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4:20 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email comment One of my favorite annual features to put together is our list of best and worst contracts in baseball. You don’t see the impact of money directly on the field during the season, but there’s no denying it has been a crucial aspect of how individual teams are constructed for nearly a half century. Just like most kids have that…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment MEXICO CITY — Francisco “Paquin” Estrada, the manager of Mexican League baseball team Bravos de Leon, was found Thursday hours after his club and league officials reported him missing. Authorities, the team and Estrada gave little explanation of what had happened, except to say he was the victim of an extortion attempt. At a news conference, team officials tried to steer questions…

Pitching, defense, timely hitting _ No. 1 Chatsworth is doing it all early in the baseball season. The Chancellors (3-0) advanced to the semifinals of the Easton tournament with a 7-2 win over Dos Pueblos on Thursday in the quarterfinals. Josh Medina threw 5 2/3 innings and also contributed a two-run single. Daniel Zakosek and Zach Kaminkow each had three hits. In other quarterfinals, Harvard-Westlake defeated Newbury Park, 4-2. RJ…

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Softball Posted March 2nd, 2017 Danny Davis American-Statesman Staff @aasdanny Since she’s still swinging a bat and showing off her glove, this spring has been like many others for Jade Gortarez. She’s just playing a different sport. Gortarez, a freshman second baseman on Texas’ softball team, is 16 games into her college career. That means she’s also 16 games into an introductory softball course — she played baseball, not softball,…

When you think of the big sports cities, New York City, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles all come to mind, but now it might be time to start thinking beyond the border of the United States and looking to the Great White North for the next great North American sports city. Over the past few years Toronto, Canada’s most populous city, has become one of the primary sports hubs on…

Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson to Call National Championship and Final Four National Semifinals on CBS Steve Lavin, Debbie Antonelli, Casey Stern, Adam Zucker, Brendan Haywood and Lisa Byington Join 2017 March Madness Coverage CBS Sports and Turner Sports will once again feature a marquee lineup of announcers for their seventh year of combined coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball…

Alissa Widman Neese The Columbus Dispatch @AlissaWidman Get pumped. The Arnold Sports Festival and Fitness Expo kicks off today. An estimated 200,000 fitness enthusiasts, athletes, sports fans and spectators are expected to flock Downtown to the annual event named after one of the world’s best-known bodybuilders, Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Here are eight things you need to know to get ready for the big weekend:  1. What…

When Northern Illinois women’s basketball coach Lisa Carlsen was a player from 1988-92, her college had two different names for the basketball teams. The Northwest Missouri State men’s team was nicknamed the Bearcats. The women’s team was nicknamed the Bearkittens. “At the time, I didn’t (care). I absolutely would now,” Carlsen said. “I absolutely would think it’s the dumbest thing I ever heard now, but at the time, I didn’t.”…

Twitter Inc. plans to broadcast more than 1,500 hours of competitive videogame contests this year, bolstering its live-streaming efforts and stepping up its presence in one of the fastest-growing areas of the game industry. The social-networking company Thursday said it is working with ESL, one of the largest e-sports organizers, and DreamHack,…

Every type of exercise has its selling points. But swimming is unlike any other aerobic workout in a few important ways. First, the fact that you’re submerged in water means your bones and muscles are somewhat unshackled from the constraints of gravity, says Hirofumi Tanaka, a professor of kinesiology and director of the Cardiovascular Aging Research Lab at the University of Texas. This makes swimming the ideal exercise for people…

British Cycling has promised to overhaul its relationship with Team Sky and launched an investigation into what happened with the triamcinolone that was ordered by its doctor, as revealed at Wednesday’s parliamentary hearing. The revelations around Team Sky and British Cycling from the Ukad head, Nicole Sapstead, were described as “shocking” and “unacceptable” by the UK Sport chief executive, Liz Nicholl, at a press briefing in Manchester with the British…

FC Barcelona, arguably the most powerful soccer club in the world, will open a training academy in Austin this summer, with facilities at Circuit of the Americas and the new Round Rock Multipurpose Complex. The move is part of the Spanish giant’s push for a bigger footprint in the United States and a world-wide boost of its FCB Escola project. FCB Escola is the flagship FC Barcelona…

Cush Revette paced down the starting line with a checkered flag and a full handle of Coulsons Rum, exhorting to the crowd with a carnival barker’s brio. “Who’s next? I need two more dumb rednecks,” the 59-year-old from Tampa cried. “Speaking of two dumb rednecks, I see three right there.” It was just before 11pm on Friday night in the infield of Daytona International Speedway, at the campground known as…

A quickly growing youth cycling program in Middletown has been named the top cycling club in the country for 2016 by USA Cycling, the official organization for competitive cycling in the U.S. The Connecticut Cycling Advancement Program’s youth programs and teams have brought an increase of young riders to a sport traditionally dominated by adults. The organization, founded in 2013, has started 36 programs for 490 registered youth riders throughout…

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12:32 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email comment One of my favorite annual features to put together is our list of best and worst contracts in baseball. You don’t see the impact of money directly on the field during the season, but there’s no denying it has been a crucial aspect of how individual teams are constructed for nearly a half century. Just like most kids have that…

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The best laid plans can still leave you wanting in the late rounds, and if 2016 is any indication, one thing we’ll all want to add more is home runs.  Those that believe last year represents a new reality in power numbers must also recognize that you’re going to need a lot more. That has made many view steals as more of a precious resource and that’s probably the right…

Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson to Call National Championship and Final Four National Semifinals on CBS Steve Lavin, Debbie Antonelli, Casey Stern, Adam Zucker, Brendan Haywood and Lisa Byington Join 2017 March Madness Coverage CBS Sports and Turner Sports will once again feature a marquee lineup of announcers for their seventh year of combined coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball…