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Buy Photo Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis arrives in New York on Sunday for an eight day stay as vice chairman of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament committee.(Photo: Dave Wasinger/Lansing State Journal)Buy Photo Michigan State’s athletic department Thursday announced a 15-year agreement worth more than $150-million with FOX Sports for the school’s multimedia rights. The deal, which will begin during the 2016-17 academic year, will give Fox Sports access to…

print Prince’s death was felt throughout the world Thursday, including in the world of sports. The pop superstar was found dead at his home on Thursday in suburban Minneapolis, according to his publicist. He was 57. A short time after the news came out, the Golden State Warriors cranked Prince classics at shootaround while they prepared for Thursday night’s playoff game against the Rockets. Prince had appeared at a Warriors…

Prince performs during halftime at Super Bowl XLI in Miami 2007. (Chris O’Meara/AP) Prince, who died Thursday at the age of 57, honored the sports world with his presence a number of times over the years, usually letting his music do the speaking for him. Most memorably, he delivered the best halftime performance in Super Bowl history in 2007, when he rocked Miami’s Dolphin Stadium in a pouring rain. “Can…

5:10 PM ET print The death of musical legend Prince at his suburban Minneapolis home on Thursday at the age of 57 resonated throughout the sports world. According to Ethan Sherwood Strauss, the Warriors’ Stephen Curry started playing Prince on a stereo during the team’s shootaround Thursday. Teammates Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala jumped in with their song choices, which included “Purple Rain,” “When Doves Cry” and “Raspberry Beret.” Prince…

10:00 AM ET Comparing athletic accomplishments across sports ain’t easy. But we’re sports fans, and sports fans like to debate these things because, well, sports is fun to debate about. After all, if we’re arguing about our favorite fruit, sometimes we do need to compare apples and oranges. And as long as we’re treading on forbidden ground, why not try to compare some of the records from other major sports…

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RELATED: Full Stewart coverage Three-time NASCAR premier series champion Tony Stewart will return to competition this weekend at Richmond International Raceway, ending a season-opening run that saw the 44-year-old sidelined due to a back injury sustained in late January.   Stewart made the announcement Thursday via his Twitter account. Well, the long wait is over. I’ll be back in my @Mobil1 Chevy this weekend at Richmond. I can’t wait to race again 👍🏼😁👍🏼 #SmokeWillRise…

Team USA including World Cup soccer champion Abby Wambach faces Team Japan at the ANA Footgolf Faceoff held March 29, 2016, as part of the ANA Inspiration at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Crystal Chatham/The Desert Sun

Philadelphia Flyers’ Scott Laughton is taken off the ice after crashing into the boards during Game 4. (Matt Slocum/Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA — John Carlson took a deep breath and shook his head. His hit on Philadelphia Flyers forward Scott Laughton caused Laughton to lose an edge and crash hard into the boards with his back. Now, he was struggling to reconcile a legal check and routine hockey play with an action that led…

On April 1, Major League Baseball suspended catcher Taylor Teagarden for 80 games, saying he violated the sport’s Joint Drug Agreement. Tigers right-hander Justin Verlander tweeted this: Verlander was correct; Teagarden did not test positive. Instead, in an undercover video made for Al Jazeera, Teagarden had admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs last year and said that he was “scared” about an upcoming test, which he passed. Baseball’s drug-testing program is…

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Aaron Simpson of Anaheim Servite is one of those passionate athletes determined to make a difference. Last fall, playing quarterback, Simpson scrambled 22 yards for a touchdown with six seconds left against San Juan Capistrano JSerra, then completed a two-point conversion pass for a 39-38 victory. “You could see when he was running he was going to do everything he could not to be stopped,” football Coach Scott Meyer said….

Nazara Games, a mobile game developer and publisher in India, has invested in London-based mobile game studio Mastermind Sports. Above: CricBet India is a small but fast-growing game market, and Nazara wants to be the leader in that growth. The amount of the investment wasn’t disclosed, but Nazara will have a 26 percent stake. Mumbai-based Nazara has also launched CricBet, a real-time prediction-based cricket game that sports fans can play while…

Where others may have seen nothing but a vacant auto body shop, Chas Wagner saw an opportunity to create a temporary place for people to showcase their artwork, play sports, and gather for events. Wagner, a Pittsburgh native who moved to the Boston area nearly four years ago, is in the midst of transforming the former Unlimited Auto Body Inc. building on Somerville Avenue, in Somerville, into what he’s dubbed…

If you ever want to see really impressive filmmaking, don’t load anything on the AFI top 100 list. Tune into football on any given Sunday. A game is a 3.5-hour event, but it only includes 11 minutes of action. The average play just lasts four seconds. The rest—the replays, the slow mos, the graphics, the cheerleaders—is all ganache. The NFL is more art than sport. Which is why when L.A….

Almost every sportswriter I know loves to romanticize about the old days — when being a beat writer allowed you to get to know the people you covered on a meaningful level. You developed a good working relationship, a give and take. Maybe the player would get angry with you for something you wrote, but you would talk it out and move on. I’m 29 and I have no idea…

Philadelphia Flyers’ Scott Laughton is taken off the ice after crashing into the boards during Game 4. (Matt Slocum/Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA — John Carlson took a deep breath and shook his head. His hit on Philadelphia Flyers forward Scott Laughton caused Laughton to lose an edge and crash hard into the boards with his back. Now, he was struggling to reconcile a legal check and routine hockey play with an action that led…

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