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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Cam Newton stood up in the locker room at halftime on Sunday and asked for a show of hands. “How many have won a championship?” he asked. He paused for a moment, then asked … “How many have wanted to do something special?” He paused again before stating … “Well, we have 30 minutes to do it.” View gallery . Cam Newton celebrates after the NFC championship…

A funny thing happened on my way to Facebook’s Sports Stadium: I couldn’t find it. That was just the first indication that the world’s largest social network has a ways to go to attract a flood of real-time posts from sports fans. The newest feature for Facebook’s iPhone app (Android to come later) promises to turn your phone into a hub for whatever big game is going on. When you…

Large sums of money bet on tennis match raised match fixing suspicions Betting site Pinnacle Sports said money flooded to Australian Open match Was mixed doubles match played by Andrea Hlavackova and Lukasz Kubot Czech and Polish pair beat Spain’s Lara Arruabarrena and David Marrero Betting on the match was suspended just 13 hours before it was played By Australian Associated Press and Louise Cheer for Daily Mail Australia and Mike Dickson…

  STORY SO FAR   FORMER USPGA champion Jason Dufner leads the CareerBuilder Challenge by two shots going into the final round in California. Dufner, who was 40-1 ante-post, is odds-on across the board with 18 holes to play. The 38-year-old has not won since his 2013 USPGA triumph. Three different courses are used for this event over the first three days –…

Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Last SlideNext Slide Buy Photo Bridgestone Arena.(Photo: Jae S. Lee / The Tennessean)Buy Photo Bridgestone Arena has served as host to many sports events since first opening its doors on Dec. 18, 1996, but perhaps the biggest of all will be the NHL All-Star Game on Jan. 31. The game will bring thousands of fans to downtown and to the home…

Cam Newton can throw touchdowns and run with the best of them, but before Sunday’s NFC Championship Game against the Cardinals, the Panthers all-world quarterback showed another facet of his game. Newton was warming up by making pretty sweet one-handed catches, ala the ones New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham has made famous.

Even candy bars are now sold with bad attitudes and rotten, no-upside messages. Nestle, makers of Butterfinger candy bars, has teamed with Terrell Owens, long synonymous with selfish, TV-attendant, team-imperiling misconduct that, despite his talent, made him expendable (he played for five NFL teams). They’re offering to pay fines up to $50,000 for NFL players hit with “excessive celebration” sanctions in the AFC and NFC Championships and Super Bowl. Oh,…

Well, just like some of our races in 2015, Mother Nature is playing a role in our 2016 NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. Unfortunately, due to the winter storm that hit the Charlotte, North Carolina area, Friday night’s scheduled festivities had to be postponed until today. As always, though, it will be well worth the wait. When it comes to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, I get giddy when I am…

Facebook’s Sports Stadium is launching first on iPhones, with expansion promised to other platforms in the coming weeks. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Twitter should be glowing with pride. It should be, but perhaps the company is nervous instead. That’s because the imitator is Facebook, Twitter’s biggest rival in the war for your social-media attention. Facebook on Wednesday announced a new feature to help the more than…

In newspaper patter, the sports section has always been known as the “toy department”. This is because, Peter Wilby argued in the Guardian back in 2006, “sports news meets lower standards than most other news”. Wilby said this was because it was written for fans, who only wanted “endless idle gossip about who should be dropped, who should be signed, who will win next Saturday”. Fans, he wrote, who “like…

Facebook’s Sports Stadium is launching first on iPhones, with expansion promised to other platforms in the coming weeks. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Twitter should be glowing with pride. It should be, but perhaps the company is nervous instead. That’s because the imitator is Facebook, Twitter’s biggest rival in the war for your social-media attention. Facebook on Wednesday announced a new feature to help the more than…

If you watch sport on TV you will have seen the endlessly rotated gambling adverts featuring The Ladbrokes Life guys. The guys themselves are a closeknit group of charismatic “Betting Men” with interlocking but nonetheless very distinct and complex characters. There’s the Professor, leader of the pack, who has a beard and a mind like a high-powered computer. In one scene the Professor does millions of whirring calculations in his…

Dave Oancea, better known as Vegas Dave, is regarded as one of the elite sports handicappers of this era. His amazing career began in Las Vegas 15 years ago. Today, he is an acclaimed sports betting consultant and wagers over $100,000 a week on sports. Vegas Dave’s success has attracted fans and sports betters from around the world. This journey has provided him with a great lifestyle and financial freedom….

A blizzard moving into the Eastern United States disrupted the sports schedule Friday, complicating team travel and blanketing the field where Sunday’s NFC championship game will be played with a wintry mix. In Charlotte, North Carolina, crews scrambled to keep up with the storm, clearing snow and sleet from the tarp covering the Bank of America Stadium field. The Carolina Panthers host the Arizona Cardinals there in the NFC championship…

Dave Oancea, better known as Vegas Dave, is regarded as one of the elite sports handicappers of this era. His amazing career began in Las Vegas 15 years ago. Today, he is an acclaimed sports betting consultant and wagers over $100,000 a week on sports. Vegas Dave’s success has attracted fans and sports betters from around the world. This journey has provided him with a great lifestyle and financial freedom….

Facebook is tackling the sports arena with a new platform called Facebook Sports Stadium, which the social media site said will provide real-time updates on games, popular posts from fans, statistics and commentary from experts. “With 650 million sports fans, Facebook is the world’s largest stadium,” it wrote in a post Wednesday announcing the feature. Facebook, which said it had an average 1.01 billion active daily users as of September,…

MUST WATCH The early recruiting by colleges combined with parents’ unwillingness to stand up and say no to such practices is just one example of how youth sports has changed and for the worse, coaches, players, authors and parents I interviewed for this story say. And, there are plenty of stats to back up how concerning the problem should be for parents who want the best for their kids. Seventy…

Facebook has big news for sports fans—and potentially bad news for ESPN and Twitter. Late Wednesday night, the social networking giant announced the launch of Facebook Sports Stadium, a new hub on Facebook that will aggregate all the Facebook buzz about live sporting events in one place. Fans can follow games, get live stats, see what their friends are saying, and view expert commentary from journalists, the leagues, and the…

Late last week, privately owned Sports Authority skipped a $21 million interest payment, as it tries to work with lenders on ways to address its debt maturities that begin in May 2017, according to Moody’s. It has a 30-day grace period to complete the missed payment; otherwise, it will trigger a default. “We have been working with Rothschild, our outside financial advisor, for the past several months to evaluate our…