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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – Sports legends Tom Brady and Serena Williams are worried about the next generation of athletes. They joined some of the industry’s most prominent names for a panel Wednesday night looking to draw attention to what was called a “financial crisis” facing youth sports programs in America. According to a study from the non-profit Up2Us, more than $3.5 billion has been slashed from school athletic programs since…

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…

The wealthiest schools in college sports are cashing in with high academic performances. Others are paying a stiff price for sub-par scores. The NCAA’s latest Academic Progress Rate numbers, released Wednesday, show that schools with less money continue to play catch-up even as athletes remain in school and work toward degrees at record rates. “I think that’s been a proven fact,” Southern University interim athletic director Roman Banks said following…

LONDON (AP) — Defending the integrity of athletics ahead of Sunday’s London Marathon, Kenyan runners insisted Wednesday that they run clean and don’t need to resort to doping in the pursuit of glory. “It’s a noble sport,” Eliud Kipchoge said as he prepares to defend his London title on Sunday. “We are really working hard in training and I can assure the general public that we are really clean as…

View photo . (AP) Curt Schilling, a former All-Star and World Series champion pitcher who transitioned into one of ESPN’s highest-profile baseball analysts, was fired Wednesday, just two days after commenting on and promoting a controversial anti-transgender meme on his Facebook page.  The meme dealt with the controversial public restroom laws, which have been on ballots in states across the country throughout the past year and were most recently a topic…

CBS Miami: Twitter | Facebook Are you ready to go the beach? As if Florida didn’t throw its year-round sunny, beach-worthy weather in the face of the rest of country enough already, the Sunshine State Athletic Conference and the Florida Region of USA Volleyball announced Wednesday that it has partnered to initiate beach volleyball as an official high school sport in the state. The SSAC High School Beach Volleyball League…

You may not follow Olympic qualifying. You may not know all the names of the athletes, or understand the rules of all the sports involved, but in many ways it doesn’t matter. Every four years you turn on the Olympics anyway and know, above all else, that these athletes have dedicated their lives in pursuit of a gold medal for themselves and for their country. But that’s not the case for 2013…

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 mad at you for something you wrote, but you would talk it out and move on. I’m 29 and I have no idea…

New York City was named the top sports host city.(Photo: Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports) New York City has received the 2016 SportBusiness Ultimate Sports City Award as the top sports host city in the world, according to NYC & Company, New York City’s marketing organization. The announcement was made at the annual SportAccord Convention in Lausanne, Switzerland. Ten finalists were chosen from a field of 150: Auckland, Calgary, Copenhagen,…

Sky Sports broadcast its first live event 25 years ago on Wednesday The market leaders now show five thousand hours of sport every month  Sky have tapped into the spirit of sport to create some amazing moments The innovations have been numerous and have changed sport for good  By Joe Bernstein for MailOnline Published: 04:07 EST, 20 April 2016 | Updated: 08:36 EST, 20 April 2016 30 View comments On…

WASHINGTON — Resting fewer than 150 miles from one another along the Eastern Seaboard, Washington and Philadelphia are natural sports rivals. Their professional teams share a division in baseball, football, hockey and soccer, and a conference in basketball. So it’s no surprise that, at times, tempers have boiled over both on the field and in the stands. We’ve taken a half dozen of the most memorable such occasions and ranked…

Racing legend Mario Andretti tells TMZ Sports … he kinda agrees with Bernie Ecclestone when it comes to women in F1 racing — “it’s clearly more of a men’s sport.” Ecclestone — widely considered the most powerful man in racing — made headlines this week when he said women are too weak to be successful F1 drivers … and “wouldn’t be taken seriously.” So, we called up Andretti — one…

The money that Rutgers spends — and loses — on its athletics program will be examined on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST. NJ Advance Media viewed an advance screening of the 15-minute segment entitled, “Arms Race.” With Jon Frankel reporting, the piece examines how the pursuit of winning on the athletic fields continues to drive up college costs and notes that Rutgers is among the…

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 mad at you for something you wrote, but you would talk it out and move on. I’m 29 and I have no idea…

The money that Rutgers spends — and loses — on its athletics program will be examined on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST. NJ Advance Media viewed an advance screening of the 15-minute segment entitled, “Arms Race.” With Jon Frankel reporting, the piece examines how the pursuit of winning on the athletic fields continues to drive up college costs and notes that Rutgers is among the…

by: GRAHAM DUNBAR, AP Sports Writer Updated: Apr 19, 2016 – 10:54 AM LAUSANNE, Switzerland — LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — International sports federations expressed concern Tuesday over problems with venues for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, including power failures at the gymnastics arena this week. Two top International Olympic Committee officials, meanwhile, will be dispatched to Rio for frequent visits to monitor the final preparations for South America’s first…

In sports, it’s an asset if you can play multiple positions. If you’re a sporting goods retailer, trying to do it all often ends in defeat. Sport Chalet learned that the hard way, abruptly announcing Saturday that it was closing all of its 47 stores. The La Canada Flintridge-based chain spent years battling financial troubles and struggled to keep pace with changing consumer tastes that made for exceptionally fierce competition…