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WLS-Ch. 7 meteorologist Cheryl Scott hosts the Fire’s Soccer and Style Fashion Show on Wednesday at ROOF on the Wit, where players such as Bastian Schweinsteiger will act like runway models to raise money for disadvantaged children in the Chicago area. Scott talked to Inc. about being a big fan of Chicago sports and her own background as an athlete. On mixing weather and sports What I love to do…

When Red Sox fans hurled peanuts and the N-word toward Orioles outfielder Adam Jones in Fenway Park, it was a reminder of the Boston’s racial legacy – particularly around its sports teams. Boston’s reputation as a racist sports town developed through decades of barriers broken and maintained, intertwined with broader struggles for progress along with today’s climate of racial tension that sports can’t avoid. Despite its teams and the city…

The Utah Jazz were supposed to give the surging Golden State Warriors some trouble. They were supposed to make things at least a bit interesting. Perhaps the Jazz will do that at some point in the next week. They certainly didn’t do it Tuesday night in Game 1 of the teams’ Western Conference semifinals series in Oakland — a 106-94 Golden State win — and the way that game played…

America doesn’t want for racist sports fans. And yet when an abhorrent display of racial animosity takes place in Boston — as it did Monday when Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones said he was “called the N-word a handful of times” at Fenway Park — the response is anger, but not necessarily surprise. The reasons are plenty. Jones, who also had a bag of peanuts thrown at him and…

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Mike Dee, who previously served as the president and CEO of the Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium, was announced Tuesday as president of Entercom Sports. In this newly developed position, Dee will be leading Entercom’s robust sports business with a focus on revenue development from national sales and marketing programs, new platform opportunities, key partnerships, expanded sports distribution, direct-to-consumer offerings and other entrepreneurial initiatives at the national level. He…

With the NBA draft on June 22, top prospects and athletic brands are beginning to engage in conversations about potential footwear and apparel endorsement deals. One of the players expected to be drafted at the very top of the board is UCLA star freshman point guard Lonzo Ball. He is represented by Harrison Gaines as part of the newly formed Ball Sports Group. Gaines is a former employee at Impact…

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban just became one of the highest-paid coaches in all of sports, thanks to a contract extension signing bonus that was approved by the school on Tuesday. The new deal, first reported by USA Today, brings his 2017 salary to $11.125 million. In 2014, Saban signed an eight-year extension that paid him $6.9 million a year. Saban’s deal also features a $4 million contract signing bonus…

IMG and Mandalay Sports Media have entered into a joint venture which will see the two companies work together to develop, finance and produce a slate of sports-focused feature films. They are hoping to churn out at least ten feature films over the next three – five years from their active development slate, which will be distributed via streaming platforms and traditional theatrical release. The first project under the deal…

ESPN laid off analyst Trent Dilfer, a former NFL quarterback. It didn’t take long for ESPN to show the U.S. what the streamlined future of sports coverage would look like. Just hours after ESPN announced about 100 layoffs of high-profile staffers — including Trent Dilfer, Ed Werder and Jayson Stark — the network had to…

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For the sixth straight year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has reported receiving free transportation, sports tickets and houseguest stays from wealthy friends and political supporters. Emanuel made the disclosure on his annual economic interest statement that was due Monday and requires all Cook County politicians to report gifts valued at more than $500. The mayor accepted gifts from three people last year — two regulars and a newcomer to his annual…

Some high-profile Australian athletes, including Olympic and world champions, have opened up on their post-sport difficulties in a revealing ABC documentary. After the Game, an ABC TV’s Four Corners investigation that aired on Monday night, featured interviews with a range of prominent athletes, including Lauren Jackson and Stephanie Rice. Jackson, a 2006 world champion with the Opals, said she misused medication in a bid to continue her glittering career. “There…

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For the sixth straight year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has reported receiving free transportation, sports tickets and houseguest stays from wealthy friends and political supporters. Emanuel made the disclosure on his annual economic interest statement that was due Monday and requires all Cook County politicians to report gifts valued at more than $500. The mayor accepted gifts from three people last year — two regulars and a newcomer to his annual…

It’s never too early to start looking ahead, and that’s exactly what we’re doing with our first 2018 NFL Mock Draft of the “new” NFL year. Let’s be upfront here: this is an exercise in futility because there is a lot of college football to be played and a lot of scrutiny that is going to fall on a draft class that could feature some exceptional quarterbacks. Prisco’s NFL Draft…