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At some point, the police were called. What had been a Sunday morning under-15s football game had turned into a pitch invasion, then a full-scale scrap between two London teams. And their parents. “Grown adults remonstrating with 15-year-olds on the pitch,” says James, the coach of one of the teams. “The referee and linesmen were chased off the ground. It was crazy.” He doesn’t quite know how it started –…

Throughout the summer, EW has been rolling out lists of some of our favorite books of all time. So far, we’ve suggested YA books not just for kids, celebrity memoirs, heart-stopping thrillers, audiobooks, and laugh-out-loud humor books to devour in the sun. This week’s installment should have you cheering. Pulling decades back, we’ve compiled 12 sports books that will get you on your feet and bring out your inner fan….

With very few exceptions, betting on sports is illegal in the U.S. It’s happily allowed in sports books in Nevada, but recent efforts to expand legal sports betting to New Jersey have been shot down by the courts. Mind you, people across the country are gambling on sports on a daily basis; they’re just doing it illegally. The latest estimate from the American Gaming Association is that a whopping $93…

The national governing bodies of Britain’s most popular sports will continue to make their major events available on free-to-air television. Cricket, football, golf, tennis and rugby union and league have re-signed a voluntary code first set up in 2009. This means free-to-air broadcasters like the BBC will be given access to highlight packages, at the very least. It also commits these sports to allocating…

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Facing growth concerns among investors, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has announced a new push into sports. The company is partnering with the Web news and social media conglomerate Sina and Yunfeng Capital to form Alibaba Sports Group in a bid to “transform China’s sports industry,” according to a press release. There aren’t too many details of what, exactly, Alibaba intends to do in sports. The company said it plans to leverage its…

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Boston is the place to be for avid sports fans, according to a recent personal-finance website’s analysis of more than 300 American cities. The three-year-old site uses a variety of data in its methodology to calculate “best of” and “worst of” lists. For this one, it combined previous rankings in five sports – football, basketball, baseball, hockey and soccer. The rankings cover 341 cities – large, midsize…

The national governing bodies of Britain’s most popular sports will continue to make their major events available on free-to-air television. Cricket, football, golf, tennis and rugby union and league have re-signed a voluntary code first set up in 2009. This means free-to-air broadcasters like the BBC will be given access to highlight packages, at the very least. It also commits these sports to allocating…

The national governing bodies of Britain’s most popular sports will continue to make their major events available on free-to-air television. Cricket, football, golf, tennis and rugby union and league have re-signed a voluntary code first set up in 2009. This means free-to-air broadcasters like the BBC will be given access to highlight packages, at the very least. It also commits these sports to allocating…

Last month, given the chance to affirm that college athletes have basic labor rights, the National Labor Review Board punted. It’s rare that a sports metaphor so perfectly crafted for lazy headline writers is so fitting, but punting—the most cowardly, spineless, and responsibility-evading decision routinely made in American sports—perfectly describes the thought process of the NLRB’s decision, a ruling that brought the most energized campus athletic rebellion in decades to…

The National Football League season that kicks off this week will provide a reality check for an investor darling that has yet to make a profit: the daily fantasy-sports industry. The fantasy-sports operators allow customers to draft virtual teams of professional athletes and compete against each other based on the teams’ real-world performances that day or week. The companies put customers’ contest entry fees toward cash prize pools…

The new Apple TV remote supports motion controls, and it looks like Apple is taking a leaf out of Nintendo’s book when it comes to teaching new users how to play games on the device. Harmonix, the developers behind Rock Band and the original Guitar Hero, appeared on stage to show off a new game called Beat Sports — and, well, it’s pretty much Wii Sports baseball in rhythm game…

Heh, imagine our faces when this is the only product Apple announce at today’s keynote. “To … create … this product, we asked ourselves ‘what do consumers most want from this announcement?’ The answer, of course, is not a new iPhone, but a different coloured strap for their Apple Watch. Our engineers worked tirelessly to design a product which was both functional and gorgeous. The strap … sympathetically wraps around…

Two more wins. That’s all Serena Williams needs to complete the Grand Slam, a feat so rare that it has been accomplished just six times in tennis history. Steffi Graf was the last winner, taking all four major tournaments in 1988. Williams has already won four straight major titles, dating back to last year’s U.S. Open, but she has never won all four in the same year. “I don’t know…

Apple has a lot to announce at today’s keynote with new iPhones, a new Apple TV and new iPads. But the company can’t just ignore its new baby, the Apple Watch. In order to keep things fresh, Apple announced that you will be able to buy new Watch bands, and the Watch Sport is now also available in gold and rose gold finishes. The company also showcased watchOS 2 once…

0 Shares Print With an estimated $95 billion expected to be bet — mostly illegally — on NFL and college football this season, research shows that a legal sports betting market in the United States would be the largest in the world and could potentially generate as much annual revenue as the NFL itself. Calling the U.S. sports betting market a “sleeping giant,” global gaming research firm GamblingCompliance projects that…

Chinese internet giant Alibaba set up a new sports business on Wednesday as it continues to expand into areas beyond e-commerce amid growth concerns in the world’s second-largest economy. Exact details of what the Alibaba Sports Group would be doing were thin, but the New York-listed parent company said it will be involved in several different aspects of the industry. “Alibaba Sports Group expects to…

Malin Ruccolo, 3, waits patiently for another signature on her pink football at the Detroit Lions training camp in Allen Park on Aug. 3. She scored: wide receiver Calvin Johnson ended up signing it.(Photo: Daniel Mears / Detroit News) It’s official: Michigan is sports crazy. A study by WalletHub found that three of the best sports cities are in Michigan: East Lansing, Ann Arbor and Detroit. And, sorry, UM, but…

The William Hill sports bar at Monmouth Park will be the home of a sports book if sports wagering is approved in New Jersey.(Photo: File photo) For New Jersey and Monmouth Park, the battle to bring sports wagering to the state isn’t over quite yet. Just two weeks after a three-judge panel from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia rejected the state’s latest bid to allow racetracks and…

Sep 6, 2015; Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander (35) fist bumps with a young fan on kids day prior to the game against the Cleveland Indians at Comerica Park.(Photo: Rick Osentoski, USA TODAY Sports) You don’t need any proof that Michigan is the greatest sports state in America. But here’s a little more, just in case. WalletHub recently ranked more than 300 American cities based on comprehensive studies and…