Our liveblog of the fight between former boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather and UFC star Conor McGregor ended up being the most read sports story in Guardian history. A war has rumbled between Donald Trump and NFL players who have knelt during the national anthem to highlight racial inequality. Much has been made of the failure of the US men’s national team to qualify for next summer’s World Cup. But there is promise, here, albeit of a kind that baseball, for its own peculiar reasons, may be reluctant to acknowledge. The future is coming for baseball, whether baseball likes it or not.”Design by Sam Morris and Francisco Navas

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2017 10:52 UTC