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Fox Sports Florida’s sideline reporter for Tampa Bay Rays and Orlando Magic broadcasts, Emily Austen, went on Barstool Sports’s daily Rundown show on Thursday, and proceeded to make a number of racist and anti-Semitic jokes. The Rundown, which was broadcast live on Facebook Live instead of being recorded like normal, then disappeared from Barstool’s Facebook page. On the 35-minute long broadcast, Austen said a number of terrible things that you…

Gordie Howe, the most legendary name in the history of professional hockey, died on Friday morning. He was 88.  Known simply as “Mr. Hockey,” Howe played 26 seasons in the NHL and six seasons in the World Hockey Association. He’s the all-time leader in games played in the NHL with 1,767. He’s second in career goals (801) and fourth in career points (1,850). He won four Stanley Cups with the…

Cape Town – A man who vented on Facebook after the announcement that sport teams that failed to transform were banned from bidding for or hosting major events, will now do community service to come to grips with challenges in disadvantaged communities. Capetonian Matthew Theunissen will do community service for sports development in a disadvantaged part of Cape Town as part of a settlement agreement, the SA Human Rights Commission…

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No one really cross shops a Ford Fusion and a BMW 3 Series. But now that we know it has a tire stomping 380 lb-ft of torque and costs under $34,000, could this new Ford Fusion Sport be the affordable, German-slaying American sedan we’ve been waiting for? http://jalopnik.com/the-facelifted… The Facelifted 2017 Ford Fusion Gets Sporty With A 325 HP Twin-Turbo V6 The Facelifted 2017 Ford Fusion Gets Sporty With A…

Bleacher Report said it’s about identifying and building trust with its young audience. “It’s very easy for people to say everyone at Bleacher Report must hate ESPN. Well. I’m 33 years old, so I grew up on ESPN and that’s how I identified myself as a sports fan,” said Rory Brown, president of Bleacher Report. “That’s not going to go away. … What is different is young people today are…

Getty Images The Browns have cobbled together a potentially mismatched mashup of football personnel, and a strong emphasis on analytics and sports science possibly conflicts with coach Hue Jackson’s more old-school, qualitative-over-quantitative approach. The first sign of a schism already has emerged, over the issue of padded practices in training camp. “Honestly, they got kind of mad at me,” Jackson told reporters on Tuesday regarding the sports science staff, via Mary Kay…

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Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct is facing a multimillion-pound bill in fines and back pay after the billionaire admitted his company had broken the law by failing to pay staff the national minimum wage. The concession, which was made as Ashley appeared in front of MPs investigating his firm’s treatment of its workers, confirmed the findings of a Guardian investigation last year in which undercover reporters exposed how the company was…

The world athletics task force that holds the fate of Russia’s track and field athletes in its hands ahead of the Rio Olympics has said new doping allegations that implicate the sports minister Vitaly Mutko are a “grave concern” and will be investigated as a “matter of urgency”. As the Russian authorities continue to try to prove they are serious about tackling the systemic doping issues outlined by an independent…

View photo . Kimbo Slice (Getty Images) In the beginning, it was almost as if Kimbo Slice was a caricature of a fighter. The story was almost too good to be true: A bodyguard for porn stars turned backyard brawler turned pro mixed martial arts fighter. Slice, whose birth name was Kevin Ferguson, died tragically on Tuesday at the way-too-young age of 42. Police said no foul play is suspected,…

Goalie Larry Singerman, 67, plays hockey two days a week, while his teammate John Guylas, 68, plays three to four times weekly. “It’s the best exercise you can get,” Guylas said. That might be true as their league organizer Paul LaGloire, who’s going strong, just turned 88. He started playing when he was 5 in Canada, played through high school, then amateur hockey. While it’s his passion, he didn’t have…

Media playback is not supported on this device Koeman to Everton is a huge gamble – Le Tissier Everton have agreed a deal with Premier League rivals Southampton that paves the way for Ronald Koeman to become their new manager. The Toffees will pay about £5m compensation for the 53-year-old Dutchman, who leaves Saints after two years in charge. Everton have been without a manager since they sacked Roberto Martinez…

Mike Ashley has admitted that Sports Direct effectively paid staff less than the national minimum wage and is in talks about compensating warehouse employees after a Guardian investigation last year that revealed the company was paying less than the legal minimum. Ashley admitted that at a “specific time” Sports Direct effectively paid workers less than the minimum wage because they were held back at the end of their shift and…

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Today’s main man will be Iain Wright, MP for Hartlepool and chairman of the business, innovation and skills committee. He’ll be giving a warm welcome, no doubt, to Mr Ashley, who wrote to the MP in March saying he was “disgusted to learn that you have adopted a stance that is deliberately antagonistic”. Mr Ashley then went on to accuse the committee chairman of “abusing Parliamentary procedure in an attempt…

ACROSS the world, team-sport competitions tend to be organised around one of two principles. Either teams play one another in a round-robin league, or they lock horns in a knockout competition that leaves only the winner standing. (Or, sometimes, a combination of the two.) At the end of it all, there is an easily identifiable winner. But not all follow this route. Some sports hold a number of one-off bilateral…