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Frank Deford, NPR’s longest-running sports commentator, announced Wednesday that he’s retiring after 37 years on Morning Edition — 37 years of entertaining, educating and yes, annoying some listeners, like any good commentator should. Frank Deford, his wife, Carol, and their dog, Miss Snickers, in his home office in Key West, Florida. On Wednesday, Deford retired from Morning Edition as sports commentator. Tom Goldman/NPR hide caption toggle caption Tom Goldman/NPR Frank…

During the 2009 college football national championship, University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow painted “John 3:16″ under his eyes. As a result, some 94 million people Googled the verse. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” is what they found. The verse, which refers to the core Christian belief that God sent his…

Fox Sports has hired NFL quarterback Jay Cutler to join its broadcast team.   The former Bears quarterback is set to join Kevin Burkhardt and Charles Davis in the broadcast booth for the 2017 season, according to Fox’s Peter Schrager. Burkhardt’s partner last season was John Lynch, who was hired this winter as the general manager of the 49ers.  Cutler released a statement on Friday through Fox Sports.  …

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// LeBron James’ reign over the NBA is startling. He has been in the league for 14 years and been its best player for about the past decade. And yet he keeps going. He is unstoppable. The Terminator. At times, he barely seems human because of his size, athleticism and…

May the Fourth be with you – even if you’re more into sports than science fiction movies. Thursday was “Star Wars Day” – an event held on May 4 each year to celebrate George Lucas’ film series. The sports world took part in the fun. Here’s a look:   Get Sports alerts and the Sports Night newsletter with late-breaking developments, stats, scores. Sign up here.

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Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series gears up for Talladega Superspeedway this week: Turn 1: NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France says all sports have attendance issues. Do you see NASCAR’s issues as worse or on par with other sports? Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: Because of the base…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// LeBron James’ reign over the NBA is startling. He has been in the league for 14 years and been its best player for about the past decade. And yet he keeps going. He is unstoppable. The Terminator. At times, he barely seems human because of his size, athleticism and…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series gears up for Talladega Superspeedway this week: Turn 1: NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France says all sports have attendance issues. Do you see NASCAR’s issues as worse or on par with other sports? Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: Because of the base…

The GIF is the best gift the internet has ever given us. This isn’t up for debate. It’s just a fact. Another fact: The sports world is responsible for some of the best GIFs the internet has to offer. There are so many good ones. Honestly we could post hundreds of terrific GIFs. But for the sake of your time and data plan, we’ve narrowed this ranking of the best sports…

As President Trump makes his New York City return, thousands are taking to the streets to protest his policies! Neil is covering the demonstrations live on a must-see Your World. THEN at 5 PM ET, Nick Adams and Krystal Ball join The Fox News Specialists.

Listen to the full episode: The passion of putting money up to see just how good of a general manager you could be of an MLB, NFL or NBA team has turned into a big industry. There are dozens of websites that cater to fantasy players and the economics can be quite good for those that succeed. Over 57 million people in the U.S. and Canada play fantasy sports. Until…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// LeBron James’ reign over the NBA is startling. He has been in the league for 14 years and been its best player for about the past decade. And yet he keeps going. He is unstoppable. The Terminator. At times, he barely seems human because of his size, athleticism and…

Matt Shepard(Photo: iHeartRadio) For being such a great sports town — Chris Ilitch on Wednesday called Detroit the greatest sports city in America — it’s pretty remarkable this market can’t support more than one all-local, sports-talk radio station. Well, the truth is, it probably can, but the powers-that-be who’ve taken a stab at creating competition for 97.1 The Ticket have done a ridiculously poor job of executing a game plan….

There are a couple of different ways that you can look at the latest Team Penske crew chief suspension du jour, this one being Joey Logano’s crew chief Todd Gordon, who NASCAR parked for two races and fined $50,000 for illegally doctoring up the rear suspension on Logano’s race-winning Richmond car from last weekend. As a reminder, Team Penske’s other Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series crew chief, Paul Wolfe, was…

Peter More, chief competition officer of EA, and Kevin Lin, COO of Twitch, at Business Insider IGNITION 2016. Business Insider The world of e-sports is massive and still growing, and advertisers are wondering how they can profit from this phenomenon. Kevin Lin, COO of Twitch, and Peter More, chief competition officer of EA, sat down with Business Insider’s Steve Kovach at IGNITION 2016 to discuss the role advertisers play in…

BBC Sport’s football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season. Lawro’s opponents for this weekend’s Premier League fixtures are Tom Meighan and Serge Pizzorno from indie rock band Kasabian. Meighan and Pizzorno are fans of Leicester City, their local team, and the band played at the Foxes’ title-winning parade last season. “Top of my list of Leicester heroes has to be Steve…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// LeBron James’ reign over the NBA is startling. He has been in the league for 14 years and been its best player for about the past decade. And yet he keeps going. He is unstoppable. The Terminator. At times, he barely seems human because of his size, athleticism and…

Matt Shepard(Photo: iHeartRadio) For being such a great sports town — Chris Ilitch on Wednesday called Detroit the greatest sports city in America — it’s pretty remarkable this market can’t support more than one all-local, sports-talk radio station. Well, the truth is, it probably can, but the powers-that-be who’ve taken a stab at creating competition for 97.1 The Ticket have done a ridiculously poor job of executing a game plan….