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Casinos in Maryland and other states are seeking a share of a growing sports betting market that remains tantalizingly out of reach — for now — because a federal ban leaves fans to wager billions of dollars with offshore companies instead. To many casinos outside of Nevada, Sunday’s Super Bowl is an unpleasant reminder that while they lobby for the ban’s repeal online sites in the Caribbean and elsewhere are…

Buy Photo “Stick to sports’’ implies he should stick to the field of play, and not being swift enough to comprehend something as complex as politics, Paul Daugherty writes.(Photo: Enquirer file)Buy Photo Stick to sports. Go to the game, sit in your cushy pressbox seat and eat your free hot dog, Sparky. Leave the important stuff to the pros. That’s how it’s always been, at least until now. The era…

Tuesday was Jackie Robinson‘s birthday. On this day, as on the April 15 anniversary of his first major-league game, we sports fans celebrate one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and one of the most revered heroes in American history. The lens of perception tends to soften over time. Robinson might be universally loved today. But in 1947, he was widely reviled as an interloper trying to break…

The jostling for the few intriguing quarterbacks on the market has already begun. The NFL combine is still weeks away, while the start of the league year is over a month away, but deep, internal strategic discussions are ongoing in several quarterback-needy front offices. These clubs are outlining their offseason plans at the most critical position in football, and targets have already been set. Agent’s Take: Pats’ Garoppolo options Prisco’s…

RELATED: Meet the 2016-17 NASCAR Next class There are several traditional routes to stock-car racing’s big leagues. Several stars have emerged from asphalt Late Model circles, others from the sprint cars ranks, either on pavement or dirt. Alon Day has made a path where just five years ago, he says, none existed in his homeland of Israel. “I grew up without any motorsports — nothing,” says Day, who fantasized about…

The jostling for the few intriguing quarterbacks on the market has already begun. The NFL combine is still weeks away, while the start of the league year is over a month away, but deep, internal strategic discussions are ongoing in several quarterback-needy front offices. These clubs are outlining their offseason plans at the most critical position in football, and targets have already been set. Agent’s Take: Pats’ Garoppolo options Prisco’s…

Say what you will about Fox Sports, they’re consistent. Over the last several years they’ve done everything possible to establish themselves as the off-brand ESPN, from bringing in trash enthusiast/flim-flam man Jamie Horowitz to run the show to putting failed dipshits ranging from Colin Cowherd to Rob Parker on their broadcasts. Advertisement It thus shouldn’t have come as a surprise that last week advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy quietly announced that it…

Electronic Arts is the only major publisher that releases multiple licensed sports games each year, doing so under the company’s label of EA Sports. Success from the sports division has contributed heavily to EA’s stock trading at all-time high levels. Earlier this week, EA released the financials on its most recent quarter and in doing so provided some interesting news on their various franchises. While some are thriving, they’re doing so…

Tuesday was Jackie Robinson‘s birthday. On this day, as on the April 15 anniversary of his first major-league game, we sports fans celebrate one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and one of the most revered heroes in American history. The lens of perception tends to soften over time. Robinson might be universally loved today. But in 1947, he was widely reviled as an interloper trying to break…

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – I’m not in a bad mood. Promise, I’m not. But over the past week or so in the world of sports, it seems there are just some things I have grown oh-so tired of. There’s no reason for the timing of this, no rationale behind it, just a few things that, well, have been irking me … 1. The Patriots’ Past Seems Forgotten About: I was watching…

RELATED: Meet the 2016-17 NASCAR Next class There are several traditional routes to stock-car racing’s big leagues. Several stars have emerged from asphalt Late Model circles, others from the sprint cars ranks, either on pavement or dirt. Alon Day has made a path where just five years ago, he says, none existed in his homeland of Israel. “I grew up without any motorsports — nothing,” says Day, who fantasized about…

Eight-time All-Star and two-time Cy Young winner Roy Halladay retired from baseball after the 2013 season. His playing days are obviously over, but that doesn’t preclude him from returning to baseball in some capacity, and it sounds as if that’s exactly what he would like to do in the near future. Via SportsNet.ca: “I do have plans to get back into baseball,” Halladay told reporters on a conference call. “At…

In recent years, the Red Sox have called up and gotten big contributions from young players like Xander Bogaerts, Jackie Bradley and Mookie Betts, and even traded away arguably the top prospect in the game in Yoan Moncada. So it’s safe to say they’ve done a pretty good job identifying and developing young talent in recent years. And, at this point, Andrew Benintendi might just be the most talented of…

Bookmakers have long factored home-field advantage into a baseball team’s odds of winning, but a new study suggests that jet lag could wipe it out. Researchers analyzed more than 46,000 Major League Baseball games played over the course of 20 years – from 1992 until 2011 – and saw the home-field advantage disappear when the home team traveled two time zones east and the away team visited from the…

The jostling for the few intriguing quarterbacks on the market has already begun. The NFL combine is still weeks away, while the start of the league year is over a month away, but deep, internal strategic discussions are ongoing in several quarterback-needy front offices. These clubs are outlining their offseason plans at the most critical position in football, and targets have already been set. Agent’s Take: Pats’ Garoppolo options Prisco’s…

Say what you will about Fox Sports, they’re consistent. Over the last several years they’ve done everything possible to establish themselves as the off-brand ESPN, from bringing in trash enthusiast/flim-flam man Jamie Horowitz to run the show to putting failed dipshits ranging from Colin Cowherd to Rob Parker on their broadcasts. Advertisement It thus shouldn’t have come as a surprise that last week advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy quietly announced that it…

Tuesday was Jackie Robinson‘s birthday. On this day, as on the April 15 anniversary of his first major-league game, we sports fans celebrate one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and one of the most revered heroes in American history. The lens of perception tends to soften over time. Robinson might be universally loved today. But in 1947, he was widely reviled as an interloper trying to break…

Smith: “It’s also a very privileged position to take, ‘Oh, I watch sports to escape from reality.’ Well that’s probably not your reality then. You’re probably watching sports to escape from the realities of the rest of the world, the bad news that the rest of the world is forced to deal with. Anybody that’s a member of certain communities that have been prone to more injustice than others realizes…

Entercom Communications Corp. and CBS Corp. said Thursday that they have agreed to merge Entercom with CBS Radio, a deal that would create the nation’s second-largest radio group and shake up the Boston market, where the companies own a combined 10 stations. The merger would put Boston’s two aggressively competitive sports stations — WEEI and 98.5 The Sports Hub — under the same corporate umbrella, and affect the future of…

Japan plans to turn old electronics into 5,000 medals for the Olympic and Paralympic games. JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images Sayonara, old iPhone. Konnichiwa, Olympic medal. Tokyo 2020, the organizing committee for the Japanese city’s Olympics Games, said on Wednesday it would make the medals for the quadrennial sporting event from metal reclaimed from old smartphones. The effort is part of the Olympic agenda, which says sustainability should be part of all…