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Americans have bet $125bn on sports in four years since legalization
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Americans have bet more than $125bn on sports with legal gambling outlets in the four years since a US supreme court ruling cleared the way for all 50 states to offer it. On Saturday’s anniversary of the decision in a...
Quiz sportivo della settimana: arrivals, departures, stats and a statue
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Adidas sports bra ads banned in UK for objectifying women
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An Adidas campaign featuring dozens of sets of breasts to promote the diversity of its range of sports bras has been banned by the UK advertising watchdog for using explicit nudity and appearing where children could s...
Female sports reporters rail against sexism at Scottish newspapers
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Female journalists have accused Scotland’s newspapers of sexist and discriminatory attitudes towards sports reporters after controversy arose over misogynist jokes at an awards dinner. Women in Journalism Scotland (Wi...
‘Unbelievable’: Chris Kamara calls time on 24-year Sky Sports career
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Broadcaster Chris Kamara is leaving Sky Sports at the end of the season after 24 anni. The presenter and former footballer, 64, recently revealed he had developed a speech apraxia disorder alongside an existing thyro...
Nintendo Switch Sports review – the return of slapstick fun
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For all their polymath complexity, all their melding of artistic and cinematic and technical achievements, timeless video games sometimes boil down to one very good idea. Nel 2006 Wii Sports’ idea was this: wouldn’t it...
Michaelia Cash rejected transgender sports changes last year, despite Morrison embracing issue
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The attorney general, Michaelia Cash, rejected a push for changes to the Sex Discrimination Act aimed at excluding transgender people from single-sex sport late last year, despite Scott Morrison embracing the issue th...
Cheers, drinks and tears: opening day at the bar where women’s sports reign
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By 11am on opening day at Portland’s The Sports Bra, billed as the world’s first sports bar showing only women’s sports, a bustling queue had already filled the sidewalk. While members of the Pride Cheerleading Associ...
Quiz sportivo della settimana: Barcelona, Coppa del Mondo, Masters and F1 in Vegas
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UK sport’s governing bodies fail to make grade in landmark race report
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The first index to track race representation across UK sport has led to 43% of national governing bodies being handed the lowest three available grades. A trio of England’s biggest sporting administrators – the Footba...
L'ex ministro dello sport haitiano Evans Lescouflair accusato di aver violentato bambini
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L'ex ministro dello sport haitiano Evans Lescouflair accusato di aver violentato bambini.
All praise to Ash Barty for refusing to chase trophies at all costs – it’s time the whole sports world caught on
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Shock news! The No 1 tennis player in the world has announced that there is more to her life than the number of times she wins a tennis championship. The collective state of astonishment at Ash Barty’s retirement at t...
Utah governor vetoes ban on trans students playing girls’ sports
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The Utah governor, Spencer Cox, vetoed a ban on transgender students playing girls’ sports on Tuesday, becoming the second Republican governor to overrule state lawmakers who have taken on youth sports as part of a po...
Indiana governor vetoes bill banning transgender females from girls’ sports
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The governor of Indiana governor on Monday vetoed a bill banning transgender females from girls school sports. Opponents of the bill argued it was a bigoted response to a problem that does not exist, with the American...
Outpouring of support for Sky Sports’ Chris Kamara over speech disorder
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Viv Anderson, Steph Houghton and Robert Snodgrass are among the current and former players to have sent messages of support to Chris Kamara after the broadcaster revealed he is suffering from apraxia of speech. The Sk...
Fox Sports presenter Tom Morris sacked over alleged sexist and homophobic slurs
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Fox Sports presenter Tom Morris has been sacked following an investigation of leaked WhatsApp audio which allegedly contained sexist and homophobic slurs against a female colleague. Fox Sports executive director Steve...