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National anthem protests during the 2016 season played a role in the declined NFL ratings, says the president of one major sports network. CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus feels confident making the statement after his network conducted internal research to determine what contributed to the drop, he told reporters at the NFL’s annual Media Day in New York City on Wednesday. Overall, networks reportedly saw an eight percent drop in…

College football isn’t just played on Saturdays anymore, and that can be easy to forget. With that in mind, there are several games airing on CBS Sports Network over the course of the next few days. You can think of it as an appetizer to Saturday’s full slate of games, but football is football and football season is back. There will be doubleheaders played on both Thursday and Friday, as…

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain joined Arsenal from Southampton in August 2011 Liverpool have completed the £35m signing of England midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain from Arsenal. The 24-year-old, who rejected a move to Chelsea on Tuesday after a fee had been agreed, joins on a five-year contract worth £120,000 a week. Oxlade-Chamberlain, who was in the last year of his Arsenal contract, rejected a new deal worth up to £180,000 a week to stay…

Sanchez made his first appearance of the season in Arsenal’s 4-0 defeat by Liverpool on Sunday Manchester City have made an improved second bid of around £60m for Arsenal’s Chile forward Alexis Sanchez. The Gunners have already rejected a £50m bid from City for the player. Sanchez, 28, who scored 24 league goals last season, is out of contract next summer and wants to play for City manager Pep Guardiola….

One way to baptize a baby Brecken Archibald. Get used to the name. He’s the son of Penguins right-winger Josh Archibald and three-week-old Brecken was baptized in the Stanley Cup on Wednesday. And if you don’t think the above image of the baptism will be showed endlessly on ESPN in 25 years after Brecken wins the Cup, you don’t know sports media very well. Albert Pujols is the worst player in…

Fox is making good on its promise to bring innovation to TV advertising formats. Fox Networks Group on Thursday confirmed it will offer six-second advertising spots in its upcoming pro football and baseball telecasts as a means of improving the game-watching experience for viewers and offering more effective brand messaging vehicles for marketers. The short blurbs will be available as part of Fox Sports regular inventory for NFL games starting…

Sports provide relief from catastrophes like the recent flooding in Houston. In turn, the lucrative fraud of the Floyd Mayweather–Conor McGregor fight provided relief from the banal late-summer sports journalism monotony of NFL training camps (ACL injuries, quarterback battles), the dog days of baseball and the exhausting search to find half-decent American tennis players to spotlight at the U.S Open. So thanks to both HBO’s Real Sports for a superb…

You have to credit Samsung for its chutzpah. The company’s tried every way it can think of to make its smartwatches happen, refining its line of Gear products year after year. Still, not even the latest Gear S3—one of the best smartwatches on the market—was enough to put Samsung in the conversation with Apple on the smartwatch side, or Fitbit on the fitness side. Now, Samsung’s hoping to take on…

Sports provide relief from catastrophes like the recent flooding in Houston. In turn, the lucrative fraud of the Floyd Mayweather–Conor McGregor fight provided relief from the banal late-summer sports journalism monotony of NFL training camps (ACL injuries, quarterback battles), the dog days of baseball and the exhausting search to find half-decent American tennis players to spotlight at the U.S Open. So thanks to both HBOs Real Sports for a superb…

Ward and Endres began raising money in 2012, but struggled to persuade possible landlords that they could generate enough revenue to pay the rent from something called esports. But after looking at potential sites across Southern California, the owner of the 95-year-old building saw their proposal and agreed to rent them his building. The space they built — much of it by hand, laying carpet and running heavy-duty internet infrastructure…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// EA Sports’ Madden NFL 18 dropped, and the new feature everyone’s buzzing about is its longshot mode, the new narrative feature that follows Devin Wade as he reaches for football stardom. It’s a playable movie within a video game, like a first-person narrative arc found in role-playing games. Waypoint’s…

Ross Barkley scored five goals in 36 Premier League games last season Everton have rejected a £25m offer from Chelsea for Ross Barkley, but the England midfielder could still leave the club before Thursday’s deadline. Chelsea’s offer was below Everton’s original £50m price tag – but it is likely this will be reduced as Barkley has one year left on his contract. The 23-year-old has turned down a new deal…

NCAA president Mark Emmert offered Japanese sports industry leaders advice on forming their own collegiate athletics association on Wednesday. Japan is seeking to become one of the few countries outside the United States to establish an NCAA-type governing body for college sports. Emmert spoke to sports officials and representatives from more than 20 Japanese universities at a seminar in Tokyo. “When I was asked to come over here and talk…

Ward and Endres began raising money in 2012, but struggled to persuade possible landlords that they could generate enough revenue to pay the rent from something called esports. But after looking at potential sites across Southern California, the owner of the 95-year-old building saw their proposal and agreed to rent them his building. The space they built — much of it by hand, laying carpet and running heavy-duty internet infrastructure…

An athletically gifted teenager growing up in northeast Texas seemingly has one destiny: Play high school football under the glare of Friday night lights. For Michael Kopech, however, it was always about throwing a ball with stitches rather than one with laces. That obsession helped turned Kopech into one of baseball’s top prospects and the pitcher with a thunderbolt in his right arm is a key component of the White…

Joe Maddon expressed his displeasure with travel ball during his first spring training as Cubs manager in 2015. And Maddon wasn’t shy Tuesday about expressing his thoughts on children directed toward concentrating on one sport. “Specialization, especially at an early age, is obnoxious to me,” Maddon said. As a youngster in Hazleton, Penn., Maddon played three sports in high school but gave up on basketball because of shin splints during…

A controversial study suggesting that doping in sport is far more prevalent than was found to be by conventional testing has finally been published after years of wrangling. The research, based on anonymous surveys carried out at two elite athletics competitions in 2011, found that up to 57% of competitors admitted doping in the previous 12 months, a figure far surpassing the 1-2% identified by blood and urine tests carried…

An athletically gifted teenager growing up in northeast Texas seemingly has one destiny: Play high school football under the glare of Friday night lights. For Michael Kopech, however, it was always about throwing a ball with stitches rather than one with laces. That obsession helped turned Kopech into one of baseball’s top prospects and the pitcher with a thunderbolt in his right arm is a key component of the White…

Joe Maddon expressed his displeasure with travel ball during his first spring training as Cubs manager in 2015. And Maddon wasn’t shy Tuesday about expressing his thoughts on children directed toward concentrating on one sport. “Specialization, especially at an early age, is obnoxious to me,” Maddon said. As a youngster in Hazleton, Penn., Maddon played three sports in high school but gave up on basketball because of shin splints during…

A controversial study suggesting that doping in sport is far more prevalent than was found to be by conventional testing has finally been published after years of wrangling. The research, based on anonymous surveys carried out at two elite athletics competitions in 2011, found that up to 57% of competitors admitted doping in the previous 12 months, a figure far surpassing the 1-2% identified by blood and urine tests carried…