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What a perfectly imperfect game. I didn’t quite know what to do with myself rooting for Trevor Williams as he soldiered through the eighth inning, knowing that would hurt the chances of a perfect game or no-hitter by Rich Hill, also knowing that would mean an embarrassing (at least temporarily) Pirates loss. So I just cheered. For baseball. I’m a Pirates fan because I’m a baseball fan in general. I…

Maybe it’s because it falls on a Sunday night, traditionally the time when we’re watching football. Or perhaps it’s because this season of “Game of Thrones” is nothing but battles to set up more battles. Or maybe it’s just because we use sports analogies for almost everything these days (just look at how we speak about politics). But sports-talk has dominated what’s been written and said about “Game of Thrones”…

In TIME’s cover story this week, senior writer Sean Gregory explores the growing business of kids’ sports — a $15.3 billion industry that has nearly doubled in the last 10 years. Between league fees, camps, equipment, training and travel, families are spending as much as 10% of their income on sports, according to survey research from Utah State University. Sky-high costs are preventing some kids from participating. Overall sports participation…

<!– –> VISIT CNBC.COM VISIT CNBC.COM Home Entrepreneurs Leadership Careers Money Specials PRIMETIME Careers Careers 4 Hours AgoCNBC.com A surprising number of CEOs played sports when they were younger. Former Whole Foods CEO Walter Robb was the captain of the Stanford Soccer Team. Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman played varsity squash and lacrosse at Princeton. Even Mark Zuckerberg was a high school fencing star. One Ernst & Young survey found that…

When Adam Dunn came to the plate, he would pretty much always do one of three things: He would strike out; he would walk; or he would hit a baseball some 400-odd feet. With his propensity to produce these so-called “three true outcomes” — the three types of plays in which fielders play no role — the former Cincinnati Reds outfielder known as “Big Donkey” was the poster boy for…

I was never the smartest, stats-iest guy in the baseball room. On the best of days, I used to get by with a superficial, rudimentary understanding of metrics that are now passe. Leavened with an occasionally well-crafted piece or a few dick jokes, I’ve managed to carve out a sleazy niche of sorts around here, though it’s been pretty limited over the last few very frustrating seasons. The Phillies are…

IT’S official, we are in a golden age of women’s sport – and quite frankly I’m thrilled. This summer it’s been impossible to miss our girls triumphing in cricket, rugby, football, tennis and athletics. Izzy Noel Smith of England celebrates with Marlie Packer after the Womens Rugby World Cup semi-final between England and France England cricketer Heather Knight celebrates winning the world cup with the trophy and team mates Our…

What if the impossible is possible? What if a foot slips, a hand drops, a lucky swing lands right and Conor McGregor knocks Floyd Mayweather cold in the craziest of flukes? What if everybody with any good sense is wrong, and Mayweather at 40, having not fought in nearly two years, is no match for McGregor? What if the loudest mouth in UFC turns out to be the better boxer…

Regional sports network CSN Mid-Atlantic is rebranding as NBC Sports Washington, with the change scheduled to be completed by Oct. 2. The move is part of a national branding shift for NBC Sports’s regional television networks, with CSN Chicago becoming NBC Sports Chicago, CSN Philadelphia becoming NBC Sports Philadelphia, CSN New England becoming NBC Sports Boston, and so on. The company’s California networks — NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports…

As the Robert Lee story was gaining Concorde-level speed last night on social media, a prominent ESPN on-air talent sent me a direct message on Twitter: “If they don’t switch the guy, we get mocked for having a guy named Robert Lee on a Virginia game,” said the ESPNer. “Can’t win.” There’s some truth there. The sports announcer Robert Lee, best known prior to Tuesday night as the radio and…

Regional sports network CSN Mid-Atlantic is rebranding as NBC Sports Washington, with the change scheduled to be completed by Oct. 2. The move is part of a national branding shift for NBC Sports’s regional television networks, with CSN Chicago becoming NBC Sports Chicago, CSN Philadelphia becoming NBC Sports Philadelphia, CSN New England becoming NBC Sports Boston, and so on. The company’s California networks — NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports…

CBS Sports college basketball writers Gary Parrish, Matt Norlander and Reid Forgrave spent much of July on the road in cities across the country, covering the live recruiting periods. While there, and in the weeks since, they’ve surveyed coaches for our annual Candid Coaches series. They polled everyone from head coaches at elite programs to assistants at some of the smallest schools in Division I. In exchange for complete anonymity,…

While USC’s Sam Darnold has been the focus of most preseason Heisman hype, Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield is starting to receive his share of respect.  Sports Illustrated released its 2017 College Football predictions Wednesday, and one writer, Chris Johnson, picked Mayfield to take home college football’s greatest individual honor. 

With two races until the 2017 postseason starts, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series takes this week off. It’s a good time to examine what has happened so far this season and to look ahead at what’s left. The verdict on segment racing is …: Thumbs up. The new format has created more moments in the middle of races that matter (and if you think that’s not a worthy goal,…

The NASCAR community is mourning a member of a race team owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s JR Motorsports who died in a car wreck in Iredell County. Michael Adam Wright, a 33-year-old mechanic with driver Michael Annett’s JRM Xfinity Series team, died late Sunday when he twice ran off curvy Flower House Loop in Troutman and his car went airborne, State Highway Patrol Trooper J.S. Swagger told the (Statesville) Record…

RELATED: Post-Bristol playoff watch NASCAR issued penalties Wednesday to one team in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and two organizations in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for lug-nut violations. All penalties came after post-race inspections revealed one unsecured lug nut on each vehicle after last week’s events at Bristol Motor Speedway. That included one infraction after Saturday’s Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, involving the Joe Gibbs Racing…

10:36 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment There’s a lot to watch in any given game. What if we focused on one player, at one position, over a full nine innings? For this, we turned our eyes to the best player in baseball, Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout. Comparing the careers of Mike Trout and LeBron James: On May 19, we headed to Citi…

As the Robert Lee story was gaining Concorde-level speed last night on social media, a prominent ESPN on-air talent sent me a direct message on Twitter: “If they don’t switch the guy, we get mocked for having a guy named Robert Lee on a Virginia game,” said the ESPNer. “Can’t win.” There’s some truth there. The sports announcer Robert Lee, best known prior to Tuesday night as the radio and…