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Richard and Demi Weitzs RWQuarantunes Goes Live From Dodger Stadium, Raises $1.1M With Dodgers Foundation Richard and Demi Weitzs RWQuarantunes Goes Live From Dodger Stadium, Raises $1.1M With Dodgers Foundation Fernando Valenzuela, Mookie Betts and Trevor Bauer were among past, present and future Dodgers Zooming in, with Dan + Shay, El DeBarge, DJ Cassidy and Robin Thicke performing live. Chris Willman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail RWQuarantunes, the benefit series hosted by WME partner R...

Sending all our love today to the family of Tony D’Archi, who passed away suddenly Monday night. Tony was a long time producer at TSN up until a few years ago. He was an incredibly passionate guy, and threw that into his work, mostly with the CFL. He’ll be missed be all of us. Crushing news. Sad to hear of Tony’s passing. He was a wonderful individual who loved our league and what he did. Tony was a big reason for my start at TSN and was always there to help. My sincere condolences to h...

By David Carroll, commentary Recently I was honored to deliver the eulogy for my uncle, Owen Norris of Ider, Alabama. He was a child of the Great Depression. He learned how to build and fix things out of necessity, he served our country in a MASH unit in Korea, and he started his own business. He raised a great family, traveled the world, helped his neighbors, was an expert woodworker, a believer, an athlete, and a great storyteller. That’s the short version of an incredible 90-year life. (If...

Yankees’ John Sterling talks Hall of Fame, COVID, skipping spring training | Q & A Updated Feb 05, 2021; Posted Feb 05, 2021 Yankees radio voice John Sterling missed just 12 of 5,013 games in his first 32 years with the team.SL Facebook Share John Sterling is 82 going on 40 even though we’re still dealing with the pandemic. There’s just no slowing down the radio voice of the Yankees, whose romance with baseball and broadcasting is as alive as ever. This will be Sterling’s 33rd year ca...

Of ‘The Wolf’ and man: Remembering Pagosa Pirates radioman Chris Olivarez Durango, Colorado Currently Sun 1% chance of precipitation Olivarez remembered as a legend in Pagosa Springs sports By Joel Priest Special to the Herald Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 9:59 PM Updated: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 10:51 PM Chris Olivarez, longtime Pagosa Springs High School sports broadcaster, died last week at the age of 69. Two of his proudest moments came callin...

Curt Schilling is an assclown: He’s also a Hall of Famer Published Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, 12:22 pm Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Sports » Sports1 » Curt Schilling is an assclown: He’s also a Hall of Famer (© ccestep8 – stock.adobe.com) Is Curt Schilling not a Hall of Famer because he’s not a Hall of Famer, or is Cur...

Death of Hall of Famer Hank Aaron had nothing to do with COVID vaccine, report says Updated Jan 27, 2021; Posted Jan 27, 2021 Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron waits to receive his COVID-19 vaccination on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. AP Facebook Share National Baseball Hall of FamerHank Aaron died on Friday, some 17 days after receiving the coronavirus vaccine. But WXIA in Atlanta reports the COVID vaccine had nothing to do with Aaron’s death, which...

By Wil Leitner Jan 27, 2021 Curt Schilling: “I just wanted it over. I’m at a point now where I don’t wanna go through this again. I made peace with this a long time ago in understanding who wielded the gavel and who was judging. You’re talking about a group of people who is 85% white and 90% male, and they’re lecturing me on diversity and racism. The writers who know me know the things they’re writing aren’t true, yet they still write them. My wife is currently in the midst of ch...

Cooperstown said good-bye to Joe Morgan, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Whitey Ford, Al Kaline, Tom Seaver and Phil Niekro.  And the grieving has continued in 2021 with the deaths of Tommy Lasorda, Don Sutton and now perhaps the most painful loss of them all.  Aaron is still, in the minds of many, the all-time home run leader with 755. He also still holds several career offensive records, 45 years after he stopped playing. If Cooperstown holds a public induction ceremony this summer — they postpone...

Good morning afternoon, Athletics Nation! We’re only three weeks into the new year, and the baseball world has already lost three Hall of Famers — longtime Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, durable star pitcher and one-time Oakland A’s starter Don Sutton, and all-time legend slugger Hank Aaron. On top of that, the journalism world as a whole said goodbye to Larry King on Friday, himself well-known as a Dodgers fan. Amid all that sad news, there is one tale of triumph for A’s f...