World Sports

Inside sports business The past week officially launched a billion-dollar gamble by Fox Sports to unearth an undervalued sports property. Yeah, it’s tough to call something a bargain when you sign a 12-year, $1.2 billion deal that’s roughly double what anybody expected. But given skyrocketing prices for live sports — think nine years, $24 billion for the NBA — what Fox paid to partner with the United States…

Day 3 coverage of the U.S. Open will again highlight golf’s best players on FOX Sports GO.   Saturday’s featured group selected for enhanced online coverage includes Jason Day and Kevin Kisner and will tee off at 4:55 p.m. ET. Day enters Saturday’s action three shots off the leaders at 2-under while Kisner is tied for 12th at 1-under after two rounds. If Day, who suffered a dizzy spell at the…

Gareth Southgate says the suggestion of a racial split among England’s young footballers is “hard to stomach”. The Daily Mail posted a picture on its twitter feed on Saturday showing members of England’s U20 squad eating a meal at two tables, one shared by black players and the other white. An accompanying caption asked “what does it say about race in Britain today?” England U21 boss Southgate was asked about…

One person was fatally shot Saturday night in northwest Oklahoma City, police reported.

Day 3 coverage of the U.S. Open will again highlight golf’s best players on FOX Sports GO.   Saturday’s featured group selected for enhanced online coverage includes Jason Day and Kevin Kisner and will tee off at 4:55 p.m. ET. Day enters Saturday’s action three shots off the leaders at 2-under while Kisner is tied for 12th at 1-under after two rounds. If Day, who suffered a dizzy spell at the…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester City will make a £40m bid for Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere, 23, if they fail to land 22-year-old Paul Pogba from Juventus for £70m. (Daily Star)  Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri is confident the Serie A champions can hold on to Pogba as the France midfielder is happy…

It’s easy to be a great sports dad. Unfortunately, it’s just as easy to become a terrible one. With Father’s Day approaching FTW lists 11 ways to become the former and avoid being the latter. 1. Your child is not getting a college scholarship. (AP) Go in with that mentality, please. If he or she happens to be good enough to get one, fantastic. But don’t think of your chid’s…

FOX Sports continues its inaugural golf coverage Friday with the second round of the 2015 U.S. Open at Chambers Bay. The first day, with a scoreboard meltdown and fans complaining on social media about the lack of basic scoring graphics when each golfer was shown on the screen, didn’t go so well for the network. Plus, a lot of sports fans — especially golf fans — don’t know where to…

All Tiger Woods could do, at the end of another awful round of golf in a season full of them — this time in the opening round of the U.S. Open chamber of horrors at Chambers Bay — was engage in a bit of gallows humor. “At least I kicked Rickie’s butt,” quipped the 14-time major champion, who won his last grand slam event seven years ago at the…

Real Madrid’s Sergio Rodriguez, considered the top point guard in Europe, has plans to negotiate a return to the NBA in summer free agency, league sources told Yahoo Sports. View photo . Real Madrid’s Sergio Rodriguez, right, is considered the top point guard in Europe. (AP) Front-office executives regard Rodriguez as an elite backup point guard in the NBA, a playmaker at 6-foot-3 who could successfully run a good team…

We’re required to remind you that these strong takes are SATIRE. Sorry, not sorry. All spelling errors are intentional, we think. -Ed. Attention all sports writers. You might not like what I have to say, but I will defend to the death my right to say it: Stick. To.Sports. As a sports writer, I’m going to go off on a little tangent here. Because I’m sick…

It’s easy to be a great sports dad. Unfortunately, it’s just as easy to become a terrible one. With Father’s Day approaching FTW lists 11 ways to become the former and avoid being the latter. 1. Your child is not getting a college scholarship. (AP) Go in with that mentality, please. If he or she happens to be good enough to get one, fantastic. But don’t think of your chid’s…

A fascinating new era in television golf coverage began Thursday when Fox Sports broadcast the first day of the US Open Championship, the first significant golf event the network has carried. Whether it’s a fulfilling new era for viewers remains to be seen and heard, but the 38 hours of coverage Fox and Fox Sports 1 are dedicating through Sunday’s final round at Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place,…

Fox Sports coordinating producer Mark Loomis vowed ahead of the U.S. Open to not overdo the technical graphics and gadgetry at his disposal. And Loomis delivered on that Thursday, sometimes to a fault, as the network launched coverage of its first major golf tournament in a 12-year, $1.2 billion partnership with the United States Golf Association. Within hours of Fox Sports 1 opening to broadcasters Joe Buck and…

New Yorker sportswriter John Tunis made a compelling argument in his 1928 book $port$: Heroics and Hysterics that America’s sporting institutions were powered by something he called The Great Sports Myth. As Tunis conceives the myth, we see superstar athletes, the Babe Ruths and Jack Dempseys of the sports world, as “cleansed (and so sanctified) in the great white heat of competition,” and that young Americans, through participation in organized…

Ferrari team boss Maurizio Arrivabene doesn’t do uncool as a rule, but even he could not avoid looking a little foolish after ambling into the path of an oncoming Formula 1 car during first practice in Austria. The silver-haired Italian obviously had other things on his mind – the car of Sebastian Vettel was in pieces…

Fox Sports coordinating producer Mark Loomis vowed ahead of the U.S. Open to not overdo the technical graphics and gadgetry at his disposal. And Loomis delivered on that Thursday, sometimes to a fault, as the network launched coverage of its first major golf tournament in a 12-year, $1.2 billion partnership with the United States Golf Association. Within hours of Fox Sports 1 opening to broadcasters Joe Buck and…

When the Warriors have a parade Friday around the Bay Area as NBA champions, their fans will fawn over Steph Curry and elbow each other out of the way to try to catch a glimpse of him. lRelated Aurora News Blackhawks fans overwhelmed by response to Stanley Cup wedding plan See all related When the Patriots won the Super Bowl, fans clamoring to get a photo of quarterback Tom Brady…

ATLANTA — A season drifting away from the Red Sox turned embarrassing on Thursday when third baseman Pablo Sandoval was benched for perusing a social media website during Wednesday’s loss against the Atlanta Braves. Sandoval admitted to team officials that he was on the photo-sharing site Instagram during the seventh inning when he left the bench to return to the clubhouse. He left a trail of evidence by “liking” two…