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Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay The fairy tale season of the professional Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense ended in tragedy when their plane crashed in Colombia, killing all but six of the 81 people aboard. As Colombian investigators tried Tuesday to pin down the cause and retrieve the bodies, Brazilian President Michel Temer declared three days of national mourning and his countrymen braced for a series of wrenching…

MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian first division soccer team crashed outside Medellin while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people, Colombian officials said Tuesday. Six people initially survived, but one of them later died in a hospital. The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, declared an emergency and lost radar contact just before…

More than ever, the future of baseball in Cuba, at least as it relates to America, is in the glare of a spotlight created by last week’s death of Fidel Castro and then the threat by president-elect Donald Trump to roll back diplomatic relations between the two countries. At stake is the hope that Cuban players will eventually be free to play in the U.S. without risking punishment…

As other baseball writers will tell you, finding a subject to write about during the offseason is pretty tough. It’s especially difficult during that period of time between the end of the World Series and the beginning of the hot stove. So, I enlisted the help of my Twitter followers for the subjects of this post. I simply asked them to name a random baseball player. The only criteria beyond…

Authorities are recommending charges against eight members of a high school baseball team in Florida for a series of alleged hazing incidents during a tournament earlier this year. Eight players from the Cooper City High School baseball team could face charges of simple battery, false imprisonment and sexual battery in connection to the alleged hazing during the tournament in Altamonte Springs in March, according to Altamonte Police Department Officer Evelyn…

SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER Upon the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, many mainstream media outlets and sports pages happily denoted his wonderful devotion to the sport of baseball. But few noted how he used the sport like he used everything else, as a weapon to oppress his people and promote his own desires. In the days after Castro finally died after a 47-year reign of terror over his…

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Members of Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense were among 81 people on board a chartered aircraft that crashed late Monday in Medellin, Colombia. So far, officials say at least 76 people were killed.  Tragic Plane Crashes A look in pictures at some of the world’s worst aviation disasters The team, from the small city of Chapeco, was in the middle of a fairy tale season. It joined Brazil’s first division in…

Stephen Espinoza, executive vice president and general manager for sports at Showtime Networks, can often be seen alongside the glitterati who show up at major boxing spectacles. But he’s never forgotten the first fight that moved him to tears. Watching on a black and white TV screen almost 39 years ago at the El Paso home of his Mexican emigre grandfather, he saw heavyweight legend Muhammad Ali lose a shocking…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay Five people survived and 76 others were killed when a plane carrying a Brazilian professional soccer team crashed in Colombia, authorities said. Gen. Jose Acevedo, the head of police in the mountainous area of jungle where the jet came down, confirmed the deaths early Tuesday. “Six people were rescued alive, but unfortunately one died,” he added. Poor weather conditions were reported at…

“Maybe if it went to China and you found some billionaires out there who would put the sport on and have million pound prize money you could start looking at snooker as a core sport again,” said O’Sullivan, widely known as ‘Rocket Ronnie’. “But you’re competing with Formula One, tennis, golf and the Olympics. “They give it (snooker) like 10 seconds on BBC Sports Personality – it’s a complete insult to…

Want your kid to become a professional soccer player? Unless your kid is showing signs of being the next Cristiano Ronaldo or Wayne Rooney, you may want to think again. Cristiano Ronaldo (middle) celebrates after Portugal beat France in the finals of the European Championships in July. Ronaldo may be the world’s top-paid athlete with $88 million in earnings but two-thirds of all soccer players make less than $12,000 a…

Tribal land to be new home of Phoenix Rising pro soccer team near McKellips Rd. and Loop 202 in Scottsdale.

Soccer’s apex body in the U.K., the Football Association, says it is launching an investigation into multiple allegations of sex abuse, and has appointed a lawyer with experience in such cases to oversee the claims. According to the BBC, four police forces are also investigating the allegations made by more than 20 former players, who say they were abused many years ago when they were coming up through the ranks…

They couldn’t . . . could they? They wouldn’t be so greedy, so shortsighted, so, so . . . foolish — would they? Who’s “they” you ask? The baseball owners and baseball players, the billionaires and the millionaires who are taking talks down to Thursday’s wire, when the current collective bargaining agreement expires. That the sides have the potential to set in motion the first work stoppage in 22 years — the threat of…

Authorities are recommending charges against eight members of a high school baseball team in Florida for a series of alleged hazing incidents during a tournament earlier this year. Eight players from the Cooper City High School baseball team could face charges of simple battery, false imprisonment and sexual battery in connection to the alleged hazing during the tournament in Altamonte Springs in March, according to Altamonte Police Department Officer Evelyn…

Members of Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense were among 81 people on board a chartered aircraft that crashed late Monday in Medellin, Colombia. It was not immediately clear how many players were among the casualties. Here’s a list of other sports teams involved in fatal plane crashes: Nov. 8, 1948 — Czechoslovak national team, five members including IIHF Hall of Famer, Ladislav Trojak, in the English Channel. May 4, 1949 —…

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Authorities are recommending charges against eight members of a high school baseball team in Florida for a series of alleged hazing incidents during a tournament earlier this year. Eight players from the Cooper City High School baseball team could face charges of simple battery, false imprisonment and sexual battery in connection to the alleged hazing during the tournament in Altamonte Springs in March, according to Altamonte Police Department Officer Evelyn…