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Twitter Inc. plans to broadcast more than 1,500 hours of competitive videogame contests this year, bolstering its live-streaming efforts and stepping up its presence in one of the fastest-growing areas of the game industry. The social-networking company Thursday said it is working with ESL, one of the largest e-sports organizers, and DreamHack,…

Jim Nantz, Grant Hill, Bill Raftery and Tracy Wolfson to Call National Championship and Final Four National Semifinals on CBS Steve Lavin, Debbie Antonelli, Casey Stern, Adam Zucker, Brendan Haywood and Lisa Byington Join 2017 March Madness Coverage CBS Sports and Turner Sports will once again feature a marquee lineup of announcers for their seventh year of combined coverage of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball…

The chief executive of BT has said that rampant inflation in the prices paid for TV sports rights must come to an end, as the telecoms giant takes on rival Sky in the £1bn-plus battle for Champions League football. First-round bids for Champions League rights are understood to have been submitted this week, with governing body Uefa aiming for an up to 30% increase from the new deal, to as…

When Northern Illinois women’s basketball coach Lisa Carlsen was a player from 1988-92, her college had two different names for the basketball teams. The Northwest Missouri State men’s team was nicknamed the Bearcats. The women’s team was nicknamed the Bearkittens. “At the time, I didn’t (care). I absolutely would now,” Carlsen said. “I absolutely would think it’s the dumbest thing I ever heard now, but at the time, I didn’t.”…

A 19-year-old girl, with her captivating smile, was the centre of attraction as she occupied her seat among the chief guests at the Annual Sports Day of Savarayalu Nayagar Government Girls High School on Thursday. A national swimming champion, Rukshana. K.Y is pursuing first year MBBS at the Government Medical College. “I got the MBBS seat through sports quota. I joined swimming classes when I was in Class II,” she…

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Mike Ashley is lining up a shock deal to buy Agent Provocateur, the upmarket lingerie brand. Agent Provocateur is expected to enter administration on Thursday with Sports Direct the favourite to buy the business out of insolvency proceedings. The acquisition of the brand would be the latest stage of an attempt by Ashley, the founder and chief executive of Sports Direct, to move his business empire upmarket. Alongside its core…

Judges will be asked to decide whether the genteel trickery and complex calculation of bridge makes it – for tax purposes – a sport. The case will be heard in Luxembourg by judges at the European court of justice, from which the UK will secede following Brexit. The court has been presented with the legal suit by British judges in an attempt to clarify EU financial rules. The claim was…

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So there’s really no natural way to back into this: Sean Spicer has sports takes. You’re probably familiar with Spicer’s work as Donald Trump’s newly appointed White House press secretary. His job is to be a liaison between the president and the White House press pool.  However, in another life, Sean Spicer might’ve been a member of the media himself—sports media, specifically.  As he admits in his Twitter bio,…

Subscribe: iTunes | ESPN App | Download | RSS | New to podcasts? Welcome to the latest episode of Hot Takedown, FiveThirtyEight’s sports podcast. On this week’s show (Feb. 28, 2017), we’re joined by New York magazine’s Reeves Wiedeman, who dropped by to discuss his article on recent political activism by athletes. Next, Michael Caley of ESPN FC and “The Double Pivot” podcast helps us break down Claudio Ranieri’s firing…

10:19 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment MEXICO CITY — Golf’s governing bodies have proposed significant changes that would see the sport’s rulebook reduced to 24 main rules and definitions from 34, with a six-month comment period to follow and a proposed implementation date of Jan. 1, 2019. The United States Golf Association, which governs the U.S. and Mexico, and the R&A, which governs the rest…

“Stay with Dallas, go to the Calgary Stampeders would be No. 9, or work for FOX Sports. The top 10 gets pretty lean. “… He was in the NFC for all these years, so he would be a very good broadcaster. He’d probably come to us, right, because we’ve had all the Cowboy games. Bring him on the kickoff show or something. “I just don’t think the list…

Cape Town – Civil rights organisation AfriForum on Tuesday called for the dismissal of the media and communications manager of the department of sport and recreation over a racist social media post. Esethu Hasane took to Twitter to comment on the current water crisis in the Western Cape, and called on God to find another way to “punish white people”. The Western Cape is currently experiencing a water crisis with…

This story appears in the March 6, 2017, issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. To subscribe, click here. James Harden stepped gingerly off the bus at the Kimpton Epic Hotel in downtown Miami, punchy after a two-hour flight from Houston following a 20-point loss to Golden State, and was greeted by a phalanx of photographers along Biscayne Bay. They were not interested in Dwight Howard or Patrick Beverley, Clint Capela or Trevor…

All three experiences are good, but can feel a little dated. VR Sports, for instance, does an excellent job of simulating physics; both its tennis and ping-pong modes feel remarkably like playing the actual sport, accurately simulating ball spin and bounce. It feels natural and fun, but the simplistic gameplay reminds me of an early room-scale SteamVR demo. Similarly, Front Defense is a competent room-scale war shooter, tasking players with…

Michael Phelps led an Olympic contingent that testified at a congressional hearing Tuesday, with the famed swimmer talking about his frustration at the cloud of doping that continues to hover over sports. The most-decorated Olympian of all time — now retired — Phelps was joined by shot putter Adam Nelson and officials from the International Olympic Committee, World Anti-Doping Agency and U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. “I can’t adequately describe how frustrating it…

When a stranger asked Genie Bouchard on a date via Twitter, she said “sure.” The date came right around when the 23-year-old tennis pro posed for some racy Sports Illustrated swimsuit pics. We spoke to Bouchard about posing for SI and her bold decision to go on a date with 20-year-old Missouri-based college student John Goehrke. KATE UPTON LANDS SI COVER FOR THE THIRD TIME Fox News: You’re…

Cape Town – Civil rights organisation AfriForum on Tuesday called for the dismissal of the media and communications manager of the department of sport and recreation over a racist social media post. Esethu Hasane took to Twitter to comment on the current water crisis in the Western Cape, and called on God to find another way to “punish white people”. The Western Cape is currently experiencing a water crisis with…