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Barcelona will “fight” to stop the best players joining the Premier League, says the club’s president Josep Maria Bartomeu. The new £5.1bn television deal will give English clubs huge financial power from the 2016-17 season. But European champions Barcelona feel they can combat the threat. “We are going to fight against the Premier League. We want to have the best players in…

With my father’s recent passing and this weekend’s Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony I was reminded of one of the greatest sports experiences I ever had. About five years ago I took my dad and father-in-law to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. As the Author of The 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live and being in the business of creating hospitality experiences around major sporting events…

BASE parachuters jump from the 1,381 foot high Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, China, in 2004.(Photo: EUGENE HOSHIKO, AP) Standing atop peaks around the world preparing to jump hundreds of feet down, Ian Flanders brought a calming presence with him. For Donald Schultz, that was a good thing. BASE jumpers usually fall into two groups — hyper excited or hyper focused — and Flanders’ ability to be the latter was an…

Journalistic language can be hackneyed. Sportswriters are particular malefactors. The collective lexicon requires periodic pruning. Here are nine words and concepts the Instant Historian recommends we excise.  Historic: Historic implies grand magnitude, something that alters the course of human events. Historic in sports journalism has come to mean anything important. Historic could even mean something trifling, if it’s the first instance. This word has been distorted and deadened by overuse. Sports are trivial. They reflect…

It’s probably never a good idea to anger a baseball slugger who goes by the nickname Joey Bats, as Colin Cowherd, the ESPN radio host, might have just learned. On his show Thursday, Cowherd took a trip down tangent boulevard while talking about the Miami Marlins and ended up proclaiming that baseball can’t be “too complex” since it’s played by so many Dominicans. Oof. [Play a Daily Fantasy contest for…

Buy Photo Brandon Williams, a junior, stretches with the rest of the Monroe High School football team before a scrimmage at East High School on Thursday.(Photo: LAUREN PETRACCA/@LaurenPetracca/ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)Buy Photo Walking between the lines of young football players, coach Jason Muhammad shouted commands mixed with encouragement, at times carrying on a one-sided conversation, punctuated by clapping. “Got a little crowd out here. All right, all right. Sunshine!” he…

With my father’s recent passing and this weekend’s Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony I was reminded of one of the greatest sports experiences I ever had. About five years ago I took my dad and father-in-law to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. As the Author of The 100 Sporting Events You Must See Live and being in the business of creating hospitality experiences around major sporting events…

BASE parachuters jump from the 1,381 foot high Jinmao Tower in Shanghai, China, in 2004.(Photo: EUGENE HOSHIKO, AP) Standing atop peaks around the world preparing to jump hundreds of feet down, Ian Flanders brought a calming presence with him. For Donald Schultz, that was a good thing. BASE jumpers usually fall into two groups — hyper excited or hyper focused — and Flanders’ ability to be the latter was an…

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WRGB (CBS-6) announced this morning the creation of a half-hour weeknight live local sports program, which will air on sister station WCWN (CW-45) beginning Aug. 31. “Upstate Sports Edge” will air Monday through Friday at 10:30 p.m. WRGB Assistant sports director Kelly O’Donnell will be the host. Sports director Doug Sherman will serve as c0-host while continuing his duties as the 6, 6:30 and 11 p.m. anchor of the WRGB…

WWE announced Friday that it has terminated its contract with Hall of Fame wrestler Hulk Hogan. “WWE terminated its contract with Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan),” the statement reads. “WWE is committed to embracing and celebrating individuals from all backgrounds as demonstrated by the diversity of our employees, performers and fans worldwide.” Specific details about Hogan’s termination were not provided, but on Friday morning, Hogan acknowledged it was related to…

1. Cyril Gautier, 20 pts 2. Pierre Rolland, 17 pts 3. Michael Rogers, 15 pts 4. Dylan Van Baarle, 13 pts 5. Nicolas Edet, 11 pts 6. Stef Clement, 10 pts 7. Tony Gallopin, 9 pts 8. Joaquim Rodriguez, 8 pts 9. Alberto Losada, 7 pts 10. Romain Bardet, 6 pts 11. Romain Sicard, 5 pts 12. Stephen Cummings, 4 pts 13. Adriano Malori, 3 pts 14. Ruben Plaza, 2…

Sports stadium lighting is like a dinner bell to some species, such as seagulls, letting them know that spilled food freebies are on the way, but new research finds that it can cause harm to animals too. Amphibians, insects, turtles, certain birds, small carnivores, most rodents and other animals experience altered patterns of activity and feeding when exposed to artificial night lighting, according to the study, which found that bats…

It’s not just traditional sports that have to worry about performance-enhancing drugs. In the wake of an ongoing controversy surrounding the abuse of Adderall by e-sports players, the Electronic Sports League has said that it will introduce policies to keep drugs out of virtual sports. “We were all on Adderall.” There are no details yet on how that might work, but the group tells Motherboard that it has “taken…

NFL The players’ union proposed a settlement on Tom Brady’s four-game suspension last week that was ”met with silence” by the NFL, a person familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because the NFL Players Association’s offer was confidential. There is no timetable on when Commissioner Roger Goodell will rule on the New England quarterback’s appeal. Several media reports indicated the…

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Charlie Dixon, a programming executive with experience at both NBC News and ESPN, is set to join Fox Sports as executive vice president of content and production at sports-cable outlets Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, according to a person familiar with the situation. Dixon is the first hire made by Jamie Horowitz, the TV executive who joined Fox Sports as president of Fox Sports National Networks in May….

It’s not just traditional sports that have to worry about performance-enhancing drugs. In the wake of an ongoing controversy surrounding the abuse of Adderall by e-sports players, the Electronic Sports League has said that it will introduce policies to keep drugs out of virtual sports. “We were all on Adderall.” There are no details yet on how that might work, but the group tells Motherboard that it has “taken…

News Sports Life Money Tech Travel Opinion Settings Full Forecast Crosswords Your Take Investigations Video Stocks Apps Best-Selling Books Classifieds College Corrections Interactives Newsletters Photo Galleries Portfolio Tracker Scores Race Together Video Network Web to Watch Your Take Newsstand Audio Search User Get the news Log In or Subscribe to skip 162 1 Share This Story! Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about BASE jumper’s…

Charlie Dixon, a programming executive with experience at both NBC News and ESPN, is set to join Fox Sports as executive vice president of content and production at sports-cable outlets Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2, according to a person familiar with the situation. Dixon is the first hire made by Jamie Horowitz, the TV executive who joined Fox Sports as president of Fox Sports National Networks in May….