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In 2015, Wieden brought the sharks that danced alongside Katy Perry during the Super Bowl halftime show to the ESPN office to have fun with staffers. Wieden & Kennedy has worked with ESPN since 1992, creating the sports network’s most iconic campaigns, and now the independent creative shop is parting ways with the company to take a shot at Fox Sports. Fox Sports has named Wieden & Kennedy New York,…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Greater Cleveland Sports Awards not only celebrated excellence by athletes and teams in the city, it was a continuation of championship excellence that dominated the headlines in 2016. And the Cleveland Cavaliers, just as they did for winning the 2016 NBA Finals, collected even more hardware on Thursday night at the Renaissance Hotel downtown. The Cavaliers won the award for Best Moment in Cleveland Sports and…

Heading into that rookie year, though, Carter was third on the depth chart. Golden State’s Antawn Jamison, the former North Carolina teammate Vince Carter was dealt for, was assumed by many to be the league’s most NBA-ready Rookie of the Year candidate. A month into the season, it was the seasoned Paul Pierce (drafted into Boston after three years in Kansas, a rarity even by the fie de siècle) who…

We knew Russell Westbrook was a lock to be selected as an All-Star reserve, thanks to his triple-double average on the season. Most of the rest of the choices were obvious, too, but as always, a couple of players have the right to feel they were snubbed. Here are the All-Star reserves for 2017 who will suit up in New Orleans on Feb. 19 (all stats are courtesy of…

If the New York Knicks can’t turn the season around by the 2017 NBA Trade Deadline, then it will be time to move on from the Carmelo Anthony era. The Phil Jackson and Carmelo Anthony saga is getting uglier by the day. As the New York Knicks continue to struggle to piece together victories, the trade rumors have grown more incessant and the future indiscernible. If the Knicks are unable to reverse the…

There is no bubble for sports media rights. At least that is one of the takeaways from our discussion with Lee Berke on the current edition of Forbes SportsMoney. Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Sony are some of the companies that are going to be bidding for the rights for live sports over the next few years for TV Everywhere and OTT video streaming. The video below also contains some great grahics…

Nobody loves the Pats because it’s almost impossible to like the Pats. Bil Belichick acts like a jerk, treats the press like a bunch of 3-year-olds, dresses like a slob and makes no effort to be likable because he’s there to win football games, not care what you think about him. Tom Brady pulled a Brad Pitt on his pregnant actress girlfriend and upgraded to a supermodel. He tries…

8:19 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Ringstar Sports promoter Richard Schaefer’s signing binge continued Wednesday with the announcement that he has made a deal with lightweight Lindolfo Delgado, a 2016 Olympian from Mexico. “I’m very proud to welcome a young man with the talent and heart of Lindolfo Delgado to our roster at Ringstar,” Schaefer said. “We’re excited to add a second Mexican Olympian and…

Brent Musburger began at CBS in 1973. Here he is pictured in 1985. Getty Images You are looking live at one heck of a retirement. Longtime play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger, the legendary Hall of Fame broadcaster and one of the most iconic voices in sports history who first came to national prominence in the 1970s and 80s for CBS Sports, is retiring at the age of 77. Musburger’s career spanned…

If you have kids, there’s a chance you’ve heard about sport stacking (or speed stacking, or cup stacking, or whatever you feel like calling it). The goal is simple — to assemble cups in different formations (or “upstack” them) and then disassemble them as quickly as possible (which stackers call “downstacking”). The above video shows stacking skills that you have to see to believe. I spoke to Melissa Gomez, Zhewei…

News about a fun Super Bowl week event in Houston in a few paragraphs—podcast fun and good beer—but we open on a non-Super Bowl bit of news from Tuesday: Ben Roethlisberger hinting that, at 34, he may have played his last snap for the Steelers. First: I do not believe he will quit. Not for a second. But I do have some interpretation of his comments. In an appearance on…

Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals after one of his Jamaican 4x100m relay teammates, Nesta Carter, was stripped of his 2008 Olympic participation for doping by the International Olympic Committee. “The Jamaican team is disqualified from the men’s 4x100m relay event,” the IOC said. “The corresponding medals, medalist pins and diplomas are withdrawn and shall be returned.” Carter, part of winning 4x100m relay teams with Bolt in 2008…

The MMQB staff writer Emily Kaplan discusses how Erin Andrews was able to keep working while fighting cervical cancer. Her safety belt clicked shut. As her highly public and emotionally draining civil trial entered a weekend break, Erin Andrews sunk into her seat, wishful that her flight—Nashville to Minneapolis to visit her boyfriend—would allow for two hours of solitude. Not so. Her seat neighbor kept glancing over. …

When Hartley was asked if he had changed his game in response to the third red card of his career, Jones interrupted: “He’s had 60 weeks off mate, he’s a world expert!” Hartley has been practising his defensive technique during England’s training camps in Brighton and Portugal this month on the instruction of Jones after felling O’Brien with a clothesline from behind. “The much-documented tackle technique – I’ve been working…

My introduction to sports writing included the fascination of covering former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz, a master motivator who harmlessly twisted the truth like a Bavarian pretzel. Before his second-ranked Irish beat Navy 58-27 in 1993, for instance, Holtz said the game was bigger than playing No. 1 Florida State and called the Midshipmen “the most improved team in the country.” Players believed Holtz, and nothing else mattered….

The pup nipping at ESPN’s heels was finally too annoying to ignore. The Worldwide Leader always has positioned itself as above the fray in the cable sports ratings battle, letting upstart Fox Sports spin its numbers and launch unprovoked attacks into its natural television enemy. On Tuesday, ESPN bent its nose down. In an unprecedented move, ESPN Public Relations crafted “Fox v. ESPN: Anatomy of a moving target,” a propagandist look inside…

A Wake County school board committee recommended Tuesday not offering interscholastic sports for students at a new high school opening this year. The panel said more time is needed before action can be taken about sports at eight existing specialized schools. The school board’s policy committee is considering a staff recommendation to stop allowing students from five high schools and three middle schools that don’t have interscholastic sports to play…

The MMQB staff writer Emily Kaplan discusses how Erin Andrews was able to keep working while fighting cervical cancer. Her safety belt clicked shut. As her highly public and emotionally draining civil trial entered a weekend break, Erin Andrews sunk into her seat, wishful that her flight—Nashville to Minneapolis to visit her boyfriend—would allow for two hours of solitude. Not so. Her seat neighbor kept glancing over. …

My introduction to sports writing included the fascination of covering former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz, a master motivator who harmlessly twisted the truth like a Bavarian pretzel. Before his second-ranked Irish beat Navy 58-27 in 1993, for instance, Holtz said the game was bigger than playing No. 1 Florida State and called the Midshipmen “the most improved team in the country.” Players believed Holtz, and nothing else mattered….

The pup nipping at ESPN’s heels was finally too annoying to ignore. The Worldwide Leader always has positioned itself as above the fray in the cable sports ratings battle, letting upstart Fox Sports spin its numbers and launch unprovoked attacks into its natural television enemy. On Tuesday, ESPN bent its nose down. In an unprecedented move, ESPN Public Relations crafted “Fox v. ESPN: Anatomy of a moving target,” a propagandist look inside…