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<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers complains at so-called “trial by TV”, saying broadcaster BT Sport showed a challenge by his goalkeeper Craig Gordon on Alloa’s Greig Spence 14 times and one by Celtic defender Erik Sviatchenko on Inverness midfielder Ross Draper 26 times. (Various) Rodgers plays down the issue of who is his number one goalkeeper – Dorus de Vries or Craig Gordon. The Northern Irishman says he…

Media playback is not supported on this device Manchester United v Leicester: Ranieri dismisses talk of Mourinho feud Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri says Jose Mourinho “is a fantastic person” and any issues between the two are “prehistoric”. The champions play Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday, with the two managers having clashed in the past. Mourinho called Ranieri “a loser” after replacing him at Chelsea and also insulted him…

In some potentially game-changing news for the way we understand professional football, the National Football League began the 2016 preseason by placing tracking sensors in its footballs for the first time. The chips are also in balls used in Thursday night games. Over the past decade, we’ve seen an explosion in data analytics in sports, particularly on the professional level. Technological advances in cameras and sensors have allowed teams, media…

USA TODAY Sports’ Lorenzo Reyes looks at the three biggest story lines heading into the third week of the season. USA TODAY Sports

USA TODAY Sports’ George Schroeder breaks down the five college football matchups to watch this week.

When Skip Bayless was a newspaper columnist, his colleagues laughed at the idea of sports journalism on TV, the “talking heads in funny suits.” Now with more than a decade of TV sports under his belt — including 12 years at ESPN and a new show on Fox Sports 1, “Skip and Shannon: Undisputed” — Bayless knows it’s no laughing matter. He explained his hyper-prepared process for arguing…

RENTON, Wash. (AP) NATIONAL ANTHEM PROTESTS Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said Wednesday the public isn’t listening to the message NFL players are trying to send with their actions during the national anthem. While some fans are obsessing about whether players take a knee, raise a fist or lock arms during the national anthem before games, Sherman said they should be talking about the reasons why players are protesting. Sherman…

When Skip Bayless was a newspaper columnist, his colleagues laughed at the idea of sports journalism on TV, the “talking heads in funny suits.” Now with more than a decade of TV sports under his belt — including 12 years at ESPN and a new show on Fox Sports 1, “Skip and Shannon: Undisputed” — Bayless knows it’s no laughing matter. He explained his hyper-prepared process for arguing…

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Whether you’re a high school student or an NFL team owner, everybody texts. ReplyBuy, a finalist in the 1st and Future competition, wants to use the text message to get you tickets for sporting events. 1st and Future is a sports-centric startup competition produced as a joint effort between the NFL, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and TechCrunch. The current version of ReplyBuy works like this — the company sends a text message to all San…

The great Rio sportsfest is over. The Paralympians have arrived home, and they are recovering from their jet lag. The Olympians are already on to the next thing. Memories are fading of the state-sponsored doping scandal that overshadowed the opening of the Games in August and led to around 100 Russian athletes being excluded from the Olympics, and all Russian athletes being banned from the Paralympics. So there is a…

Barcelona tweeted shortly after the game that Lionel Messi will be out for three weeks Lionel Messi will be out for three weeks after suffering a groin strain in Barcelona’s draw with Atletico Madrid. The striker went off on 59 minutes on Wednesday after a Diego Godin tackle. He was forced to miss Argentina’s World Cup 2018 qualifier against Venezuela earlier this month with a groin injury, but has played…

With the start of the NBA season on the horizon, the Clippers and Fox Sports Prime Ticket announced Wednesday that they had  finally reached an agreement to extend their exclusive television deal. The deal will earn the Clippers around $50 million to $55 million per season — which just about doubles the $25 million annually Prime Ticket paid the team in the previous deal — according to officials who were not authorized…

Whether you’re a high school student or an NFL team owner, everybody texts. ReplyBuy, a finalist in the 1st and Future competition, wants to use the text message to get you tickets for sporting events. 1st and Future is a sports-centric startup competition produced as a joint effort between the NFL, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and TechCrunch. The current version of ReplyBuy works like this — the company sends a text message to all San…

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Sports Direct has bowed to shareholder pressure by agreeing to an independent review of its working practices and corporate governance. Mike Ashley, the company’s founder and majority owner, admitted in a rare TV interview that he had taken his eye off the ball but claimed the problems at the company’s warehouse were caused by “the odd rotten apple”. The company had said the law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC), which…