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Notre Dame’s Hockey Helmets Sure Look Familiar – New York Times

Saturday, March 04, 2017

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Raymond Kopa, the ‘Napoleon’ of Soccer, Dies at 85 – New York Times

Saturday, March 04, 2017

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It’s Hard to Be Excited About World Baseball Classic When US Players Aren’t – New York Times

Saturday, March 04, 2017

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Fantasy Baseball Instant Reaction: ‘Best-case scenario’ doesn’t get David Price entirely out of the woods – CBSSports.com

Saturday, March 04, 2017

“He is going to get a second opinion from Dr. James Andrews on his sore elbow.” Baseball fans have been pretty well trained to cringe at the sound of those words. The second opinion is rarely, “My, what a nice elbow you’ve got there.” That sentence is more typically followed by words like “scalpel” and “12-to 14-month recovery process. So, the baseball world (and all of New England) held its…

2017 Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep: Trust the year over the career for Jose Altuve and other 2016 outliers – CBSSports.com

Saturday, March 04, 2017

I’ve talked enough about obvious regression candidates Rick Porcello and Kyle Hendricks. I’m not going to belabor the coming fall for Jean Segura and Jonathan Villar any more. That’s not really fun anyway, right? I’m tired of being the wet blanket telling you that last year’s career year can’t be matched. Even if it’s most often the truth. So I went looking for players who were uncharacteristically good in 2016…

College baseball: Baylor opens Shriner’s Classic with upset over No. 11 Ole Miss – NCAA.com

Saturday, March 04, 2017

Baylor started of the 2017 Shriners Hospitals for Children College Classic in upset fashion. Behind a career-best performance from senior right-hander Nick Lewis, Baylor downed D1Baseball.com’s No. 11-ranked Rebels. The Bears extended its winning streak to 10 games, remaining one of six undefeated teams in the country.  Baylor — now 10-0 — is off to the second best start in their program’s history, trailing only the…

Is Baseball Too Slow? Here’s How Readers Would Fix the Game, or Not – New York Times

Saturday, March 04, 2017

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Bracketology – CBSSports.com

Saturday, March 04, 2017

First Round Buffalo, NYMilwaukee, WIOrlando, FLSalt Lake City, UT

Inside IEM Katowice: How a small Polish city became an e-sports goliath – PCWorld

Saturday, March 04, 2017

For the second straight weekend, Katowice, Poland is ground zero for the world of e-sports. Following the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) League of Legends championship last weekend, the top pros from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) and StarCraft II have now taken over this quaint little city. Over 113,000 people visited IEM inside Spodek arena and the IEM Expo at the adjacent International Congress Center last year when the event was…

The Future Of Innovation Is Innovation: A Day At Stanford’s Sports-Business Conference – Deadspin

Saturday, March 04, 2017

Art by Jim Cooke Stanford University in the springtime is immaculate. There are no clouds in the sky and none of the aerated haze of the East Bay or the fog of San Francisco. Off to the west, the Santa Cruz Mountains gently form the outer boundary of Palo Alto. As I got lost looking for the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Sports Innovation Conference, I noticed that every superfluous…

Watch this Texas sports anchor elegantly attack transphobic state laws – Mashable

Saturday, March 04, 2017

It’s not often that local Texas sports anchors—or any sports anchors, really—come to the defense of trans community. Dale Hansen of WFAA-TV is a rare exception. Earlier this week, the reporter decided to address the case of Mack Beggs, a transgender wrestler who recently won his state girls’ wrestling title. Though Mack identifies as a boy, state regulations require that he competes according to the sex assigned to him on…

Dana White erupts at fighters asking for ‘money fights’ in the UFC – FOXSports.com

Saturday, March 04, 2017

LAS VEGAS — Unless your name is Conor McGregor, you probably shouldn’t be asking for a “money fight” in the UFC. That’s the message from UFC president Dana White, who is clearly sick and tired of hearing so many athletes on the roster pounding the drum about landing the big money bout, which typically involves McGregor’s name somehow being invoked. Of course, McGregor is the biggest draw in the history of…

Lilly Diabetes expands NASCAR relationship, named official health partner – Nascar

Saturday, March 04, 2017

BUY TICKETS: See the races in Atlanta DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR® and Lilly Diabetes announced today that Lilly is expanding its involvement in NASCAR with a multi-year official partnership with the sanctioning body. The new collaboration designates Lilly Diabetes as the “Official Diabetes Health Partner of NASCAR.” The partnership with Lilly Diabetes builds upon its primary sponsorship of the No. 16 Ford Mustang driven by Roush Fenway Racing’s Ryan…

NASCAR starting lineup at Atlanta: Kevin Harvick outruns Ryan Newman for pole – Sporting News

Saturday, March 04, 2017

Kevin Harvick will lead the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup field of 39 to the green flag Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway (2:30 p.m. ET) in the final race on the historic racing surface before the track will undergo a re-pave.  Harvick’s lap of 190.39 mph in Friday’s final round of qualifying was slightly ahead of Ryan Newman, who clocked in at 189.87 mph. Newman, who was fastest in Friday’s first practice, leads all active Cup drivers in average…

Carl Edwards retired from NASCAR? Not so fast, he says – Charlotte Observer

Saturday, March 04, 2017

Carl Edwards wants to stress that he hasn’t necessarily retired from racing. “Everybody calls it retirement,” Edwards said Friday at Atlanta Motor Speedway. “I haven’t called it retirement officially.” By just saying that, Edwards continued to leave the door open to racing again. In the time being, he’s enjoying his time away from NASCAR, but he came to the Atlanta track Friday to help coach rookie Daniel Suarez, who is…

Raymond Kopa, the ‘Napoleon’ of Soccer, Dies at 85 – New York Times

Saturday, March 04, 2017

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Falling building, NASCAR will affect this weekend’s traffic – MyAJC

Saturday, March 04, 2017

The implosion of a state building, a NASCAR race and the usual road construction are a few of the things that may mess with your weekend driving plans. The state will implode the old Georgia archives building on Capitol Avenue in downtown Atlanta at 7 a.m. Sunday. That will mean temporary closure of some local roads and highways. I-75/85 northbound and southbound will see rolling lane closures,…

Fantasy Baseball Instant Reaction: ‘Best-case scenario’ doesn’t get David Price entirely out of the woods – CBSSports.com

Saturday, March 04, 2017

“He is going to get a second opinion from Dr. James Andrews on his sore elbow.” Baseball fans have been pretty well trained to cringe at the sound of those words. The second opinion is rarely, “My, what a nice elbow you’ve got there.” That sentence is more typically followed by words like “scalpel” and “12-to 14-month recovery process. So, the baseball world (and all of New England) held its…

South Carolina baseball aiming to get ‘rivalry back on track’ against Clemson – SECcountry.com

Saturday, March 04, 2017

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Jacob Olson felt a difference when he walked into the South Carolina baseball locker room on Wednesday. The first-year Gamecock knew the rivalry between South Carolina and Clemson was something fierce, but that different feeling let the Georgia native know just how much meaning it carries. “You can just feel it in the air,” Olson said. “It’s just different. It’s something that I have never experienced before….

College Baseball: Texas snaps Stanford’s win streak with 4-0 shutout – NCAA.com

Saturday, March 04, 2017

PALO ALTO, Calif.—Seven scoreless innings from Nolan Kingham combined with a pair from Beau Ridgeway led No. 21 Texas Baseball (7-3) to its first shutout of the season, a 4-0 win over No. 19 Stanford (6-3) on Thursday night in game one of the four-game series at Sunken Diamond. The loss snapped Stanford’s six-game win streak as well as a 12-game home win streak that dated back to last season. Kingham was dominant…