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Mar 14, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment “Baseball is boring.” You hear it time and again by those who don’t understand what the game truly is, what it represents for so many. For those who believe such a crazy thought, we submit the United States versus Dominican Republic World Baseball Classic game on Saturday night as indisputable evidence to the contrary. On the field, it was…

Hall of Fame to induct four The Johnston County Athletic Hall of Fame will induct the class of 2017 during a ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 25, at Clayton High School. This year’s honorees are: Travis Stephenson – Clayton High School. Van Weeks – Cleveland High School. Darryl Lucas – Smithfield-Selma High School. James Cole – South Johnston High School. Tickets are available at all Johnston County high schools….

David Madison/Getty Images If you want to watch sports highlights on your phone, there are lots of sites and platforms that make it easy. But none is more now than House of Highlights. The bombastic, occasionally NSFW Instagram account is the hottest thing going, due in no small part to the dedication of its 22-year-old founder, Omar Raja. “He’s honestly like the modern SportsCenter, or the young person’s SportsCenter,” says…

Buy Photo Xavier Musketeers guard J.P. Macura (55) shoots from behind the arc during a practice session at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (Photo: Sam Greene, The Enquirer) And away we go. So it’s 5:15 AM in Sacramento, meaning in about four hours I’m gonna find a restaurant with TVs, sit down to my green eggs and ham and watch the first four games. How…

For months, UFC president Dana White shot down the idea that lightweight champion Conor McGregor would ever face Floyd Mayweather in a boxing match. Well it appears White has changed his mind. During an appearance on “Conan” on Wednesday night, White said without hesitation that he believes a deal will get done to pit McGregor against Mayweather in one of the most lucrative super fights in combat sports history. “I…

Twitter, Turner and CBS are teammates for a new NCAA tourney pregame show streaming on the social network. Getty Images Twitter is teaming up with Turner Sports and CBS Sports to stream a 30-minute pregame show focusing on college basketball fans’ take on the NCAA Tournament on the social network. The show, NCAA March Madness Now, will begin on Thursday and Friday on Twitter featuring game predictions, celebrity tweets, fan…

12:00 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment I have no equity in New Hampshire Motor Speedway, but I am heavily invested. I watched it sprout from the ground as I lived a short distance south in the state’s capital city, Concord. I competed in the first race at the one-mile track, captured a track championship and considered its founder, Bob Bahre, to be a mentor for…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Next Race: Camping World 500 The Place: Phoenix Raceway The Date: Sunday, March 19 The Time: 3:30 p.m. ET TV: FOX, 3:30 p.m. ET Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Distance: 312 miles (312 laps); Stage 1 (Ends on lap 75), Stage 2 (Ends on lap 150), Final Stage (Ends on lap 312) NASCAR XFINITY Series Next Race:…

CLOSE x Embed x Share The U.S. women’s national hockey team will skip the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship. USA TODAY Sports In this Feb. 17, 2014, file photo, Meghan Duggan of the United States looks up during a face off during the second period of the 2014 Winter Olympics women’s semifinal ice hockey game against Sweden at Shayba Arena in Sochi, Russia.(Photo: Mark Humphrey, AP) The women’s…

The U.S. women’s hockey team stunned the sports world Wednesday when it announced it would not be playing in the upcoming IIHF World Championship due to stalled negotiations with USA Hockey regarding fair wages and support. Since the team’s announcement, it has received public support from fans and peers alike — including from its counterparts on the U.S. women’s national soccer team. Several players on the team posted the hashtag #BeBoldForChange…

Minasie Theophilos, a custodial worker at Augsburg College, hasn’t seen his brother in more than 30 years. He hasn’t seen his father in a decade. After Theophilos’ mother died, the men’s hockey team at the Minneapolis college decided they wanted to help him to reconnect with family. “It was quite sad, but we just want him to be reunited with them,” said assistant coach Chris Johnson. Theophilos left Ethiopia to…

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The good people of San Diego just lost their NFL team. They’re not going to have much of a baseball team to cheer for this summer. No better time for a hometown hero. With the United States six outs from what would have been an ominous loss to Venezuela, Adam Jones hit the home run that tied the score and ignited a three-run eighth inning. After failing to score for…

Mar 14, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment “Baseball is boring.” You hear it time and again by those who don’t understand what the game truly is, what it represents for so many. For those who believe such a crazy thought, we submit the United States versus Dominican Republic World Baseball Classic game on Saturday night as indisputable evidence to the contrary. On the field, it was…

League of Legends is a popular e-sport, with a $5 million prize pool. Riot Games While many people out there may deny that e-sports is even a real sport, you can’t deny the money it pulls in and dishes out. And with the e-sports college course now providing training, when someone tells you to “git gud, scrub” over game chat, you can now tell them that you did… at college….

If Conor McGregor can reach an agreement to face Floyd Mayweather in a boxing match, UFC president Dana White isn’t going to stand in his way. White told TMZ via “UFC Tonight” this week that while the fight doesn’t do much for the UFC, he won’t stop McGregor from earning the biggest payday of his career for a showdown with Mayweather. “It doesn’t make a lot of sense for my…

BT Sport are willing to break Setanta’s record 2008 £31m-a-year deal for rights  The return of Old Firm matches has increased the appeal of SPFL rights Telecoms giant BT have taken part in a charm offensive on the SPFL By Stephen Mcgowan For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 20:51 EDT, 15 March 2017 | Updated: 20:51 EDT, 15 March 2017 e-mail 5 View comments BT Sport are ready to offer…

Donte Jackson has turned to the clock application on his iPhone to prevent the organizational issues that plagued him last spring. While the rest of us have maybe two alarms programmed into our phones — one to wake us up and another one 10 minutes later to really wake us up — Jackson has nearly two dozen. It’s his way of fixing a problem last spring that…

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