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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…

CLOSE x Embed x Share A look at the eight inductees into the highest honor for a state of Michigan sports figure. Wochit Buy Photo Mitch Albom speaks during a ceremony where 20 area charities accepted checks totaling more than $1 million from donations raised at Mitch Albom’s with annual S.A.Y. Detroit Radiothon in December 2016 in Detroit on Tuesday, March 21, 2017.(Photo: Romain Blanquart, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo A…

BASEBALL SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION 1 Semifinals, Tuesday •Corona 5, El Dorado 2 (8) •El Toro 3, Mater Dei 0   DIVISION 2 Semifinals, Tuesday •Etiwanda 5, St. John Bosco 2 •Palm Desert 4, Capistrano Valley 3   DIVISION 3 Semifinals, Tuesday •Walnut 3, Paso Robles 2 •Righetti 1, Paraclete 0   DIVISION 4 Semifinals, Tuesday •Tahquitz 5, Nogales 3 •Grace Brethren 7, Victor Valley 1   DIVISION 5 Semifinals, Tuesday…

When you ask Oregon State baseball coach Pat Casey how he has led his top-ranked Beavers to an otherworldly 49-4 record this spring, or how the Corvallis-based program over which he has presided for 23 seasons is the only school north of Palo Alto to win the College World Series in the past half-century, he provides a succinct answer. “I had the good fortune,” says Casey, “of not having anybody…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Chad Holbrook is confident he’s the coach to lead South Carolina back to its NCAA Tournament success, despite missing the postseason for a second time in three seasons. “I met with the team,” Holbrook said Tuesday. “We’re making progress and making plans to make sure that this doesn’t happen again in 2018.” Because it has already happened twice in Holbrook’s five seasons has led to questions…

Strickland hit Harper in the hip with a pitch in the eighth inning and the Washington slugger charged the mound, wildly firing his helmet before trading punches to the head with Strickland during the Nationals’ 3-0 win Monday at San Francisco. MLB Chief Baseball Officer Joe Torre’s explanation of the disciplinary decisions said Strickland intentionally hit “Harper with a pitch, inciting the bench-clearing incident and fighting”…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// I wasn’t lucky enough to be able to open up Sports Illustrated every few weeks and find a new Frank Deford story waiting for me, but I can still remember opening up “The World’s Tallest Midget” and reading his lyrical prose for the first time. Deford didn’t write for…

An agreement is “progressing” with the International Olympic Committee that would give Paris the summer games in 2024 with Los Angeles to follow in 2028, sources told The Wall Street Journal. There has been an ongoing saga in the bid for the 2024 Olympics between Los Angeles and Paris. There have been political climates and various bids to account for for the IOC. The victory by Emmanuel Macron in the French…

Two soccer coaches from a Chino Hills high school were among four people killed in a crash near the Desert Center area. Matt Hodges, 30, was the head coach of the varsity girls’ soccer team at Ayala High School, and Gabby Constante was the assistant coach of the team. Both coaches and two other people were killed Monday afternoon in a head-on collision between the car they were in, a…

In Florida, it’s probably a good idea to thoroughly check all corners of your swimming pool before diving in — you never know when a massive alligator may be waiting for you at the bottom. That’s a warning the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office is spreading after getting a call Monday from a woman cleaning a family’s pool in Venice. At the bottom of the chlorine-filled pool sat a 7-to-8-foot female…

Are more changes in store for NASCAR’s race format and unique points system? In an effort to heighten drama, NASCAR vice president Steve O’Donnell said Tuesday the sport could add additional race segments and tinker with its points system for the 2018 season.  One idea is to add bonus points for “major races” including the Daytona 500, the Coca-Cola 600, the Brickyard 400 and Southern 500. Another idea is to add an additional…

For as long as there has been baseball played on these shores, there has been one subset of players, generally veteran ones, that has taken it upon itself to teach another subset of players, generally younger ones, how to — say it with me now — “play the game the right way.” If that seems like a tired phrase, it’s becoming an even more tired concept. On Monday at AT&T…

Ten drivers already in the NASCAR Hall of Fame competed in at least one race in the No. 3 in what is now known as the Sprint Cup Series: Tim Flock, Cotton Owens, Fireball Roberts, Junior Johnson, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Buck Baker, Fred Lorenzen, Richard Childress and Dale Earnhardt.

GIF via Greg Engle NASCAR driver Kyle Busch was disappointed in his second place finish at this weekend’s Coke 600, and wasn’t in the mood to answer questions. So, he gave a brief answer to the one he was asked in the media pit, and to signify he done once and for all, he threw the microphone down. Kyle Busch desperately wanted to follow up his All-Star Race win with…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The NHL is heading to Asia next season. Just not the Olympics. Commissioner Gary Bettman emphatically reasserted the league will not take a break next February to participate in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea next February. The league previously announced it would skip going to Pyeongchang earlier this spring, a point Bettman bluntly reiterated on Monday just hours before Pittsburgh and Nashville met in Game…

The Pittsburgh Penguins are the luckiest team in hockey. I’m a fan, and I freely concede that much. That’s been true historically, like when some of the worst teams in Penguins history yielded Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby in the draft. It’s been true in these Stanley Cup Playoffs, too, with the Pens overcoming massive shot attempt deficits as a matter of routine practice and winning anyway. In that regard,…

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It was just over five years ago that Bryce Harper was in the news because of another plunking. In 2012, Cole Hamels hit Harper for breaking the unwritten rule of existing. It remains one of the sillier reasons someone has been thrown at over the last decade — “Because he’s there,” said the George Mallory of pitching — and I figured it would be the silliest reason someone would ever…

As Little League season gets underway, experts are warning parents about a recent uptick in baseball-related injuries that have been appearing in younger and younger athletes. Former Olympic softball player and current ESPN correspondent Jessica Mendoza spoke to one 13-year-old athlete and to sports medicine experts for “Good Morning America,” and found that the number of baseball-related injuries have increased as more young players compete in the sport year-round. Experts…

For as long as there has been baseball played on these shores, there has been one subset of players, generally veteran ones, that has taken it upon itself to teach another subset of players, generally younger ones, how to — say it with me now — “play the game the right way.” If that seems like a tired phrase, it’s becoming an even more tired concept. On Monday at AT&T…