World Sports

CHICAGO – Sports and the law have mixed a little bit more than fans in Chicago would like this summer. There is the rape investigation going on with Patrick Kane in New York. There is a recently filed lawsuit against Derrick Rose. Each have been debated among fans and pundits since the news of each broke. One man who knows all about the legal side of things is Chicago attorney…

EAST LANSING – Many high school football and soccer teams share the same field and play under the same lights. It might come as a surprise which sport generates more ejections and sportsmanship concerns. According to the Michigan High School Athletic Association Officials Report Summary for the 2014-15 school year, boys varsity soccer led all sports in player ejections with 223 and officials’ concerns with 280. Varsity football was second…

Sports broadcasts — long viewed by the entertainment industry as a way to lure viewers and ad dollars — are losing some luster. American media companies including Walt Disney Inc., Time Warner Inc. and 21st Century Fox could see their profits shrink due to the surging cost of broadcasting professional sports at a time when subscriber numbers are falling and viewership is hitting a plateau. TV networks including Disney’s ESPN,…

Sports broadcasts — long viewed by the entertainment industry as a way to lure viewers and ad dollars — are losing some luster. American media companies including Walt Disney Inc., Time Warner Inc. and 21st Century Fox could see their profits shrink due to the surging cost of broadcasting professional sports at a time when subscriber numbers are falling and viewership is hitting a plateau. TV networks including Disney’s ESPN,…

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The Tribune covers women’s high school sports extensively yet essentially ignores those athletes when they get to college (where about 43 percent of scholarship athletes are women) and beyond. Rarely does anyone complain in an email or phone call about the lack of women’s sports coverage, Knowles said. “Sports departments tend to be male-dominated, and the culture within them is unfortunately not all that welcoming to women or women’s sports,”…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page and follow Sportsday live on Monday. Chelsea have reportedly opened talks with Juventus about Paul Pogba, 22, and are prepared to offer £87.5m for the midfielder. (Tancredi Palmeri, via Daily Star)  Manchester United have made a £36.3m bid for Monaco’s France Under-21 forward Anthony Martial, 19, who is…

Japan beat Pennsylvania, 18–11, to win the Little League World Series on Sunday. Japanese teams have now won four of the last six championships.  The 29 combined runs are the most ever in a LLWS title game, breaking the previous record of 23.  The Japanese team came from the Tokyo Kitasuna Little League, which has now won three LLWS championships in its history.  The Pennsylvania team, from the town of…

BEIJING Part of Sebastian Coe’s new job as head of world athletics will be to shift the conversation about his “ostensibly clean” sport from doping to spectacular performances, he said on Sunday. The Briton will become president of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) at the conclusion of the 15th world championships on Sunday. The former Olympic champion takes over a sport that has endured a month of allegations…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page and follow Sportsday live on Monday. Manchester United have made a £36.3m bid for Monaco forward Anthony Martial, 19, who is also on Arsenal’s radar. (RMC Sport – in French)  Schalke have denied reports that Arsenal and Manchester United target Julian Draxler, 21, has agreed to join Wolfsburg….

Scott Dixon receives the Astor Cup from team owner Chip Ganassi after winning the Verizon IndyCar Series championship at Sonoma Raceway. (Kelley L Cox, USA TODAY Sports) SONOMA, Calif. — Here’s a look at all the action and results from Sunday afternoon’s IndyCar race at Sonoma Raceway: THE CHAMPION: Scott Dixon took advantage of what turned out to be a monumental mistake by Juan Pablo Montoya, winning Sunday’s race at Sonoma Raceway…

The credits roll… and cue to black…  The 2015 World Championships come to an end, leaving us with fantastic memories. Usain Bolt overcame Justin Gatlin to prove he’s the best that’s ever been; Jessica Ennis-Hill proved she’s a super mum; Greg Rutherford proved he’s a worthy champion while Mo Farah proved he can make history again and again. There were superheros and bizarre moments, and super-human feats.  Thanks, as always, for joining…

All dogs are good dogs. This is objective fact and I will not hear any arguments against it. But some dogs, like Miss Babe Ruth of Greensboro, N.C., are better dogs. Since she was a nine-month-old puppy, the black labrador retriever has worked for the Class A Greensboro Grasshoppers, living up to her breed’s namesake and doing some retrieving. Starting on August 2, 2006, Babe has tirelessly retrieved both bats…

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FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic are targeting 25-year-old Anderlecht left-back Fabrice N’Sakala, who has a £1.5m price tag and who is under contract for three years at the Belgian club. (Sunday Express) Southampton boss Ronald Koeman is thought to be prepared to wait until January to try to sign Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk rather than go above his £10m limit to meet Celtic’s £13m asking price….

FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic are targeting 25-year-old Anderlecht left-back Fabrice N’Sakala, who has a £1.5m price tag and who is under contract for three years at the Belgian club. (Sunday Express) Southampton boss Ronald Koeman is thought to be prepared to wait until January to try to sign Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk rather than go above his £10m limit to meet Celtic’s £13m asking price….

A local charity drive continues to honor one of the 12 victims of the Aurora theater shooting. 9NEWS at 5 p.m. 08/29/15.

After collapsing on the 18th tee box, golfer John Daly was taken by ambulance from a golf course in Canton, Miss., to a hospital in Jackson for tests Saturday, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports. View photo . John Daly squares up for a shot on Saturday. (Special to Yahoo Sports) Zack Hamm, an emergency room technician at Baptist Medical Center, confirmed to Yahoo Sports on Saturday night that Daly was…

A lawyer for a race car driver who was killed when he was run over by Tony Stewart’s car says legal claims by the NASCAR star in response to a lawsuit are “appalling.” Attorney Mark Lanier said Saturday in an email that Kevin Ward Jr. was killed last year as he walked on a dirt track in upstate New York even though Stewart is one of the world’s best drivers….

Usain Bolt completed the gold medal treble in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter run and 4×100-meter relay for the fifth time in his career as the Jamaican sprints squad finished in 37.36 seconds for gold at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing on Saturday. Bolt and Jamaica have won every global championship gold medal since the 2008 Summer Olympics. Bolt has won individual gold medals in the men’s 100-meters and 200-meters…