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The Athletic Three former contributors to ESPN Chicago are founding writers for The Athletic, a new subscription website aimed at covering Chicago’s professional sports teams “with thought-provoking writing and enlightening statistics.” Jon Greenberg, Sahadev Sharma and Scott Powers, all ESPN Chicago veterans, were announced Monday as the new site’s main writers. Greenberg, named as founding editor, will write on all sports and run editorial operations in Chicago. Sharma will…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — In 2015, Cleveland sports had its share of moments. There were highs (the Cavaliers run in the NBA Finals), lows (the Browns’ drama-filled 3-13 season) and almosts (Ohio State’s one-loss season, the Indians’ flirtation with the playoffs). While the teams we love to follow the most didn’t bring home a major championship last year, several Northeast Ohio-area athletes delivered individual performances that made 2015 a year to…

Sports Stadium attempts to get more people interacting on Facebook during big games. Facebook A funny thing happened on my way to Facebook’s Sports Stadium. I couldn’t find it. This was 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…

Two Western Conference executives have moved into prominent consideration with Bryan Colangelo and Danny Ferry for the Brooklyn Nets‘ general manager job, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Denver Nuggets assistant GM Arturas Karnisovas and Houston Rockets executive VP of basketball operations Gersson Rosas have emerged as serious candidates in the process, league sources told Yahoo Sports. View photo . Gersson Rosas (AP) The Nets have expressed a desire to have…

There seems little doubt that the guy who is always checking sports on his smartphone — eyeing scores and betting lines, watching fantasy results and tweaking lineups, texting with friends about games — will someday be able to gamble on his mobile device. A big question remains, however: How will it actually work? Fantasy companies DraftKings and FanDuel spent millions on marketing in…

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….