World Sports

March Madness created a lot of CBS hatred just before the first game Thursday in the NCAA basketball championship tournament. Thousands of fans who waited until the final minutes to fill out their brackets on CBSSports.com were denied their picks. And it wasn’t just their picks for tournament-starter Notre Dame versus Princeton, but for all their picks in the four brackets. The CBS site crashed around 11 a.m. EDT and…

VisitPittsburgh wants to up its game. And for one, that means renewing a bid to create a sports commission to help attract big sporting events like the Super Bowl and the NCAA basketball tournament to Pittsburgh. The local tourism group has reintroduced legislation in the state General Assembly to create the commission after a similar bill died at the end of the last session. …

Both the Cavaliers (vs. UNC-Wilmington) and Gators (vs. East Tennessee State) were trendy upset picks, but each survived and now face each other. For the Cavs, the key to beating Florida could be junior guard Marial Shayok. Virginia has been looking for a second scorer all year, and they got one in Shayok on Thursday, who put up a career-high 23 points. They’ll need a similar effort against a potent Florida…

Hall of Fame to induct four The Johnston County Athletic Hall of Fame will induct the class of 2017 during a ceremony at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 25, at Clayton High School. This year’s honorees are: Travis Stephenson – Clayton High School. Van Weeks – Cleveland High School. Darryl Lucas – Smithfield-Selma High School. James Cole – South Johnston High School. Tickets are available at all Johnston County high schools….

David Madison/Getty Images If you want to watch sports highlights on your phone, there are lots of sites and platforms that make it easy. But none is more now than House of Highlights. The bombastic, occasionally NSFW Instagram account is the hottest thing going, due in no small part to the dedication of its 22-year-old founder, Omar Raja. “He’s honestly like the modern SportsCenter, or the young person’s SportsCenter,” says…

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…