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Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Joey Logano’s playoff hopes took another blow Sunday in the Overton’s 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Logano’s #22 Team Penske Ford began to spew smoke on lap 174, sending him to the pits and then the garage area. The team diagnosed a suspension issue and after more than thirty laps, he returned on track. He wound up finishing 37th in the…

We’ve seen many gender reveals that had the baseball touch. Corey Knebel and his wife revealed the gender of their baby girl during family day earlier this season, and Avisail Garcia found out the gender of his son via the jumbotron at Guaranteed Rate Field. One story was a bit different. It had all the elements for a baseball-themed gender reveal, but it didn’t quite go as planned. Kyle Tait,…

x Embed x Share CLOSE Fans took to Twitter to chime in on LeBron’s concern over the Cleveland Cavaliers’ lack of moves this offseason. USA TODAY Sports LeBron James reacts during the second half against the Denver Nuggets at Pepsi Center.(Photo: Chris Humphreys, USAT) LeBron James, the NBA’s most powerful player and biggest star who brought the Cleveland Cavaliers their first NBA championship, is concerned about the Cavaliers’ offseason, a…

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“Do the Diamondbacks have the best rotation in baseball?” feels like a weird question to ask, not least because while there’s certainly a curvature to their movement, I’d call it more of a “slither” than a “rotation”… But seriously, folks. It’s a legitimate question now. For the first decade of their existence, the Diamondbacks were a team built on pitching. Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, maybe the best one-two punch…

If baseball is a business, then their customer service sucks! At least in Oakland this month this is, and will be, the case. How many times have we heard Billy Beane talk about “We’re getting ready…We’re rebuilding…We want to be ready for the new stadium.” Well we’ve been Beaned again by the same rhetoric regarding the trade of Ryan Madson and Sean Doolittle. But I’m telling you, there’s something lacking…

x Embed x Share CLOSE Fans took to Twitter to chime in on LeBron’s concern over the Cleveland Cavaliers’ lack of moves this offseason. USA TODAY Sports LeBron James reacts during the second half against the Denver Nuggets at Pepsi Center.(Photo: Chris Humphreys, USAT) LeBron James, the NBA’s most powerful player and biggest star who brought the Cleveland Cavaliers their first NBA championship, is concerned about the Cavaliers’ offseason, a…

Bob Wolff, along with Curt Gowdy the only sports announcer that is a member of both the baseball and basketballs halls of fame, died Saturday in South Nyack, NY at age 96. In a career that began in 1939, Wolff covered every major sporting event from World Series to Super Bowls to NBC and NHL championship series and was an institution in New York, where he broadcast for the Yankees,…

“The good hitters, you don’t gain too much ground forward,” Toronto catcher Russell Martin said. “It’s kind of a theme: They have their heads still because your head is your camera. If you move your head at all, it kind of changes how you’re seeing things.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story By staying so heavily weighted on his back side, carrying that sensation of squatting 300 pounds through his…

See more of the story How to make baseball better? We posed that question last week after batting it around in the office, where the responses ranged from half-price beer for last call in the seventh inning to pitch clocks and limits on visits to the mound. The topic of how to “fix” baseball is a popular one lately. The position here is that baseball doesn’t need fixing. The greatness…

Bob Wolff, who was behind the microphone for many of sports most iconic moments on radio and television, including Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series and the 1958 NFL Championship game heralded by many as the greatest football game ever played, died Saturday at his South Nyack home. He was 96. The avuncular Wolff, who nearly became a member of the Mets original three-man broadcasting team in…

7:54 AM PT — TMZ Sports has obtained video of the victim moments after he was struck in the face by an assailant at Clutch Bar in Dallas.  The person who shot the video tells us the man was involved in a verbal altercation with a woman who was in Ezekiel’s party … when Ezekiel got involved. The witness says she saw Ezekiel punch the man — corroborating the story…

ATLANTIC CITY — New Jersey’s first casino has become the first in Atlantic City to let patrons play daily fantasy sports contests for money. Resorts Casino Hotel on Monday launched FastPick, a daily fantasy sports game in which customers choose head-to-head player matchups of real-world athletes. If the customer’s slate of picks outperforms those assigned to the casino, the customer wins. For example, a customer can choose whether New England Patriots quarterback…

The cyclist Sonny Colbrelli secured prominent exposure for the name of his Bahrain Merida team early in the Tour de France, heading the group sprint at the end of the second stage in Liège before finishing a creditable sixth. The team’s leader, Ion Izagirre, crashed out on the first day, but Bahrain Merida has already established itself on the world tour, after the star signing Vincenzo Nibali competed through three…

There is a major name on the free agent market in professional wrestling, and Sports Illustrated has learned that WWE and GFW/Impact are negotiating with Rey Mysterio. Mysterio, 42, is currently seen on El Rey’s Lucha Underground. He is signed through the end of the third season, which is set to air in September, and would then be free to work with any company after his 90-day non-compete clause expires. • Vince McMahon made decision…

It began as yet another scorching Saturday in central Arizona as scores of families flocked to the cool waters of a popular swimming hole, seeking relief from the 100-degree temperatures in the cities. Among them was an extended family of 14 from Phoenix. They gathered at the Cold Springs swimming hole in the Tonto National Forest, near Payson, to celebrate Maria Raya’s 26th birthday, their relatives told local media. At about 3 p.m., it…

“The good hitters, you don’t gain too much ground forward,” Toronto catcher Russell Martin said. “It’s kind of a theme: They have their heads still because your head is your camera. If you move your head at all, it kind of changes how you’re seeing things.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story By staying so heavily weighted on his back side, carrying that sensation of squatting 300 pounds through his…

Nine people were dead, including six children, and one man was missing after a flash flood roared through a popular Arizona swimming hole on Saturday afternoon. The deadly incident at the Cold Springs swimming hole in Tonto National Forest followed heavy rains that had spurred thunderstorm and flash flood warnings from the National Weather Service in areas scarred by a recent wildfire. Officials suspended their search Sunday evening but were…

It sounds like something from NASA. Launch angle. Yet, it is all the rage in Major League Baseball. Sluggers are clearing fences like never before. There were 1,101 home runs during June, breaking the previous record of 1,069 in May of 2000, which was at the height of the so-called steroid era. One of the explanations given:…

More recently, Mr. Wolff was a sports commentator for the cable TV station News 12 Long Island, which he joined when it was founded in 1986. He delivered his final essay in February. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Wolff teamed with Joe Garagiola on NBC-TV’s baseball Game of the Week in the early 1960s. He was a broadcaster for Madison Square Garden for more than 50 years on…