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I had a friend named Owen Wells who passed away in 1993. Owen was a fine basketball player, good enough to play at the University of Detroit and then to be drafted by the Houston Rockets in the fifth round of the 1974 draft. He left the NBA after only one season, and then Owen became a basketball nomad. He played in Australia. He played in Italy. He played in…

Buy Photo File Art(Photo: News-Leader)Buy Photo Today Baseball MLB: Texas at Toronto, 3 p.m. — Fox Sports 1 MLB: Kansas City at Houston, 7 p.m. — Fox Sports 1, KADI 1340 AM Basketball WNBA: Finals, Game 5, Indiana vs Minnesota, 7 p.m. — ESPN2 Boxing Pro: Premier Champions, TBA, 8 p.m. — ESPN Golf LPGA Tour: KEB-HanaBank Championship, first round, at Incheon, South Korea, 10 p.m. — The Golf Channel…

Sports-news website SBNation’s popular @SBNationGIF Twitter account remained unavailable Tuesday night, more than 24 hours after it was suspended in a copyright dispute with several sports organizations. Twitter suspended @SBNationGIF and the main account of sports site Deadspin on Monday after it received almost two dozen “takedown” notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from the National Football League and a third-party rights-management representative for the Big 12 and Southeastern…

Everybody knows, of course, that sports reporters know nothing. Actually, that’s unfair. Sports reporters do know a bit about sport. Although whether this is a good thing to know about is probably open for debate. Noam Chomsky, who knows a lot about a lot, described sport as “a training in irrational jingoism”, which is probably a bad thing on balance. The thing is, as a sports journalist, you do tend…

I knew Dan Okrent a long time ago. Brilliant, bookish, rooted in baseball, he took me to dinner a couple of times when he was researching a New York Times Magazine piece on Orioles manager Earl Weaver in the spring of 1978. This was just a year and a half before Okrent had an idea that has forever changed (corrupted?) the magical experience of watching professional sports. Okrent invented fantasy…

In compiling a list of the 10 most polarizing/controversial subjects in Minnesota sports — with the much-appreciated help of some good reader suggestions — a theme emerged. Generally, speaking, there are three things Minnesota fans have a particular disdain for: 1) Someone who isn’t doing a good job, particularly relative to salary; 2) The idea that their team is getting unfairly treated or that someone has an unfair competitive advantage;…

Drew said that part of the problem with current fair-use rules is that social media have changed the game, so to speak. Fair use was intended to help further public interest when it came to news, analysis and even parody content. The problem is that because social media has such vast reach, much fair-use content is blocking the rights of individuals to monetize their rightful content. “(Social…

As they say in poker, If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy. — Warren Buffett By now, you may have heard about the insider trading scandal at the two biggest fantasy sports companies. DraftKings employees, based on the bets they saw laid down by their clients, made a killing at competitor site FanDuel. Let’s get one thing out of…

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South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier plans to retire, a source confirmed to FOX Sports’ Bruce Feldman on Monday night. Sports Illustrated was the first to report Spurrier’s plans, but no timetable was given. Gamecock Central, Rivals.com’s South Carolina site, reported that he informed the team Monday and that the move would be effective “immediately,” a detail also reported by The Associated Press. While the school released no information Monday night,…

The Sports Legends Museum abruptly closed its doors Monday, after it was unable to reach an agreement on a new lease with the Maryland Stadium Authority for its space next to Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The decision, 10 years after the Maryland sports history museum opened in the once-empty and dilapidated Camden Station, came after years of rent negotiations and as the state eyes long-term prospects for the 1856…

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There will undoubtedly be tension between the Mets and Dodgers on Monday as the NLDS heads to New York in the wake of Chase Utley’s controversial slide in Game 2, but how that tension affects the game predominantly lies in the hands of those who will take the mound in Game 3. The Mets’ starter for Game 3, Matt Harvey, strongly suggested, without mentioning any specifics, that he will seek…

Steve Sarkisian’s strange behavior in the days surrounding high-pressure, high-profile college football games isn’t unique to his time at USC. Some regarded the coach’s conduct, specifically the use of alcohol, as an issue during his five seasons leading the University of Washington’s program. Sarkisian’s lone court record in Washington state is a routine speeding ticket and he wasn’t publicly disciplined by the university. But his actions raised concern among some…

“There’s not a lot of people that grew up playing baseball in Canada, they’re not used to catching a lot of balls in the stands … not many people catching that one anyway,” said Reynolds during Sunday’s playoff matchup between the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers.

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1) Meet the Mercury Mets Mets man of the hour Matt Harvey is an extraordinary pitching talent, a fierce competitor, punctual, and just an all-around great guy. But did you know that the amazin’ ace is also something of a fashionista? True story. “Some fun brands I like right now are Rag and Bone, ATM, Zegna, Tommy Hilfiger and, of course, my go-to, John Varvatos,” Harvey told nycgo.com back in…