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What exactly are e-sports and just how fast are they growing? In our final Sport 2.0 film, we ask why thousands of people have begun to attend e-sport events across the globe and look at how problems such as corruption and cheating may affect sport’s digital counterpart just as much as they do in the real world The rise of e-sports: are addiction and corruption the price of its success?

COLLEGE BASKETBALL LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The NCAA didn’t feel Louisville went far enough with its self-imposed sanctions following a sex scandal investigation, so the governing body handed down a few more. An outraged Rick Pitino feels the NCAA went too far. After completing its investigation of Katina Powell’s allegations that she and other escorts were hired to have sex parties and strip for Louisville recruits and players, antics the NCAA…

FRIDAY ON TV GOLF 11 a.m. FS1 — USGA, U.S. Open, second round, at Hartford, Wis. 4 p.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour, Meijer Classic, second round, at Grand Rapids, Mich. 6 p.m. FOX — USGA, U.S. Open, second round, at Hartford, Wis. MLB BASEBALL 7:10 p.m. ESPN — Washington at N.Y. Mets 7:10 p.m. FOX OHIO — MLB, L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati 9:35 p.m. MLB — N.Y. Yankees at Oakland…

The 1979-80 Chicago Bulls weren’t much to look at. Reggie Theus and company won just 30 games for coach Jerry Sloan. But to hear those? That was something else. Calling the action on WIND-AM 560 was Jim Durham, one of the NBA’s truly great announcers and, as reflected in the list below, one of Chicago’s best pro sports team announcers in the last 40 years. Between long-time White Sox voice…

Rankings below are based on a mixture of expected output and DraftKings’ NASCAR salaries for that day. The ordering is not based on highest projected fantasy totals, but rather by value of each driver. (fppk = average fantasy points per $1,000 of salary. The typical median fppk for a 2016 race was in the 3s. Plate tracks tend to be lower and short tracks tend to run higher due to the…

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They were playing ball at Nationals Park—a game that would matter for a nation whose soul seems cracked. Marty Russo believes this. The former Democratic congressman from Illinois was elected to Congress in 1974, fresh on the heels of Watergate and President Nixon’s resignation. It was a moment that left the country deeply divided. But for all the contentiousness dividing Congress then, he recalled, stepping across the chalk line that…

A day after firing on an active shooter to protect Congressmen under attack at a morning baseball practice in Virginia, Capitol Police officer David Bailey returned to the diamond for the annual charity game. Bailey, who suffered a minor injury in the attack, surprised a roaring crowd of almost 25,000 spectators in Nationals Park by hobbling on crutches to the pitcher’s mound to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at…

Andy Gonzalo always knows when the Nationals are playing. Even if he didn’t have a schedule pinned in his office, the number of visitors to his parish on particular days is always a giveaway. Located less than a mile away from Nationals Park, St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church typically enjoys its busiest audience when the home team is scheduled to play.  For the past week, Gonzalo had been reflecting…

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The great home run mystery of 2015-17 has been solved. Maybe. Yesterday, former FiveThirtyEight writer Ben Lindbergh and prominent sabermetrician Mitchel Lichtman published a piece at the Ringer with evidence showing that alterations to the ball might partially explain the spike in home runs over the past two seasons. By physically testing the balls, they found that in addition to changes that make the ball come off the bat faster,…

FRIDAY ON TV GOLF 11 a.m. FS1 — USGA, U.S. Open, second round, at Hartford, Wis. 4 p.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour, Meijer Classic, second round, at Grand Rapids, Mich. 6 p.m. FOX — USGA, U.S. Open, second round, at Hartford, Wis. MLB BASEBALL 7:10 p.m. ESPN — Washington at N.Y. Mets 7:10 p.m. FOX OHIO — MLB, L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati 9:35 p.m. MLB — N.Y. Yankees at Oakland…

The 1979-80 Chicago Bulls weren’t much to look at. Reggie Theus and company won just 30 games for coach Jerry Sloan. But to hear those? That was something else. Calling the action on WIND-AM 560 was Jim Durham, one of the NBA’s truly great announcers and, as reflected in the list below, one of Chicago’s best pro sports team announcers in the last 40 years. Between long-time White Sox voice…

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However, critics point out that it recognises darts and snooker, sports that can hardly be said to require great physical exertion. Judges in the High Court and the Court of Appeal backed HMRC. The European Court’s decision will be published in the coming months and will heap pressure on Sport England to review their list. Other European countries – Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France and the Netherlands – recognise bridge as…

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The Motorsport.com NASCAR team answers your most pressing questions in this week’s Mailbag. This week fans ask about different topics from the coast of racing helmets to where will Ryan Blaney be racing in 2018. It seems that the media in general has portrayed NASCAR in some shape or form as the “best it’s ever been.” Why is it that you don’t have fans write into you to…

Professional hockey will return to downtown Portland for the 2018-19 season. Comcast Spectacor, parent company of the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers, announced Thursday that it had purchased an ECHL franchise in Alaska that will be relocated to Cross Insurance Arena. Comcast Spectacor also is the parent company of Spectra, the management firm contracted to run the arena, which has been without a major tenant since the Portland Pirates of the American…

Andy Gonzalo always knows when the Nationals are playing. Even if he didn’t have a schedule pinned in his office, the number of visitors to his parish on particular days is always a giveaway. Located less than a mile away from Nationals Park, St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church typically enjoys its busiest audience when the home team is scheduled to play.  For the past week, Gonzalo had been reflecting…