World Sports

Blizzard Entertainment pioneered e-sports with its “Starcraft” franchise more than a decade ago.  Now, with “Overwatch,” the Irvine video game maker wants to bring to e-sports the wealth and recognition that sports such as soccer, football and basketball generate. To do so, Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Santa Monica’s Activision Blizzard Inc., announced Friday it will adopt hallmarks of traditional sports leagues to form an e-sports league more instantly relatable than others spawned in the last…

Well, that was anticlimactic. After an intense buildup, the first battle between Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook went firmly in Durant’s favor, as the Golden State Warriors blew out the Oklahoma City Thunder 122–96 in Oakland on Thursday. This is what the Warriors do. They don’t care about narratives. They don’t care about personal rivalries. They simply tighten their vice grip around your favorite team’s defense until that team’s…

The Corvette Grand Sport is the ‘Vette you want The Grand Sport features the best of the base Stingray and the bonkers Z06. by Emme Hall The latest generation Corvette, introduced in 2014, revived the Stingray name and the world went a little bonkers. Some felt that the complete redesign looked a little too Ferrari, while others bemoaned the new rear fascia. However, all agreed that the 6.2-liter V8 engine…

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, AP, AFP.

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Intel is building a VR studio in LA, and is already into sports broadcast technology. It recently purchased Replay Technologies, whose freeD tech is used by the NBA and MLB to do “bullet time” 360-degree replays. Though it’s getting into the VR broadcast business, the company no doubt hopes that extra content will drive demand for its chips. Oculus and Vive headset buyers, for example, must purchase decently spec’d PCs,…

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Rob Neyer isn’t embarrassed to say he’s more than a little preoccupied with the number of people who follow him on Twitter. Neyer is a freelance baseball writer and sabermetrics guru, and the 64,000 readers who have added his daily MLB analysis and insight to their daily newsfeed make up his most regular audience. So earlier this year, when Neyer decided to start using the social medium as a platform…

Now that the Chicago Cubs have ended their 108-year wait to win a World Series, here’s a look at how the title droughts for Philadelphia’s four biggest pro sports teams rank. Baseball The Phillies’ World Series drought is eight years old. That’s the 24th-longest drought among active teams in Major League Baseball. The Cleveland…

Michael B. Jordan and Michael Strahan will each executive produce a sports-themed drama which will join the increasing slate of scripted sports TV including Fox’s ‘Pitch,’ Starz’s ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ and HBO’s ‘Ballers.’ <!–[CDATA[ Scripted television increasingly is looking to score with sports. With Fox’s Pitch, Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, HBO’s Ballers and Audience Network’s Kingdom already on the air, the development bench includes LeBron James’ NBC sports-medicine drama, NFL…

Grayson Allen enrolled at Duke in the summer of 2014 as the least-heralded prospect in a four-player class. He averaged 9.2 minutes per game as a freshman, shot worse from the field and from 3-point range than the Blue Devils did as a team and was the only first-year player on the roster who didn’t enter the NBA Draft after winning the 2015 NCAA Tournament. Now he’s the CBS Sports…

They tossed their hats and gloves into the air after the final out like joyous Little Leaguers and then threw themselves into each other’s arms like brothers — and this will connect them forever. They sang along with “Go, Cubs, Go” as thousands of fans who wouldn’t miss World Series Game 7 for the world broke into song. They carried retiring catcher David Ross on their shoulders and wore wide-eyed…

Michael B. Jordan and Michael Strahan will each executive produce a sports-themed drama which will join the increasing slate of scripted sports TV including Fox’s ‘Pitch,’ Starz’s ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ and HBO’s ‘Ballers.’ <!–[CDATA[ Scripted television increasingly is looking to score with sports. With Fox’s Pitch, Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, HBO’s Ballers and Audience Network’s Kingdom already on the air, the development bench includes LeBron James’ NBC sports-medicine drama, NFL…

Take a look at the CBS Sports All-America teams from the 2015-16 season and what you’ll find is that only one of the 15 players honored — Duke’s Grayson Allen — is actually back in school. In other words, we’re basically starting from scratch, which is normal for the sport of college basketball, where new and/or unknown players annually become the faces of the sport. We put it up to…

Take a look at the CBS Sports All-America teams from the 2015-16 season and what you’ll find is that only one of the 15 players honored — Duke’s Grayson Allen — is actually back in school. In other words, we’re basically starting from scratch, which is normal for the sport of college basketball, where new and/or unknown players annually become the faces of the sport. We put it up to…

They tossed their hats and gloves into the air after the final out like joyous Little Leaguers and then threw themselves into each other’s arms like brothers — and this will connect them forever. They sang along with “Go, Cubs, Go” as thousands of fans who wouldn’t miss World Series Game 7 for the world broke into song. They carried retiring catcher David Ross on their shoulders and wore wide-eyed…

Michael B. Jordan and Michael Strahan will each executive produce a sports-themed drama which will join the increasing slate of scripted sports TV including Fox’s ‘Pitch,’ Starz’s ‘Survivor’s Remorse,’ and HBO’s ‘Ballers.’ <!–[CDATA[ Scripted television increasingly is looking to score with sports. With Fox’s Pitch, Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse, HBO’s Ballers and Audience Network’s Kingdom already on the air, the development bench includes LeBron James’ NBC sports-medicine drama, NFL…

The concept evolved over the past year in the midst of one doping scandal after another. In the latest chapter, Rita Jeptoo, a Kenyan who was a two-time Chicago and Boston marathon champion, had her titles stripped and was given a four-year suspension for testing positive for EPO. Also within the past week, a World Anti-Doping Agency report highlighted the failings and shortcomings of drug testing at the Rio Olympics,…