World Sports

Here are five things we learned in Atlanta sports business this week: 1. Liberty Media’s reaction to the Braves’ poor start. John Malone, the billionaire chairman of Braves owner Liberty Media, was asked at a stockholders meeting Monday when the team, then 0-5, would win its first game. “It’ll be awhile,” Malone answered (accurately as it turned out). “Listen, we’re rebuilding.” With Liberty on the verge of issuing a separate…

uproxx Throughout the 1990s, Hollywood gave us an abundance of sports movies that spanned every major popular sport. Baseball and football were well-represented, of course, but we also saw plenty of movies that attempted to portray what life was like for athletes in less-popular sports like golf (Tin Cup), track and field (Without Limits), and even bowling (Kingpin). The look and feel of a sports movie is always important in…

New York City-based Modell’s Sporting Goods is also interested in ports Authority, which has 464 stores across the country, the people said. But family-owned Modell’s, whose stronghold is on the U.S. East Coast, has not yet decided whether it will participate in the auction, the people added. Dick’s, Academy Sports and Modell’s are jockeying for position as the sporting goods industry sees increased competition from new entrants such as Wal-Mart…

Why would anyone spend $24 million to buy a 1 percent stake in the New York Yankees? Minority ownership seems like a lose-lose proposition: A lot of money for very little power. For wealthy sports fans, though, it’s cool — and can be one heck of a tax shelter. Owning a piece of a team can create the kind of on-paper losses that cut a wealthy owner’s bill to the Internal…

CHICAGO — WGN Morning News sports anchor Pat Tomasulo tells us how he REALLY feels about Kobe Bryant’s retirement in a video that has since gone viral on Facebook. “I’m sorry, but sometimes this job makes me snap,” Tomasulo wrote with his post on his Facebook page. In less than 24 hours, Tomasulo’s epic video rant was viewed over 100,000 times and shared nearly 1,000 times. “What a crazy night it hot sports takes,” Tomasulo begins….

View photo . Zhou Qi, center, defends in a game two years ago. (Getty Images) Zhou Qi, a 7-foot-2 prospect in the Chinese Basketball Association, will declare for the 2016 NBA draft, league sources told The Vertical. Zhou has the potential to be a first-round selection, and NBA front-office executives have closely monitored the center’s development in his two seasons with Xinjiang. Zhou will submit paperwork for early entry and…

‘Every club lives on its history…apart from Chelsea. They haven’t got any!’ There were handbags over the airwaves on Thursday night as Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher and Sports Bar co-host Jason Cundy rowed live on air following another stunning European night for the Reds. In the car on the way home from a rocking Anfield, regular talkSPORT listener Carra was ‘high as a kite’ after watching his beloved Reds fight…

Academy Sports + Outdoors and Dick’s Sporting Goods have expressed interest in buying the assets of rival U.S. retailer Sports Authority that are on sale in a bankruptcy auction, according to people familiar with the matter. The auction will determine whether Sports Authority, which opened its first store in Florida in 1987 and expanded nationwide, will be sold off in pieces, or its creditors will hold on to it and…

ASU has just won a national championship in a sport you may have never heard of, e-sports. Posted:Apr 14 2016 06:30PM MST Updated:Apr 14 2016 06:40PM MST ASU’s e-sports team wins competition \n \n Arizona News ASU’s e-sports team wins competition ASU has just won a national championship in a sport you may have never heard of, e-sports. TEMPE, Ariz. (KSAZ) – ASU has just won a national championship in…

By Jennifer Graham, Deseret News Although football gets all the bad press, it’s not the cause of most concussions in the United States. Horseback riding is. In its April edition, the journal Neurosurgical Focus reported that horseback-riding accidents were the chief cause of emergency-room visits for sports-related traumatic brain injuries. Researchers analyzed ER visits between 2003 and 2012 in six categories: contact sports (such as football or soccer), roller sports,…

Media playback is not supported on this device Liverpool comeback was emotional – Klopp Liverpool won a game that will be talked about for generations – a Europa League quarter-final against Borussia Dortmund that will live forever in the memory of all at Anfield. Emotion. Drama. Excitement. Brilliant football. Noise. Colour. And all this even before Liverpool’s Dejan Lovren rose high at the far post in front of The Kop…

To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser. To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below. Enabling Cookies in Internet Explorer 7, 8 & 9 Open the Internet Browser Click Tools> Internet Options>Privacy>Advanced Check Override automatic cookie handling For First-party Cookies and Third-party Cookies click Accept Click OK and OK Enabling Cookies in Firefox Open the…

Media captionDrone races will soon be broadcast on ESPN’s TV network At Wembley last night I experienced what could be the sport of the future. Tiny drones raced out of the players’ tunnel and did three laps of the stadium, weaving their way through a slalom course. The races were hard fought and – according to the commentators – full of thrills and spills. The stadium was empty, apart from…

JD Sports has revealed a 45% jump in annual profits after a surge in demand for women’s sports clothing. Sales at the group’s sports fashion stores, which include JD Sports, Size? and Scotts, rose by 11.6% in the year to 30 January as the company said it had also benefited from being the “dominant” retailer for top brands’ new product launches. “Because we are the aspirational retailer we get first…

The Washington Post declares that Ted Cruz “is close to ensuring that Donald Trump cannot win the GOP nomination on a second ballot.”  Which, if true, would mean Donald Trump’s only shot would be to win it on the first try. But wait! RNC rules committee member Randy Evans told “Morning Joe” yesterday that Trump will be the nominee if he manages to win 1,100 delegates—in short, that 1,100…

LOS ANGELES – Midnight had passed, and Kobe Bryant didn’t want to leave the Staples Center court. Come on, one more photo. Everyone push closer. Smile now. The black suit he wore into the night was gone, replaced with a pullover Los Angeles Lakers sweatshirt. All around him, his wife and daughters, there were confetti and purple and gold balloons. Everyone pushed closer, the flashes flickering, and soon Bryant’s eyes…

Kevin Barrows is a New Jersey man who brought down mobsters in the late 1990s and early 2000s working as an FBI agent in New York. Now a private investigator, Barrows’ new quest will be searching with sports reporter Lauren Gardner for sports treasures in a new six-episode reality TV show on “Sports Detectives,” which will debut April 24 on the Smithsonian Channel, Barrows go on the hunt for priceless…

There’s a hotel in Williamsburg—the expensive part of Brooklyn that still feels ‘edgy’ to a certain set—called the Wythe. It’s a trendy restored warehouse that often hosts hip soirees and parties for famous brands. On a freezing January evening, its exposed-brick walls and man-bunned bartenders hosted a launch party for a new sports league, called The Drone Racing League. It’s the brainchild of Nick Horbaczewski, who previously helped turn Tough…

Ireland’s most popular sports show and the winner of a record nine PPI radio awards Monday to Thursday from 7-10pm, Fridays from 7-9pm, Saturdays from 1-6pm and Sundays from 12-6pm Show page

In contrast, e-sports games are unending tests of skill and dedication, not the intricately crafted but finite experiences of narratively rich blockbuster titles. E-sports games are more similar to basketball or chess than to The Last of Us, which unfolds like an interactive movie. In Dota 2, you enter the matchmaking queue to look for other people to play with. After choosing their characters, or “heroes,” each team of five…