Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire, Lewis Wiltshire, who oversees social media for BBC Sport. The ...
In his Jan. 29 letter to the Racing Form , "Track voice calls for accurate closing odds," Michael Wrona took exception to the constant late changes to the final odds displayed on the tote boards and the archaic systems that are used in racing, specifically California racing.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped an investigation centered on whether seven-time Tour De France champion Lance Armstrong and his teammates cheated the sponsor of their bike racing team with a secret doping program. The decision means that Armstrong, a cancer survivor and one of his sport's greatest champions who has always vehemently denied using performance ...
Los Angeles (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped an investigation centered on whether seven-time Tour De France champion Lance Armstrong and his teammates cheated the sponsor of their bike racing team with a secret doping programme. The decision means that Armstrong, a cancer survivor and one of his sport's greatest champions who has always vehemently denied using performance ...
A prominent North-East journalist has died suddenly at the age of 41 after collapsing at his home last night. Ian Laws, digital editor at the Sunderland Echo, died while exercising on a running machine leaving newsroom colleagues in shock.
A former Gloucester High athlete who's been covering local sports for the past five years is now coordinating that coverage as the new sports editor of the Gloucester Daily Times. Nick Curcuru, who had been serving as Times' interim sports editor since December, was named to the permanent position Friday by Times Publisher Mark Zappala and Editor Ray Lamont.
US sport's deepest rivalry plays on its biggest stage, writes Peter Di Sisto.
Gail Krc: Reasons for Walker recall go way beyond unions
What's the most important position in football? Who's the guy who we need to watch most closely to determine which way the Super Bowl will swing?
George Hagenauer: Walker’s put state into downward spiral
TRIBUTES were paid yesterday to the editor of the Sunday Independent, Aengus Fanning, who has died following a battle with cancer.
Anyone attending the public hearing held on Thursday night, Jan. 19, could plainly see that of the nine members of the Oak Hills Park Authority , none of them had a clue about what is needed to put Oak Hills back on track to being a competitive golf course in Fairfield County.
DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: I picked up the 2012 Cadillac CTS after spending a long (read: Disney World long) week in a rental
Lance Armstrong, the seven-time tour de France champion, and his professional bicycle racing team are no longer the subjects of a U.S. criminal probe, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles said.
Who else besides me was sickened at the picture of the beautiful lynx killed by Rod Edgerly, shown on LSJ page 3A (Jan. 12)? How can anyone take pleasure and pride in killing for no other reason than to kill?
BY PAUL P. ADAMSTribune Sports Editor
A lot of things have changed since The Daily Star sports department started running Super Bowl predictions in 2003.
In the sports journalism world, many people write goodbye columns mentioning awards and laurels they’ve won.
The Sunday Profile is a weekly visit with someone in our community who is making a difference or making news. Suggestions for people to be featured can be emailed to Community News Editor Jackie Green at jgreen@rgj.com .
Before the global meltdown, financial news was strictly for geeks and struggled to get on the news. Now, financial correspondents have become celebrities Last year, there was an unexpected knock on the front door of Robert Peston's home in Muswell Hill, north London. When he answered, Peston, who has been the BBC's business editor since 2005, was confronted by a reporter from a local news agency ...
