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Ironically, the combination of early specialization, playing on multiple teams during the same season, marathon weekend travel tournaments, and year-round participation, is unlikely to achieve the desired outcome: elite athletes who get accepted for college scholarships and professional careers. Quite the contrary, there is evidence demonstrating that kids who play multiple sports while they’re young and wait to specialize until the early teenage years are actually better athletes. For example,…

Watch out, Donkey Teeth — you’ve got some new competition. Bryan Tucker, co-head writer of Saturday Night Live, and Above Average Productions, the digital arm of Broadway Video, have officially launched their sports-comedy online platform, The Kicker. Built “for sports fans by sports fans,” the website features videos starring athletes and celebrities including Kenan Thompson, Andy Samberg, Perez Hilton, Wyclef Jean, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Jamaal Charles, Odell Beckham Jr. and…

For the past six years, The Wall Street Journal has done society a noble service by providing parents with Halloween costume ideas for their children based on the least inspiring moments from the previous year in sports. Some years we have to dig deep to find enough suitable sports antiheroes to fill an entire display page. 2015 wasn’t one of those years. Here are this year’s “winners.” The FIFA corruption…

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WASHINGTON—The fantasy sports industry, facing a federal criminal probe and scrutiny by state regulators, plans to create an outside control board to ensure ethical behavior in the industry, officials said Tuesday. A Fantasy Sports Control Agency, designed to monitor daily and nondaily fantasy sports companies, will be led by a former Obama administration official, lawyer Seth Harris, who was deputy labor secretary from 2009 to…

Illustration by Mike McQuade Truth No. 1: Most of us watch sports to see the unexpected. Truth No. 2: Plenty of us want to predict the future. Somewhere, where those two contradictory truths meet, there has been a movement afoot. For decades now, sports-crazed statheads — the sabermetricians and forecasters and moneyballers bent on winning their fantasy leagues, assembling an actual professional team or simply understanding the sports world —…

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Anyone watching sports on television can see that the business of daily fantasy sports contests has exploded. Fueled by incessant TV advertising, the daily fantasy sports market — led by the two privately held online giants of the sector, FanDuel Inc. and DraftKings Inc. — has swelled into a multibillion-dollar business in just a few years. Now the U.S. government and some state authorities, responding in part to a recent…

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It was the summer of 1964 when I walked into County Stadium for the first time, marveling at the greenest grass I’d ever seen, choking on the pungent odor of cigar smoke and staring in wide-eyed wonder as my heroes, the Milwaukee Braves, spilled out of the dugout and onto the field. My Little League teammates and I sat on the edge of our seats in the right-field lower…

By Andrew Benson Chief F1 writer in Austin Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton won a thrilling United States Grand Prix to seal his third World Championship. Hamilton pressured team-mate Nico Rosberg into a mistake during a frantic last 10 laps after a safety car and swept by to take his 10th win of…

Steve Ross revealed details Sunday of his plans to use athletes, sports venues and television broadcasts to combat racism in America through the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE). The Miami Dolphins owner, who said the initiative is an outgrowth of the Dolphins’ Bullygate chapter involving players and racist language, unveiled an all-encompassing organization from educating youth on racism through public-service announcements involving sports stars like LeBron James and…

MINNEAPOLIS — Flip Saunders, who rose from the backwaters of basketball’s minor leagues to become one of the most powerful men in the NBA as coach, team president and part owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves, died Sunday, the team said. He was 60. Saunders was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in June and doctors called it “treatable and curable.” But he took a leave of absence from the team in September…

The tragic news of fatalities and scores of injuries caused when a speeding car crashed into a crowd of revelers at Saturday morning’s Oklahoma State Homecoming parade quickly reminded of other sports-related tragedies that have too often affected the school. Every year thousands of people attend the Homecoming parade in Stillwater, Okla., just one of the weekend’s events that make Oklahoma State’s Homecoming one of the largest in the nation….

Sept. 9, 2015: An employee in the software development department of DraftKings, a daily fantasy sports company, walks past screens displaying the company’s online system stats in Boston. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia) BOSTON –  If fantasy sports websites are allowed to continue operating in Massachusetts, they would likely have to do so under a “robust” regulatory framework, state Attorney General Maura Healey said Friday as her office continued an examination of…

With the Kansas City Royals clinching the ALCS on Friday at Kauffman Stadium, the 2015 World Series is now set. The Royals, who knocked off the Toronto Blue Jays in six games, will meet the National League champion New York Mets, who swept the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS. For the Royals, it’s a quick return to the World Series after falling in seven games to the San Francisco Giants…