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The Pac-12 has submitted a proposal that would allow college athletes to use their names, images and likenesses to “promote their own non-athletic business ventures,” the conference said in a news release Friday. In light of the pending Ed O’Bannon lawsuit, the Pac-12 idea appears to represent an incremental step by college sports leaders to adopt bylaws allowing players to make money off their name, but with a qualifier. Pac-12…

0 Shares Print NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers University’s Board of Governors met behind closed doors Friday amid the latest scandal to hit the sports program the school has been trying to build up. Rutgers president Robert Barchi said the meeting, which dealt with the university’s athletics program, covered legal issues and that the board had “an extensive and robust conversation, that they were fully briefed.” Football coach Kyle Flood…

I wrote in June about earlier deadlines caused by the move of printing to Los Angeles and the effect on the ability to report news in the newspaper. One area of concern was how sports was going to handle Friday night prep football coverage. In a football hotbed like San Diego County, this is a big deal for readers. The deadline now for sports on Friday nights is 10:30. Before…

FOOTBALL GOSSIP Derek McInnes says his Aberdeen players won’t freeze in the mouth-watering clash against Celtic at Pittodrie. (Various) Celtic made a loss of nearly £4m in the last financial year because they opted not to sell Virgil van Dijk until this summer, according to chief executive Peter Lawwell. (Various) Rangers manager Mark Warburton is targeting a Scottish Cup final victory as a passport…

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…