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Chris Myers shares a collective heartbreak with Rick Hendrick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Losses. Unimaginable ones. Myers and Hendrick buried their sons. Earnhardt buried his father. Everyone has pushed on as best they can over the years, despite the occasional tug of the heart, the tears, the emptiness, and the confusion. “It’s good to be around people who understand what you’re going through,” Myers said. “Sometimes you need the space….

By: FTW Staff | February 21, 2017 9:38 am If Jimmie Johnson wins another championship this season, to make it a record-setting eight, will he be considered the greatest driver in NASCAR history? Or should he already be the considered the greatest driver of all time? USA TODAY Sports’ Brant James and Fox Sports analyst Larry McReynolds III talk about where Johnson ranks among the sport’s greats. Take Our Poll…

Feb 20, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This started with a crush on Starling Marte. Marte is an outfielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates and my favorite baseball player to watch. He’s fast enough to have stolen 47 bases last year, third-most in the majors. His arm is one of the best in the game, capable of firing 101 mph bullets from the outfield. He is strong…

Prep baseball players to watch Top pitchers Tanner Bibee; Mission Viejo; Sr.; Cal State Fullerton signee had 1.61 ERA Jesse Bergin; Harvard-Westlake; Jr.; shut out JSerra in DI semifinals Hans Crouse; Dana Hills, Sr.; first-round draft pick in the making Hagen Danner; Huntington Beach; Sr.; he’s healthy and throwing strikes Jeremiah Estrada; Palm Desert; Sr.; UCLA signee was 10-3 with 1.00 ERA Chase Farrell; Valencia; Sr.; UCLA signee made dramatic improvement…

The University of Miami’s baseball program is a perennial National Championship contender. Rutgers has a program that’s on the rise, but traditionally isn’t on the same level as the Hurricanes, who have appeared in the College World Series in each of the past two seasons. Todd Frazier knows the history as well as anyone, and it’s why the Chicago White Sox third baseman was quick to steal some bragging rights after the…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Tyler Beede’s major league call up might not be too far away. But his rap career has already taken off. The Giants’ top prospect isn’t looking to leave his big league dreams to tour around the country with his rap idol J.Cole, but has proven that along with a consistent fastball in the low to mid 90s, Beede’s got bars. “Tyler’s impressive,” said Giants closer Mark Melancon….

This month, as baseball fans looked forward to the start of spring training, news emerged that Major League Baseball was considering modifying its rules to change the game more than anything since the end of the deadball era. The idea, as Jeff Passan reported for Yahoo News, is that if a game goes into extra innings, a runner would be automatically placed at second at the start of each half-inning….

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// Is there an archetype for a successful sports owner? Legacy sons have run the Knicks and Lakers aground. The Kings are climbing the rankings of craziest organizations in sports despite a self-made tech maven who received the Malcolm Gladwell treatment before taking over. Building a profile is difficult. If…

“Today, sports writing is basically a liberal profession, practiced by liberals who enforce an unapologetically liberal code,” writes Bryan Curtis at The Ringer. He’s right. You can see it in the way sportswriters police a consensus against the Washington Redskins’ name, or for on-field political activism. They tweet against President Trump, and for undocumented immigrants. They pile on populist loudmouths like former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, and may even…

British Cycling’s reputation faces the prospect of another battering after it was accused of misleading UK Sport, the body that provides it with millions of pounds of public money each year, by covering up allegations of bullying in an internal report after London 2012. Liz Nicholl, the chief executive of UK Sport, said British Cycling had displayed “a complete lack of transparency” by giving UK Sport a summary of an…

PRO BASKETBALL Sacramento general manager Vlade Divac headed into All-Star weekend convinced it was finally time to part ways with ultra-talented center DeMarcus Cousins. When asked why he didn’t wait for a better offer closer to Thursday’s trade deadline, Divac gave a curious response that raised more questions than it answered. ”Most likely we would get less because I had a better deal two days ago,” Divac said. ”I don’t…

CLOSE x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Rachel Axon explains the major story lines to follow heading to Pyeongchang, South Korea. USA TODAY Sports Lee Hee-beom, president and CEO of the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (POCOG), delivers speech during a media conference in Sapporo, northern Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. Lee expects the 2018 Olympics to usher in a new era for winter…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This started with a crush on Starling Marte. Marte is an outfielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates and my favorite baseball player to watch. He’s fast enough to have stolen 47 bases last year, third-most in the majors. His arm is one of the best in the game, capable of firing 101 mph bullets from the outfield. He is strong…

Prep baseball players to watch Top pitchers Tanner Bibee; Mission Viejo; Sr.; Cal State Fullerton signee had 1.61 ERA Jesse Bergin; Harvard-Westlake; Jr.; shut out JSerra in DI semifinals Hans Crouse; Dana Hills, Sr.; first-round draft pick in the making Hagen Danner; Huntington Beach; Sr.; he’s healthy and throwing strikes Jeremiah Estrada; Palm Desert; Sr.; UCLA signee was 10-3 with 1.00 ERA Chase Farrell; Valencia; Sr.; UCLA signee made dramatic improvement…

When Gail Emms was asked about UK Sport’s decision to reject the desperate pleas of seven sports, including GB Badminton, to be funded for the Tokyo Olympics, she was poetic in her response. “It’s like someone just taking your heart, your emotions, your dreams and basically tearing them up,” said Emms, a badminton silver medallist at the 2004 Olympics, with a sigh. But UK Sport has a tin ear for…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This started with a crush on Starling Marte. Marte is an outfielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates and my favorite baseball player to watch. He’s fast enough to have stolen 47 bases last year, third-most in the majors. His arm is one of the best in the game, capable of firing 101 mph bullets from the outfield. He is strong…

Prep baseball players to watch Top pitchers Tanner Bibee; Mission Viejo; Sr.; Cal State Fullerton signee had 1.61 ERA Jesse Bergin; Harvard-Westlake; Jr.; shut out JSerra in DI semifinals Hans Crouse; Dana Hills, Sr.; first-round draft pick in the making Hagen Danner; Huntington Beach; Sr.; he’s healthy and throwing strikes Jeremiah Estrada; Palm Desert; Sr.; UCLA signee was 10-3 with 1.00 ERA Chase Farrell; Valencia; Sr.; UCLA signee made dramatic improvement…

Rod Simons, a longtime Twin Cities and former Seattle and Pacific Northwest sports personality, has died while covering the Minnesota Twins spring training in Fort Myers Fla., according to the Twins. He was 56. A cause of death was not given. A graduate of Washington State, Simons spent more than 20 years in the sports-media profession, and he worked for multiple causes including his Golf for the Gift charity that…

It took seven years, but Boogie finally broke the back of the Kings. Back in 2010, Sacramento took the temperemental Kentucky star at No. 5 fully aware he was a powder keg waiting to explode. They stayed by him through technicals, suspensions, attitude problems, stupidity, beefs with teammates, beefs with refs, beefs with announcers, beefs with George Karl and beefs (for some reason) with Tim Duncan, continuing to defend him,…

Getty Images As the Patriots bask in the afterglow of a fifth Super Bowl win, their owner will step into the spotlight of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. A profile of Robert Kraft will be included in Tuesday’s episode of the show (10:00 p.m. ET/PT), with Andrea Kremer having exclusive access to him. Coincidentally (or not), Kremer will join Tuesday’s PFT Live to discuss the project. It’s part of…