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In the course of a queasy hour in Harley Street 30 years ago I learned a great deal about the brain — what Woody Allen called ‘my second favourite organ’ — and altered the course of my life in sports writing. Dr Peter Harvey concluded: ‘Boxing is a contest in which the winner seems often to be the one who produces more brain damage on his opponent than he himself…

EXCLUSIVE: Media execs who’ve invested heavily in sports will find some reassuring, and some worrisome, data today in the first study of sports fans from USC Annenberg’s Center for the Digital Future and digital sports media company ThePostGame. The encouraging news? About 86% of the population (92% of men and 80% of women) say that they’re at least “casual” sports fans, including 24% who call themselves “intense” fans, according to the January survey…

By: Laken Litman | March 30, 2016 1:01 pm Follow @LakenLitman

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Iker Casillas and Sara Carbonero started a relationship in 2010 The pair caused a media frenzy when Casillas kissed the sports reporter on the lips following an interview after winning the 2010 World Cup  Expecting their second child, the pair have married in secret in Madrid The ceremony took place in the Madrid town of Boadilla del Monte Couple invited no guests with only two witnesses as required by law According…

View photo . Yao averaged 19 points, 9.2 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game across parts of eight seasons. (AP) Former Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, a transcendent 7-foot-6 Chinese icon, has been elected for enshrinement into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2016, league sources told The Vertical. Yao had been nominated and enters the Hall of Fame under a newly created Direct Elect International Committee….

Media playback is not supported on this device Highlights: England reach World T20 final England powered into their second World Twenty20 final as they hammered New Zealand by seven wickets in Delhi. Batting first, the previously unbeaten Black Caps raced to 89-1 after 10 overs, with Colin Munro blasting 46. But England came back superbly to restrict them to 153-8, with Ben Stokes taking three wickets at the death as…

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Daily fantasy sports have created a lot of controversy. Since the winnings come in real money, some states are calling it illegal gambling. But FlowPlay is offering an alternative with the launch of its new social sports game, All Star Daily Fantasy. The title offers the gameplay of betting on daily fantasy sports games, but it doesn’t have real-world winnings. You can buy virtual currency with real money, but you don’t…

Saturday afternoon, UConn’s women’s basketball team beat Mississippi State by a score of 98-38 in the Sweet 16. Their 60-point margin of victory was the largest of any Sweet 16 game of all time, and larger than any other margin of victory in the NCAA Tournament. Mississippi State was not a chump. The Bulldogs went 28-8 this year and earned a 5-seed in the NCAA Tournament. They won two…

Jennifer Frey, a former Washington Post reporter who wrote with verve and flair for the newspaper’s Sports and Style sections for 13 years, died March 26 at a hospital in Washington. She was 47. The cause was multiple organ failure, said her executor, Jody Goldstein. Ms. Frey was hired by The Post in 1995 from the New York Times. At both newspapers, she distinguished herself as a sportswriter in an…

A year ago, 28.3 million viewers watched the men’s basketball tournament championship game on TV, according to the NCAA. It was an increase of 33% over the previous year, and the highest total in viewership in nearly two decades. The upcoming 2016 championship game, on Monday, April 4, doesn’t have a prayer of topping last year’s ratings, and it’s not because Duke is already out of the tournament. This year,…

Saturday afternoon, UConn’s women’s basketball team beat Mississippi State by a score of 98-38 in the Sweet 16. Their 60-point margin of victory was the largest of any Sweet 16 game of all time, and larger than any other margin of victory in the NCAA Tournament. Mississippi State was not a chump. The Bulldogs went 28-8 this year and earned a 5-seed in the NCAA Tournament. They won two…

Jennifer Frey, a former Washington Post reporter who wrote with verve and flair for the newspaper’s Sports and Style sections for 13 years, died March 26 at a hospital in Washington. She was 47. The cause was multiple organ failure, said her executor, Jody Goldstein. Ms. Frey was hired by The Post in 1995 from the New York Times. At both newspapers, she distinguished herself as a sportswriter in an…

Saturday afternoon, UConn’s women’s basketball team beat Mississippi State by a score of 98-38 in the Sweet 16. Their 60-point margin of victory was the largest of any Sweet 16 game of all time, and larger than any other margin of victory in the NCAA Tournament. Mississippi State was not a chump. The Bulldogs went 28-8 this year and earned a 5-seed in the NCAA Tournament. They won two…

Even as the rest of the television business was showing signs of strain, with younger users cutting the cable cord or even avoiding cable altogether, sports seemed like a bastion of safety for media companies—the one reliable thing for which users would always be willing to pay. But cracks are starting to appear in the foundation of that assumption. Some of the biggest cracks so far have shown up at…

Within the next year, we should get a peek at the future of how we will get our sports on television. The networks and three of the Power 5 conferences will have to make decisions that should offer clues about how we should expect to watch sports in 2026. The world of cable television and rights fees has changed considerably since schools tore up the conference landscape in the Great…

Saturday afternoon, UConn’s women’s basketball team beat Mississippi State by a score of 98-38 in the Sweet 16. Their 60-point margin of victory was the largest of any Sweet 16 game of all time, and larger than any other margin of victory in the NCAA Tournament. Mississippi State was not a chump. The Bulldogs went 28-8 this year and earned a 5-seed in the NCAA Tournament. They won two…

At our newsroom morning meeting last Thursday, one of the Strib’s entertainment editors said our guy Colin Covert would rather punch himself in the face for 2.5 hours than watch “Batman v Superman” again. That sentiment came through in Colin’s review of the too-violent, too-boring superhero flick that opened this past weekend. And it sounds like his review was one of the nicer ones. We didn’t go. (We haven’t yet figured out…