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MIKE SCIOSCIA NAMED TEAM USA MANAGER 04/06/21 USA Baseball named Mike Scioscia its manager for the 2021 Professional National Team on Monday. A three-time World Series Champion as both a manager and a player, Scioscia will look to lead Team USA to a berth in the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer. Olympic qualifying will continue for Team USA with the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Baseball Americas Qualifier in Florida in early June. Team USA will open the tournament in Group A and face the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Nicaragua in pool play. The top two teams from each ...

Taylor Twellman responds to Jozy Altidore comments; Altidore fires back Share this story TORONTO, Canada—The Jozy Altidore-Taylor Twellman saga continues. After comments from Twellman on Wednesday sparked a vibrant response from Altidore, the ESPN broadcaster chimed in on the matter. “No matter what we do on the field, it’s what we do off the field that is most important as athletes,” tweeted Twellman on Thursday. “What Jozy Altidore is doing with his JAFoundation especially in Haiti is changing lives. Join me in supporting his cause.” Unfortunately for Twellman, his good-will ge...

Almost exactly a year after its original kickoff date, the Concacaf Men’s Olympic Qualifying tournament gets underway this week as eight under-23 national teams from the region prepare to do battle for just two places at this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. One of those eight teams is, of course, Canada, and this might be their most hotly anticipated Olympic qualifying campaign in years. The Canadian under-23 player pool is deeper than ever, with talented youngsters making themselves known around the globe (as well as, for the first time, here at home in the Canadian Premier League). T...

USA Basketball Men’s 3x3 Team Prepares for Olympic Qualifying Tourney Author: Date: Mar 13, 2021 When you hear that the USA Basketball Men’s 3x3 Olympic Qualifying Team is holding a training camp, a few questions probably pop into your head. Who is on the team? When do they play? What are their chances? These days, another question might be how they’re handling the quarantine. For the one-week training camp that officially began March 11, the four players — Canyon Barry, Dominique Jones and Kareem Maddox — traveled to Orlando, Florida, on Sunday and immediately went into quaranti...