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For the first time in 26 years, Major League Baseball players have been locked out by owners after the two sides failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. The old CBA expired at 11:59 p.m. ET Wednesday. The last work stoppage in the sport came in 1994-1995. That impasse saw the 1994 World Series canceled…

Jerry Remy, a beloved player/broadcaster who was voted the first president of the fan’s “Red Sox Nation,” died Saturday night. He was 68 and his death was the result of a long battle with lung cancer. Remy had taken a leave from his role as a NESN analyst for Red Sox games on Aug. 4 to undergo treatment for lung…

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…

It’s October, which means it’s time for the Major League Baseball playoffs to take center stage. Friday’s ratings reflected that, as Fox’s broadcast brought in a 1.1 in demos and 5.31 million viewers. Surprisingly (or maybe not so, given the fanaticism of its following) CBS crime drama Blue Bloods brought in a…

It all came down to this – 0-0 heading into the bottom of the ninth inning on the final day of the Major League Baseball season. The New York Yankees needed a win in order to clinch a wild card spot in the American League playoffs. But their archrivals, the Tampa Bay Rays, weren’t going to make things easy. The…

UPDATE, SEPT. 10: Trevor Bauer, the second-highest paid player in Major League Baseball for the 2021 season, is done for the year. MLB has extended his administrative leave from the team for the rest of the regular season and postseason. That’s as the District Attorney ponders next moves on allegations of sexual…

It was high. It was far. But unfortunately for veteran New York Yankees broadcaster John Sterling, it wasn’t his classic home run call this time. It was about rising water, and he was stuck. Sterling narrowly escaped his flooding car on Wednesday, helped out by Spanish language radio play-by-play man Rickie…

A court filing late on Friday indicates federal prosecutors will use testimony from at least five Major League Baseball players in the drug-related trial of a former Los Angeles Angels employee. Ex-Angels Communications Director Eric Kay will stand trial in Fort Worth, Texas this October for giving oxycodone to…

Bally Sports Detroit said Wednesday that it has suspended Detroit Tigers TV commentator and Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Morris indefinitely in the wake of a comment he made about Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani during network’s broadcast of the Angeles-Tigers game Tuesday night. Morris, a longtime analyst since…

MLB’s Field of Dreams game between the White Sox and Yankees on Thursday night was magical. It included a cinematic pre-game with an on-field appearance by Kevin Costner and a battle that saw eight(!) home runs, capped by a walk-off to win the game for Chicago. The morning after may have been even more astonishing for…

They played the first major league baseball game tonight in Iowa, won by the Chicago White Sox in dramatic fashion, 9-8, on a walk-off home run. There were eight home runs in the game, all of them landing in the corn fields surrounding the 8,000-seat, special-purpose stadium built for the game near the original movie…

Disney earlier this month exercised its right to buy the NHL's 10% stake in streaming technology services group BAMTech for $350 million in a deal expected to close by the end of September. In its quarterly report filed with the SEC – which is more detailed than the earnings press release from earlier this afternoon…