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Fans cry foul after Cubs cancel game

The Chicago Cubs’ season has gotten off to a bumpy start. First, the Cubs angered third-baseman Kris Bryant, his agent, the Major League Players Association

Why baseball players can’t land big endorsements

Last Wednesday, Forbes released its annual “Baseball’s Highest-Paid Players” list, with Clayton Kershaw ($31.2 million), Jon Lester ($30.4 million) and Justin Verlander ($28.5 million) grabbing

Business and the 2015 Cricket World Cup

The ICC Cricket World Cup is set to end on Sunday in Melbourne, Australia with a final featuring Australia and New Zealand, the event’s two host

Big bets on March Madness brackets

The NCAA college men’s basketball tournament got underway on Thursday. Some of you may have already had your brackets blown. And, those victories by Butler and

Job of a baseball general manager

In Major League Baseball and other professional sports, players and sometimes managers get the lion’s share of attention. General managers are less well known, although

Specialization hurting young players

Last week, the baseball world gathered here in Phoenix for the annual analytics conference held by the Society of American Baseball Research, or SABR. There,

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Covering the business of sports

Sports is a tricky beat, because so many journalists focus on the teams and the outcomes of the games, and miss the vast sums of

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