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Trade talk back in fashion with baseball’s free-agent crop thin – San Francisco Chronicle
The sport’s main offseason showcase once was about general managers making trades in hotel lobbies, huddling in a corner or behind a potted palm and chatting over cocktails deep into the night until a deal was done. As free agency took over the game, agents took over the winter meetings. The biggest signings became the biggest news. Trades seemed smaller scale. This year’s meetings could be a throwback because trades…
Cleveland Indians’ Terry Francona gets ‘Good Guy’ award from baseball writers – cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Indians manager Terry Francona makes for good copy. Whether he’s riding his “hog’ – a scooter – to and from Progressive Field for work or talking about his late-night dietary wrestling matches with ice cream, pizza, peanut butter or popsicles, he always makes things interesting for the reporters covering the Indians. Not to mention, he knows how to manage a baseball team. It is for those reasons that…
Oakland sports teams donating to fire victims – Fox News
The NFL Oakland Raiders are teaming up with the Major League Baseball’s Oakland A’s to aid those affected by Friday’s warehouse fire that killed 9 and left nearly two dozen people missing. The Raiders have pledged to match up to $30,000 in contributions through the YouCaring.com page set up by the A’s. The NBA Golden State Warriors are also donating $50,000 to help families affected by the deadly fire….
Labor Peace Helps Bolster Baseball’s Bottom Line – New York Times
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Trade talk back in fashion with baseball’s free-agent crop thin – San Francisco Chronicle
The sport’s main offseason showcase once was about general managers making trades in hotel lobbies, huddling in a corner or behind a potted palm and chatting over cocktails deep into the night until a deal was done. As free agency took over the game, agents took over the winter meetings. The biggest signings became the biggest news. Trades seemed smaller scale. This year’s meetings could be a throwback because trades…
Labor Peace Helps Bolster Baseball’s Bottom Line – New York Times
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Which sports are best for your heart? The answer may surprise you … – Washington Post
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At Liberty University, All Sins Are Forgiven on the Altar of Football – New York Times
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How To Be A Great Sports Agent–Signing Prospects Part I – Forbes
Ultimately, the definition of a successful sports agent is someone with great clients. Recruiting and signing them is a skill every sports agent must master. Players in college football are coming to decision point this month regarding the agents who will represent them for the 2017 NFL Draft process. There are almost 1,000 NFLPA certified agents vying for the representation of many less draftees and players who will be undrafted….
Baker Mayfield says he’ll forgo NFL, return to Oklahoma next season – Sports Illustrated
On the heels of leading the Sooners to a Big 12 title over Oklahoma State, Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield told reporters he’ll return to school in 2017. Oklahoma won the annual Bedlam Game 38–20, with Mayfield throwing for 288 yards and three touchdowns for the No. 9 Sooners. The junior will skip his potential NFL career for one more season. After transferring from Texas Tech following the 2013…
After an up-and-down year, 2016 NASCAR season ends on a high note – FOXSports.com
HOME SPORTS NFL MLB NASCAR NCAA FB Soccer UFC NBA NHL NCAA BK Golf Motor Racing Tennis WWE Olympics Boxing Horse Racing Other Sports WATCH FANTASY MORE The door is officially closed on the 2016 NASCAR season and in the sport’s vernacular, you could make the case that it was one of those best-of-times/worst-of-times deals. But in the end, what I…
Brazilian tragedy unites the soccer world in sorrow – Los Angeles Times
There was supposed to be a soccer game in Medellin, Colombia, last Wednesday. Instead Atletico Nacional and thousands of its fans filed into a packed stadium to pay homage to the Brazilian club they were scheduled to play. Before last week, few people outside Brazil knew much about Chapecoense, a hard-luck team of modest means and more modest talent. From the tiny town of Chapeco, in the southern state of…
Fans weigh in: Good move by NASCAR to align with Monster – FOXSports.com
It took almost two years from the time Sprint announced it’d be moving on from the top-tier NASCAR series sponsorship for the sport to find a replacement. In Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon, the announcement was made that Monster Energy will take over the duties of the entitlement sponsor for the Premier Series with a multi-year deal. We decided to see how fans weighed in on the news and the…
Labor Peace Helps Bolster Baseball’s Bottom Line – New York Times
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The World Baseball Classic: A great idea that works for everyone but … – cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio – For a great idea to work, it has to work for everybody involved. Take a peanut butter sandwich. Now sprinkle a handful of M&Ms in the middle of it. Peanut butter and chocolate – it works for everybody. Now here’s a great idea that doesn’t work – the World Baseball Classic. Correction, it works fine for every country but the biggest baseball-playing nation in the world –…
Details on baseball’s new labor agreement – SFGate – SFGate
Caption Close FILE – At left, in a March 17, 2015, file photo, Major League Baseball Players Association executive and former Detroit Tigers first baseman Tony Clark talks to the media before a spring training exhibition baseball game in Lakeland, Fla. At right, in a May 19, 2016, file photo, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks to reporters during a news conference at Major League Baseball headquarters in New York. Negotiators…
Which sports are best for your heart? The answer may surprise you. – Washington Post
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Grieving Brazilian town receives bodies of soccer plane-crash victims – Reuters
CHAPECO, Brazil Brazil’s president on Saturday bestowed honors on the victims of an air crash as Air Force troops unloaded 50 coffins flown in overnight from Colombia, site of the disaster this week that killed 71 people and wiped out a rural soccer team. The Brazilian town of Chapeco, its streets wet with rain and buildings draped in the green of its devastated club, turned out to receive the bodies…
Labor Peace Helps Bolster Baseball’s Bottom Line – New York Times
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