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Sportle wants to make it easier for sports fans to stream live games. Continue Reading Below Think of Sportle as the Google of streaming sports. On Sportle, fans can find and watch live sports events streamed by different TV networks, all in one place. Sportle launched its website, Sportle.tv, in February. This week, the company introduced an app for Apple’s (AAPL) iOS devices. An Android app is expected to…

Sports fandom is not rational, yet the yearning for a team and its animal logo remains a precious thing that gets passed down from generation to generation. It was the same experience for me, except my father’s sports allegiances and proclivities are even more bizarre than your average fan’s. But over the years I’ve come to understand and appreciate it all. With Father’s Day approaching, I took a moment to…

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A rendering of the planned Baylor Scott & White Sports Therapy & Research at The Star. (Courtesy Perkins + Will) The new sports medicine facility being planned in Frisco can trace its beginnings back decades to the shoulder injury of a high school quarterback from Arkansas named Stephen Jones. Baylor Scott & White teams with Cowboys on Frisco sports medicine center Cowboys’ new ‘The Star’ in Frisco on track for…

Russian athletes have been banned from competing in international competitions since November 2015 Anti-doping officials in Russia are being stopped from testing athletes and threatened by security services, says a World Anti-Doping Agency report. The report was published two days before athletics’ governing body rules on whether Russian competitors can take part in the Rio Olympics this summer. In November, Russia’s athletes were banned after a Wada report highlighted widespread…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment In April, Cleveland Cavaliers guard Matthew Dellavedova was quietly instructed by the NBA to stop wearing a device called a Whoop on his wrist because the league bans the use of wearable technology during games. Why the NBA slapped the wrist of Matthew Dellavedova ESPN’s Tom Haberstroh explores the coming collective bargaining fight over wearable technology in the NBA. Report: MLB approves players to…

Why Does Everyone Want to Bring Sports to Las Vegas? Getty Images/Ringer Illustration By the end of the month, Las Vegas will almost certainly have an NHL team. Hockey! In Vegas! The city may also get an NFL team, with the Raiders pledging $500 million toward a stadium there and earning the tacit approval of Roger Goodell. There has also been discussion of an NBA team in the future, and…

Two main things are abuzz at the conference. First, is there really going to be a merger between DraftKings and FanDuel? And second, will New York state politicians legalize daily fantasy sports before their session ends on Thursday. “It’s a turbulent time for the industry,” Paul Charchian, the association’s president, told the 300-plus members in attendance. After mammoth growth in 2015, fantasy participation stabilized in 2016. While fantasy sports participation…

x Embed x Share Former NBA player Eddie Johnson on how the Cavs and Warriors will approach what could be the final game of the NBA playoffs. USA TODAY Sports Cleveland Cavaliers fans cheer during the first quarter against the Golden State Warriors in Game 4 of the NBA Finals.(Photo: Bob Donnan, USA TODAY Sports) Let’s take a trip down memory lane. On Sept. 8, 1995, the Cleveland Indians clinched…

Sports by Lindsay Gibbs Jun 14, 2016 4:13 pm CREDIT: Darron Cummings, AP Former Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight talks about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at Old National Events Plaza, Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Evansville, Ind. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump only wants “winners” associated with his campaign, and therefore, he only wants “winners” to share the stage with him in Cleveland…

Sports teams are getting into a business that they used to both envy and scorn: ticket scalping. The National Hockey League’s Los Angeles Kings last month emailed a letter to ticket brokers about the team’s new resale policy: Brokers who want to buy season tickets must pay slightly more than fans do for the seats; can buy only a limited number; and can resell them electronically only through a platform…

Excuse me, @evanfournier10. Over here… Need to ask you a few questions, sir. Thanks. #magic #foxsports A photo posted by Emily Austen (@emilyausten) on Feb 23, 2016 at 1:33pm PST Emily Austen, the Fox Sports Florida sideline reporter who lost her job due to a string of offensive and racist remarks she made on a Barstool Sports video last week, began her apology tour Sunday — but some media experts…

While Sutton predicts that fans won’t be bothered by another instance of sponsorship in sports, the true test of jersey advertisements will be when teams with iconic, minimalist uniforms, such as the Lakers or the Celtics, announce sponsorship deals. “Those are the ones that are going to draw attention, because those are the fabric of American sport,” Sutton says, adding, “If there’s going to be a large outcry, it’s going…

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I’ll never forget the first time I saw a naked woman who wasn’t my mum. I was 12; she was a grown-up and standing in the showers at our local swimming pool, soaping her pubic hair into a lather. I don’t remember anything about her face, just her body: sinewy with some wobbly bits, and a big bush down below. At the time the sight of women displaying their bodies…

Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. plans to award $1 million over the next year to top players of its latest “Madden NFL” title. The prize money is a selling point for a new, four-tournament series beginning this fall, marking the first e-sports initiative from the nation’s second-most-profitable gamemaker since it launched a competitive gaming division in December. The “Madden NFL 17” Championship Series, announced Sunday, comes two days before the…

The sports world reacted strongly Sunday to the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Baseball teams across the country held moments of silence after a gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday. At least 50 people were killed and the gunman died in a gunfight with SWAT officers, according to police. “We begin with our thoughts and…

 Golden State Warriors All-Star Draymond Green has been suspended for Game 5 of the NBA Finals after collecting his fourth flagrant foul point of the 2016 playoffs in an altercation with LeBron James late in Game 4. The NBA announced the decision on Sunday to level a flagrant-1 after Green struck James in the groin with 2:48 left in the Warriors’ 108-97 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night….

Media playback is not supported on this device Euro 2016: England 1-1 Russia highlights England’s latest failure to start a European Championship with victory will be overshadowed by two days of violence and ugly scenes that brought shame to the opening exchanges of Euro 2016. Manager Roy Hodgson’s concerns will be sporting ones as England’s carelessness in front of goal and his decision to substitute man-of-the-match Wayne Rooney in a…