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At the end of the 2012 season, Angels owner Arte Moreno resolved the tension between general manager Jerry Dipoto and manager Mike Scioscia by retaining both and forcing them to keep working together. Nearly three years later, that tension is back and far more pervasive, extending to the Angels coaches and even the players, according to major-league sources. Emotions simmered in a series of meetings over the weekend when Dipoto…

At least they didn’t supply American Pharoah’s horseshoes. It has been a trying month for Nike Inc. as rival Under Armour Inc. “won” two major sporting events: Stephen Curry and his Golden State Warriors triumphed in the NBA championship over Nike star LeBron James, while in the U.S. Open Under Armour’s Jordan Spieth prevailed over Rory McIlroy. Sponsoring athletes doesn’t come cheap, and this is a big part of the…

The Portland Trail Blazers have completed a deal to send forward Nic Batum to the Charlotte Hornets for Noah Vonleh and Gerald Henderson, league sources told Yahoo Sports. The deal was finalized Wednesday night. View photo . Nicolas Batum is headed to the Hornets. (AP) The Blazers had been shopping Batum in recent days, and the deal gives them an intriguing young player, Vonleh, who is 19 years old with…

Electronic Arts Inc., the National Hockey League (NHL®) and the National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA) announced today during the 2015 NHL Awards™ that three-time Stanley Cup® Champions Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane from the Chicago Blackhawks® will both appear on the cover of EA SPORTS™ NHL® 16. This marks the first time in franchise history that the cover has featured two teammates as well as the Stanley Cup trophy….

By Caley Fretz Published 4 hours ago Photo: Jim Fryer / BrakeThrough Media RCS Sport, organizer of the Giro d’Italia, announced on Wednesday its support of the calendar and structural reforms proposed by the UCI, reforms which have been rejected by RCS competitor Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO). “RCS Sport has never been opposed to the Reform Project and is ready to analyse and discuss all technical issues related…

As blazing hot temperatures spread across Alabama, mayors from several Birmingham area cities today joined forces to encourage more city officials to train youth coaches to protect against heat-related sports injuries and illnesses. Hoover Mayor Gary Ivey, Homewood Mayor Scott McBrayer and Alabaster Mayor Marty Handlon joined together at a press conference in Homewood to advocate a sports safety program offered by the Birmingham-based National Center for Sports Safety. The…

ESPN and DraftKings reached an exclusive pact making the startup the official daily-fantasy sports offering across the sports giant’s platforms. The fantasy-sports biz — in which players compete against each other by picking virtual teams, based on real players — is a huge and growing category. In 2014, 42 million fans in the U.S. and Canada spent an estimated $15 billion on fantasy sports, according to the Fantasy Sports Trade…

Liverpool have signed forward Roberto Firmino from Hoffenheim on a five-year deal for a fee of about £29m. The 23-year-old’s deal is subject to a medical, which will take place after he returns from Chile, where he has been playing for Brazil in the Copa America. Firmino, who has scored 47 goals in 151 games for Hoffenheim, becomes the Reds’ second most expensive player. …

i Marcel Granollers (left) and Roger Federer leave the court at the U.S. Open in Flushing, N.Y., last August. Commentator Frank Deford says with all that baggage, tennis needs caddies. Leslie Billman/Ai Wire/Landov hide caption itoggle caption Leslie Billman/Ai Wire/Landov Marcel Granollers (left) and Roger Federer leave the court at the U.S. Open in Flushing, N.Y., last August. Commentator Frank Deford says with all that baggage, tennis needs caddies. Leslie…

View photo . (AP) Monday wasn’t a great day for the Pete Rose reinstatement campaign. ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” reported that Rose had indeed bet on baseball as a player, something he had long denied, even as recently as two months ago. Producer Willie Weinbaum and reporter T.J. Quinn uncovered an old log of gambling records that had been sealed for 26 years. The response was immediate from his critics: This was…

No sports contract runs a single sheet of paper. The simplest signing is processed by an army of attorneys, who insist upon pages and pages of provisions, amendments and stipulations. Does the team want its player to maintain a certain weight? Put it in contract. Can the athlete have their own physical therapist? Put it in writing. Want to inspire someone to play better? Add an incentive. Every once in…

We all know Mike Francesa isn’t afraid of biting the hand that feeds him at FOX Sports, which simulcasts his WFAN show (sometimes). So here’s what he did on Monday: Ripped the heck out of FOX’s coverage of the 2015 U.S. Open: “They’re in kindergarten,” he said. “The other [networks] are in graduate school. They need a lot of work.” Of course FOX Sports 1’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole had…

We all know Mike Francesa isn’t afraid of biting the hand that feeds him at FOX Sports, which simulcasts his WFAN show (sometimes). So here’s what he did on Monday: Ripped the heck out of FOX’s coverage of the 2015 U.S. Open: “They’re in kindergarten,” he said. “The other [networks] are in graduate school. They need a lot of work.” Of course FOX Sports 1’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole had…

View photo . (AP) Monday wasn’t a great day for the Pete Rose reinstatement campaign. ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” reported that Rose had indeed bet on baseball as a player, something he had long denied, even as recently as two months ago. Producer Willie Weinbaum and reporter T.J. Quinn uncovered an old log of gambling records that had been sealed for 26 years. The response was immediate from his critics: This was…

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry is featured on a regional cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated, with magazines set to hit newsstands today, the team announced. Curry helped lead the Warriors to the team’s first NBA Championship in 40 years by averaging 26.0 points, 6.3 assists, 5.2 rebounds and 1.83 steals during the 2015 NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers, a series the Warriors won, 4-2. The regional cover…

How did Fox Sports do with its initial foray into U.S. Open broadcasting? Let’s start with the premise that it’s a thankless job. If social media were the sole arbiter of what constitutes quality sports broadcasting, well, then no one does it well, whatever the sport, whoever the anchors and analysts. Fox did fine. Not great, but OK for a first effort, and nothing that would cause heads to explode….

View photo . (AP) Monday wasn’t a great day for the Pete Rose reinstatement campaign. ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” reported that Rose had indeed bet on baseball as a player, something he had long denied, even as recently as two months ago. Producer Willie Weinbaum and reporter T.J. Quinn uncovered an old log of gambling records that had been sealed for 26 years. The response was immediate from his critics: This was…

Warrior fans: are you ready for yet another piece of memorabilia? On Tuesday, Sports Illustrated unveiled a new regional cover with Stephen Curry on the front kissing the championship trophy. It’s Curry’s third appearance on the cover since May. COVER (2 of 2): “This feels like the start of something” –@stephencurry30 http://t.co/jMRxcSaMPb pic.twitter.com/uBlgviYvSl — Sports Illustrated (@SInow) June 23, 2015 The magazine features a story on Curry and the Warriors…

Mike Francesa, everyone’s No. 1 favorite sports personality, opened his show on Monday in typical fashion. Francesa began talking about the U.S. Open and the first year coverage by Fox Sports, saying he didn’t want to bury the company only to spend a solid portion of his five and a half hour show complaining about it. Let the parody Francesa Twitter account explain… I know we are awn FOX but we ah…

G. The National Women’s Law Center analyzed federal data from more than 16,000 high schools, looking at the gap between the overall proportion of girls in each school and the proportion of slots on that school’s sports teams that were filled by girls. In more than a quarter of schools, the gap was larger than 10 percentage points. “Girls across the country are still not getting equal chances to play sports and that’s a big…