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OLYMPICS NEW YORK (AP) The Olympics in their final week were still golden for NBC. Once again, NBC’s nightly prime-time averages took the week’s top seven Nielsen slots. And NBC again left rival networks far behind in overall viewership. But a drop in Olympics viewers compared to the previous week was notable. So was the drop in TV viewership between the final seven nights of the Rio Olympics compared to…

The Rio Olympics were a watershed moment for women in sport, with many countries sending a record number of female athletes to the games. And despite some cringe-worthy examples of sexist reporting, the accomplishments of powerhouse women athletes like Lilly King, Katie Ledecky and the entire US Women’s Gymnastics team, are certain to move the needle not only for women in sport, but also for women in business. The bottom…

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Rio has handed over the Olympic flag to Tokyo, but Japan has a tough job on its hands to make an economic success of the 2020 Games. Tokyo’s preparations have already been plagued by scandal and cost overruns. And some experts doubt the Olympics will help Japan’s stagnating and debt-laden economy. ‘; */ var smartAssetDiv = ”; for (i = $allParagraphs.length-1; i > 0; i–) { if (i > 4)…

Attention, football! My love for you is not conditional on you “learning” from the Olympics. In fact, it’s not conditional. Honestly, darling, you’re like a child to me in that way. I will love you whatever – even when you’re naughty, even when I’m cross, even when it sounds like I’m really disappointed in you. (It might feel confusing at the time, but in some ways those are the moments…

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PREDICTING how many medals a country will win in the Olympics has become a cottage industry. Size and wealth are obvious factors: bigger countries naturally have larger pools of talent to draw from, and rich ones tend to have healthier populations and more resources to devote to sport. As expected, economic heavyweights like China, Germany and Russia were among the five countries that collected the most medals in Rio. And…

HONOLULU –  Federal regulators are proposing to ban swimming with dolphins in Hawaii, a move that could imperil one of the Aloha State’s most popular tourist activities and the industry that has sprung up around it. The National Marine Fisheries Service says spinner dolphins — the playful nocturnal species that humans in Hawaii routinely frolic with — are being deprived of rest during the day and becoming stressed out….

Hillary Clinton allies are preparing for what they expect will be an onslaught of negative Donald Trump ads during Monday Night Football. | Getty The Democrat’s team is poised to spend millions as it braces for a wave of negative ads from her opponent. By Annie Karni 08/23/16 11:48 AM EDT Updated 08/23/16 04:20 PM EDT During the Rio Olympics, Hillary Clinton tweeted about the athletes 21 times, posted Instagram…

One of the biggest scandals of the 2016 Olympics in Rio was the story of US swimmer Ryan Lochte’s admission to “overexaggerating,” as he called it, about an encounter with security guards at gas station in the early morning hours of August 14, along with swimming teammates Jack Conger, Gunnar Bentz, and James Feigen. While it’s still not clear what exactly happened (although it seems very clear the swimmers were…

Media playback is not supported on this device Team GB’s gold-medal winning heroes from 2016 When the flame was extinguished at the Maracana on Sunday, so ended the Olympic careers of some of the finest sportsmen and women to have lived. Rio was our last chance to delight in the talents of sprinter Usain Bolt, swimmer Michael Phelps, cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins and heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill on the biggest sporting…

Image copyright Getty Images/AFP Image caption Back from Rio: Team GB came second in the medal table, the French (right) came seventh The French are perfectly happy with their Rio Olympics tally. The haul of 42 medals, including 10 golds, was a post-war record, and their seventh overall placing was the same as at London 2012. That is the official line. In fact, there is an unacknowledged undercurrent of grumbling….

The soccer stadium set to replace Exposition Park’s Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena now has a name: Banc of California Stadium. The ownership group of Los Angeles Football Club, which is building the new stadium, this morning announced a naming-rights deal with the Irvine bank, a fast-growing lender that’s been working to make inroads in South Los Angeles. The Major League Soccer expansion team, set to debut in 2018, signed a 15-year deal that gives Banc of…

During the second inning of a June 10 New York Mets game in Milwaukee, the team’s television broadcasters had no shortage of juicy topics to consider. The Mets’ pitcher that day, ace Matt Harvey, was struggling through a career-worst season. Star third baseman David Wright had just gone down with a serious neck injury. And the actual game at hand would eventually prove to be an extra-inning nailbiter. But at…

KINSTON, NC (WITN) – Get ready to sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” because professional baseball is returning to an Eastern Carolina city after a five year lapse. The Texas Rangers announced Monday that they’ve entered into a 12-year agreement to put a new Class-A team at Grainger Stadium in Kinston. “I believe you got the right team in place here in Kinston…

The Tim Tebow baseball tryout has a date. Tebow’s agent, Jimmy Sexton, confirmed Tuesday that the former Broncos and Jets quarterback (and future President Of The United States) will host his showcase for Major League Baseball teams on Aug. 30 in Los Angeles. The invite went out to 30 MLB teams, 20 of which are said to be interested in the showcase, according to The Los Angeles Times. That seems…

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Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images The funny thing about bias is that it’s the necessary basis of any opinion. And now that we’ve all had our quadrennial opportunity to reinvest in mildly-biased opinions on oft-ignored athletics, it’s time to talk about horse sports, and opinions about horse sports. When Deadspin readers accused Patrick Redford recently of disliking horse sports because he has little to no experience riding, they accurately identified the likely…