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Team Canada opens the World Baseball Classic against the Dominican Republic on Thursday, March 9th in Miami Joey Votto has declined his invitation to play for Canada at the upcoming 2017 World Baseball Classic in March. Bob Elliot of the Canadian Baseball Network was first to report the news. Reds 1B Joey Votto declines invite to play for Canada in WBC “Some aspects of my performance in 2016 were lacking.”…

Wayde van Niekerk’s record-breaking four-hundred-metre run at Rio was among the best moments in sports in 2016.CreditPhotograph by Jeff Pachoud / AFP / Getty A professional football game has four fifteen-minute quarters, but once you subtract all the time the players spend huddling up, walking around, mugging for the cameras, getting into position, and waiting for the referees to spot the ball and the quarterback to go through his pre-snap…

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Many of the most exciting stories in baseball are tales of the underdog. The Amazin’ Mets of 1969 not only overcame a large Cubs lead in the standings, it was also their first good season ever and one that few saw coming. The 1991 Worst-to-First World Series between the Braves and Twins is still remembered on that basis (and for the Jack Morris/ John Smoltz showdown). Oregon’s Brooks says beating…

I visited Cooperstown for the first time in the spring of 2012.  I admit, I’m a bit ashamed it took me so long. Apologies. I’ll be back in July to watch the class of 2017 induction ceremony. I cannot wait. I’ve spent most of the past month obsessing about filling out my first Hall of Fame ballot (the 2016 season was my 10th as a member of the BBWAA). I’ll be…

Max Scherzer’s next start could be in a Team USA uniform. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/ The Washington Post) Max Scherzer does not shy away from challenges. He attacks them with maniacal vigor, usually successfully, and moves on to the next with equal gusto. This spring, he’ll tackle a new one: While some of his peers have opted out of playing in the upcoming World Baseball Classic, Scherzer, always the fiery competitor,…

When Surry Community College’s baseball club teams up with the Surry County Sheriff’s Department, there is no game to be played, but there is always a winner – the entire community. On December 10, the Surry Knights’ baseball team began its second decade of helping the local sheriff’s department organize and deliver food to needy families in the area for the Christmas holiday. For the 11th straight year, beginning bright…

Many of the most exciting stories in baseball are tales of the underdog. The Amazin’ Mets of 1969 not only overcame a large Cubs lead in the standings, it was also their first good season ever and one that few saw coming. The 1991 Worst-to-First World Series between the Braves and Twins is still remembered on that basis (and for the Jack Morris/ John Smoltz showdown). Oregon’s Brooks says beating…

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Max Scherzer’s next start could be in a Team USA uniform. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/ The Washington Post) Max Scherzer does not shy away from challenges. He attacks them with maniacal vigor, usually successfully, and moves on to the next with equal gusto. This spring, he’ll tackle a new one: While some of his peers have opted out of playing in the upcoming World Baseball Classic, Scherzer, always the fiery competitor,…

I visited Cooperstown for the first time in the spring of 2012.  I admit, I’m a bit ashamed it took me so long. Apologies. I’ll be back in July to watch the class of 2017 induction ceremony. I cannot wait. I’ve spent most of the past month obsessing about filling out my first Hall of Fame ballot (the 2016 season was my 10th as a member of the BBWAA). I’ll be…

When Surry Community College’s baseball club teams up with the Surry County Sheriff’s Department, there is no game to be played, but there is always a winner – the entire community. On December 10, the Surry Knights’ baseball team began its second decade of helping the local sheriff’s department organize and deliver food to needy families in the area for the Christmas holiday. For the 11th straight year, beginning bright…

Here’s something you may not have known — soccer in Rwanda is lit. In a recent match in the African nation, Mukura Victory was leading Rayon Sports 1-0 when Moussa Camara headed a ball off the post as he tried to bring his team level. He then ran to the post and put something next to it which supposedly was him trying to use witchcraft on the post. What happens…

Many of the most exciting stories in baseball are tales of the underdog. The Amazin’ Mets of 1969 not only overcame a large Cubs lead in the standings, it was also their first good season ever and one that few saw coming. The 1991 Worst-to-First World Series between the Braves and Twins is still remembered on that basis (and for the Jack Morris/ John Smoltz showdown). Haberstroh calls Westbrook’s season…

We’re a few short days away from 2017 so it’s a good time to look back at the top 25 baseball stories of 2016. Some of them took place on the field, some of them off the field and some of them were creatures of social media, fan chatter and the like. No matter where the story broke, however, these were the stories baseball fans were talking about most this…

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When I come home from work and stick my key in the door, there is a pitter-patter of tiny feet as my eight-year-old twin boys run up to me and shout: ‘Paris St-Germain won 3-1! First he scored, then he missed, then…’ They are suffering from a harmless case of sports geekery. I had it myself as a child, and have gone on to hold down a job, albeit in…

Russia’s anti-doping agency RUSADA said on Wednesday it had not admitted to mass doping in the country’s sports system and that a report in the New York Times which suggested it had was a distortion of its position. The U.S. newspaper reported earlier on Wednesday that RUSADA officials had for the first time admitted there had been an organized conspiracy to dope in Russia. It cited Anna Antseliovich, the acting…

Bradley Wiggins has announced his retirement from cycling, ending a career that saw him win a British record eight Olympic medals as well as the country’s first Tour de France title. The 36-year-old posted a statement on his Instagram page on Wednesday afternoon, accompanying a picture of his collected race jerseys, medals and trophies. In it, he said: “2016 is the end of the road for this chapter, onwards and…

Russia, basically: “OK, fine, we doped athletes like crazy. But from now on, we’ll be good. Also, Putin knew nothing.” Russian officials for the first time have admitted to mass doping in the country’s sports system, the New York Times reported, but dismissed suggestions the “institutional conspiracy” was state-sponsored — meaning backed by President Vladimir Putin and his closest associates. The final part of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s independent report into doping in Russia…