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Mark McClusky, one of Wired’s top executives, is leaving to run digital for Sports Illustrated. If that news sounds familiar, there’s a reason: Last week, Joe Brown, who ran Wired’s website, left to run Popular Science. In McClusky’s case, he’s leaving after an 11-year run up Wired’s masthead; by the end of it he was the title’s head of operations, heading up product and biz dev. Like Brown, McClusky is…

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Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports have signed a new multiyear advertising and editorial agreement that they hope will provide a more robust competitor in a digital sports media landscape dominated by ESPN. Under the arrangement, Sports Illustrated, which is owned by magazine giant Time Inc., TIME 0.46 % and Fox Sports, owned by 21st Century Fox, FOX -0.51 % will share “significant” content, according to Rich Battista, president of Time…

OLYMPICS NEW YORK (AP) The Olympics in their final week were still golden for NBC. Once again, NBC’s nightly prime-time averages took the week’s top seven Nielsen slots. And NBC again left rival networks far behind in overall viewership. But a drop in Olympics viewers compared to the previous week was notable. So was the drop in TV viewership between the final seven nights of the Rio Olympics compared to…

The Rio Olympics were a watershed moment for women in sport, with many countries sending a record number of female athletes to the games. And despite some cringe-worthy examples of sexist reporting, the accomplishments of powerhouse women athletes like Lilly King, Katie Ledecky and the entire US Women’s Gymnastics team, are certain to move the needle not only for women in sport, but also for women in business. The bottom…

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Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images The funny thing about bias is that it’s the necessary basis of any opinion. And now that we’ve all had our quadrennial opportunity to reinvest in mildly-biased opinions on oft-ignored athletics, it’s time to talk about horse sports, and opinions about horse sports. When Deadspin readers accused Patrick Redford recently of disliking horse sports because he has little to no experience riding, they accurately identified the likely…

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The 2016 Summer Olympics are over, and the women of Team USA won by a landslide. Led by Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky, they won 61 medals, enough to put them at the top of the overall standings, behind China and Great Britain, and more than 25 million Americans turned on their televisions every night to watch them do it. Sponsors also paid dearly to reach that audience—which, like Team…

When Olympic speed skater Anastasia Bucsis realized she was attracted to women, it sent her into a spiral of depression. “I was very much alone and anxious and it affected my mental health,” Bucsis said during an interview with CBC Edmonton’s Radio Active. “A Catholic conservative, I really had no gay friends, and when I realized I was gay and grappling with that, and how that label was going to change my identity,…

Media playback is not supported on this device Rio Paralympics 2016: IPC ban Russian athletes doping scandal Russia will not compete at next month’s Paralympics in Rio after losing an appeal against a ban imposed for state-sponsored doping. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) upheld the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) ban on all Russian competitors. The IPC made the decision in light of the McLaren report, which detailed a…

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Despite promises of a ‘legacy’ and a million people being inspired to take up sport after 2012, there was a decrease in participation  Labour politician Lee Waters said sports clubs had been ‘brought to the brink’ by funding cuts while top athletes were ‘prioritised’  He said: ‘An obsession with medals risks the future of grassroots sports’ By Eleanor Harding and Mario Ledwith for the Daily Mail Published: 19:45 EST, 22…

A volunteer for the Special Olympics was dismayed at the pomp and show at the felicitation ceremony organised by the Telangana government for PV Sindhu at the Gachibowli stadium in Hyderabad on Monday. He told me how a few months back, when the national coaching camp ahead of the Special Olympics for softball and floor hockey was to be held, they asked for permission to use the stadium for practise….

“I’d get called a dyke a lot – people would shout it at me all the time and say I was a boy because I got into sport.” Marcelly Vitória de Mendonça, 16, has spent the morning jostling with 300 or so other schoolgirls who have been invited to the UN’s event on empowering young women at the City of Arts culture complex in Rio de Janeiro. She seems confident…

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Despite promises of a ‘legacy’ and a million people being inspired to take up sport after 2012, there was a decrease in participation  Labour politician Lee Waters said sports clubs had been ‘brought to the brink’ by funding cuts while top athletes were ‘prioritised’  He said: ‘An obsession with medals risks the future of grassroots sports’ By Eleanor Harding and Mario Ledwith for the Daily Mail Published: 19:45 EST, 22…

“I’d get called a dyke a lot – people would shout it at me all the time and say I was a boy because I got into sport.” Marcelly Vitória de Mendonça, 16, has spent the morning jostling with 300 or so other schoolgirls who have been invited to the UN’s event on empowering young women at the City of Arts culture complex in Rio de Janeiro. She seems confident…