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On last night’s Fox Sports Live, Dan O’Toole opened by saying “Many of you have wondered, what happened to all the highlights?” When Fox Sports Live relaunched on Monday night as a late night comedy-sports show, it confirmed a reality that’s been hovering over televised sports for a long time, but one that we’ve been reluctant to admit is true. The sports highlight show is dead. The show that you grew up…

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NFL NEW YORK (AP) Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul filed a lawsuit against ESPN and reporter Adam Schefter for posting his medical records last summer. The lawsuit, filed in Miami Dade County in Florida, alleges that Pierre-Paul’s privacy was violated – as was the state’s medical records statute – by the report after the player severely injured his right hand in a fireworks accident on July 4. The lawsuit doesn’t…

Now MLB’s Bowman is applying his digital expertise to an ambitious new venture: He’s bidding on a range of sports rights to build a new kind of digital version of ESPN, and he’s hoping to launch within a few months. “We’ve been trying to cobble together rights with an eye towards building an app, a first-class app, streaming high quality and putting it on the device (consumers) want best,” said…

Fred Segal says he’s always been fascinated by sports predictions. Growing up in North Miami Beach, Segal would sort through his attorney father Mike’s collection of thousands of sports books and magazines, some dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. “I used to look through them and laugh about the predictions that ended up being dead wrong,” said Segal, a Coral Springs, Fla., attorney who specializes in transactional…

You better watch your backs, Sports Illustrated cover girls. The ladies of Archer are coming to take your thrones. The animated FX show made a spoof off the historic Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue by featuring some of their hottest spies — and Pam Poovey. The curvy Human Resources director got the coveted role of cover girl for the magazine and threatens to take plus-size model Ashley Graham’s crown. Though, now that we think about, co-cover girl and…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee’s coaches held a rare joint press conference to say that an unfair picture of the athletic department is emerging amid a lawsuit that states the school mishandled sexual assault complaints against athletes. The federal suit filed Feb. 9 in Nashville by six unidentified women states Tennessee violated Title IX regulations and created a ”hostile sexual environment” through a policy of indifference toward assaults by athletes….

Nonprofit groups are calling on the National Football League to stop offering fantasy sports competitions to children because they’re concerned the games could lead some young sports fans down the path of gambling addiction. In letters being sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday, the National Council on Problem Gambling and the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood complain the NFL “aggressively marketed” a fantasy sports game on “NFL Rush,”…

Sports Authority missed a $20 million coupon payment on Jan. 15, triggering a 30-day grace period to work out a compromise with creditors. The Englewood, Colorado-based company’s bankruptcy plans underscore the challenges the fragmented sporting goods industry faces as it competes with discounter Wal-Mart Stores and online retailer Amazon.com. Ahead of the bankruptcy filing, Sports Authority is trying to work out a deal with creditors for a loan to get…

He is the brightest star in the UFC cosmos right now, the sport’s center of gravity, and the rare fighter whose talents in the Octagon keep pace with his talents for promotion.  Conor McGregor’s fight at UFC 196 may now be in limbo, but there are no questions about the UFC star’s popularity and rise. The UFC featherweight champion is featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated for the first…

Guardian Sport has been named website of the year at the British Sports Journalists’ Association awards for the second year in a row, with the Guardian and Observer’s chief football writer, Daniel Taylor, winning the football journalist of the year prize. “Taylor’s work is exceptional. It’s deep, it’s well-informed, and it’s easy to read,” said the judges, while Tom Clarke, the chairman of the judges of the writing awards, said:…

Fox Sports 1 relaunched Fox Sports Live tonight in hopes a revamped format might spark the highlight show’s inexplicably bad ratings. What we got instead was hosts Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole in a miniscule studio repeatedly mocking the previous incarnation’s failures with their signature brand of Canadian, um, humour. Not that we expected any differently; after all, this is a show that responded to our piece illustrating FS1’s disastrous…

(By Nick Wass / AP) The Capitals are the NHL’s best team. It isn’t close. That development has prompted a range of emotions from local sports observers, including this one: We’ve seen this before, regular-season dominance doesn’t much matter, please get back to me in June. And by the way, do you like my fashionable new hairshirt, made with only the coarsest of goat hair? I’d like to congratulate those cynics…

The daily fantasy sports market rose dramatically in the past few years with the rise of DraftKings and FanDuel. But in 2015, regulators closed in, with some declaring the betting on sports outcomes amounted to illegal gambling, rather than legal skill-based wagering as the companies alleged. A total of 29 states are considering legislation related to daily fantasy sports, according to a report by market analyst firm Eilers & Krejcik Gaming….

View photo . Donatas Motiejunas runs up the court during a December 2015 game. (AP) After forward Donatas Motiejunas was unable to get physicians’ clearance for his troublesome back, the Detroit Pistons rescinded their three-team trade with Houston and Philadelphia. The physicians and specialists examining Montiejunas’ back refused to clear him, pushing Pistons executives to kill the deal agreed upon at Thursday’s trade deadline, league sources told The Vertical. Motiejunas…

Archer’s three female lead characters appear on SI.com’s Swim Daily. FX If this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue feels a little more animated than usual, it’s likely because of the characters from FX’s Archer. As part of the marketing campaign for the hit animated comedy’s upcoming seventh season, the network partnered with Sports Illustrated to feature faux swimsuit shots of its female characters in both…