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FRIDAY ON TV COLLEGE BASEBALL Noon ESPNU — NCAA Tournament, Lexington Regional, Kentucky vs. Ohio 3 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament, Regional, Texas A&M vs. Baylor, Houston 6 p.m. ESPN3 — NCAA Tournament, Louisville Regional, Louisville vs. Radford 7 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament, Regional, UCLA vs. Texas, at Long Beach, Calif. MLB BASEBALL 2:20 p.m. MLB — St. Louis at Chicago Cubs 7:05 p.m. MLB — Boston at Baltimore…

Djokovic applauded Schwartzman’s gutsy display at the end of the match Defending champion Novak Djokovic survived a third-round scare at the French Open to beat unseeded Argentine Diego Schwartzman in five sets. The Serb came back from two sets to one down to win 5-7 6-3 3-6 6-1 6-1. Djokovic, 30, finished strongly despite making 55 unforced errors and arguing with umpire Carlos Ramos over a conduct warning. The second…

The red-zone play was called, appropriately enough, “Jump Pass,” and Coach Mike Huber would call it from the sidelines by simply raising both hands in the air, as if to signal a touchdown. He didn’t care if the opposition knew what was coming — they couldn’t defend it anyway. His Linden High quarterback would simply lob a pass into the end zone, where his 6-foot-7, 240-pound wide receiver, a…

LSU baseball’s road to Omaha begins Friday at Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers need at least three wins to advance to a super regional, which also would be played in Baton Rouge. Click here to see the regional tournament bracket. Follow below — or click here — for live updates from LSU’s games.

FRIDAY ON TV COLLEGE BASEBALL Noon ESPNU — NCAA Tournament, Lexington Regional, Kentucky vs. Ohio 3 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament, Regional, Texas A&M vs. Baylor, Houston 6 p.m. ESPN3 — NCAA Tournament, Louisville Regional, Louisville vs. Radford 7 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament, Regional, UCLA vs. Texas, at Long Beach, Calif. MLB BASEBALL 2:20 p.m. MLB — St. Louis at Chicago Cubs 7:05 p.m. MLB — Boston at Baltimore…

FILE – In this Dec. 2, 2016 file photo, 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee President Yoshiko Mori, left, speaks as IOC Vice President John Coates listens during their joint press conference of the IOC coordination commission in Tokyo. The cost of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is nearly twice the initial estimate despite a major cost-cutting effort. A major reason is that cities exclude large amounts of associated costs…

FRIDAY ON TV COLLEGE BASEBALL Noon ESPNU — NCAA Tournament, Lexington Regional, Kentucky vs. Ohio 3 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament, Regional, Texas A&M vs. Baylor, Houston 6 p.m. ESPN3 — NCAA Tournament, Louisville Regional, Louisville vs. Radford 7 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament, Regional, UCLA vs. Texas, at Long Beach, Calif. MLB BASEBALL 2:20 p.m. MLB — St. Louis at Chicago Cubs 7:05 p.m. MLB — Boston at Baltimore…

This is a good time to be a college baseball fan. The NCAA postseason is here. Sixty-four teams battle one another at 16 regional sites in the first step to reaching the hallowed grounds of Omaha, Nebraska. Fans will fill cozy stadiums, cramming into outfield bleachers while guzzling sodas and downing hot dogs. They’ll spend gobs of money, filtering in and out of gift shops and forming lengthy lines at…

Mike Fisher, a.k.a. Mr. Carrie Underwood, plays during Game 2 in Pittsburgh.(Photo: Keith Srakocic / Associated Press) Nashville, Tenn. — Terry Crisp sorely wishes that he and fellow broadcaster Pete Weber had recorded their “Hockey 101” sessions from the early days of the Nashville Predators. The expansion franchise had tapped the original broadcast team to teach hockey rules in a market where fans knew what a sack meant in football…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Penn State Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour has announced the appointment of Jeff Kampersal as the second head coach in the history of the women’s hockey program. One of the nation’s most successful coaches, Kampersal (Camp-er-saul) comes to Happy Valley after serving as the head coach at Princeton for the past 21 seasons, where he won 327 contests. “We are thrilled to have Jeff Kampersal…

x Embed x Share CLOSE While the Predators are out of town, the Smashville fan base has descended on the Nashville bar scene. Autumn Allison/USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee Buy Photo Billy Ray Cyrus sings to the Stanley Cup during its visit to the Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, May 31, 2017.(Photo: Lacy Atkins / The Tennessean)Buy Photo Country music, catfish, craft beer, slapshots, moonshine. Nashville’s bar scene, like the…

ROME — Upon winning the Vatican’s annual soccer championship last week, the victorious team honored Christians in Egypt who have faced increasingly brutal persecution in recent years. “I would like to dedicate this trophy to our friends from the Coptic Church,” said Deacon Sama Joan Romeo of Cameroon, the team captain of the Urban Lions. Catholic seminarians and clergy drew soccer teams from the pontifical universities and colleges of Rome…

That sound? It’s the approaching hoofbeats of June, and June, it so happens, is a big month for baseball on any number of levels. “Why is June a big month for baseball?” you’re presently not asking. Fortunately for you, this scribe’s stock in trade is answering the questions no one is asking.  So here, people of baseball, is why the sport that binds is of central importance in June … …

Buy Photo IU has plenty of reason to smile with their fourth NCAA tournament berth in five years.(Photo: Robert Scheer / IndyStar)Buy Photo Story Highlights IU vs. N.C. State, 7 p.m., Friday, WatchESPN app BLOOMINGTON – For years, when his office was still a hole in the wall off the east hallway at Assembly Hall, former Indiana University baseball coach Tracy Smith kept the future within arm’s reach. Graphic renderings of…

x Embed x Share CLOSE Jake Adams is tied for the national lead in home runs in 2017, and he’s also tied the Big Ten Conference’s all-time single-season record. Jake Adams (35) celebrates a home run with his Iowa teammates.(Photo: Iowa Hawkeyes) HOUSTON — The hardware accumulation continues for Jake Adams. After being unanimously selected as the Big Ten Conference’s player of the year and a first-team all-conference selection, the Iowa…

BY Zach Lawson 8 hours ago FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Tickets remain on sale for this weekend’s NCAA Fayetteville Baseball Regional at Baum Stadium. All-sessions general admission passes are now available and are $75. They may be purchased online at ArkansasRazorbacks.com, by calling 1-800-982-HOGS (4647) or in-person at the Razorback Ticket Center. Based on availability, single game tickets…

After 33 years as coach of the Southern baseball program, Roger Cador will announce his retirement from coaching in a press conference on Friday morning. Cador told the Advocate he has decided to step away from coaching but will stay on at the University for at least one more year in a non-coaching capacity. Bigger than life. The role in which Cador will play in the athletic department…

In 2006, Roger Federer was a three-time defending Wimbledon champion who’d just broken Bjorn Borg’s all-time record of 41-consecutive grass-court wins. By contrast, Rafael Nadal was a clay-court maestro who’d just won his second French Open, defeating Federer in the final to deny the tennis great the one major that eluded him. But Nadal’s tennis magic was pretty much dependent on some crushed brick under his feet. On the other surfaces Nadal…

Even as Los Angeles continues to push for hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics, it seems bid leaders are compiling a list of concessions they could seek in return for taking the 2028 Games instead. Mayor Eric Garcetti identified one wish-list item at a news conference this week, saying he would like the International Olympic Committee to fund youth programs throughout L.A. “My dream is not so much just to bring…