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NASCAR driver parodies ‘Happy Gilmore’ to celebrate new sponsor – For The Win
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Assessing London’s Olympics, five years on – The Economist
Mark McCarter: NASCAR’s silly season never ends now – Chattanooga Times Free Press
Once upon a time, boredom and gossip on the NASCAR circuit created the “silly season” during the summer doldrums. There was innocent silliness one July when a journalist from a large media outlet pranked a fellow writer who was obsessed with minutiae. Conspiring with a team owner helped start the buzz that the owner would be signing the preeminent Formula One racer of the day to bring him…
Connor McDavid frustrated to miss out on Olympics – ESPN
Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment The Stanley Cup isn’t the only thing Connor McDavid wants. He also wants a shot at Olympic gold, and he’s frustrated that NHL players likely won’t get a chance to play in the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. In April, the NHL announced that it will not stop its season to allow players to compete at the Feb. 9-25 Olympics for…
Los Angeles mayor says city will likely host 2028 Olympics – Washington Post
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks at IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, in July. (Robert Hradil/Getty Images) Earlier this month, the International Olympic Committee took the unusual step of picking Paris and Los Angeles to host the 2024 and 2028 Summer Games, but leaving it to the cities to negotiate the order. According to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, his residents should be prepared to wait an extra four years before…
Swimming in the train? Taipei turns metro car into pool for Universiade 2017 – CNN
Would an 11-year wait for the Olympics lead to greater risks for L.A. … – Los Angeles Times
For several years Los Angeles city leaders have focused on winning the 2024 Summer Olympics, supporting a $5.3-billion plan to host the event seven years from now. Those seven years might soon turn into 11, after the International Olympic Committee’s recent decision to award the games to both Paris and Los Angeles, with one city getting 2024 and the other 2028. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that Los Angeles…
Ryan Blaney to pilot third Team Penske car in 2018; Paul Menard joining Wood Brothers – Nascar
RELATED: Counting down Team Penske wins Ryan Blaney will move to a third Team Penske entry in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series in 2018, with Paul Menard shifting to the Wood Brothers Racing team next season. Both organizations made the joint announcement Wednesday, firming up two more partnerships in the annual “Silly Season” shuffle of driver-team pairings. Team Penske and the Wood Brothers share technical information through an alliance….
Egyptian endurance athlete sets new goals after cycling record – Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) – Not content with having been part of the fastest ever team to cycle across Europe, Egyptian endurance athlete Helmy Elsaeed is turning his attention to a challenge closer to home – and then potentially the Winter Olympics. In June, Elsaeed and four Swedish cyclists took 12 hours off the previous record time to complete the 6000km journey from northern Russia to western Portugal, raising money for autism…
Why can’t we celebrate women’s sport without relating it to men’s? – The Guardian (blog)
Forgive me if the following comes across as naively euphoric. But we’ll only know it’s a truly watershed summer for women’s sport if we get through it without being overwhelmed by commentary on what men’s football could learn from it all. They’re poorer but they’re a million times more dignified! They’re less watched but their crowds don’t have any hooligans in them! They may not have supercars but they have…
Women’s cycling: New-rider numbers up by 723000 since 2013 – BBC Sport
Women-only Breeze Bike rides have proven popular Nearly three quarters of a million more UK women have taken up cycling since 2013, according to British Cycling. Three times as many men rode bikes regularly as women in 2013, leading to the #WeRide initiative to get one million more women cycling by 2020. “Four years on, I am pleased to say that the sport is in a different place,” said new…
Future NASCAR drivers hit the classroom to learn key off-track skills – Charlotte Observer
NASCAR’s rising stars traded in their helmets and firesuits for pencils and pens Tuesday as they took part in an interactive “Professional Development 101” business skills workshop. The nine members of the 2017 NASCAR Next Class, which spotlights the top upcoming drivers in the sport, participated in lectures conducted by Johnson & Wales University professors Jeff Longo and Patrick Stack. The drivers – many of whom are still in high…
Margaret Bergmann Lambert, Jewish Athlete Excluded From Berlin … – New York Times
With anti-Semitism on the rise in Germany — she recalled signs in shops declaring, “No dogs or Jews allowed” — she left home at 19 and moved to England, where she won the British high-jump championship in 1935. But when the Nazis pressured her father to bring her home, she returned to Germany to seek a position on the Olympic team. Shortly after winning that June meet, held at Adolf…
Spanish Soccer Federation President Is Suspended – New York Times
The council’s president, José Ramon Lete, said the 14-member board voted unanimously to suspend Villar and the federation’s vice president for economic affairs, Juan Padron. Photo Katie Ledecky competing in the 1,500-meter freestyle final, which she won easily. She also had the fastest time in the 200 free semifinals. Credit Francois-Xavier Marit/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images SWIMMING Ledecky Earns Third Gold at Worlds Katie Ledecky breezed to her third gold…
Margaret Bergmann Lambert, Jewish Athlete Excluded From Berlin Olympics, Dies at 103 – New York Times
With anti-Semitism on the rise in Germany — she recalled signs in shops declaring, “No dogs or Jews allowed” — she left home at 19 and moved to England, where she won the British high-jump championship in 1935. But when the Nazis pressured her father to bring her home, she returned to Germany to seek a position on the Olympic team. Shortly after winning that June meet, held at Adolf…
Katie Ledecky wins her third gold at swimming world championships – Los Angeles Times
Katie Ledecky breezed to her third gold medal of the world championships, backing off a bit on her most grueling night of the meet. It was left to Lilly King, Kylie Masse and Adam Peaty to take down the swimming record book — and King to claim another impressive triumph over her Russian rival. Ledecky captured the 1,500-meter freestyle by more than half the length of the pool on Tuesday,…
Here’s one way that a Raleigh soccer park will almost certainly fall short – News & Observer
Decades before last week’s unveiling of a proposed Major League Soccer stadium near Salisbury and Peace streets, professional baseball was played at a wooden grandstand ballpark not very far away. Nearly every summer beginning in 1945, the Raleigh minor league baseball team played near what is now Capital Boulevard near Peace Street in downtown Raleigh. Pro ball left Raleigh for good following the 1971 season, but the park left a…
Postseason Rematches Frontload 2017-18 Women’s Hockey Schedule – Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
Cornell women’s hockey has announced its schedule for the upcoming season, and the lineup of games features early matchups against both familiar and successful opponents, as four of the Red’s first six games come against reigning NCAA qualifiers. The 2017-18 campaign will open the weekend of Oct. 27 with a pair of road games up north against conference opponents St. Lawrence and Clarkson — both of whom Cornell faced in…
Kids Drive NASCAR returns to celebrate the sport’s young fans – Nascar
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — For the next three weeks, Kids Drive NASCAR will celebrate the next generation of NASCAR® fans by engaging children and their families with fun and interactive social content, kids’ takeovers and at-track events and activities, NASCAR announced today. Beginning today, kids will go head-to-head with some of the sport’s top drivers in Kids vs. Drivers, a series of timed activity challenges on social media. Monster Energy NASCAR…
Margaret Bergmann Lambert, Jewish High Jumper Excluded From … – New York Times
With anti-Semitism on the rise in Germany — she recalled signs in shops declaring, “No dogs or Jews allowed” — she left home at 19 and moved to England, where she won the British high-jump championship in 1935. But when the Nazis pressured her father to bring her home, she returned to Germany to seek a position on the Olympic team. Shortly after winning that June meet, held at Adolf…
