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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…

Popular mixed martial arts fighter Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson has died. He was 42.  Slice was stricken at his South Florida home and taken Monday afternoon to the Northwest Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, a spokeswoman for the Coral Springs, Fla., Police told Yahoo Sports on Monday. He later died. Bellator president Scott Coker confirmed Slice’s death in a statement: “We are all shocked and saddened by the devastating and…

MOSCOW Russia will roll out an educational campaign to promote fair play in sport as it cleans up after a series of doping scandals, the sports ministry said on Monday. Russia was suspended from world athletics in November after an international investigation uncovered damning evidence of widespread doping and corruption. It is trying to convince sports authorities it is serious about rooting out cheats as it waits to hear on…

Bankrupt Sports Authority wants to shed its sponsorship agreements with nine professional sports teams — including the Denver Broncos and the Colorado Rockies. The Englewood-based sporting goods retailer is in the process of liquidating and late Friday asked a federal bankruptcy court to let it reject — court language for “get out of” — the nine agreements. The deals include benefits such as ticket-back advertisements, rotational signs, logo rights and mascot appearances. Related…

The tire-swallowing potholes are fixed. A few new luxurious hotels dot the skyline. Flowers and trees seem to have sprouted through cement, brightening downtown and making it almost unrecognizable to even the locals. Cleveland, rising once again after decades of decline, is ready to host a party — the Republicans. But before Donald Trump’s expected nomination at the national convention in July, when red, white and blue balloons — and…

Dear keepers of college football: Why do you keep making it so hard to love your sport? More to the point, why do you find it so hard to just do the right thing? I’ve been covering this sport for a decade-and-a-half, during which time I’ve seen more than my share of stupefying leadership. Remember the BCS? What a perennial train wreck that was. And conference realignment? Only you guys…

Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley is to be questioned by MPs on Tuesday over the treatment of staff at his retail group, with pay and working conditions among the issues expected to come under scrutiny. Last year, the Guardian placed two undercover reporters inside Sports Direct’s warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. They found that temporary workers there were receiving an effective hourly pay rate below the minimum wage, after being subjected…

Muhammad Ali’s coming out as an athletic, political, and media star happened in 1964, when the boxer, still using his given name, Cassius Clay, beat Sonny Liston to claim the heavyweight title. But the persona had been in development. During a victory over Doug Jones at Madison Square Garden a year earlier, the announcer Chris Schenkel called Clay “the man who has captured the imagination of everybody across the country,”…

For a man known as “Beast Mode,” news of Marshawn Lynch‘s retirement was quite the understatement. Amidst the Super Bowl 50 hype in February, the star running back for the Seattle Seahawks tweeted a photo of a pair of cleats hanging on a line and an emoji of a peace sign, and that was all. ✌🏿 pic.twitter.com/wesip4IhOR — Shawn Lynch (@MoneyLynch) February 8, 2016 Since then, Lynch has spoken…

Tiffany Bartholomew is all about building relationships. It’s what helped the St. David’s School senior navigate through high school while playing five different sports. Because she was one of about 625 Warriors roaming about the intimate St. David’s campus and its various playing fields, Bartholomew could put a name to nearly every face. She’ll attend Pfeiffer University next year to play her final seasons of organized softball, so the team…

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OAKLAND, Calif. – For the last two years, Draymond Green has been described as the heart and soul of the Golden State Warriors. Never has that label been more fitting than in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night, when Green’s energetic 28-point performance pulled the Warriors out of a sluggish start and led the team to a 110-77 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. “The way they’re playing…