World Sports

The Cleveland Cavaliers are on the brink of elimination in the NBA Finals. If they can’t win Games 6 and 7 against the Golden State Warriors, it will extend a dubious mark in professional sports in North America. Of the cities in North America with at least one team in one of the four major sports, no city has seen more seasons played across the four major sports since…

Chicago Bulls restricted free-agent guard Jimmy Butler has plans to pursue shorter-term offer sheets this summer, resisting the Bulls’ initial plans to offer him a five-year, maximum contract extension, league sources told Yahoo Sports. As the NBA’s salary cap is set to dramatically rise beginning with the 2016-17 season, Butler has become far less interested in locking himself into the five-year, $90 million-plus deal the Bulls are expected to present…

ST. LOUIS — Federal law enforcement authorities are investigating whether the St. Louis Cardinals illegally hacked into a computer database of the Houston Astros to obtain information on their former division rival’s players, a person familiar with the situation said Tuesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because Major League Baseball, law enforcement officials and the two teams were not disclosing details of the investigation. The New York Times…

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Every year, EA Sports’ Madden 16 game is a huge hit among NFL fans that play console games. And every year the game gets a little better. Madden has taken huge steps recently on next-gen consoles Xbox One and Playstation 4. EA Sports just rolled out a new trailer with footage directly from gameplay video from it’s next version at the E3 event in L.A. It looks so…

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Now TV, Sky’s dish-free online streaming service, will launch a new monthly sports pass later this month aimed at cricket and football fans who don’t want to take out a subscription. The Sky Sports Month pass will cost £31.99 and will launch to coincide with the football Premier League. Now TV, Sky’s riposte to on-demand streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon and targeted at Freeview homes, will also launch…

More people are watching the women’s FIFA World Cup on TV than ever before, with over one billion viewers expected to tune in worldwide over the course of the event. According to FIFA.com, “US broadcaster Fox Sports 1 attracted 3.3 million viewers to the game between the United States and Australia, more than three times higher than Team USA’s first group stage match in 2011.” These record figures would suggest…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Chelsea may have to play their home matches away from Stamford Bridge for at least two seasons as part of plans to increase the stadium’s capacity to 60,000. (Guardian)  Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri says it would be “difficult to say no” if a lucrative bid was received for…

When the EA Sports team took the stage at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, there was a hush over the sports gaming universe. Trust me, I heard it.  We were all anticipating a deep look at Madden NFL 16, NBA Live 16, NHL 16, FIFA 16 and Rory McIlroy PGA Tour 16. When it was over, fans were fed a healthy dose of information. Which game shone brightest?…

In a time of media turmoil, at least one Boston newsroom is expanding rapidly, and it does not even belong to a media company. Playbook, the sports information website launched late last year by fantasy gaming company DraftKings Inc., has grown from a staff of two to a team of 25 in just six months. It now churns out a steady stream of online posts offering the kind of fantasy…

Sportingintelligence uses a calculated metric they call “average first-team pay,” which is meant to make up for the number of players on a first string team for the different sports. Soccer, for example, could have 25 players considered while for basketball, the pay for 13 or 15 players was considered. Using a statistical measure called the Gini coefficient, CNBC looked at the level of equality between teams…

“I think Peter Crouch is probably the most hated Englishman in the history of Trinidad and Tobago because of that goal.” Nine years on, Brent Sancho can look back on the moment that sent both players into the footballing history of two small Caribbean islands with a bit of pride and dry humour. There were eight minutes left of the goalless group match between England…

As the ball started its descent, Dustin Pedroia could not find it in the bright sun over Fenway Park. “Help!” he yelled, hoping a teammate would bail him out. But no assistance was coming. The ball fell in and the Toronto Blue Jays scored another run. Continue reading below Pedroia glanced around, wondering what had happened. His expression captured what kind of season this has been for the Red Sox….

Turning 43 was, perhaps, more joyous for Delia Bushell than for most people. “My birthday was the day of our big press launch,” says Bushell. Then she adds: “Nothing better than sharing your birthday with Gary Lineker on stage.” As managing director of TV and sport for BT, Bushell is Lineker’s new boss. He is BT’s biggest on-screen signing so far, as the phone company turned pay-TV insurgent parks ever…

The new Mercedes-Benz GT S ($153,760, as tested) presents itself as alternative history: What if 1955 never happened? That was the year one of the factory’s 300 SLR’s, one of the dominant race cars of the era, did a fiery cartwheel into the grandstands at Le Mans, killing…

Play ball! Fore! Swish! Americans love sports — watching them and playing them. But as participants, Americans’ relationship with sports changes as we grow older. About three-quarters of adults say they played sports when they were younger. By the time people are in their late 20s, however, only 26 percent say they’ve played sports in the past year. Those are just two of the findings from the latest poll by…

Exit Johnny Miller, Dan Hicks and NBC Sports. Enter Joe Buck, Greg Norman and Fox Sports. For the first time in 20 years, the colorful NBC peacock won’t be lighting up the TV screen during one of golf’s most colorful events — the U.S. Open, which begins Thursday at Chambers Bay Golf Club in northern Washington. Fox’s entry into the big-time golf world is a direct result of the network’s…

WASHINGTON — On the rooftop of an office building near the Verizon Center in downtown D.C., a group of politicians and lobbyists gather for the Third Annual Congressional Bocce Tournament. The scene is what you might expect — a stately, convivial affair with more pomp than competition, forced inside due to stormy weather for the third consecutive year. “It’s my great disappointment not to be able to show that I’m…

Turning 43 was, perhaps, more joyous for Delia Bushell than for most people. “My birthday was the day of our big press launch,” says Bushell. Then she adds: “Nothing better than sharing your birthday with Gary Lineker on stage.” As managing director of TV and sport for BT, Bushell is Lineker’s new boss. He is BT’s biggest on-screen signing so far, as the phone company turned pay-TV insurgent parks ever…