Chicago Cubs owners confirm bid to buy Chelsea
Sebastian Coe joins former Liverpool chairman’s effort to acquire club from Abramovich
Major League Baseball cancels opening day as talks with players collapse
After nearly a year of negotiating the sides could not come to a new pact
Locked out baseball faces largest existential crisis yet - but who cares?
America at Large: Latest work stoppage shows public disillusionment with the sport
Kitman Labs rolls out new software platform developed in Dublin
Sports tech company works with over 700 elite teams including Chelsea and Saracens
Trump and Republicans seemed to revel in the US women soccer team’s Olympic loss to Sweden
Naomi Osaka, the USWNT and sport’s role in the strangest of American culture wars
Tokyo 2020: Japan, South Korea hold edge in East-West baseball showdown
Major League Baseball in the United States has barred participation by its players
Florida tightens voting laws and draws Democrat ire
Republican legislature latest to make polls more secure in wake of Trump’s fraud claims
MLB strips Atlanta of All-Star Game over Georgia voting law
Critics of the law claim it makes it harder for Black people and other minorities to vote
Debate rages over tennis players’ ambivalent attitude towards vaccination
Some players shrug shoulders as they’d have to remain in tournament bubbles regardless
Kim Ng’s long wait for top MLB job shows what women are up against
New Miami Marlins boss becomes first female general manager in baseball’s top flight
Fans boo moment of silence as NFL season gets underway
Kansas City Chiefs allowed less than 17,000 fans inside 75,000-seat Arrowhead Stadium
The PGA Tour’s golden goose continues to cluck like crazy
Amid a global pandemic, has the PGA Tour’s travelling circus been tone deaf?
Three games postponed as baseball joins protest at Jacob Blake shooting
Five Major League Soccer games and the day’s tennis in New York also postponed
Chiefs to ban Native American imagery at Arrowhead
In pregame demonstration a celebrity bangs the drum while fans all perform the ‘chop’
Another postponement as four more Cardinals test positive for Covid-19
Major League Baseball rescheduled Friday night’s game to a doubleheader on Sunday
Rory McIlroy had contact with Nick Watney before positive Covid-19 test
In 24 hours MLS soccer, NFL, NHL hockey and MLB baseball all confirm positive tests
MLB season no closer to return as players reject league’s latest offer
Major League Baseball players reject reduced schedule and player compensation package
UFC’s coronavirus plan was unheeded at times and from the top down
Document shows officials and fighters routinely deviated from outlined procedures
South Korean baseball league kicks off on ‘socially distant’ first pitch’
Players celebrated with forearm bumps, videos of cheering fans shown on scoreboard
The NFL loosens rules over players’ use of marijuana
New 10-year labour deal will mean players who test positive won’t be suspended
Trump declares national emergency over coronavirus
US president has faced criticism over lack of adequate testing in the country
Carbon fibre insoles spreading the extra inch beyond the marathon
Insole claims to make athletes jump higher, run faster, and protects them from injury
Joanne O’Riordan: Sad spectacle of Doha proves sport and politics a deadly cocktail
Some athletes end up in hospitals while others celebrate in half-empty stadiums
Irish nationalist links to the rise of baseball in America
Baseball was seen as a potential Irish nationalist tool to dull the lingering influence of cricket
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Twitter ad sales surge, sending shares up 16%
Quarterly advertising revenue jumps 29% to $650 million year on year
America at Large: Mike Trout, baseball’s anonymous superstar
Los Angeles Angel could be the greatest ever but he is also America’s best kept secret
Facebook scores La Liga broadcast rights in India
Social network to show top-tier Spanish football matches free across south Asia
Sky Sports, BT Sport, Virgin Media – where is all of my sport?
Punters being asked to stump up more and more as the coverage of sport fragments
Mike 'King' Kelly, the Irish-American baseball star who inspired the first pop song
Children of Irish Famine emigrants became baseball superstars in the game's 'Emerald Era'
Loneliness and controversy: Life as GAA director-general
Páraic Duffy on retirement: ‘If Croke Park was in Monaghan, I’d have the perfect job’
We – the public – talk a good game when it comes to doping
Maria Sharapova received honour of parading Australian Open trophy at the draw
Facebook makes new bid for TV viewers with expanded video
Redesigned product, Watch, will be available initially to a limited group in the US
Dr Harry Edwards: Fifty years on frontier of sport and race
Ex-Black Panther turned sociologist addressed GAA Summer School on Sport and Politics
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