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9:30 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Some things never change. Another year of awards voting from the Baseball Writers Association of America, another year of giving fans and people inside the game reasons to complain about the process and especially about the voters, perhaps none of those complaints more epic than the one from Kate Upton, Justin Verlander fan-in-chief and spouse to be named later. While moaning…

CHICAGO — Big stuff going down at baseball’s quarterly owners’ meetings at the historic Drake Hotel. There is a new collective bargaining agreement being negotiated with a Dec. 1 deadline, the game’s future in the hands of those at the table. Most folks here seemed a little antsy or curious over its completion and its details. On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, though? The Lords of the Realm pivoted to…

Buy Photo Andrew Caliendo, center, signs a letter of intent to play baseball for New Mexico Junior College on Friday at the Jerry A. Conner Fieldhouse.(Photo: Karl Schneider/The Daily Times)Buy Photo FARMINGTON — Andrew Caliendo set his baseball future in motion when the Piedra Vista senior signed a letter of intent to play for the New Mexico Junior College Thunderbirds today at the Jerry A. Conner Fieldhouse. Caliendo said there…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s OK, though. We’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

David Boloker is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Emerging Technologies. How to join the network Smart technology continues to streamline and transform nearly all aspects of our lives — monitoring our sleep patterns, allowing us to work from anywhere at any time and even helping to find cures for diseases like Zika. But more than optimizing tedious workflows or gamifying daily activities, smart technology has helped to increase…

RELATED: Qualifying results | Chase Grid   HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Kevin Harvick won the pole position for Sunday’s Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway (2:30 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), with only half of the four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship-eligible drivers advancing to the final round of 12. Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Carl Edwards and Kyle Busch will start ninth and 10th, respectively, making up Row 5….

RELATED: Full race results | Truck Series Chase Grid | Race recap HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Johnny Sauter remembers well the first time he talked to GMS Racing competition director Mike Beam about making a significant career change. While at the hospital for the birth of his third child in September 2015, Sauter scurried away to the parking deck for a 45-minute chat about driving for the upstart organization. That period in…

My teammate and I were standing outside RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. It was April 2003, our first home game of the season against the Chicago Fire. It was my first official appearance as a professional soccer player. It was a dream come true. “Let’s take a picture,” he said. “I feel like this is a day we definitely want to remember.” He handed someone his digital camera, we posed…

ST. LOUIS • City lawmakers offered lukewarm support Friday for the proposed $200 million Major League Soccer stadium, with many saying they could support the plan only if it goes before voters first. Much of the lack of enthusiasm results from the scarce details available on how the stadium would be financed. The plan put forward Thursday by ownership group SC STL calls for private investors…

QUITO, Ecuador –  The former president of the Ecuadorean Soccer Federation was convicted of money laundering Friday and given a 10-year sentence in a case tied to the corruption scandal at FIFA, the sport’s international governing body. Luis Chiriboga was convicted along with two co-defendants on allegations involving nearly $6.12 million allegedly received in 2010-2015. Hugo Mora was also sentenced to 10 years and Pedro Vera was given 40…

Barbara Strycova of Czech Republic falls over as she attempts to play a forehand. Steve Bardens/Getty Images for LTA From the time that we’re young until the end of our lives, we’re most likely to injure ourselves while engaged in sports or recreational activities in a simple way. We fall down. That’s one of the main takeaways from a newly released CDC study that documents sports- and recreation-related injuries. Every…

My teammate and I were standing outside RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. It was April 2003, our first home game of the season against the Chicago Fire. It was my first official appearance as a professional soccer player. It was a dream come true. “Let’s take a picture,” he said. “I feel like this is a day we definitely want to remember.” He handed someone his digital camera, we posed…

MIAMI — Homestead-Miami Speedway today announced a grandstand sellout for the Ford EcoBoost 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship race on Sunday. The event, which starts at 2:30 p.m. ET and airs on NBC and MRN Radio/SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, has sold out each of the last three years. “Ford Championship Weekend continues to grow in stature each year, and having sold out the Ford EcoBoost 400 three years in-a-row is a…

MORE: Buy tickets for Homestead-Miami Championship Weekend Jimmie Johnson. A worldwide household name, Johnson has reached remarkable feats in the racing world. This weekend could represent a pinnacle in his racing career, as he runs for his seventh championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway, the opportunity to tie the great Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most all-time Sprint Cup Series championships within reach. But “Six-Time” wasn’t always that way: Former…

None of the NASCAR Chase contenders threw a chair at one another Thursday afternoon. You rock, sportsmanship and civility! A reporter at NASCAR’s Championship 4 news conference referenced the recent UFC 205 media spectacle, when Eddie Alvarez and Conor McGregor got into a chair-tossing spit-spat, and asked how these four friendly combatants would be able to start the fire Sunday when racing for the Cup title. “Right now we’re outside…

Many within the anti-doping community have called for Wada to be strengthened Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has appealed for a “unified approach” to tackle doping on the eve of a crucial meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency in Glasgow. Wada will discuss how to restore faith in the anti-doping system in the wake of the Russian doping scandal after months of disagreement with the Olympic movement about what reforms are…

BUIES CREEK, N.C.—After a search that took them to approximately 40 sites across the Carolinas, the Astros announced on Friday their agreement to have their high Class A club play at Campbell’s Jim Perry Field for the next two seasons while they wait for their new stadium in Fayetteville, N.C., to be built. The team—which will be known as the Buies Creek Astros for the next two years—is one of…

The Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant celebrating with his teammates after they won the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America named him the National League Most Valuable Player for 2016. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP The Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant celebrating with his teammates after they won the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America…

CHICAGO — Big stuff going down at baseball’s quarterly owners’ meetings at the historic Drake Hotel. There is a new collective bargaining agreement being negotiated with a Dec. 1 deadline, the game’s future in the hands of those at the table. Most folks here seemed a little antsy or curious over its completion and its details. On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, though? The Lords of the Realm pivoted to…

In this Aug. 21, 2015, file photo, former NBA star and current owner of the Charlotte Hornets, Michael Jordan, smiles at reporters in Chicago. (Photo: AP) It feels like we’re in the golden age of sports commercials, doesn’t it? Seemingly every week, brands and ad-makers find a way to use big names to hawk their products while catching eyeballs with biting, topical humor or incredible Hollywood-film-like scenes. So it’s about time…