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Mario and his friends are starring in another sports game, Mario Sports Superstars, which is on the way to Nintendo 3DS in spring 2017, Nintendo announced today during a Nintendo Direct presentation. Mario Sports Superstars will feature five different sports: baseball, soccer, tennis, golf and horse racing. While the game doesn’t look like it’s intended to offer a simulation experience, it will be realistic in terms of how the…

With NFL roster-cutting having begun this week, many veterans, rookies and free agents across the league are without an employer and their playing future is uncertain. But there’s new hope thanks to a promising upstart that can connect them with off-the-field employment opportunities. Starters  is a platform  that provides football players (NFL)  access to an innovative community of sports tech and business connections – that can use their network of…

Updated September 01, 2016 16:02:12 Photo: The ASC says a lottery would help fund future Australian Olympic teams. (AP Photo: Jae C. Hong) The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) wants a national lottery to help fund the nation’s next Olympic team, after admitting the Rio squad fell short of expectations. The ASC wants more funding for Australian athletes and today proposed a replica of Great…

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By Peg Brickley, The Wall Street Journal Sports Authority executives will receive bonuses, despite the company’s bankruptcy and store closings. Sports Authority executives on Wednesday won the right to collect bonuses after a bankruptcy liquidation that erased some 14,000 jobs. Judge Mary Walrath cleared the company to pay up to $1.5 million to three unnamed senior executives over the protests of a federal bankruptcy watchdog, who called the bonus proposal unfair. With…

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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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