^ You can remove the sports. Go into the Layout. It will work just like the lockscreen. You can double tap the large clock at the top. The page will flip and you are looking at the second page. At the bottom, tap the football until there is nothing on it (e.g. a small one or two). It should disappear from the screen. Now if you want, you can resize the newsfeed pane to be larger. Sometimes it takes a bit of practices to use the two finger pinch/spread motion to get the size correct.
If you really mess up, you can always Reset to Default.