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Almost half the country believes drug-taking is rife in sport, according to “alarming” new research commissioned by UK Anti-Doping. The chief executive of UKAD, Nicole Sapstead, last night warned the industry was at a “critical” juncture after a survey of 2,000 British adults exposed a crisis of confidence spawned by some of the biggest scandals of recent years. The results of last month’s poll, published today to mark the start…

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Inside sports business There has been justifiable concern about the city of Seattle negotiating the best deal possible when it comes to a private company renovating KeyArena for NBA and NHL teams. After all, the city is in a unique position, with two groups offering to build a modern winter sports venue with private funds. Most cities never have one group offer that, let alone two, as with Oak View…

Almost half the country believes drug-taking is rife in sport, according to “alarming” new research commissioned by UK Anti-Doping. The chief executive of UKAD, Nicole Sapstead, last night warned the industry was at a “critical” juncture after a survey of 2,000 British adults exposed a crisis of confidence spawned by some of the biggest scandals of recent years. The results of last month’s poll, published today to mark the start…

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Inside sports business There has been justifiable concern about the city of Seattle negotiating the best deal possible when it comes to a private company renovating KeyArena for NBA and NHL teams. After all, the city is in a unique position, with two groups offering to build a modern winter sports venue with private funds. Most cities never have one group offer that, let alone two, as with Oak View…

Image: SB Nation Sports and science fiction, much like jocks and nerds, don’t always get along. However, one sports news site is bringing football into the future with a series that’s weird, complex, and pretty spectacular. 17776, from SB Nation creative director Jon Bois, is an ongoing scifi series using text and YouTube videos to examine what football will look like in the future. It may sound like that one…

In the past year, Las Vegas has solidified itself as a mecca for professional sports with the fall arrival of the National Hockey League’s newest team, the Vegas Golden Knights, and the upcoming relocation of the National Football League’s Raiders to our town. However, Las Vegas has had a long history of sports with special conventions bringing thousands of attendees during the summer months. • Kicking off Las Vegas summer…

Rookies sign contracts The Kings announced first-round picks De’Aaron Fox, Justin Jackson and Harry Giles have signed their rookie-scale contracts with the club. Hometown Report: Mom’s memory drives Hoskins Former Jesuit High School and Sacramento State slugger Rhys Hoskins is on the cusp of a Major League Baseball promotion, driven by the spirit of his mother. A’s win: Healy sinks Mariners Ryon Healy’s ninth-inning ground-rule double drove home the winning…

LAS VEGAS – Shortly after the co-main event, when Alistair Overeem was announced as the winner over Fabricio Werdum in a heavyweight match that Werdum seemed to have won, T-Mobile Arena was filled with angry boos. The crowd, many of whom bought tickets which had “Cody Garbrandt versus T.J. Dillashaw for the bantamweight title,” on the front, didn’t get what they came to see. UFC put together a sensational, potentially…

A draw. A dead heat. 15-15. And the series too, after the epic twists and turns of the last three weeks, is therefore a tie: one win for New Zealand, one win for the Lions, and Saturday’s stalemate. In Auckland’s waterfront fan zone, where thousands of supporters of both sides watched the epic showdown on more than a dozen giant screens, people turned to each other, shaking their heads, laughing…

Sen. Ben Sasse isn’t quitting his day job, but he did take a break Friday night from his congressional duties to be an Uber driver. The Nebraska Republican bet a journalist last year that the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers would defeat the Iowa Hawkeyes in a game last November. The loser would have to be an Uber driver in the winning team’s home state while wearing the team’s gear. Well,…

Sez Me … With the Dumbing Down of America finding no bottom, we have developed a cockeyed attitude on money in sports. Especially when you consider most of us don’t have much of it, don’t make enough of it and spend our working lives bitching over not getting pay raises we so richly deserve. We get ticked when athletes make huge salaries. And we tend to side with the people…

GLORY, the world’s premier kickboxing league, will break the mould later this year by staging the first major combat sports event in mainland China, in association with the former NBA basketball star Yao Ming. The date and venue of the event will be announced at a news conference on August 8, 8/8 being a lucky date in Chinese culture.   GLORY, now five years old, received an investment by Yao…

A draw. A dead heat. 15-15. And the series too, after the epic twists and turns of the last three weeks, is therefore a tie: one win for New Zealand, one win for the Lions, and Saturday’s stalemate. In Auckland’s waterfront fan zone, where thousands of supporters of both sides watched the epic showdown on more than a dozen giant screens, people turned to each other, shaking their heads, laughing…

James Harden was absolutely spectacular last season for the Houston Rockets, averaging 29.1 points, 11.2 assists, and 8.1 rebounds per game. His play helped the Rockets go 55-27 and secure the third seed in the Western Conference, though the team fell in the second round of the playoffs to the San Antonio Spurs.  As a reward, the Rockets inked Harden to a four-year extension, which will begin after the 2018-19…

Fletcher walked off the field with the help of a physio Nottinghamshire bowler Luke Fletcher was struck in the head by a ball during his side’s T20 Blast defeat by Birmingham at Edgbaston. The 28-year-old was hit by a straight drive from Sam Hain and was bleeding but managed to walk off the pitch with the help of a physio. He was taken to hospital and Notts later confirmed he…

<!– For the latest gossip and debate, check out our Sportsday rolling news service every weekday, and for a list of all the completed deals, see our transfers page. Watch our weekly Football Gossip Live show, where we discuss all the latest transfer news. Arsenal are adamant they will not sell forward Alexis Sanchez, 28, or midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 23, in the transfer window. Both players are heading into the…

Generally speaking, the majority of Pittsburgh sports fans aren’t overly fond of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. New England sports a spotless 3-0 record against the Steelers in the AFC Championship Game since Brady entered the league in 2000. That’s going to stick in the Steel City’s craw. Now the four-time Super Bowl MVP has found another way to enrage Steelers supporters. Philip Pritchard, one of the gentlemen charged…