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Netball received the biggest award as their national team prepare for the 2019 World Cup in Liverpool Sport England has awarded a further £101m of National Lottery and government funding to the governing bodies of 25 sports, including netball. The latest investment follows the £88m announced in December for 26 sports to deliver grassroots schemes. Netball will receive £16.9m, while rugby union, table tennis, tennis and athletics are also beneficiaries….

HOUSTON — I now know what it’s like to spend 20 minutes inside a morgue. This one, actually the Atlanta Falcons locker room, had only a few corpses around by the time I strolled into it, all with the same cause of death: Choking. Pats’ epic comeback Brady named MVP Brady sets records Historic overtime Gaga’s epic halftime There is no other way to describe what we saw in Super…

Action is FAST AND FURIOUS at the athletic competition Luke Burbank takes us to this morning — and no, we’re not talking about the Super Bowl: P.J. Ball is a gifted athlete. He’s just 11 years old, but his talent hasn’t gone unnoticed. He’s been interviewed on national TV, his Instagram page is a hit, and with his medal wins, he’s got more hardware to dangle around his neck than…

NEW YORK (AP) Lady Gaga promised a Super Bowl halftime show infused with the ”spirit of equality” for all her little monsters and tens of millions more, with Tony Bennett to join for the biggest appearance of her career. For hardcore bettors, Las Vegas even set odds on her hair color, with blonde being the top pick. Before the game, singers Phillipa Soo, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones…

After two weeks of seemingly endless hype, Super Bowl 51 between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons is finally here. Join the Shutdown Corner and Yahoo Sports crew starting at 5:30 p.m. ET as we chat about everything: the game, the commercials, the halftime performance and everything in between. Reader participation is not only welcome, it’s encouraged so submit your best comments and one-liners in the box above. We’ll…

Fox Sports acknowledged the elephant in the stadium — the depth of the nation’s political divide in the Trump era — with the “Ragged Old Flag” segment that led into the final half-hour before the Super Bowl kickoff. The short film opened with Harry Belafonte and Olympic star Simone Biles discussing the importance of the American flag serving as “a symbol of our unity,” as Belafonte stated. The 1974 Johnny…

Washington Post sports columnist Kevin Blackistone, conservative commentator Lenny McAllister and ESPN magazine writer Pablo Torre discuss whether sports and politics can be separated.

The lack of unanimity within UK Sport over how it spends its budget of £550 million over the next four years raises further questions about a strategy that has already led to redundancies on the elite programmes of those sports that have lost out. As will the revelation that the quango’s latest board meeting on Wednesday deferred for the second time a decision that threatens to strip wheelchair tennis of all…

It’s the final injury report of the long 2016 season (and playoffs). Here are the 10 players who were listed as questionable on Friday and their up-to-date status as of Saturday. If anything changes before kickoff on Sunday (6:30 PM ET, FOX and FOX Sports GO), we’ll have you covered. Otherwise, enjoy Super Bowl LI between the New England Patriots (seven listed players) and Atlanta Falcons (three listed players)….

Houston’s NRG Stadium seats around 72,000 screaming maniacs when it’s hosting a football game, as it will on Super Bowl Sunday. But those with their butts in the seats will account for less than one percent of Americans watching the game, most of whom will be planted somewhere in front of a TV, a bowl of guacamole well within reach. But what if they could be there, too? Or come…

Here in the United States, we’re just days away from Super Bowl Sunday. The buzz around the biggest game in America’s biggest sport is, as always, about more than football. It’s also about business and leadership. Does the Patriots’s consistent excellence over the last 15 years offer insights on teamwork that transcend football? Does Bill Belichick’s unrivaled record speak to his skills not just as a coach but also as a leader…

There are few people who know the Cowboys as well as Skip Bayless. Through highs and lows, he’s seen owner Jerry Jones wrestle between his desire to win and his need to entertain. With a bright future ahead, it appears that struggle is coming to its fateful end. As told to Dieter Kurtenbach… I wrote three books about the Dallas Cowboys. I swear, I couldn’t have written fiction that was…

Casinos in Maryland and other states are seeking a share of a growing sports betting market that remains tantalizingly out of reach — for now — because a federal ban leaves fans to wager billions of dollars with offshore companies instead. To many casinos outside of Nevada, Sunday’s Super Bowl is an unpleasant reminder that while they lobby for the ban’s repeal online sites in the Caribbean and elsewhere are…

Buy Photo “Stick to sports’’ implies he should stick to the field of play, and not being swift enough to comprehend something as complex as politics, Paul Daugherty writes.(Photo: Enquirer file)Buy Photo Stick to sports. Go to the game, sit in your cushy pressbox seat and eat your free hot dog, Sparky. Leave the important stuff to the pros. That’s how it’s always been, at least until now. The era…

Tuesday was Jackie Robinson‘s birthday. On this day, as on the April 15 anniversary of his first major-league game, we sports fans celebrate one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and one of the most revered heroes in American history. The lens of perception tends to soften over time. Robinson might be universally loved today. But in 1947, he was widely reviled as an interloper trying to break…

The jostling for the few intriguing quarterbacks on the market has already begun. The NFL combine is still weeks away, while the start of the league year is over a month away, but deep, internal strategic discussions are ongoing in several quarterback-needy front offices. These clubs are outlining their offseason plans at the most critical position in football, and targets have already been set. Agent’s Take: Pats’ Garoppolo options Prisco’s…

The jostling for the few intriguing quarterbacks on the market has already begun. The NFL combine is still weeks away, while the start of the league year is over a month away, but deep, internal strategic discussions are ongoing in several quarterback-needy front offices. These clubs are outlining their offseason plans at the most critical position in football, and targets have already been set. Agent’s Take: Pats’ Garoppolo options Prisco’s…

Say what you will about Fox Sports, they’re consistent. Over the last several years they’ve done everything possible to establish themselves as the off-brand ESPN, from bringing in trash enthusiast/flim-flam man Jamie Horowitz to run the show to putting failed dipshits ranging from Colin Cowherd to Rob Parker on their broadcasts. Advertisement It thus shouldn’t have come as a surprise that last week advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy quietly announced that it…

Electronic Arts is the only major publisher that releases multiple licensed sports games each year, doing so under the company’s label of EA Sports. Success from the sports division has contributed heavily to EA’s stock trading at all-time high levels. Earlier this week, EA released the financials on its most recent quarter and in doing so provided some interesting news on their various franchises. While some are thriving, they’re doing so…