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By contrast, Conley played 18 professional seasons in 12 years. In six consecutive years during which his baseball and basketball careers overlapped, he played 12 professional seasons without taking a break. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Conley played two sports simultaneously longer than dual-sports stars like Dave DeBusschere (basketball and baseball) and Bo Jackson (football and baseball) — indeed, longer than any other two-sport athlete except Deion Sanders, who…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

Greg Biffle at Martinsville Speedway in October 2016. Photo credit: Daniel Shirey/Getty Images Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle’s ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law filed a lawsuit against him that alleges hidden cameras and peeping inside of his home, according to WSOC-TV. The local station reports that the lawsuit alleges there were secret cameras in the master bedroom, bathroom and guest bedroom. Jalopnik couldn’t immediately obtain a copy of the complaint reported by…

When I began writing The Last Wave, I didn’t set out to create a character who would swim the Channel. In fact, it just seemed natural to me that the wife of the man I saw so clearly at first – standing on a cliff, looking out to sea through the fog – was a swimmer. Once I settled on that idea, the years I’d spent in the water flooded…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

LONDON (AP) — A vivid piece of American sports culture was on display Tuesday in London’s Hyde Park as baseball came to town on July 4, the U.S. Independence Day. The exhibition featured several former major leaguers playing a Home Run Derby in one of London’s best-known open spaces. It’s part of Major League Baseball’s plan to showcase the game to build interest in Britain and Europe, a region where…

As the city prepares to host the All-Star Game, bidding for the Marlins — and their publicly funded stadium — has instead thrust their owner into the spotlight. By KEN BELSONJULY 4, 2017

A string of doping and corruption scandals have left one third of British people with even less confidence in sport than they had a year ago, according to a survey. Faith in administrators who run sporting organisations and the athletes themselves has been corroded by further revelations of corruption within Fifa and the doping suspicions that continue to dog Team Sky and Sir Bradley Wiggins. A survey of 2,000 people…

For all the drubbing he took from critics, in person Jamie Horowitz cut a buoyant figure. He wore pocket squares; he had a fratty, cheerfully conspiratorial air; and he was always, always brimming with self-confidence about FS1. As recently as a few weeks ago, his halo glowed so brightly that one powerful sports media person wondered to me if 21st Century Fox would lure Horowitz away from sports TV and…

Mike Ashley, the controversial billionaire founder of Sports Direct, allegedly secretly paid his former chief executive £1m-a-year out of his personal funds in order to keep down the pay of other staff. Ashley, who was exposed for paying warehouse staff effectively less than the minimum wage, is alleged to have paid former Sports Direct boss Dave Forsey £1m a year on top of his “official” £150,000 salary as “a side…

It’s one bet that the house may not allow. DraftKings and FanDuel Ltd., the two biggest names in the world of online daily fantasy sports, are wagering that a merger will create a Golden State Warriors-type superteam, but their proposed combination has been put on hold by the Trump administration. The Federal Trade Commission last month filed a lawsuit to block the combination, citing antitrust concerns that the combined company…

Rachel Christensen knows the signals. She’s seen them often enough over the Past nine years. She and her little girl are waiting for their turn someplace — perhaps in a doctor’s waiting room — and, when someone emerges to call the person who’s next, a look of confusion crosses the person’s face as he or she reads the name. Is this a typo? A misspelling? Is there a letter missing somewhere?…

VITTEL, France World champion Peter Sagan was kicked out of the Tour de France on Tuesday after sending Mark Cavendish crashing in a hectic finale to the fourth stage, sending shockwaves through the three-week cycling extravaganza. French champion Arnaud Demare won the stage, a 207.5-km ride from Mondorf-les-Bains, Luxembourg, but all the drama was just behind him. Slovakian Sagan elbowed Cavendish off balance as the Briton was trying to force…

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu said on Tuesday she had founded a professional swimmers association with 30 initial members, a move to give athletes more say in how the sport is run and a greater share of profits. Hosszu last month called on fellow swimmers to band together ahead of the 2017 World Championships in Hungary. She raised the possibility of boycotting global competitions. The…

With so many of NASCAR’s biggest names recently retired (Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards) or set to (Dale Earnhardt Jr.), there is a legitimate concern of who will replace them. Think about the last 20 years of competition in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and the vast majority of triumphs, failures, tragedies and special moments have involved at least one – and sometimes all –…

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu said on Tuesday she had founded a professional swimmers association with 30 initial members, a move to give athletes more say in how the sport is run and a greater share of profits. Hosszu last month called on fellow swimmers to band together ahead of the 2017 World Championships in Hungary. She raised the possibility of boycotting global competitions. The…

LONDON (AP) A bit of American sports culture will be on display in London’s Hyde Park as baseball comes to town on July 4, the U.S. Independence Day. The exhibition Tuesday will feature several former major leaguers playing a Home Run Derby in one of London’s best-known open spaces. It’s part of Major League Baseball’s plan to showcase the game in a bid to build interest in the sport in…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s OK, though. We’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman exited Monday’s game after five innings and 79 pitches because he became uncomfortable when a blister formed on the middle finger of his right hand. When asked about the injury, Stroman had an interesting response, via Sportsnet: “I’ve never had a blister ever in my life. Nothing even remotely close to having a blister. It’s crazy. It’s extremely frustrating. I feel like it’s an epidemic that’s…