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Quarterback Cam Newton says embattled Panthers owner Jerry Richardson should be considered innocent until proven guilty.

The New York Islanders hockey team may be returning to the New York suburbs after a move to Brooklyn floundered.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will pay baseball's highest luxury tax for the fourth straight year and the New York Yankees owe a penalty for a 15th consecutive season, streaks that could end as the sport's biggest spenders slash payroll for 2018.

Korn Ferry Vice Chairman Jed Hughes discusses Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ interest in buying the NFL’s Carolina Panthers.

The stunning news of the rare opportunity to purchase an NFL team has quickly garnered the attention of sports figures, business investors and politicians alike.

Rogers Communications, which has said it will keep ownership of the Toronto Blue Jays, could look to leasing, licensing and other financial tools to generate value from the Major League Baseball club.

Salt Lake City officials expect the Utah capital to bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics.

Embattled Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson is set to turn a hefty profit this offseason when he sells his majority stake in the NFL franchise amid allegations that he engaged in sexual and racial misconduct toward team employees.

WWE CEO Vince McMahon may be exploring a potential reboot of the XFL, the upstart professional football league that unsuccessfully challenged the NFL’s dominance of the sport in 2001.

ESPN president John Skipper announced Monday that he is resigning as president of ESPN and co-chairman of the Disney Media Networks, a unit of Disney (NYSE:DIS), in order to deal with substance abuse issues.

Following allegations of workplace misconduct, Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson announced on Sunday he will sell the team.

The Panthers did not provide details into the allegations against Richardson, who founded the NFL franchise in 1993.

Several top corporate sponsors are ending their relationships with USA Gymnastics amid a sexual assault scandal involving former team doctor Larry Nassar, who was recently sentenced to 60 years in prison on child pornography charges.

Sanderson Farms CEO Joe F. Sanderson Jr. blamed the decline in part on less demand from its restaurant chain partners, noting that “the NFL has hurt the wing stores, and that is the traffic going through some of the wing places that we service.”

Leaders from the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball players associations have helped unveil a universal declaration of player rights that is designed to establish a new approach to governing sports and protecting athletes.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Orlando, where Holtz lives, claims an article published by the news website on July 19, 2016, defamed Holtz, causing him to lose paid speaking opportunities and suffer personal humiliation.

NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart formally announced the contract extension during the league's winter meetings in Dallas, though the NFL’s compensation committee finalized the deal last week.

Trump has spent the last several months locked in a feud with the NFL and its players over national anthem protests.

Verizon Communications Inc and the National Football League have reached an agreement for a multi-year digital streaming deal, Verizon said on Monday.