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Buy Photo Xavier Musketeers guard J.P. Macura (55) shoots from behind the arc during a practice session at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla., on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (Photo: Sam Greene, The Enquirer) And away we go. So it’s 5:15 AM in Sacramento, meaning in about four hours I’m gonna find a restaurant with TVs, sit down to my green eggs and ham and watch the first four games. How…

For months, UFC president Dana White shot down the idea that lightweight champion Conor McGregor would ever face Floyd Mayweather in a boxing match. Well it appears White has changed his mind. During an appearance on “Conan” on Wednesday night, White said without hesitation that he believes a deal will get done to pit McGregor against Mayweather in one of the most lucrative super fights in combat sports history. “I…

Twitter, Turner and CBS are teammates for a new NCAA tourney pregame show streaming on the social network. Getty Images Twitter is teaming up with Turner Sports and CBS Sports to stream a 30-minute pregame show focusing on college basketball fans’ take on the NCAA Tournament on the social network. The show, NCAA March Madness Now, will begin on Thursday and Friday on Twitter featuring game predictions, celebrity tweets, fan…

League of Legends is a popular e-sport, with a $5 million prize pool. Riot Games While many people out there may deny that e-sports is even a real sport, you can’t deny the money it pulls in and dishes out. And with the e-sports college course now providing training, when someone tells you to “git gud, scrub” over game chat, you can now tell them that you did… at college….

If Conor McGregor can reach an agreement to face Floyd Mayweather in a boxing match, UFC president Dana White isn’t going to stand in his way. White told TMZ via “UFC Tonight” this week that while the fight doesn’t do much for the UFC, he won’t stop McGregor from earning the biggest payday of his career for a showdown with Mayweather. “It doesn’t make a lot of sense for my…

BT Sport are willing to break Setanta’s record 2008 £31m-a-year deal for rights  The return of Old Firm matches has increased the appeal of SPFL rights Telecoms giant BT have taken part in a charm offensive on the SPFL By Stephen Mcgowan For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 20:51 EDT, 15 March 2017 | Updated: 20:51 EDT, 15 March 2017 e-mail 5 View comments BT Sport are ready to offer…

Donte Jackson has turned to the clock application on his iPhone to prevent the organizational issues that plagued him last spring. While the rest of us have maybe two alarms programmed into our phones — one to wake us up and another one 10 minutes later to really wake us up — Jackson has nearly two dozen. It’s his way of fixing a problem last spring that…

A Miami jury on Wednesday convicted a Florida sports agent and a baseball trainer on charges they smuggled Cuban baseball players to the U.S. in search of big profits from professional free agent contracts. The verdict came after jurors heard about six weeks of testimony in the trial of Bartolo Hernandez and Julio Estrada, who were indicted on conspiracy and alien smuggling charges for an operation that began in 2009…

Twitter today announced another content partnership to bring more live-streamed sports to its social network — this time, with the National Lacrosse League, of all things. While clearly not as popular as the NFL, with which Twitter inked a deal last year, lacrosse represents an opportunity for Twitter to build out a network of sports programming that TV channels don’t want and don’t air because of their smaller numbers. Individually,…

There’s a scene toward the end of the first episode of Religion of Sports, a documentary series from Gotham Chopra, that feels almost too scripted, too sublime. The protagonist of the episode, a veteran with two prosthetic legs, is shown at the Coca-Cola 600 Sprint Cup Series race in Charlotte. He’s in the pit, carefully climbing a ladder, as a snippet from a previous interview plays. “There are very few people…

When you think of competition in sports you think of a court or a field, not a field and stream. Yet here we are, with collegiate sports expanding to include everything from Frisbee to fishing. There was a time, not too long ago, when sports had a definitive arena and participants were almost all male. Many of us of an age and a gender had lukewarm…

In 2016, Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first Muslim woman athlete competing for America to wear hijab during the Rio Olympics. As one of the most-talked about Olympians in a group that included names like Michael Phelps and Simone Biles, she did her best to deflect the hyper focus on her religion or what she wears while still competing on a world-class level. Instead, Muhammad used her platform and voice to…

Okay, yes — this would suck. No one wants to see anyone injured, least of all the indestructible angel of war that is LeBron James. Yet there’s no denying that a season-ending injury to LeBron would send the NBA into chaotic upheaval. Let’s be honest: the Cavs could be without Kevin Love for the entire postseason and still win the Eastern Conference. They could lose Kyrie Irving…

Senior figures at the funding body UK Sport told its in-house governance unit to “go easy” on British Cycling because “that’s where the medals come from”, more than two years before Jess Varnish made public allegations of bullying and sexism, the Guardian has been told. Other UK Sport insiders have also come forward to tell of their deepening unease about a culture where the zeal to beat the London 2012…

Twitter today announced a two-year live streaming partnership with the National Lacrosse League (NLL), expanding its growing catalog of live streaming sports content. The company will stream one NLL game per week for the remainder of the 2017 season and the entire 2018 season, as well as part of the playoffs (division finals and best-of-three Champion’s Cup) each year. Twitter will also stream league-wide highlights on its platform and sell sponsorships…

Shortly before a college basketball game last month, Kevin Pauga stood in the tunnel near the basketball court and flipped open his laptop to reveal what he calls the “master plan.” Pauga, a Hinsdale Central graduate and Michigan State assistant athletic director, is known for this massive and complex 60-megabyte Excel spreadsheet. “That’s her,” he said as the file opened on his screen. In an era of increasing reliance on…

Former star goalie Bruno Fernandes de Souza, shown in 2012 at his murder trial in Contagem, Brazil, was convicted of ordering his ex-girlfriend’s death. He was recently released on a technicality and has been signed by another professional soccer team. Gualter Naves/AFP/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gualter Naves/AFP/AFP/Getty Images Former star goalie Bruno Fernandes de Souza, shown in 2012 at his murder trial in Contagem, Brazil, was convicted of…

At 6:03 p.m. on Sunday, March 12, Northwestern University’s men’s basketball team officially earned its first NCAA Tournament berth in the school’s history. At 6:07, Fanatics Inc., the world’s largest sports apparel retailer, posted its newest product, a purple Northwestern T-shirt that reads “Chicago Is Dancin’: The Road to the Final Four.” That’s the speed at which licensed sports merchandise moves now: minutes and seconds, not hours and days. If…

Twitter today announced another content partnership to bring more live-streamed sports to its social network – this time, with the National Lacrosse League, of all things. While clearly not as popular as the NFL, which Twitter inked a deal with last year, lacrosse represents an opportunity for Twitter to build out a network of sports programming that TV channels don’t want and don’t air because of their smaller numbers. Individually,…

Former star goalie Bruno Fernandes de Souza, shown in 2012 at his murder trial in Contagem, Brazil, was convicted of ordering his ex-girlfriend’s death. He was recently released on a technicality and has been signed by another professional soccer team. Gualter Naves/AFP/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gualter Naves/AFP/AFP/Getty Images Former star goalie Bruno Fernandes de Souza, shown in 2012 at his murder trial in Contagem, Brazil, was convicted of…