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Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment “Hey, ESPN: Stick to sports.” I’ve read thousands of social media posts and reader emails about ESPN over the past 15 months. If there’s one phrase that tends to surface most frequently, it’s that chestnut suggesting the network’s only proper place is in the athletics lane. Yes, when it comes to ESPN — the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports” — the concern…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment “Hey, ESPN: Stick to sports.” I’ve read thousands of social media posts and reader emails about ESPN over the past 15 months. If there’s one phrase that tends to surface most frequently, it’s that chestnut suggesting the network’s only proper place is in the athletics lane. Yes, when it comes to ESPN — the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports” — the concern…

Some parents won’t let their kids play sports due to concussion risks. A new survey found that parents are also limiting their children only to certain sports because of head injury concerns. When more than 1,000 parents were asked if they’d let their kids play sports given the risk of concussions, 16 percent said no to all sports, a new Harris Poll conducted on behalf of the American Osteopathic Association…

By Scott DeCamp | sdecamp1@mlive.com It’s tough to see our legends die. Same goes for legendary sports venues. Neither the Pontiac Silverdome nor Joe Louis Arena qualify for “legendary” status in terms of aesthetics, but they’ve been home to some spectacular moments for sports fans in Michigan through the years. And Tiger Stadium, despite its quirks, will always hold a special place in our hearts. The Palace of Auburn Hills…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment “Hey, ESPN: Stick to sports.” I’ve read thousands of social media posts and reader emails about ESPN over the past 15 months. If there’s one phrase that tends to surface most frequently, it’s that chestnut suggesting the network’s only proper place is in the athletics lane. Yes, when it comes to ESPN — the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports” — the concern…

Some parents won’t let their kids play sports due to concussion risks. A new survey found that parents are also limiting their children only to certain sports because of head injury concerns. When more than 1,000 parents were asked if they’d let their kids play sports given the risk of concussions, 16 percent said no to all sports, a new Harris Poll conducted on behalf of the American Osteopathic Association…

By Scott DeCamp | sdecamp1@mlive.com It’s tough to see our legends die. Same goes for legendary sports venues. Neither the Pontiac Silverdome nor Joe Louis Arena qualify for “legendary” status in terms of aesthetics, but they’ve been home to some spectacular moments for sports fans in Michigan through the years. And Tiger Stadium, despite its quirks, will always hold a special place in our hearts. The Palace of Auburn Hills…

Drones can survive lightning strikes and pollinate flowers, but have you ever seen one that can bowl or slam-dunk a basketball? Popular YouTubers Devin Supertramp and Cinechopper joined forces to film a drone doing some rather athletic stunts. In a video that’s gone viral since its Tuesday posting, a drone carries and drops a bowling ball to make a perfect strike (and drops a bowling ball onto an innocent snowman,…

Professional gambler David Oancea, who goes by the nickname “Vegas Dave,” came up short Wednesday when a federal grand jury indicted him on charges that he used phony Social Security numbers to open player accounts at area casinos and sportsbooks. The well-known sports bettor has amassed hundreds of thousands of social media followers by promoting his ability to win big on long-shot bets — or, as his website describes it,…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment “Hey, ESPN: Stick to sports.” I’ve read thousands of social media posts and reader emails about ESPN over the past 15 months. If there’s one phrase that tends to surface most frequently, it’s that chestnut suggesting the network’s only proper place is in the athletics lane. Yes, when it comes to ESPN — the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports” — the concern…

By Scott DeCamp | sdecamp1@mlive.com It’s tough to see our legends die. Same goes for legendary sports venues. Neither the Pontiac Silverdome nor Joe Louis Arena qualify for “legendary” status in terms of aesthetics, but they’ve been home to some spectacular moments for sports fans in Michigan through the years. And Tiger Stadium, despite its quirks, will always hold a special place in our hearts. The Palace of Auburn Hills…

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) – Famed long-time head athletic trainer Steve “Greek” Antonopulos has been promoted to director of sports medicine for the Denver Broncos, the team announced on Wednesday. The team also announced assistant athletic trainer Vince Garcia was named head athletic trainer to take over for Antonopulos. In four decades, almost everything about us has changed. Except for “Greek.” 📰 » https://t.co/9B7We8icnl pic.twitter.com/X6kgzBcEYr — Denver Broncos (@Broncos) April 12,…

7:30 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment George Steinbrenner was fuming. At his Seinfeld caricature best, his legendary red-hot anger could’ve melted the phone line. It was a spring day in 1997 and The Boss was demanding to speak with Jean Afterman. Afterman was the vice president of KDN Sports, a Japanese-owned sports management firm based in San Francisco. She and Don Nomura represented the New…

Now this is a loaded position.  Right field in Major League Baseball in 2017 is loaded with perennial MVP candidates, homer mashers, defensive aces, mercurial superstars, up-and-coming sluggers, and steady hands.  It’s one of the strongest positions in baseball, and here’s the strongest of the strong: 

Sports Direct has elected an employee to attend its board meetings, after a series of scandals over the way the company is run and treats its staff. The appointment of Alex Balacki, 30, follows a tumultuous 16 months for the retailer. This included its billionaire founder, Mike Ashley, being hauled before MPs to be questioned over “Victorian” working conditions at the company’s warehouse, following a Guardian investigation that exposed how…

The Champions League quarterfinals roll on on Wednesday, with a rare three-match slate on the docket. Borussia Dortmund and Monaco get Wednesday’s action started early, while Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Atletico and Leicester all kick off the first legs of their quarterfinal tilts later in the day. Here are all the details you need to know to ensure you don’t miss a moment of the action. Fans can…

Shortly after Philippe Gilbert’s win at the 2017 Tour of Flanders, one image of his walk to victory, bike aloft, was retweeted more than any other. It’s a shot by Karen M. Edwards, an Irish photographer who has been making us sit up and take notice of her unique eye since she moved from fashion shoots to the grime of professional cycling. The photographer’s life on a major race is…

A bill legalizing for-profit fantasy sports leagues in Texas has gained some yards in the state Legislature. House Bill 1487, co-authored by state Rep. Richard Pena Raymond, D-Laredo, was approved on a 6-1 vote this week by the House Committee on Licensing & Administrative Procedures, although it remains unclear when or if it will be taken up by the full House for a vote. State Rep. John…

“I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God created on Earth,” the English playwright Harold Pinter once said, adding that it was better than sex—although intercourse, he noted, “isn’t bad either.” Perhaps it would do his clairvoyance a disservice, but it seems unlikely that the great dramatist could ever have predicted the United States as a testing ground for his theory. Cricket in America, based on…

BOSTON (CBS) – Each month, WBZ Cares highlights a worthy non-profit organization, and tells the story of what that organization does for the community. This month’s organization, “Good Sports,” a Quincy-based organization that gives all kids the lifelong benefits of sports and physical activity by providing sporting equipment to those most in need. Since its inception in 2003, two local groups in Boston have benefited from the program. For decades, Greg Davis…