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One of the great things about being a fan of sport is the licence to rail against modernity. Complain about the intranet at work and no doubt, in time, you will be disciplined. Complain about sprinters pulling faces for the cameras on the start line and millions will be with you. This antediluvian attitude ought to make the positive noises which greeted the day-night Test involving England and the West…

Fresh from winning a £15m battle over a pub bet, Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has returned to the courts to mount a legal claim over the ownership of its shop in Iceland. The sportswear retailer is suing the family of Jon Asegir Johannesson, the disgraced Icelandic businessman who at one time owned swathes of the British high street through his Baugur vehicle. Mr Johannesson’s family owns 60pc of Sports Direct’s…

QUESTION: What is your take on the “stick to sports” debate when it comes to sports journalists? At what point is it too much on Twitter, Facebook, etc.? MATTER: First off, I work for the Post-Dispatch, not Twitter. My Mizzou sports coverage in the pages of the P-D and on STLtoday.com have nothing to do with presidential politics and never have any leanings one way or the other. Social media is…

x Embed x Share CLOSE So far, it has been positive. David Woods/IndyStar Buy Photo Basketball is Butler’s bread and butter, but other teams are succeeding at doing more with less as well. “We play small ball, find avenues to get points,” track coach Matt Roe says. In March, Bulldogs guard Kethan Savage drove on Seton Hall Pirates guard Madison Jones during a Big East game at Hinkle Fieldhouse.(Photo: Matt…

One of the great things about being a fan of sport is the licence to rail against modernity. Complain about the intranet at work and no doubt, in time, you will be disciplined. Complain about sprinters pulling faces for the cameras on the start line and millions will be with you. This antediluvian attitude ought to make the positive noises which greeted the day-night Test involving England and the West…

Major League Baseball umpires wore white wristbands during games Saturday, protesting ”abusive player behavior” after Detroit second baseman Ian Kinsler was fined but not suspended for his recent verbal tirade against ump Angel Hernandez. The World Umpires Association announced the action, saying the union strongly objected to the response by the commissioner’s office. Kinsler said this week that Hernandez was a bad umpire and ”just needs to go away.” ”The…

Let’s Do This cofounders from left: CTO Neil Lock, CEO Sam Browne, and CPO Alex Rose. Let’s Do This LONDON — An online sports listing startup has raised £1 million from a raft to tech, banking, and sporting figures to build the “Airbnb of endurance events” like triathlon and marathon. Let’s Do This, founded 13 months ago, secured the seed funding in June but it has not yet been publically…

x Embed x Share CLOSE So far, it has been positive. David Woods/IndyStar Buy Photo Basketball is Butler’s bread and butter, but other teams are succeeding at doing more with less as well. “We play small ball, find avenues to get points,” track coach Matt Roe says. In March, Bulldogs guard Kethan Savage drove on Seton Hall Pirates guard Madison Jones during a Big East game at Hinkle Fieldhouse.(Photo: Matt…

China’s government is moving to curb domestic companies’ investments abroad in property, sports, entertainment and other fields, following a series of high-profile, multibillion-dollar acquisitions by Chinese firms. A document released Friday by the State Council, China’s Cabinet, was the latest move by regulators to tap the brakes on a string of foreign acquisitions, citing concerns that the companies involved may be taking on too much debt. One of those conglomerates,…

Dr. Christopher Brown works on an injured athlete.(Photo: Provided) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2.6 million children ages 19 and younger are treated in emergency departments each year for sports and recreation-related injuries. And those are just the incidents that make it to the ED. The injuries fall under the terms traumatic or non-traumatic (overuse injuries that develop over time), but that’s not to…

Baseball Sea Dogs game suspended, will be completed Sunday The first game of a scheduled doubleheader between the Portland Sea Dogs and the Binghamton Rumble Ponies was suspended because of rain Saturday in Binghamton, New York. The scoreless game will resume in the fourth inning, beginning at 12:05 p.m. The teams will then play Sunday’s regularly scheduled game. The second game of Saturday’s doubleheader was postponed until Friday, Aug. 25,…

Dr. Christopher Brown works on an injured athlete.(Photo: Provided) According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2.6 million children ages 19 and younger are treated in emergency departments each year for sports and recreation-related injuries. And those are just the incidents that make it to the ED. The injuries fall under the terms traumatic or non-traumatic (overuse injuries that develop over time), but that’s not to…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sporting goods retailers can’t shake their losing streak. Shares of stores that mostly sell sneakers and sporting gear plummeted Friday after Foot Locker and smaller rival Hibbett Sports reported a drop in sales in the latest quarter. Both also offered gloomy outlooks for the rest of the year. Sporting goods retailers are facing increasing competition from department stores and clothing chains, which are beefing up the…

New research from a state-wide survey in Arizona may hold true for the rest of the country. Parents seem to understand that football can cause serious concussions, which in turn could cause serious long term neurological damage. But they are missing the memo when it comes to the risks associated with other contact sports. Soccer and cheerleading also have high rates of concussion, according to researchers at the Barrow Neurological…

Even though both franchises joined the National League in 1883, the Phillies and San Francisco Giants are never referred to as one of the historic rivalries in Major League Baseball. Personally, I still feel a pain in my stomach whenever the Phillies play…

Kevin Durant, the 2017 NBA Most Valuable Player of the champion Golden State Warriors, has said he won’t be joining the customary trip to the White House of champion teams. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) As the country fractures over the violence in Charlottesville sparked by a white supremacist rally, how President Trump has reacted has done more to increase tensions than quell them. Trump has refused to directly denounce white supremacists saying that…

It’s only fitting that LeBron James, the face of Nike, help show off the Cleveland Cavaliers‘ new-look uniform now that Nike has replaced Adidas as the jersey provider for the NBA for next season.  James teased the new uniform threads via an Instagram post Thursday, and although we had a good idea what they might look like thanks to an internet leaker, there’s no replacement seeing it up-close and personal…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sporting goods retailers can’t shake their losing streak. Shares of stores that mostly sell sneakers and sporting gear plummeted Friday after Foot Locker and smaller rival Hibbett Sports reported a drop in sales in the latest quarter. Both also offered gloomy outlooks for the rest of the year. Sporting goods retailers are facing increasing competition from department stores and clothing chains, which are beefing up the…

Mac Lethal, a rapper on YouTube with over 800,000 subscribers, worked the names of basically every team from the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB into a song for his latest video. Related See Drake as Steph Curry in NBA Awards’ ‘Get Out’ Spoof Ayesha Curry sends her husband to “sunken place” in comic tribute to Jordan Peele’s beloved horror film The song begins with Mac Lethal talking about how his…

Kevin Durant, the 2017 NBA Most Valuable Player of the champion Golden State Warriors, has said he won’t be joining the customary trip to the White House of champion teams. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) As the country fractures over the violence in Charlottesville sparked by a white supremacist rally, how President Trump has reacted has done more to increase tensions than quell them. Trump has refused to directly denounce white supremacists saying that…