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Rachel Balkovec has been introduced as manager of the Yankees’ Low A affiliate in the Florida State League. In taking over the Tampa Tarpons, Balkovec will become the first female manager in the history of affiliated baseball, an appointment 10 years in the making for the former college softball player.

They say that football is a game of inches. Turns out, same goes for basketball. It certainly did Saturday night, when the Brooklyn Nets lost game seven…

If you’re an NBA team, especially one that’s not in the upper echelon of the league, you know that making the playoffs can be something of a double-edged…

Jared Dudley has played some 900 games in the NBA since 2007 — for Charlotte, Phoenix, the LA Clippers, Bucks, Wizards, Nets and LA Lakers. But he’s never…

In one of the more unusual but telling statements of the current NBA landscape, the Houston Rockets front office just said that they are willing to get…

Sports have returned.But fans haven’t, at least not in the same numbers and with the same enthusiasm.Ratings for live sports are down across the board,…

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.Today's panelists are WAMC's Alan Chartock, UAlbany Lecturer in Africana…

Last night’s Clippers/Mavs game withstanding, these NBA playoffs have been, well, outstanding. Perhaps there’s some inherent bias because after not…

If you were trying to embody longstanding ineptitude in professional basketball despite clear opportunities to succeed, you would be hard pressed to find…

The sports and entertainment worlds are in disbelief today, one day after Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others died in a helicopter crash near Los…