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Northern Irish tourist board and Belfast City Council paid BBC six-figure sum, after corporation’s governing body relaxed seven-year sponsorship ban By Patrick Foster, Media Correspondent 9:00PM GMT 12 Dec 2015 The BBC has been accused of taking a “taxpayer-funded bung”, after it emerged that Northern Irish authorities had paid the corporation nearly £250,000 to move this year’s Sports Personality…

Sport Other sport Updated: Saturday, 12 Dec 2015 20:48 | Comments <!– Article –> Comments Conor McGregor is among 14 nominees for the Sports Person of the Year Award The nominations for the RTÉ Sports Person of the Year Award, Team of the Year Award and the Manager of the Year Award were announced this afternoon.  The winners will be revealed and presented with their awards at The RTÉ Sports Awards…

NEW YORK Leading daily fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings won a temporary reprieve allowing them to keep operating in New York through the New Year, reversing for now an order by a state judge to close the businesses in the state. New York State Appeals Court Judge Paul Feinman temporarily suspended an injunction granted earlier in the day by New York Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez. Mendez had stopped…

Ron Zook was fired as the football coach at Illinois after the 2011 season but, as in many cases, continued to collect money from the school. (Mark Gail/The Washington Post) The University of Illinois paid fired football coach Ron Zook $1.3 million while he spent a year trying a new career in banking and working on his water-skiing in Florida. The University of California paid Jeff Tedford $1.8 million while…

Daily fantasy sports giants DraftKings and FanDuel can’t do business in New York for now, a judge said Friday, cutting off one of their biggest customer bases at least temporarily as the state attorney general and the sites face off over whether their business amounts to illegal gambling. FanDuel, which already had suspended play from New York because of the court fight, and DraftKings said they would immediately appeal the…

While cheerleading injury rates are lower than for many other high school sports, the accidents that do happen may be more severe and more likely to result in concussions, a U.S. study suggests. On average, cheerleading typically has less than one injury for every 1,000 minutes of participation time, meaning there’s no more than one accident every 17 hours, the study found. That’s far less dangerous than most…

Sports Direct, the FTSE 100 retailing giant controlled by the billionaire Mike Ashley, stripped prime assets out of its stricken USC fashion subsidiary in the weeks before the chain collapsed, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal. Related: Revealed: how Sports Direct effectively pays below minimum wage The demise of USC, which was controversially bought straight out of administration by another arm of Sports Direct in January, led to about…

View photo . Jason Heyward (AP Photo) Free-agent outfielder Jason Heyward reportedly has become a Chicago Cub, just as Ben Zobrist and John Lackey have, just as Jon Lester had a year ago. It’ll be called a culture change, which it surely is, that rising from the momentum of a plan that is working, from the new man on the top step, and from the notion that anybody can have…

NEW YORK A New York judge on Friday ruled that daily fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings must cease operating in the state for now, in what could be a crippling blow to the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry. New York Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez granted an injunction sought by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman after hearing arguments last month over whether daily fantasy sports games amounted to illegal games of chance or…

Shortlisted contenders Tully Kearney, Ellie Downie and Tom Marquand Gymnast Ellie Downie, para-swimmer Tully Kearney and jockey Tom Marquand are on the final shortlist for the BBC Young Sports Personality award. The top three have been chosen by an expert panel from an original list of 10 contenders. This year’s winner will be announced at the Sports Personality show, live on the BBC from Belfast on 20 December. Past winners…

UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen’s freshman season portends great things for the future.(Photo: Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports) College football’s next wave of stars begin their careers on the USA TODAY Sports Freshman All-America team, which features a collection of first-year talent from each of the five major conferences. The offense is led by UCLA freshman phenom Josh Rosen, who put together debut matching the expectations surrounding his ballyhooed arrival. The…

Responding to incidents of corruption in sport, the International Olympic Committee announced Thursday it has launched independent reviews of its own operations and the money it gives to sports organizations around the world. IOC officials said they decided to take action after receiving requests from federations that “are concerned their reputation is being tarnished.” Over the last few months, soccer’s international federation has been engulfed in allegations of corruption that…

Sport England has claimed that its multi-million pound This Girl Can advertising campaign has helped drive an increase in the number of women playing sport, amid continued scrutiny of the​ promised London 2012 legacy. Following a slump in the number of people playing sport at least once a week that caused the sports minister Tracey Crouch to launch a wholesale strategy review, an increase of 148,700 in the number of…

An increase in the number of women playing sport has driven improved participation figures, according to the latest survey by Sport England. People regularly playing sport stands at 15.74 million over 12 months, a rise of 1.65 million since 2005/06. Bucking the normal trend, the number of women playing sport and being active is increasing faster than men. Swimming remains the top sport overall but continues to decline, with athletics…

More than £500m has been wiped off the stock market value of Sports Direct, the retail chain controlled by the billionaire Mike Ashley, after the company reported lacklustre results and the City reacted to criticisms of the way its workers are treated. The retailer’s shares fell 13% on a combination of disappointing sales and profits and mounting controversy over working conditions in the group’s Shirebrook warehouse, which is predominantly staffed…

Mike Francesa invited New York Assemblyman Dean Murray on his show to talk about Daily Fantasy Sports and in typical, rather entertaining Mike Francesa fashion, proceeded to shout over Murray for not agreeing with him. Murray has been an outspoken defender of Daily Fantasy Sports, claiming they aren’t a form of a gambling and even sponsoring bills to protect these companies from the Attorney General’s claims that they are (a New York court…

The irony is that this may not only be ineffective, it may also be counterproductive, with a growing body of evidence indicating a correlation between time devoted to PE and improvements in academic attainment. That has certainly been the experience of one of the UK’s largest multi-academy trusts, which has dramatically increased not only the number of pupils playing sport in its secondary schools, but has done so while improving…

A flopped-over traffic cone named Donald Trump who is uncomfortably close to controlling America’s nuclear arsenal has spent the last several days whipping up a xenophobic frenzy against Muslims, and among other things expressed bafflement at the possibility that there existed Muslim sports heroes. http://deadspin.com/donald-trump-w… Donald Trump Wants To Know If There Are Any Muslim Athletes Donald Trump Wants To Know If There Are Any Muslim Athletes Donald Trump Wants…