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In his prime, George Parros was the most feared man in the NHL. Nobody wanted to fight him, not even those whose one job in hockey was to skate around in search of a willing combatant to drop the gloves with. At 6-foot-5 – an oak tree on skates – Parros also happened to be the smartest man in the sport. Here was a fearless and brutal fighter with an…

After 20 years without an NFL team, Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest market, welcomed back the nation’s largest sports league in 2016 with the return of the Rams. In 2017, Los Angeles will have two teams. According to a report from ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the San Diego Chargers will announce a move to Los Angeles in the coming days. The move comes a year after the NFL approved the Rams’ move to Los Angeles,…

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Major League Baseball and USA Baseball announced on Tuesday the inaugural “Dream Series,” an event designed to provide both exposure and developmental opportunities to a diverse group of high school pitchers and catchers from across the nation. The Dream Series will take place at Tempe Diablo Stadium in Arizona this coming weekend, kicking off another year of diversity-focused amateur events in 2017. The series joins the Breakthrough Series and Elite…

From a slicked-back style to classic flow, here’s a look at the best hockey hair in the NCAA.

1:16 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Carl Edwards will leave Joe Gibbs Racing effective immediately without regrets and while he’s still healthy, he announced Wednesday. Edwards said he has no plans to race again, but he added that he wouldn’t use the word “retirement.” He said the timing was right to leave now — that he is satisfied with his career and…

In what may have been a NASCAR first, Hendrick Motorsports recently made a hullabaloo on social media regarding the firesuits its four drivers will wear next season. Paint schemes, sure, that’s a common thing where the look of the cars are ever-changing and fans want to see how their favorite drivers’ car will appear. But firesuits? This year firesuits offered a snapshot into the uncertainty that permeates over the sport….

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The Wooden Sky’s new album, Swimming In Strange Waters, comes out April 7. Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the artist The Wooden Sky’s new album, Swimming In Strange Waters, comes out April 7. Courtesy of the artist Sometimes, in the process of recording music, a band’s sweat, calluses and grit go in one end and 0s and 1s come out the other with a sort…

Asia, a continent with a long history of importing its major professional sports, has really come into its own over the past decade when it comes to building athletic competition from within.   ONE women’s atomweight champion Angela Lee (Image via ONE) While most of the region’s favorite leagues, teams and players still come from Europe and the United States, a select group of organizations representing a variety of sports are beginning to…

PETAH TIKVA, Israel –  Israel has just one baseball-specific field, and most Israelis know little about the game. Yet the country has emerged as a potential spoiler in the upcoming World Baseball Classic thanks to quirky regulations that allow it to pack its squad with American pro players of Jewish descent. Major leaguers Ike Davis, Sam Fuld and Ryan Lavarnway were among 10 team members who visited Israel for…

Maybe Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Manny Ramirez and others who were on the cutting edge of the performance-enhancing-drug era eventually will be voted into the Hall of Fame by the general electorate. Maybe last month’s election of former commissioner Bud Selig will be the tipping point. But that’s nonsense. And it’s largely a non sequitur. One new “narrative” to emerge this winter in advance of next Wednesday’s…

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Israel has just one baseball-specific field, and most Israelis know little about the game. Yet the country has emerged as a potential spoiler in the upcoming World Baseball Classic thanks to quirky regulations that allow it to pack its squad with American pro players of Jewish descent. Major leaguers Ike Davis, Sam Fuld and Ryan Lavarnway were among 10 team members who visited Israel for the first time this month…

At this point, it might still happen. As of 190 votes known publicly in the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s 2017 election for the Hall of Fame, Ryan Thibodaux had five players in the running in his vote tracker for the necessary 75 percent: Tim Raines with 91.6 percent of the vote; Jeff Bagwell with 91.1 percent; Ivan Rodriguez with 80.5 percent; Vladimir Guerrero with 74.2 percent; and Trevor Hoffman with…

Maybe Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Manny Ramirez and others who were on the cutting edge of the performance-enhancing-drug era eventually will be voted into the Hall of Fame by the general electorate. Maybe last month’s election of former commissioner Bud Selig will be the tipping point. But that’s nonsense. And it’s largely a non sequitur. One new “narrative” to emerge this winter in advance of next Wednesday’s…

Two responded when Cleburne mayor turned author Scott Cain asked for any Houston Astros fans present to raise their hand during Friday’s monthly meeting of Pinnacle Club 50. The Astros, Cain said, began life as the Cleburne Railroaders more than a century ago. In four months they — Railroaders, not the Astros — will resume play in Cleburne after a break of 80 odd years. Cain…

Early January is the time of the year when we discuss the Baseball Hall of Fame, but we’re here with some different Hall of Fame news on this fine Monday. Kirk Gibson — one of the best players to never be an All-Star — was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. The class that includes 10 players and three coaches is headlined by Peyton Manning, Marshall Faulk, Matt…

Everything stinks. Everybody is a fraud. Nothing makes sense. The refrains of anger and negativity sweeping across our country in recent months have threatened to turn America into the land of the fury and home of the bitter. Then Monday night happens. A fearless college kid throws a touchdown pass in the final ticks of a four-month season to upset a giant opponent and win a national championship. A coach…