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Composite of still photos from YouTube. Anthony Scaramucci, hours after formally accepting a position as President Trump’s new director of communications, offered a fairly unique assessment of why he’s confident in Trump’s ability to get things done: He’s clutch at sports. “He’s the most competitive person I’ve ever met,” Scaramucci said. “Okay? I’ve seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire. I’ve seen him at Madison Square Garden…

NASCAR is considering further limiting Cup Series veterans from competing in Xfinity Series races, series director Wayne Auton said Friday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The proposed limit could restrict drivers with more than five years of Cup experience from entering more than five Xfinity races per a season — none of which can be during the seven-race playoffs or any of the four Dash 4 Cash races. Currently Cup veterans…

Brent Dewar’s Twitter biography leads with his heart: “Car guy.” How he got there is the story of life-altering exposure to speed from his childhood, what started as a proving ground for the future President of NASCAR. His father was a high school principal — a great man, Dewar says, “but probably the biggest non-car guy you would ever meet.” As a boy growing up in western Canada, nearby circle-track…

Three Newport News residents plan to bring semi-professional soccer to the city in 2018. Mike Vest, Dan Chenoweth and Kevin Joyce all live in Hilton Village. The three friends have seven sons between them, and all the boys love to play soccer. “One day, our boys were playing soccer behind Hilton Elementary School, and we said, ‘It would be great if we could take them to see a high-level soccer…

America has spoken, and the New York Yankees are the country’s most-hated baseball team. It’s no surprise that one of the most successful sports franchises in the world with 18 division titles, 40 American League pennants and 27 World Series championships — all Major League Baseball records — continues to be disliked by baseball fans. FiveThirtyEight conducted a survey asking 989 self-described baseball fans from June 30 to July 8…

A week ago, I wrote about how both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros are in rare historical company this season. According to FiveThirtyEight’s Elo power ratings — which measure a team’s strength at any moment — each is playing roughly as well as the fabled 1927 Yankees played. But this season’s top-heaviness extends well beyond just the Astros and Dodgers. Each member of MLB’s ruling class this season…

When Mike King approaches home plate for his turn to bat, a spotter will walk with him part of the way before the catcher finishes the job. Once King is in the batter’s box, he listens to the pitcher’s instructions for where he should stand. In Beep baseball, a league for blind, low-vision and legally blind players, the pitcher and batter work together. And King, who is legally blind, says…

Kapco Park in Mequon, Wisconsin on Friday, July 22, 2016. CALVIN MATTHEIS/calvin.mattheis@jrn.com(Photo: Journal Sentinel files) West Bend West’s shot at perfection, and Milwaukee Marquette’s chance at redemption, will have to wait another day. The state summer baseball championship game between the undefeated Spartans and the reigning state runner-up Hilltoppers scheduled for Friday night at Kapco Park was rained out and will be played at 10 a.m. Saturday. With rain forecast…

Caption Close They say there is no crying in baseball. Sometimes, that’s all there is. Stamford Senior Legion coach Kevin Murray stood in the middle of a circle of his players and coaches after the team had just won a come-from-behind, extra-inning game in the state tournament and the sadness and grief became too overwhelming to contain any longer. As his team celebrated the win, Murray collapsed in foul territory,…

Composite of still photos from YouTube. Anthony Scaramucci, hours after formally accepting a position as President Trump’s new director of communications, offered a fairly unique assessment of why he’s confident in Trump’s ability to get things done: He’s clutch at sports. “He’s the most competitive person I’ve ever met,” Scaramucci said. “Okay? I’ve seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire. I’ve seen him at Madison Square Garden…

Brent Dewar’s Twitter biography leads with his heart: “Car guy.” How he got there is the story of life-altering exposure to speed from his childhood, what started as a proving ground for the future President of NASCAR. His father was a high school principal — a great man, Dewar says, “but probably the biggest non-car guy you would ever meet.” As a boy growing up in western Canada, nearby circle-track…

Fitness-tracking app Strava is introducing some new perks for subscribers of its Premium membership option, which go on top of the additional in-app features the service already provides. Chief among the new perks is an offer for accidental damage coverage to phones or GPS devices through Sunday’s Insurance. The coverage is good as long as you broke your phone while recording a cycling activity with Strava. The insurance is for…

A week ago, I wrote about how both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros are in rare historical company this season. According to FiveThirtyEight’s Elo power ratings — which measure a team’s strength at any moment — each is playing roughly as well as the fabled 1927 Yankees played. But this season’s top-heaviness extends well beyond just the Astros and Dodgers. Each member of MLB’s ruling class this season…

America has spoken, and the New York Yankees are the country’s most-hated baseball team. It’s no surprise that one of the most successful sports franchises in the world with 18 division titles, 40 American League pennants and 27 World Series championships — all Major League Baseball records — continues to be disliked by baseball fans. FiveThirtyEight conducted a survey asking 989 self-described baseball fans from June 30 to July 8…

When Mike King approaches home plate for his turn to bat, a spotter will walk with him part of the way before the catcher finishes the job. Once King is in the batter’s box, he listens to the pitcher’s instructions for where he should stand. In Beep baseball, a league for blind, low-vision and legally blind players, the pitcher and batter work together. And King, who is legally blind, says…

Composite of still photos from YouTube. Anthony Scaramucci, hours after formally accepting a position as President Trump’s new director of communications, offered a fairly unique assessment of why he’s confident in Trump’s ability to get things done: He’s clutch at sports. “He’s the most competitive person I’ve ever met,” Scaramucci said. “Okay? I’ve seen this guy throw a dead spiral through a tire. I’ve seen him at Madison Square Garden…

If you thought we’d be out of sports in late July, think again. This weekend graces us with all sorts of competition all over the sporting landscape, which will allow us a brief respite from the sweltering, unkind, armpit-sweating, soul-crushing heat. College football is around the corner, NFL training camps will open soon, and this weekend we have one of the best events in golf to keep us company. Life…

His father used to tell him that sitting in front of the computer, playing video games for hour after hour, was a waste of time. So Cody Altman didn’t quite know what to think when a college from halfway across the country called to offer him a scholarship — for playing video games. “Honestly,” he said, “I was skeptical.” The young man from Anaheim changed his mind when he learned…

Yahoo is looking to reassert itself as the “OG of fantasy sports” in a new ad campaign called “Feel the Wins,” developed in partnership with the company’s new creative agency, Sid Lee. Although Yahoo was one of the early powers in fantasy sports, where consumers pick teams online and compete in seasonlong leagues, it has been besieged by competitors including CBS and ESPN, which can promote their fantasy products using…

Brent Dewar’s Twitter biography leads with his heart: “Car guy.” How he got there is the story of life-altering exposure to speed from his childhood, what started as a proving ground for the future President of NASCAR. His father was a high school principal — a great man, Dewar says, “but probably the biggest non-car guy you would ever meet.” As a boy growing up in western Canada, nearby circle-track…