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When Rob Manfred became Major League Baseball commissioner in August 2014, he didn’t just talk about focusing on youth participation. He put his words into action, investing money and time in several initiatives to increase the number of kids playing the sport. Three years later, the numbers aren’t necessarily booming, but leaders in youth baseball are optimistic about the strides being made, and pointed to the Commissioner’s Office as a…

Brandon Brooks took a week-long baseball stadium tour with Jay Buckley’s Baseball Tours last June. He wrote about the first leg of the tour here, and the second leg of his tour below. Enjoy. DAY FOUR: PNC PARK The Golden Triangle. Ever since really getting a good look at it on MLB: The Show (then later on live television), PNC Park has been my favorite park in the majors. AT&T…

NBA superstar LeBron James, approximating the trajectory for the use of sports analytics. Gregory Shamus / Getty Images There’s a fortune to be made crunching stats in a post-Moneyball world, and the potential for profit extends far beyond baseball, into everything from soccer to basketball. At the core of the story is what makes anything sports-related intriguing to so many people: an undying competitive spirit that has franchises — even…

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We’ve reached the Elite 8 of our Ultimate Sports Celebrations bracket, and we’ve got an eclectic blend of heavy favorites and surprise sleepers. Gibson vs. Fisk is a West Coast vs. East Coast baseball war. Ron Hunter and Desmond Howard will pit two Cinderella stories against each other. The Stanford band will face stiff competition from Joe Carter’s walkoff for the ages. Meanwhile, Brandi Chastain vs. Bobby Orr might end…

100 greatest sports photos of all time The day after the MLB All-Star Game is the slowest sports day of the year. And since I refuse to lead Hot Clicks with the ESPYs, this seems like as good a time as any to check out the 100 best photos in sports history. And for more on Bobby Martin (pictured above), read Rick Reilly‘s 2005 story. Quick and dirty ESPYs round-up…

A new exchange traded fund has hit the field, tackling companies that sponsor and partner with some of the biggest names in sports industry. Continue Reading Below SportsETFs is the latest issuer to enter the ETF arena, launching the ProSports Sponsors ETF (BATS: FANZ). The ProSports Sponsors ETF tries to reflect the performance of the ProSports Sponsors Index, which is comprised of companies which are official sponsors of…

When Rob Manfred became Major League Baseball commissioner in August 2014, he didn’t just talk about focusing on youth participation. He put his words into action, investing money and time in several initiatives to increase the number of kids playing the sport. Three years later, the numbers aren’t necessarily booming, but leaders in youth baseball are optimistic about the strides being made, and pointed to the Commissioner’s Office as a…

Three All-Stars. Can you name them? (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Baseball’s All-Star game once marked a peak in the summer sports calendar. This All-Star game finished second in the overnight Nielsens to “America’s Got Talent.” Its 6.5 rating was a tick above from last year’s all-time low of 6.4. This after a highly hyped Home Run Derby won by Aaron Judge, a fresh face who plays in New York. This after…

At the tail end of June — which is already somehow over a week ago — I embarked upon the sportiest vacation I’d ever dreamed of (which is a sentence that sports-loathing childhood me would look upon in disgust.) It was seven full days of nonstop action, lots of bus riding, and most of all: baseball. For one week, me, my dad, and 23 others were escorted via charter bus…

Konta had only won one match at Wimbledon before this year Johanna Konta must overcome five-time champion Venus Williams if she is to become the first British woman to reach a Wimbledon singles final for 40 years. Sixth seed Konta, 26, takes on the 37-year-old American in Thursday’s second Centre Court match at about 15:00 BST. It is the first time since Virginia Wade in 1978 that Britain has had…

Mikhail Grigorenko, a former first-round NHL pick, is headed back to the KHL. (David Zalubowski/Associated Press) In April, the NHL announced that it would not be sending players to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, with Commissioner Gary Bettman saying the league did not want to disrupt its regular season. Among those affected by that decision are several players from Russia, and some are apparently deciding to leave the…

NEW YORK — Chuck Blazer, the disgraced American soccer executive whose admissions of corruption set off a global scandal that ultimately toppled FIFA President Sepp Blatter, died Wednesday. He was 72. Blazer’s death was announced by his lawyers, Eric Corngold and Mary Mulligan. At a November 2013 court hearing during which Blazer entered guilty pleas to 10 federal charges, Blazer said he had rectal cancer, diabetes and coronary artery disease….

So in the summer of 2008, he invented a player. He would be a promising 16-year-old from Moldova, a country distant enough that his fictional roots might not easily be exposed. And his name would come straight from the statue of Ó Conaire. After all, the plot of his short story centers on a character who “knows his donkey is useless, but tries to sell it to the highest bidder,”…

When Rob Manfred became Major League Baseball commissioner in August 2014, he didn’t just talk about focusing on youth participation. He put his words into action, investing money and time in several initiatives to increase the number of kids playing the sport. Three years later, the numbers aren’t necessarily booming, but leaders in youth baseball are optimistic about the strides being made, and pointed to the Commissioner’s Office as a…

Three All-Stars. Can you name them? (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) Baseball’s All-Star game once marked a peak in the summer sports calendar. This All-Star game finished second in the overnight Nielsens to “America’s Got Talent.” Its 6.5 rating was a tick above from last year’s all-time low of 6.4. This after a highly hyped Home Run Derby won by Aaron Judge, a fresh face who plays in New York. This after…

That didn’t last long. A day after basking in the glow of the most watched All-Star Home Run Derby in nearly a decade, reality intruded on baseball. Though fans still seems to dig the long ball, they don’t seem too keen about the game itself. That’s a real problem for the sport, though it’s hard to blame fans for not tuning in for the All-Star Game. Those in Miami were…

To weigh in on the present and future of baseball, The Post organized an All-Star panel of players past and present, an MLB competition committee member and two Hall of Fame voters. Mets outfielder Curtis Granderson, Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia, YES broadcaster David Cone and Mets general manager Sandy Alderson joined The Post’s Joel Sherman and Ken Davidoff to discuss all things baseball: Pace of play JOEL SHERMAN: Pace of…

The cutoff to qualify among the world’s most valuable sports franchises is higher than ever, up 18% this year to $1.75 billion. There are 36 franchises worth at least $1 billion that did not make the top 50. Credit soaring TV contracts for the rising franchise values, as well as labor deals with players that almost ensure profitability barring outrageous spending on payroll by an owner. Only the Dallas Cowboys…

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