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“Gen. Evan Gattis” has a nice ring to it. (via Arturo Pardavila III) It isn’t that I’m oblivious to modern trends. Sometimes I turn a blind, or just a blurry, eye to them, waiting for them to fizzle out. I had been doing that with the proliferation of beards in baseball for the last few years. This October, though, binge-watching the playoffs so I could do some semi-informative moonlighting over…

Inside sports business There’s no use fretting over recent $30 million annual baseball salaries given David Price and Zack Greinke, or hefty signings of midlevel starting pitchers like J.A. Happ. That’s Major League Baseball’s new normal, one that takes adapting to but isn’t going away. At least not according to figures showing MLB teams continue to spend new television revenue in record amounts. Every December, The Associated Press publishes the…

Inside sports business There’s no use fretting over recent $30 million annual baseball salaries given David Price and Zack Greinke, or hefty signings of midlevel starting pitchers like J.A. Happ. That’s Major League Baseball’s new normal, one that takes adapting to but isn’t going away. At least not according to figures showing MLB teams continue to spend new television revenue in record amounts. Every December, The Associated Press publishes the…

Inside sports business There’s no use fretting over recent $30 million annual baseball salaries given David Price and Zack Greinke, or hefty signings of midlevel starting pitchers like J.A. Happ. That’s Major League Baseball’s new normal, one that takes adapting to but isn’t going away. At least not according to figures showing MLB teams continue to spend new television revenue in record amounts. Every December, The Associated Press publishes the…

MILWAUKEE — Inclusion is such an important aspect of sport. Some kids who are visually impaired were recently able to learn about and play a game they don’t usually get to play. The game was adapted to them, and they got some help from some Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) players here in Milwaukee. It takes a ball, a bat, goggles that are also blindfolds, and some very important instructions….

Accomplished director Richard Linklater, known for such films as “Dazed and Confused,” “Before Sunrise,” “School of Rock,” and “Boyhood,” has a new movie coming out in April of 2016. Said new movie is titled “Everybody Wants Some,” and it’s in some ways a spiritual sequel to the aforementioned “Dazed and Confused,” which is rightly regarded as a modern classic. As you’ll observe in the following trailer, college baseball provides the…

Amelia Parlier Patrick Day New Britain Bees general manager Patrick Day. Posted: Sunday, December 27, 2015 9:31 pm | Updated: 9:51 pm, Sun Dec 27, 2015. New Britain Bees excited to get to work on ‘startup’ baseball franchise Posted on Dec 27, 2015 by David Glovach NEW BRITAIN — With just 115 days until the New Britain Bees begin their inaugural season in the Atlantic League, there is some excitement…

Dave Henderson, who spent parts of 14 seasons as a major-league outfielder and authored one of the most famous postseason home runs in history, has died at the age of 57. MLB announced his passing on Sunday. According to Bob Nightengale, Henderson died one month after receiving a kidney transplant. A number of Henderson’s former Oakland teammates told Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle that the cause of death…

Inside sports business There’s no use fretting over recent $30 million annual baseball salaries given David Price and Zack Greinke, or hefty signings of midlevel starting pitchers like J.A. Happ. That’s Major League Baseball’s new normal, one that takes adapting to but isn’t going away. At least not according to figures showing MLB teams continue to spend new television revenue in record amounts. Every December, The Associated Press publishes the…

Nate Fish, director of the Israel Association of Baseball, demonstrating pitching to Israeli kids. (Margo Sugarman/IAB) (JTA) – Out of baseball after four years playing in the minor leagues, Brent Powers, a Christian from Texas, took a tour of Israel last year with his wife. He was smitten with the country and considered how to return. The Masa Israel Journey will provide his path. Powers and about a dozen American…

The biggest story of Week 15 in the NFL was arguably Josh Norman and Odell Beckham Jr.’s on field battle, and a big part of that were the bats that Panthers were holding on the field before the game. “I brought one” pic.twitter.com/Eta1WhTbfo — Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) December 27, 2015 To demonstrate what a baseball bat looks like, I guess, Tom Jackson brought one onto…

The year 2015 produced four T&D Region state titles in the sports of baseball and football. Calhoun Academy won SCISA crowns in both sports. Holly Hill Academy won a baseball title and Andrew Jackson Academy capped a perfect season with a football championship. Today: A look at CA’s baseball title. And in Thursday’s T&D, look for collectible posters on the Calhoun Academy and Andrew Jackson football championships. The 2015 Calhoun…

In an article on an upcoming documentary from “Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit”, The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grimm and Travis Waldron wrote Saturday night that the report, entitled, “‘The Dark Side”, “… is the result of a monthslong investigation in which Liam Collins, a British hurdler, went undercover in an attempt to expose the widespread nature of performance-enhancing drugs in global sports.” The Al Jazeera report is scheduled to air tonight,…

He went on to a noteworthy college baseball career at the University of Illinois and a short stay in the minor leagues. But when Dusty Bensko’s name is mentioned, it conjures memories of turn-of-the-century glory at Pleasant Plains High School. “When we get together now, we appreciate it more and more,” said Bensko, who led the Cardinals to Class A state basketball and baseball titles in 2000. “At the time,…

100 years after Joe Jackson and the White Sox plotted the 1919 World Series, his ban was lifted and he earned a plaque. Rich Monetti asks what’s wrong with this picture.  ___ Joe Jackson was clearly involved in a plot to throw the 1919 World Series.  He, along with his White Sox cohorts, had to be suspended permanently for the survival of the game. But almost a hundred years later,…

All that remains of the new complex, which district officials and board members have hailed as the finest in the state, is lawn maintenance in the outfield and the installation of lights for the field. The complex was relocated from Terrebonne High School to nearby Southdown Stadium off St. Charles Street near Tunnel Boulevard to make room for a 5.19-acre drainage and water retention basin. Parish government paid $561,000…

Next year will be the 70th anniversary of a betting scandal that rocked the minors and landed four Houma Indians and one for the Abbeville Athletics on baseball’s ineligible list. In what The Society for American Baseball Research calls the “most celebrated gambling scandal since the Black Sox,” the players stood accused of fixing contests in the 1946 Evangeline Baseball League’s post-season in which the Indians met the Alexandria…

NORWALK — Opportunities like this don’t come around often. On Saturday, 40 area kids were given the chance to workout with and learn from a rising star in the game of baseball: Sandusky’s own Xavier Turner. Turner, a 2012 Sandusky graduate, who went on to star at Vanderbilt University before beginning his professional baseball career this past summer in the Texas Rangers’ system, is…

The year 2015 produced four T&D Region state titles in the sports of baseball and football. Calhoun Academy won SCISA crowns in both sports. Holly Hill Academy won a baseball title and Andrew Jackson Academy capped a perfect season with a football championship. Today: A look at CA’s baseball title. And in Thursday’s T&D, look for collectible posters on the Calhoun Academy and Andrew Jackson football championships. The 2015 Calhoun…

All that remains of the new complex, which district officials and board members have hailed as the finest in the state, is lawn maintenance in the outfield and the installation of lights for the field. The complex was relocated from Terrebonne High School to nearby Southdown Stadium off St. Charles Street near Tunnel Boulevard to make room for a 5.19-acre drainage and water retention basin. Parish government paid $561,000…