World Sports

For the second straight weekend, Katowice, Poland is ground zero for the world of e-sports. Following the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) League of Legends championship last weekend, the top pros from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) and StarCraft II have now taken over this quaint little city. Over 113,000 people visited IEM inside Spodek arena and the IEM Expo at the adjacent International Congress Center last year when the event was…

Art by Jim Cooke Stanford University in the springtime is immaculate. There are no clouds in the sky and none of the aerated haze of the East Bay or the fog of San Francisco. Off to the west, the Santa Cruz Mountains gently form the outer boundary of Palo Alto. As I got lost looking for the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Sports Innovation Conference, I noticed that every superfluous…

It’s not often that local Texas sports anchors—or any sports anchors, really—come to the defense of trans community. Dale Hansen of WFAA-TV is a rare exception. Earlier this week, the reporter decided to address the case of Mack Beggs, a transgender wrestler who recently won his state girls’ wrestling title. Though Mack identifies as a boy, state regulations require that he competes according to the sex assigned to him on…

LAS VEGAS — Unless your name is Conor McGregor, you probably shouldn’t be asking for a “money fight” in the UFC. That’s the message from UFC president Dana White, who is clearly sick and tired of hearing so many athletes on the roster pounding the drum about landing the big money bout, which typically involves McGregor’s name somehow being invoked. Of course, McGregor is the biggest draw in the history of…

Art by Jim Cooke Stanford University in the springtime is immaculate. There are no clouds in the sky and none of the aerated haze of the East Bay or the fog of San Francisco. Off to the west, the Santa Cruz Mountains gently form the outer boundary of Palo Alto. As I got lost looking for the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Sports Innovation Conference, I noticed that every superfluous…

AUTO RACING 10 a.m.: Fox Sports 1, NASCAR Xfinity Series, Rinnai 250, practice, at Hampton, Ga. 11 a.m.: Fox Sports 1, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Active Pest Control 200, practice, at Hampton, Ga. Noon: Fox Sports 1, NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series, Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, practice, at Hampton, Ga. 1:30 p.m.: Fox Sports 1, NASCAR Xfinity Series, Rinnai 250, practice, at Hampton, Ga. 2:30 p.m.: Fox Sports…

Several smaller-conference tournaments are already underway, most notably the Missouri Valley, which holds it championship game Sunday in St. Louis. There’s been much discussion of late about the dearth of mid-major at-large berths in recent years with many hoping that trend reverses itself this year. There are in fact a few — but only a few — viable mid-major at-large candidates right now. Wichita State (27-4): Barring a stunning early…

Several smaller-conference tournaments are already underway, most notably the Missouri Valley, which holds it championship game Sunday in St. Louis. There’s been much discussion of late about the dearth of mid-major at-large berths in recent years with many hoping that trend reverses itself this year. There are in fact a few — but only a few — viable mid-major at-large candidates right now. Wichita State (27-4): Barring a stunning early…

In the first year of the NFL’s more complete Combine record-keeping, the former Maryland tight end posted a 40 time that forced scouts to check their stopwatches: 4.38 seconds. For a guy standing 6-foot-3, 248 pounds, that’s obscene. Only Dorin Dickerson (who went on to play sparingly for six teams until 2015) has come within a tenth of a second (4.40) of Davis among tight ends since. Davis also…

For years, the New Orleans Saints have wasted prime seasons from Drew Brees. It’s not that the front office hasn’t surrounded him with good talent on the outside, it’s that the defense has been one of the worst units in the NFL for too long. With about $28 million in cap space, the Saints don’t have a ton of money to spend on free agents, but it’s certainly enough to…

CLOSE x Embed x Share Dererk Pardon made a game-winning lay-up as time expired to lift the Wildcats to a thrilling 67-65 victory over a red-hot Michigan team. USA TODAY Sports The Wisconsin Badgers team waits as officials determine a call that finalized a flagrant one foul against Iowa Hawkeyes guard Peter Jok (14) at the Kohl Center. Iowa defeated Wisconsin 69-67.(Photo: Mary Langenfeld, USA TODAY Sports) The Wisconsin Badgers…

When you think of the big sports cities, New York City, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles all come to mind, but now it might be time to start thinking beyond the border of the United States and looking to the Great White North for the next great North American sports city. Over the past few years Toronto, Canada’s most populous city, has become one of the primary sports hubs on…

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…

Alissa Widman Neese The Columbus Dispatch @AlissaWidman Get pumped. The Arnold Sports Festival and Fitness Expo kicks off today. An estimated 200,000 fitness enthusiasts, athletes, sports fans and spectators are expected to flock Downtown to the annual event named after one of the world’s best-known bodybuilders, Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Here are eight things you need to know to get ready for the big weekend:  1. What…

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.”…

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…