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Cormac Byrne Twitter Email Published 07/04/2016 | 12:56 0 Comments Share Facebook Twitter Google Email Conor McGregor. Photo: Getty Images The Irish Sports Council has conducted testing on Irish UFC fighters despite not recognising Mixed Martial Arts as a sport. MMA does not receive any government fundung because it is not recognised by the Irish Sports Council. That stance may be about to change after the Council revealed in its…

Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz said Tuesday they’ll let students help decide whether to keep or scrap the school’s NCAA sports programs, which could mean less work for its beloved mascot: the banana slug. “Our intercollegiate athletics program is at a crossroads. Over the last several years, the campus has had to make hard choices about how to spend our limited resources,” university spokesman Scott Hernandez-Jason told Fox News….

Fantasy football, and every other form of fantasy sports, amounts to illegal gambling in Tennessee, according to a new opinion from the Tennessee Attorney General.(Photo: Getty Images / iStockphoto) Any fantasy sports contest amounts to “illegal gambling” in Tennessee, argues state Attorney General Herbert Slatery in a new opinion released Wednesday. The sweeping opinion covers all fantasy sports, the massive industry where contestants choose individual players from professional sports teams to compose…

Wolfsburg are competing in their first Champions League quarter-final Wolfsburg stunned an out-of-sorts Real Madrid by comfortably beating the Spanish team in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie. The hosts were awarded a controversial penalty when Casemiro was deemed to have fouled Andre Schurrle, and Ricardo Rodriguez converted from the spot. Real were poor defensively and a rapid attack ended with Bruno Henrique setting up Max Arnold…

I respect and enjoy women’s sports – particularly women’s basketball and women’s soccer. Still in the last week, two storylines involving those sports have made me feel chauvinistic because I don’t support the premise of them. Last Friday, five members of the United States Women’s National Team filed a wage discrimination lawsuit against the…

6 April 2016 – Sport has an essential role to play in supporting the achievement of the post-2015 development goals, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as he observed the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. “Sport is a unique and powerful tool for promoting dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of every member of the human family,” he said in an…

I respect and enjoy women’s sports – particularly women’s basketball and women’s soccer. Still in the last week, two storylines involving those sports have made me feel chauvinistic because I don’t support the premise of them. Last Friday, five members of the United States Women’s National Team filed a wage discrimination lawsuit against the…

The word “Zlatan” – meaning supreme skill coupled with audacious confidence – has long been part of the football lexicon. How many five-a-side footballers have described their own moment of breathtaking quality as “doing a Zlatan”? Indeed, Ibrahimovic is so good he has his own verb in the Swedish dictionary – “zlatanera”, which translates as “to Zlatan” and means “to dominate”. But sport is not just sublime beauty and outrageous…

Fantasy football, and every other form of fantasy sports, amounts to illegal gambling in Tennessee, according to a new opinion from the Tennessee Attorney General.(Photo: Getty Images / iStockphoto) Any fantasy sports contest amounts to “illegal gambling” in Tennessee, argues state Attorney General Herbert Slatery in a new opinion released Wednesday. The sweeping opinion covers all fantasy sports, the massive industry where contestants choose individual players from professional sports teams to compose…

by Emme Logan 6h ago mtv founders contributor As a 5-foot-3 girl at a big SEC school, I get a lot of weird looks when I tell people that I’m a Sports Studies major. Even though I can probably tell you more about sports than the football player who sat next to you in class, I feel my program failed me. My school holds a special place in my heart,…

In September 1991, Moldavia was hit by floods that killed hundreds of people. I was general manager of the German football club Werder Bremen at the time, and we were about to travel to Romania for a European Cup match against Bacău. On learning of the disaster, we decided to charter a truck with relief and medical supplies. Football helped to bring a glimmer of hope to the people affected…

by Emme Logan 43m ago mtv founders contributor As a 5’3″ girl at a big SEC school, I get a lot of weird looks when I tell people that I’m a Sports Studies major. Even though I can probably tell you more about sports than the football player who sat next to you in class, I feel my program failed me. My school holds a special place in my heart,…

April 5, 2016 11:36 a.m. ET Here is a not-so-hidden hidden truth about sports: most of us watch a lot of stinkytown garbage. We really do. We love to rhapsodize about the good stuff, the great stuff—the Game 7s, the overtime thrillers, the buzzer beaters—but for every example of greatness, we will watch a hundred sporting contests better suited for an alleyway dumpster. Maybe a few hundred. I’m not saying…

Twitter is finally graduating from the second screen. The social network announced Tuesday that will live-stream 10 NFL Thursday Night Football games for free this fall. The games will be simultaneously broadcast on NBC or CBS. For Twitter, which beat out larger digital players such as Amazon and Verizon for the streaming rights, the games could be a huge boon. Twitter user growth has stalled out, keeping investors pessimistic about…

April 5, 2016 11:36 a.m. ET Here is a not-so-hidden hidden truth about sports: most of us watch a lot of stinkytown garbage. We really do. We love to rhapsodize about the good stuff, the great stuff—the Game 7s, the overtime thrillers, the buzzer beaters—but for every example of greatness, we will watch a hundred sporting contests better suited for an alleyway dumpster. Maybe a few hundred. I’m not saying…

The Panthers, meanwhile, rolled into February’s Super Bowl with a 17-1 record and as a 5.5-point favorite. The Denver Broncos befuddled the Charlotte-based team’s offense on the way to a 24-10 win. Clemson, located a couple hours southwest of Charlotte in South Carolina, went undefeated through 14 games before losing to Alabama in January. The Tigers were 6.5-point underdogs and lost 45-40. But it’s not all grim for sports fans…

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Cedar Point will begin construction on its new Cedar Point Sports Center this Friday.(Photo: Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio) Cedar Point is about to get sporty. The Sandusky, Ohio-based amusement park will begin construction on its new Cedar Point Sports Center this Friday. Phase one of the development project, located on outside the park on Cleveland Road in Sandusky, will include an outdoor sporting facility called Sports Force Parks bringing together nine multi-purpose, synthetic turf fields, four…

ENLARGE April 5, 2016 11:36 a.m. ET Here is a not-so-hidden hidden truth about sports: most of us watch a lot of stinkytown garbage. We really do. We love to rhapsodize about the good stuff, the great stuff—the Game 7s, the overtime thrillers, the buzzer beaters—but for every example of greatness, we will watch a hundred sporting contests better suited for an alleyway dumpster. Maybe a few hundred. I’m not…

In a tournament that’s been played by everyone from Wilt Chamberlain to Bill Russell to Lew Alcindor to Bill Walton to David Thompson to Ralph Sampson to Michael Jordan to Christian Laettner to Tim Duncan to Carmelo Anthony to Kevin Durant to Anthony Davis and tens of thousands more in between, it might be Kris Jenkins, of all people, who goes down in history as taking the most famous shot…