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Media playback is not supported on this device Watch some top goals from deadline day’s main men Premier League clubs spent more than £155m on transfer deadline day as the summer window outlay reached a record £1.165bn. Teams had already spent a combined £1.005bn as of 08:30 BST on Wednesday, shattering last year’s record £870m. Thirteen top-flight teams broke their own transfer records. The 20 clubs in the Premier League…

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Photo credit: John Locher/AP Millions of Americans are gearing up for their fantasy football drafts. And thanks to the scores of lobbyists and lawyers employed by the daily fantasy sports industry, DraftKings and FanDuel are back in business in New York and many other states, just in time for the start of the NFL season. For the price of an “entry fee,” you can win a valuable “prize,” not to…

After Sky Sports News’ Alan Irvine was assaulted with a purple sex toy in 2014, clubs have allowed journalists to report from inside club grounds. But, despite being granted access to the club’s training ground, a strange number of journalists chose to talk to camera at a number of seemingly random locations. Roving reporter Vinny O’Connor, who was covering the comings and goings from Everton, opted to present the latest transfer…

Caption Close University of Houston football coach Tom Herman will not continue this season his weekly appearances on KILT (610 AM), a school spokesman and the station said Wednesday. Herman, who had a public disagreement with some of the station’s current and former hosts about a recruiting topic last year, will appear at 8:30 a.m. Thursdays on KBME (790 AM), which broadcasts UH games. ALSO SEE: UH coach Tom Herman…

Trials found that tall people maintained this superior ability even when they were sitting down and their shorter counterparts were standing on a box or a stool, showing that the advantage is somehow “hardwired” in the brain. Researchers at Ohio State University asked 24 participants – 12 tall and 12 short – to predict distance in a fully lit room, in the pitch dark with a green light as a…

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<!– For the latest rumours, gossip and debate, check out our Sportsday rolling news service every weekday, and for a list of all the completed deals, see our transfers page Paris St-Germain defender David Luiz could be in line for a shock return to Chelsea. The Premier League club have offered £30m plus add-ons for the Brazil international, who left for the French champions two years ago in a £50m…

The transfer window closes in England at 23:00 BST on Wednesday and already the rush has started to get the last-minute deals in place – with clubs and players attempting to secure their immediate future. Manchester United’s £89m deal to bring France midfielder Paul Pogba back to Old Trafford from Juventus set a new transfer record and millions more will be spent around the Premier League before the close of…

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) and Zee Entertainment Enterprises (ZEE) have entered into definitive agreements to acquire TEN Sports Network and its subsidiaries for $385 million. ET had reported on August 8 that SPN is set to acquire TEN Sports and that the announcement is expected by end of the month. The acquisition will add five sports channels, TEN 1, TEN 1 HD, TEN 2, TEN 3, TEN Golf…

Revelations of Russian doping have been one of the worst scandals in the recent history of sport An overhaul of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has been proposed in a bid to restore trust in international sport. The leaders of 17 national anti-doping organisations met at a special summit in Copenhagen this week. The group says the fight for clean sport is now “at a crossroads”. Damning reports into Russian…

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<!– For the latest rumours, gossip and debate, check out our Sportsday rolling news service every weekday, and for a list of all the completed deals, see our transfers page Paris St-Germain defender David Luiz could be in line for a shock return to Chelsea. The Premier League club have offered £30m plus add-ons for the Brazil international, who left Stamford Bridge for France two years ago in a £50m…

Revelations of Russian doping have been one of the worst scandals in the recent history of sport An overhaul of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has been proposed in a bid to restore trust in international sport. The leaders of 17 national anti-doping organisations met at a special summit in Copenhagen this week. The group says the fight for clean sport is now “at a crossroads”. Damning reports into Russian…

Revelations of Russian doping have been one of the worst scandals in the recent history of sport An overhaul of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has been proposed in a bid to restore trust in international sport. The leaders of 17 national anti-doping organisations met at a special summit in Copenhagen this week. The group says the fight for clean sport is now “at a crossroads”. Damning reports into Russian…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay When he announced his reasons for not standing during the “Star-Spangled Banner,” San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick entered a decades-old debate over the song’s straddling of politics and sport. A number of teams and individual players have dropped the anthem, or refused to acknowledge it, since it became part of gameday routines in the early half of the 1900s. In just…

Located down the street from Wilshire Country Club and in the fashionable Los Angeles neighborhoods of Hancock Park and Windsor Hills, Marlborough School, an all-girls school, has completed a $27 million project that should be a boon for its sports program. There’s a new aquatics center featuring a pool that’s 33 meters by 25 yards. There’s an expanded sports field with all-weather turf composed of cork and sand rather than…