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7:45 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Miami has always been known as the “Magic City.” That’s because at any moment, a great moment can occur just about anywhere here. This week, the baseball world converges on Miami, which after 25 seasons as a Major League Baseball city is finally hosting its first All-Star Game. This is a complex city, unparalleled in the United States. Nowhere…

David Ross is coming out of retirement — but he’s not returning to the Cubs. Or even the major leagues. Ross, one of the heroes of the Cubs’ run to the 2016 World Series championship before retiring, reportedly has signed on to play for the Kansas Stars, an independent team that is stocked with former major-leaguers and is set to play in the National Baseball Congress World Series, according to…

MIAMI — Mauricio Dubon grew up in a baseball family, if not in a baseball hotbed. His father and his older brother played in their hometown of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, a city of over 700,000 people with, by Dubon’s estimate, no real baseball fields and only a couple of softball fields. Dubon loved the game and played it from the time he was four years old, playing with and…

Almost half the country believes drug-taking is rife in sport, according to “alarming” new research commissioned by UK Anti-Doping. The chief executive of UKAD, Nicole Sapstead, last night warned the industry was at a “critical” juncture after a survey of 2,000 British adults exposed a crisis of confidence spawned by some of the biggest scandals of recent years. The results of last month’s poll, published today to mark the start…

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Inside sports business There has been justifiable concern about the city of Seattle negotiating the best deal possible when it comes to a private company renovating KeyArena for NBA and NHL teams. After all, the city is in a unique position, with two groups offering to build a modern winter sports venue with private funds. Most cities never have one group offer that, let alone two, as with Oak View…

7:45 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Miami has always been known as the “Magic City.” That’s because at any moment, a great moment can occur just about anywhere here. This week, the baseball world converges on Miami, which after 25 seasons as a Major League Baseball city is finally hosting its first All-Star Game. This is a complex city, unparalleled in the United States. Nowhere…

Reyes, by many measures, is having an awful year. Of the 164 players who qualify for the batting title, only two have a lower batting average on balls hit in play than Reyes does. And the Cubs briefly demoted one of those two players, Kyle Schwarber, to the minor leagues to work on his hitting. So why has Reyes been so bad when he makes contact? Examining…

2:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment SPARTA, Ky. — Martin Truex Jr. owned a 15-second lead on the field before Kurt Busch blew an engine with less than two laps remaining Saturday night. Truex stayed out, and as the only lead-lap car with old tires, he easily led the first lap of overtime in the Quaker State 400 and probably would have cruised to the…

7:45 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Miami has always been known as the “Magic City.” That’s because at any moment, a great moment can occur just about anywhere here. This week, the baseball world converges on Miami, which after 25 seasons as a Major League Baseball city is finally hosting its first All-Star Game. This is a complex city, unparalleled in the United States. Nowhere…

Image: SB Nation Sports and science fiction, much like jocks and nerds, don’t always get along. However, one sports news site is bringing football into the future with a series that’s weird, complex, and pretty spectacular. 17776, from SB Nation creative director Jon Bois, is an ongoing scifi series using text and YouTube videos to examine what football will look like in the future. It may sound like that one…

In the past year, Las Vegas has solidified itself as a mecca for professional sports with the fall arrival of the National Hockey League’s newest team, the Vegas Golden Knights, and the upcoming relocation of the National Football League’s Raiders to our town. However, Las Vegas has had a long history of sports with special conventions bringing thousands of attendees during the summer months. • Kicking off Las Vegas summer…

2:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment SPARTA, Ky. — Martin Truex Jr. owned a 15-second lead on the field before Kurt Busch blew an engine with less than two laps remaining Saturday night. Truex stayed out, and as the only lead-lap car with old tires, he easily led the first lap of overtime in the Quaker State 400 and probably would have cruised to the…

Harrison Burton continues to put a disappointing rookie season in the rearview mirror with a sensational sophomore campaign. The 17-year-old from Huntersville, North Carolina, outdueled fellow NASCAR Next driver Todd Gilliland in a thrilling side-by-side battle for the lead and claimed the Busch North Throwback 100 at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park. It was Burton’s third win in the last four races and fourth win of the year out…

Matt Besler, left, of the United States is blocked by Panama’s Gabriel Torres. (Mark Humphrey/Associated Press) NASHVILLE — The CONCACAF Gold Cup presents a balancing act for Bruce Arena, the U.S. men’s national soccer team coach. He wants to win the trophy, one that has eluded the Americans in three of the previous four regional tournaments. But in a year marked prominently by the final round of 2018 World Cup…

Martin Truex Jr. was dominant throughout and had enough left on a final restart to win the NASCAR Cup race Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway. Second in points entering the 400-mile event, Truex started second beside Kyle Busch and won the first two stages. Truex led the final segment by as many as 15 seconds before a final caution created overtime and bunched the field together. That made no difference…

Nov 20, 2016; Homestead, FL, USA; NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart (14) before the Ford Ecoboost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.(Photo: Jasen Vinlove, USA TODAY Sports) After making a change Friday from the 360 to the 410 series, former NASCAR champion Tony Stewart produced a fifth-place finish in Saturday’s late-night race at the Knoxville Raceway. Racing in the No. 14 car, Stewart finished eighth in the time trials (15.819)…

Tears and hugs after North and South Korean women won the 1991 team table tennis world championships. A standing ovation when athletes from the two Koreas marched together to open the 2000 Sydney Olympics. A selfie taken by a South Korean gymnast with her North Korean opponent that went viral at last year’s Rio de Janeiro Games. Seven months ahead of the Pyeongchang Olympics, South Korea’s new liberal President Moon…

Rookies sign contracts The Kings announced first-round picks De’Aaron Fox, Justin Jackson and Harry Giles have signed their rookie-scale contracts with the club. Hometown Report: Mom’s memory drives Hoskins Former Jesuit High School and Sacramento State slugger Rhys Hoskins is on the cusp of a Major League Baseball promotion, driven by the spirit of his mother. A’s win: Healy sinks Mariners Ryon Healy’s ninth-inning ground-rule double drove home the winning…

LAS VEGAS – Shortly after the co-main event, when Alistair Overeem was announced as the winner over Fabricio Werdum in a heavyweight match that Werdum seemed to have won, T-Mobile Arena was filled with angry boos. The crowd, many of whom bought tickets which had “Cody Garbrandt versus T.J. Dillashaw for the bantamweight title,” on the front, didn’t get what they came to see. UFC put together a sensational, potentially…