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Nine’s delightfully chirpy sports broadcaster Ken Sutcliffe announced his retirement from the news desk yesterday, after a 50-year career that probably involved him forcibly watching at least 30-something Ironman championships, which itself deserves a round of applause (that’s a lot of Trevor Hendy). As a kid growing up in the ’90s, permanently fixed to my couch, my TV dial and a stack of Nutella sandwiches, Sutcliffe remains a significant figure in…

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…

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,…

Not even Fox analyst Pete Rose, whose latest bad prediction was that the Indians would beat the Cubs on Tuesday to end the World Series, could get the outcome of Wednesday’s Game 7 wrong. The winner will be Fox Sports. It already is. The Cubs, who extended the World Series to one final showdown, might end their 108-year streak without a World Series title. The Indians, whose three games-to-one evaporated…

The countdown has started to the end of Ronda Rousey’s career in the UFC. The former women’s bantamweight champion revealed on Tuesday that her upcoming bout with Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 would be ‘one of my last fights.’ Now UFC president Dana White has confirmed that news as well by saying that Rousey has informed him that her career will come to a close in the near future, although…

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…

Tens of thousands of runners will line up in Staten Island to run the TCS New York City Marathon this Sunday. Preparing properly for a marathon can take weeks to months and require runs that span hours. But on race day plenty of new or even experienced runners can get caught up in common preparation myths that have little science to back them up. We talked to some sports medicine…

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…

No two ways about it now: The Cubs’ forcing a Game 7 of a World Series in which they trailed three games to one in pursuit of their first title in 108 years means we’re arguably looking at either the greatest sports heartbreak ever endured or the greatest sports story ever told. Sorry, 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. You know I loved you, Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig, Jack O’Callahan and…

Chances are there’s at least one die-hard sports fan in your life. And look, even if your idea of game-time small talk is “Hey, how about that local sportsball team” you can still get them the perfect gift. Whether they’re big NBA addicts, avid runners or trying to perfect that spiral and become an NFL quarterback, we’ve got you covered. And you don’t even have to betray your tech-geek roots…

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…

CLEVELAND — Maybe curses take real magic to break. Maybe deep heartache takes the nearly impossible to cure because, having lost hope, the only remedy is for it to be replenished by what feels too much like a miracle to ignore. Maybe these kinds of baseball demons — those that have lasted 108 years in Chicago, that have taken form in the Never Say Die Mets and the San Diego…

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The BBC are planning to tamper with the hugely successful format of A Question of Sport, the corporation’s iconic and longest-running TV quiz show. The programme, which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2018, was last week put out to tender to independent producers for next year’s series which starts in the spring. The Beeb effectively asked bidders to come up with proposals to revamp all aspects of the programme,…

Patrick O’Beirne is 6 feet 2, 175 pounds, 16 years old and waking up at 4:30 a.m. to work out. A couple weeks ago, he quit the football team at Monrovia High, where he was a kicker. He says his sports career is over even though he’s a junior. “I want to be different,” he said. “I’ve had many coaches tell me I had potential to be a DI kicker….

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Patrick O’Beirne is 6 feet 2, 175 pounds, 16 years old and waking up at 4:30 a.m. to work out. A couple weeks ago, he quit the football team at Monrovia High, where he was a kicker. He says his sports career is over even though he’s a junior. “I want to be different,” he said. “I’ve had many coaches tell me I had potential to be a DI kicker….