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The most decorated athlete in all of Kazakhstan is a five-year-old Mongolian horse named Lazer. Born wild on the steppe, he lacks the lean grace of a thoroughbred or an Arabian. Except for his large head and broad front haunches, he is small enough to be mistaken for a pony. His coat is a dusty black, tinged with rust, and his unkempt mane hangs punkishly over his eyes. Short-legged, small-eared,…

By 1977, Lisa Lindahl was fed up with running in her regular underwire bra. The University of Vermont employee, then in her late 20s, was frustrated that her male jogging partner could take off his shirt to cool down, while she was stuck in a bra that slipped off her shoulders and dug into her back as she ran. Why, Lindahl vented to friend and costume designer Polly Smith, wasn’t…

On Tuesday night, the Seattle Mariners will play the Baltimore Orioles. Prior to the game, the Mariners will host a “Women in Baseball” panel, designed to “offer first-hand accounts from women who work in the baseball industry as they discuss the game today and their place in it.” To find out what the event is all about, we talked to one of the organizers, Meg Rowley. Rowley is an award-winning…

This is the first of For The Win’s two-part series on the Cape Cod Summer Baseball League. Part II will more closely examine why top college players and MLB scouts and executives flock to the Cape every summer. ORLEANS, Mass. — Sunlight spilled over Nauset Regional Middle School late Tuesday afternoon and shimmered off one of Brian Sabean’s World Series rings as he chatted with a young scout from the…

On Tuesday night, the Seattle Mariners will play the Baltimore Orioles. Prior to the game, the Mariners will host a “Women in Baseball” panel, designed to “offer first-hand accounts from women who work in the baseball industry as they discuss the game today and their place in it.” To find out what the event is all about, we talked to one of the organizers, Meg Rowley. Rowley is an award-winning…

Baseball games were being played in Mankato by 1864, although the sport that would one day be called the national pastime did not become popular in Minnesota until after the Civil War. After the Minnesota State Association of Baseball Players formed in 1867, the Frontier Club became the first organized team in town. Many of its players were local doctors and businessmen. In the following years,…

This is the first of For The Win’s two-part series on the Cape Cod Summer Baseball League. Part II will more closely examine why top college players and MLB scouts and executives flock to the Cape every summer. ORLEANS, Mass. — Sunlight spilled over Nauset Regional Middle School late Tuesday afternoon and shimmered off one of Brian Sabean’s World Series rings as he chatted with a young scout from the…

NBC brings e-sports to Bay Area as entertainment landscape shifts By Benny Evangelista August 14, 2017 Updated: August 14, 2017 3:59pm Caption Close ‘); } Jacob McDowell’s cowboy-hat-wearing purple car soared high into the air to punch a giant electronic ball into the net for the game-winning goal. Play-by-play announcer Caleb Simmons called the moment as if Stephen Curry had just nailed a big three pointer. “Oh, Jacob is there…

Tony Blair is closing his sports foundation after 10 years, saying it has “reached the end of its natural life”. The former prime minister, who set up the body after leaving Downing Street, said his focus was now on his new non-profit institute on globalisation. The sports charity’s latest accounts show that its income dropped from £203,972 in 2015 to £82,471 last year, which a spokesman said was “because it was…

1:47 PM PT — Flair is out of surgery and resting, a rep for WWE tells TMZ Sports.  Unclear how the surgery went but we’re told Ric’s family is by his side and they’re waiting to meet with doctors.  Ric Flair is in a medically induced coma and is preparing for surgery … a rep for the WWE tells TMZ Sports.  The 68-year-old wrestling icon was admitted to the hospital…

In 2013, indie developer the Fullbright Co. set a new standard for interactive storytelling with its debut game, Gone Home, which used environmental cues to take players on an emotional journey whose focus on underrepresented parties distinguished it from the male-dominated, heteronormative narratives endemic to the industry. For its follow-up effort, the highly anticipated Tacoma, the Portland, Oregon–based company could have contented itself with refining the formula from the first…

We need to talk about the Olympics. Again. A year ago, Rio was popping. The Summer Games were entering their second week, and despite anxieties about preparation, environmental hazards, security and Zika, the Olympics did that thing the Olympics tend to do, which is to push back against all the bad press with a stirring wave of athletic greatness. There was plenty of it last August: Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky,…

NASCAR executives spend a lot of time wondering why fans don’t go to races or watch them on television like they used to in the good old days of, say, 10 years ago, but Sunday’s race at Michigan provided another clear example. Take a look at the numbers posted immediately after the race. Kyle Larson, one of the sport’s rising stars, won the 400-mile race with an average speed of…

BI Intelligence See Also This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Digital Media Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Esports is being considered as a medal event for the 2024 Olympics Games, according to The Guardian. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is expected to award the 2024 Games to Paris, and co-president of Paris bid committee Tony Estanguet plans to speak to the IOC and esports executives about including…

BUY TICKETS: See the Southern 500 live Stewart-Haas Racing driver Danica Patrick will honor 2018 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee Robert Yates with a throwback paint scheme on her No. 10 Ford Fusion during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Southern 500 race at Darlington Raceway next month. “The throwback race at Darlington is such a cool event,” said Patrick, in a team release. “The track has done such a…

Kyle Larson’s ambitious weekend ended in triumph. Larson slipped between cars on an overtime restart and won Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway. The victory capped a busy stretch for Larson after team owner Chip Ganassi allowed him to go to Iowa to compete in the Knoxville Nationals on Saturday. He finished second at that sprint car event before returning to Michigan and earning his…

Last weekend in Charlottesville, hundreds of people espousing white nationalist, neo-Nazi and Klux Klux Klan ideology marched in the dark through the University of Virginia campus spewing racist taunts while illuminating the night with tiki torches in hand. Until then, the fire-tipped poles were mostly associated with backyard barbecue ambiance, kitschy Polynesian luaus and mosquito-repellent. Now, tiki torches are among the growing list of products and logos being used by white nationalists. Corporations, in a…

On Tuesday night, the Seattle Mariners will play the Baltimore Orioles. Prior to the game, the Mariners will host a “Women in Baseball” panel, designed to “offer first-hand accounts from women who work in the baseball industry as they discuss the game today and their place in it.” To find out what the event is all about, we talked to one of the organizers, Meg Rowley. Rowley is an award-winning…

In 2013, indie developer the Fullbright Co. set a new standard for interactive storytelling with its debut game, Gone Home, which used environmental cues to take players on an emotional journey whose focus on underrepresented parties distinguished it from the male-dominated, heteronormative narratives endemic to the industry. For its follow-up effort, the highly anticipated Tacoma, the Portland, Oregon–based company could have contented itself with refining the formula from the first…

Some head injuries, of course, are too ugly to miss. During a scrimmage last August, a running back on the Kearny, New Jersey, high-school football team was knocked out when a linebacker from the opposing team lunged at him and they banged helmets. It wasn’t a proper tackle, said John Kryzanowski, the head coach of the Kearny team, and it didn’t help when his player landed head first. “We immediately…