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Sports Direct has shocked the stock market with a warning that annual profits will be up to £40m lower than expected, blaming tough trading on the high street and unseasonal weather in the run-up to Christmas. More than £400m was wiped off the value of the company as shares in Sports Direct fell 12% in the wake of the announcement. Related: Sports Direct’s story of easy growth seems to be…

Can you make an introduction to El Presidente? That was the request made around six months ago by Mike Kerns to the agent for Jared Lorenzen, a former NFL quarterback who would later become a contributor to Barstool Sports, the controversial website led by Dave Portnoy (known to the site’s fans as El Presidente). Lorenzen obliged, and Kerns ― head of digital for media and technology firm The Chernin Group…

Adrian Peterson doesn’t want redemption for whipping his child with a tree branch, but Sports Illustrated is delivering it to him anyway. Greg Bishop’s profile of the running back, published Tuesday, doesn’t hand out the redemption directly—it can’t, because Peterson is fine with what he did to his child— so instead it doles it out by implication. Here’s A.P. visiting a child dying of cancer; here’s A.P. being nice to…

YouTube It’s one thing to get acquired. It’s another to do it in a video where you call your new boss the “big swinging d— at the cracker factory.” But if you’re a Barstool Sports fan, you’re not shocked. The crude, funny, sports-guy lingo is right in line with the brand that founder Dave Portnoy has spent years building, and about 5 million monthly readers have come to love. Barstool Sports,…

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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…