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No Philadelphian need be reminded of the city’s awful sports performance in 2015. But we’ll go ahead and do the honors anyway. The perennially rebuilding Sixers were a ghastly 17-69 during the past calendar year. The 2015 Phillies had the worst record in baseball (63-99). The Eagles just fired head coach Chip Kelly, whose many offseason moves backfired. The Flyers missed the playoffs. It was enough to drive Philly’s famously…

• Multi-year partnership with China’s leading digital sports media platform • First time club’s dedicated channel will be available to fans in China (NYSE: MANU) Manchester United has today announced a groundbreaking deal with Sina Sports, the number one digital media platform for sports fans in China. As part of the deal, Sina Sports has secured exclusive rights to broadcast the club’s dedicated 24-hour MUTV channel,…

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Ronda Rousey’s shoot for the ‘Sports Illustrated’ Swimsuit Issue looks like it’s going to be sexier than we even imagined! The MMA fighter is just about naked in the pics, wearing nothing but a painted-on bathing suit, newly-leaked photos from the shoot reveal. Oh baby! Looks don’t matter when she’s in the ring, but Ronda Rousey, 28, sure knows how to turn on the sex appeal when the time is right! Just…

Will the U.S. national pasttime score with Chinese web users? We’re about to find out. Major League Baseball just announced at the CES convention a three-year deal giving China’s Le Sports — part of LeTV Holdings Co. —  the first-ever right to live stream up to 125 games per season in the mainland, Hong Kong, and Macau. It can offer its Mandarin-language programming to computers, mobile platforms, and streaming TV devices. The line…

Major League Baseball signed its first national media partnership in China, a three-year deal that gives billionaire Jack Ma-backed Le Sports exclusive rights to live-stream games in the world’s most populous country. The deal fuses two of baseball’s top priorities under first-year commissioner Rob Manfred — cultivating new markets and delivering games digitally. It may also pave the way for China to host regular-season MLB games for the first time….

No Philadelphian need be reminded of the city’s awful sports performance in 2015. But we’ll go ahead and do the honors anyway. The perennially rebuilding Sixers were a ghastly 17-69 during the past calendar year. The 2015 Phillies had the worst record in baseball (63-99). The Eagles just fired head coach Chip Kelly, whose many offseason moves backfired. The Flyers missed the playoffs. It was enough to drive Philly’s famously…

Sports fans are always looking for the next big thing, hoping on a special young player and attempting to foreshadow all-time greatness before credentials dictate that moniker. ALSO: Why Tim Raines deserves Hall of Fame nod Every once in a while, that approach works and the future can be predicted or inferred based on the trajectory of a special group of players. With the announcement of the 2016 Baseball Hall of…

Ronda Rousey dazzled in the 2015 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue She was shot on Captiva Island by famous photographer Walter Iooss Jr SI Swimsuit editor MJ Day shared a behind-the-scenes photo on Tuesday Rousey’s derriere appears to be the subject of Day’s Instagram post during the publication’s current, exotic body paint shoot See more news on Ronda Rousey and her Sports Illustrated cover  By John Downes For Mailonline Published: 06:02…

Sports fans all over the world have never had it so good. If a person is willing to forego a bit of sleep and take a few days off from work, he or she can watch live sports round the clock, unless the person is too choosy about what to watch. What is more, with the omnipresence of the new media — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram — not only does the…

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Ronda Rousey may be the Obi-Wan Kenobi of MMA: Strike her down, and she will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You thought Rousey was big before she headlined UFC 193 against Holly Holm in Australia in front of a new UFC record of more than 56,000 fans. But after Holm pulled off the sport’s all-time upset, Rousey hasn’t fallen far. She is as big a crossover star…

Underdogs had their days, plenty of them, in 2015: Leicester City snapping at the heels of England’s Premier League giants, Japan beating South Africa at the rugby World Cup, Roberta Vinci derailing Serena Williams‘ drive for a calendar year Grand Slam. All of which showed that the only solid prediction to be made about sports is to expect the unexpected. But that won’t stop us from trying. Here, for fun…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are ready to make a summer offer of more than £75m for Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26, after the Spanish club sacked manager Rafael Benitez on Monday. (Daily Mirror)(The Times – subscription required)(Daily Mail) Arsenal are considering making a bid for Watford striker Troy Deeney, 27. (Daily Star) West Ham are willing to sell…

One great thing about working in sport media, beyond the blindingly obvious, is that each time you turn up for work the people whose deeds you’re there to report do unexpected and often wonderful things, some of which can be foretold but enough of which are sufficiently unpredictable that the whole thing’s a hoot. A member of the media in front of me was tabbing between his match report and…

In 2015, we compiled a list of the 25 Most Powerful People in Sports Media. For 2016, we’re starting the year by expanding it: Who are the 25 Most Influential People in Sports Business? The list has been attempted by other outlets, but ours isn’t just about money or your spot on the totem pole in your respective sport. Clout matters. That’s why some of the names on our list – Charles…

As we look ahead to the stories that will be dominating our pages in the new year, I’m taking this opportunity to raise three topics to watch in the world of sports business: 1. Concussions No medical topic has dominated the sports headlines the past few years like that of concussions. Expect that to continue in 2016. Concussions (and more generally, litigation related to brain injuries) in sport will continue to be…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are ready to make a summer offer of more than £75m for Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26, after the Spanish club sacked manager Rafael Benitez on Monday. (Daily Mirror)(The Times – subscription required)(Daily Mail) Arsenal are considering making a bid for Watford striker Troy Deeney, 27. (Daily Star) West Ham are willing to sell…