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x Embed x Share Michael Phelps is back on Sports Illustrated’s cover, but this time with his 23 Olympic gold medals. Time_Sports Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps on the cover of “Sports Illustrated” with all 23 of his Olympic gold medals.(Photo: Sports Illustrated) Michael Phelps appears on the cover of the latest edition of Sports Illustrated for a 12th time in his career, this time with all 23 of his record Olympic gold medals draped around…

Dec 19, 2016 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Sometimes in baseball, we need to look down, not up. We need to look south, not north. We need to turn our gaze away from the usual suspects — the Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, the … aw, you know who we mean. So today, let’s stare at the basement. We know there’s hope for…

Let’s hear from the two Toms. “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong,” wrote Tom 1, “gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” Almost two centuries later Tom 2 stated that his “most fundamental objective is to urge a change in…

The Prospect Development Pipeline aims to deepen the prep player pool for scouts (Photo by Cliff Welch) NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—USA Baseball and MLB jointly announced the creation of the Prospect Development Pipeline during the Winter Meetings, establishing an official identification and player assessment process for top high school players as they approach draft eligibility. In 2017, the PDP schedule will include 17 single-day, regional workouts across the country, leading up…

The Dodgers flexed their prospect power at the non-waiver deadline, trading three right-handed pitchers to the Athletics for left-hander Rich Hill and outfielder Josh Reddick. They might be on the verge of doing it again. Oh, the Dodgers do not appear close to acquiring the Twins’ Brian Dozier or any other second baseman. But their willingness to part with top pitching prospect Jose De Leon for Dozier, as first reported…

31. San Francisco 49ers (1-13, LW: 31) Chip Kelly has lost 13 in a row, and many reasons for that streak are totally out of his control. But does it seem like the 49ers are getting better under him? When Colin Kaepernick talked about how the culture of the team needs to change, that has to reflect back to Kelly. I want Kelly to succeed in the NFL, because I…

Alistair Brownlee has admitted his surprise that Mo Farah yet again failed to make the top three of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday night and suggested it might be because “some people don’t see him as British”. Brownlee said he would have voted for Farah, who came fourth in the awards despite retaining his Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m titles in style in Rio, and felt it…

SOCCER MOSCOW (AP) Players from Russia’s under-21 national soccer team had suspicious drug-test samples covered up, emails released by a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation show. The emails, released this month as part of WADA investigator Richard McLaren’s report on Russian doping, state that there were five suspicious samples in the Russian men’s under-17 and under-21 national teams in 2013 and 2014. More from FoxSports Another case in the…

4:31 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Ringstar Sports promoter Richard Schaefer — back in boxing after 2 1/2 years away after resigning as chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions, which he co-founded with Oscar De La Hoya — continued to beef up his stable of young talent on Monday. Schaefer announced that he has signed 22-year-old welterweight Eimantas Stanionis, a highly coveted 2016 Lithuanian Olympian. “Being able…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Sometimes in baseball, we need to look down, not up. We need to look south, not north. We need to turn our gaze away from the usual suspects — the Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, the … aw, you know who we mean. So today, let’s stare at the basement. We know there’s hope for…

ST. LOUIS • The cover is so iconic that Sports Illustrated did it twice with the same team. In 1968, the Cardinals fresh off a World Series championship, the leading magazine for sports writing put nine players and manager Red Schoendienst on the cover of an October issue. The headline read, “The Highest-Paid Team in Baseball History.” And alongside the picture, listed as if for tax purposes,…

Alistair Brownlee has admitted his surprise that Mo Farah yet again failed to make the top three of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday night and suggested it might be because “some people don’t see him as British”. Brownlee said he would have voted for Farah, who came fourth in the awards despite retaining his Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m titles in style in Rio, and felt it…

4:31 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Ringstar Sports promoter Richard Schaefer — back in boxing after 2 1/2 years away after resigning as chief executive of Golden Boy Promotions, which he co-founded with Oscar De La Hoya — continued to beef up his stable of young talent on Monday. Schaefer announced that he has signed 22-year-old welterweight Eimantas Stanionis, a highly coveted 2016 Lithuanian Olympian. “Being able…

Just 61 days before the Clash kicks off the 2016 season at Daytona, NASCAR’s top series finally and officially has a new name. At 4 p.m. ET, NASCAR announced that the new series will be called the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Earlier this month in Las Vegas, NASCAR and Monster Energy announced that Monster would replace Sprint as the Premier Series title sponsor. At the time the deal was…

If I’ve got the first pick in the draft, out of all the sports, if I can take anybody and start a team, I go with LeBron, just because it’s always going to be easier for a basketball player to dominate, because it’s only five to a side. What we’re basically talking about here is picking the guy you think is better than everybody in team sports the way Serena…

CHICAGO – Fans have seen this ending before. In this season, against this team and especially the quarterback. Aaron Rodgers has made a habit of ripping out Bears’ fans hearts for the majority of his career and on Sunday he did so again on a frigid day at Soldier Field. A long completion to Jordy Nelson in the closing seconds set up the game-winning field goal for the Packers who…

RELATED: New premier series mark, name revealed DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR today unveiled a new official brand identity which will replace the bar mark used by the sanctioning body since 1976. The announcement was made in conjunction with the news that Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series™will be the new name of the sport’s premier series beginning January 1, 2017. The new brand mark and Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series…

Noriana Radwan was an 18-year-old freshman soccer player at the University of Connecticut when her team won the 2014 American Athletic Conference championship game. An ESPNU television camera focused on Radwan as she cheered and hugged her teammates on the field, and she enthusiastically threw up her left middle finger. She never imagined this one gesture ― for which she says she has since “profusely apologized” ― would destroy her career…

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9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Sometimes in baseball, we need to look down, not up. We need to look south, not north. We need to turn our gaze away from the usual suspects — the Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, the … aw, you know who we mean. So today, let’s stare at the basement. We know there’s hope for…