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By Brent St. Germain Sports Editor Cullen Boudreaux’s best Christmas present was not something he opened this morning. It was a letter the Terrebonne High School junior catcher received in October stating that he was one of 144 high school baseball players selected to participate in the Under Armour Baseball Factory Christmas Camp and Tournament at Pirate City in Bradenton, Fla.  Boudreaux, 16, is leaving Monday for…

Richard Brown is planning on retiring this spring from his daytime job as operations manager at Sodexo, but grandson Tavey Ogubi has forbidden him from giving up his hobby. Brown is vice president of the local Red Carrington Baseball League and also runs the Jackers team. Tavey, 11, helps out by shagging flyballs during batting practice, helping set up the equipment and stocking the coolers. He also told his…

Everything changed for the Chicago Cubs on a rainy November night. A century-plus worth of heartache washed away by a wave of pure joy. There were hugs, cheers and tears — and bottles and bottles of booze, sprayed everywhere from Cleveland to the shadow of Wrigley Field. Lovable losers, no more. The story of so many lifetimes is The Associated Press’ Sports Story of the Year. “The burden has been…

The last time the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors squared off, Kyrie Irving hit an unbelievable game-winning shot that stunned the Warriors’ faithful and sent Cavs supporters into hysterics. The more things change, huh? [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Basketball contest now | Free NBA Yahoo Cup entry] With Golden State shooting guard Klay Thompson draped absolutely all over him, the Cavs’ All-Star point guard hit a turnaround fadeaway…

(L-R) Marcellus Gomes, Mervyn Fernandes, MK Kaushik, Mohd Shahid, Syed Ali, Charanjit Singh, Zafar Iqbal and Surender Sodhi during a camp in Patiala for the 1981-82 World Cup. Dhyan Chand, Shahid, Ali and Iqbal are all products of hockey nurseries in UP. The stadium had lost its voice. But Syed Ali couldn’t care less. He is on his feet, shaking his head in disbelief and applauding a fine goal. He…

CHICAGO – Everything changed for the Chicago Cubs on a rainy November night. A century-plus worth of heartache washed away by a wave of pure joy. There were hugs, cheers and tears – and bottles and bottles of booze, sprayed everywhere from Cleveland to the shadow of Wrigley Field. Lovable losers, no more. The story of so many lifetimes is The Associated Press’ Sports Story of the Year. “The burden has been…

Rutgers University Receives NCAA Notice Of Allegations Recruiting violations, providing players with better grades than deserved and previously unreported positive drug tests are at issue in a new NCAA Notice of Allegations sent to Rutgers University. The Notice comes at the conclusion of an eighteen month NCAA investigation into the Rutgers athletic department. The allegations also include Rutgers operating an impermissible host program for football recruits. Ex-Rutgers football head coach…

LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers weren’t about to let the Golden State Warriors forget that they blew a 3-1 lead in the 2016 NBA Finals on Halloween. Why would they be willing to do it on another holiday? [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Basketball contest now | Free NBA Yahoo Cup entry] Ahead of Christmas Day’s marquee matchup between the combatants in the last two NBA Finals, Tom Withers…

Sports took us through emotional highs and lows in 2016. The year was filled with curses being broken, legendary careers coming to an end and tragic losses of athletes gone way too soon. We saw the Cubs win the World Series, LeBron James cement his legacy and Dee Gordon hit a home run that will be remembered for a long time. Here’s a look back at some…

A 12-year-old girl’s family has filed a lawsuit against St. Theresa, the New Jersey school that won’t allow her to play on its boys’ basketball team, NBC New York reported. Scott Phillips filed the lawsuit against St. Theresa and the archdiocese of Newark after school administrators told his daughter, star basketball player Sydney Phillips, that there weren’t enough girls to form a team and that she couldn’t…

Indianapolis Colts fans and former teammates cheer on Peyton Manning (18) during the 10th anniversary reunion of their Super Bowl XLVI win during halftime of the Colts game Sunday, November 20, 206, afternoon at Lucas Oil Stadium(Photo: Matt_Kryger/Indy_Star) IndyStar readers voted with their clicks, making these the Top 10 sports stories of 2016 by page views on IndyStar.com. 1. Andrew Smith dies Former Butler University basketball player Andrew Smith died Jan….

In a year filled with stunners, sports certainly went along for the ride. From the Golden State Warriors squandering a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals after a record-breaking season to little Leicester City defying insurmountable odds to capture the Premier League title, there were plenty of shocking outcomes in our arenas and stadiums. Heck, the Chicago Cubs even won the World Series for the first time in 108 years….

A 12-year-old girl’s family has filed a lawsuit against St. Theresa, the New Jersey school that won’t allow her to play on its boys’ basketball team, NBC New York reported. Scott Phillips filed the lawsuit against St. Theresa and the archdiocese of Newark after school administrators told his daughter, star basketball player Sydney Phillips, that there weren’t enough girls to form a team and that she couldn’t…

Editor’s note: Images courtesy of Georgia Tech athletics/Danny Karnik   A college football player leaving school early to pursue his dream of being in a professional sport is not unusual. In that regard, Eason Fromayan will not be alone when he departs Georgia Tech following the team’s Dec. 31 bowl game with one season of eligibility remaining.   Fromayan, a large fellow at 6-foot-4, 285 pounds, has decided to step…

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  Hey remember a few years ago when they had the Olympics in Sochi, and USA Hockey produced a pretty underwhelming team? You know what I mean: When the brain trust left some of the best players at their positions in the whole world home because of things like a perceived lack of hustle or because they had bad dreams and really only wanted to beat Canada? That team ended…

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. – For any high school coach, all you can ask from your athletes is to play with heart. East Pennsboro Senior Joe Mansaray embodies that sentiment in a way you can’t even imagine. Two years ago, Mansaray was a rising star in high school soccer. But the summer before his junior year, he started having trouble breathing and he didn’t know why. The Pennsylvania teen thought it…

2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games 1. Name the two distances that Mo Farah won gold in the Rio 2016 games. 2. Where did Brit Jessica Ennis-Hill finish in the heptathlon? 3. Which country won handball men’s gold in Rio? 4. What is the nationality of Annemiek van Vleuten, who fractured her back in a fall when leading the women’s road race? 5. Brit Kadeena Cox won Paralympic gold in the…

A 12-year-old girl’s family has filed a lawsuit against St. Theresa, the New Jersey school that won’t allow her to play on its boys’ basketball team, NBC New York reported. Scott Phillips filed the lawsuit against St. Theresa and the archdiocese of Newark after school administrators told his daughter, star basketball player Sydney Phillips, that there weren’t enough girls to form a team and that she couldn’t…

A 12-year-old girl’s family has filed a lawsuit against St. Theresa, the New Jersey school that won’t allow her to play on its boys’ basketball team, NBC New York reported. Scott Phillips filed the lawsuit against St. Theresa and the archdiocese of Newark after school administrators told his daughter, star basketball player Sydney Phillips, that there weren’t enough girls to form a team and that she couldn’t…