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Goold: How much would Cardinals’ ‘Highest-Paid Team in Baseball … – STLtoday.com

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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,…

A Jewish Player’s 1914 Baseball Card Triggers a $125000 Dispute – New York Times

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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Eimantas Stanionis signs with Ringstar Sports’ Richard Schaefer – ESPN

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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…

Alistair Brownlee on Mo Farah snub at BBC Sports Personality of the Year: ‘It’s really sad – he is the perfect … – Telegraph.co.uk

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

“I would have voted for Mo to win,” said Brownlee, a prodigiously talented 10,000m runner himself, with a personal best of 28min 32sec. “His achievements are incredible. What stands out about them is that no one from Britain has done them before, and there is a good chance that no one will again. It’s not as if someone does it every year. This is a complete one-off in what are…

New name announced for NASCAR’s Premier Series – FOXSports.com

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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…

NASCAR reveals new brand identity, premier series name and logo – Nascar

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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…

Is there any hope for baseball’s basement dwellers? – ESPN

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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…

Goold: How much would Cardinals’ ‘Highest-Paid Team in Baseball History’ make today? – STLtoday.com

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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,…

A Jewish Player’s 1914 Baseball Card Triggers a $125000 Dispute – New York Times

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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TCU baseball earns 5 selections to preseason All-America team – Fort Worth Star Telegram

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Five TCU baseball players were selected preseason All-Americans on Monday by Collegiate Baseball, the most in the nation. Sophomore designated hitter Luken Baker and senior right-handed pitcher Brian Howard were first-team selections. Baker, the 2016 Big 12 Freshman of the Year, hit .379 with 62 RBIs and 11 home runs to lead the Horned Frogs. Howard went 10-2 with a 3.19 ERA, including 3-0 in the postseason. Junior catcher Evan…

Alistair Brownlee on Mo Farah snub at BBC Sports Personality of the Year: ‘It’s really sad – he is the perfect … – Telegraph.co.uk

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

“I would have voted for Mo to win,” said Brownlee, a prodigiously talented 10,000m runner himself, with a personal best of 28min 32sec. “His achievements are incredible. What stands out about them is that no one from Britain has done them before, and there is a good chance that no one will again. It’s not as if someone does it every year. This is a complete one-off in what are…

An American Soccer Coach in England Learns to Speak British – Wall Street Journal

Monday, December 19, 2016

The slip was innocent enough. Bob Bradley, the American manager of Swansea City, was bemoaning a defeat last weekend in a post-game interview with the BBC when he accidentally referred to a penalty kick as a “PK.” He corrected himself to say “penalty,” but the damage was done. A slice of English soccer fans on social media seized on it immediately. Bradley had committed what they saw as a cardinal…

Gov.-elect Greitens opposes public funding for St. Louis soccer stadium – STLtoday.com

Monday, December 19, 2016

Missouri Gov.-elect Eric Greitens said he opposes public funding for a Major League Soccer stadium in downtown St. Louis, according to a statement released by his transition team Monday. “This project is nothing more than welfare for millionaires,” Greitens said. “Right now, because of reckless spending by career politicians, we can’t even afford the core functions of government, let alone spend millions on soccer stadiums. “This back-room…

Cycling: Mystery package was flu treatment, says Team Sky boss Brailsford – Reuters

Monday, December 19, 2016

LONDON The mystery package at the center of a UK Anti-Doping investigation into British Cycling contained a flu treatment, Team Sky chief Dave Brailsford told Members of Parliament on Monday. British Cycling and Team Sky have been under scrutiny over the package delivered to the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine in which Bradley Wiggins was riding. Wiggins’ then coach Shane Sutton, giving evidence to a Parliamentary inquiry into doping in sport,…

Rest-of-season rankings: Most valuable fantasy forwards so far – ESPN

Monday, December 19, 2016

2:15 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment We’ve already gone through an exercise in seeing which goaltenders and defensemen rated highest to this point of the season on the ESPN Player Rater. Seems fitting we should check in with the forward ranks, too. Tortorella’€™s biggest strength as a coach A coach doesn’t get to 500 NHL wins by accident. Here’s how John Tortorella did it, plus other takeaways…

FIFA panel bans two former Honduran soccer officials for life – Reuters

Monday, December 19, 2016

ZURICH World soccer governing body FIFA’s independent ethics committee on Monday imposed life-long bans on two former Honduran officials for involvement in a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme to which both have pled guilty. Rafael Callejas, former president of the Honduran Football Association (FENAFUTH) and a former member of the FIFA Marketing and TV Committee, and Alfredo Hawit Banegas, former acting president of CONCACAF – the confederation that runs soccer in North…

Is there any hope for baseball’s basement dwellers? – ESPN

Monday, December 19, 2016

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…

Goold: How much would Cardinals’ ‘Highest-Paid Team in Baseball History’ make today? – STLtoday.com

Monday, December 19, 2016

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,…