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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…

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Athlete sponsors understandably love when their athletes win big. It gives them a chance to show that people who endorse their products are successful and, in some cases, give the impression to consumers that use of their products helped lend a hand in the athlete’s victory. That makes sense and is par for the course. So, it isn’t surprising to see a sponsor of Holly Holm‘s like supplement brand Intel…

It was 5am in tiny Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Saturday and the bus was already started and roaring, ready for the trip to the hallowed ground. Five hours, 282 miles ahead – and later that day, back – past towns named Rochester and Waterloo and Cedar Rapids to Iowa City. On the bus was a family, really, the wrestling family of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. That included Tyler Kennedy, a…

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Research shows that kids who play sports are healthier, get better grades and four times more likely to go to college. That’s why experts are so concerned about this: Fewer and fewer kids are playing team sports. According to a national study by the Sports Fitness Industry Association, participation among kids ages 6-to-17 has declined more than 9 percent in the last five years. And many experts…

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By DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge on Monday rejected the requests of daily fantasy sports operators DraftKings and FanDuel for temporary restraining orders to block the state attorney general’s attempt to shut them down. In separate complaints filed Friday in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, FanDuel and DraftKings first asked a judge for an injunction, arguing that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman wrongly characterized…

A New York judge on Monday denied temporary restraining orders from DraftKings and FanDuel to continue running their respective daily fantasy sports operations in the state, according to a report from Reuters. The decision creates the possibility that both companies, which let players wage real money on imaginary sporting outcomes, will be forced to close up shop in the state until a court decides whether they constitute illegal online gambling. …

“This is Your Brain on Sports” is a weekly podcast from Sports Illustrated in which SI executive editor Jon Wertheim and Tufts University psychology professor Sam Sommers explore the intersection of sports and human nature—what the world of sports has to teach us about who we are, what we care about and the forces that shape our behavior. On this week’s episode, Sommers talks with University of St. Thomas head men’s basketball…

John Oliver set aside a large portion of his show “Last Week Tonight” on Sunday to launch an attack on daily fantasy sports. Oliver’s 20 minute segment pointed out the similarities between daily fantasy sports and professional poker, ultimately using it to support his opinion that daily fantasy sports is gambling, and should be dealt with as such: “By any rational definition, daily fantasy is gambling, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. People clearly love…

If you don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube, you may not have heard of Whistle Sports, a digital video network that launched just over one year ago. But you could be regularly watching Whistle Sports videos without knowing it. Whistle Sports produces a range of videos (often funny, often viral) for a range of platforms (YouTube, Xbox, AppleTV, Roku and others), and at least one organization thinks what…

Now that the dust has settled and we are somewhat back to our senses after Holly Holm shocked the world Saturday night with a scintillating second-round knockout of the seemingly indestructible Ronda Rousey at UFC 193, it’s time to put into perspective how big of an upset this was in the history of combat sports. Let’s be clear: regardless of whatever revisionist history takes place over the next several months…

Another New Orleans defensive debacle has spelled the end of Rob Ryan’s days as the unit’s coordinator. Multiple sources told FOXSports.com that Ryan is being removed from the position following Sunday’s 47-14 loss at Washington. The move should be official at some point on Monday. Head coach Sean Payton said Monday that changes were coming but said he hasn’t made decisions regarding the coaching staff or other personnel, including Ryan….

Throughout the world of sports, players and teams paid homage to the victims of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris over the weekend. From Denmark, to Sweden, to Great Britain, to the U.S., and China, here are images of a weekend of tributes to the French national colors of bleu, blanc, rouge. The following gallery has been republished from our sister site, Slate.fr.

Tears in the octagon. So many were shed, so many others held in by a state of shock. Holly Holm cried her face red as she ran circles inside the cage late Saturday night, looking for someone to share the moment with, a moment that just couldn’t be real, could it? The UFC 193 main event had just ended suddenly and stunningly, and Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, was rocking…