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When it comes to the Hall of Fame, I can’t put it any better than a high-ranking club official did a few years back, on the condition of profane anonymity: “It’s a [expletive] museum!” For more than 60 years, Hall voters treated the “integrity, sportsmanship, character,” language as one regards a sprig of parsley on a dinner plate: Something to be ignored at best and resented at worst. Industry-shaking scandals…

RELATED: Driver Tracker | Photo gallery: Who’s on the move for 2017   NASCAR competition officials issued memos detailing rule book changes for the 2017 season in its three national series, including limits on tire allocation, restrictor-plate and spoiler size, and an allowance for drivers to use biometric devices.   The 80 total pages of revisions released Friday afternoon pertain to Sections 20 (Vehicle and Driver Safety specifications) and 21…

Christopher Bell rang in the start of his 2017 season with perhaps the biggest win of his burgeoning racing career — the 31st annual Chili Bowl.   Bell, a full-time driver for Kyle Busch Motorsports in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, won what many consider to be the world’s most prestigious Midget Car race after midnight ET on Sunday morning. Over the course of a week, he outlasted 364…

The 2017 World Baseball Classic is a little over a month away from starting. As such, teams are doing their best to assemble their final rosters. That includes the Canadian team, who will apparently employ a pair of old All-Star pitchers. Who might those All-Star pitchers be — would you believe Ryan Dempster and Eric Gagne? You should, according to Shi Davidi: Ryan Dempster and Eric Gagne planning to pitch…

Frazer Meek jumps down from a wooden platform and jogs across the floor of the Fluidity Freerun Academy, a 7,000 sq ft warehouse in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Cardiff. It is a wintry Thursday evening and there are only a few hardy souls practising their leaps and swings on the purpose-built equipment, designed to mimic the bollards, railings and concrete building blocks of the great urban outdoors….

The 2017 World Baseball Classic is a little over a month away from starting. As such, teams are doing their best to assemble their final rosters. That includes the Canadian team, who will apparently employ a pair of old All-Star pitchers. Who might those All-Star pitchers be — would you believe Ryan Dempster and Eric Gagne? You should, according to Shi Davidi: Ryan Dempster and Eric Gagne planning to pitch…

Frazer Meek jumps down from a wooden platform and jogs across the floor of the Fluidity Freerun Academy, a 7,000 sq ft warehouse in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Cardiff. It is a wintry Thursday evening and there are only a few hardy souls practising their leaps and swings on the purpose-built equipment, designed to mimic the bollards, railings and concrete building blocks of the great urban outdoors….

The Indians might not be done. While the signing of free-agent first baseman Edwin Encarnacion pushed the club beyond its expected payroll limit, team officials are staying in touch with a number of free agents, according to major-league sources. The list of potential targets includes relievers, corner infielders and corner outfielders, sources said; even Jose Bautista might not be out of the question if his price drops to a point…

In what could be the final NFL game at the Georgia Dome, the Atlanta Falcons fans went from screaming with anticipation to eerily quieted when it appeared the Seattle Seahawks might have their number. But by the end of the first half, when the Falcons had completely flipped momentum, the Dome rocked with chants of “MVP! MVP!” Those, of course, were for Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, who capped off a…

The annual North American International Auto Show in Detroit is usually an opportunity for the hometown automakers to shine. But plucky South Korean automaker Kia Motors Corporation (NASDAQOTH: KIMTF) might have stolen this year’s Detroit show with the wild-looking high-performance sports sedan it unveiled last Sunday night. Continue Reading Below Kia calls it the Stinger. It may look like a show car, but it’s a real product: The 2018…

Mar 12, 2016; Clearwater, FL, USA; Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Vince Velasquez (28) throws a warm up pitch during the first inning against the Toronto Blue Jays at Bright House Field. Mandatory Credit: Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports The Phillies have plenty of starting pitching between the majors and minors, and now they have to figure out where they will all start the year. The Phillies have made it a point…

Somewhat lost in all the hoopla regarding Carl Edwards’ announcement that he is stepping away from NASCAR is the ripple effect it had on the 2017 Monster Energy Cup Series rookie landscape. Let’s just say that with Daniel Suarez, a rookie, now stepping in to fill Edwards’ shoes in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, it just got a whole lot more interesting. Prior to the Edwards-Suarez seat swap,…

Saturday’s Sydney Derby between Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers didn’t bring anything in terms of goals, but it brought so much more. During the 0-0 match, goalkeeper Vedran Janjetovic was front and center. Having played for Sydney FC from 2012-16, he just switched to Western and the fans let him have it by throwing snakes on his goal. Take a look. Here’s another look. That’s pretty nuts, but that…

This promised to be a trying offseason for the Miami Marlins , one of baseball’s most unique franchises. They’ve never won a division title, yet they have two World Series titles to their name and have never lost a postseason series. They’ve employed some of the greatest players of the last quarter-century ( Miguel Cabrera , Kevin Brown , Gary Sheffield, etc.) and also held several high-profile fire sales. The…

Frazer Meek jumps down from a wooden platform and jogs across the floor of the Fluidity Freerun Academy, a 7,000 sq ft warehouse in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Cardiff. It is a wintry Thursday evening and there are only a few hardy souls practising their leaps and swings on the purpose-built equipment, designed to mimic the bollards, railings and concrete building blocks of the great urban outdoors….

Saturday marks the final night of competition in the first big auto race of the year, the Chili Bowl Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And NASCAR is well represented at the Chili Bowl, both on and off the track. Racing tonight will be NASCAR regulars Kyle Larson, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., J.J. Yeley, Christopher Bell, Justin Allgaier and Chase Briscoe. Of this group, only Bell is already locked into the A-Main championship…

This promised to be a trying offseason for the Miami Marlins , one of baseball’s most unique franchises. They’ve never won a division title, yet they have two World Series titles to their name and have never lost a postseason series. They’ve employed some of the greatest players of the last quarter-century ( Miguel Cabrera , Kevin Brown , Gary Sheffield, etc.) and also held several high-profile fire sales. The…

A video of a Little League coach giving his team what appears to be a pep talk before a championship game has been making the rounds on the internet, and it’s because of his hardcore winners vs. losers take. Here you go: For those who don’t want to watch, I can bottom line it. The money quote, regarding his team’s goal for the game: “Hit dingers, disgrace the pitcher’s family,…

A little over two months after what was arguably the best World Series ever, between the Cleveland Indians and the world champion Chicago Cubs (go ahead, say it again: world champion Chicago Cubs), Major League Baseball’s front office folks gathered just south of the nation’s capital to conduct off-season business and begin the national pastime’s next New World Order. Related How Chicago Cubs Became America’s Team With Epic World Series…

Roger Clemens could have kept his mouth shut. People would have believed what they were going to believe. But Mr. Clemens went to Washington in 2008, for an extraordinary day of political theater. Clemens testified under oath that he never had used steroids. Rep. Henry Waxman, the chairman of the congressional committee grilling Clemens, did not believe him. Nine years later, neither man has given ground. But the ground has…