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John Malone's Liberty Media is splitting off 2021 World Series champions the Atlanta Braves Baseball Club and related assets into a separate public company "to better highlight its strong value." As part of a rejiggering of the Liberty universe, it is also creating a new tracking stock called Liberty…

The deciding game of the 2021 World Series ended with a convincing 7-0 win by the Atlanta Braves. It was the first World Series the franchise has clinched since the 1995 season and its third overall. With the Braves up 3-2 in the series, the floodgates opened in the third inning tonight when Atlanta’s Jorge Soler…

The nation’s largest Native American organization said today that MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s claims of widespread support for the Atlanta Braves’ nickname and its tomahawk chop fan ritual are not accurate. Manfred sad Tuesday that Native Americans in the Atlanta region are “fully supportive of the Braves' program…

Henry Aaron, the slugger known as “Hammerin’ Hank” who cemented himself in baseball lore when he broke Babe Ruth’s career home run mark in 1974, died Friday. He was 86. His daughter confirmed the news to media outlets but did not provide details. The Hall of Famer played 21 seasons for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves and…

Phil Niekro, the only knuckleball pitcher to win 300 Major League Baseball games, died in his sleep Saturday night after a long battle with cancer, the Atlanta Braves announced. He was 81. Niekro pitched for 24 seasons, with the first 20 of them as a Brave before moving on to the New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays…

Liberty Media CEO and SiriusXM chairman Greg Maffei said Thursday that the satellite broadcaster's star host Howard Stern, whose contract ends this year, is likely to re-up and apologized that a recently announced top management reshuffle was handled too abruptly. "I think we were surprised by the market reaction and…

It was a great Sunday night for the Los Angeles Dodgers as they defeated the Atlanta Braves 4-3 to secure their ticket to their third World Series in four years. On top of that, the Game 7 of the National League Championship Series on Fox delivered another milestone with the best LCS overnight rating since 2017. Game…

UPDATE: Slugger Cody Bellinger’s huge seventh-inning home run broke open a tie game and sent the Los Angeles Dodgers to the World Series, as they beat the Atlanta Braves 4-3 in a tense Game 7 of the National League Championship Series. Reliever Julio Urias ran through the final nine outs to close out the win for the…

As the Washington Redskins and Cleveland Indians examine their team names and logos in contemplation of changing what many deem offensive, one other baseball team has remained outside of the debate. The Atlanta Braves, who once spotlighted Chief Noc-a-Homa, a Native American who would emerge from a teepee and do a war…

Live events like concerts, baseball games and car races will remain a healthy and viable business over the long term despite the 2020 impact of COVID-19, in the view of Liberty Media chairman and billionaire media sage John Malone. “The thesis of live events is still a good one,” Malone said at his company’s annual…

San Francisco Bay area Fox affiliate KTVU-TV has apologized for what it calls a “racially insensitive” phrase used during its sports report on Wednesday about the Atlanta Braves. In a chyron that opened a report on the Braves losing 13-1 to St. Louis Cardinals, KTVU wrote: “BRAVES SCALPED”. Yesterday, KTVU anchor Pam…