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Carolina Panthers select: Christian McCaffrey, RB, Stanford I like his skill set with the way the game is played, but again, it’s a back in the top 10. Hate that.

NFL DRAFT PHILADELPHIA (AP) With defensive studs everywhere in this draft, NFL teams turned offensive. With an emphasis on quarterbacks. Hardly stunning in a pass-happy league, except that no quarterbacks in this crop have been highly touted. Yet three went in the first dozen, with two whopping trades putting the Bears and Chiefs in position to grab QBs. Chicago paid a whopping price to move up one spot to second…

Milwaukee Brewers slugger Eric Thames is off to a ridiculous start in his return from three stellar seasons in Korea. Heading into Thursday, Thames is hitting .370/.489/.904 with 11 homers, 19 RBI and 27 runs. He leads the majors in runs, home runs, slugging and OPS.  Given that Thames was a career .250/.296/.431 hitter in the majors before departing for his Korean hiatus, it was all too predictable to see…

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FRIDAY ON TV NFL FOOTBALL 7 p.m. ESPN & NFL — 2017 NFL Draft, second & third rounds, at Philadelphia 8 p.m. ESPN2 — 2017 NFL Draft, second & third rounds, at Philadelphia MLB BASEBALL 7:10 p.m. MLB — Chicago Cubs at Boston 8:15 p.m. FOX OHIO — Cincinnati at St. Louis NBA BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. ESPNU & NBA — NBA Playoffs, Eastern Conference, first round, Game 6, Washington at…

By now, you’re used to this bizarre line of inquiry coming from NFL personnel execs. Jeff Ireland famously asked Dez Bryant if his mom was a whore. An Oregon defensive end was asked when he lost his virginity. O-lineman Willie Beavers was asked if he’d rather be a cat or a dog. It’s bad enough that NFL teams parade these guys out in Indianapolis to run drills and get measured…

Filmed in 11 countries, Sports Doping: The Endless Chase is a two-part documentary exploring the financial, political and ethical implications of the use of drugs in sport. Yuliya Stepanova, Russia’s 800-metres champion in 2011, and her husband Vitaly revealed to the world how they saw Russia as having created its champions. For five years, Yuliya performed among the world’s top-flight athletes and Vitaly was an adviser to the director…

Today’s big media news is cable sports “Worldwide Leader” ESPN laying off 100 people, many of them on-air talent and sportswriters. Early indications are that the layoffs come across the sports the network covers, but will fall hardest on the network’s hockey coverage, which may be all but eliminated. There’s both a business lesson and a political lesson here. Clay Travis at Outkick the Coverage has been all over…

As top sports officials and the American public soften their decades-long opposition to legal sports betting, the American Gaming Association, one of the leading advocates for a regulated marketplace for wagers, says that an end to the federal ban on the popular pastime is near. Continue Reading Below Both the NHL and the NFL voted to place permanent franchises in the U.S. gambling capital this year, even as they…

It’s NFL Draft season, so in the sports world that means it’s time to draft everything. While John Ross, Myles Garrett and the rest of the physical anomalies are preparing for their big night, we decided to focus on the great athletic skill of hand-eye coordination, specifically as it pertains to playing video games.  Drafting video games is a fool’s errand with decades of potential picks spread across multiple gaming…

ESPN could look much different by the next time you turn on the network or look for an article from your favorite writer. Due to changes in the sports media industry and cord cutting among cable subscribers, reports have surfaced in recent months surrounding an eventual scale back in Bristol, Conn. The latest? Those cut backs could happen today, with even more jobs lost than originally thought. Both John Ourand of…

BEIJING China’s Dalian Wanda Group, controlled by the country’s richest man Wang Jianlin, has signed a deal to sponsor races with the world’s top organizer, Abbott World Marathon Majors (WMM), the latest move by Wanda to expand its global sports business. Wanda’s sports division and WMM on Wednesday signed a deal that will see Wanda hold three WMM races in the Asia-Pacific region in the next ten years, including a…

As top sports officials and the American public soften their decades-long opposition to legal sports betting, the American Gaming Association, one of the leading advocates for a regulated marketplace for wagers, says that an end to the federal ban on the popular pastime is near. Continue Reading Below Both the NHL and the NFL voted to place permanent franchises in the U.S. gambling capital this year, even as they…

As top sports officials and the American public soften their decades-long opposition to legal sports betting, the American Gaming Association, one of the leading advocates for a regulated marketplace for wagers, says that an end to the federal ban on the popular pastime is near. Continue Reading Below Both the NHL and the NFL voted to place permanent franchises in the U.S. gambling capital this year, even as they…

The scale of the challenge facing sports broadcasters in combating piracy has been made clear in figures that show more than half of young people watch illegal streams of live events. Research into the viewing habits of “millennials”, those aged between 18 and 24, has found piracy has become normalised among this generation while the take-up for traditional subscription services is far less than among older viewers. The figures, which…

Even though Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be the fourth big name to leave NASCAR in a three-year window, he thinks the sport is in good hands. “Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, just to name two of probably a dozen guys that I’m excited about,” he said. “I think that’s all I read about on Twitter yesterday was how awesome the race was and how much fun it is to watch…

The headline in USA Today on Tuesday morning summed things up painfully. “NASCAR takes serious blow with Dale Earnhardt Jr. retirement.” Fans and sports industry analysts echoed the idea, questioning how NASCAR could survive the loss of Dale Earnhardt Jr. not long after the departures of Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards. “Tuesday’s news that Dale Earnhardt Jr. will retire from driving at the end of this season comes…

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CLOSE x Embed x Share President Xi Jinping said he hopes all sides will “refrain from taking any action that will aggravate tensions on the Peninsula.” Video provided by Newsy Newslook North Korea lost all three matches in the 2010 World Cup before returning home.(Photo: Luca Bruno, AP) War games, whether in the form of military strategizing or parading nuclear weaponry as a show of force, are not really games at…