Athletics

It’s hard to tell whether the Oakland Athletics are a bigger farce on or off the field.On the field, the A’s are on pace to lose 127 games. No major league team in the entirety of the 20th century lost so many games in a single season.Off the field, the A’s soon could go 0 for 4 in potential host cities, striking out in the pursuit of a new ballpark in Oakland, Fremont, San Jose and maybe now in Las Vegas.The question is not where A’s owner John Fisher and team president Dave Kaval might look next. The question is why…

World Athletics (WA), the governing body for track and field and other running competitions, announced last month that transgender women who went through male puberty can no longer compete in women’s events at international competitions. The policy took effect on 31 March. WA also ruled that to compete as a woman, athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD), who have congenital conditions that cause atypical sex development, must have a testosterone…

Klutch Athletics will support and serve athletes throughout their athletic journey including youth, collegiate and professional sportsCourtesy: Clutch AthleticsRich Paul, the sports agent who represents LeBron James, is launching a new sportswear brand with New Balance.The new brand will be called Klutch Athletics, and the company says its mission is to provide all athletes with high-quality training apparel and empower them throughout their sports journey.Paul said his goal was to create training products that are both…

WHEN ELIUD KIPCHOGE broke the world marathon record with a 2:01:09 finish in Berlin last September, it was hard not to notice the fluorescent orange trainers on his feet. Bulbous and gaudy, the Nike NKE 3.13% Air Zoom Alphafly NEXT% 2 feature a carbon-fiber footplate, promising energy return with each step. According to a study of 18 athletes published in 2017, depending on a runner’s talent and training, these kind of shoes can quicken his or her pace by 2% to 3% per…

I see Garmin’s GRMN 2.97% sensor-packed smartwatches everywhere. Most riders in my cycling group wear them. On a recent trip to a 30-person refuge in the Alps, I counted no fewer than 11 Garmin wearers. My husband, Will, has worn one daily for years.For sporty types, there’s a cultish aura around the chunky, rugged smartwatches, despite their notoriously hard-to-use controls. Garmin makes up less than 5% of the smartwatch market, but Apple…

If baseball were nothing more than a video game, Shohei Ohtani would be the ultimate cheat code.On Thursday the two-way star took a no-hit bid against the Oakland Athletics into the eighth inning. He was four outs away from accomplishing the feat when Connor Capel hit a grounder that eluded shortstop Livan Soto and rolled into center field.His pitching mastery was still acknowledged by the announced crowd of 31,293, which gave him a standing ovation, complete with more “M-V-P” chants in the Angels’ 4-2 victory.“That’s my…

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Sports Author of the article: Article content The Minnesota Twins are expected to have both Byron Buxton and Carlos Correa back in the lineup when they face the host Oakland Athletics in the rubber match of a three-game series on Wednesday afternoon. Correa is set to return after landing on the injured list May 6 with a right middle finger contusion, while Buxton likely will be in the starting lineup following a scheduled day off. Oakland evened the series with a 5-2…