World Sports
Sports Authority begins going-out-of-business sale at stores nationwide – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV
NEW YORK — The red signs are up — Sports Authority began its going-out-of-business sale months before it’s slated to close all 450 stores nationwide. Sports Authority started the sale Thursday just in time for Memorial Day weekend. “GOING OUT OF BUSINESS,” the retailer wrote on the top of its site. “Everything now up to 30% off original ticketed price.” The liquidation sale varies in each location. The company said it will close all…
Bo Jackson lends name to Hilliard sports facility – Columbus Dispatch
David Meeks admits he’s not an elite athlete, but he’s excited to help bring famous dual-sport pro Bo Jackson to Hilliard. “I was captain of the bowling team,” said Meeks, Hilliard’s economic-development director. Meeks has been negotiating to bring the Bo Jackson Elite Sports program to anchor a planned 100-acre sports complex on Cosgray Road in northwest Hilliard. It is proposed to be a $5.5 million, 129,000-square-foot facility with a…
TruSox: Inside the secret British sports brand worn by Gareth Bale, Owen Farrell and Miguel Cabrera – Telegraph.co.uk
“By November 2011, I felt like we had found a product that was ready,” he says. Through his contacts with Crystal Palace, Cherneski was able to send a pair to former Palace player Victor Moses. Within days he got a text back, asking for more. At the beginning of 2012, he flew to the UK and started to drive up and down the country, arranging meetings with players and giving…
Frank’s Place: Dark side of sports harder to ignore – Philly.com
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,…
If you don’t appreciate LeBron James, you hate sports – Sporting News
I’m beginning to think some sports fans hate LeBron James more than they love sports, and it’s a shame. MORE: Must-see conference finals photos Following the Cavaliers’ series-clinching 113-87 win against the Raptors in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday, you knew it was coming from ESPN’s Skip Bayless. The former junior varsity bench warmer just can’t help himself. He gets his rocks off on being hypercritical of…
Tottenham to play at Wembley in Champions League next season – BBC News
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…
Frank’s Place: Dark side of sports harder to ignore – Philly.com
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,…
Friday’s Sports in Brief – News & Observer
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 to play at Wembley in Champions League next season – BBC Sport
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…
Frank’s Place: Dark side of sports harder to ignore – Philly.com
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,…
The amount of money Nike and Under Armour are paying college sports teams is skyrocketing – Business Insider
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 —…
HB2 has uncertain impact on sports locker rooms – News & Observer
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…
Are Sports Authority’s close-out prices really worth the trip? – NJ.com
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…
The NCAA needs to make an example of Ole Miss – FOXSports.com
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…
Are Sports Authority’s close-out prices really worth the trip? – NJ.com
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…
Are Sports Authority’s close-out prices really a good deal? – NJ.com
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 vs. Toronto, a comparison of sports and other very important things – cleveland.com
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…
Spelling is a sport, and its athletes dab too – The Verge
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…
Sports’ cruel injury: the long road back from an ACL tear – Chicago Tribune
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,…