story represents one of the most dramatic falls from grace in the history of American pop culture. A beloved football hero in the 1960s and ’70s, he transitioned effortlessly to movie star, sports commentator and TV pitchman in the years that followed. He kept that role until the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend. A jury acquitted him, but many still believe he carried out the…

There was a frightening moment during the Amiens vs. Lille French soccer match on Saturday. Following a goal form Lille, the visiting fans of the team celebrated the goal by rushing down the section where they were sitting. The problem was there was so much weight and pressure, it resulted in the barrier collapsing and fans getting hurt as they fell onto the field area. Take a look: Here’s another…

x Embed x Share CLOSE USA TODAY Sports’ Brant James previews the Apache Warrior 400 at Dover International Speedway. USA TODAY Sports Gene Stilp burns a flag Saturday outside Dover International Speedway.(Photo: Brant James, USA TODAY Sports) DOVER, Del. – Just beyond the main entrance of Dover International Speedway, activist/attorney/Grand Canyon guide Gene Stilp pulled his bespoke Nazi-Confederate flag from a metal garbage can and set it ablaze. He knelt…

The driver starting dead-last, 40th, for Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway didn’t make a qualifying lap on Friday afternoon. The grid printout shows his qualifying time as 0.000 seconds at 0.000 miles per hour. His name is Matt DiBenedetto, and he hopes to someday become a Cup star. The driver starting 39th is Reed Sorenson, something of a tour veteran. The grid…

Retirement Dale has been Blunt Dale. As his final season ticks away, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has grabbed a bullhorn and demanded change — in 140-character bursts, on his podcast and through the media — on matters big and small in NASCAR. He referenced John F. Kennedy in a tweet and was the first driver to take a stand on NASCAR’s place in the national anthem debate. He angered fellow veteran…

RELATED: Final practice results | 10-lap averages | Weekend schedule Chase Elliott set the pace in final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice, topping the Saturday afternoon charts with a 157.363-mph lap at Dover International Speedway. Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevrolet edged teammate Jimmie Johnson by .067 seconds in the 55-minute final tune-up at the “Monster Mile.” Elliott will start 12th in Sunday’s Apache Warrior 400 (2 p.m. ET,…

When a young girl was injured by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium last week, a cry went up across the baseball world for increased protection for fans from batted balls. In the search for an answer, perhaps Major League Baseball can look to Japan, where the danger of foul balls has been monetized. The good news is that the girl who was hit by a foul ball crushed by…

(Reuters) – Demonstrators unfurled a banner that read “Stop Killing Us” at a Major League baseball game on Friday in St. Louis, where they were protesting the acquittal of a white former police officer who was accused of murdering a black man, local media reported. A video posted on Facebook showed a group of demonstrators high above the playing field holding a banner with the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot drawn…

This one is going to anger a lot of people so you are warned. I don’t care if you are a liberal. I don’t care if you are a conservative. I don’t really want to hear it. If I want to hear it, I’ll ask. (I’m not going to ask because I don’t give a rip). If I want to hear it, I’ll get myself to a venue that addresses…

There was a frightening moment during the Amiens vs. Lille French soccer match on Saturday. Following a goal form Lille, the visiting fans of the team celebrated the goal by rushing down the section where they were sitting. The problem was there was so much weight and pressure, it resulted in the barrier collapsing and fans getting hurt as they fell onto the field area. Take a look: Here’s another…

RELATED: Final practice results | 10-lap averages | Weekend schedule Chase Elliott set the pace in final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice, topping the Saturday afternoon charts with a 157.363-mph lap at Dover International Speedway. Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevrolet edged teammate Jimmie Johnson by .067 seconds in the 55-minute final tune-up at the “Monster Mile.” Elliott will start 12th in Sunday’s Apache Warrior 400 (2 p.m. ET,…

(Reuters) – Demonstrators unfurled a banner that read “Stop Killing Us” at a Major League baseball game on Friday in St. Louis, where they were protesting the acquittal of a white former police officer who was accused of murdering a black man, local media reported. A video posted on Facebook showed a group of demonstrators high above the playing field holding a banner with the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot drawn…

About 40 people gathered on a grassy North Philadelphia field Saturday morning to celebrate a new state historical marker honoring the spot where, on Sept. 3, 1869, civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto captained the all-black Pythians baseball team in the country’s first recorded interracial game. …