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Tottenham’s new 61,000-seater stadium is expected to be completed in two years Tottenham have reached a deal to play their Champions League home games at Wembley next season. The Premier League club also has the option to play all home league and cup matches, as well as any European games, at the national stadium during the 2017-18 campaign. Spurs are having a new £400m stadium built next to their existing…

Time and history have long since confirmed Maxim Gorky’s dim view of the Soviet Union. So perhaps we ought to pay a little more attention to something the Russian novelist said about sports. “Sport,” Gorky wrote in 1928, “has a single clear purpose: to make people even more stupid than they are.” (Before anyone asks,…

PRO BASKETBALL TORONTO (AP) — LeBron James scored 33 points, Kevin Love had 20 points and 12 rebounds and the Cleveland Cavaliers secured their second straight trip to the NBA Finals by beating the Toronto Raptors 113-87 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday night. It’s the third finals appearance in team history for the Cavaliers. Cleveland lost to Golden State in six games last year and…

Tottenham’s new 61,000-seater stadium is expected to be completed in two years Tottenham have reached a deal to play their Champions League home games at Wembley next season. The Premier League club also has the option to play all home league and cup matches, as well as any European games, at the national stadium during the 2017-18 campaign. Spurs are having a new £400m stadium built next to their existing…

Time and history have long since confirmed Maxim Gorky’s dim view of the Soviet Union. So perhaps we ought to pay a little more attention to something the Russian novelist said about sports. “Sport,” Gorky wrote in 1928, “has a single clear purpose: to make people even more stupid than they are.” (Before anyone asks,…

On Wednesday, UCLA reached a deal with Under Armour that would pay the school $280 million over 15 years to wear and use Under Armour apparel and equipment. It is the largest deal in college-sports history and shows that the value of these types of deals is skyrocketing. In 2014, Notre Dame, arguably the most recognizable brand in college sports, struck its own then record deal with Under Armour. That deal —…

Among the questions that John Swofford, the ACC commissioner, has addressed about North Carolina’s House Bill 2, this one might have been most difficult to answer: Was he concerned, he was asked recently, about how the law might affect access to sports locker rooms? HB2, as it’s more well known, has created nationwide controversy. One part of the law requires people to use the bathroom of the gender specified on…

SPRINGFIELD — Red and yellow signs advertise the sale in all caps. “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS,” blares one. “EVERYTHING MUST GO,” yells another. Sports Authority’s Springfield store is playing up the going-out-of-business sale that began this week at 21 company locations in New Jersey. The sports retailer has said its 463 stores across the country will close by the end of August.  In a news release, Sports Authority touted the “unprecedented values” it would sell its merchandise at before…

We all know the NCAA system is broken when it comes to college football. The sport is a billion-dollar industry, but the employees of the companies that make up that industry aren’t fairly compensated for their work. That should change in the future, but for the past few decades, that’s been the reality, and it’s starkest in the Power Five conferences. In this flawed system, the incentive to cheat is…

SPRINGFIELD — Red and yellow signs advertise the sale in all caps. “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS,” blares one. “EVERYTHING MUST GO,” yells another. Sports Authority’s Springfield store is playing up the going-out-of-business sale that began this week at 21 company locations in New Jersey. The sports retailer has said its 463 stores across the country will close by the end of August.  In a news release, Sports Authority touted the “unprecedented values” it would sell its merchandise at before…

SPRINGFIELD — Red and yellow signs advertise the sale in all caps. “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS,” blares one. “EVERYTHING MUST GO,” yells another. Sports Authority’s Springfield store is playing up the going-out-of-business sale that began this week at 21 company locations in New Jersey. The sports retailer has said its 463 stores across the country will close by the end of August.  In a news release, Sports Authority touted the “unprecedented values” it would sell its merchandise at before…

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – We compare the Toronto and Cleveland metro areas for sports and others things of interest as the NBA playoff series between the Toronto Raptors and the Cleveland Cavaliers moves back to Toronto for Game 6. Which city has the tallest building? How much bigger is Toronto’s population. What about fun things like comedy or trivial things about the longest streets? On the following slides, we compare the…

About 22 years ago, ESPN made the fateful decision to air the later rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest on TV. In including the act of spelling difficult-to-spell words in front of an audience of mostly family members, ESPN was signaling then and there that those contestants are, and forever would be, considered athletes. (Case closed on that front, I’m afraid. No way around it.) And we all know…

When Cubs left fielder Kyle Schwarber collided with Dexter Fowler last month and was carted off the field with a torn left ACL, it was a reminder of one of sports most painful truths. “It’s a cruel, cruel game sometimes,” manager Joe Maddon said afterward. There was another reminder this spring when Illinois wide receiver Mikey Dudek tore his right ACL for the second-straight season during spring practices. Shortly after,…

Briles had received a 10-year contract extension in 2013. The new deal had him being paid more than $4 million to start. Briles’ on-field work since arriving at Baylor after the 2007 season has bordered on remarkable, ranking with Bill Snyder (Kansas State) and Gary Barnett (Northwestern) in terms of program building. “The job that Art is doing on Baylor is going to be viewed as one of the greatest…

Talks between Jose Mourinho and Manchester United have lasted three days A deal has been agreed for Jose Mourinho to become Manchester United’s new manager, after three days of talks. Negotiations between Mourinho’s agent Jorge Mendes and senior United officials have concluded, although no contract has been signed. An official announcement from the club is expected on Friday. The Portuguese will replace Dutchman Louis van Gaal, who was sacked on…

Well, Los Angeles is really an NFL town again. Sure, the return of the Rams was a major milestone in welcoming back America’s most popular sport, but this week’s announcement that LA would host the 2021 Super Bowl truly solidified the NFL’s commitment to the city as a viable market. With all four major sports (plus soon to be two MLS teams), we’re a real sports town again. I can…

Screenshot via PTI It would be soul-crushing to read let alone write about every dogshit-stupid thing ESPN does, but this one has gone through the ESPN car wash, providing for ample discussion across the company’s platforms, so here we are. http://deadspin.com/how-espn-manuf… How ESPN Pulled A Bullshit Colin Kaepernick Story Out Of Thin Air How ESPN Pulled A Bullshit Colin Kaepernick Story Out Of Thin Air How ESPN Pulled A Bullshit…