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For several years we have heard about the horse race between rugby and lacrosse as the fastest growing team sports in the U.S. Lacrosse has its pro indoor and outdoor leagues and its massive audience for the NCAA Final Four; rugby has the Olympics and the occasional visits from the ...

Seven area student-athletes and five coaches were honored Wednesday night at the annual Beat the Streets benefit, following the freestyle matches in Times Square that afternoon and evening. A total of $1.2 million was raised for the organization, which works directly with the New York City Department of Education in ...

Even Sir Richard Branson is getting into eSports? Well sorta. On Thursday Branson and Virgin Sport Mary Wittenberg formally kicked off their first U.S. event push in San Francisco, with a press event to get Virgin Sports San Francisco off and running, and the former New York Roadrunners CEO hinted ...

Topps, through its ToppsNow partnership with MLB, will issue a special card Monday for fans to commemorate Derek Jeter’s number retirement on Sunday at Yankee Stadium prior to the game vs. the Houston Astros. The card, which will be available on topps.com for 24 hours, will show all the images ...

For the third straight year FloSports is excited to announce that FloWrestling (www.flowrestling.org) will once again live stream the Beat The Streets New York City event, Wednesday, May 17, from Times Square. This year’s event will feature wrestlers from three Beat the Streets’ city programs in addition to the featured ...

After a bidding war with a total of 32 bids in the final two days, the 1955 major league contract that Ted Williams signed with the Boston Red Sox sold for $48,456 as the leading seller on the Steiner Sports Memorabilia “Spring Fever” auction which concluded last night (Sunday, May ...

If you are a football fan, you may not know Troy Cole by name, but you know his work, especially on the feet of some of the game’s greatest stars. Cole, also known as “Kickasso” rose to fame by designing many of the cause related cleats for NFL players big ...

SiriusXM will provide listeners nationwide with comprehensive coverage of the 2017 NFL Draft, with live coverage of every selection from every round, as well as four days of special programming, live from Philadelphia. From the first round on Thursday, April 27, through the final round on Saturday, April 29, SiriusXM ...

If it seems like everyone does a mock draft (or two, or six), well, it’s probably because everyone does. I recall being a 13- or 14-year old in the early ’80s, staying home to watch the Draft on ESPN (it was a day event until recently), to see who the ...

In the wake of its record-breaking $3.26 million sale last April of the 1857 “Laws of Base Ball” documents, SCP Auctions now unveils the recently discovered and never-before-offered 1876 “Founding Documents and Original Constitution of Major League Baseball,” a hand-written, 74-page sports artifact of unprecedented historical significance. “This, the founding ...