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Consumers in sporting goods stores today are faced with seemingly countless choices of footwear. But are any of those innovations really helping you run longer or jump higher? And are those expensive sneakers any better? At the Portland, Oregon, headquarters of sportswear maker Adidas, footwear developers are using motion capture technology to design their latest shoes. It’s called ARAMIS — technology that NASA has used to analyze stresses on the…

MOSCOW Russia has dismissed a deputy sports minister at the heart of the doping scandal that led to its track and field athletes being banned from the Rio Olympics, the government said on Monday. Yury Nagornykh was named as a key player in an investigation into state-sponsored doping by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published weeks before the 2016 games. The report said Nagornykh was routinely informed about positive doping…

You’ve probably heard talk about the rise of “e-sports,” the currently exploding business of professionals playing videogames—and, more important, audiences excited to watch professionals playing videogames. The Journal’s Sarah E. Needleman has been all over this topic for a while now. Investors, advertisers and media companies are lining up to get a piece of what they view as the next great sports phenomenon. There is indeed a lot of money…

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Ed Orgeron’s odds just improved to land the LSU head coaching job full time after his Tigers thumped Ole Miss 38-21. Orgeron still probably needs to win at least three of the Tigers’ four games left to have a good shot at getting the job permanently, and that’s still an uphill climb with Alabama, Texas A&M, Florida and Arkansas remaining. Could he still get LSU if he ends up 5-2 in the…

Los Angeles (AFP) – As the 2016-2017 NBA season gets under way next week, AFP crunches the numbers behind the world’s most popular basketball league and its rival US sports: – Money, money money – Top salaries in the National Basketball Association are among the highest across the world of team sports, with LeBron James due to pocket just under $31 million this season after negotiating a new three-year deal…

Jose Mourinho, speaking to Sky Sports: “It started badly after a few seconds. We are close to the 1-1 and after another defensive mistake and it is 2-1. “You come with a strategy, you can not concede a goal in the way we did.  “We were coming to have an offensive approach, we wanted to create chances, we showed that after the 1-0. The second and the third were counter-attack…

It was the summer of 2011. As I walked from the first-base dugout toward the batting cage behind the right-field wall, I stopped to take in the ivy. How could you not? The ivy was perfect and so obviously well cared for. It seemed like the only thing in Wrigley with growth potential. In those days, like the stadium they played in, the Chicago Cubs were run down. They had…

Sabbir does Taijul no favours with a first-ball single, leaving him with five balls of Stokes, who stands at the end of his run licking his lips. The batsman backs away, he prods, he pokes, he cowers, but he survives as Stokes fail to bowl at the sticks.

CHICAGO – There’s still time for despair. But enough about that. You should’ve seen them, the Chicago Cubs, running around and shrieking in each other’s ears, celebrating one season and honoring about a century’s worth of others, loving the whole damned thing. That’s right. It will be said these Cubs, these very Cubs, have rubbed out a long, dreary history of bad baseball, dumb baseball, unfortunate baseball, some might suggest…

LOS ANGELES – The 2016-2017 NBA season gets under way next week. Here AFP crunches the numbers behind the world’s most popular basketball league and its rival sports: LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers is due to pocket just under $31 million this season after negotiating a new three-year deal in August worth $100 million – Money, money money – Top salaries…

You probably could’ve seen this coming, but World Series ticket prices are going to be very expensive this time around. With the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians going head-to-head in the Fall Classic, we’re witnessing a matchup of two historically hard-luck franchises. The Indians haven’t won the title since 1948. The Cubs haven’t since 1908, and haven’t even made it to the World Series since 1945. So it’s a rare…

A robust list of publishing partners and the coy inclusion of NBA 2K17 in a promotional reel stirred hope in some that mainstream sports might be returning to Nintendo with the Switch console. It’s too soon to answer that. A better question to ask is why it matters. That isn’t to disparage either Nintendo, sports video games or fans of either. But it’s always interesting to me why the sports genre,…

Cubs outfielder-slash-catcher Kyle Schwarber was added to the Mesa Solar Sox of the Arizona Fall League on Saturday, and ESPN reports the team is hopeful he might return for the World Series. With the team in position to advance to the World Series with a 3–2 series lead on the Dodgers, it is technically possible that Schwarber could come off the disabled list and return should the Cubs get there, conceivably as…

Video Image More than 10,000 fans greeted LeBron James and the Cavaliers as they returned to Cleveland Tuesday after winning the NBA Championship. Photo: AP The MLB rakes in the views. THE 2016-2017 NBA season gets under way next week. Here AFP crunches the numbers behind the world’s most popular basketball league and its rival sports: Top salaries in the National Basketball Association are among the highest across the world…

Scottie Pippen filed for divorce after it became apparent — at least to him — that his wife Larsa was hooking up with Future … TMZ Sports has learned.  There’s certainly lots of smoke. Sources on both Scottie and Larsa’s side tell us … she’s been jumping on Future’s private jet, traveling with him to various cities, including Vegas last month. Sources from both sides also say Larsa and Future were…

The Windows Store has a solid starting line-up for you to keep up with all the comings and goings of the sports world. These apps deliver the news, scores, standings, stats and rankings to your Windows 10 device. These sports apps offer a great option for keeping up with the scores, especially from your Windows 10 Mobile device while on the go. Coverage includes a broad range of sports leagues…

By: Jessie Karangu | October 21, 2016 8:09 pm Cleveland could be on the verge of winning two championship within the same year. The Cavaliers won their first ever NBA championship in June while the Indians could win their first World Series since 1948. Does all of this success make Cleveland the best sports town in America right now?  Luke Kerr-Dineen and Charles Curtis break it down. cavaliers, Championship, Cleveland,…

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