World Sports

Are you ready for some football? Amazon.com is. A few months ago, it agreed to pay the National Football League $50 million for streaming rights to 10 Thursday Night Football games starting on Sep. 28. That’s five times what Twitter paid for a similar deal last season. For now, streaming is a mere sideshow to television in sports. The Thursday games will air simultaneously on the NFL Network, and on…

If you thought Shannon Briggs was gonna sit on his ass during his ban from boxing, you were DEAD WRONG, ’cause the champ is making use of his time by starting his own sports agency. Briggs got slapped with a 6-month suspension last month after testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone, a violation under world anti-doping standards. We talked to Shannon, and he told TMZ Sports he deeply regrets…

Are you ready for some football? Amazon.com is. A few months ago, it agreed to pay the National Football League $50 million for streaming rights to 10 Thursday Night Football games starting on Sep. 28. That’s five times what Twitter paid for a similar deal last season. For now, streaming is a mere sideshow to television in sports. The Thursday games will air simultaneously on the NFL Network, and on…

Fantasy sports, and probably to an even greater extent daily fantasy sports, can be intimidating. You’re usually playing for real money, and potentially going up against people who spend countless hours researching statistics to craft the perfect lineup. Gameday, a startup part of Y Combinator’s Summer ’17 batch, wants to change this by making a few tweaks to daily fantasy sports so it can be accessible to everyone. First, they’re…

The WNBA is streaming 20 games on Twitter, one of a batch of smaller sports that are turning to streaming to reach fans.  Credit: Allen Kee / ESPN Images When ESPN streamed the professional indoor lacrosse playoffs for pay-TV subscribers last year, about 4,000 people tuned in on average. This year, the National Lacrosse League averaged almost 344,000 viewers for each “Game of the Week” streamed on Twitter. For football…

A Brazilian ex-goalkeeper who’s in prison for ordering the savage killing of his ex-girlfriend — who was then fed to dogs — has been reportedly given temporary release to teach soccer to dozens of children. According to local reports, a criminal judge in Varginha, Minas Gerais in southeast Brazil authorized Bruno Fernandes de Souza’s temporary release Wednesday to participate in the government’s social inclusion program for prisoners. He…

The 1977 season is remembered fondly as one of Chicago baseball’s great summers, the White Sox and Cubs each taking division leads into August. The winning didn’t last. First the Cubs fell out of contention, then the Sox, taking World Series fantasies down with them. What survives are the two musical traditions born of the South Side swagger, giddiness and gusto that marked the first two-thirds of the White Sox’s…

Former Major League Baseball commissioner Fay Vincent believes that legalized sports betting in the United States would be one of the biggest developments in sports since the introduction of television. And he thinks it’s coming soon. In July, Vincent wrote a letter to the editor in The New York Times, responding to a story about the ongoing effort to sell the? Miami Marlins.?He noted that the story “doesn’t report the…

Fantasy sports, and probably to an even greater extent daily fantasy sports, can be intimidating. You’re usually playing for real money, and potentially going up against people who spend countless hours researching statistics to craft the perfect lineup. Gameday, a startup part of Y Combinator’s Summer ’17 batch, wants to change this by making a few tweaks to daily fantasy sports so it can be accessible to everyone. First, they’re…

The player’s character, banished from the civilized world for the heinous crime of literacy, falls in with a diverse group of exiles. All have their own set of skills and progression tree; over time, you learn why each was driven from the Commonwealth to eke out life in the purgatorial wasteland of the Downside. Everyone who wants to escape, including your ragtag band, can only do so by completing Rites…

The 1977 season is remembered fondly as one of Chicago baseball’s great summers, the White Sox and Cubs each taking division leads into August. The winning didn’t last. First the Cubs fell out of contention, then the Sox, taking World Series fantasies down with them. What survives are the two musical traditions born of the South Side swagger, giddiness and gusto that marked the first two-thirds of the White Sox’s…

Two years ago, Nick Purdy of Wayne downloaded the Rocket League video game. He liked it and so did many others as it became a huge hit, with 1.6 million daily players who kick around soccer balls with souped-up cars. Related Coverage Fix your WiFi blues (it’s not always Comcast’s fault!)…

I confess: I had mixed feelings about saying goodbye to the 2017 Ferrari GTC4 Lusso. I was sad, because I’d had such a good week driving it. But I was also happy, because I had gotten through the week without damaging it. This top-of-the-line Italian sports touring car, an update of the previous Ferrari FF model, is a luscious-looking shooting brake coupe — or, in American automotive terms, a long-nosed,…

The player’s character, banished from the civilized world for the heinous crime of literacy, falls in with a diverse group of exiles. All have their own set of skills and progression tree; over time, you learn why each was driven from the Commonwealth to eke out life in the purgatorial wasteland of the Downside. Everyone who wants to escape, including your ragtag band, can only do so by completing Rites…

A Brazilian ex-goalkeeper who’s in prison for ordering the savage killing of his ex-girlfriend — who was then fed to dogs — has been reportedly given temporary release to teach soccer to dozens of children. According to local reports, a criminal judge in Varginha, Minas Gerais in southeast Brazil authorized Bruno Fernandes de Souza’s temporary release Wednesday to participate in the government’s social inclusion program for prisoners. He…

The 1977 season is remembered fondly as one of Chicago baseball’s great summers, the White Sox and Cubs each taking division leads into August. The winning didn’t last. First the Cubs fell out of contention, then the Sox, taking World Series fantasies down with them. What survives are the two musical traditions born of the South Side swagger, giddiness and gusto that marked the first two-thirds of the White Sox’s…

Two years ago, Nick Purdy of Wayne downloaded the Rocket League video game. He liked it and so did many others as it became a huge hit, with 1.6 million daily players who kick around soccer balls with souped-up cars. And this Saturday, Purdy and teammate Dylan Fowler, of Dermott, Ark., will take their Rocket League game…

Would you have come to PSG without all the other Brazilians being here? Neymar: “To be really honest, that wouldn’t have changed my approach. “Of course I have friends here, but I arrive here because the global environment is very positive. “It was not easy – I had to think a lot, I had to think what I wanted to do with my life. “A lot of people wanted me…

Two years ago, Nick Purdy of Wayne downloaded the Rocket League video game. He liked it and so did many others as it became a huge hit, with 1.6 million daily players who kick around soccer balls with souped-up cars. And this Saturday, Purdy and teammate Dylan Fowler, of Dermott, Ark., will take their Rocket League game…

Tennys Sandgren came up short early Friday morning in a two-set loss to fifth-seeded Alexander Zverev. (Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports) Tennys Sandgren lost to fifth-seeded Alexander Zverev early Friday morning at the Citi Open 7-5, 7-5, but took strides in Washington toward making a name for himself on the ATP Tour beyond, well, his name. Tennys — pronounced just like the sport — was named for his Swedish great-grandfather. Both of…