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“After I had the team, I said: ‘Hey, I have this empty stadium. How do I get into this?’” Ross said. “People in this country want to see the stars, that’s what they’re mostly interested in, and seeing the great teams in the world. That’s what they’ll really pay for and go see.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Ross’s vision was to turn what was effectively a ticket-selling operation…

1:20 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment LONG POND, Pa. — Target will focus its sports marketing budget on soccer and drop its 16-year NASCAR sponsorship of Chip Ganassi Racing after the 2017 season. The decision leaves Kyle Larson, second in the NASCAR Cup Series standings, without an announced sponsor for the majority of 2018. Target had a 28-year relationship with Ganassi and was a major…

I am old enough to remember (that is, I’m older than 15) when Nascar was about to become the new national pastime, the sport of real America that was being eagerly embraced by corporate America because it offered so many places to plaster advertising slogans. I haven’t heard a lot about the auto-racing enterprise lately, though, so while switching channels last Sunday, I paused for a while on NBC’s coverage of the Monster…

“After I had the team, I said: ‘Hey, I have this empty stadium. How do I get into this?’” Ross said. “People in this country want to see the stars, that’s what they’re mostly interested in, and seeing the great teams in the world. That’s what they’ll really pay for and go see.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Ross’s vision was to turn what was effectively a ticket-selling operation…

More than 300 amateur and professional bicyclists are expected to race in downtown Detroit for the inaugural Detroit Cycling Championship, hosted by the Detroit Athletic Club on Sept. 9, where $45,000 in cash prizes will be at stake. Cyclists will race in a dozen categorized races, including youth and military veterans. Participants will compete for what is billed as one of the top purses in the country: $45,000 in cash…

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Two years after 10-year-old Bahraini swimmer Alzain Tareq caused a media frenzy as the youngest ever competitor at a world championships, up stepped her best friend to continue the trend in the Hungarian capital. Ritaj Amin finished 58th of 59 competitors in the women’s 50 meters butterfly heats on Friday morning, the same event that Tareq raced in at the 2015 championships in Kazan. The 13-year-old, the…

I am old enough to remember (that is, I’m older than 15) when Nascar was about to become the new national pastime, the sport of real America that was being eagerly embraced by corporate America because it offered so many places to plaster advertising slogans. I haven’t heard a lot about the auto-racing enterprise lately, though, so while switching channels last Sunday, I paused for a while on NBC’s coverage of the Monster…

More than 300 amateur and professional bicyclists are expected to race in downtown Detroit for the inaugural Detroit Cycling Championship, hosted by the Detroit Athletic Club on Sept. 9, where $45,000 in cash prizes will be at stake. Cyclists will race in a dozen categorized races, including youth and military veterans. Participants will compete for what is billed as one of the top purses in the country: $45,000 in cash…

American swimmer Simone Manuel had the swim of a lifetime in the 100-meter freestyle at the Rio Olympics last summer when she upset Australian heavy favorites Cate and Bronte Campbell as well as guaranteed contender Sarah Sjöström. Tying with Canada’s Penny Oleksiak, Manuel became the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in swimming. Friday at the FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Manuel stunned the swimming…

LONDON (Reuters) – Brian Cookson, facing an election challenge for his presidency of cycling’s governing body the UCI, launched a strong defence of his stewardship on Friday and said he expects to win another four-year period in office. He believes he has greatly improved the “disastrous and controversy-ridden” organisation he took over in 2013 and will continue to do so, especially in the areas of anti-doping, women’s cycling and inspiring…

AUGUST 07: Denny Hamlin leads Kevin Harvick during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen International on August 7, 2016 in Watkins Glen, New York. (Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images) (Photo: Chris Trotman, 2016 Getty Images) Watkins Glen International is a racetrack for drivers. It is a racetrack for historians. It is a racetrack for car buffs, camping enthusiasts and even nature lovers. But most of all,…

Twenty races into 2017, it appears that Joey Logano’s NASCAR Cup Series season has been halved into two distinct pieces, one successful, one not. In the first 10 races, he ran like a championship contender as he led nine races for a total of 250 laps, including a season-high 82 at Phoenix. In the second 10 races of the season, he raced like an also-ran as he led only one…

Tameka Butt scored in the 67th minute and Australia beat the United States for the first time in the 28-game series, 1-0 in the Tournament of Nations on Thursday night. The Matildas also snapped the Americans’ four-game winning streak. Just moments after Butt’s goal got past goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, Carli Lloyd blasted a cross from Megan Rapinoe at Australia goalkeeper Lydia Williams, who made a fantastic save. Lloyd had another…

“Our mentality is always the same: It’s always to win,” the co-captain Carli Lloyd said. “But I think the reaction from the media and the fans is that they’re not realizing the game has gotten a lot better over all, it’s evolved, and we aren’t the U.S. team that’s just going to roll out and win, 8-0, like we used to in the past.” That is particularly true of late….

Staff report, NASCAR Wire Service Distributed by The Sports Xchange Kasey Kahne proved at Indy that all hope is not lost for Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers who are low in the point standings. Without even a top-15 finish to show in his previous eight races, Kahne battled his way to a win at the Brickyard and earned the automatic playoff berth that comes with one. Sitting 22nd in…

A group of friends hiking in Gold Bar, Washington, heard a scream, a splash and then silence Wednesday evening. The group had been hiking about 7:30 p.m. at Wallace Falls State Park when a friend — later identified as Las Vegas teen Haylei Hughes — fell into water below. After the scream, the teen’s friends turned their heads but couldn’t find the hiker, said Shari Ireton of the Snohomish County…

Twenty races into 2017, it appears that Joey Logano’s NASCAR Cup Series season has been halved into two distinct pieces, one successful, one not. In the first 10 races, he ran like a championship contender as he led nine races for a total of 250 laps, including a season-high 82 at Phoenix. In the second 10 races of the season, he raced like an also-ran as he led only one…

NASCAR heads to Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania this weekend for races in both the Monster Energy Cup and Camping World Truck Series with the NASCAR Xfinity Series in action at Iowa Speedway.  Ryan Blaney will be looking to become the eighth driver in history to complete the Pocono sweep after winning his first career race there in June. Other notable active drivers to accomplish the feat include Dale Earnhardt Jr….

Jul 27, 2017 at 6:51p ET Joe Gibbs Racing has suspended two Furniture Row Racing crew members after their involvement in a verbal altercation with Adam Stevens at Indianapolis. nascar-race-hub page-type-video Truck video-contentType-news video-network-fox_sports_1 video-origin-national_fox_cable video-primary-auto_nascar video-show-nascar_race_hub Xfinity More Race Hub Videos Barney Visser 1-on-1 with Jeff Hammond | NASCAR RACE HUB 4 hours ago Joe Gibbs Racing suspends two Furniture Row Racing crew members | NASCAR RACE HUB 4…

The mountain of evidence connecting professional football and long-term brain damage grew this week with publication of a new study that examined the brains of former NFL players. Boston University scientists found 110 of the 111 post-mortem brains showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated hits to the head. Linemen had it the worst, while punters seemed to escape relatively unharmed. This kind…