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HOOVER, Ala. — Arkansas and LSU are rolling from the Hoover Met for this 2017 SEC Baseball Tournament Championship. Follow along with live stats and updates right here on SEC Country. Arkansas baseball vs. LSU live blog, score updates Top 4 3 p.m. – An LSU single to rightfield and an E5 – Jared Gates booted the ball on an easy grounder – have the Tigers cooking with nobody out….

SAN JOSE — The spirit of Calvin Riley was present at San Jose Municipal Stadium. After Menlo School’s dramatic 1-0 victory over No. 8 Burlingame in the Central Coast Section Division II baseball title game on Saturday, Menlo coach Sean Riley couldn’t help but think of his son, Calvin. A former star baseball player at Serra High in San Mateo and the College of San Mateo, Calvin Riley was taken…

OKLAHOMA CITY — It’s championship day at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark as No. 6 Texas and No. 8 Oklahoma State clash for the 2017 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship game at 1 p.m. CT today. The Longhorns and Cowboys advanced out of their divisions to secure a spot in the final game, going a combined 6-1 vs. the league’s other six participants. Here are a few notes heading into today’s Championship:…

North Carolina is headed back to the championship game of the ACC Baseball Tournament for the first time since the Tar Heels won the title in 2013. And this time, the Tar Heels did it coming from behind. Miami jumped ahead 3-0 in the first inning, but North Carolina got the bats going after a nearly two-hour rain delay to score three runs in the fourth and sixth innings and…

Perhaps the biggest news from the week leading up to Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 concerns not this season, but the next one. Racing fans in the Northeast had to face the reality that there will not be a September race in Loudon next year as NASCAR unveiled its schedule for 2018. Instead, the playoffs will open at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a sister track of New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Loudon will…

On Feb. 11, Christopher Barton’s memorial Facebook page was flooded with pictures of strawberry cupcakes with chocolate icing. A communal birthday present, if you will. They were always his favorite, simple and sweet. It’s a small way for his closest friends to remember the Harrisburg native, who died in Afghanistan on May 24, 2010. And in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, driver Reed Sorenson will remember Barton a…

David Wallechinsky, president of the International Society of Olympic Historians, tells NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro that the Rio Olympics wasted money and were plagued by corruption.

Sports Business Journal, the well-respected sports industry bible, sent out a tweet congratulating talent agency CAA for both winning one of its annual awards for “best talent representation” — and for sponsoring the publication’s “World Congress of Sports” event. The magazine, realizing how it might appear that CAA was being rewarded for its sponsorship, promptly apologized for the “poorly worded and inappropriate tweet,” sent out on Wednesday night. “Award winners…

AUTO RACING 8 a.m.: WSLS, Formula One, Monaco Grand Prix, at Monte Carlo, Monaco (prerace show at 7:30 a.m.) Noon: WSET, IndyCar Series, Indianapolis 500, at Indianapolis (prerace show at 11 a.m.) 6 p.m.: WFXR, NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series, Coca-Cola 600, at Concord, N.C. (prerace show at 5:30 p.m.) COLLEGE BASEBALL Noon: ESPN2, ACC championship, at Louisville, Ky. Noon: ESPN3.com, Southern Conference championship, at Greenville,…

Following the trail blazed by athletes like Michael Strahan, who parlayed a successful NFL career into a thriving run as a news personality, Alex Rodriguez has made a deal with ABC News, Deadline has confirmed. The former New York Yankees slugger will have a contributor role and appear occasionally on shows like Good Morning America, World News Tonight and Nightline, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. Rodriguez,…

Kell Brook was stopped in the 11th round to surrender his IBF world welterweight title to Errol Spence Jr Kell Brook broke his left eye socket in Saturday’s defeat by Errol Spence Jr, his trainer Dominic Ingle has said. The Briton struggled with swelling on his left eye midway through the bout as he lost the IBF world welterweight title to the American in Sheffield. Brook, 31, had surgery after…

Fresh off Saturday’s XFINITY Series win at CMS, Blaney, like Jones, is seeking his first Cup win. He seems poised to make a strong run at it in the 600, having been second-fastest in Friday’s first practice and leading Practice 2 on Saturday. He’ll start seventh.

On Feb. 11, Christopher Barton’s memorial Facebook page was flooded with pictures of strawberry cupcakes with chocolate icing. A communal birthday present, if you will. They were always his favorite, simple and sweet. It’s a small way for his closest friends to remember the Harrisburg native, who died in Afghanistan on May 24, 2010. And in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, driver Reed Sorenson will remember Barton a…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This interview was conducted in Spanish and has been translated. Read in Spanish here. Cubs catcher Willson Contreras made his MLB debut last summer after seven years in the Cubs’ Dominican and minor league system. Since then, he has hit a home run in his first at-bat, caught a Cy Young finalist every five games and played in (and…

Jim Bunning, a hard-throwing Hall of Fame pitcher who once threw a perfect game and who took his intimidating, combative style from the baseball diamond to Capitol Hill as a Republican member of the House of Representatives and later as a two-term U.S. senator from Kentucky, died May 26 at a hospice facility in northern Kentucky. He was 85. His former chief of staff, Jon Deuser, confirmed the death. The…

It’s been a big year for Laguna Niguel native Harrison White. An alumnus of St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in 2013, White, 22, graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s in political science while helping his team win the Ivy League Baseball Championship. He led his team with an on-base percentage of .479 in his senior year. As he prepares for the NCAA Regional Championships beginning Friday, June 2, White spoke with…

Welcome to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Homer Simpson. Yes, you read that correctly. Homer Jay Simpson, the cartoon character from “The Simpsons,” has become an inducted member of baseball’s most hallowed halls, plaque and all. Okay, not really. The induction ceremony, which took place Saturday morning in Cooperstown, N.Y., was part of an event to kick off a Simpsons-themed exhibit that will open inside the shrine celebrating the 25th anniversary…

WHO: LSU (42-17) vs. Arkansas (42-16) WHEN: 2 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, Hoover, Ala. TV: ESPN2 RADIO: WDGL-FM 98.1; WWL-AM, 870; KLWB-FM, 103.7 RANKINGS: LSU is ranked No. 8 by Baseball America. Arkansas is No. 13 SUNDAY’S LIKELY STARTERS: LSU, Fr. RHP Eric Walker (6-1, 4.04 ERA, 78.0 IP, 22 BB, 62 K) vs. Arkansas Sr. RHP Dominic Taccolini (4-1, 4.78, 43.1 IP, 25 BB, 38…

In a restart-riddled race with 12 cautions and 12 lead changes, Ryan Blaney took advantage of a late restart to take the checkered flag in the Hisense 4K TV 300 for his first Xfinity Series win since 2015. The High Point native started in third but didn’t see clean air until lap 53, when he took the lead from fifth-place finisher Denny Hamlin. But Blaney finished with 107 laps led…