Over a month ago, Adrien Broner made an outrageous demand of $100,000,000 to fight Manny Pacquiao. But the controversial former champion has severely lowered his demands and accepted a fight with Pacquiao for January of 2019. “It’s gonna be a hell of a fight,” Broner said during a press conference ...
Read More »CBSN To Broadcast College Wrestling’s ‘Battle On The Midway” Sunday
CBS Sports Network, in conjunction with DragonFli Media Technologies and Left Coast Wrestling, will televise the collegiate wrestling showcase, “Battle on the Midway,” to a national-television audience in prime-time this Sunday, Nov. 25 at 8 p.m. PT (11 p.m. ET) and on re-air Friday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. PT ...
Read More »EA SPORTS™ NHL® 19 Honors the Great One with Limited ‘99 Edition’
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) pays homage to Wayne Gretzky with the announce and launch of the EA SPORTS™ NHL® 19 ‘99 Edition’, available worldwide today for a limited time as a digital download on the PlayStation®4 and Xbox One. The 99 Edition features new cover art of The Great One himself and added benefits in ...
Read More »The Historical Basketball League Hires NBA Champion David West
The Historical Basketball League (HBL) is the first college basketball league to compensate and educate its players based on their market value. Today, the HBL (@hb_league) took a major step towards its 2020 launch by announcing the hiring of two-time NBA champion David West as the league’s first COO. West will oversee the ...
Read More »Haymon’s Cowardice Exposed If He Blocks Spence vs Crawford Now
By Scoop Malinowski Errol Spence vs Terence Crawford has been marinating for about a year now. But last weekend, the welterweight clash of titans officially became prime time and ready to be served to the public. The two 147 pound champions met face to face at a show in Oklahoma ...
Read More »The first, definitive biography of La Salle basketball icon, Tom Gola
Tom Gola is a Philadelphia Big Five basketball icon who led La Salle College to the National Invitation Tournament championship in 1952 and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship in 1954 and holds the NCAA record for most rebounds in a career. He helped the Philadelphia Warriors win the ...
Read More »MIT Sloan Debuts Hoops Analytics Podcast ‘Counterpoints’
Counterpoints, a new sports analytics podcast, launched this week, with sports analytics consultant, author, and speaker Ben Alamar proposing that basketball IQ, separate from measures of athleticism or past performance, is a predictor of a player’s success in professional basketball. Co-hosted by Ben Shields, who teaches sports analytics at the MIT Sloan School of ...
Read More »Tyson Fury Not Himself This Time
One of the qualities that made Tyson Fury the best heavyweight in the world, was his arrogance, biting insults of his competition, and cruel ability to identify and expose flaws of his opponent. Few can forget how Fury verbally abused and mocked Wladimir Klitschko’s supposedly boring style and his robotic, ...
Read More »MLB, DAZN Announce Live Digital U.S. Rights Deal
Major League Baseball and global sports streaming platform DAZN have agreed to a three-year live digital rights partnership in the United States, set to begin with the 2019 MLB regular season, it was announced today by Baseball Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr., and DAZN Group Executive Chairman John Skipper. Today’s ...
Read More »NBC Sports Hypes NASCAR Championship Weekend
NBC Sports Group is surrounding the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Championship with a multi-platform promotional campaign featuring this year’s Championship Four contenders, Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., and Joey Logano. Throughout the week, NASCAR’s Championship Four will make appearances across NBCUniversal’s television and digital platforms, as ...
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