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Richard Petty Motorsports confirmed on Friday night that it would drop to a one-car team in 2017 and focus on just Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Ford. As a result, the charter for the No. 44 has been loaned out to Go FAS Racing’s No. 32, whom in turn loaned out their charter to the Wood Brothers No. 21 entry. This ensures that all three cars will…

Some say sport builds character, while others argue that it reveals character. The truth is that sport is filled with characters, some sketchy, others reckless, and still others entirely bizarre. We watch sports for the triumphs, but also for the failures and the foibles, for the incomprehensible intersection of man’s best efforts and his most ignominious moments. Here, then, culled from a list that could have been five times as…

Sager was diagnosed with leukemia in 2014, and went through multiple courses of treatment, including chemotherapy and stem cell transplants, to try to beat back the illness. After missing nearly a year, he was cleared to return to television in March 2015, only to see the illness return, forcing him to once again step away from his duties. After several more months of treatment, including a transplant of bone marrow…

Criminal court, civil court, on-campus hearing: There are many places to try to determine if a sexual assault happened. A sports column is pretty low on that list. So let’s say, up front, that we don’t know if 10 University of Minnesota football players are guilty of an obscene crime. What we do know is this: 1. Police did not charge the players after a Sept. 2 incident.2. The…

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, which was announced Friday, calls for MLB’s BAMTech to pay a minimum $300 million through 2023 to Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s Riot Games for the exclusive rights to stream “League of Legends” competitions. BAMTech, a…

11:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment ST. LOUIS – Within days of the St. Louis Cardinals missing the playoffs for the first time since 2010, the team’s front office met and quickly zeroed in on what the club needed to get back to World Series contention. General manager John Mozeliak laid the plan out for the public at the team’s annual postseason media conference. The Cardinals needed…

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, which was announced Friday, calls for MLB’s BAMTech to pay a minimum $300 million through 2023 to Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s Riot Games for the exclusive rights to stream “League of Legends” competitions. BAMTech, a…

One Thursday during Les Miles’s tenure as Oklahoma State’s head coach, a message surfaced on an answering machine inside the Cowboys’ football facility, with a man’s voice making a solemn claim: He had watched practice of Oklahoma State’s opponent and learned its plays. The message detailed a dozen plays and formations for the Cowboys to prepare for. “It was really, really good stuff,” Miles said. “The only thing is, we…

NASCAR premier series driver Ryan Blaney and the Wood Brothers Racing team will be guaranteed a spot in all 36 races in 2017 now that the organization has obtained a Charter through a lease agreement with Go FAS Racing.   Blaney qualified for all 36 races this past season based on his qualifying times in the No. 21 Ford. Two years ago the team missed three races when inclement weather…

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…