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Mike Dee, who previously served as the president and CEO of the Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium, was announced Tuesday as president of Entercom Sports. In this newly developed position, Dee will be leading Entercom’s robust sports business with a focus on revenue development from national sales and marketing programs, new platform opportunities, key partnerships, expanded sports distribution, direct-to-consumer offerings and other entrepreneurial initiatives at the national level. He…

With the NBA draft on June 22, top prospects and athletic brands are beginning to engage in conversations about potential footwear and apparel endorsement deals. One of the players expected to be drafted at the very top of the board is UCLA star freshman point guard Lonzo Ball. He is represented by Harrison Gaines as part of the newly formed Ball Sports Group. Gaines is a former employee at Impact…

Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Julian Draxler controls the ball in front Guingamp goalkeeper Karl-Johan Johnsson during a match in Paris on April 9, 2017.(Photo: FRANCK FIFE, AFP/Getty Images) It appears soccer is coming to Comerica Park. The Detroit Tigers today sent out a news release with the International Champions Cup logo that announced a news conference at noon Wednesday. This comes a few weeks after a report by French newspaper L’Equipe that Paris Saint-Germain would…

It didn’t take long for the hockey world to have a varying degree of hot takes on Sidney Crosby’s Game 3 injury. The response was swift, loud, and extremely colored by whatever fan base-colored glasses you tend to wear. This is sports, after all. It’s to be expected from fans, especially in such a high-pressure, high-anxiety time that is the Stanley Cup playoffs. What’s been absolutely out of left field,…

Paul Wolfe, crew chief of the No. 2 Ford fielded for driver Brad Keselowski in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, will not travel with the team to this week’s Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. According to a team spokesperson, team engineer Brian Wilson will handle the crew chief duties during Wolfe’s absence. The organization, which fields entries in the series for Keselowski and Joey Logano, has withdrawn its request…

Photo credit: Matthias Schrader/AP O ye mighty Soccer Gods, how blessed are we, the fans of the sport you so nobly watch over! You’ve given us over a decade of The One, your favorite son, the one and only Lionel Messi, and we have praised you for it! In recent times, you saw fit to grant us arguably the greatest team feat of all time, guiding poor, meek little Leicester…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment NEW YORK — A New York City man is on a mission to flush the cremated remains of his lifelong friend — a plumber — down ballpark toilets around the country. Tom McDonald tells The New York Times that it’s a fitting tribute for Roy Riegel. The two baseball fans were childhood friends in Queens, not far from — wait for it…

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban just became one of the highest-paid coaches in all of sports, thanks to a contract extension signing bonus that was approved by the school on Tuesday. The new deal, first reported by USA Today, brings his 2017 salary to $11.125 million. In 2014, Saban signed an eight-year extension that paid him $6.9 million a year. Saban’s deal also features a $4 million contract signing bonus…

IMG and Mandalay Sports Media have entered into a joint venture which will see the two companies work together to develop, finance and produce a slate of sports-focused feature films. They are hoping to churn out at least ten feature films over the next three – five years from their active development slate, which will be distributed via streaming platforms and traditional theatrical release. The first project under the deal…

ESPN laid off analyst Trent Dilfer, a former NFL quarterback. It didn’t take long for ESPN to show the U.S. what the streamlined future of sports coverage would look like. Just hours after ESPN announced about 100 layoffs of high-profile staffers — including Trent Dilfer, Ed Werder and Jayson Stark — the network had to…

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Matt Niskanen’s cross-check to the head of Sidney Crosby may well shift the balance of the second-round series between the Penguins and Capitals depending on if or how long one of hockey’s biggest superstars will be out with an injury. The Pittsburgh captain was taken out of the equation less than six minutes into Monday’s Game 3 overtime loss to Washington. He was cutting across the Capitals’ goal crease and got tied up with…

CEO and Chairman of NASCAR, Brian France, speaks to the media during a news conference prior to the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va., Sunday, April 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Some high-profile Australian athletes, including Olympic and world champions, have opened up on their post-sport difficulties in a revealing ABC documentary. After the Game, an ABC TV’s Four Corners investigation that aired on Monday night, featured interviews with a range of prominent athletes, including Lauren Jackson and Stephanie Rice. Jackson, a 2006 world champion with the Opals, said she misused medication in a bid to continue her glittering career. “There…