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Hey Mike Ashley, this is how it’s done. That wasn’t the strapline for JD Sports’ game-winning interim results on Tuesday, but it should have been. As Sports Direct — founded by Ashley — lurches from crisis to crisis, JD Sports reported a record 66 percent increase in pre-tax profit before one-off losses in the first half of its financial year, and says sales in the second half so far have been…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment With racial issues in the United States coming to the forefront in the sports world, Major League Baseball players generally have been absent from the growing chorus of athletes who have publicly spoken out about problems they may see in the United States, and Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones thinks he knows why. “Baseball is a white man’s sport,” the Orioles star told USA…

So here we are, in the eye of a sporting hurricane. We’ve had Euro 2016 and the Copa América for those of a round-ball bent, the Olympic Games have handed the baton over to the Paralympics in Rio, Australia’s cricketers are still on tour in Sri Lanka, the Wallabies’ Rugby Championship bid continues, the Diamonds have recently secured another netball title, and we are at the business end of the…

When Colin Kaepernick of the San Francisco 49ers remained seated during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at an Aug. 26 NFL preseason game — later telling reporters that he refused “to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people” — he provoked strong reactions of anger and support. Other athletes were inspired to join his protest. The controversy surrounding the Kaepernick incident made it easy…

Tatyana McFadden wanted to go to Russia, where she was born and lived until age 6. So she took up Nordic skiing, qualified for the 2014 U.S. Paralympic team, traveled to Sochi and won a silver medal in the 1-kilometer sit ski sprint. She then returned to her record-breaking wheelchair racing career. “I really wanted to go back to where I was from, so I chose cross-country skiing and it…

CID manages VIP packages for Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. PrimeSport, a leading sports VIP, travel and hospitality firm based in Atlanta, Ga., has acquired Philadelphia-based CID Entertainment, an innovator in the world of VIP music packages and enhanced experiences for events like Coachella and last year’s Fare Thee Well, Billboard has learned. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The move expands PrimeSport’s roster of more than 150 official teams, leagues and…

Why is violating a sports ritual such a big deal? Rather than focus on either the nobility, courage, arrogance or ungratefulness of Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand up for the national anthem, I think it is more revealing to consider why it seems so important to sports fans that he stand up for the national anthem. It has been pointed out that when Donald Trump claims he wants’ to “make…

BRISTOL, Tennessee — Bristol Motor Speedway CEO Marcus Smith stood a few feet from the back of an end zone Saturday night admiring what he and his family had wrought. Essentially, they had staged the largest college football event in history without losing the charm, feel and experience of the game itself. But collegiality only goes so far. Smith smiled because he’d already heard via social media what Bristol fans…

The big differentiator between the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus is the latter’s dual-camera system, which Apple promises will offer the best photography ever in a smartphone. We’ve not been able to test this claim for ourselves, as reviews of the new iPhones are yet to be published, but we can now get a look at the sorts of images the iPhone 7 Plus produces thanks to a photo…

NFL Opening day in the NFL saw Kansas City cornerback Marcus Peters raise a black-gloved fist during the national anthem, a protest amplified later when four Miami Dolphins kneeled on the sideline with hands on their hearts as ”The Star Spangled Banner” played in Seattle. The protests were inspired by San Francisco backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick , the first NFL player who chose to sit and take a knee during…

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” —Nora Ephron Living in the 21st century, where we have devised the technology to monitor robots to do our bidding, there’s still one aspect where we fall grossly short when it comes to progress — gender equality. Rant as we might, the truth is that although the world may have moved three inches forward since the time of the World…

Photo: Stevica Mrdja/Getty Images/iStockphoto In 1985, Nature published a paper arguing that women would outrun men in marathons by 2000. Like so many other things that were supposed to happen “in the year 2000,” this prediction never came to fruition. Women’s finishing times were indeed improving rapidly as compared to the rate of men’s improvements, but that was likely because women were so much newer to distance running as compared…

SATURDAY, Sept. 10, 2016 — Pain can be a problem for young athletes, so it’s important for parents to know how to deal with it, a pain specialist says. “Now that kids are back in school and fall sports are well underway, there are many things parents can do to help their children avoid getting hurt while still enjoying sports,” said Dr. Anita Gupta. She is a member of the…

Tim Tebow said goodbye to football, but that wasn’t the end of his sports career. NPR’s Rachel Martin talks sports with Mike Pesca of The Gist podcast.