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Bolton Wanderers have announced that the Sports Shield consortium has completed its takeover of the club. Sports Shield, fronted by former the Bolton striker Dean Holdsworth, and Inner Circle, owned by Ken Anderson, have taken control of Eddie Davies’ 94.5% controlling share of Burnden Leisure. The remaining 5.5% of the shares will remain with individual shareholders. Related: Neil Lennon: I wouldn’t want other managers to experience what I have A…

There was something essentially pure about being back at the Irish Schools Cross Country Championships last Saturday. The setting at Sligo racecourse was perfectly in tune. The bright spring sunshine. The clean crisp air. And the majestic backdrop of Benbulbin  It’s always interesting to see how the sport is evolving down through the years, where the next generation of athletes are starting from and launching their dreams for a successful…

Replay Technologies uses high-res cameras and advanced graphics to show sports fans 3D perspectives of the games they watch on TV. Photo via Replay/Intel. Intel is re-upping its investment in sports tech with the acquisition of Replay Technologies, a Israel-based startup that develops 3D video broadcasting software. Intel announced the deal today. The tech giant previously partnered with Replay Technologies at the NBA All-Star Game last month, utilizing 28 ultrahigh-definition cameras…

SANTA CLARA — Intel deepened its drive to digitize sports Wednesday by acquiring Replay Technologies, an Israeli company that makes a novel 3-D viewing technology called “freeD.” The deal not only gives Intel a way to digitize athletic matches, but also a new buzz word: “immersive sports,” meaning technology that puts viewers on the playing field virtually. Replay’s freeD technology was developed by three Israelis — an aviation engineer, a…

Sporting-goods retailers and equipment makers are feeling a ripple effect from Sports Authority’s bankruptcy. Continue Reading Below Performance Sports Group (PSG), the owner of recognizable brands such as Easton and Bauer, lost more than half its value on Tuesday after slashing its outlook. The maker of baseball bats and hockey skates cited a loss of sales to Sports Authority, in addition to a weak baseball and softball market. Meanwhile,…

Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesA fan watches TV in his tent during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on July 3, 2015 in Daytona Beach, Florida The cost of broadcasting live sports has exploded. As the looming threats of declining ratings and subscriber losses weigh on traditional TV networks, live sports have been a central component of strategies aimed at gaining and retaining existing…

By Peter Schwartz » More Columns These days, the world of sports isn’t just about balls and strikes, goals and saves, or even attendance. There’s so much more that goes into evaluating players, winning games and selling tickets, and it all has to do with analyzing statistics. In other words, if you want to establish a career in sports, you have to have some knowledge of analytics. “I think it comes…

Intel is diving further into 3D technology, and it’s hoping to bring sports fans along for the ride. The company announced overnight that it acquired the Israeli company Replay Technologies, which makes “free dimensional” 3D video technology. Intel has been partnering with Replay since 2013, and most recently the two companies joined forces during the NBA All-Star Weekend, where fans got to experience a full 360 degrees of the popular Slam…

The Sports Direct founder, Mike Ashley,has been warned he could be found in contempt of parliament after failing to give MPs a date to answer questions about his company’s treatment of workers. The move represents the latest setback to the tycoon and owner of Premier League strugglers Newcastle United. Ashley has seen almost £1bn wiped from his personal fortune after a downturn in trading at the store chain and a…

The moments that make sports great are the ones that take your breath away. You remember these moments not only because of the magic you saw unfold on the field or the court or the ice, but because you remember where you were as you watched. You remember who you were with and how you felt. These are the moments that transcend statistics and final box scores, that shaped sports…

Expect to hear a lot more about 3-(2,2,2-trimethylhydrazinium) propionate dihydrate in the coming days, weeks and months. Like a warped version of the Christmas standard, by Tuesday we were up to potentially nine Ethiopian distance runners, six Georgian wrestlers, two Ukrainian biathletes, two Russian speed skaters and a multimillionaire five-times grand slam tennis champion who had tested positive for the Latvian-manufactured heart drug more commonly known as meldonium. It was…

Performance Sports Group Ltd. slashed its earnings forecast on Tuesday, citing weakness in the baseball and softball equipment markets, the bankruptcy of a customer and extra bad debt reserves for U.S. hockey customers. Shares of Performance Sports–which makes gear for a variety of sports sold under brands such as Bauer, Mission and Easton–plunged 31% to $6 in premarket trading. The stock has plunged 55% over the past year, through…

Virginia has become the first state with a law regulating the fast-growing but embattled online fantasy sports industry and specifying that fantasy sports betting is not “illegal gambling.” Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed a bill Monday that formally legalizes and regulates sites such as FanDuel and DraftKings, requiring them to pay a $50,000 initial registration fee and submit to regular outside audits. The law will take effect July 1. McAuliffe…

​I was the first female reporter to travel on the Toronto Maple Leafs’ team charter. It was the 2006/07 season. Some people didn’t care but some made my life hell because of my gender. If I was seen talking to a player, some reporters felt I was flirting. I was trying to get a story to tell; after all, I am a reporter! But because of my gender, I was flirting….

Virginia today signed into law the “Fantasy Contests Act,” a bill outlining how daily fantasy sport sites like DraftKings and FanDuel can operate legally in the state. The law is the nation’s first formal recognition of the industry after months of heated legal activity in multiple states. Regulators and lawmakers around the country have sought bans on the websites on the grounds they constitute illegal online gambling. The Virginia legislature…

The best-selling book Moneyball by Michael Lewis changed the way people thought about sport, particularly for those owners, managers, and players with the biggest vested interests. Lewis’s book helped bring about a revolution in which player performance was measured and assessed using an evidence-based approach rather than a tradition dominated by anecdote and intuition. Since then, sports scientists have attempted to replicate the success of this approach in sports such…

Maria Sharapova has been provisionally banned from tennis after she revealed on Monday she tested positive at the Australian Open for a recently banned drug that she has been taking for 10 years for health reasons. The drug is called meldonium, though Sharapova said she had been using it under the name of mildronate and was unaware of both the different name and the fact it is on the World…

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A jury awarded Erin Andrews $55 million on Monday in her lawsuit against a stalker who bought a hotel room next to her and secretly recorded a nude video, finding that the hotel companies and the stalker shared in the blame. After a full day of deliberations, the panel said the stalker was responsible for 51% of the verdict and that the two hotel companies should share the rest, which…

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