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On Tuesday morning, Sky Sports subscribers awoke to find its five traditional streams – numbered 1 to 5, in the classical fashion – replaced by a range of specialist channels. Cricket and golf have joined Formula One in getting their own home. Football has two dedicated channels. You can buy one or two channels to save money, or the whole lot at no extra cost (for now). As Sky puts…

PRO FOOTBALL Kirk Cousins will be the first quarterback in NFL history to play consecutive seasons on the franchise tag. Cousins and the Washington Redskins didn’t sign a long-term deal by the deadline. He will make $23.94 million on the franchise tag in 2017 after earning $19.95 million last year. Team president Bruce Allen said in a prepared statement that the Redskins’ goal was to sign Cousins to a long-term…

MUMBAI: Television broadcaster Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) on Tuesday announced rebranding of its sports network, which now includes the Ten Sports’ bouquet of channels, and Sachin Tendulkar as the brand ambassador. It also announced launch of two more HD channels – Sony Ten 2 HD and Sony Ten 3 HD, taking the total number of channels under the sports network to 11. Earlier this year SPN had acquired the…

The Bennett family had a difficult time locating the quiet zones and special concession stands the team has created this year for those on the autism spectrum. – Laura Ziegler/for Marketplace Many people on the autism spectrum have a hard time in loud, chaotic places like sports stadiums. But a number of professional sports teams are trying to make it easier and more fun to attend games for those with autism and…

Spanish Football Federation president Angel Maria Villar, FIFA’s senior vice president and a long-time player in world soccer, was arrested Tuesday along with his son and two more federation executives in an anti-corruption investigation. Villar, who is also a UEFA vice president, was suspected of having arranged matches for Spain that led to business deals that benefited his son, the office of the state prosecutor in charge of anti-corruption said….

Police say they have arrested Spanish Football Federation president Angel Maria Villar, his son and another federation executive as part of an anti-corruption probe.   A source close to the investigation carried out by Spain’s Guardia Civil tells The Associated Press that Villar and the other two men were detained on Tuesday morning during raids at the federation headquarters. The police source wanted to remain anonymous due to…

PRO FOOTBALL Kirk Cousins will be the first quarterback in NFL history to play consecutive seasons on the franchise tag. Cousins and the Washington Redskins didn’t sign a long-term deal by the deadline. He will make $23.94 million on the franchise tag in 2017 after earning $19.95 million last year. Team president Bruce Allen said in a prepared statement that the Redskins’ goal was to sign Cousins to a long-term…

When I launched the Juice List nine years ago, the mission seemed easy: Rank the 25 most influential people in New Jersey sports. And yet, judging by the comments and questions each summer, it’s complicated. That’s because juice can mean many things to many people. Is it the influence to change the direction of a Big Ten athletic department, which earned Patrick Hobbs the No. 1 spot last summer?  Is it the…

Sky Sports has rebranded its TV channel line-up, adding a few new stations to the mix in the process. Now TV has announced that they will all be available through the streaming platform too. From today, 18 July, Sky Sports subscribers through Sky, Now TV, Virgin Media and other providers, have access to an all-new channel line-up. Sign up to Sky TV from £22 There are now channels for individual…

The expensively reared among you will know the social ‘season’ in sport encompasses the Boat Race, Henley, polo, Wimbledon, Cowes, ‘the Lord’s Test match’ and £50m football transfers. Not really. The last of those is merely the ‘ker-ching’ soundtrack that now accompanies the sporting summer: once a fixture of the London social calendar, now a colossal, rolling entertainment industry that keeps us distracted from political mayhem.  On the global agency…

NASCAR will return to its roots Wednesday on the dirt track of Tony Stewart’s Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, for the Eldora Dirt Derby. Ty Dillon, along with defending Truck Series champion Johnny Sauter and rising star Christopher Bell, will be apart of the intense racing on the half-mile clay track. Wednesday’s event, which is one of the most popular in all of NASCAR, marks the fifth time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has…

Stephon Marbury was supposed to be one of the NBA’s best point guards. He was a phenom in Minnesota, but it was clear from his time with the Knicks that he couldn’t lead a team by himself. However, before that became evident he spent some time with Team USA during the 2004 Olympics. The ’04 team is of course the infamous group that came away from the Olympics with bronze….

After two years of “aggressive” short programs set to tango music, Gracie Gold and her new coach, Marina Zoueva, wanted something a little more “touchable” for the Olympic season. “The short programs are colder often because they’re so short. You’ve got to do everything in 2 [minutes], 50 [seconds],” Olympic team bronze medalist and two-time national champion Gold explained to NBCOlympics.com. “We hadn’t really done anything touchable with lyrics for…

Last week, after they cried for their fallen sister Miosotis Familia at her funeral in the Bronx, her NYPD colleagues from the Four-Six retired to a place in Yonkers called Rory Dolan’s. Familia was 48 years old, with 12 years on the job and three kids and an ailing 87-year-old mother at home, when a guy who hated cops walked up to the police vehicle she was sitting in and…

PRO FOOTBALL Kirk Cousins will be the first quarterback in NFL history to play consecutive seasons on the franchise tag. Cousins and the Washington Redskins didn’t sign a long-term deal by the deadline. He will make $23.94 million on the franchise tag in 2017 after earning $19.95 million last year. Team president Bruce Allen said in a prepared statement that the Redskins’ goal was to sign Cousins to a long-term…

x Embed x Share CLOSE Fans took to Twitter to chime in on LeBron’s concern over the Cleveland Cavaliers’ lack of moves this offseason. USA TODAY Sports LeBron James reacts during the second half against the Denver Nuggets at Pepsi Center.(Photo: Chris Humphreys, USAT) LeBron James, the NBA’s most powerful player and biggest star who brought the Cleveland Cavaliers their first NBA championship, is concerned about the Cavaliers’ offseason, a…

Stephon Marbury was supposed to be one of the NBA’s best point guards. He was a phenom in Minnesota, but it was clear from his time with the Knicks that he couldn’t lead a team by himself. However, before that became evident he spent some time with Team USA during the 2004 Olympics. The ’04 team is of course the infamous group that came away from the Olympics with bronze….

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series is set to have its biggest race of the year on Wednesday at Eldora Speedway in western Ohio. The half-mile dirt track is owned by three-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Tony Stewart and has hosted a variety of popular drivers like Kyle Larson, Darrell Wallace Jr. and Austin Dillon, all of which won there. Ty Dillon will be the lone representative from…