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Kent State cannot produce any professional certification required by the NCAA for the head football strength coach who oversaw conditioning drills the day freshman Tyler Heintz died of complications from an abnormally high body temperature, CBS Sports has learned. In fact, Golden Flashes strength coach Ross Bowsher — beginning his second year with the program — seems to be the only member of the strength and conditioning and training staffs…

In less than a month, one of the University of Minnesota’s most visible athletic buildings officially will be renamed for former athletic director Joel Maturi. The school announced that Sept. 2 is the date the Sports Pavilion — home to Gophers volleyball, wrestling and gymnastics — will get its new name. Per a news release sent Tuesday: The formal name for the facility will be the Joel Maturi University Sports…

BI Intelligence See Also This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Digital Media Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Twitter has become a home to smaller sports with relatively lower viewership, such as the National Lacrosse League (NLL), according to Bloomberg, while Amazon has eyed bigger sports like American football and tennis, according to Digiday.  It makes sense that the companies would have different strategies in…

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Casinos are slowly embracing competitive video game tournaments — known as “e-sports” — as a way to help their bottom lines, but the money is coming from renting hotel rooms to the young players and selling them food and drinks, not from turning them into gamblers. Like most other ways gambling halls have tried to attract millennials and their disposable income, it hasn’t been easy. Atlantic…

No preseason poll is as inclusive or expansive as the CBS Sports 130, the only longtime weekly college football rankings you will find with all 130 FBS teams represented and sorted in order against their peers.  Just because the CBS Sports 130 has 105 more places than your normal rankings doesn’t mean we’ve got wildly different opinions on the No. 1 team in college football entering 2017. Just like the…

Les Moonves. Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Just days after its ad sales unit announced it had landed a former Facebook exec to oversee its digital inventory, CBS Corp. on Monday made it known that its ambitions would continue to take it further beyond the realm of traditional TV with a teaser about plans to develop a new streaming sports service. Speaking to investors during the company’s second-quarter earnings call, CBS…

<!– –> VISIT CNBC.COM VISIT CNBC.COM Home Entrepreneurs Leadership Careers Money Specials PRIMETIME Careers Careers 6 Hours AgoCNBC.com Everyone wants to do what they love, but what if you love is watching the game from your couch? If this sounds like you, you might be in luck. Job search site FlexJobs combed through 148 remote sports-related jobs to find 13 golden opportunities for people who love sports and want to…

CBS continues to keep its options open when it comes to buying assets — including CNN, if AT&T decides to sell after it acquires Time Warner. “We feel strategically complete…we don’t need any M&A,” COO Joseph Ianniello told analysts in the company’s quarterly earnings call when asked about potential acquisitions. Still, he added — without citing specifics — that “we look at everything in the marketplace.” CBS chief Les Moonves…

<!– –> VISIT CNBC.COM VISIT CNBC.COM Home Entrepreneurs Leadership Careers Money Specials PRIMETIME Careers Careers 1 Hour AgoCNBC.com Everyone wants to do what they love, but what if you love is watching the game from your couch? If this sounds like you, you might be in luck. Job search site FlexJobs combed through 148 remote sports-related jobs to find 13 golden opportunities for people who love sports and want to…

Mark Horbinski, founder and adviser to Won80 Club at Necedah High School, gives a presentation to student-athletes, parents and coaches at New Lisbon School District July 27. Horbinski will travel to other schools in the area to educate others about the importance of positive sportsmanship.

x Embed x Share CLOSE USA Today Sports released its projections for all 130 FBS Teams and here are some highlights. USA TODAY Sports Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback J.T. Barrett.(Photo: Greg Bartram, USA TODAY Sports) There are only two factors preventing an individual team from finishing undefeated in the Football Bowl Subdivision. One is statistics: The odds of perfection decrease as more games get added to the road to the…

Employment law experts last night warned that it could see them facing a raft of claims for indirect discrimination.  The dictat first emerged in a store in Bangor, where workers pointed out that it effectively banned them communicating in their own language in their own country.   The Welsh Language Commissioner has launched an investigation into the policy, which was described by critics as “discriminatory and offensive”. Sport’s Direct, which…

It wasn’t enough for Lauren Henkel to run fast, she wanted to make sure others followed. Henkel, an accomplished two-sport athlete during her days at NYU, transitioned from athlete to coach with a wild enthusiasm for those she taught. Henkel, born and raised in Rockville Centre, died on July 29, only a few weeks after being named head coach of the Molloy women’s cross country and track and field teams….

Media playback is not supported on this device Highlights: Arsenal beat Chelsea after penalty shootout Arsene Wenger hopes Arsenal can take confidence from their Community Shield win over Chelsea and avoid another bad start to their Premier League season against Leicester on Friday. The Gunners have lost on the opening day in three of the last four seasons. They face Leicester at Emirates Stadium on the back of a penalty…

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Pete Rose has been an unexpected surprise as a postseason MLB studio analyst for Fox Sports. Partnered with Alex Rodriguez, Frank Thomas and host Kevin Burkhardt, Rose found his voice as part-baseball wonk, part-crazy grandpa, and a full-time polarizing figure. The mixing of Rodriguez and Rose—two of the most polarizing forces in baseball but both baseball wonks—created authenticity in the studio and the free form of the show gave Fox…

They were odd but poignant affairs with their empty steps on the podiums and their specter of missed opportunities. Sebastian Coe, the president of the I.A.A.F., the sport’s global governing body, pushed for these ceremonies, a first at a major global championships. In total, 11 individual athletes and five relay teams were awarded new medals in the wake of bans generated by the retesting of samples from past championships. There…

Pete Rose has been an unexpected surprise as a postseason MLB studio analyst for Fox Sports. Partnered with Alex Rodriguez, Frank Thomas and host Kevin Burkhardt, Rose found his voice as part-baseball wonk, part-crazy grandpa, and a full-time polarizing figure. The mixing of Rodriguez and Rose—two of the most polarizing forces in baseball but both baseball wonks—created authenticity in the studio and the free form of the show gave Fox…