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3:18 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Once upon a time in baseball, it wouldn’t have ended like this. And that, of course, is because, for close to 25 years, labor negotiations in baseball never ended like this. With peace. With stability. With a sport that has now gone so long without a work stoppage that the three other major professional sports in this land have combined for…

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1:35 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Once upon a time in baseball, it wouldn’t have ended like this. And that, of course, is because, for close to 25 years, labor negotiations in baseball never ended like this. With peace. With stability. With a sport that has now gone so long without a work stoppage that the three other major professional sports in this land have combined for…

IRVING, Texas — Baseball players and owners reached a tentative agreement on a five-year labor contract Wednesday night, a deal that will extend the sport’s industrial peace to 26 years since the ruinous fights in the first two decades of free agency. After days of near round-the-clock talks, negotiators reached a verbal agreement about 3 1/2 hours before the expiration of the current pact. Then they worked to draft a…

A line-up of Barry Larkin, David Ortiz, Nolan Ryan, Vernon Wells and Torii Hunter would be tough to beat in a men’s adult baseball league. But would you have as much faith in their success off the field, investing in businesses? They believe that you will. The aforementioned list of baseball All-Stars have joined together to create Dugout Ventures, a private equity group focused on investing in brands and products that have…

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Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay The pilot of the plane carrying a doomed Brazilian soccer team reportedly told a Colombian air traffic controller he had run out of fuel moments before the jet crashed into the Andes Mountains, killing all but six of the 77 people aboard. Those frantic last words from the jet chartered by the Chapecoense team were captured on a recording of the flight’s…

NASCAR has arrived out west for Champion’s Week in Las Vegas, Nevada to being a week-long celebration of the 2016 Sprint Cup Series season. After Jimmie Johnson earned his record-tying seventh championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway, members of the NASCAR community and fans alike are gathered for a week of events honoring the champion, Chase drivers, Rookie of the Year Chase Elliott and more. The festivities will be capped off by…

LA UNION, Colombia/CHAPECO, Brazil The pilot of a plane that crashed in Colombia virtually wiping out a Brazilian soccer team had radioed he was running out of fuel and in an emergency, according to a recording of his final communications. Monday night’s disaster killed 71 people and sent shock waves round the global soccer world. Only six on board the LAMIA Bolivia charter flight survived, including three of the Chapecoense…

Many types of exercise are linked to a lower risk of premature death, but activities like racquet sports, swimming and aerobics seem best at improving people’s chances of staving off an early demise, according to a new study. Researchers found that people in the study who regularly played racquet sports had a 47 percent lower risk of dying over the course of the nine-year study than people…

The pilot of a British-model plane that was carrying a Brazilian soccer club said he ran out of fuel before the crash that killed himself and 70 others late Monday near Medellin, Colombia, a leaked recording showed. In a four-minute recording of communication from an air traffic tower, obtained by Colombian media outlets, the pilot can be heard repeatedly asking for permission to land because of a “total electric failure”…

Two weeks ago, retired British professional soccer player Andy Woodward stepped out from the shadows, telling the Guardian newspaper in an extensive interview that he was raped hundreds of times as a child by serial pedophile Barry Bennell, a former elite youth soccer coach who used his power and prestige in the sports world to lure, manipulate and sexually abuse his players decades ago. What was shocking about Woodward’s raw…

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LA UNION, Colombia/CHAPECO, Brazil Doctors treated survivors of an air crash in Colombia that killed 71 people and wiped out Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team en route to a cup final in Colombia as an investigation got underway on Wednesday. Only six people – three players, a journalist and two crew members – survived the crash on Monday night when Chapecoense’s charter plane, a BAe 146 made by BAE Systems Plc,…

The marketing-driven rule change I’m about to suggest did not stem from the Blackhawks shootout win over the Panthers on Tuesday night, but it seems timely: Allow skaters to take off their helmets and shields during shootouts. Boom. Personality comes to a sport that needs to sell exactly that. You only have to go back to last year’s All-Star Game to see how stumbling, bumbling NHL wonks tried to squash…

The Cubs won their first championship in 108 years in a thrilling World Series that lasted seven games, drew historic ratings and evolved into one of baseball’s all-time feel-good stories. Then the owners and players shut down the game, destroyed the good vibe and alienated their fans. How silly does that sound? The collective bargaining agreement expires Thursday, and if the sides don’t reach a new agreement, owners could lock…

Claim: Future Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro was once given a tryout by the Washington Senators baseball team. false Example: [Collected via the Internet, 2003] David Crow, who recently visited Stanford and enlightened me about Mexico, where he resides, has an explanation for Cuba’s anti-Americanism. Fidel, an outstanding left-handed pitcher, tried out for the Washington Senators in the late 40’s but was rejected. [Morgan & Tucker, 1984] Another often-told story…

RIO DE JANEIRO — It was the culmination of an astonishing climb to the top of South America’s soccer world — a modest club from Brazil heading to the finals of a continent-wide tournament. Then came a distress call from the cockpit of the plane carrying the team to Colombia. Moments later, late Monday, radar contact was lost with the charter jet carrying 77 people, including players and coaches from…