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BII See Also This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Digital Media Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. In the latest examples of live sports migrating to digital platforms, NBC announced it would stream Premier League games through its NBC Sports Gold platform and Facebook partnered with Fox Sports to stream UEFA Champions League games on Facebook Live in the US on Tuesday. Here’s what’s important to…

Christy, Pond and Sutcliffe all questioned the money spent on events, “international influence” and the EIS, pointing out the latter’s budget has gone up by almost £10million, with some of that going on more than 30 new staff. They say that sum would fund their programmes and leave plenty of change for other sports. Sutcliffe said: “Everybody talks about the nadir of 1996, (before lottery funding) when we were 36th…

As in ancient times, any discussion about hockey and Canada begins with the climate, which is why our forebears, in an effort to battle back against the winters in this ridiculously inhospitable land, took to strapping on skates. They found the nearest frozen pond or river or prairie slough, fashioned a stick, invented the puck and stayed out until darkness fell in mid-afternoon or their toes turned blue, whichever came…

9:07 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Who is the best pitcher in baseball right now? For a long time — maybe since he won his first Cy Young Award in 2011 — the answer has been pretty easy: Clayton Kershaw. The answer on June 29, however, may be Max Scherzer. Or maybe Chris Sale. Or still Kershaw. Bill James says it’s Scherzer. He has a…

Monroe County Division I: Tyler Smith (Fairport), Evan Newkirk (Fairport), Justin Harman (Penfield), Logan Martella-Tasick (Penfield), Jack Burke (Penfield), Noah Wulforst (Penfield), Ran Kalbfus (Penfield), Chris Reed (Rush-Henrietta). Monroe County Division II: Aidan Eldridge (Spencerport), Devin Mulcahy (Webster Thomas), Ryan Hill (Webster Thomas), Ben Mulhall (Webster Schroeder), Josh Simons (Webster Schroeder), Connor Bisaillon (Webster Schroeder), Justin Augustine (Greece Arcadia), Thomas Finnerty (Greece Arcadia). Monroe County Division III: Seth Vignari (Canandaigua),…

On Tuesday night, Miguel Montero was a Chicago Cub. By Wednesday afternoon, he was not. The culprit wasn’t his arm, which couldn’t stop any of the seven stolen base attempts the Washington Nationals tried against him. It was his mouth, which committed the cardinal baseball sin of describing what happened in a frank and honest manner. This isn’t to defend Montero, who finished an evening’s work Tuesday as a major…

Stephen Strasburg struck out 13 in seven innings, Bryce Harper had two doubles and two RBIs, and Washington beat Chicago 8-4 on Wednesday night. Anthony Rendon and Matt Wieters hit back-to-back homers against John Lackey (5-9) during Washington’s four-run second inning. After the Cubs pulled within three at 6-3, Daniel Murphy went deep in the fifth. It was a rough day for the Cubs, who cut…

Buy Photo Senior Daniel Schiff has helped Nicolet get off to a 13-7 start this season.(Photo: Michael McLoone, for the Journal Sentinel)Buy Photo There weren’t a lot of memorable moments from Nicolet’s four-win season in 2014. Knights senior Daniel Schiff was a freshman on that baseball squad and remembers suffering one loss thanks to “a ton of errors” that led to a postgame run. “We were just yelling at each other…

The highlight of Steve Kennedy’s professional tennis career had to be playing a first-round match in the 1987 U.S. Open, his lone Grand Slam appearance. Thirty years later, Kennedy was once again competing in a U.S. Open. Only this time it was the second annual U.S. Open Pickleball Championships, and he was playing a fast-growing racket sport that’s sometimes referred to as table tennis on steroids. Kennedy, 51, a Fort…

Supporters of legalizing the multibillion-dollar sports betting marketplace are ramping up efforts to enshrine policy changes nationwide. The American Gaming Association (AGA), a trade group that represents casinos and others in the gaming industry, has already been rallying support among state policymakers and officials. Now it’s bringing that campaign to Capitol Hill in full force. “We’re on the Hill daily, in the House and the Senate, and we’ve identified people…

A mass rebellion is set to put UK Sport under further pressure to reform, with 11 national governing bodies of sports calling for a major overhaul in how the funding agency allocates lottery and exchequer money. The Guardian understands the governing bodies will claim the spirit of sport has been obscured by what is seen as UK Sport’sgrowing obsession with medal targets over the past decade. In a plea to…

Is it possible to kill an entire category of sports before the world really knows about? A new bill, set to regulate drones in the state of California, contains a single vague line that could shut down an entire world of drone sports. In its current form, California Senate Bill 347 says “A person shall not weaponize a remote piloted aircraft or operate a weaponized remote piloted aircraft.” Without exceptions…

It will be hot, it will rain, and all eyes will be on Dale Earnhardt Jr. all weekend long. The first two are unavoidable facts of nature in midsummer at Daytona International Speedway, and the third might as well be. The 14-time most popular driver always garners heavy attention at NASCAR’s most famous track. That will be multiplied even more than usual this weekend, and rightfully so. Saturday night’s Coke…

Is it possible to kill an entire category of sports before the world really knows about? A new bill, set to regulate drones in the state of California, contains a single vague line that could shut down an entire world of drone sports. In its current form, California Senate Bill 347 says “A person shall not weaponize a remote piloted aircraft or operate a weaponized remote piloted aircraft.” Without exceptions…

The biggest ever revolt against Great Britain’s ‘no compromise’ Olympic and Paralympic medal-winning formula will be reignited on Thursday when 11 sports snubbed by funding chiefs call for new UK Sport chairman Dame Katherine Grainger to scrap the policy. The Daily Telegraph can reveal that the national governing bodies of archery, badminton, baseball/softball, basketball, fencing, handball, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling and wheelchair rugby have joined forces to demand Grainger,…

Photo: Peter Dejong/AP Canadian rider Antoine Duchesne‏ was one of the last cuts from Direct Energie’s Tour de France team. The team decided not to bring sprinter Brian Coquard, which made Duchesne’s role on the team somewhat unnecessary. All that training for nothing is a huge bummer, especially because Duchesne turned his legs into statuesque vein monsters. Because cyclists basically rely on nothing but their legs to do their jobs,…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment As always, Thursday brings us a shortened slate. Fortunately, this is one of the better ones, with 13 games on the docket. Not only are there plenty of studs at the top of the rankings with Clayton Kershaw, Corey Kluber and Chris Archer all toeing the rubber, but there are plenty of worthwhile streaming options from which to choose as well. Best…

Media playback is not supported on this device We’ve been thrown under a bus – Badminton England Chief Eleven sport governing bodies are demanding an overhaul of the way Britain invests in the pursuit of Olympic and Paralympic medals. In an unprecedented challenge to elite performance funding agency UK Sport, the group have joined forces to call for an urgent review of what they call “a two-class system that runs…

Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James might be the greatest basketball player on Earth, but he has interests in life beyond the NBA. Just like Kobe Bryant has done during his retirement, LeBron is trying his hand in the film industry. James’ production company, SpingHill Entertainment, along with award-winning filmmaker Gotham Chopra, will help produce a three-part documentary film series that will premiere on Showtime in 2018. The project will examine the…

Aston Martin’s forthcoming electric sports car, the RapidE, will become even more exclusive than originally planned, after the departure of struggling Chinese electronics manufacturer LeEco as an investor on the project. In an interview with Reuters, Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer confirmed that LeEco has pulled out of the electric supercar project, forcing the British carmaker to scale back production. Aston Martin will now only make 155 vehicles, which is…