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Negotiators for big-league baseball players and owners are meeting this week in Irving, Texas, in an attempt to reach agreement on a collective bargaining agreement to replace the five-year contract that expires Thursday. After eight work stoppages from 1972-95, baseball has had 21 years of labor peace. Some of the key issues in negotiations: Schedule rules • Concerned about players getting run down, the sides discussed…

Nov. 28, 2016 2017 Schedule | Purchase Tickets AUBURN, Ala. – Season tickets for the 2017 Auburn baseball season are on sale now through the Auburn ticket office. Season tickets, which cover the 36 game home schedule, are $185 per seat and include all 15 Southeastern Conference games. Auburn University faculty and staff may purchase up to two season tickets for $148 per seat. Fans can reach the Auburn ticket…

Fidel Castro was a tyrant whose oppressive regime killed thousands of Cubans and forced millions more to leave the small island nation during a refugee crisis that’s lasted more than a half-century. But in ESPN’s tone-deaf remembrance piece, Castro’s atrocities are glossed over. Instead, the WorldWide Leader focuses its efforts on glorifying the dictator’s love of sport. The article, which was published shortly after Castro’s death Friday, paints him as a defiant strongman who agitated the…

British game industry content agency Attention Seekers and live event firm Done + Dusted have formed a joint venture to make competitive gaming and e-sports into much larger public events. Attention Seekers and Done + Dusted say the Santa Monica, Calif.-based venture, AD+D, will bring large-scale live entertainment and new thinking to showcase competitive gaming to the general public and offer live event expertise to the games industry. The venture…

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Media playback is not supported on this device Ronnie O’Sullivan beats Michael Georgiou 6-1 Snooker is a “car boot sale” while other sports are like shopping at luxury department stores, says five-time world champion Ronnie O’Sullivan. The 40-year-old believes snooker needs to embrace a more corporate image, similar to sports such as golf, tennis and Formula 1. O’Sullivan cruised into the UK Championship fourth round with a 6-1 win over…

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…

In NASCAR as in life, breakups are often messy and sometimes very public. And just after the 2016 NASCAR season ended, there’s already legal action taking place. According to an ESPN.com report, veteran driver Clint Bowyer is suing his former team HScott Motorsports for more than $2.2 million that Bowyer said he is owed for driving for the team in his one-year-only deal in 2016. Through a PR flak, the…

Arizona’s professional soccer club made some big announcements on Monday. The former Arizona United will now be known as Phoenix Rising FC and has partnered with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to build a soccer-specific stadium. Tom Veit, executive vice president of the United Soccer League, said a stadium is part of the magic formula for a successful club. “You’ve got to have a venue that is yours, that…

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Fidel Castro was a tyrant whose oppressive regime killed thousands of Cubans and forced millions more to leave the small island nation during a refugee crisis that’s lasted more than a half-century. But in ESPN’s tone-deaf remembrance piece, Castro’s atrocities are glossed over. Instead, the WorldWide Leader focuses its efforts on glorifying the dictator’s love of sport. The article, which was published shortly after Castro’s death Friday, paints him as a defiant strongman who agitated the…

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…

The Montreal Expos were the best team in the major leagues. Bo Jackson was playing left field for the Angels. Deion Sanders was playing center field for the Cincinnati Reds. That was the state of baseball in August 1994, in the last days before players went out on strike. The players returned the following year — after the intervention of a judge who now sits on the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor…

A lot of athletes have sports dreams and fantasies, and sometimes they are unattainable — like pitching to a pretend catcher out in the backyard in the World Series. Easthampton native Anthony Redfern’s baseball dream was well within reach. The goal was to play Division 1 college baseball. On Monday, he announced that he accomplished his goal. After Redfern finishes his baseball career at Philips Andover Academy in 2018,…

Fidel Castro was a tyrant whose oppressive regime killed thousands of Cubans and forced millions more to leave the small island nation during a refugee crisis that’s lasted more than a half-century. But in ESPN’s tone-deaf remembrance piece, Castro’s atrocities are glossed over. Instead, the WorldWide Leader focuses its efforts on glorifying the dictator’s love of sport. The article, which was published shortly after Castro’s death Friday, paints him as a defiant strongman who agitated the…

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As your inbox has probably told you roughly 1,000 times, it’s Cyber-Monday. We love a good deal at For the Win, so we’ve pulled together some of the best bargains for sports fans. 1. NCAA performance hoodies for $20 At Dick’s Sporting Goods, you can get a hoodie for a sports fan of nearly every D-1 college today for $19.98. This can knock out much of your holiday shopping list,…

Andy Murray is threatening to make the BBC’s annual sports awards show a little boring. No one has ever won the award three times – not even a Formula One driver – but Murray looks set to win it for the third time in four years. Murray won his first Sports Personality award in 2013, the year he ended his country’s 77-year wait for a men’s champion at Wimbledon. He…

Former NFL first-round draft pick turned pro baseball prospect Tim Tebow is a devout Christian. “Fox & Friends” is a Fox News program that caters to conservatives, like some devout Christians. Bill Belichick was once described as the awful reptile in charge of the evil New England Patriots. So, it is with all this in mind that we approach Monday’s interview with Tebow on “Fox & Friends.” The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner discussed his new book, “Shaken: Discovering…