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Kawhi Leonard scored a playoff career-high 37 points, and the Spurs continued their beat-down of the Grizzlies with a 96-82 Game 2 victory that gave them a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. Memphis is now essentially finished, because they’re not going to beat this San Antonio team four out of the next five games to somehow salvage the series. But even worse is that the Grizzlies figure to…

BOSTON — The daily fantasy sports industry sharply contracted since the online games offered by companies like FanDuel and DraftKings sparked court and legislative battles across the United States last year. More than two-thirds of companies that existed this time last year have shuttered, changed focus or joined with competitors, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, the industry’s lobbying arm. Among the most prominent examples is the proposed merger…

CLOSE x Embed x Share Bob Hyland, the owner of Bob Hyland’s Sports Page in White Plains, talks about the bar/restaurant on Feb. 3, 2017, as they get ready to vacate the White Plains Mall very soon. Mark Vergari/lohud Buy Photo Fans watch the game at Bob Hyland’s Sports Page Pub in White Plains.(Photo: File photo by Flores/The Journal News)Buy Photo WHITE PLAINS – The interior contents of Bob Hyland’s…

Game day? Check. Stanley Cup playoffs? Check. Lucky socks? Not so much. Superstition has a long and often inexplicable history with sports, but a study of more than 2,000 pro sports fans by Online Casino suggests that faithful followers of the NHL are less confident in their “rituals” as an influence on team performance than fans of any other sport. Tyler Burchett, on behalf of the study team, provided data…

Editor’s note: Some of material in this column was adapted from the book “This is Your Brain on Sports.” The scene was almost unendurably touching. Cheers washed over Isaiah Thomas as he emerged from the TD Garden tunnel before the Celtics’ first game of this year’s NBA playoffs. This, of course, was a day after Thomas’s 22-year-old sister was killed in a one-car crash. Before the game, there was a…

President Trump has directed much of his anti-media shtick at CNN over the past few months, publicly attacking the network for its coverage of his administration. But the truth is, a lot of the feud between Trump and CNN is theater. CNN has played an important role in mainstreaming and normalizing Trump’s misinformation, thanks in large part to the small army of Trump surrogates the network has hired to defend…

CLOSE x Embed x Share Bob Hyland, the owner of Bob Hyland’s Sports Page in White Plains, talks about the bar/restaurant on Feb. 3, 2017, as they get ready to vacate the White Plains Mall very soon. Mark Vergari/lohud Buy Photo Fans watch the game at Bob Hyland’s Sports Page Pub in White Plains.(Photo: File photo by Flores/The Journal News)Buy Photo WHITE PLAINS – The interior contents of Bob Hyland’s…

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Already headquarters for three major league sports franchises — including America’s Team, the Dallas Cowboys — plus two minor league organizations, Frisco claims a lock on the professional sports market like no other community in the country. The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/2nUEj9D ) reports now Frisco is vying to be the champion in another area — sports innovation. And city officials say…

Editor’s note: Some of material in this column was adapted from the book “This is Your Brain on Sports.” The scene was almost unendurably touching. Cheers washed over Isaiah Thomas as he emerged from the TD Garden tunnel before the Celtics’ first game of this year’s NBA playoffs. This, of course, was a day after Thomas’s 22-year-old sister was killed in a one-car crash. Before the game, there was a…

Americans are more willing than ever to try new sports, but less willing to fully commit to any one sport, especially with their wallet. That is, in part, the story told by the 2017 Sport and Fitness Industry Association Topline Participation Report which the group released Tuesday. The SFIA surveyed a representative sample of 24,134 Americans ages 6 and up to determine the activity levels and sports engagement of the…

Everything is political to the overly sensitive mind of today’s leftist. When the Atlanta Braves unfurled a gigantic flag for the playing of the national anthem, it prompted an ultra sensitive member of the partisan media and his Twitter followers to express a whole host of ridiculous claims. In a Twitter post this weekend, NBC baseball writer Craig Calcaterra complained that the presentation of Old Glory evoked overly political tones….

Craig Calcaterra, lead baseball writer for NBC Sports, claimed that the image of the American flag is political — and was promptly ridiculed for the ridiculous assertion. Calcaterra tweeted out a picture Sunday morning of Suntrust Park in Atlanta with Old Glory covering the outfield grass and the Jumbotrons up above. “Will you keep politics out of sports, please. We like sports to be politics-free,” the tweet read. “Will you…

Ander Herrera becomes the latest name to be scrawled into Bobby Madley’s notepad. Any guesses who the United midfielder fouled? Yep, Eden Hazard. To be fair, there was little in it, just a clip of the heels near the halfway line. But he sees yellow, probably because that is one too many misdemeanours in the eyes of Senor Madley.

Breaking news: The Bulls won’t win the NBA championship. If they do, they will break the history book. No eighth seed ever has captured the Lawrence O’Brien trophy. In fact, since the NBA expanded the playoffs to 16 teams in 1984, No. 1 seeds are 61-5 against No. 8 seeds in the first-round series. Since 2003, when the NBA expanded the first round from best-of-five to best-of-seven, only three No….

Breaking news: The Bulls won’t win the NBA championship. If they do, they will break the history book. No eighth seed ever has captured the Lawrence O’Brien trophy. In fact, since the NBA expanded the playoffs to 16 teams in 1984, No. 1 seeds are 61-5 against No. 8 seeds in the first-round series. Since 2003, when the NBA expanded the first round from best-of-five to best-of-seven, only three No….

The Boston Globe As a writer, Mr. Madden didn’t flinch at taking on tough subjects. Any reader who thinks being a well-known sports columnist is all fun and games at the ballpark should consider what greeted Michael Madden in March 1985 when he raised the issue of race relations inside a Florida Elks Club that refused to admit blacks. An award-winning writer who didn’t flinch at taking on tough subjects,…

The show ended at 6:30 p.m. Friday. “Red Sox baseball is next,” Joe D’Ambrosio said. “Thanks for listening to Joe D and Gresh for the final time on WTIC NewsTalk 1080.” And with that, after two years, the show was gone. On a week when we marked the rebirth of minor-league baseball and the 20th anniversary of the death of major league sports in Hartford, the end of the afternoon…

For years, the best argument for not “cutting the cord” and canceling your cable bill was live sports programming. Suddenly, that’s not really the case anymore. Most early OTT (over the top) digital streaming services didn’t have live sports—so even when it got the point where all the television shows you like were available on non-cable platforms like HBO Now, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, you still couldn’t get your sports fix, and you…

A.J. Neuharth-Keusch and Jeff Zillgitt of USA TODAY Sports take a look at the four postseason matchups in the East. USA TODAY Sports

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