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LIMA, Peru (AP) — There’s an outside shot the United States won’t have to wait 11 years to host its next Olympics. It’s a longshot, but there’s talk in Salt Lake City, and even some in Denver, of a bid for the 2026 Winter Games, which take place two years before the Summer Olympics return to Los Angeles. The same country hosting back-to-back Olympics hasn’t happened since before World War…

Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers president of baseball operations, joined the team at AT&T Park before Monday’s game against the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers had just lost all seven games in a homestand amid a 10-game losing streak and a 1-15 stretch. Even so, the Dodgers still own the best record in the majors. The Times spoke with Friedman before the game about the factors behind the skid, the performances…

Instead, it will carry a mixture of non-fiction and lifestyle programming, children’s shows, and scripted dramas. Although the exact list of networks that will make the cut isn’t certain, you can expect to see Discovery’s ID, TLC, and Animal Planet. Viacom brings with it Nickolodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, and BET. And, A+E boasts the History Network, and Lifetime, while AMC carries hit show The Walking Dead. Ditching sports channels, will…

NEWARK — At the home of the New Jersey Devils, the crowd is on its feet, jumping and cheering, whooping with delight. The Jumbotron is blasting out the action. Cheerleaders are dancing. It feels like Game 7 is about to start. But the Prudential Center is not hosting a sporting event. The main attraction on a Thursday at lunchtime is not an athlete, even though he is built like one. He is…

Peter Cowgill, executive chairman of JD Sports, said that there were no signs that demand for athleisurewear was fading and shrugged off the comparisons between the company and Footlocker by highlighting that its US rival had blamed the lack of new trainer models during the quarter from Nike and Adidas, rather than softening customer demand.  “I don’t think this is negative for the long term at all,” Mr Cowgill said….

The Football League have agreed a new five-season deal with Sky Sports that could put the Championship head-to-head with BT Sport’s midweek Champions League coverage. The EFL have negotiated a new £600million agreement for live domestic rights from 2019-20. The deal, which sees Sky Sports exclusively broadcast the EFL, Carabao Cup, Checkatrade Trophy and Play-Offs through until May 2024, represents a 36 per cent year-on-year increase on the current deal….

reader comments 28 Comcast TV customers in Oregon will soon have to pay $14.50 each month for the controversial “Broadcast TV” and “Regional Sports Network” fees. Currently, the two fees combined cost customers $11 a month but will rise by $3.50 starting October 1, The Oregonian reported yesterday. Comcast is also raising its modem rental fee from $10 to $11 a month, the article said. These fees are in addition to…

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A non-sports skinny bundle is about to become a reality. Discovery, Viacom, AMC, A+E, and Scripp Networks are teaming up to offer an entertainment-focused streaming service that will be void of sports programming. The Wall Street Journal reported the news about the skinny bundle and said that the new service will have a soft launch in the upcoming weeks with subscriptions priced at less than $20 a month. The lineup…

– This is Saturday night. Derrike Cope into the wall less than five laps to go. This is with Martin Truex, Jr. leading this thing, all right? You can see the frustration for Cole Pearn saying, you got to be kidding me. We were going to win our fifth race of the year. So then post race we saw some tweets that were very, very interesting. – Yep, Adam. So…

LIMA, Peru — Los Angeles has received its formal go-ahead to host the 2028 Olympics, getting a thumbs-up from the International Olympic Committee’s evaluation commission. On Wednesday, the full IOC will award the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Games to Los Angeles. Los Angeles had originally bid for 2024, but because of the new date, it had to make changes to its host contract. The evaluation commission signed off…

This story was originally published on Feb. 16, 2017. NASCAR competition officials issued an updated deterrence system Thursday for its three national series, shifting toward an officiating process that penalizes pre-race infractions within a given race weekend. The updated system is months in the making, with the sanctioning body and teams working concurrently on the new procedures. The move was one of several fundamental changes made to the penalty structure…

This summer has seen a clear bubble in transfer fees and valuations in the prominent five European soccer leagues, above all in the English Premier League. This is because of the monumental international and domestic (BT Sport and Sky Sports) television deals coming into effect from 2016 through to 2019. The deals have enabled a flood of fiscal overreaching at the lower-ranked and more domestic-orientated EPL clubs, allowing them to…

Thirty contenders, six finalists, and now, one trophy left standing. The most coveted symbol of stock car supremacy. Introducing the @MonsterEnergy NASCAR Cup. pic.twitter.com/te7wAEtTNW — NASCAR (@NASCAR) August 31, 2017 At the end of August, NASCAR and Jostens officially released the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series trophy, putting an end to months of brainstorming and craftsmanship. The centerpiece of the trophy, which stands 37 inches tall and weighs almost…

It’s as easy to say sports don’t matter as it is to forget they’re not the most important thing on earth. But at 8:46 a.m. on September 11th, 2001—as Flight 11 careened into the North Tower—both of these diametrically opposed perspectives were rendered simultaneously and horrifyingly true. In the hours and days that followed 9/11, sports were nothing more than a footnote. Games were postponed. Superstar athletes became fellow terrified…

Getty Images Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus (from left), Benjamin Mendy and Kevin De Bruyne celebrate one of their side’s five goals vs. Liverpool on Saturday. The most expensive soccer team ever assembled will play in England this season. Manchester City FC is the costliest squad the world has ever seen, based on the total transfer fees —…

What do Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle have in common? Besides all three being in the Baseball Hall of Fame, each of them also sits on a shelf in the office of Rob Bernshteyn, chief executive of San Mateo-based Coupa. Well, they don’t literally sit in Bernshteyn’s office. Instead, Bernshteyn, an avid baseball card collector, has replicas of some of the players’ most-famous cards, to go along with some…

“Every single obstacle to prevent the commercialization of beIN channels has been put in place by the Saudi authorities,” Jordan said. Photo Saudi Arabia’s Nawaf al-Abid, right, with Japan’s Hotaru Yamaguchi during a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. BeIN owned the rights to the game, but it could not get members of its production staff into Saudi Arabia to broadcast it, and then had one of its reporters ejected from…