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An average of 111.9 million television viewers watched Super Bowl 50, making the game the third-most-watched broadcast in the U.S. Many gathered with friends or family to watch the game in an illustration of how sport can bring people together. An NFL locker room is a collection of individuals from multiple walks of life and different parts of the country who have been brought together to create one force. Hall…

Enlarge Image Sports Stadium is designed to rival Twitter but had problems during the Super Bowl. Facebook Super Bowl 50 dominated online chatter Sunday, but Facebook in particular couldn’t keep up with the game at times. About 60 million people used Facebook for 200 million posts, likes and comments about the match between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, the world’s biggest social network said Monday. They also turned to…

GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) Derek Fisher was fired as New York Knicks coach, with his team having lost five straight and nine of 10 to fall well back in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Associate head coach Kurt Rambis was promoted to interim head coach at least through the rest of the season. Rambis, like Fisher an ex-Laker player, went 56-145 in two seasons as Minnesota’s coach and part of a…

Enlarge Image Sports Stadium is designed to rival Twitter but had problems during the Super Bowl. Facebook Super Bowl 50 dominated online chatter Sunday, but Facebook in particular couldn’t keep up with the game at times. About 60 million people used Facebook for 200 million posts, likes and comments about the match between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, the world’s biggest social network said Monday. They also turned to…

GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) Derek Fisher was fired as New York Knicks coach, with his team having lost five straight and nine of 10 to fall well back in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Associate head coach Kurt Rambis was promoted to interim head coach at least through the rest of the season. Rambis, like Fisher an ex-Laker player, went 56-145 in two seasons as Minnesota’s coach and part of a…

Enlarge Image Sports Stadium is designed to rival Twitter but had problems during the Super Bowl. Facebook Super Bowl 50 dominated online chatter Sunday, but Facebook in particular couldn’t keep up with the game at times. About 60 million people used Facebook for 200 million posts, likes and comments about the match between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, the world’s biggest social network said Monday. They also turned to…

Keith Olbermann joined Jonah Keri’s Nerdist podcast for a two-part marathon late last week. Around the 1:19:00-mark of Part I, they began talking about contemporary sports media, and Olbermann, who as we’re all aware made his bones as a SportsCenter anchor alongside Dan Patrick in the 1990’s, spelled out doom and gloom for the future of the franchise: If you’re doing a sports broadcast that has to do with more than…

Frog Picks Sports fans are competitive. But so far there hasn’t been a great app that lets them jockey for pole position without putting money on the line. Science Inc., the company behind the crazy popular teen app Wishbone, thinks it has the answer. Each day, the new Frog Picks app gives users 13 questions — will the Cavaliers or Pacers win tonight? Will Kobe score more than 30 points? —…

Super Bowl fans may be playing Monday morning quarterback today, but the stories that most shake up the sports world aren’t recaps of what happens on the field. L. Jon Wertheim, executive editor of Sports Illustrated, says the biggest headlines are won by investigative stories, from accusations of cheating in professional sports to high school hazing. For this week’s podcast, Wertheim talks with ProPublica senior editor Joe Sexton about some…

Somewhere along the line, Fox realized that Fox Sports 1 can’t (and maybe shouldn’t) compete with ESPN at its own game, and instead decided to court that silent-but-significant minority of sports fans: reactionary, regressive, and crypto- and not-so-crypto-racist. For a hundred years or more, this was the group sports media catered to nearly exclusively, but the rise of the internet and society’s progressive swing left them an underserved market. Fox…

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Enlarge Image Sports Stadium is designed to rival Twitter but had problems during the Super Bowl. Facebook Super Bowl 50 dominated online chatter Sunday, but Facebook in particular couldn’t keep up with the game at times. About 60 million people used Facebook for 200 million posts, likes and comments about the match between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, the world’s biggest social network said Monday. They also turned to…

This past December, Colleen Dominguez filed an age and gender discrimination lawsuit against Fox Sports 1. In the complaint, Dominguez, who came to the network in 2014 as a sideline and features reporter after a long run at ESPN, alleged that all the choice assignments were given to younger reporters, most notably Erin Andrews. (The suit listed Dominguez’s age as 54; Andrews is 37.) With that lawsuit pending and enhancing…

Somewhere along the line, Fox realized that Fox Sports 1 can’t (and maybe shouldn’t) compete with ESPN at its own game, and instead decided to court that silent-but-significant minority of sports fans: reactionary, regressive, and crypto- and not-so-crypto-racist. For a hundred years or more, this was the group sports media catered to nearly exclusively, but the rise of the internet and society’s progressive swing left them an underserved market. Fox…

Paul Clement won 14 of his 33 matches as Derby County head coach Derby County have sacked head coach Paul Clement after just eight months in charge of the Championship club. The Rams are fifth in the table after seven league games without a victory, though chairman Mel Morris said promotion “was not the primary target”. Morris said Derby had “not made enough progress” under 44-year-old Clement, formerly assistant manager…

James Corden used his post-Super Bowl 50 show and guests Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron, and Adam DeVine to recreate many of the best sports movies from the last 40 years on Sunday’s Late Late Show. Called “History of Sports in 7 Minutes,” the foursome actually ran through the sketches in just over six minutes. Starting with Bad News Bears and ending with a montage of Rocky movies (but not Creed),…

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One of the beauties of the Super Bowl is that there’s something for everyone: If you don’t like the matchup between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers—or the sport itself for that matter—there’s always the bean dip, the commercials, and the left sharks.

There is encouraging news about Beth Tweddle. The Olympic gymnast, injured in a fall while training for Channel 4 show The Jump, is able to move “both her hands and feet” after surgery to fuse two fractured vertebrae in her neck. In a statement, Beth’s parents, Ann and Jerry, said: “The early medical indications were positive as Beth was able to move her hands and feet, despite being in a lot of discomfort….

So far users are giving Facebook’s Sports Stadium a thumbs down Facebook The Carolina Panthers are down 13-7 at halftime of Super Bowl 50, but Facebook might have had a worse first half. The social giant launched Sports Stadium a couple weeks ago in an attempt to grab some of the social conversation that goes on around live sports, which has been mostly dominated by…