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A Detroit baseball player said the Zika virus left him sick for weeks and warns others to reconsider going to areas with ongoing transmission, including the Olympic Games in Rio De Janiero. Francisco Rodriguez, 34, a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, told ESPN today that he contracted the virus in the off-season, when he was in Venezuela. “It wasn’t a cold, trust me,” he told ESPN. “It wasn’t a cold….

Kentucky manager Gary Henderson, left, talks with pitcher Zack Brown, right, on the mound during the Southeastern Conference NCAA college baseball tournament on Thursday, May 22, 2014, in Hoover, Ala.(Photo: Hal Yeager AP) LEXINGTON, Ky. – UK baseball coach Gary Henderson has resigned after missing the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive season. “I am deeply appreciative of the contributions Gary Henderson made during his time here,” UK athletic director…

Looking for daily fantasy baseball picks, strategy and advice? This is the DFS MLB Playbook for Wednesday, featuring all the MLB DFS info you need to know from Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Weather really screwed us yesterday as we were super high on many of the Rockies bats, but had to fade them across the board because of serious rain and weather concerns. Obviously, after 17 runs and 19 hits that was a pretty…

Hall of Fame baseball writer Bob Elliott is retiring after 50 years as one of Canada’s most respected sportswriters. News of Elliott’s departure from the Toronto Sun was on the front of the newspaper’s sports section Wednesday, his final day. Elliott began his sportswriting career in 1966 in his native Kingston, Ont., and later covered the Montreal Expos for the Ottawa Citizen. Elliott moved to Toronto and became the Sun’s…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland Five sports, including baseball, skateboarding and surfing, are on track to feature at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after the IOC on Wednesday recommended them to attract a younger audience. The International Olympic Committee now needs to rubber stamp the inclusion of skateboarding, surfing, sports climbing and karate plus the joint baseball/softball bid at its session in Rio de Janeiro in August. The IOC Executive Board voted unanimously in…

Our daily fantasy baseball picks continue with starting pitcher rankings, strategy, and advice for Wednesday’s MLB slate. This is a very top-heavy day for pitching. There are several aces on the hill, including Max Scherzer and Felix Hernandez in great matchups, but the rankings fall off a cliff around Aaron Sanchez. Sure, some of these mid-tier guys have been pitching well lately, but they feel more like land mines than potential value…

It’s another afternoon with day baseball on the MLB schedule, so daily fantasy baseball players should take advantage of the early opportunities to play in a FanDuel or DraftKings contest. As always, we have plenty of stats to help you put together the best lineups. With four lefties among the starters in the four early games, there are some nice potential stacks, including the A’s and Indians. The evening games feature stacking opportunities from the…

The Trinity Tigers take game two 10-7 over the Keystone Giants to win the series 2-0 and take home the 2016 DIII Baseball Championship in Appleton, Wisconsin.

SOUTH WHITEHALL TWP. — Lehighton needed to win its regular-season finale to qualify for districts. The Indians are now one victory from celebrating a championship. Down three runs after four innings Tuesday, Lehighton capitalized on Southern Lehigh’s defensive meltdown to extend its postseason run. The eighth-seeded Indians produced back-to-back three-run innings in the fifth and sixth, then held on for a 6-4 win in the first District 11 Class 3A…

Pedro Strop is a really fun player. He’s the only relief pitcher in baseball who runs out walk-off home runs like the third member of The Bushwackers. He reacts to putting a cheeseburger in Jorge Soler’s Chinese food container like it was Chris Rock’s closer from Bring the Pain. And he celebrates a strikeout like he only found out two seconds ago that the Allies won World War II. To…

By Sam McPherson A lot of fantasy baseball owners like to look smart at the draft in March, picking a minor-league star that is expected to get promoted to the major leagues by June. If all goes well, that owner gets Buster Posey from 2010: a player that performs so well for the remaining four months of the season, he wins a Rookie of the Year award. If all doesn’t…

SALT LAKE CITY — Perennial bottom feeders of the Pac-12, Utah baseball has since moved to the top and is enjoying the limelight of success. It’s a feeling that is “much more special” having known the insurmountable leap Utah made in a single season to be named the outright Pac-12 champion in a league of excellent baseball programs. “This group believed, and I think they had it in their minds…

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Pedro Strop is a really fun player. He’s the only relief pitcher in baseball who runs out walk-off home runs like the third member of The Bushwackers. He reacts to putting a cheeseburger in Jorge Soler’s Chinese food container like it was Chris Rock’s closer from Bring the Pain. And he celebrates a strikeout like he only found out two seconds ago that the Allies won World War II. To…

It was about 10:30 p.m. — not the time of day you’d normally go to a museum. But I went straight there after playing a night game in Pittsburgh in 2012. I had called earlier in the day, talked to the guy in charge and told him I wanted to visit the museum that night. He said it would be closed, but he would open it for me. The museum…

The setting and maybe the uniforms helped Southern Indiana feel at home to pull out a 1-0 win over Angelo State on Monday in the second day of the NCAA Division II Championships. The Eagles, who won NCAA Division II titles here at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in 2010 and 2014, are wearing new uniforms and caps this season modeled after the USA Baseball national teams. With the…

Much like his 34 other teammates, Oregon State pitcher Bryce Fehmel awoke Monday morning expecting an announcement that the baseball season would last at least one more week. But when the final four teams were announced for the Coral Gables regional Monday during an ESPNU broadcast, the Beavers had not heard their name called in the field of 64. “When the last teams were announced, the room went pretty much…

Scott Googins, the driving force of the Big East coaching staff of the year, has Xavier’s baseball team back in the NCAA tournament for the second time in three years. The Musketeers play at Vanderbilt at 8 p.m. Friday.(Photo: Xavier University) After a Big East Championship title, a bus breakdown and a 16-plus hour journey from Maryland, Xavier’s baseball team barely made it to Buffalo Wild Wings in Montgomery for…

Looking for daily fantasy baseball picks, strategy and advice? This is the DFS MLB Playbook for Tuesday, featuring all the MLB DFS info you need to know from Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. You can bet DFS players will be even more eager to use Reds and Rockies in Coors Field after a 19-run game on Monday. Today’s tilt between those teams also features one horrific starting pitcher for Cincinnati (Jon Moscot) and a Colorado pitcher (Jon Gray)…