World Sports

By Neal Rogers Published 9 hours ago In 2015, Cannondale will sponsor the Slipstream Sports team currently known as Garmin-Sharp. Photo: Casey B. Gibson | www.cbgphoto.com Don’t call it a merger. Call it a marriage. That’s what Jonathan Vaughters said in announcing the new relationship between Cannondale, the American bike manufacturer, and Slipstream Sports, the American sports management group behind the Garmin-Sharp UCI ProTeam. With Brixia Sport, the…

Why work out when you can just buy the clothes and look like you did? The rate of growth in the U.S. retail athletic apparel market is surging, even as Americans’ rate of participating in most sports is in decline. The result is a phenomenon the apparel industry calls “athleisure”—a bright spot in a sluggish business thanks to Americans who are increasingly donning sneakers in the boardroom and yoga pants…

Here, visualized, the results of a poll that are as interesting as they are unscientific. Click expand and commence arguing over what makes something a sport as opposed to a game or an activity. The results come from Reddit user “e8odie,” who had self-selected members of three different subreddits (/r/SampleSize, /r/sports, and /r/CFBofftopic) answer yes/no to whether they considered 53 different “fringe” games as sports. He got 460 total respondents,…

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