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Oregon State remained No. 1 in the D1Baseball Top 25 rankings after sweeping a big Pac-12 showdown series against then-No. 9 Arizona. The Beavers improved to 20-1 overall and extended their winning streak to 15 straight games. D1Baseball.com Ranking Louisville, Texas Tech and TCU held steady in the next three spots after winning their weekend series. Clemson moved up two spots to No. 5 after sweeping…

Sophomore third baseman Willie MacIver hit a grand slam in the first inning Sunday as No. 22 Washington salvaged the finale of a three-game baseball series at Oregon with a 12-3 Pac-12 win. “He threw me a low-and-in changeup and I just went for it,” MacIver said. “I put the barrel on it and it just went out.” MacIver was 3 for 4 and also had a double to go…

(1) Oregon State 11, (9) Arizona 7 ARIZONA;000;030;040;-;7;7;1 OREGON STATE;300;213;20X;-;11;15;0 Gomez, Faulkner (4), Gowens (6), Romo (7) and Salazar. Thompson, Eisert (5), Gambrell (8), Verburg, Mulholland (9) and Rutschman. W: Eisert (1-0). L: Gomez (2-3). 2B: Rivas (UA), Matijevic (UA), Madrigal 2 (OSU), Harrison (OSU), Larnach (OSU), Cary (OSU). 3B: Cary (OSU).  Hits: Arizona 7 (Rivas 3, Matijevic 2, Martinez, Stevenson), OSU 15 (Madrigal 2, Anderson 3, Harrison…

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The New York Yankees pulled off their best play of spring training Sunday in Tampa with a catch, actually, a pair of catchers. Ten-year-old Daniel Gomez and his sister 5-year-old Isabella arrived at the game thinking they would see a message from their parents on the scoreboard. The children are living with their grandparents in Tampa while their parents, Chief Warrant Officer Jose Gomez, and Capt. Elizabeth Gomez,  are deployed in…

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Be still my heart. This is the Kroger 200 at Lucas Oil Raceway, a track close Indianapolis Motor Speedway, back when the Xfinity Series was known as the Nationwide Series. That series raced here instead of at the big track. Photo credit: Jamie Squire/Getty Images If there’s one thing we know about modern NASCAR, it’s that the sanctioning body often takes the most complicated route in order to solve a…

USA Hockey might have another problem on its hands. Reports circulated on Sunday that the U.S. men’s national team could boycott the World Championships to show support for the women’s team. Octagon Hockey agent, Allan Walsh, first tweeted the news just two days after the NHL Players Association released a statement supporting the women. Word circulating among NHL players that American players will refuse to play in men’s World Championships…

Kyle Larson won the Auto Club 400 in overtime Sunday to give him a sweep for the NASCAR weekend at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. The 24-year-old Californian also won Saturday’s race in NASCAR’s second-tier Xfinity Series. Sunday’s two-lap overtime finish in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race was set up when Ricky Stenhouse spun out with only four laps left in the 200-lap race, the latest in a…

Arnold Schwarzenegger turned an offensive comment about the Special Olympics that someone left on his Facebook page into a “teachable moment” this week. The comment came in response to a video the former bodybuilding champion posted Thursday to his page congratulating the winners of the Special Olympics World Games held earlier this week in Austria, where Schwarzenegger is from. Schwarzenegger appears in the video message that also features the text,…

Mar 25, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment FONTANA, Calif. — Austin Dillon tried to joke a little about what he would do if he found himself feeling the anger he felt last Saturday. What he won’t do is drive into another car under caution, as he did in squeezing Cole Custer into the wall at fairly slow speed a week ago at Phoenix Raceway. NASCAR technically…

At Fox Sports 1, Horowitz is essentially building the entire plane out of the First Take black box. While ESPN fills its schedule with a mix of game broadcasts, opinion, highlights, news, analysis, documentaries, and investigative journalism, FS1 is increasingly all-in on opinion. (Although it does have the rights to major-conference college football and basketball, Major League Baseball games, and NASCAR races, FS1 is still way behind ESPN in the…

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When Todd Houseman became Northwestern baseball coach in 2014, he wanted to build up the program after several middling seasons. But he knew that wouldn’t happen without the players making a stronger commitment to the sport. He began preaching the importance of travel baseball, which lasts through the summer and beyond but is a surefire way to improve. “At the time, we were still Division II. We…

It’s almost time again. From opening day to a couple of potentially big games in September, here are a handful of dates to mark on the calendar: SUNDAY, APRIL 2 Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals: One of baseball’s best rivalries takes on a new look when the World Series champion Cubs kick off their title defense against Dexter Fowler and the Cardinals. Fowler helped Chicago…

COLUMBIA, MO. • After what he’d later call Missouri’s worst-played game of the season, baseball coach Steve Bieser woke up Saturday expecting a better effort from his 18th-ranked Tigers against Arkansas. On Friday, the No. 24 Razorbacks wrecked MU’s 20-game winning streak with a 9-2 win. In their first loss since the Feb. 17 season opener, the Tigers rarely reflected the clutch-hitting, efficient-pitching team that cruised…

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A GRIP ON SPORTS • Was Saturday the biggest day in Spokane sports history? There are a lot of contenders, sure, but the small university by the river reaching the final weekend of the NCAA basketball tournament has to be a contender. Read on. •••••••••• • We’re not going to delve deeply here, mainly because there is so much to pass along from other sources, you probably don’t want to…