World Sports

Last month, the WNBA’s Seattle Storm announced that it would host a “Stand With Planned Parenthood” event at its July 18 home game. Support would include a donation of $5 from each ticket sold (a sellout would be 9,686), an auction to raise money for the organization and a rally outside the arena before the game, which is to be broadcast nationally on ESPN2. That politics have encroached on the…

Amid a probe of sexual harassment at Fox Sports, the company announced Monday that it had fired its controversial head of sports programming, Jamie Horowitz. Horowitz’s dismissal came less than a week after 21st Century Fox began investigating allegations of sexual harassment in the workplace at Fox Sports. The company hired a law firm, which began interviewing women at Fox Sports about Horowitz’s behavior, according to a person familiar with…

The high court has been given an extraordinary insight into the working practices of Mike Ashley, the controversial founder of Sports Direct, who it was claimed would challenge subordinates to extreme drinking competitions that once ended with the 52-year-old billionaire vomiting into a fireplace. The “unconventional” working life of Ashley, who controls the Sports Direct retail chain and Newcastle United football club, was laid bare in evidence on Monday in…

When reviewing last week’s PGA Tour field at the Quicken Loans National to make my picks for the week, I didn’t see much. To be frank, there wasn’t much to see. Rickie Fowler, Justin Thomas and a whole lot of nothing. I normally hate weeks like that. Golf is great because its stars are fun and engaging, so a dearth of stars in any given week is a bit of…

Mr Blue told the judge, in a written witness statement, how he had been a frequent visitor to Sports Direct’s head office in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. He said he had attended several senior management meetings at the Green Dragon pub in Alfreton, Derbyshire. Mr Blue said: “These meetings were like no other senior management meeting I had ever attended in all my years of investment banking experience. “It was effectively a…

Supergroup, the company behind the Superdry fashion brand, has announced that it is launching standalone sports shops to tap into the fast growing ‘athleisure’ market as profits and sales jumped. The business was forced to release its results highlights last week after the theft of an employee’s handbag contained a draft of the announcement. The retailer, which has 863 shops and concessions around the world, said that its international strategy had…

A McLaren supercar that can reach speeds of 200mph was reduced to a twisted wreckage when it crashed on a country road and burst into flames. The two occupants of the McLaren 570S had a lucky escape, walking away with only minor injuries after the smash in Wiltshire. The orange supercar, costing from £145,300, hit a house and telegraph pole near Trowbridge early on Sunday. Images from the fire service showed the blackened remains of the sports…

Jeff Horn woke on Monday unable to see a thing from his swollen, bruised right eye, but having vanquished Manny Pacquiao in one of Australian sport’s greatest underdog victories, boxing’s unlikeliest world champion will now watch his life’s fortunes transform dramatically. The former Brisbane schoolteacher, who had only twice boxed for prize purses of five-figure proportions, is now the millionaire poster boy for a sport craving a wholesome hero. Horn…

Fireworks are aggressively fine. They’re loud, which is decently entertaining for like five or so minutes. But then you sort of wait for them to end and wish they weren’t so loud. The bright colors are cool. But then again, you’re thinking about how all that smoke in the air probably isn’t safe. You’re going to see fireworks on the Fourth of July and make an event out of it…

Here was boxing living down to its crooked reputation again late Saturday. Here were three judges who sat ringside and watched an aged Manny Pacquiao fight someone named Jeff Horn in Australia and somehow came to the unanimous conclusion that Pacquiao had lost. Here came all the Twitter backlash, the warranted anger and three-blind-mice memes and the one-word hashtag that summarized another decision that was surprising in how unsurprising it…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Shock and disappointment permeated social media on Saturday night as all three judges awarded Jeff Horn of Australia a unanimous decision over Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines in the WBO world welterweight title bout held in Horn’s hometown of Brisbane. Several professional athletes from different sports took to Twitter to express their negative reactions to judge Waleska Roldan’s 117-111 card, as well…

3.49am EDT03:49 AFL: Q4 5:17 remaining Hawthorn 16.9 (105) v Collingwood 14.10 (94) People going down everywhere – this time it’s Burton. Looks like an achilles, or an ankle. He’s probably done for the night. The Hawks control the ball before turning it over. The Pies carefully work the ball towards their goal and Maynard storms on to it, kicking on the run. It’s sailing, sailing, sailing, and strikes the…

For those who still believe baseball is as American as mom and apple pie, just realize that the red, white and blue sport has some significant gray streaks. Major League Baseball’s television audience is among the oldest in professional sports, according to data recently released by Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal and Magna Global. The average age of a baseball…

Growing up in Lompoc, California, a mostly rural town north of Santa Barbara, Kelly Candaele was vaguely aware that his mother, Helen Callaghan, and his aunt Marge had played professional baseball back in the day. His mom still had her old glove, and would sometimes participate in local powder puff games. “You don’t hear that from other mothers,” he says. But it wasn’t until he got to college, and began…

Lou Williams was traded for the second time in about four months Wednesday, this time to the Los Angeles Clippers, but that’s not stopping him from having some fun on social media. Williams has been quite active on Twitter recently, and one tweet in particular got some people riled up. Seemingly out of nowhere, he decided to talk about how it was “crazy” to him that “all these nerds” cover…

Sky Sports will remain the ECB’s primary live broadcast partner, at least until 2024 © Getty Images English cricket will return to the BBC for the first time in more than two decades, with Sky Sports holding off the challenge of BT Sports to extend its coverage of the sport for at least another seven years, after the ECB announced the results of its broadcasting…

The best of the Internet, plus musings by SI.com writer, Jimmy Traina. 1. Before we get into the usual array of nonsense and fun stuff, you need to know that SI.com has launched a new section dedicated to all things food and drink. For example, here are nine fruit-flaovered beers you need to try this summer. Bookmark our new site, SI Eats and follow @SI_Eats on Twitter. 2. According to the…

Lou Williams was traded for the second time in about four months Wednesday, this time to the Los Angeles Clippers, but that’s not stopping him from having some fun on social media. Williams has been quite active on Twitter recently, and one tweet in particular got some people riled up. Seemingly out of nowhere, he decided to talk about how it was “crazy” to him that “all these nerds” cover…

Sky Sports will remain the ECB’s primary live broadcast partner, at least until 2024 © Getty Images English cricket will return to the BBC for the first time in more than two decades, with Sky Sports holding off the challenge of BT Sports to extend its coverage of the sport for at least another seven years, after the ECB announced the results of its broadcasting…

Lou Williams was traded for the second time in about four months Wednesday, this time to the Los Angeles Clippers, but that’s not stopping him from having some fun on social media. Williams has been quite active on Twitter recently, and one tweet in particular got some people riled up. Seemingly out of nowhere, he decided to talk about how it was “crazy” to him that “all these nerds” cover…