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The veteran N.F.L. reporter Andrea Kremer said she was hardly surprised by the backlash against Mowins’s play-by-play on the sport’s biggest stage. “I have no doubt that ‘hating the sound of her voice’ is code for ‘I hate that there was a woman announcing football,’” Kremer told me. The whining was neither surprising nor accurate, Kremer said: “One of the many positives about Beth doing the game, in addition to…

Pool/Getty Images Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to the president, took on Hollywood and criticized what she deemed the “unfortunate” politicization of entertainment and sports during an interview on “Fox & Friends” on Monday.  The comments came the morning after the annual Emmy Awards, which featured a surprise appearance by former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and a series of jabs at President Donald Trump. “Your takeaway from yesterday’s three hour celebrity…

Athletes are grouped depending on the level of their impairment to try to ensure fair competition With medals being handed back, officials alleging dirty tricks, and calls for an independent system to judge levels of disability, is Paralympic sport losing trust? A File on 4 special – Paralympic Sport – Fair Play?– spoke to athletes, parents, coaches and classifiers, and uncovered claims of tactics including the taping up of arms,…

The veteran N.F.L. reporter Andrea Kremer said she was hardly surprised by the backlash against Mowins’s play-by-play on the sport’s biggest stage. “I have no doubt that ‘hating the sound of her voice’ is code for ‘I hate that there was a woman announcing football,’” Kremer told me. The whining was neither surprising nor accurate, Kremer said: “One of the many positives about Beth doing the game, in addition to…

The comprehensive college football ranking of all FBS teams, now known as the CBS Sports 130, has been running for a few years. Ballots of CBS Sports and 247Sports writers have provided us with a full view of the sport’s landscape beyond the reach of the weekly top 25 polls.  Never in that time has there been a tie for No. 1 … until now. Though we’ve had different No….

The Dallas Cowboys not only are the NFL’s most valuable franchise for the 11th straight year, they are the top-valued team in the world. According to Forbes magazine, their worth increased 14 percent in the last year, reaching $4.8 billion. That’s more than $1 billion ahead of the Patriots ($3.7 billion). Rounding out the NFL’s top five are the Giants ($3.3 billion), Redskins ($3.1 billion) and 49ers ($3.05 billion). On…

Years ago, it seemed standards were pretty clear for most journalists: Keep your opinions to yourself. This is still the ethos many of us try to live by as an understanding that our professional life and our personal lives overlap as journalists. We aren’t really ever off the clock or not representing the media outlet for which we work. But that’s getting trickier with social media and news outlets like…

In news that no one would have predicted just several short years ago, Adidas has jumped Jordan Brand to become the No. 2 seller of sports footwear in the United States. This is a big deal, and especially considering Adidas fell behind Under Armour in combined footwear and athletic apparel sales in 2015. Adidas has overtaken Jordan as the #2 brand in U.S. sport footwear. This is an achievement I…

The veteran N.F.L. reporter Andrea Kremer said she was hardly surprised by the backlash against Mowins’s play-by-play on the sport’s biggest stage. “I have no doubt that ‘hating the sound of her voice’ is code for ‘I hate that there was a woman announcing football,’” Kremer told me. The whining was neither surprising nor accurate, Kremer said: “One of the many positives about Beth doing the game, in addition to…

Years ago, it seemed standards were pretty clear for most journalists: Keep your opinions to yourself. This is still the ethos many of us try to live by as an understanding that our professional life and our personal lives overlap as journalists. We aren’t really ever off the clock or not representing the media outlet for which we work. But that’s getting trickier with social media and news outlets like…

The veteran N.F.L. reporter Andrea Kremer said she was hardly surprised by the backlash against Mowins’s play-by-play on the sport’s biggest stage. “I have no doubt that ‘hating the sound of her voice’ is code for ‘I hate that there was a woman announcing football,’” Kremer told me. The whining was neither surprising nor accurate, Kremer said: “One of the many positives about Beth doing the game, in addition to…

Years ago, it seemed standards were pretty clear for most journalists: Keep your opinions to yourself. This is still the ethos many of us try to live by as an understanding that our professional life and our personal lives overlap as journalists. We aren’t really ever off the clock or not representing the media outlet for which we work. But that’s getting trickier with social media and news outlets like…

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Clemson moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, jumping Oklahoma and closing in on Alabama after beating a team ranked in the Top 15 for the second straight week. The Tigers received 15 first-place votes, the most the defending national champions have received this season, and 1,446 points after beating Louisville 47-21 on the road. Alabama remains No. 1 with 45 first-place votes…

If you are a sports fan on Twitter, you might have already seen it: Over the last 72 hours a number of prominent African-American sports journalists have changed their avatars to the face of Jemele Hill. It is, they say, their way of showing support for the ESPN commentator and her First Amendment rights. CSN New England Celtics reporter A. Sherrod Blakely, the Chair of the National Association of Black…

Photo: Sean M. Haffey/Getty We are still in the part of the year where the Sunday counterprogramming schedule is chunky with other sports—early season European soccer, regular season baseball, the WNBA playoffs—which is good for sports fans in general, because the NFL’s product so far this season has been poor. Just five of 15 NFL games played so far have been settled by fewer than nine points, and of those…

Sanctuary City? I’d settle for a cot. Perhaps you saw that video, last week. At the London weigh-in for Saturday’s middleweight fight between champ Billy Joe Saunders and Willie Monroe, the boxers were muscle-posing for the cameras when Saunders’ son, roughly 8 years old, wandered in front of Monroe. Smiling, Monroe reached down to make nice, to greet the kid with a pat on his head, when the kid, also…

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Clemson moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, jumping Oklahoma and closing in on Alabama after beating a team ranked in the Top 15 for the second straight week. The Tigers received 15 first-place votes, the most the defending national champions have received this season, and 1,446 points after beating Louisville 47-21 on the road. Alabama remains No. 1 with 45 first-place votes…

Bobby “The Brain” Heenan has died at the age of 73, according to a tweet by wrestling announcer Jim Ross. “The news of Bobby “The Brain” Heenan’s passing today gutted me,” Ross wrote on Twitter. “I loved our time together. No one ever did it better than the Wease.” The WWE confirmed Hennan’s death and issued the following statement: “WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Bobby Heenan, regarded…

Photo: Sean M. Haffey/Getty We are still in the part of the year where the Sunday counterprogramming schedule is chunky with other sports—early season European soccer, regular season baseball, the WNBA playoffs—which is good for sports fans in general, because the NFL’s product so far this season has been poor. Just five of 15 NFL games played so far have been settled by fewer than nine points, and of those…

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