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9:30 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Focus on perfecting your process; don’t sweat the results. The result of the 2016 League of Alternative Baseball Reality (LABR) American League — a 12-team, American League-only auction league of industry analysts that has been around for more than 20 years — wasn’t decided until the final hours of the season. In the end, it was a Jefry Marte…

Warm tributes have been paid by family, friends and colleagues to the Guardian journalist Dan Lucas, who died suddenly last weekend. Lucas, who was 31, had been an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and engaging author of the Guardian’s popular cricket and rugby union live online reports since 2013 and helmed our coverage of many of those sports’ biggest events, including the 2015 Rugby World Cup final. While working as a freelance music…

Your March Madness office pool is like the Charles Schwab of sports betting. Beyond those hastily chosen brackets, there’s an entire cottage industry of sports betting that’s increasingly resembling Wall Street. In 2016, total sports wagers in Nevada were $4.5 billion, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. With that much at stake, gamblers are turning to more sophisticated tools that involve complex data analysis to achieve better odds, real-time wagering during games, fund…

Two things that are generally frowned upon when you’ve got a decent lead in a football game are going for two-point conversions and going for it on fourth down. The latter is more confusing, though, because if you believe you have a good chance to keep possession of the ball by going for it on fourth down, why wouldn’t you? Some may say it’s disrespectful to go for it on…

The NCAA tournament is one of the greatest events in sports, which makes it all the more disappointing and peculiar that it’s preceded by one of the worst. On Tuesday and Wednesday night in Dayton, eight college basketball teams that ostensibly made it into the NCAA tournament field will play for the right to actually make the NCAA tournament field. It’s part of a sports travesty called the First Four, a…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kyle Busch had a gash on his forehead and blood running down his nose when he promised payback to Joey Logano. The two had a brief post-race pit road brawl that can be seen on TMZ, the “Today Show” and, really, just about anywhere. The tussle shoved NASCAR into the watercooler talk Monday alongside the NCAA Tournament, and the reason why should be a wakeup call to…

Two things that are generally frowned upon when you’ve got a decent lead in a football game are going for two-point conversions and going for it on fourth down. The latter is more confusing, though, because if you believe you have a good chance to keep possession of the ball by going for it on fourth down, why wouldn’t you? Some may say it’s disrespectful to go for it on…

Joakim Jensen finally ended what is believed to be the longest game in hockey history, scoring in the eighth overtime in the Norwegian League playoffs. More than 8 1/2 hours after the game started and after 217 minutes, 14 seconds of play Jensen broke through to give the Storhamar Dragons a 2-1 victory over the Sparta Warriors early Monday morning. The game ended at 2.32am. Joakim Jensen’s goal ended the…

Non-NASCAR fans have no idea that Martin Truex Jr. won Sunday’s race at Las Vegas thanks to Brad Keselowski’s wounded car with two laps to go. But there’s a decent chance those fans know there was a tussle after the race, even if those fans don’t know who Kyle Busch and Joey Logano are. So it goes for NASCAR, a niche sport that moves to the mainstream of general interest…

When you think of Brazilian soccer, you think passion, a beautiful style of play and a touch on the ball that is matched by nobody.  That is exactly the opposite of what happened this weekend in the match between Gama and Brasiliense of the local league of the Brazilian capital of Brasilia. There was a brawl between players, fans got involved and as did the authorities. Take a look. That’s…

Two things that are generally frowned upon when you’ve got a decent lead in a football game are going for two-point conversions and going for it on fourth down. The latter is more confusing, though, because if you believe you have a good chance to keep possession of the ball by going for it on fourth down, why wouldn’t you? Some may say it’s disrespectful to go for it on…

Crew chief Cole Pearn wearing the high-tech, state-of-the-art chatting device. Photo credit: Todd Warshaw/Getty Images NASCAR recently proposed turning down the volume on the cars to let people talk to each other, but there are better ways to do this without killing off part of the experience. I’m talking about the magical invention known as a headset, and NASCAR should rent them out to chatty fans instead of messing with…

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Two things that are generally frowned upon when you’ve got a decent lead in a football game are going for two-point conversions and going for it on fourth down. The latter is more confusing, though, because if you believe you have a good chance to keep possession of the ball by going for it on fourth down, why wouldn’t you? Some may say it’s disrespectful to go for it on…

Non-NASCAR fans have no idea that Martin Truex Jr. won Sunday’s race at Las Vegas thanks to Brad Keselowski’s wounded car with two laps to go. But there’s a decent chance those fans know there was a tussle after the race, even if those fans don’t know who Kyle Busch and Joey Logano are. So it goes for NASCAR, a niche sport that moves to the mainstream of general interest…

No disrespect to today’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers, but most of them don’t come across as brawlers.  As a group, today’s racers are far more physically fit than the drivers of yesteryear, although with few exceptions, they aren’t exactly an intimidating lot. In honor of Sunday’s contretemps between Joey Logano and Kyle Busch following the Kobalt 400 at Las Vegas Moto Speedway, we thought about some…

Two things that are generally frowned upon when you’ve got a decent lead in a football game are going for two-point conversions and going for it on fourth down. The latter is more confusing, though, because if you believe you have a good chance to keep possession of the ball by going for it on fourth down, why wouldn’t you? Some may say it’s disrespectful to go for it on…

Crew chief Cole Pearn wearing the high-tech, state-of-the-art chatting device. Photo credit: Todd Warshaw/Getty Images NASCAR recently proposed turning down the volume on the cars to let people talk to each other, but there are better ways to do this without killing off part of the experience. I’m talking about the magical invention known as a headset, and NASCAR should rent them out to chatty fans instead of messing with…

Two things that are generally frowned upon when you’ve got a decent lead in a football game are going for two-point conversions and going for it on fourth down. The latter is more confusing, though, because if you believe you have a good chance to keep possession of the ball by going for it on fourth down, why wouldn’t you? Some may say it’s disrespectful to go for it on…