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You may as well cut the cord and watch the NBA playoffs and finals without a cable or satellite subscription. Channels are already pulling the plug on sports broadcasts as we know them. At the start of the National Basketball Association playoffs, I received a message from Chris Brantner, who goes by the handle Mr. Cable Cutter, asking if I’d…

John “Doomsday” Howard, who has a 23-12 record in his 13-year career of hitting guys until they cry mercy, rolls into an LA Fitness in the Boston suburbs. He’s three hours late to his workout, but not because he slept in. It had snowed that morning, the schools started late, and he needed to drop off his three daughters. “I got kids, man,” Howard says. Many professional athletes might hire…

International relations have been a priority for LA 2024 over the past few months, with representatives of Los Angeles’ Olympic bid committee traveling to visit sports officials around the world. Some of the meetings have been with International Olympic Committee members who will eventually vote to select a host for the 2024 Games. Others have focused on the international federations that govern each sport. On Friday, LA 2024 sport director…

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UK Sport has said it is aware of reported threats towards a senior figure in an Olympic sport and is offering support. The Daily Mail reported that the British performance director of a leading Olympic sport has received threats to himself and his family before the Rio Games in August. UK Sport, which funds Olympic and Paralympic sport, is offering assistance to the individual and the national governing body of…

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS 7 p.m. Eastern Conference first round, Game 5: Philadelphia at Washington » CSN, NBC Sports Network, WJFK (106.7 FM) 8 p.m. Eastern Conference first round, Game 5: New York Islanders at Florida » CNBC 9:30 p.m. Western Conference first round, Game 5: Minnesota at Dallas » NBC Sports Network 10:30 p.m. Western Conference first round, Game 5: San Jose at Los Angeles » CNBC NBA PLAYOFFS 7…

A third WNBA title, in five seasons, was a sweet enough prize for Minnesota Lynx guard Lindsay Whalen, who grew up west of Minneapolis and starred for the University of Minnesota in the early 2000s. But that evening’s revised post-title party plan, says Whalen, “brought the excitement to a whole other level.” Back in October, Prince unexpectedly showed up to Target Center in Minneapolis to watch the fifth and deciding…

Buy Photo Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis arrives in New York on Sunday for an eight day stay as vice chairman of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament committee.(Photo: Dave Wasinger/Lansing State Journal)Buy Photo Michigan State’s athletic department Thursday announced a 15-year agreement worth more than $150-million with FOX Sports for the school’s multimedia rights. The deal, which will begin during the 2016-17 academic year, will give Fox Sports access to…

print Prince’s death was felt throughout the world Thursday, including in the world of sports. The pop superstar was found dead at his home on Thursday in suburban Minneapolis, according to his publicist. He was 57. A short time after the news came out, the Golden State Warriors cranked Prince classics at shootaround while they prepared for Thursday night’s playoff game against the Rockets. Prince had appeared at a Warriors…

Prince performs during halftime at Super Bowl XLI in Miami 2007. (Chris O’Meara/AP) Prince, who died Thursday at the age of 57, honored the sports world with his presence a number of times over the years, usually letting his music do the speaking for him. Most memorably, he delivered the best halftime performance in Super Bowl history in 2007, when he rocked Miami’s Dolphin Stadium in a pouring rain. “Can…

5:10 PM ET print The death of musical legend Prince at his suburban Minneapolis home on Thursday at the age of 57 resonated throughout the sports world. According to Ethan Sherwood Strauss, the Warriors’ Stephen Curry started playing Prince on a stereo during the team’s shootaround Thursday. Teammates Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala jumped in with their song choices, which included “Purple Rain,” “When Doves Cry” and “Raspberry Beret.” Prince…

10:00 AM ET Comparing athletic accomplishments across sports ain’t easy. But we’re sports fans, and sports fans like to debate these things because, well, sports is fun to debate about. After all, if we’re arguing about our favorite fruit, sometimes we do need to compare apples and oranges. And as long as we’re treading on forbidden ground, why not try to compare some of the records from other major sports…

Nazara Games, a mobile game developer and publisher in India, has invested in London-based mobile game studio Mastermind Sports. Above: CricBet India is a small but fast-growing game market, and Nazara wants to be the leader in that growth. The amount of the investment wasn’t disclosed, but Nazara will have a 26 percent stake. Mumbai-based Nazara has also launched CricBet, a real-time prediction-based cricket game that sports fans can play while…

Where others may have seen nothing but a vacant auto body shop, Chas Wagner saw an opportunity to create a temporary place for people to showcase their artwork, play sports, and gather for events. Wagner, a Pittsburgh native who moved to the Boston area nearly four years ago, is in the midst of transforming the former Unlimited Auto Body Inc. building on Somerville Avenue, in Somerville, into what he’s dubbed…

If you ever want to see really impressive filmmaking, don’t load anything on the AFI top 100 list. Tune into football on any given Sunday. A game is a 3.5-hour event, but it only includes 11 minutes of action. The average play just lasts four seconds. The rest—the replays, the slow mos, the graphics, the cheerleaders—is all ganache. The NFL is more art than sport. Which is why when L.A….

Almost every sportswriter I know loves to romanticize about the old days — when being a beat writer allowed you to get to know the people you covered on a meaningful level. You developed a good working relationship, a give and take. Maybe the player would get angry with you for something you wrote, but you would talk it out and move on. I’m 29 and I have no idea…

Almost every sportswriter I know loves to romanticize about the old days — when being a beat writer allowed you to get to know the people you covered on a meaningful level. You developed a good working relationship, a give and take. Maybe the player would get angry with you for something you wrote, but you would talk it out and move on. I’m 29 and I have no idea…