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WASHINGTON — New legislation introduced in Congress last week would dismantle the year-old national authority in charge of regulating safety and medication in horse racing and replace it with an organization backers say would allow for the safe treatment of horses and address concerns about doping. The Racehorse Health and Safety Act, proposed by the [...]
CHICAGO — There is Shohei Ohtani, and then there is the rest of baseball's soon-to-be free agents. With the season winding down and the playoffs coming up, it's almost time for major league teams to go shopping once again. There is one player that is sure to dominate the conversation until he makes a decision. [...]
CLEVELAND — At some point in the next few days, Terry Francona will hop on his celebrated scooter, zip along the underground concrete concourses of Progressive Field and leave the ballpark he's called home the past 11 seasons for the final time. His ride is nearly over. Although he hasn't made it official — and [...]
Connor Bedard is the most hyped hockey player since Connor McDavid. He is not the only rookie worth watching this NHL season. Who's Bedard looking forward to seeing? "Everyone," he said." There's so many guys. You can kind of go down the list. Just being a fan of the game and watching a lot of [...]
PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The playoff-bound Tampa Bay Rays earlier this week put the finishing touches on plans for a new 30,000-seat ballpark in St. Petersburg as part of a $6.5 billion development project that includes affordable housing, retail, bars and restaurants and a Black history museum. The site is on the same 86-acre tract [...]
Read the names of the players in the Football Hall of Fame and there is a who's who of Big Ten Conference defensive players — Dick Butkus, Rod Woodson, Ray Nitschke, Alex Karras, Herb Adderley, Charles Woodson and others. The NFL ranks are loaded with guys who played recently in the Big Ten: Aidan Hutchinson, [...]
COLUMBUS — Columbus Blue Jackets owners and executives were contrite this week over the forced resignation of controversial coach Mike Babcock days before the opening of training camp and eager to move on from the turmoil that engulfed the organization. "All we can do now is learn from it and do everything we can to [...]
OAKLAND, Calif. — The only time Mark Kotsay ever faced being demoted or released as a player, Terry Francona delivered the tough news. He did so with such grace and care, and Kotsay remembers to this day how that thoughtful tone made it a little easier to accept in the moment. Those are lessons he [...]
When one of college football's top coaches makes a point of letting the world know he believes his players should essentially be paid, it gets a lot of attention. "When student-athletes call it a game, corporate-types call it a business," Michigan's Jim Harbaugh said not long after the season began. "When the student-athletes call it [...]
New Columbus Blue Jackets coach Mike Babcock said this week he had done nothing wrong in asking players to show him photos off their phones, clarifying he was trying to get to know them after a report emerged criticizing him for invasion of privacy. Paul Bissonnette said on the “Spittin' Chiclets” podcast he was told [...]