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Bill Leonard has memories spanning eight decades, but few match the delight of his baseball years. From watching a pre-Yankees Elston Howard field balls in Copeland Park to coaching opposite Jay Buckley, future owner of the nation’s largest baseball tour company, each precious recollection is preserved on the pages of his second book, “Baseball, A Love Story,” the La Crosse Tribune (http://bit.ly/2kuIt1v ) reported. “I fell in love with baseball…

Dodger pitcher went from ‘role model for failure’ to $48-million contract By Andy McCullough Jan. 27, 2017 | REPORTING FROM CROMWELL, CONN. Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill pumps his fist after striking out Chicago Cubs‘ Anthony Rizzo during Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Oct. 18 at Dodger Stadium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Rich Hill gripped the podium and stared at the speech he’d spent the…

Baseball Posted January 27th, 2017 Danny Davis American-Statesman Staff @aasdanny If you’re wondering what’s new at UFCU Disch-Falk Field this spring, the answer is plenty. First off, the home of Texas’ baseball team has new turf and a new look in the outfield. There are 11 freshmen on the roster. There’s also new head coach David Pierce, who took over a program that had been led by Augie Garrido since…

Dodger pitcher went from ‘role model for failure’ to $48-million contract By Andy McCullough Jan. 27, 2017 | REPORTING FROM CROMWELL, CONN. Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill pumps his fist after striking out Chicago Cubs‘ Anthony Rizzo during Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Oct. 18 at Dodger Stadium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Rich Hill gripped the podium and stared at the speech he’d spent the…

Media playback is not supported on this device Wenger’s history of touchline clashes Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been given a four-match touchline ban and £25,000 fine after accepting a Football Association charge of misconduct for his behaviour in the win over Burnley. Wenger, 67, was charged with verbally abusing and pushing fourth official Anthony Taylor after being sent off. His ban starts immediately so he misses Saturday’s FA Cup…

This week I cheat. Most of the column is by Justice Donal O’Donnell of the Supreme Court. It is part of his June 2015 judgment in the case of O’Connell vs the Turf Club. It is incidental. All modern sports, Justice O’Donnell said, “are related to games played from time immemorial, whether of throwing or kicking a ball of different dimensions, striking it with a stick, running the fastest, or…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Amid all the talk about the new points system as drivers met the media Tuesday and Wednesday, Joey Logano talked about something that could have just as big an impact on the championship: “The aero changes for this year … have been lost in the shuffle of all this,” Logano said. “That will be a big deal.” For two days when drivers were supposed to talk about…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR after the annual media tour: Turn 1: Should Danica Patrick be worried about her career if the Nature’s Bakery sponsorship falls through? K. Lee Davis, ESPN.com motorsports editor: Absolutely. Patrick isn’t a bad racer, she just hasn’t shown the kind of improvement she needs to on a power team such…

Dodger pitcher went from ‘role model for failure’ to $48-million contract By Andy McCullough Jan. 27, 2017 | REPORTING FROM CROMWELL, CONN. Dodgers pitcher Rich Hill pumps his fist after striking out Chicago Cubs‘ Anthony Rizzo during Game 3 of the National League Championship Series on Oct. 18 at Dodger Stadium. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Rich Hill gripped the podium and stared at the speech he’d spent the…

Photo courtesy of Jessica Harthcock and edited Kendrick Daye Jessica Harthcock was 17 years old when she suffered a devastating sports-related injury, which ultimately paralyzed her from the chest down. Almost instantly, she was thrust into the medical system, where she saw first hand the gaps in care quality care for patients with neurological conditions. She set out to solve the problems she experienced via Utilize Health, which is a…

GOLF SAN DIEGO (AP) Tiger Woods had a rough return to the PGA Tour. A slow one, too. Woods, playing in a PGA Tour event for the first in 17 months, fell apart on the back nine of the South course at Torrey Pines and wound up with a 4-over 76, leaving him in danger of missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open. More from FoxSports He…

After a season of milestones for NASCAR Drive for Diversity graduates that included a Premier Series win and playoff appearance for Kyle Larson and an XFINITY Series championship by Daniel Suarez, the 2017 class has been announced. NASCAR released the list of six 2017 Drive for Diversity class members on Wednesday. The drivers were selected after a competitive combine held last October at New Smyrna Speedway and will compete for…

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RELATED: Driver Tracker for 2017   FOX Sports analyst Michael Waltrip will make one final run at the Daytona 500 next month and then call it a career in NASCAR.   Waltrip, 53, made the announcement in a release with sponsor Aaron’s on Thursday afternoon. He is a two-time winner of the “Great American Race,” prevailing in the Daytona International Speedway opener in 2001 and 2003.   Premium Motorsports will…

The Hungarian designer of a secret bike motor tells Bill Whitaker he thinks the motors have been used to cheat in pro cycling as far back as 1998.  Istvan Varjas speaks to Whitaker for a 60 Minutes investigation into mechanical cheating in a sport already infamous for its doping scandals.  One of the sport’s champions, three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, is convinced the motors are being used.  He’s…

A top prospect may lose rookie eligibility after a certain amount of playing time, but the shine from his minor-league pedigree usually takes quite a bit longer to leave him. Fantasy players are obsessed with potential, and rightly so, but it can cause us to stick with players past the point of usefulness. Latest mocks, tiers, rankings and more At some point, potential stops mattering, and what you actually have…

  It may only be January, but we at Yahoo Fantasy Sports know that the most passionate fantasy players out there are already eager to create their leagues and get started, so today we’re officially opening Fantasy Baseball season. As in years past, we are the Official Fantasy Commissioner Game of MLB.com, giving players and fans all they need to dominate including video highlights, MLB “Game of the Day,” condensed…

Your 2016 World Champions bring back almost all of the same pieces in 2017. That should be terrifying for the rest of the league and maybe Fantasy owners too. Generally when you make a run the way the Chicago Cubs just did, you do it on the back of several career years. In other words, you don’t necessarily expect everyone to repeat what they did the year before. While that’s…

GOLF SAN DIEGO (AP) Tiger Woods had a rough return to the PGA Tour. A slow one, too. Woods, playing in a PGA Tour event for the first in 17 months, fell apart on the back nine of the South course at Torrey Pines and wound up with a 4-over 76, leaving him in danger of missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open. More from FoxSports He…

It might have come a few hours after “Throwback Thursday” ended, but sports fans got an old-school treat on Friday morning that will surely make them nostalgic for the glorious, long-lost days of the mid-2000’s: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer will once again face each other in a Grand Slam final. With that classic matchup about to happen (along with the Williams sisters squaring off in the women’s final), it also…