World Sports

Sky has won exclusive rights to show Formula One racing from 2019, the first time that the vast majority of races will only be available to pay-TV subscribers. Sky already broadcasts all 21 grands prix live, but Channel 4 also has rights to show 10 races a year after striking a three-year deal thought to be worth as much as £35m a year. Channel 4 had picked up the rights…

The first time I ever went to Cambridge, I stood at a bar waiting to be served and realised that the man in front of me was Mark Cox, the UK’s top-ranked tennis player at the time. As an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, I shared some philosophy tutorials with a man called Ray Weedon. I knew that he played tennis and represented South Africa in the Davis Cup,…

(Noel Vasquez/Getty Images) Mandi Koba, the woman who has accused former Phoenix Suns star Kevin Johnson of molesting her when she was 16, spoke for the first time on camera in an episode of HBO’s “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” that premiered Tuesday night. Koba repeated the allegations that have been aired by numerous outlets over the past years: That Johnson took her clothes off, fondled her and showered with…

RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil’s Sports Minister George Hilton has been pushed out of his job just five months before the country hosts the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Presidential Chief of Staff Jaques Wagner said on Wednesday. Hilton will likely be replaced by Ricardo Leyser, a senior official in the sports ministry who has been managing Olympic preparations, Wagner said in a wide-ranging news briefing with foreign media in…

Drivers want a ‘clear masterplan’ for the future of Formula 1 Formula 1 drivers have demanded change at the top of the sport, saying its decision-making process is “obsolete and ill-structured”. Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA) directors Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel and Alex Wurz have written a letter on behalf of the drivers. It “urges the owners and stakeholders of F1 to restructure its governance”. Many issues can be traced…

(Noel Vasquez/Getty Images) Mandi Koba, the woman who has accused former Phoenix Suns star Kevin Johnson of molesting her when she was 16, spoke for the first time on camera in an episode of HBO’s “Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel” that premiered Tuesday night. Koba repeated the allegations that have been aired by numerous outlets over the past years: That Johnson took her clothes off, fondled her and showered with…

Hyundai has executed a winning game plan to score mind- and market share in America by utilizing its sports marketing campaigns. Continue Reading Below Hyundai Motor America, the U.S. subsidiary of the South Korean automaker, has aggressively moved in to sponsor and associate itself (in order of spend) with some of the most mainstream American brands: the National Football League, the PGA TOUR, and NCAA College Football. “Sports…

Acura today unveiled the restyled and refreshed 2017 MDX luxury SUV featuring bold new styling, added luxury features and available Sport Hybrid Super Handling-All Wheel Drive™ (SH-AWD®) powertrain technology. The 2017 Acura MDX will be equipped with AcuraWatch™ on all grades, making MDX the first luxury SUV in its class to offer these advanced safety and driver-assistive technologies, including automatic emergency braking, as standard features. The 2017 MDX is slated…

Phife Dawg died on Wednesday. It was horrible news to wake up to for a lot of people; A Tribe Called Quest isn’t just one of the most important acts in the history of hip-hop — they were one of the best. Now, that’s past tense. The hope was always that the three of them would eventually figure stuff out enough to record more, and that Phife would be healthy enough to…

Sports Direct has been forced to clarify its profit expectations for the year after its founder, Mike Ashley, admitted in a newspaper interview that the retailer was “not trading very well”. In a statement to the stock exchange on Wednesday morning, Sports Direct said it expected annual earnings to be near the bottom of the £380m to £420m range it published when it blamed warm weather for poor trading over…

Following a nearly 20-year battle, New York finally has lifted the ban on mixed martial arts, joining the other 49 states that already allow and regulate the sport. The vote went down on Tuesday with the New York State Assembly approving the measure by a vote of 113-25 It’s been a long fight to finally see MMA take place in New York after former governor George Pataki first banned the…

The British Olympic Association is discussing holding a multi-sport Olympic trials event prior to future Games. The BOA believes that following the US model, where selection for the major sports is decided at one event, could help generate more excitement among the public in the build-up to the Games. Currently, each sport sets its own qualification criteria, with individual competitions acting as Olympic trials. The BOA said in a joint…

MOSCOW Russia’s sports minister said on Tuesday he was prepared to resign over a raging doping scandal in his country which could cost more Russian athletes their places at the Rio Olympics after “tens” more cases of cheating were exposed in wrestling. Russian wrestlers may now join the country’s track-and-field athletes in being barred from competing at the Games in August, after an internal Russian Wrestling Federation (WFR) investigation uncovered…

Shares in Sports Direct have slumped again after the company’s founder Mike Ashley appeared to announce the retailer’s latest profit warning during a media interview. The group’s shares led the FTSE 250 fallers, shedding about 9%, in the latest setback for the retailer, which was the subject of a Guardian investigation into pay and working conditions at its warehouse in December. Since then, the company has been pursued by MPs…

Sports fans — the group of consumers least likely to be cord cutters — just got a new temptation to drop cable or satellite TV. PlayStation Vue, a streaming service similar to Sling or on-demand services such as Hulu and Netflix, started service in the Twin Cities area with several popular sports offerings — Fox Sports Network, Fox North, and several ESPN channels. Sports fans have been reluctant to cut…

Xavier fans can barely watch as the game is tied during the second round of the NCAA Tournament at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis Sunday, March 20, 2016. Xavier lost 66-63.(Photo: Cara Owsley) We need a witch doctor and fast. Someone call Father Merrin. Cincinnati sports is Linda Blair, the bed is levitating, the head is doing a 360. Mother, make it stop. We are cursed. This is plain….

The Twitter account for ESPN’s SportsCenter sent out a tweet Sunday about Fidel Castro’s love of sports that was criticized for painting the Cuban dictator in a positive light. “Savior and scourge, Fidel Castro was many things to many people,” the now-deleted tweet read. “One thing all can agree on: He loved his sports.” Shockingly, a lot of people on Twitter didn’t appreciate SportCenter‘s humanization of a brutal despot. So…

Novak Djokovic has sparked controversy by claiming that men should be awarded more prize money than women after similar comments from the chief executive of Indian Wells, Raymond Moore. Related: Novak Djokovic the slick diplomat gets equality debate horribly wrong | Kevin Mitchell The world No1 and 11-time grand slam winner said women deserved the money they got, but men should be rewarded with more because their game attracted more…

Four Russian track-and-field athletes have tested positive for the banned drug meldonium, Russia’s athletics chief said on Monday, a disclosure that further undermines Moscow’s efforts to overturn a doping ban in time for the Rio Olympics. At least 16 Russian sportsmen and women, including the world tennis star Maria Sharapova and the speed skating Olympic gold-medallist Semion Elistratov, have been caught using meldonium since it was banned by the World…

Bruce Springsteen looked out on Saturday’s sold-out crowd at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. They were all witnesses for the last show to be performed there. “This is it!” he shouted. “They’re expecting us to tear it down tonight.” The 56-year-old arena will indeed be torn down to make way for a soccer stadium in Exposition Park. But for one last night, the place that Springsteen nicknamed “The Dump…