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After thousands of online votes, the “Final Five” athletes have been chosen for a chance to be featured on Card No. 1 in 2016 Topps® Baseball Series One, joining a line of players that has included Hank Aaron, Ted Williams and Derek Jeter. It is the first time ever fans ...

Ten of the National Pastime’s legendary voices have been named as the finalists for the 2015 Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The 10 finalists for the 2015 Frick Award are: Richie Ashburn, Billy Berroa, Rene ...

‎Fairfield University basketball will present three award-winning sports commentators – ESPN standouts Len Elmore and Jackie MacMullan, and the legendary Bob Wolff – with the Third Annual “Stags Lifetime Achievement Award: Leader of the Herd” for long and meritorious service on Tuesday night, November 10, at the Manhattan Club (@ ...

Next year is an election year, so Topps is letting the fans pick who will be the number one card in their 2016 set. For the first time ever, the official partner of Major League Baseball is letting fans vote for the player currently active today who replace Derek Jeter ...

Nate Checketts has been around big time sports all his life. As the son of former St. Louis Blues owner and President of Madison Square Garden Dave Checketts he probably has a better understanding of the way sports business works, and sometimes doesn’t work, better than most entrepreneurs. So maybe ...

The Sports Jeopardy! Championship, a two-episode event featuring the top players from the show’s first season battling to see whose sports knowledge reigns supreme, will conclude today on Crackle. Sports Jeopardy! is hosted by Emmy® Award-winning sportscaster Dan Patrick, who recently announced his return for Season 2 of the weekly ...

The Sports Jeopardy! Championship, a two-episode event featuring the top players from the show’s first season battling to see whose sports knowledge reigns supreme, will begin Wednesday, September 9 and conclude Wednesday, September 16 on Crackle. Sports Jeopardy! is hosted by Emmy® Award-winning sportscaster Dan Patrick, who recently announced his ...

The last few years premium channel EPIX has stirred the pot with a series of sports-related shows designed to create conversations about topics that transcend, but involve sport. There was “Forgotten Four,” the story of the first African American athletes to break the NFL color barrier the year before Jackie ...

This past summer Nickelodeon continued to strengthen its ties to sport, especially NASCAR, when it signed on as the title sponsor to the race at Kansas Motorspeedway.  SpongeBob was everywhere, and the partnership flourished, as race fans don’t appear to ever be far from Bikini Bottom. This past week the ...

Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, an icon in American sports history, has announced he will return to the Dodgers broadcast booth for an unprecedented 67th season in 2016. “I talked it over with my wife, Sandi, and my family and we’ve decided to do it again in 2016,” Scully ...