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BASEBALL NEW YORK (AP) — Bags and Rock and Pudge are heading to Cooperstown. After a vote that could prove to be a turning point how Steroids Era stars are viewed, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens could be joining them in the next few years. Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez were elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, earning the honor as Trevor Hoffman and Vladimir Guerrero fell just…

RELATED: See the paint scheme Chip Ganassi Racing announced Wednesday that Credit One Bank will return to the team in 2017 with an expanded role on the No. 42 Chevrolet driven by Kyle Larson. Credit One will serve as the primary sponsor on CGR entries in eight Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series events, one NASCAR XFINITY Series event and the non-points Advance Auto Parts Clash exhibition at Daytona International Speedway….

Benny Parsons Born: July 12, 1941, Wilkes County; Died: Jan. 16, 2007, of cancer, in Charlotte. Family: Wife Teri, sons Keith, Kevin (by first wife, Connie, who died in 1991. Career Highlights: Won the 1973 Winston Cup championship in very dramatic fashion, edging Cale Yarborough, in the season finale American 500 at N.C. Motor Speedway, at the time Parsons’ “home” track. … Scored 21 victories, 283 top 10 finishes and…

Team owner Rick Hendrick has won a record 12 championships in NASCAR’s Cup Series.(Photo: Jim Dedmon, USA TODAY Sports) Five new members will be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame Friday night in a ceremony in Charlotte. A look at the drivers and team owners that make up the class of 2017: Rick Hendrick Born: July 12, 1949 Age: 67 Hometown: Palmer Springs, Va. Claim to fame: Owner of…

Running, leaping, and climbing through the city isn’t just a test of strength and stamina—it’s also now an official sport in the U.K. Parkour—a form of urban acrobatics, originating in France—is now officially recognized by sports councils across Britain. On a practical level, this means that it can be on national educational curricula, apply for lottery funding, and access the benefits enjoyed by other major sports. This is…

Three baseball stars who avoided convincing connection to steroid use during their playing days — Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, and Ivan Rodriguez — were elected to Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame Wednesday. The stars all received 75 percent of the ballots cast by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Houston Astros longtime first baseman and four-time All-Star Jeff Bagwell is pictured announcing his retirement from baseball in 2006. Bagwell…

On Wednesday night, the BBWAA revealed its latest round of Hall of Fame voting results. Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez each earned enough of the vote to merit induction into Cooperstown this summer. One player who did not earn induction — or much in the way of votes — was Manny Ramirez. Best known for his time with the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox, Ramirez’s first year…

Statistically speaking, Barry Bonds and Rogers Clemens are both among baseball’s all-time greatest players, yet for years some Hall of Fame voters have managed to vote for one but not the other. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images) On Wednesday the Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced the Baseball Hall of Fame’s class of 2017. This year Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez received at least the 332 votes, or 75% of…

There were 34 players on the Hall of Fame ballot this winter, including 19 newcomers, and only Tim Raines, Jeff Bagwell and Ivan Rodriguez were selected for induction. Of the 19 first-time candidates, 16 received less than 5 percent of the vote and will drop off the ballot. Among those 16 are Jorge Posada (3.8 percent), J.D. Drew (no votes) and Mike Cameron (no votes). Posada, more so than Drew…

The Hall of Fame class for 2017 has been announced and for the 15th straight year, Lee Smith has missed the cut. This means he has become the last player ever — absent the rule reverting back — to fall off the ballot after 15 tries. The new rule only gives players a maximum of 10 years on the ballot. Smith along with two others (Don Mattingly and Alan Trammell)…

Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Hulu is preparing to launch a live TV service, which will compete with cable and be priced at “under” $40 per month. The service will work much like a regular cable or satellite TV package, except that it will be delivered over the internet to your smart TV, phone, tablet, and so on. It will also be “sports-centric,” Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins revealed in a new interview…

Baseball’s Hall of Fame opened its door to three new members on Wednesday, with Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan Rodriguez earning induction by getting at least 75 percent of the vote from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Several other players came close, including Trevor Hoffman (five votes short) and Vladimir Guerrero (15 votes short). And others, such as Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, saw a sizeable uptick…

Imagine: You are sitting at a basketball game, see an awesome play or a quick, confusing turnaround or scuffle, what do you do? You look up at the monitor to watch the replay and try to make sense of what just happened or when it’s sheer greatness you just witnessed, you momentarily re-live the play in all its glory. You stand up, cheer and high-five the strangers around you — and…

The former England women’s cricket captain and vice-president of Wolverhampton Wonderers Rachael Heyhoe Flint has died aged 77, the football club has announced. Heyhoe Flint died early on Wednesday morning after a short illness. She was a trailblazer for women’s cricket, captaining the national side in a career spanning two decades and in which she led the side to victory in the 1973 world cup, which she had also organised….

Netflix just had its biggest quarterly subscriber growth ever behind the strength of series like “The Crown” and the continued adoption of internet TV, but the streaming giant has no plans to wade into one of traditional pay TV’s few remaining moats — live sports. On a Wednesday afternoon webcast discussing the company’s fourth-quarter earnings, CEO Reed Hastings responded to an analyst’s question about how Netflix has been able to…

RELATED: See the paint scheme Chip Ganassi Racing announced Wednesday that Credit One Bank will return to the team in 2017 with an expanded role on the No. 42 Chevrolet driven by Kyle Larson. Credit One will serve as the primary sponsor on CGR entries in eight Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series events, one NASCAR XFINITY Series event and the non-points Advance Auto Parts Clash exhibition at Daytona International Speedway….

A season of transition is just beginning at NASCAR’s Stewart-Haas Racing. There’s change at the top, where Tony Stewart has retired as a Cup driver. He will now devote all – or at least most – of his energy into his duties as a co-owner of the Kannapolis-based team. In Stewart’s carbon fiber-built seat in the No. 14 car is Cup veteran Clint Bowyer, who is coming off a tumultuous…

Applications from communities Clark, Greene, Miami, Montgomery counties are due Friday, Feb. 10 to Bike Miami Valley Executive Director Laura Estandia by email at lestandia@bikemiamivalley.org.

CAIRO — Egyptian authorities have placed one of the country’s all-time greatest soccer players on a terror watch and no-fly list, over accusations he helped finance the Muslim Brotherhood, now banned as a terrorist organization, judicial officials said Wednesday. Court officials said Wednesday that Mohamed Aboutrika, of Cairo’s Al-Ahly club and the national team, was added last Thursday to a “terrorism list” that includes former president Mohamed Morsi as well…

Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Hulu is preparing to launch a live TV service, which will compete with cable and be priced at “under” $40 per month. The service will work much like a regular cable or satellite TV package, except that it will be delivered over the internet to your smart TV, phone, tablet, and so on. It will also be “sports-centric,” Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins revealed in a new interview…