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The ATP and Le Sports have announced a new partnership which sees China’s revolutionary digital sports broadcasting company become Official Online Video Partner and Platinum Partner of the ATP World Tour, as well as the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, for a five-year period beginning in 2016. In addition, through ATP Media, broadcast arm of the ATP, Le Sports has acquired the exclusive digital media rights to the…

My daughter is two years old and chances are she’ll never experience many ordinary things of my youth — hearing a dial tone, putting a stamp on a letter, going to Tower Records and smelling that weird hemp smell or listening to a VCR ever-so-slowly rewind a video. It’ll all be foreign to her. It’s the same for every generation. What was once new suddenly becomes old. (Have you looked at…

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BOSTON Massachusetts would prohibit people under the age of 21 from playing paid fantasy sports games under a proposed set of regulations for the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry laid out on Thursday by state Attorney General Maura Healey. The proposals would also ban fantasy competitions based on college sports, prohibit promotions of paid fantasy sports on high school and college campuses and bar professional athletes, agents and others connected to pro…

My daughter is two years old and chances are she’ll never experience many ordinary things of my youth — hearing a dial tone, putting a stamp on a letter, going to Tower Records and smelling that weird hemp smell or listening to a VCR ever-so-slowly rewind a video. It’ll all be foreign to her. It’s the same for every generation. What was once new suddenly becomes old. (Have you looked at…

Say what you will about IBM, they are constantly trying new ways to generate business, and their latest initiative involves helping professional sports team modernize stadium operations and update the way they interact with fans. The project is two-fold. The first part is the Sports and Entertainment Global Consortium, a group of companies coming together to drive infrastructure updates at stadiums and arenas. The second piece is the Sports, Entertainment and Fan Experience consulting practice,…

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(Photo: The Associated Press) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — While the World Anti-Doping Agency geared up to suspend Russia’s anti-doping operation, calls for investigation into that country’s entire sports program came from athletes and leaders outside of track and field who worry their sports have been tainted, too. The chair of WADA’s athlete committee, Beckie Scott, told the agency’s board she has been approached by athletes around the world wondering…

As NASCAR prepares to crown its national series champions this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway, FOX NASCAR already has begun preparations for the 2016 season, announcing its full broadcaster lineup for next year, including a new NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team featuring veteran play-by-play announcer Mike Joy and analysts Darrell Waltrip, together for their 16th season, and newcomer and four-time champion Jeff Gordon, plus new NASCAR Camping World Truck Series play-by-play…

The BBC director general Tony Hall’s plan to save £30m a year by further shaving the sports budget to account for a squeeze in the licence fee does not come as a surprise. But to many it seems like a further whittling of a pretty slender stick. The rhetoric is familiar and is perhaps best summarised as the “or the puppy gets it” argument. But the BBC must surely be…

Spending on athletics and minority sports is to be cut by the BBC, with its Red Button services also facing the axe, as the corporation aims to save £150m a year before its final round of budget negotiations with the government. The broadcaster will cut online news and make savings in overheads as it deals with a funding shortfall, but it has promised to protect spending on drama. A “significant…

A probe by New York State’s attorney general into the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar daily fantasy sports industry has been expanded to include online media giant Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The move coincides with a court filing by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Tuesday seeking a temporary injunction that would shut down DraftKings and FanDuel, leaders among online companies offering paid-for daily fantasy sports…

Media playback is not supported on this device Jonah Lomu, considered one of New Zealand’s finest rugby union players of all time, has died at the age of 40. The death of New Zealand great Jonah Lomu aged 40 is a “devastating loss”, says former Wales captain Jonathan Davies. Lomu scored 37 tries in 63 matches for New Zealand between 1994 and 2002, but his career was cut short by…

The connections of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah will be honored with the 2015 Big Sport of Turfdom Award – recognizing a person or group of people who enhance coverage of Thoroughbred racing through cooperation with media and racing publicists – the Turf Publicists of America (TPA) announced Tuesday. “Team American Pharoah” – led by owner Ahmed Zayat, trainer Bob Baffert, jockey Victor Espinoza and Zayat Stables racing manager Justin…

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Media playback is not supported on this device Jonah Lomu, considered one of New Zealand’s finest rugby union players of all time, has died at the age of 40. New Zealand rugby union great Jonah Lomu has died aged 40. Lomu, who scored 43 tries in 73 matches for New Zealand between 1994 and 2002, had been diagnosed with a rare and serious kidney condition. It forced him to quit…

New York State’s top prosecutor on Tuesday filed for a temporary injunction that would shut down daily fantasy sports leaders DraftKings and FanDuel in the state in the latest blow to the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry. Daily fantasy sports gaming “is nothing more than a rebranding of sports betting,” New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in legal documents filed in a Manhattan trial court. “It is plainly illegal.” In response…

Germany’s friendly with the Netherlands on Tuesday was called off because of an “intention to ignite explosives” at the Hannover stadium. Evacuation began less than two hours before kick-off after a “concrete security threat”, said the city’s president of police Volker Kluwe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to attend the match at the 49,000-capacity HDI Arena. The German national team’s players were put…