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The chair of the parliament’s public accounts committee has added to calls for an investigation into the low pay and “humiliating and demeaning” working conditions at Sports Direct, following revelations made by the Guardian last week. Meg Hillier, the Labour MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, said she would be questioning HM Revenue & Customs on how it investigates company compliance with minimum wage legislation during a session in front…

Though sports betting often gets a bad name, it isn’t much different than investing in the stock market. While the two are not one and the same, it’s hard to ignore the many similarities. Both require you to take a risk in order to earn a high return. You could also argue that each requires skill and experience to succeed. So, as an investor, what can you learn from successful…

FanSided is proud to announce that Buffalo fan, Dennis Gleason, has been named the inaugural FanSided Fan of the Year. We’d like to thank everyone who entered, especially our five finalists. Havok, Raeanne, Dawn and Hannah. All are fantastic people and everyone should check out their stories on our finalists page. All five finalists will receive a one-year subscription to Sports Illustrated and Dennis will be featured in the magazine….

Serena Williams looks fierce on the latest cover of Sports Illustrated. She’s lounging on a throne with one leg draped over the arm of the chair. It’s a badass pose that says more about who Williams is than what she does.  It looks like a fashion cover for Vogue or Cosmopolitan. Instead, Williams graces the cover of Sports Illustrated as the 2015 Sportsperson of the Year. She’s the first solo woman…

Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione and Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis have helped to create multiple successful revenue sports.(Photo: USA TODAY Sports) A little more than a month ago in early November, Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis and Oklahoma’s Joe Castiglione were together in Glendale, Ariz., the host city of the Jan. 11 College Football Playoff championship game. Hollis and Castiglione were there strictly on hoops duty. Castiglione is the chair…

Phil Pepe, a revered baseball writer and radio voice who spent more than five decades covering sports in New York, died Sunday. He was 80. Pepe died of an apparent heart attack at his home in Englewood, New Jersey, his son, David, told The Associated Press. A longtime New York Yankees beat writer who chronicled franchise greats from Mickey Mantle to Reggie Jackson and Derek Jeter, Pepe also authored dozens…

Yes, sport is about scorelines, but we overestimate the extent to which the score reflects performance © Hardy’s Arguing that sport can learn from philosophy sounds improbable. Superficially, sport and philosophy have little in common: one is allegedly purely physical, the other (according to cliché) a matter of thinking about thinking. But professional sport, casting its net ever wider in the search for…

I’ve always been fascinated by the job of sports radio producer given their many hats and roles, from the managing and planning of daily content to serving as amateur shrinks for talent. While you won’t find their names on the show’s marquee—you might occasionally hear their voices—the group of panelists below are the lead producers of some of the most popular sports talk shows in the U.S. and Canada. Last…

Since 1954, Sports Illustrated has declared the most groundbreaking, important person in sports each year, starting with British runner Roger Bannister, the first known person to ever run a mile in under four minutes. This year the magazine has named its ninth woman ever to the list: tennis champ Serena Williams. While it may not be a shock that this dominant female athlete was named Sports Illustrated’s 2015 Sportsperson of…

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0 Shares print Serena Williams, who won three Grand Slam events en route to a 53-3 record and her seventh WTA Player of the Year award, was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year on Monday. She was the first female athlete to be honored on her own by the magazine in more than 30 years. “She was the most deserving person for the award. She had an amazing year….

(Photo: The Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Phil Pepe, a revered baseball writer and radio voice who spent more than five decades covering sports in New York, died Sunday. He was 80. Pepe died of an apparent heart attack at his home in Englewood, New Jersey, his son, David, told The Associated Press. A longtime New York Yankees beat writer who chronicled franchise greats from Mickey Mantle to Reggie…

The crisis at Sports Direct escalated once again on Monday as the retailer was rounded on by MPs during an urgent parliamentary debate and the company was deserted by some of its leading City cheerleaders. Former shadow business minister Chuka Umunna branded the retailer as “a bad advert for British business” and said it had “a culture of fear in the workplace that we would not wish to see repeated…

Serena Williams suddenly regained her composure and her strokes, coming back to win the last four games and beat No. 1-ranked Victoria Azarenka in three sets to win the U.S. Open on Sunday night. (Sept. 9) AP

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A Treasury minister has been summoned to the Commons to explain what the government is doing to ensure Sports Direct pays the minimum wage. The Speaker, John Bercow, granted a request for an urgent question on Monday afternoon from the former shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna to ask ministers what they are doing to enforce the minimum wage in this case. Related: Revealed: how Sports Direct stripped USC assets before…

Infosys, the India-headquartered consulting and IT firm, is getting into sports and wearables after it announced a $3 million strategic investment in Whoop, a Boston-based company that provides performance data to professional athletes and sports teams. Whoop was spun out of the Harvard Innovation Lab and raised $12 million back in September, when it also announced the availability of its data evaluation system for athletes. Its core product, which is currently being…

No. 10: Grand Rapids, Michigan iStock.com/benkrut This Midwestern city, nicknamed River City for its location on Michigan’s Grand River, has a lot to offer retirees who enjoy winter sports such as ice fishing and cross-country skiing. Downtown Grand Rapids is less than 30 miles away from Lake Michigan and thus benefits from lake-effect snow. The city gets an impressive 75 inches of the white stuff every year, which means there…