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Baseball Executives’ Idea of Gambling: The Rule 5 Draft – New York Times
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A non-baseball fan’s guide to the Winter Meetings – Mashable
Thursday marked the end of MLB’s Winter Meetings, when each team’s top brass converge on a hotel and jam pack a bunch of offseason trades into one week. For baseball fans, it’s heaven, the first major MLB event since the World Series. But it also tends to be heavy on conjecture and rumor — a lot of “X team talking to X players about a deal.” If you’re not a…
Iowa ‘Field of Dreams’ complex gets go-ahead – ESPN
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court seems to agree with Kevin Costner that there’s no better place to play baseball than on fields cut out of the corn. The court on Friday cleared the way for a 24-field baseball complex at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville, upholding a lower court’s decision that the City Council properly rezoned the property…
Friday’s Sports in Brief – Fox News
OLYMPICS LONDON (AP) Russia’s sports reputation was ripped apart again when a new report into systematic doping detailed a vast ”institutional conspiracy” that covered more than 1,000 athletes in over 30 sports and corrupted the drug-testing system at the 2012 and 2014 Olympics. The findings were handed over to the International Olympic Committee, which will be under pressure to take action against the Russians ahead of the 2018…
Russia spends $30M on favorite sport of Putin’s daughter – New York Post
Russia is building a $30 million complex for acrobatic rock ’n’ roll, a niche sport in which President Vladimir Putin’s daughter is a leading dancer and has a senior role for development, a Reuters review of public documents has shown. The Zhavoronki Acrobatic Rock ’n’ Roll Centre will be built on the western outskirts of Moscow at a cost of 1.9 billion rubles, according to state tender documents available online,…
Best Sports Documentaries – The Onion (satire)
With ESPN’s film OJ: Made In America emerging as an Oscars frontrunner this year, Onion Sports looks back at some of the greatest sports documentaries of all time. Baseball: Ken Burns’ 1,000-hour documentary follows the evolution of baseball from the Neoproterozoic Era 900 million years ago all the way to the 1994 MLB strike. When We Were Kings: An intimate account of the buildup to 1974’s Rumble in the Jungle…
Alistair Brownlee: BBC Sports Personality 2016 contender – BBC News
<!– We are showcasing each of the 16 contenders in the run-up to the Sports Personality of the Year award on 18 December. Today – Alistair Brownlee and Sophie Christiansen. Alistair Brownlee – Age: 28 Sport: Triathlon Year in a nutshell Became the first man to retain the Olympic men’s triathlon title, finishing ahead of brother Jonny, who claimed the silver. The Yorkshireman later made headlines across the world when…
Sports cultures collide as Seattle makes MLS Cup trip to Toronto – MLSsoccer.com
TORONTO — With 10 days to anticipate MLS Cup 2016, BMO Field and the Toronto sports culture have been top of the ticket as anticipation builds among a fanbase hungry for its first championship in more than 20 years. BMO will be rocking with the full-throated force of its expanded attendance of 36,000; the game sold out earlier this week – in three minutes. And yet, it’s not time to…
Olympics-British cycling suffers funding cut in Tokyo build-up – CNBC
Cycling, Britain’s most successful sport at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, has suffered a 4.29 million-pound ($5.4 million) funding cut in the build-up to the 2020 Games in Tokyo, UK Sport announced on Friday. Four of Britain’s less successful Olympic sports — archery, badminton, fencing and weightlifting — have lost all their funding completely along with the Paralympic sport of wheelchair rugby. Britain’s cyclists won 12 medals in Rio,…
East Timor Is Accused of Using Ineligible Players for Its Soccer Team – New York Times
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Next up for Hendrick, Junior: Contract discussion – Nascar
RELATED: Junior: ‘Stronger than before’ | Earnhardt medically cleared Rick Hendrick considers it a wonderful early Christmas present. Having Dale Earnhardt Jr. medically cleared to resume driving Hendrick’s No. 88 Chevrolet has been six months in the making. And the whole storied, championship organization couldn’t be happier with Thursday’s official word that NASCAR’s reigning Most Popular Driver will be behind the wheel for the 2017 season after missing the final…
Swimming is supposed to be low-impact, so why the concussions? – Washington Post
They call swimming a low-impact sport because it’s easy on the joints. But sometimes it’s not so easy on the brain. We’ve heard a lot in recent years about the dangers of head trauma in sports, especially football, soccer and ice hockey. But swimming? You wouldn’t think so, but just ask avid swimmers Kate and Maria (who asked that their last names or other identifying details not be used to…
2016 DI Men’s Soccer: Wake Forest advances to College Cup Championship – NCAA.com
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A non-baseball fan’s guide to the Winter Meetings – Mashable
Thursday marked the end of MLB’s Winter Meetings, when each team’s top brass converge on a hotel and jam pack a bunch of offseason trades into one week. For baseball fans, it’s heaven, the first major MLB event since the World Series. But it also tends to be heavy on conjecture and rumor — a lot of “X team talking to X players about a deal.” If you’re not a…
Iowa ‘Field of Dreams’ complex gets go-ahead – ESPN
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court seems to agree with Kevin Costner that there’s no better place to play baseball than on fields cut out of the corn. The court on Friday cleared the way for a 24-field baseball complex at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville, upholding a lower court’s decision that the City Council properly rezoned the property…
Baseball Executives’ Idea of Gambling: The Rule 5 Draft – New York Times
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Most expensive box of baseball cards ever costs more than a car – Yahoo Sports
Remember being a kid and saving up your weekly allowance to buy a pack of baseball cards? Well, now you can do that as an adult, only it might take a couple months worth of salary depending on how crazy you’re willing to get. For the price of $22,000, you can own the most expensive box of baseball cards ever assembled. Topps released its 2016 Transcendent Collection on Friday, and even…
Is Trump Making Appointments Based on Baseball Films? – Foreign Policy (blog)
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Report Shows Vast Reach of Russian Doping: 1000 Athletes, 30 Sports – New York Times
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Russia spends $30M on favorite sport of Putin’s daughter – New York Post
Russia is building a $30 million complex for acrobatic rock ’n’ roll, a niche sport in which President Vladimir Putin’s daughter is a leading dancer and has a senior role for development, a Reuters review of public documents has shown. The Zhavoronki Acrobatic Rock ’n’ Roll Centre will be built on the western outskirts of Moscow at a cost of 1.9 billion rubles, according to state tender documents available online,…
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