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Athletes zipped through Coliseum Park on roller skates Wednesday morning to warm up for the 82nd birthday of roller derby, the high-contact sport born in Chicago. World Roller Derby Week begins Sunday with a birthday party at 12:30 p.m. in the park, 1466 S. Wabash Ave. Sunday also is the anniversary of the sport’s debut — Aug. 13, 1935, at the Chicago Coliseum, which once stood at the site of…

Following in the footsteps of our college basketball brethren here at CBS Sports, college football writers Dennis Dodd, Chip Patterson and Barrett Sallee spoke with one-fifth of the 130 active coaches leading FBS teams entering the 2017 season. They asked for honest opinions on everything from NCAA rules to social issues to their peers in the profession. We will be sharing their candid thoughts over a two-week period leading into…

If this is the new “Mike,” she looks nothing like the old one. The rumors of Charissa Thompson-to-ESPN are picking up steam after the Fox Sports personality announced Monday she would be leaving “Extra,” the syndicated TV show, after three years. That’s one job that’s out of the way; ESPN only has to pry her from FS1 next. A post shared by Charissa Thompson (@charissajthompson) on Aug 7, 2017 at…

PITTSBURGH—Calling it a perfect way to rapidly replenish essential nutrients after an intense workout, Heinz on Wednesday introduced a new quick-recovery sports ketchup to their line of food products. “Our new Post-Workout Recovery Ketchup is specially formulated with electrolytes and a dozen other minerals to help you rehydrate, re-energize, and get back in the game,” said Heinz spokesperson Danny Paylor of the condiment, which comes in both bottles and single…

Roc Nation’s president Michael Yormark believes that packaging players in endorsement deals is the future for the rookies his company represents. (Photo by Josh Lefkowitz/Getty Images) Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports agency is trying to think outside of the box with its newest off-field/court endeavor. The agency that was founded in 2013 and represents the likes of Dez Bryant, Kevin Durant and Miguel Sano is doing what it says no agency has done before…

Following in the footsteps of our college basketball brethren here at CBS Sports, college football writers Dennis Dodd, Chip Patterson and Barrett Sallee spoke with one-fifth of the 130 active coaches leading FBS teams entering the 2017 season. They asked for honest opinions on everything from NCAA rules to social issues to their peers in the profession. We will be sharing their candid thoughts over a two-week period leading into…

Fox Sports has released the first two weeks of its prep football streaming schedule for the 2017 Southern Section season. It plans to stream or televise 83 games. It’s the 21st season for doing games on Fox Sports West, Prime Ticket, Fox Sports GO or Prep Zone. Here’s the link to the schedule for the first two weeks. The opening games on Aug. 25 that will be streamed on Prep…

Cord cutters have another reason to get excited, as CBS this week announced it’s planning to launch a live streaming service for sports. The news was discussed on the company’s Q2 earnings call, and though details are light — there’s no name, pricing or exact launch date at this time, for example — the service could potentially go a long way to fill a gap that’s not currently well-covered by…

The first widely-documented account of parental violence at a children’s sports game in the US came in a 1975 Sports Illustrated article. It detailed a football game in Kissimmee, Florida, where: “A mob of adults attacked four coaches of a winning team of 12-year-olds with clubs and pipes, sending one coach to the hospital. A cry from the crowd, ‘He’s dead!’ apparently satisfied the mob and it withdrew just before…

Cord cutters have another reason to get excited, as CBS this week announced it’s planning to launch a live streaming service for sports. The news was discussed on the company’s Q2 earnings call, and though details are light — there’s no name, pricing or exact launch date at this time, for example — the service could potentially go a long way to fill a gap that’s not currently well-covered by…

SoftBank is nearing a deal to invest $1 billion into Fanatics, an online retailer of licensed sports apparel that counts Major League Baseball and the National Football League as both investors and commercial partners, a person familiar with the transaction told Recode. The deal, which will come out of SoftBank’s $100 billion tech-focused Vision Fund, is expected to value Fanatics at around $4.5 billion, and increase the company’s total funding…

Cord cutters have another reason to get excited, as CBS this week announced it’s planning to launch a live streaming service for sports. The news was discussed on the company’s Q2 earnings call, and though details are light — there’s no name, pricing or exact launch date at this time, for example — the service could potentially go a long way to fill a gap that’s not currently well-covered by…

NEW YORK — With new streaming services in the works, Disney is trying to set itself up for a future that’s largely been framed by Netflix: Providing the stuff you want to watch, when you want to watch it. The Magic Kingdom is launching its own streaming service for its central Disney and Pixar brands and another for live sports. That would allow it to bypass the cable companies it…

Cord cutters have another reason to get excited, as CBS this week announced it’s planning to launch a live streaming service for sports. The news was discussed on the company’s Q2 earnings call, and though details are light – there’s no name, pricing, or exact launch date at this time, for example – the service could potentially go a long way to fill a gap that’s not currently well-covered by…

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…