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Your ultimate guide to the weekend’s live sport: What to watch, where to watch it and who’s going to win – Telegraph.co.uk

Saturday, November 05, 2016

Presented for your pleasure in chronological order, here are the five can’t-miss live sporting events to plan your weekend around: SATURDAY 1. Merstham vs Oxford United What is it? The return of the FA Cup! This first round match pits the lowest-ranked team still in the competition,  Isthmian League Premier Division’s Merstham against Oxford, a club that has won the League Cup. When is it? Saturday afternoon, at 12.30 GMT. Where…

Jessica Mendoza wraps up historic season in baseball booth – Fox News

Saturday, November 05, 2016

NEW YORK (AP) Jessica Mendoza dissected Kyle Schwarber’s swing in the World Series and took a break from Twitter during her historic first full season covering baseball for ESPN. Mendoza recently shuttled between Cleveland and Chicago for the fall classic, giving updates eight times a day for ”Baseball Tonight” and ”Sports Center.” She shared the booth this season on ”Sunday Night Baseball” with Dan Shulman and Aaron Boone,…

‘Cubstock 2016’ puts cap on baseball crown; revelers jump from downtown bridge, lightposts – Chicago Tribune

Saturday, November 05, 2016

Chicago transformed into a sea — and a river — of Cubbie blue Friday as the city celebrated the Cubs‘ historic, if still somewhat surreal, World Series triumph. A massive crowd turned out for a parade and rally — dubbed “Cubstock 2016” by manager Joe Maddon — that finally rewarded the loyalty of the team’s long-suffering fans. It was a party 108 years in the making, a three-hour bash in…

Why Aren’t There More Gay Baseball Players? – Complex

Saturday, November 05, 2016

For all the progress that’s been made, perhaps due as much to generational changes as anything else, Dunnington’s experiences just two years ago suggest there’s still an unhealthy stigma working against players coming out, whether just to their teammates or to the wider world. But for some gay athletes, their decision might simply be a matter of wanting to be what they think is a “good” teammate. For one straight veteran…

US|Harvard Men’s Soccer Team Is Sidelined for Vulgar ‘Scouting Report’ – New York Times

Saturday, November 05, 2016

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Trump Campaign Gets a Race Car Courtesy of Nascar Owners – Bloomberg

Saturday, November 05, 2016

Donald Trump is entered in a different race this weekend. For Nascar’s Texas 500, the sponsors of Reed Sorenson’s No. 55 have covered the car nose-to-tail in Trump-Pence logos. The car has been painted in red, white and blue, and Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” is on the hood, trunk and sides. The design was a joint decision from some of the team’s sponsors, according to Jay Robinson,…

NASCAR Texas 2016 qualifying results: Austin Dillon wins AAA Texas 500 pole – SB Nation

Saturday, November 05, 2016

When Kyle Busch posted the second-fastest speed in the first round of qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway, he looked like a contender to win the pole position on Friday, despite having to switch to a backup after a crash damaged his primary car. But Busch will not be on front row for Sunday’s AAA Texas 500, the second of three races in the semifinal round of the Chase for…

Why Aren’t There More Gay Baseball Players? – Complex

Saturday, November 05, 2016

For all the progress that’s been made, perhaps due as much to generational changes as anything else, Dunnington’s experiences just two years ago suggest there’s still an unhealthy stigma working against players coming out, whether just to their teammates or to the wider world. But for some gay athletes, their decision might simply be a matter of wanting to be what they think is a “good” teammate. For one straight veteran…

‘Cubstock 2016’ puts cap on baseball crown; revelers jump from downtown bridge, lightposts – Chicago Tribune

Saturday, November 05, 2016

Chicago transformed into a sea — and a river — of Cubbie blue Friday as the city celebrated the Cubs‘ historic, if still somewhat surreal, World Series triumph. A massive crowd turned out for a parade and rally — dubbed “Cubstock 2016” by manager Joe Maddon — that finally rewarded the loyalty of the team’s long-suffering fans. It was a party 108 years in the making, a three-hour bash in…

Fantasy Baseball: First 12-team Head-to-Head points mock draft for 2017 – CBSSports.com

Saturday, November 05, 2016

One pick into our very first mock draft for 2017, I was already floored. Clayton Kershaw, folks. Clayton Kershaw. I guess I shouldn’t have been. About the time he suffered a herniated disc in late June, I had begun to think of him as the most valuable player in Fantasy Baseball and was prepared to argue for him in that top spot myself. And certainly, his return for the stretch…

Cubs, Nerds and ‘True Baseball’ – New York Times

Saturday, November 05, 2016

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Derek Redd: Academy focuses on more than just baseball – Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription)

Saturday, November 05, 2016

Bobby Johnson was just looking for a place where his son, Akili, could work on his baseball skills indoors over the winter. He scanned around Kanawha County, and that turned out to be a fruitless endeavor. Johnson felt there should be a place where Kanawha County kids can work on their skills year round. And, as it often…

Harvard Men’s Soccer Team Sidelined For Rest Of Season Over Sexist Emails – NPR

Friday, November 04, 2016

Enlarge this image The Harvard men’s soccer team has been suspended for the remainder of the season after the school discovered the team had repeatedly written and circulated vulgar, sexually explicit “scouting reports” about new recruits on the women’s team, in a practice that continued up to this year. “The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential,” Harvard President Drew Faust said in a statement Thursday. She wrote…

‘Cubstock 2016’ puts cap on baseball crown; revelers jump from downtown bridge, lightposts – Chicago Tribune

Friday, November 04, 2016

A historic – and still somewhat surreal – 36 hours wrapped up Friday at Grant Park, as Chicago celebrated the Cubs‘ World Series win with a celebration that turned the city into a sea – and a river – of Cubbie blue. Dubbed “Cubstock 2016” by team manager Joe Maddon, the parade and rally featured emotionally charged speeches from players and multiple tributes to a fan base that no longer…

Baseball play-by-play broadcasting remains a white man’s game – New York Daily News

Friday, November 04, 2016

Here he is, readying for the 10th anniversary of his dream job, and Dave Sims can’t help thinking about how little has changed. The veteran play-by-play man can’t tell you exactly when, but it was around this time back in 2006 when he started. All he’d ever wanted to do was call MLB games, and a decade ago, he became the voice of the Seattle Mariners. But…

Why Aren’t There More Gay Baseball Players? – Complex

Friday, November 04, 2016

For all the progress that’s been made, perhaps due as much to generational changes as anything else, Dunnington’s experiences just two years ago suggest there’s still an unhealthy stigma working against players coming out, whether just to their teammates or to the wider world. But for some gay athletes, their decision might simply be a matter of wanting to be what they think is a “good” teammate. For one straight veteran…

Cubs, Nerds and ‘True Baseball’ – New York Times

Friday, November 04, 2016

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Husband gets probation for beating wife’s heroin dealer with a baseball bat – WPXI Pittsburgh

Friday, November 04, 2016

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The NFL of e-sports? Blizzard wants to create ‘Overwatch’ league with city-specific video game fans – Los Angeles Times

Friday, November 04, 2016

Blizzard Entertainment pioneered e-sports with its “Starcraft” franchise more than a decade ago.  Now, with “Overwatch,” the Irvine video game maker wants to bring to e-sports the wealth and recognition that sports such as soccer, football and basketball generate. To do so, Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Santa Monica’s Activision Blizzard Inc., announced Friday it will adopt hallmarks of traditional sports leagues to form an e-sports league more instantly relatable than others spawned in the last…

Harvard soccer team is suspended for season after ‘scouting report’ on women – CBSSports.com

Friday, November 04, 2016

The Harvard men’s soccer team’s season, one with high hopes of winning a title, is done. The University’s Office of General Counsel conducted a review that found that the collegiate team continually produced sexually explicit documents which rated women and decided to cancel the rest of the season, per The Harvard Crimson. In 2012, according to The Harvard Crimson, a review was conducted concerning documents from that year’s team. The…