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Two events that occurred recently in the world of sport not only challenged our imagination but also offered us a peek into the future of sports. But think deeply about them and they may not surprise us. For, both sportsmen and sports equipment, the latter more so, have been evolving at a mind-boggling pace and we are left playing catch-up, jaws dropped, mind reeling. The incremental leaps in technology that…

Ryan Mayer College basketball season rolls along as we draw nearer to March Madness. This past week has been a rough one for teams ranked in the AP’s Top 10, with five of them falling in upsets to conference opponents. Villanova (#1), Kansas (#2), Kentucky (#4), Florida State (#6) and UCLA (#8) all suffered losses to unranked conference foes, opening the door for some movement at the top of the rankings….

You smell that? For some, it’s the scent of spring. But for others, it’s the aroma of urgency. With Grapefruit and Cactus League camps just over two weeks away, there’s some unfinished business to tackle on the trade market. It isn’t necessarily panic time for every contender with a void – not with some talented free agents still available. And sellers simply can wait for a need to develop…

NASCAR finally woke up from its fantasy world earlier this week, making sweeping changes to its racing events that will turn a stale, boring product into…well, it will still be boring. The most popular racing series in North America is bleeding viewers both in person and on television. Speedway Motorsports, International Speedway Corporation and Dover Motorsports, the three companies that own the majority of the tracks NASCAR races at,…

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…

Shaka Hislop delves into Don Garber’s MLS expansion plans and his thoughts on the correct number of teams for the league. Nashville mayor Megan Barry will propose building a soccer stadium to help boost the city’s bid to secure an MLS expansion franchise. The plans will be formally announced on Monday. The proposal, first reported by the Tennessean, does not yet have a price tag, and it remains unclear if…

The US men’s national soccer team, currently in its annual January training camp before a friendly against Serbia on Sunday, once again finds itself at the dawn of a new era. Jürgen Klinsmann – who one suspects would have been willing to take credit for the sun rising at dawn each day – is no longer the national team coach; Bruce Arena is. Klinsmann’s claim that he had fundamentally revolutionized…

Who might retire at 65? Who led the Saints to glory? And who is Superman?

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. Should he qualify for the 40-car…

9:59 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment In an effort to have a more efficient race weekend for its teams and officials, NASCAR tentatively plans to significantly reduce practice time at several race tracks this year. Earlier this week, NASCAR released its tentative schedules for its first four race weekends, including three “traditional” race weekends that follow the 10-day Daytona schedule. The release was meant to…

In 2015, Wieden brought the sharks that danced alongside Katy Perry during the Super Bowl halftime show to the ESPN office to have fun with staffers. Wieden & Kennedy has worked with ESPN since 1992, creating the sports network’s most iconic campaigns, and now the independent creative shop is parting ways with the company to take a shot at Fox Sports. Fox Sports has named Wieden & Kennedy New York,…

After an absence of several years, boys varsity soccer will be back at Mount St. Joseph Academy in Rutland next fall. It made perfect sense to reinstate the sport, said Athletic Director Phil Hall. First of all, Hall said, the two schools funneling the most students into MSJ are Christ the King and Barstow in Chittenden — both schools where soccer is an important ingredient of the extracurricular package. “We…

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. Should he qualify for the 40-car…

Vanderbilt RHP Kyle Wright & CF Jeren Kendall talk about playing the 2017 season as projected Top-10 MLB draft picks. Adam Sparks

Caption Close DERBY-For Red Raider sports this is a game changer. And the chief executive officer of a $110 billion asset management firm whose father grew up here delivered it. Supt. of Schools Matthew Conway announced Thursday during a meeting of the school baseball field relocation committee that Joan A. Payden, chief executive officer of Payden & Rygel which has offices in Boston, Los Angeles, Frankfurt, London and Paris is…

In 2015, Wieden brought the sharks that danced alongside Katy Perry during the Super Bowl halftime show to the ESPN office to have fun with staffers. Wieden & Kennedy has worked with ESPN since 1992, creating the sports network’s most iconic campaigns, and now the independent creative shop is parting ways with the company to take a shot at Fox Sports. Fox Sports has named Wieden & Kennedy New York,…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Greater Cleveland Sports Awards not only celebrated excellence by athletes and teams in the city, it was a continuation of championship excellence that dominated the headlines in 2016. And the Cleveland Cavaliers, just as they did for winning the 2016 NBA Finals, collected even more hardware on Thursday night at the Renaissance Hotel downtown. The Cavaliers won the award for Best Moment in Cleveland Sports and…

Heading into that rookie year, though, Carter was third on the depth chart. Golden State’s Antawn Jamison, the former North Carolina teammate Vince Carter was dealt for, was assumed by many to be the league’s most NBA-ready Rookie of the Year candidate. A month into the season, it was the seasoned Paul Pierce (drafted into Boston after three years in Kansas, a rarity even by the fie de siècle) who…

We knew Russell Westbrook was a lock to be selected as an All-Star reserve, thanks to his triple-double average on the season. Most of the rest of the choices were obvious, too, but as always, a couple of players have the right to feel they were snubbed. Here are the All-Star reserves for 2017 who will suit up in New Orleans on Feb. 19 (all stats are courtesy of…

If the New York Knicks can’t turn the season around by the 2017 NBA Trade Deadline, then it will be time to move on from the Carmelo Anthony era. The Phil Jackson and Carmelo Anthony saga is getting uglier by the day. As the New York Knicks continue to struggle to piece together victories, the trade rumors have grown more incessant and the future indiscernible. If the Knicks are unable to reverse the…