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After the 49ers-Bills game Sunday, the losing team’s quarterback stepped to the podium for his postgame press conference. The primary line of questioning wasn’t about football. “To pay homage,” Colin Kaepernick said as he wore a Muhammad Ali T-shirt. The quarterback’s team had just lost to the Bills, 45-16, dropping the 49ers to 1-5, but that didn’t seem to be Kaepernick’s primary concern, either. He went on. “He was someone…

Enlarge this image Rain beats against the windows of a downtown New York City building on a soporific Friday morning. A high school teacher is reading out loud from a sample recommendation letter when she notices a few students fidgeting and texting. “I’m not seeing all eyes …” she says, her voice trailing off. Naama Wrightman, who is coaching the teacher, jumps in. “All right, pause. It’s the right correction….

After the 49ers-Bills game Sunday, the losing team’s quarterback stepped to the podium for his postgame press conference. The primary line of questioning wasn’t about football. “To pay homage,” Colin Kaepernick said as he wore a Muhammad Ali T-shirt. The quarterback’s team had just lost to the Bills, 45-16, dropping the 49ers to 1-5, but that didn’t seem to be Kaepernick’s primary concern, either. He went on. “He was someone…

BAY SHORE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The NBA is telling parents that they shouldn’t let their kids focus on any one sport until they are 14 years old. CBS2’s Jessica Layton reports the recommendations are based on advice from experts. The NBA announced new youth sports guidelines which include: delay specializing in one sports until the child turns at least 14; limit the amount of days and time they are competing…

Think of the Philadelphia 76ers, and you think first of Dr. J, Allen Iverson and a long drought since their last NBA championship. Now you should also think of e-sports. Last month, the Sixers became the first professional sports franchise in the US to enter the ranks of the wildly popular e-sports realm, acquiring not one but two teams and merging them under the Team Dignitas banner. On Monday, Team…

Think of the Philadelphia 76ers, and you think first of Dr. J, Allen Iverson and a long drought since their last NBA championship. Now you should also think of e-sports. Last month, the Sixers became the first professional sports franchise in the US to enter the ranks of the wildly popular e-sports realm, acquiring not one but two teams and merging them under the Team Dignitas banner. On Monday, Team…

There was room for both Cristiano Ronaldo and Steven Gerrard in the combined Liverpool-Manchester United XI There was no room for Sir Bobby Charlton or Eric Cantona – and Ian Rush and Kevin Keegan did not make the cut either. More than 150,000 BBC Sport users picked their greatest combined post-war Liverpool-Manchester United XI, and there were obviously some agonising decisions. Seven United players made the team and, as you…

Michael Bisping has plenty of experience facing off against chemically enhanced opponents. Throughout the course of his UFC career, Bisping has fought at least six opponents who have either failed a drug test at some point or used synthetic testosterone before the practice was banned in the sport. So it’s easy to understand why Bisping is one of the most outspoken advocates for drug testing in mixed martial arts not…

What stood out to me from our Sports Media & Technology conference held earlier this month in Manhattan Beach, Calif.: ■ The Twitter Experiment Advertisers are griping about Twitter’s low NFL viewership figures, which are coming in well below expectations. But sports media’s top executives say any focus on streaming numbers misses the main point of the deal. Twitter’s NFL deal is one of the top sports media storylines…

At the end of a college football season, nearly every national title contender can look back at those one or two weeks that made or broke their campaign. If a team finishes with 10-12 regular season wins, there is a very good chance that at some point, usually in conference play, those national title hopes were hanging in the balance. Champions find ways to win those games, and if a…

    Nigel Hayes, star forward on the University of Wisconsin basketball team is my favorite collegiate athlete. Hayes perhaps first stole the affections of me and others during last year’s NCAA tournament when he and several teammates became fascinated with the stenographers attached to the press pool who produce the “rush” transcripts of all postgame commentary. In a challenge to the…

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Foley died in the Paris hotel where Munster were staying prior to Sunday’s scheduled game against Racing 92 Munster Rugby head coach Anthony Foley has died suddenly at their team hotel in Paris. Foley, 42, died overnight at the hotel, where the team were staying prior to Sunday’s game against Racing 92. The European Champions Cup game was postponed following the former Ireland international’s death. A statement by the Irish…

Cam Newton didn’t feel like talking following the Panthers’ 41–38 loss to the Saints on Sunday, deciding to cut his postgame press conference short after just over a minute. Newton replied to six questions with very brief answers before saying, “next question,” in response to a reporter asking about his frustration level. After one more, he was asked again about his level of frustration, and said, “next question” again…

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Andy Murray also won the Shanghai Masters in 2010 and 2011 Britain’s Andy Murray beat Roberto Bautista Agut in straight sets to win the Shanghai Masters and edge closer to Novak Djokovic in the world rankings. The Scot recovered from a stutter in the first set to win 7-6 (7-1) 6-1 against the Spanish world number 19. Bautista Agut beat Djokovic in the semi-finals, but Murray ultimately eased to his…

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An image captured via a GoPro Omni device. Image source: GoPro. Tech companies are tripping over themselves to build out their virtual reality products, battling to be the platform of choice for consumers. Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Daydream, Facebook‘s (NASDAQ: FB) Oculus, and Sony‘s Playstation VR are the leaders in high-tech virtual reality, positioned primarily for gaming. But there’s another VR market that’s developing right under our noses as well. GoPro…

An image captured via a GoPro Omni device. Image source: GoPro. Tech companies are tripping over themselves to build out their virtual reality products, battling to be the platform of choice for consumers. Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Daydream, Facebook‘s (NASDAQ: FB) Oculus, and Sony‘s Playstation VR are the leaders in high-tech virtual reality, positioned primarily for gaming. But there’s another VR market that’s developing right under our noses as well. GoPro…

The 19 percent decline has occurred in the first season of a new $7.4 billion rights deal with Sky and BT Sport which was expected to bring the Premier League to a much wider audience. Despite an exciting start to the season, plus the massive hype around the managerial battle between Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho in Manchester, Sky says there have been numerous factors which have caused viewing figures…