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Three men were stabbed when a fight broke out, reportedly over a referee’s call, during a soccer game between two adult teams Sunday at a high school in Whittier, Calif. The brawl erupted shortly after 12:30 p.m. Pacific time when a man, who was described by police as wearing a black T-shirt and being about 20 years old, started swinging a knife, injuring three men who were taken to a…

Players with NHL contracts, even those in the minors, will not be allowed to participate in the Winter Olympics next February. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly confirmed the league’s stance to the Associated Press on Monday. The league announced in April it wouldn’t be stopping its season to go to the Olympics for the first time since 1994, but questions had remained about players in the American Hockey League and ECHL….

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs are getting closer with 22 of 26 regular-season races in the books. When the circuit heads to Chicagoland Speedway in September, 16 drivers will be competing for a championship. Here is a look at where things stand heading into Sunday’s race at Michigan International Speedway. Locked in Martin Truex Jr.: Simply said, this guy has everyone beat in much the same fashion Jimmie Johnson…

Baseball’s trade deadline last week provided a referendum on how much value relief pitchers have in today’s game. And the results were fairly clear: Teams just don’t care about saves as much as they used to. This season, we’ve been using our new relief pitching statistic, the goose egg, to track how bullpens are used. And the way relievers are deployed has, in fact, changed. Although it hasn’t been quite…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment How is it that one person can be known both for being as intimidating a player to ever wear a major league uniform and yet also be known for being one of the game’s all-time gentle giants? 1979 AL MVP Baylor dies of cancer at age 68 Don Baylor, who won the 1979 American League MVP with the Angels and the 1987…

Texas’s Joey Gallo, left, is baseball’s ultimate three true outcomes hitter, far more likely to walk, strike out or hit a home run than single. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press) Baseball’s gradual, momentous and almost imperceptible transformation — from a game of intense strategy, scrappy hitters, crafty pitchers and defensive wizardry to one in which the pitcher-vs.-batter matchup towers in importance over the combined mass of everything else — found its ultimate…

<!– –> VISIT CNBC.COM VISIT CNBC.COM Home Entrepreneurs Leadership Careers Money Specials PRIMETIME Careers Careers 6 Hours AgoCNBC.com Everyone wants to do what they love, but what if you love is watching the game from your couch? If this sounds like you, you might be in luck. Job search site FlexJobs combed through 148 remote sports-related jobs to find 13 golden opportunities for people who love sports and want to…

CBS continues to keep its options open when it comes to buying assets — including CNN, if AT&T decides to sell after it acquires Time Warner. “We feel strategically complete…we don’t need any M&A,” COO Joseph Ianniello told analysts in the company’s quarterly earnings call when asked about potential acquisitions. Still, he added — without citing specifics — that “we look at everything in the marketplace.” CBS chief Les Moonves…

Move over, boys of summer. The girls are here. And thanks, but no thanks. They’re not interested in softball. They’re baseball players. “I watched a middle school softball game once, and it was just so slow,” said Tess Usher, 11, who plays first base for D.C. Force, the all-girls baseball team that just killed it at a national tournament. “I love playing baseball. That’s not going to change.” Tess hit…

“The first time I saw Darren Daulton we are playing against each other in Triple A and I thought he was just another ordinary player. When I was traded to the Phillies I realized that he was so much more than that. The culture of the Phillies at that time had to change and Darren led the charge for us becoming a championship caliber team, and while doing so he…

Don Baylor, the 1979 American League Most Valuable Player and one of the best power hitters of his era, died Monday morning after a long battle with multiple myeloma. He was 68. “Don passed from this earth with the same fierce dignity with which he played the game and lived his life,” his wife, Rebecca, said in a statement. His son, Don, Jr., first confirmed the death to Baylor’s hometown…

<!– –> VISIT CNBC.COM VISIT CNBC.COM Home Entrepreneurs Leadership Careers Money Specials PRIMETIME Careers Careers 1 Hour AgoCNBC.com Everyone wants to do what they love, but what if you love is watching the game from your couch? If this sounds like you, you might be in luck. Job search site FlexJobs combed through 148 remote sports-related jobs to find 13 golden opportunities for people who love sports and want to…

Mark Horbinski, founder and adviser to Won80 Club at Necedah High School, gives a presentation to student-athletes, parents and coaches at New Lisbon School District July 27. Horbinski will travel to other schools in the area to educate others about the importance of positive sportsmanship.

x Embed x Share CLOSE USA Today Sports released its projections for all 130 FBS Teams and here are some highlights. USA TODAY Sports Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback J.T. Barrett.(Photo: Greg Bartram, USA TODAY Sports) There are only two factors preventing an individual team from finishing undefeated in the Football Bowl Subdivision. One is statistics: The odds of perfection decrease as more games get added to the road to the…

Employment law experts last night warned that it could see them facing a raft of claims for indirect discrimination.  The dictat first emerged in a store in Bangor, where workers pointed out that it effectively banned them communicating in their own language in their own country.   The Welsh Language Commissioner has launched an investigation into the policy, which was described by critics as “discriminatory and offensive”. Sport’s Direct, which…

It wasn’t enough for Lauren Henkel to run fast, she wanted to make sure others followed. Henkel, an accomplished two-sport athlete during her days at NYU, transitioned from athlete to coach with a wild enthusiasm for those she taught. Henkel, born and raised in Rockville Centre, died on July 29, only a few weeks after being named head coach of the Molloy women’s cross country and track and field teams….

When asked to explain the secret of Los Angeles on the eve of the 1984 Olympics, the late poet, novelist and fantasist Ray Bradbury broke it down, capturing the ingenuous advantage the city enjoyed as it was coming of age. “L.A. is a conglomerate of small towns striving toward immensity and never making it, thank God,” he wrote. “We have no kings, queens, or courts, no real pecking order, no…

Martin Truex Jr. celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday in Watkins Glen, N.Y.

During the 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles was a rail transit dead zone. The region’s extensive streetcar network, once the largest in the world, had been ripped out decades earlier. And the ribbon-cutting on the first modern rail line, from Long Beach to downtown, was still six years away. “We had bupkis in terms of rail,” said Dave Sotero of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Los Angeles will host the 2028…