World Sports

Since the advent of the VCR and then YouTube, the media industry’s No. 1 enemy has been piracy. But while Hollywood and the TV networks have fought one technology after another, one type of entertainment has been safe from illegal broadcasts: live sports. That’s because fans hated waiting for illicit recordings to be posted online. Sporting events offered the rare assurance that millions of viewers would still gather at a scheduled…

Stuart Scott honored at Sports Emmy Awards At the 2015 Sports Emmy Awards, Turner Sports broadcaster Ernie Johnson presents the award for best studio host to the daughters of longtime ESPN anchor the late Stuart Scott.

Sports Direct, the sporting goods company founded by Mike Ashley, the Newcastle United owner and Rangers shareholder, has been visited by the police as part of an investigation into the former ownership of the Scottish club. Detectives investigating Rangers’ controversial former owners Craig Whyte and Charles Green travelled from Scotland to the Sports Direct offices in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. The investigation is not aimed at Sports Direct and the company is…

Sports Direct, the sporting goods company founded by Mike Ashley, the Newcastle United owner and Rangers shareholder, has been visited by the police as part of an investigation into the former ownership of the Scottish club. Detectives investigating Rangers’ controversial former owners Craig Whyte and Charles Green travelled from Scotland to the Sports Direct offices in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. The investigation is not aimed at Sports Direct and the company is…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, 52, has agreed to extend his stay at the club and sign a four-year contract worth £42m. (The Sun, subscription required)  Mourinho is set to oversee a major overhaul of his title-winning Chelsea squad, with Atletico Madrid winger Antoine Griezmann, 24, Lyon forward Alexandre…

The 2015 Sports Emmy Awards were presented on Tuesday, consisting of 40 different categories and many deserving recipients of accolades to recognize their excellence in sports media. Check out the complete list of award recipients below, followed by a closer look at some of the most notable awards: 2015 Sports Emmy Award Winners Category Award Winner Category Award Winner Lifetime Achievement ESPN President/Executive Chairman George Bodenheimer Outstanding Short…

Mitch Williams and Lenny Dykstra have a long history of hating each other. Dykstra has long held the belief that Williams blew the 1993 World Series, and seems to hold him accountable for that. Williams, obviously, is not a big fan of that opinion.  The two were able to … um … work out some of those issues at a recent event in Philadelphia. The Philly Sports Roast was supposed…

One week before Marcus Mariota reports to Tennessee for his first minicamp as a professional, he’s already earned the cover of Sports Illustrated wearing Titans blue. Mariota, the former Oregon Duck quarterback and 2014 Heisman Trophy winner, was drafted No. 2 overall in the 2015 NFL draft April 30. He flew to Nashville the next day before returning to Eugene to attend the Ducks’ spring game. The SI cover is Mariota’s…

(Photo: slobdell) MIDDLETOWN – A massive new indoor-outdoor sports complex on the south side of Middletown would be a natural complement to the hotels and eateries blossoming on the town’s rapidly growing west side. The 170-acre Delaware Sports Complex would contain 15 full-size fields for soccer, lacrosse or field hockey, all reducible depending on the sport and age group, and 16 baseball diamonds. Also, there would be a 160,000-square-foot indoor…

“I’ve gotten letters asking me why I’m always picking on ‘Our Team.’ I write back asking how come you’re picking on a writer from ‘Our Newspaper?’ Do you root for General Motors? Well, the ball club is a business enterprise as is General Motors. And if the ball club has lousy teams, it’s my responsibility to criticize the ball club. I regard myself as a consumer advocate for the sports…

Stephen Curry won the NBA MVP award on Monday, which was pleasing not only to people who care about efficiency in basketball but also about aesthetics in basketball. Simply: Curry plays the game beautifully. I know discussing beauty in sports is a thing that makes a lot of people (men, especially) uncomfortable, because sports are about battle and domination or whatever. When we do talk about beauty in sports, it tends to…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Chelsea are willing to pay £30m and offer defender Filipe Luis, 29 as part of a deal to sign Spain midfielder Koke, 23, from Atletico Madrid. (Daily Express)  Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is lining up Liverpool striker Rickie Lambert, 33, as a potential replacement for Didier Drogba, 37,…

The Apple TV has gained two new channels today in CBS Sports and USA NOW, bringing on-demand sports, drama, comedy, sitcoms and more programming to the set-top box in the United States. The new channels should be appearing on the Apple TV for all users today as an over-the-air update, with CBS Sports offering free sports clips for all users and USA NOW requiring a cable subscription to access most…

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Over the weekend, I learned that Fox Sports was doing away with its “Fox Sports Girls” program. It started as a tip on Friday; on Saturday, a spokesperson for FSN confirmed it with a statement that read: FOX Sports is constantly evaluating our marketing programs in an effort to keep them fresh and provide the most engaging experience for our viewers.  As a result, we have decided to end the…

<![CDATA[]]> CLEVELAND, Ohio – Rep. Jim Jordan said he would like Congress to examine the growing pressure colleges face to fund non-revenue sports in the wake of Cleveland State’s aborted attempt to eliminate wrestling. “Maybe it’s worthwhile to have some hearings on the subject so people understand what’s at stake, because all of sudden you wake up in Northeast Ohio one day and you read in The Plain Dealer that Cleveland…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea, 24, is set to sign a new two-year contract worth about £20m. (Sun – subscription required)  United are ready to send winger Adnan Januzaj, 20, on a year-long loan in their bid to land PSV Eindhoven’s 21-year-old winger Memphis Depay. (Talksport) …

In case you missed it, Saturday night’s fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was dumb and bad. What was billed as The Fight of the Century was little more than a glorified sparring session, as a supposedly injured Pacquiao circled around a lightly jabbing Mayweather who did just enough to win. Many people spent 100 bucks to watch not much, which is too bad, because there were so many…

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Chicago Sun-Times In his headier days as chairman of Wrapports LLC, Michael Ferro often touted the delivery of high school sports content as a potential billion-dollar business. Now his company’s one remaining daily newspaper is shrinking its coverage of high school sports — and Ferro has disappeared from the masthead to boot. Free-lance reporters were notified last week that the Sun-Times no longer would cover prep sports as extensively as…