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Major League Baseball’s streaming-technology unit is looking to break into the hot arena of competitive videogaming by partnering with the creator of one of the world’s most popular computer games. The agreement, expected to be announced…

It was a year of firsts, lasts, and loss in the world of sports documented in millions of photographs. In one image, LeBron James bowed his head, tears of joy in his eyes, as he fulfilled a promise—for the first time in the franchise’s history, the Cleveland Cavaliers were NBA Champions. At the Rio Olympics, Usain Bolt preserved another title as World’s Fastest Man, grinning in a photograph captured by…

1) Cathal Dennehy There are some great moments in sport that are elevated still further by a great piece of commentary. Sometimes – as with the great Richie Bernaud – these moments are embellished with quick wit and composure, but mostly – in keeping with the high-octane sport around them – it is fully-grown adults going off script, spontaneously combusting to bring the fervour of the action to the viewer…

It wasn’t supposed to be a crash course in shallow-league draft strategy. It just sort of became that. In our haste to put together a mock draft responding to the flurry of activity during the Winter Meetings and thereafter, we had to settle for 10 knowledgeable drafters instead of our usual 12: 1. Joel Nickels, loyal podcast listener2. Adam Aizer, CBSSports.com3. Brent S. Gambill, former EP for MLB Network Radio4….

5:34 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Torii Hunter Jr. will be following in his father’s footsteps on the diamond. The Notre Dame receiver said Thursday on Twitter that he will forgo a fifth year of school and football to pursue a professional baseball career with the Los Angeles Angels. The Angels drafted Hunter, the son of the former major league outfielder by the same name, in the…

They say it’s impolite to talk about money, but when we do, we often talk about it in normative terms — right and wrong, black and white. In sports, that means talking about “bad” contracts — players who are overpaid relative to their production. As a fan, this line of thinking is understandable in a league with a salary cap: If the Dallas Mavericks are paying Erick Dampier like he invented Facebook, and Erick…

x Embed x Share The sports world flooded social media with tributes to the longtime NBA sideline reporter. Craig Sager worked for Turner Sports for 34 years.(Photo: David Banks, USA TODAY Sports) Craig Sager’s extravagant attire, low-key cool and abundant humanity will always be most closely associated with the NBA. Yet Sager, who died Thursday at 65 after battling a rare form of cancer for more than two years, left…

Throughout the course of a baseball season, MLB teams give away a ton of promotional swag at select games: From replica championship rings, to T-shirts and jerseys, to tote bags, magnets and garden gnomes. If you can name it, a baseball team has probably given it away. But perhaps one of the most ubiquitous, and sought after, tchotchkes is the bobblehead. Bobbleheads are a popular giveaway item…

Craig Sager, a television sportscaster whose outlandish outfits, decades interviewing the biggest names in basketball and public fight with cancer made him a beloved personality in the National Basketball Association, died Dec. 15, two days after his induction into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He was 65. His death was announced by Turner Sports, where he worked as a broadcaster. Other details, including the place of his death, were…

There’s a vast and vicious human trafficking network that supplies Major League Baseball with some of its top players. It starts with the players, superbly talented young men who seek to escape the poverty of Cuba. And it ends with MLB teams that pay massive contracts to get them. In the middle is an underworld of smugglers that goes as far as teaming up with Los Zetas — one of…

Throughout the course of a baseball season, MLB teams give away a ton of promotional swag at select games: From replica championship rings, to T-shirts and jerseys, to tote bags, magnets and garden gnomes. If you can name it, a baseball team has probably given it away. But perhaps one of the most ubiquitous, and sought after, tchotchkes is the bobblehead. Bobbleheads are a popular giveaway item…

The story of the 2016 Chicago Cubs is going to be shared by generations of fans, but one of the players with inside knowledge of how the team won the World Series is writing a book about his experiences in the game. That player is catcher David Ross, who retired from baseball following the Cubs’ championship. Throughout his final season, Ross received accolades and gifts from around the game, and…

Photo: Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press MLB ratified a new collective bargaining agreement today that, among other changes, banned rooking hazing, including the longstanding tradition of veteran ballplayers making rookies dress like women. Many other forms of hazing were banned—making people drink too much alcohol, coercing people to break the law, and bullying— but, as you can imagine, people really grabbed onto the whole no women’s outfits thing. Advertisement MLB vice-president…

They say it’s impolite to talk about money, but when we do, we often talk about it in normative terms — right and wrong, black and white. In sports, that means talking about “bad” contracts — players who are overpaid relative to their production. As a fan, this line of thinking is understandable in a league with a salary cap: If the Dallas Mavericks are paying Erick Dampier like he invented Facebook, and Erick…

Launching next year, the planned Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA network will focus on American athletes and show live competitions on the path to the Olympics. Here, U.S. athletes pose during the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics in August. Matt Dunham/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Dunham/AP Launching next year, the planned Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA network will focus on American athletes and show…

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NASCAR announced Wednesday that it will again host its annual NASCAR Fan Appreciation Day at the NASCAR Hall of Fame on January 21, 2017.   Current national series drivers, NASCAR Hall of Famers and members of the NASCAR Next Class are expected to be in attendance for a day-long celebration that will include autograph sessions, opportunities for fan-driver photos and question-and-answer sessions.   NASCAR Fan Appreciation Day will follow Friday…

Photo: Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press MLB ratified a new collective bargaining agreement today that, among other changes, banned rooking hazing, including the longstanding tradition of veteran ballplayers making rookies dress like women. Many other forms of hazing were banned—making people drink too much alcohol, coercing people to break the law, and bullying— but, as you can imagine, people really grabbed onto the whole no women’s outfits thing. Advertisement MLB vice-president…

Plenty of parents drive kids to soccer tournaments, fork out fees for tennis lessons and travel to lacrosse camps. JoAnn and Ike Moradshahi have them all beat: The couple has moved across state lines three times in as many years so that their 16-year-old son Bryon can play ice hockey. “I don’t exactly like packing and moving, but it’s part of the game,” said Ms. Moradshahi, who is 55. Three…

Ryan Lochte Shortly before the Rio Olympics Lochte gave an interview to GQ in which he said: “Now that I’m more mature, it’s time to focus on the swimming part [of his life] and less on the outside part.” Sadly it turned out he wasn’t more mature after all. He won one relay gold, but also caught the eye when his freshly bleached hair reacted to the chlorine in the…