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Look at this spectacle! The Oracle Arena on Saturday was vibrating, and the fans were jumping, literally jumping, almost every time Steph Curry raised up to shoot. The team has been a fixture for 45 years in the city, two entire generations. “You have to think of the Warriors like a tree,” an Oakland native and Oracle attendant named Lorenzo said. “We planted our roots here and just keep growing,…

Today is THE day for die-hard football fans who will be watching every second of Super Bowl 50 later today here on CBS. And mingling with them for our Cover Story is where you’ll find Susan Spencer: Love ’em or hate ’em, until the clock runs out on today’s Big Game, the New England Patriots are still the reigning Super Bowl Champions, and die-hard fan Peter Carbone has been fired…

Americans love sports, so much so that a majority of them – 56 percent — will rearrange their schedule to accommodate watching their favorite sport or team. But their fandom also comes with responsibility: just one in 10 will sometimes skip work or school to do so. According to a new poll by CBS News, America’s favorite sport is football, picked by 58% of sports fans, with baseball a distant…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — With a Super Bowl-sized stage, a celebrity-filled crowd and two championship contenders on the floor, it felt more like late May in Oracle Arena than early February. Stephen Curry was up to the task. Curry scored 26 points and keyed a strong closing stretch that sent the Golden State Warriors to their 41st straight regular-season home win, 116-108 over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night….

SAN FRANCISCO — OK, at the top, let’s get this out of the way: By the end of this column, we may have to pretend like we never had this conversation. If anyone ever finds out, they’ll take away our Gotham Cards, our Metropolis Cards. We are New York City. We are not supposed ever to admit we are jealous of anyone, anywhere, anytime. We are the Greatest City in…

Jose Mourinho watched the match between Hertha Berlin and Borussia Dortmund on Saturday Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says he does not believe reports that the club have lined up ex-Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho to replace him. Mourinho, who was sacked in December, said he will be “back soon” after it was revealed his representatives had held talks with United. Van Gaal said: “When there is such nonsense written…

Villa’s previous win in the league was on 12 January, at home to Crystal Palace Aston Villa moved to within eight points of Premier League safety with their third win of the season as Norwich slipped into the bottom three. Joleon Lescott’s headed goal at the end of a dire first half was Villa’s first attempt on target. Gabriel Agbonlahor doubled the lead after the break, stroking home after Declan…

The NHL is finalizing discussions to bring an outdoor hockey game to Busch Stadium in 2017, multiple sources have told the Post-Dispatch. The plan is not yet complete, but the league is strongly considering the city to host the “Winter Classic,” in which the Blues’ opponent could be the Chicago Blackhawks. There is also the option of the team playing in a “Stadium Series” game, but according to sources, the…

Virtual reality, body cameras, and the Internet Of Things are poised to change the way we watch sports. Today we saw how at TechCrunch’s 1st And Future startup competition held at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The home viewing category winner, LiveLike, lets you watch games in virtual reality from multiple angles. The contest featured twelve finalists competing in three different categories: The Future Stadium, Bringing Home The Game,…

Media playback is not supported on this device Highlights: Scotland 9-15 England A familiar post-match article in this digital era is the ‘Five things we have learned’ formula. We’ve all done it – treating a game as a sporting education, pulling out the pearls so we can all feel much wiser afterwards. Except sometimes we learn nothing. Sometimes what we see is exactly what we would expect to see, because…

It’s a rainy and miserable midsummer Sunday in Thurrock, Essex, in the southeast of England. A middle-aged man, drenched to the bone, sits in the mud.  The raincoat he has drawn up over his head does nothing to keep him dry, nor does the large umbrella which sags beneath the volume of rain bearing down on it. He yells some indecipherable orders to his son, Jack, who sits inside the…

Media playback is not supported on this device Is Jose Mourinho the right man for Man Utd? Jose Mourinho moved a step closer to Manchester United and a Premier League return after his representatives held talks with the Old Trafford hierarchy as they line up a successor to Louis van Gaal. Van Gaal is still in position and has a contract that ends in 2017 – but United’s move for…

For many sports fans, scanning Twitter while watching a game goes together like guacamole and chips. But waning interest in Twitter and its struggle to add users and captivating features has Facebook jostling to become the go-to TV companion for sports viewers. The two social media companies will go head-to-head on Super Bowl Sunday with new “second-screen” features that they say enhance the TV-watching experience. Getting more eyeballs onto their…

It’s a rainy and miserable midsummer Sunday in Thurrock, Essex, in the southeast of England. A middle-aged man, drenched to the bone, sits in the mud.  The raincoat he has drawn up over his head does nothing to keep him dry, nor does the large umbrella which sags beneath the volume of rain bearing down on it. He yells some indecipherable orders to his son, Jack, who sits inside the…

Robert Huth’s early strike for Leicester was his second goal of the season Premier League leaders Leicester stunned nearest rivals Manchester City with a convincing victory at Etihad Stadium to move five points clear. Robert Huth met Riyad Mahrez’s free-kick to give the Foxes an early lead. City rarely looked like breaking down the visitors’ defence, while their own back line appeared vulnerable. Mahrez made it 2-0 with a step-over…

Introducing the Stadium of the Future, Where Technology is King Patrick Sisson, Curbed For sports fans, the experience of attending a game in person is becoming increasingly more high-tech. Levi’s Stadium, home of Super Bowl 50 this weekend, touts ticketing, concessions and instant replays from a mobile app. It’s also LEED certified and employs solar collection system. High-tech sports venues are becoming the norm and this piece from Curbed offers…

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Jay Kornegay still finds it painful to talk about the last time the Denver Broncos were in the Super Bowl and the first snap of the game went over Peyton Manning’s head for a Seattle safety. For some reason, a lot of bettors at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook had put money on a 60-1 longshot that the first score of the games for the Seahawks would be that safety….

Okay, so maybe it’s easy to get excited about the super bowl. I mean it is the biggest football game of the year. Some might say the largest sporting event of the year next to the World Series, world cup and Stanley cup. The super bowl is so big that when anything else is considered important it is called the super bowl of said event. So we get…

The author, left, learning about Natitude. (Photo courtesy Julia Payne) Some time last winter, I ran into Dan Steinberg at a Wizards Fan Happy Hour event in Adams Morgan. There had been some turnover in the Washington Post sports section and he came right out with it: “You should write for Sports. Seriously. You certainly care about it a lot more than most people.” At the time I thought, “Don’t be ridiculous,…