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Tennis legend Margaret Court has added fuel to her anti-gay controversy by claiming “tennis is full of lesbians” and transgender children are the work of “the devil.” The 74-year-old Court, who won 24 Grand Slam events in her amazing career, made the comments on 20Twenty Vision Christian Radio. “I mean, tennis is full of lesbians, because even when I was playing there was only a couple there, but those couple…

There’s a surprising new best team in baseball, and it doesn’t reside in Chicago, New York or L.A. Instead, it’s the Houston Astros, who are projected to finish with the majors’ top record according to both FanGraphs.com and FiveThirtyEight’s own Elo ratings. Those are lofty expectations, but if the Astros can meet them, they’ll complete a historic turnaround that few teams in major league history can match. It’s still early,…

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The thing with sports fights is they’re typically prompted by something most responsible adults would consider petty or childish. This is especially true in baseball, where beefs between players and teams can outlast the postseason, the offseason and even cross over into the new year. In 2016, Rangers reliever Matt Bush plunked Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista in the ribs with a 98 mph fastball as…

7:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment CHARLIE BLACKMON, THE Colorado Rockies‘ leadoff hitter, center fielder and Renaissance man-in-residence, believes it’s possible to dedicate himself to his profession without becoming a one-dimensional, cardboard cutout of a human being. So he likes to carve a chunk out of his offseason and explore far-flung locales in the name of self-fulfillment. A few years ago, Blackmon jetted off to…

x Embed x Share CLOSE U OF L BASEBALL RECEIVES NATIONAL SEED IN NCAA TOURNAMENTDan McDonnell previews NCAA Tournament | 9:30 Dan McDonnell previews NCAA Tournament Adam H. Creech/Special to the Courier-Journal x Embed x Share CLOSE U OF L BASEBALL RECEIVES NATIONAL SEED IN NCAA TOURNAMENTBrendan McKay discusses NCAA Tournament | 4:44 Louisville’s Brendan McKay discusses NCAA Tournament Adam H. Creech/Special to the CJ x Embed x Share CLOSE…

DOWNLOAD COMPLETE RELEASE (PDF) BY THE NUMBERS 10 – For the tenth-straight week Oregon State tops the national rankings in the USA Today poll, NCWBA poll, Collegiate Baseball poll, and the Baseball America poll. 5 – Five Pac-12 student-athletes appear on the 2017 Golden Spikes Award semifinalist list: Griffin Canning, UCLA; Luke Heimlich, OSU; Nick Madrigal, OSU; JJ Matijevic, ARIZ, and David Peterson, ORE. 14, 16 – For the fourteenth-straight USA Today poll…

Tennis legend Margaret Court has added fuel to her anti-gay controversy by claiming “tennis is full of lesbians” and transgender children are the work of “the devil.” The 74-year-old Court, who won 24 Grand Slam events in her amazing career, made the comments on 20Twenty Vision Christian Radio. “I mean, tennis is full of lesbians, because even when I was playing there was only a couple there, but those couple…

Photo credit: Jerry Marklund/Stringer/Getty Images Before the 2017 race season, the powers that be in NASCAR decided to overhaul the sport’s rules—like, seismic levels of change here. But they couldn’t leave it alone for more than 11 races, changing the race format for the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday. And now, they’re considering more rule changes for 2018. The idea to change things yet again appears to have come after the…

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The thing with sports fights is they’re typically prompted by something most responsible adults would consider petty or childish. This is especially true in baseball, where beefs between players and teams can outlast the postseason, the offseason and even cross over into the new year. In 2016, Rangers reliever Matt Bush plunked Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista in the ribs with a 98 mph fastball as…

Tennis legend Margaret Court has added fuel to her anti-gay controversy by claiming “tennis is full of lesbians” and transgender children are the work of “the devil.” The 74-year-old Court, who won 24 Grand Slam events in her amazing career, made the comments on 20Twenty Vision Christian Radio. “I mean, tennis is full of lesbians, because even when I was playing there was only a couple there, but those couple…

Image via Barstool Sports, a blog for dipshits, by dipshits, caught hell Tuesday after senior director of editorial strategy and growth—this does not sound like a real job—Chris Spagnuolo wrote a blog about how Rihanna might be fat. Spagnuolo believed the criticism came because no one read past the headline, which was “Is Rihanna Going To Make Being Fat The Hot New Trend?” Those who read past the headline got…

TIGER WOODS More disturbing images of Tiger Woods emerged in the black-and-white details of police reports, depicting him sound asleep behind the wheel of a car parked awkwardly on the side of a six-lane Florida road with two flat tires, the engine still running and a blinker flashing. When a police officer woke him, Woods was so disoriented that he initially said he had just returned from playing golf in…

An L.A. home owned by LeBron James was the target of a hate crime — someone spray painted the n-word on the front gate and detectives are now investigating, cops tell TMZ Sports. Here’s what we know … multiple LAPD units and a neighborhood patrol vehicle responded to the home early Wednesday morning. We’re told the word was scrawled on the outer gate. We’re told investigators are looking for security footage…

This conceptual drawing shows the stadium district of Rocky Mountain Sports Park, which is proposed for Windsor. WINDSOR — Local developers announced Tuesday their intention to build a sports park in Windsor that would have no rival worldwide. Two years from now, the proposed Rocky Mountain Sports Park will host its first baseball and softball tournaments on its 65 fields, the developers said at a press conference with Windsor officials….

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Screencap via WBTV Fans leave behind all sorts of things at major race weekends—tents, coolers, old couches, and in the case of this weekend’s Coke 600, even one of their own. Over 100,000 people attended this weekend’s Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, per WBTV—including Jody Nash. Advertisement Nash fell asleep at some point during the Coke 600 weekend, which was somewhat understandable given the way NASCAR’s longest race suffered…

TIGER WOODS More disturbing images of Tiger Woods emerged in the black-and-white details of police reports, depicting him sound asleep behind the wheel of a car parked awkwardly on the side of a six-lane Florida road with two flat tires, the engine still running and a blinker flashing. When a police officer woke him, Woods was so disoriented that he initially said he had just returned from playing golf in…

This conceptual drawing shows the stadium district of Rocky Mountain Sports Park, which is proposed for Windsor. WINDSOR — Local developers announced Tuesday their intention to build a sports park in Windsor that would have no rival worldwide. Two years from now, the proposed Rocky Mountain Sports Park will host its first baseball and softball tournaments on its 65 fields, the developers said at a press conference with Windsor officials….

Screencap via WBTV Fans leave behind all sorts of things at major race weekends—tents, coolers, old couches, and in the case of this weekend’s Coke 600, even one of their own. Over 100,000 people attended this weekend’s Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, per WBTV—including Jody Nash. Advertisement Nash fell asleep at some point during the Coke 600 weekend, which was somewhat understandable given the way NASCAR’s longest race suffered…

Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Last summer, Rio de Janeiro put on an Olympic Games that should serve as a blaring warning siren to any potential host city stupid enough to want to pay billions for the rights to the Games. Before the Games had been out of town four months, Rio de Janeiro had to declare bankruptcy because they were $31 billion in debt. The power’s out and the medals are…