World Sports

From calling Kevin Love “a little bitch” to saying she “didn’t even know that Mexicans were that smart” and the “Chinese guy is always the smartest guy in the class,” a Fox Sports Florida sideline reporter’s derogatory spew likely has cost her a job. Emily Austen appeared on a Barstool Sports video Thursday, and made a series of racist remarks during the 35-minute broadcast. In another segment, Austen was asked whether…

Friday morning, hundreds of mourners and admirers gathered at an Ali memorial outside the Muhammad Ali Center in downtown Louisville. They added wreaths and banners and signs to a pile of others that had accumulated over the past week. Louisville resident Vanessa Moore and her daughter, 26-year-old Marcela, stood shoulder to shoulder and stared at the photos and drawings of the city’s hero. ‘We just can’t tear ourselves away,’ Vanessa…

In one corner, the House of Thani; in the other, Waffle House. As you might imagine, what rocks the socks off of Hattiesburg doesn’t necessarily translate in Doha. Or even London, much to John Duff’s chagrin. “When I was selling it internationally and on the discussion (phase) of it, I had to first start at the beginning and explain what college sports was,” Duff, the director of business development and…

Some 340,000 more people got active in the last 12 months – exercising one or more a week. And 75 per cent of that increase has come from women, in particular women over 40. That huge surge – equivalent to over 260,000 women and girls – actually means women are now as active as they were just after the London 2012 Olympic Games.  But we don’t just report the numbers. We spend a…

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…