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On a summer day in the Dominican Republic, West Ranch baseball’s Vinny Rojas was explaining how to throw a curve ball to a 6-foot-4, 14-year-old Dominican boy. “I struck him out with a curve ball, and he was like, ‘How did you throw that?’ And I showed him everything,” Rojas said. “He was like, ‘Oh, I’m going to practice that every day.’” Rojas donated used…

Every year, stories swirl around in the MLB, reporters wear down players, and individuals are questioned on their commitment to the game of baseball. At 162 games a year, that’s already 44% of the year, half of it away from home, not counting Spring Training, off days, and potential playoff games. The questions of what a professional sports player “owes” a fan and how lucky they should consider themselves to…

Major League Baseball is on pace to shatter its home run record. This year, players in the American and National Leagues combined have hit more than 4,000 home runs. The record, set in the year 2000, is 5,693. The last time Major League Baseball saw a dramatic increase in home runs, players were called to testify before Congress over allegations of using performance-enhancing drugs.  This time around, some are questioning…

Fantasy sports, and probably to an even greater extent daily fantasy sports, can be intimidating. You’re usually playing for real money, and potentially going up against people who spend countless hours researching statistics to craft the perfect lineup. Gameday, a startup part of Y Combinator’s Summer ’17 batch, wants to change this by making a few tweaks to daily fantasy sports so it can be accessible to everyone. First, they’re…

The player’s character, banished from the civilized world for the heinous crime of literacy, falls in with a diverse group of exiles. All have their own set of skills and progression tree; over time, you learn why each was driven from the Commonwealth to eke out life in the purgatorial wasteland of the Downside. Everyone who wants to escape, including your ragtag band, can only do so by completing Rites…

The 1977 season is remembered fondly as one of Chicago baseball’s great summers, the White Sox and Cubs each taking division leads into August. The winning didn’t last. First the Cubs fell out of contention, then the Sox, taking World Series fantasies down with them. What survives are the two musical traditions born of the South Side swagger, giddiness and gusto that marked the first two-thirds of the White Sox’s…

Two years ago, Nick Purdy of Wayne downloaded the Rocket League video game. He liked it and so did many others as it became a huge hit, with 1.6 million daily players who kick around soccer balls with souped-up cars. Related Coverage Fix your WiFi blues (it’s not always Comcast’s fault!)…

I confess: I had mixed feelings about saying goodbye to the 2017 Ferrari GTC4 Lusso. I was sad, because I’d had such a good week driving it. But I was also happy, because I had gotten through the week without damaging it. This top-of-the-line Italian sports touring car, an update of the previous Ferrari FF model, is a luscious-looking shooting brake coupe — or, in American automotive terms, a long-nosed,…

The great truth of the Olympics is this: The Games always pack up and leave, along with the athletes and TV crews and other visitors who didn’t spend nearly as much money as organizers said they would. As cities emerge from their three-week stint on the world stage, they invariably realize they’ve poured billions into infrastructure they don’t need and transit systems people don’t ride. Athens and Rio are the…

It’s safe to say NASCAR makes rule changes to improve either the safety of the drivers and teams or the quality of the sport overall. And when it ditched the difference between the start/finish line and the overtime line in an announcement Wednesday – effective immediately – that was definitely to enhance the sport for everyone. Didn’t know you could have overtime on a race track? No worries, just know…

Every year, stories swirl around in the MLB, reporters wear down players, and individuals are questioned on their commitment to the game of baseball. At 162 games a year, that’s already 44% of the year, half of it away from home, not counting Spring Training, off days, and potential playoff games. The questions of what a professional sports player “owes” a fan and how lucky they should consider themselves to…

The player’s character, banished from the civilized world for the heinous crime of literacy, falls in with a diverse group of exiles. All have their own set of skills and progression tree; over time, you learn why each was driven from the Commonwealth to eke out life in the purgatorial wasteland of the Downside. Everyone who wants to escape, including your ragtag band, can only do so by completing Rites…

A Brazilian ex-goalkeeper who’s in prison for ordering the savage killing of his ex-girlfriend — who was then fed to dogs — has been reportedly given temporary release to teach soccer to dozens of children. According to local reports, a criminal judge in Varginha, Minas Gerais in southeast Brazil authorized Bruno Fernandes de Souza’s temporary release Wednesday to participate in the government’s social inclusion program for prisoners. He…

The 1977 season is remembered fondly as one of Chicago baseball’s great summers, the White Sox and Cubs each taking division leads into August. The winning didn’t last. First the Cubs fell out of contention, then the Sox, taking World Series fantasies down with them. What survives are the two musical traditions born of the South Side swagger, giddiness and gusto that marked the first two-thirds of the White Sox’s…

Two years ago, Nick Purdy of Wayne downloaded the Rocket League video game. He liked it and so did many others as it became a huge hit, with 1.6 million daily players who kick around soccer balls with souped-up cars. And this Saturday, Purdy and teammate Dylan Fowler, of Dermott, Ark., will take their Rocket League game…

Would you have come to PSG without all the other Brazilians being here? Neymar: “To be really honest, that wouldn’t have changed my approach. “Of course I have friends here, but I arrive here because the global environment is very positive. “It was not easy – I had to think a lot, I had to think what I wanted to do with my life. “A lot of people wanted me…

It’s safe to say NASCAR makes rule changes to improve either the safety of the drivers and teams or the quality of the sport overall. And when it ditched the difference between the start/finish line and the overtime line in an announcement Wednesday – effective immediately – that was definitely to enhance the sport for everyone. Didn’t know you could have overtime on a race track? No worries, just know…

Jeffrey Gildenhorn, a beloved D.C. restaurateur, recreational politician, and full-time man about town for several decades, died earlier this summer after choking on his meal at the Palm, a local power lunch institution. He’d lived a full enough life that none of his many obituaries mentioned his supporting role in a forgotten chapter in the sports history of the nation’s capital, when Donald Trump told everybody he was going to…

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By Kelly McElroyStaff Writer The South Louisiana Select 13U Major Elite baseball team based in Houma entered the U.S. Specialty Sports Association World Series in Orlando, Fla., on July 22 as the country’s No. 1 ranked team in its division. On Saturday night, South Louisiana Select proved more than worthy of that distinction when it topped the Baton Rouge-based Louisiana Tigers 4-3 to take home a…