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This is low-hanging fruit for reporters who cover a college sports program at public universities. Make that expensive fruit. If they haven’t already, reporters should make an open-records request to gain access to the financial report of their school’s athletic department that gets filed annually to the NCAA. In many cases, the numbers will be illuminating, if not eye-popping. “These reports can be a great tool for any sports reporter…

Ditching the notorious complex of proteins known as gluten is a popular diet plan nowadays. Besides people with celiac disease, a severe autoimmune disorder triggered by the proteins, athletes have been particularly smitten with the gluten-free fad. But, according to a recent study, the diet is unlikely to give them the results they expect. Completely cutting out gluten didn’t improve cyclists’ workout performance, digestive health, or overall fitness in a…

Facebook has introduced a new place for all our sports conversations. Called the Sports Stadium, it’s a virtual area where you, your friends, and 650 million sports fans on the social network can talk about games, teams, stats, and more. It’ll also feature live play-by-play action — just like you’d see on ESPN, but with more of a community around it. This new sports-only area is rolling out today for…

As anyone trying to read their timeline during the recent NFL playoffs knows, Twitter has become the de facto place for people to liveblog their thoughts on sporting events. But now Facebook is making a play for the sports market. The social network tonight launched Facebook Sports Stadium, a dedicated section of Facebook that aims to serve as a central hub for all your second-screen activity. Users of Facebook…

Mark Cuban, photographed in 2015, told members of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, “You need to mobilize your fans.”(Photo: AP) DALLAS – Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has reached a verdict on certain politicians in New York, Illinois and Texas. They’re wrong about daily fantasy sports, he said. “Absolutely wrong.” Since October, the attorneys general in each of those states have declared that paid daily fantasy sports games are illegal…

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ANALYSIS/OPINION: I was talking to my 16-year-old daughter about the match-fixing scandal that rocked tennis this week on the eve of the Australian Open. “You mean some of games were rigged?” she asked. “Doesn’t that happen in all sports?” SEE ALSO: Match-fixing allegations have players past and present wondering who’s involved Well … uh … I don’t know. Movie fans enter theatres fully aware that the next two hours could…

It’s been a miserable start to 2016 for rock ’n’ roll, first with the loss of David Bowie and now the Eagles’ Glenn Frey. Frey, who died Monday at age 67, was a huge sports fan who adopted Los Angeles as his home. He could often be seen at Lakers games, and like many, he let his mind run to what it would have been like to have a career…

By Richard Conway BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent The chief of UK Anti-Doping would “value the opportunity” to talk to Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger about his comments on doping in football. Wenger spoke out on the topic last year, saying he believed football was not immune to doping issues….

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“This is like a secret on the tour that everybody knows, but we don’t talk about it,” said the player A South American tennis player has told the BBC that match-fixing is commonplace and even some elite players are “a little bit dirty in some way”. He also claimed fixing is not just limited to lower-ranked professionals and is “a secret that everybody knows”. The player, who requested anonymity, said…

These days, ESPN faces two questions more than any others: When are you going to go “over the top” by offering the sports network to cord-cutters? And how are you possibly going to make enough money in the future to cover ever-rising sports rights payments if cable subscribers are declining? John Skipper, the network’s president, outlined in an interview with The Wall Street Journal why the sports behemoth won’t be…

CLEVELAND – The visitors’ locker room at Quicken Loans Arena was much drier, much quieter on Monday night than the last time the Golden State Warriors were here. No plastic was needed to cover the stalls or the carpeted floor. The only bottles being opened were waters and sports drinks to help them down plates of chicken wings and catered food from Morton’s steakhouse. There certainly wasn’t much of a…

Someday in the not-too-distant future, friends may huddle around a screen to watch “League of Legends” instead of football on a Sunday afternoon, according to a report released Monday.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Roger Federer has heard enough speculation about match-fixing in tennis. If players are suspected of corruption, he wants names. Federer was responding to reports by BBC and BuzzFeed News that tennis authorities have suppressed evidence of match-fixing and overlooked suspected cases involving players ranked in the top 50, including Grand Slam singles and doubles winners. The reports said that none of these players had faced sanctions…

MELBOURNE – Scott Ferguson, once the head of education at Betfair, consults on the subject of sports gambling and runs the website Sports is Made for Betting. We checked in with Ferguson on Monday, after the first day of the 2016 Australian Open was overshadowed by the BBC/Buzzfeed match-fixing report. Jon Wertheim: To what extent are you surprised by the contents of the report? Scott Ferguson: Very little. There have…

Tennis this week joined the roster of major sports being played under the shadow of corruption allegations. So where should the ethical sports lover turn? Are there any “clean” sports left? Let’s try to find one … Curling It is hard to believe, but curling is a sport awash with allegations of cheating. Players have occasionally been upbraided for giving a stone a nudge with their foot, but the real…