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Looking for a new hobby? Try tennis, swimming, or dance, and you may just extend your lifespan, suggests research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In an analysis of six sport and exercise categories, researchers found that people who pursued these activities actually lived longer than those who got their fitness on in other ways. The study surveyed more than 80,000 adults in England and Scotland, ages 30 and up, who were asked…

Any way you look at it, Sunday’s game between the Chicago Bears and the San Francisco 49ers will be a drag. Two inept, injury-wracked franchises are staggering toward the end of a season long ago given up for dead, and with nothing but draft position at stake, losing is the optimal outcome. But what if I told you there’s a way to infuse dreary contests like this with a jolt…

It’s BBC Sport and A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz – have you been paying attention to what’s been going on in the world of sport in the past week? If you missed last week’s sports quiz, try it here. Picture credits: Getty, Rex, PA

Chaos is not an all-or-nothing proposition. And there will be no “nothing” when the College Football Playoff selection committee unveils the national semifinal field Sunday. That’s cause for celebration because last year we got nothing. When Clemson, Alabama and Michigan State won their conference championship games while Oklahoma rested with its Big 12 title already secure, they made last year’s selection show about as dramatic as C-SPAN. This…

Roy Nelson has apologized for his actions in Brazil from September after he kicked referee John McCarthy following the conclusion of his bout against Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva. It all happened after Nelson knocked out Silva but felt that McCarthy was slow to call an end to the fight following a few devastating punches on the ground. While McCarthy was leaned over Silva after the fight was over, Nelson push kicked…

Looking for a new hobby? Try tennis, swimming, or dance, and you may just extend your lifespan, suggests research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. In an analysis of six sport and exercise categories, researchers found that people who pursued these activities actually lived longer than those who got their fitness on in other ways. The study surveyed more than 80,000 adults in England and Scotland, ages 30 and up, who were asked…

Nico Rosberg has stunned the motor racing world by announcing his retirement from the sport, just five days after winning the World Championship. Rosberg says he made the decision on Monday evening, after partying until 9 a.m. that morning and flying to Kuala Lumpur for a PR event. He announced it at a press conference ahead of Friday’s FIA Awards in Vienna. His decision leaves Mercedes with the difficult task…

Any way you look at it, Sunday’s game between the Chicago Bears and the San Francisco 49ers will be a drag. Two inept, injury-wracked franchises are staggering toward the end of a season long ago given up for dead, and with nothing but draft position at stake, losing is the optimal outcome. But what if I told you there’s a way to infuse dreary contests like this with a jolt…

Any way you look at it, Sunday’s game between the Chicago Bears and the San Francisco 49ers will be a drag. Two inept, injury-wracked franchises are staggering toward the end of a season long ago given up for dead, and with nothing but draft position at stake, losing is the optimal outcome. But what if I told you there’s a way to infuse dreary contests like this with a jolt…

It’s BBC Sport and A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz – have you been paying attention to what’s been going on in the world of sport in the past week? If you missed last week’s sports quiz, try it here. Picture credits: Getty, Rex, PA

John Gaustad, who died in June, argued that “the best sports books are about life itself, as much as sport”. The range, depth and ambition of the books published in 2016 prove his point. The judges for Gaustad’s creation, the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, did him proud with a winner so leftfield – William Finnegan’s exquisitely observed surfing memoir Barbarian Days (Corsair) – that even its author…

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring a goal for Real Madrid. (Photo: Denis Doyle/Getty Images) Critics howled when Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram and its 13 employees in 2012, but the photo-sharing site has been on fire since it was launched in October 2010. This year was no different with the brand expected to generate more than $3 billion in ad revenue for Facebook, according to analysts at Credit Swiss…

You can make a case for sports itself as the 2016 Sportsperson of the Year. How many tweets, Instagram posts, memes, GIFs, Vines (RIP!) throughout the year began and ended with that single word? Jenkins for the win! Sports. Leicester City has pulled off the impossible. Sports. Cleveland’s long championship nightmare is over! Sports. The Cubs’ long championship nightmare is over! …

The league that wins the All-Star Game will no longer have home field advantage in the World Series, which will now go to the pennant-winning team with the better regular-season record, according to a report from the Associated Press. The new rule was part of a new five-year collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the players’ union that will run through the 2021 season. The home field advantage…

BASEBALL NEW YORK (AP) The league that wins baseball’s All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series, which instead will go to the pennant winner with the better regular-season record. The change was included in Major League Baseball’s tentative new collective bargaining agreement and disclosed to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the agreement. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because…

Al Bello/Getty Images As you may have heard, exercise is good for you. It can improve mental health, stave off cognitive decline, boost your sex life, and make you more creative. By making you healthier, exercise helps add years to lifespan — and it improves health span as well, meaning that fit people stay “physically younger” and more capable during those years. But which sports are the best ones for…

Oregon has fired head coach Mark Helfrich on the heels of a disappointing season, the university announced Tuesday night. Helfrich met with athletic director Rob Mullens on Tuesday night before the decision was made. “We want to thank Mark for his eight years with the University of Oregon and appreciate his efforts on behalf of Oregon football,” Mullens said in a statement. “We wish Mark and his family the best.” Oregon…

Six FOX Sports Brazil employees are among the dead in the airline crash in Colombia that devastated a Brazilian soccer team. The group was among the 21 journalists covering the Chapecoense team from southern Brazil and its upcoming South American Cup match in Medellin, Colombia. On the doomed flight were Deva Pascovicci, Mario Sergio, Paulo Julio Clement, Victorino Chermont, Rodrigo Santana, and Lilacio Junior. More on this… Plane…

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Being active is good for you on so many levels, from keeping the heart in shape to improving blood pressure and blood sugar levels. Exercise has also been linked to benefits for the brain and lower risk of some cancers. But which types of activity pack the best health punch? Does it matter what kind of exercise you do? In a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine,…