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“I mean, if you have Mack in goal, like, you gotta work hard still,” Quinn Murphy says. “But you can trust him that — he’s yelling at you to get in the right position, and making sure your team doesn’t give up easy goals.” Murphy, a thirteen-year-old soccer player, knows the value of a good goal-keeper. So did Vladimir Nabokov. He once wrote: “The goal-keeper is the lone eagle, the…

If you pay any attention to baseball, you know about the narrative that the sport is circling the drain. As my colleague Bryan Curtis chronicled, the first known assertion that baseball is dying dates from 1868, and the flood of cautionary notices and premature memorials hasn’t slowed since. The latest alarm comes from Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci, in a piece published Tuesday. “What Happened to Baseball?” the article inquires. “Home…

What have they done to my game? Baseballs are flying out of ballparks in record numbers. They are on pace this year to go over 6,000! Hitters are conversely striking out in record numbers. Managers are using relief pitchers in record numbers and the game itself has become almost unrecognizable from the tidy 2½-hour strategy-fests that so captured the nation’s conscience for over 100 years. Strategy? There is…

LSU baseball meets Oregon State at 3 ET on Friday, June 23 in an elimination game for the Tigers. It will be broadcast nationally on ESPN. LSU lost to Oregon State 13-1 on Monday to put it in the losers bracket. The Tigers have to defeat the Beavers twice on Friday and Saturday to advance to the championship series of the College World Series. LSU vs. Oregon State baseball live…

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Via trade with Nets DeAndre Ayton, C, Arizona The ideal modern-day big man, Ayton can block shots, run the floor and shoot it from deep. Such a high ceiling. The next guy is the better player, but Ayton is the better fit.

Today, June 23, 2017, marks the 45th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, the U.S. federal law that mandates equal opportunities on college campuses for men and women. It is thanks to this law and the determination of decades of committed coaches and administrators that women’s sports have been able to flourish in the Pac-12 for the past 45 years.  Take a look at a small snapshot of what…

Sometimes the aftershocks are worse than the earthquake, which is why it’s always a good idea to get outside and away from things that can fall on you. But despite having taken that advice, there you are, dutiful Chicago Sports Fan, at the bottom of a yawning crack in the ground. If there has been a crazier three-day span in Chicago sports history, I can’t remember it. On Wednesday, Blackhawks…

Women’s sport sometimes seems to run along a parallel timeline, one that lags behind the rest of life. It was 2012 before women were able to compete in every event on the Olympic programme, 2014 before they could play professional cricket in England, 2016 before they could play professional rugby, and in 2017 they were finally allowed to join Muirfield golf club, the latter providing the best excuse yet to…

When Alon Day returned to his home in Tel Aviv after winning his first NASCAR Whelen Euro Series race of the season in England, he was only focused on celebrating. But then he got a call that changed the course of his 2017 racing season — with the potential to impact the rest of his career. After just five hours in Israel, Day was on a plane to the United…

South Korea’s sports minister Do Jong-hwan has suggested the host country for the 2018 Winter Olympics, starting on February 9, may look to its neighbour North Korea for help in staging the event.  On a trip this week to Pyeongchang, to check preparations for the Games, the minister expressed his desire for a combined effort to make the international competition a success. The ski jumping venue of the 2018 Pyeongchang…

After all, as Chelsea Manager Antonio Conte said last year, this is soccer’s “crazy” age. “Prices are too high in general; the market is crazy,” he said. “When you try to buy a player, the cost is very expensive. It is not the real valuation of the player. It is a very strange situation.” Events so far this summer — before the window has even opened — have only compounded…

One NASCAR driver is as hot as the weather. Considering how this epic heatwave could melt asphalt, Kyle Larson must be sizzling. Fresh off a repeat victory at Michigan International Speedway, the young NASCAR sensation returns to his home state on a roll. Heading into Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway, Larson has two Monster Energy Cup victories this season plus six runner-up finishes (including the All-Star race). Atop…

For Mike Lesakowski and 39 of his hockey-playing friends, it’s game on. And on and on and on. From the opening faceoff Thursday night to the final whistle set for the morning of July 3, the group of mostly 40-something Buffalonians will be on the ice playing one continuous game spanning 11 days — or 251 hours, to be exact. Their goal is to raise $1 million for cancer research…

Women’s sport sometimes seems to run along a parallel timeline, one that lags behind the rest of life. It was 2012 before women were able to compete in every event on the Olympic programme, 2014 before they could play professional cricket in England, 2016 before they could play professional rugby, and in 2017 they were finally allowed to join Muirfield golf club, the latter providing the best excuse yet to…

Remember when sports were a relaxing and nonpolitical activity, and nothing could be more laid back than a softball game? The renewed calls for civility after the ghastly attack on a softball practice in Alexandria, Virginia due to political beliefs are long overdue. If you haven’t noticed lately, your local neighborhood sports venue has been turned into a theater of the politically absurd and is now lunatic central for uncivilized…

FRIDAY ON TV COLLEGE BASEBALL 3 p.m. ESPN — NCAA College World Series, Oregon State vs. LSU 8 p.m. ESPN — NCAA College World Series, Florida vs. TCU-Louisville winner HORSE RACING 8:30 a.m. NBCSN — Royal Ascot, at Ascot, England MLB BASEBALL 7 p.m. MLB — L.A. Angels at Boston FOX OHIO — Cincinnati at Washington NHL HOCKEY 7 p.m. NBCSN — 2017 NHL Draft, at Chicago AUTO RACING 8:30…

The Azerbaijan Grand Prix is live across BBC Radio 5 live, sports extra and the BBC Sport website Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was in impressive form as he set the pace in second practice at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The Dutchman, who topped both practice sessions on Friday, was 0.1 seconds quicker than Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas. Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel were fourth and fifth, with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton…

Pellegrino (right) was appointed as Alaves boss in June 2016 after the club won promotion to the Spanish top flight Southampton have appointed Mauricio Pellegrino as their new manager. The 45-year-old Argentine replaces Claude Puel, who was fired after one season in charge earlier in June. Pellegrino stood down as Alaves manager in late May, after losing the Spanish Cup final to Barcelona and finishing ninth in La Liga with…