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RELATED: Almirola released from hospital NASCAR officials will do a thorough inspection of the No. 43 Ford of driver Aric Almirola following the Richard Petty Motorsports driver’s fiery crash during Saturday’s Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway. “It’s currently at the (NASCAR) R&D Center, and our safety experts will … look for anything that might give us clues or some indication of exactly what the challenge was there with Aric…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Flying into Puerto Rico, you have to have a window seat. On the left are the turquoise sea and blue skies. On the right are the beautiful green mountains. But for the baseball fan, the night show is even more impressive, with the lights of baseball fields shining everywhere you look. It’s an immense archipelago of lit fields; the…

5:37 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment There will be a new logo on the Cleveland Cavaliers‘ jerseys when they take the court next season: the Goodyear wingfoot logo. The tire company, founded and headquartered in Akron, Ohio, signed a multiyear deal to be on the team’s jerseys. All-Star forward LeBron James was born and currently lives in Akron. “Every Akron kid grew up seeing the…

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RELATED: Almirola released from hospital NASCAR officials will do a thorough inspection of the No. 43 Ford of driver Aric Almirola following the Richard Petty Motorsports driver’s fiery crash during Saturday’s Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway. “It’s currently at the (NASCAR) R&D Center, and our safety experts will … look for anything that might give us clues or some indication of exactly what the challenge was there with Aric…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Flying into Puerto Rico, you have to have a window seat. On the left are the turquoise sea and blue skies. On the right are the beautiful green mountains. But for the baseball fan, the night show is even more impressive, with the lights of baseball fields shining everywhere you look. It’s an immense archipelago of lit fields; the…

Oregon State clinched the Pac-12 Conference championship and swept the Civil War series at Oregon in a banner week, and retained its top spot in the Baseball America Top 25, powered by Louisville Slugger. The Beavers’ conference championship is their fifth since 2005, the most in the Pac-12 since the league eliminated its divisional format in 1999. They have dominated the Pac-12 this season, sweeping six of their nine series…

A look at the top 25 high school baseball teams in the Southland: Rk. School (W-L) Next (last week’s ranking) 1. HUNTINGTON BEACH (26-4) SS Division 1 playoffs, Thursday (1) 2. ST. JOHN BOSCO (23-7) SS Division 2 playoffs, Friday (2) 3. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (22-4-2) SS Division 1 playoffs, Thursday (3) 4. EL TORO (22-7-1) SS Division 1 playoffs, Thursday (6) 5. MOORPARK (24-3) SS Division 2 playoffs, Friday (4) 6….

Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer remained in the game after being hit by a line drive in the fourth inning. (Mark Tenally/AP) When the line drive hit his knee, sending one of the toughest players on the Nationals to his knees, then to his back, writhing in agony, everything seemed to crumble. Max Scherzer spun and stumbled and fell to the ground, got up, stumbled, and went down again. The…

On more than one occasion, I have interviewed Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. In each of these, he has always struck me as willing to answer the hard questions, and do so intelligently. In each of the last two interviews I have had with him, the topic of fan safety has been discussed, namely around increasing safety netting past the dugouts. When asked what premium Manfred placed on the…

2:04 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment There will be a new logo on the Cleveland Cavaliers‘ jerseys when they take the court next season: the Goodyear wingfoot logo. The tire company, founded and headquartered in Akron, Ohio, signed a multiyear deal to be on the team’s jerseys. All-Star forward LeBron James was born and currently lives in Akron. “Every Akron kid grew up seeing the…

Now the French get their turn. Bid leaders seeking to win the 2024 Summer Games for Paris will spend Tuesday guiding Olympic officials on a tour of their city, stopping by the Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Versailles. Los Angeles had the same opportunity last week, showing the evaluation commission from the International Olympic Committee a series of proposed venues ranging from the Coliseum to Santa Monica beach. The…

NASCAR driver Aric Almirola was released from the University of Kansas Medical Center on Sunday, a day after he fractured a vertebra during a fiery wreck at Kansas Speedway. Almirola was trailing Joey Logano and Danica Patrick when a broken brake rotor on Logano’s car sent him and Patrick into the wall entering the first turn. Almirola had no time to check up and plowed into Logano’s car, the force…

Photo: Allessandro Di Meo/AP This afternoon, the Giro d’Italia truly started. Advertisement The opening week of Italy’s Grand Tour was tense and uneventful, as every rider with general classification hopes stuck together and let the sprinters do their thing. All that conservative riding evaporated on the slopes of the Blockhaus (the truly un-Italian name is a holdover from the Austro-Hungarian empire), and fans were treated to a dogfight between all…

Danica Patrick’s car is No. 10, ie the one that nearly explodes. Danica Patrick’s Wonder Woman-branded NASCAR was engulfed in flames after getting into a wreck at the Go Bowling 400 at Kansas Speedway on Saturday. The powers of Princess Diana of Themyscira seemed to protect Patrick, who walked away unscathed, but another driver was injured in the crash. According to Fox Sports, Patrick and Joey Logano were battling each…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Flying into Puerto Rico, you have to have a window seat. On the left are the turquoise sea and blue skies. On the right are the beautiful green mountains. But for the baseball fan, the night show is even more impressive, with the lights of baseball fields shining everywhere you look. It’s an immense archipelago of lit fields; the…

A look at the top 25 high school baseball teams in the Southland: Rk. School (W-L) Next (last week’s ranking) 1. HUNTINGTON BEACH (26-4) SS Division 1 playoffs, Thursday (1) 2. ST. JOHN BOSCO (23-7) SS Division 2 playoffs, Friday (2) 3. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (22-4-2) SS Division 1 playoffs, Thursday (3) 4. EL TORO (22-7-1) SS Division 1 playoffs, Thursday (6) 5. MOORPARK (24-3) SS Division 2 playoffs, Friday (4) 6….

Now the French get their turn. Bid leaders seeking to win the 2024 Summer Games for Paris will spend Tuesday guiding Olympic officials on a tour of their city, stopping by the Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Versailles. Los Angeles had the same opportunity last week, showing the evaluation commission from the International Olympic Committee a series of proposed venues ranging from the Coliseum to Santa Monica beach. The…

A look at the top 25 high school baseball teams in the Southland: Rk. School (W-L) Next (last week’s ranking) 1. HUNTINGTON BEACH (26-4) SS Division 1 playoffs, Thursday (1) 2. ST. JOHN BOSCO (23-7) SS Division 2 playoffs, Friday (2) 3. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (22-4-2) SS Division 1 playoffs, Thursday (3) 4. EL TORO (22-7-1) SS Division 1 playoffs, Thursday (6) 5. MOORPARK (24-3) SS Division 2 playoffs, Friday (4) 6….