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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…

PRO FOOTBALL RENTON, Wash. (AP) Seattle coach Pete Carroll was fined $200,000 and the Seahawks have been fined $400,000 and will lose a fifth-round draft choice for violating the NFL’s work rules on contact in the offseason. The Seahawks will forfeit the draft pick in 2017 and also lose a week of organized team activities for allowing excessive contact in an OTA on June 6. That is prohibited by the…

Media playback is not supported on this device Jonny & Alistair Brownlee on dramatic end to World Triathlon Series Triathlete Jonny Brownlee says he wants to be remembered for his Olympic achievements – and not looking like “a wobbly horse down the finishing line”. Brownlee, 26, won silver at Rio 2016 and bronze in London four years earlier, finishing behind older brother and double gold medallist Alistair, 28, both times….

The phone-size device is supposedly simple to use: Offenders simply put their finger on its scanner, and its internal GPS makes sure they’re nowhere near the stadium during a match. Banned fans have to ensure it’s charged and check in when prompted before, during, and after the match. But it’s seemingly easier on everybody than what’s used now: Forcing them to sign in at police stations, which takes time and…

ESPN is launching its first bilingual sports news show, aimed at the growing audience of Latino viewers in the U.S. Starting Sept. 26, cable network ESPN2 will air “Nación ESPN,” a one-hour weekly program with Los Angeles sports radio host Jorge Sedano, boxing reporter Bernardo Osuna and ESPNDesportes.com journalist Marly Rivera. Although the show will be presented in English, guests appearing on “Nación ESPN” can speak in Spanish if they…

Reuters sports schedule at 0600 GMT on Monday (times GMT): SOCCER Premier League We bring you the latest news from the Premier League ahead of the week’s fixtures as well manager and player briefings after the weekend’s matches. (SOCCER-ENGLAND-CLUB/ expect throughout, 300 words) FORMULA ONE SINGAPORE – Attendance at the Singapore Grand Prix, one of the most popular races on the calendar and held at night in the city-state, fell…

For a team with some of the best players in Europe, Manchester United’s performance in their 3-1 defeat by Watford was nowhere near the level I would expect. United were sloppy and they did the sort of simple things badly – like losing runners, or kicking 30-yard passes straight out of play – that are the basics for top-quality teams. Watford deserve some credit, of course, for breaking the game…

A WEEK ago, Gulliver took a trip to California. His credit card allowed him to check in a bag free, but southern California doesn’t require much bulky clothing in late August so he made do with a carry-on. Still, in this era of luggage fees, it felt almost wasteful to let a baggage allotment go unfilled. It is probably no surprise to hear that there’s an app for that. And…

The iPhone 7’s new solid-state home “button” does not work without skin contact, rendering the phone unaccessible when placed inside a sports armband, a waterproof case or when the user is wearing touchscreen gloves. The new home button, which is pressure sensitive and does not move, is an essential part of the the new iPhone. A change made for iOS 10 means that you cannot move past the lockscreen without…

Week 3 absolutely delivered on its promise for a thrilling college football Saturday. Louisville and Lamar Jackson got the party started early as the superstar quarterback’s touchdown total for 2016 increased to 18 in a historic beatdown against Florida State. The SEC on CBS Game of the Week turned amazement into gripping drama as Alabama and Ole Miss exchanged blows over four hours in a back-and-forth Tide victory that highlighted…

Jersey City Police Officer Frank Scarpa keeps a watchful eye on runners near the start of the Newport Half Marathon in Jersey City, N.J., Sept. 18, 2016.(Photo: Kevin R. Wexler, USA TODAY NETWORK) EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Alexa Fiumarelli, 21 of Woodland Park, said she was nervous about going to MetLife Stadium on Sunday. On Saturday night she was in Hoboken with her brother when she heard a loud boom coming…

Enlarge this image Fall sports season is kicking off — and we’ve got some good reads to go with it. Getty Images/Mint Images RF hide caption toggle caption Getty Images/Mint Images RF Fall sports season is kicking off — and we’ve got some good reads to go with it. Getty Images/Mint Images RF Election year or not, nothing says fall like football and basketball — and while politics may dominate…

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We want to spend a few more minutes on a story we mentioned earlier about the release of some private medical information about some prominent athletes. It’s believed to have been stolen by Russian hackers. The hacker revealed that some of the medicines that athletes have been taking with the approval of anti-doping officials in their respective sports leagues. According to the officials in those leagues, the…

BASEBALL SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Oh, Buster Posey knew all about how long he had gone without a home run. All that talk about the star catcher’s second-half power drought was answered with one mighty swing in a September game that mattered, and his two-run shot helped the San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-2 in a matchup of playoff contenders. Posey drove in four runs and the Giants…

BASEBALL SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Oh, Buster Posey knew all about how long he had gone without a home run. All that talk about the star catcher’s second-half power drought was answered with one mighty swing in a September game that mattered, and his two-run shot helped the San Francisco Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-2 in a matchup of playoff contenders. Posey drove in four runs and the…