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The 19 percent decline has occurred in the first season of a new $7.4 billion rights deal with Sky and BT Sport which was expected to bring the Premier League to a much wider audience. Despite an exciting start to the season, plus the massive hype around the managerial battle between Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho in Manchester, Sky says there have been numerous factors which have caused viewing figures…

It’s a strange game with a funny name and rules that seem to have been devised at a commune. But ask some physical education teachers about it, and they’ll call Tchoukball the greatest thing since jumping jacks. Schools throughout the Chicago area have incorporated Tchoukball — pronounced CHOOK-ball — into their gym classes, with teachers saying it is the rare activity that allows super jocks to play on nearly even…

Two men were found shot outside a sports bar in southwest Houston early Saturday morning.

Pitch, Eastbound and Down, A League of Their Own, Fever Pitch, Major League. (Photo: USA TODAY/Fox, HBO, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, AP) Let’s play ball. The Major League Baseball playoffs are well under way, and if you’re a Cubs, Dodgers, Blue Jays or Indians fan, that’s really good news for you (and if you’re a Cubs fan, that’s really, really good news for you). Whether you’re watching the NLCS and ALCS this weekend…

CLEVELAND — One swing was going to decide Game 1 of the ALCS on Friday night (CLE 2, TOR 0). Marco Estrada was masterful, flummoxing the Indians with his changeup in his eight-inning effort. Corey Kluber had to grind, but as Cy Young winners tend to do, he still tossed 6 1/3 scoreless innings even when at something less than his best. The game was decided in the sixth inning,…

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Tim Tebow might be a figure of compassion in times of crisis, but he isn’t a baseball player. That’s according to ESPN senior baseball writer Keith Law, a former major and minor league scout who traveled to Arizona this week to see if Tebow has any business being in the Mets’ minor league system. His verdict? Well, read for yourself … Tebow the baseball player is not a baseball player;…

CLEVELAND — One swing was going to decide Game 1 of the ALCS on Friday night (CLE 2, TOR 0). Marco Estrada was masterful, flummoxing the Indians with his changeup in his eight-inning effort. Corey Kluber had to grind, but as Cy Young winners tend to do, he still tossed 6 1/3 scoreless innings even when at something less than his best. The game was decided in the sixth inning,…

CHICAGO — Jon Lester will start the first game of the National League Championship Series for the Chicago Cubs, and he will do so as one of the most accomplished postseason pitchers of his generation. He will be opposed by Kenta Maeda, who began the season as something of a curiosity and became a key cog for the Los Angeles Dodgers. But as baseball’s final four have been determined, the…

Tim Tebow might be a figure of compassion in times of crisis, but he isn’t a baseball player. That’s according to ESPN senior baseball writer Keith Law, a former major and minor league scout who traveled to Arizona this week to see if Tebow has any business being in the Mets’ minor league system. His verdict? Well, read for yourself … Tebow the baseball player is not a baseball player;…

NFL ratings have plummeted this year. Commentators have blamed the election, a changing TV industry, shifts in viewing format, and even a lack of big-name stars. But there may be another factor to add to the list: e-sports. The competitive video gaming industry is certainly taking off. No longer the domain of nerds, it’s turned into big business, with huge cash prizes on offer. And like any sport with free-flowing…

Tim Tebow might be a figure of compassion in times of crisis, but he isn’t a baseball player. That’s according to ESPN senior baseball writer Keith Law, a former major and minor league scout who traveled to Arizona this week to see if Tebow has any business being in the Mets’ minor league system. His verdict? Well, read for yourself … Tebow the baseball player is not a baseball player;…

NASCAR took the wraps off of its 2017 Premier Series rules Friday, with very little in the way of surprises. For the second consecutive year, the sanctioning body is reducing aerodynamic downforce, which makes the cars faster in a straight line, but much slower in the middle of the corners, where passing will presumably be a good bit easier. The aero package, which features a smaller front splitter and rear…

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When the World Anti-Doping Agency published its 2017 list of banned substances last month, it was most notable for a drug that wasn’t on the list: a powerful painkiller called tramadol. More surprising, perhaps, is the group lobbying for it to be banned: professional cycling, a sport wracked by doping for more than two decades. Since 2011, cycling authorities have begged WADA to add tramadol to the list of prohibited…

The IPSF’s Olympic Sub-Committee has been working on its submission for the last five months, with its case boosted after it was officially confirmed as a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code. “This is a long process and may take years to achieve recognition, but by applying we have already raised the standards of our sport and look forward to continuing to evolve in line with the with…

Syracuse, N.Y. — Every Tuesday and Thursday, students gather in a plush new classroom on the Syracuse University campus to analyze sports. They listen to Dr. Rodney Paul use words like “heteroscedasticity,” “regression diagnostics,” “weighted least squares” and “multicollinearity” to analyze the information they will consider to determine, say, what influences a minor league baseball team’s attendance or why one NFL offensive line performs better than another. There are dizzying…

A sales scandal has tarnished Wells Fargo’s (WFC) reputation with customers in recent weeks, but it’s unlikely to knock the embattled company’s name off the arena that the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers and the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers call home, industry experts told FOXBusiness.com. Continue Reading Below The San Francisco-based bank has held naming rights on the eponymous Wells Fargo Center since 2010, two years after its acquisition of Wachovia Bank,…

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