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DENVER —  It’s the end of the road for Sports Authority. Instead of cutting back or restructuring, the Englewood-based company will now close down all stores across the country, including the 3 in Denver. The sporting goods giant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March. On Sunday, signs were posted at the Broadway Sports Authority advertising big markdowns on every item. Forbes reports that Sports Authority is more than one…

A TV sports anchor in Nashville paid homage to the passing of Prince by infusing the music icon’s lyrics into a recent broadcast. 25 greatest Prince songs ever As iconic for his overt sexuality and gender-bending wardrobe as his infectious hooks, Prince leaves behind some of the greatest songs to ever gr… Unfortunately, the on-air tribute apparently cost him his job. The Tennessean reports that WZTV Fox-17 sports anchor Dan…

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The twin failures of Sports Authority and Sport Chalet is not about weak consumer spending or traditional merchants’ growing competition from online shopping. This is a tale about the slow, agonizing death of the concept of a supermarket selling anything but groceries. Sports Authority and Sport Chalet – with in a combined 59 stores in the region – will both be shut and liquidated through their respective owners’…

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Leicester City started the Premier League season as a 5000-1 underdog to win the Premier League. With only three games remaining, the Foxes are still top of the league with a seven-point lead. Only 270 minutes away, Leicester City is on the verge of completing the biggest upset in recorded sports history. [ WATCH LIVE: Manchester United vs. Leicester City on Sunday at 9 a.m. ET ] Earlier in 2016,…

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April 30, 2016, 8:12 AM|Sports fans can seem like a crazy bunch, but a closer look reveals they might not be after all. Sports Illustrated executive editor Jon Wertheim joins “CBS This Morning: Saturday” to discuss the new book he co-authored called “This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon.”

By Douglas A. McIntyre April 30, 2016 9:40 am EDT Despite news about the terrible harm of concussions and the cheating of major players like the New England Patriot’s Tom Brady, NFL games are among the most widely watched among all sports in the world. In a recent Harris brand evaluation, the National Football League was ranked as the best Sports League Brand. The NFL beat every sports organization from…

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Photo via AP Ohio State’s Eli Apple is one of the top cornerbacks available in this week’s NFL draft. But he’s not, in fact, the most impressive talent to emerge from his own family. That honor is reserved for his mom, Annie Apple, who is a LeBron James-, Andrew Luck-type superstar-in-the-making at the all-important position of Sports Mom. There are many different qualities one looks for in a Sports Mom….

A video of male sports fans reading “real comments about women sports reporters to their face” has been watched online by millions of people. The team behind Just Not Sports, a podcast dedicated to sports culture, asked “a mix of people,” including friends and family, to read mean and often harassing tweets to sports journalists Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro. “Sarah Spain sounds like a nagging wife on TV today,”…

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It’s BBC Sport and A Question of Sport’s weekly quiz – have you been paying attention to what’s been going on in the world of sport in the past week? Sport quiz of the week It’s been another busy week of sport – our quiz starting with Harry Potter and ending with the FA Cup. At the end of it all your score will match a side to feature in…

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Photo via AP Ohio State’s Eli Apple is one of the top cornerbacks available in this week’s NFL draft. But he’s not, in fact, the most impressive talent to emerge from his own family. That honor is reserved for his mom, Annie Apple, who is a LeBron James-, Andrew Luck-type superstar-in-the-making at the all-important position of Sports Mom. There are many different qualities one looks for in a Sports Mom….

Everyone else at ESPN is the problem, not Curt Schilling. That was the controversial former pitcher and broadcaster’s take on Thursday. He isn’t racist or homophobic or transphobic, but others at the network are. “Some of the most racist things I’ve ever heard have come out of people that are on the air at ESPN,” Schilling said, according to Newsday. “They’re some of the biggest racists in sports commentating. “You…

Prince Harry has joined a star-studded ceremony to mark achievements in the Sports Industry at Battersea Evolution. The 31-year-old Royal brought six former and current Invictus Games competitors to the glittering event at Battersea Evolution. Looking dapper in his tuxedo, he grinned broadly as he hugged each of them before posing for pictures with JJ Chalmers, Paul Vice, Stuart Robinson, Luke Darlington, Michaela Richards and Sam Stocks. The UK team…

Skip Bayless is jumping ship from ESPN and will land at Fox Sports. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Paley Center for Media) ESPN announced earlier this week that hot-take enthusiast Skip Bayless would be leaving the network when his contract is up in August, with Deadspin’s Kevin Draper and Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch both reporting that Bayless would be heading for Fox Sports. It’s not yet known what Bayless’s role will…

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