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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…

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 –…

Not only did the league introduce a hard cap, because it had moved off its desire for an international draft, it asked for constraints on free agents – ones less restrictive than the qualifying offer but certainly stronger than the get-back from agreeing to an international draft. “We got hijacked,” one player told Yahoo Sports, echoing a word – “hijacked” – others frustrated with the international-draft fallout used as well….

There are many moments that can hit you upside the head with how quickly time passes, and one of them happened in the last month: Cody Paul, the 12-year-old whose amazing moves on the football field became the Internet’s first sports viral video, completed his college football career. The video above, produced by Paul’s brother and posted in July 2007, not only had millions with mouths agape at the kid wearing No….

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Make the right call, selection committee. Put newly anointed Pac-12 champ Washington in the College Football Playoff. No need to wait until Sunday to make up your minds, either. The now 12-1 Huskies handled your eighth-ranked Colorado Buffaloes, 41-10, here Friday. It marked the seventh time in 10 games against conference opponents that Washington has won by more than three touchdowns. The kind of pain Chris…

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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…

Not only did the league introduce a hard cap, because it had moved off its desire for an international draft, it asked for constraints on free agents – ones less restrictive than the qualifying offer but certainly stronger than the get-back from agreeing to an international draft. “We got hijacked,” one player told Yahoo Sports, echoing a word – “hijacked” – others frustrated with the international-draft fallout used as well….

In the weeks since a former professional soccer player told a British newspaper that as a child, he had been sexually abused for years by a youth coach, several other former players have gone public with similar allegations of abuse by coaches and scouts. And news reports say hundreds of people have reported abuse at U.K. youth soccer clubs to police. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Christopher Furlong/Getty…

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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…

Looking for a new hobby? Try tennis, swimming, or dance, and you may just extend your lifespan, suggests research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In an analysis of six sport and exercise categories, researchers found that people who pursued these activities actually lived longer than those who got their fitness on in other ways. The study surveyed more than 80,000 adults in England and Scotland, ages 30 and up, who were asked…

Any way you look at it, Sunday’s game between the Chicago Bears and the San Francisco 49ers will be a drag. Two inept, injury-wracked franchises are staggering toward the end of a season long ago given up for dead, and with nothing but draft position at stake, losing is the optimal outcome. But what if I told you there’s a way to infuse dreary contests like this with a jolt…

It’s BBC Sport and A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz – have you been paying attention to what’s been going on in the world of sport in the past week? If you missed last week’s sports quiz, try it here. Picture credits: Getty, Rex, PA

Chaos is not an all-or-nothing proposition. And there will be no “nothing” when the College Football Playoff selection committee unveils the national semifinal field Sunday. That’s cause for celebration because last year we got nothing. When Clemson, Alabama and Michigan State won their conference championship games while Oklahoma rested with its Big 12 title already secure, they made last year’s selection show about as dramatic as C-SPAN. This…

Roy Nelson has apologized for his actions in Brazil from September after he kicked referee John McCarthy following the conclusion of his bout against Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva. It all happened after Nelson knocked out Silva but felt that McCarthy was slow to call an end to the fight following a few devastating punches on the ground. While McCarthy was leaned over Silva after the fight was over, Nelson push kicked…

CHAPECO, Brazil — They came here because the pain is everywhere, and there is nowhere else to go. They came to the stadium to mourn their heroes, lost in a plane crash only a few agonizing days ago. They came to cry and embrace, to put up murals and photos, to light candles. Some came just to stand and stare at the field. “It’s so sad what’s happened to all…

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…

Not only did the league introduce a hard cap, because it had moved off its desire for an international draft, it asked for constraints on free agents – ones less restrictive than the qualifying offer but certainly stronger than the get-back from agreeing to an international draft. “We got hijacked,” one player told Yahoo Sports, echoing a word – “hijacked” – others frustrated with the international-draft fallout used as well….

Looking for a new hobby? Try tennis, swimming, or dance, and you may just extend your lifespan, suggests research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In an analysis of six sport and exercise categories, researchers found that people who pursued these activities actually lived longer than those who got their fitness on in other ways. The study surveyed more than 80,000 adults in England and Scotland, ages 30 and up, who were asked…