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One job that I think is imperiled by technology is that of the home plate umpire in Major League Baseball. “Kill the ump” might be a criminal thought, but “kill the ump’s job” won’t be, especially if one new report is correct. A study of nearly 4 million MLB pitches by Boston University finance professor...

Nick Saban didn’t want to name names, but he didn’t do a very good job of keeping the subject of his shade a secret. The Alabama football coach was lamenting players who left for the NFL draft too early, and referenced one nameless player specifically to get his point across that he would have been...

Eleven years to get to a moment that will last forever. WWE often missed hitting the right notes with fan-favorite wrestlers’ quests for championships. They played sweet music with Kofi Kingston’s journey during WrestleMania 35 that dragged into Monday morning at MetLife Stadium, but didn’t nail its women’s main event in the same way. Kingston’s...

It was December in the Bahamas and Patrick Reed was on top of his world. Not just because it was December and he was in the Bahamas, but because he was there playing in Tiger Woods’ Hero World Challenge as the reigning Masters champion. Reed had his green jacket on the trip with him, because,...

It is naïve to believe that the dynamic won’t change when a team president is hired to replace Glen Sather and puts his own stamp on the franchise and the rebuild process that is only 13-plus months old. For now, though, business will proceed unimpeded with general manager Jeff Gorton seeking to “speed that up”...

Becky Lynch truly is The Man in WWE now — but not without a bit of controversy. Raw women’s champion Ronda Rousey went for the Piper’s Pit and Lynch countered by pinning the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion for the 1-2-3 and a flash finish at WrestleMania 35 in front of an announced crowd of...

The crazed wrestling fan who attacked Bret “The Hitman” Hart during his WWE Hall of Fame speech thought it was “the right moment” to go after the wrestling legend, it was revealed in court Sunday. “I just felt like it was the right moment,” Zachary Madsen told police, prosecutors said in court. Madsen allegedly rushed...

BALTIMORE — Even in a 15-3 blowout on Sunday, the most sustained boos from the crowd at Camden Yards were reserved for Chris Davis, the once-feared slugger who has now become the butt of jokes from fans and the object of pity from other players. Davis went hitless again in the series finale against the...

David Fizdale will reserve judgment. The Knicks’ first-year coach said Sunday night he was unaware the Rockets starters left the bench during the fourth quarter of their rout and said he’s “not losing sleep about it.” He added he doesn’t believe it was aimed as a slight against his woebegone franchise. Fizdale said he won’t...