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Nick Wass/Associated Press Coming off a close affair won by Ryan Blaney in Pocono, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series turns its attention to one of the season’s more entertaining events in recent years, the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Two years ago, this race saw a jaw-dropping four red flags thanks to rain, making for repeated entertaining sprints for first place before an early ending. Now pair…

Federal tax documents released Friday give a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the private committee that is bidding to bring the Summer Olympics back to Los Angeles. LA 2024 raised more than $32 million in donations — and spent about half of that — during the fiscal year stretching from August 2015 to the end of July 2016, according to the most-recent tax information available. The committee identified itself as a nonprofit…

Harnarayan Singh in his Vancouver ‘Hockey Night in Canada’ studio. (Photograph by Jimmy Jeong) Harnarayan Singh’s first job in journalism was as a summer festival reporter for CBC Radio in 2003. He began calling games for Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi in 2008. He lives in Calgary with his wife and daughter. Q How did you initially get into hockey?A: My older siblings were already watching it, and I would always…

WASHINGTON – McDonald’s Corp ended its 41-year-old sponsorship of the Olympic Games three years early, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday, reflecting the US fast-food giant’s focus on its core business as well as rising Olympics sponsorship costs and declining TV ratings. McDonald’s deal would have run through the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, and bowing out will likely to save it hundreds of million of dollars if it…

Federal tax documents released Friday give a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the private committee that is bidding to bring the Summer Olympics back to Los Angeles. LA 2024 raised more than $32 million in donations — and spent about half of that — during the fiscal year stretching from August 2015 to the end of July 2016, according to the most-recent tax information available. The committee identified itself as a nonprofit…

The Olympic rings and the golden arches are parting ways. McDonald’s has ended its contract with the Olympic Games. The fast-food giant has sponsored the games for 41 years and was set to do so until 2020. The company’s chief marketing officer said McDonald’s wanted to “focus on different priorities.” McDonald’s has been working to slim down recently. The company says it’s on track to cut costs by $500 million by the end of 2018. SEE…

5.59am EDT05:59 10 mins: Bulley with some strong defence to thwart Bassett this time and the Giants stay within four. And the lead is cut to three soon enough before the Lightning call a time-out, no doubt to regroup in a bid to stave off this resurgent spell from the Giants. Erin Delahunty (@della79) Jamie Lee Price might be the first player to be sent off in this new competition….

Federal tax documents released Friday give a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the private committee that is bidding to bring the Summer Olympics back to Los Angeles. LA 2024 raised more than $32 million in donations — and spent about half of that — during the fiscal year stretching from August 2015 to the end of July 2016, according to the most-recent tax information available. The committee identified itself as a nonprofit…

NEW YORK/BERLIN McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N) ended its 41-year-old sponsorship of the Olympic Games three years early, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday, reflecting the U.S. fast-food giant’s focus on its core business as well as rising Olympics sponsorship costs and declining TV ratings. McDonald’s deal would have run through the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, and bowing out will likely to save it hundreds of million of dollars if it…

NEW YORK/BERLIN McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N) ended its 41-year-old sponsorship of the Olympic Games three years early, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday, reflecting the U.S. fast-food giant’s focus on its core business as well as rising Olympics sponsorship costs and declining TV ratings. McDonald’s deal would have run through the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, and bowing out will likely to save it hundreds of million of dollars if it…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. –  The USA Hockey Friends of Women’s Hockey Fund, which was recently launched by The USA Hockey Foundation in an effort to raise $500,000 annually from corporate and individual donors to support the U.S. Women’s National Team program and the overall furtherance of girls’ and women’s ice hockey in America, is off to a terrific start. “We’re excited about this effort and it’s been great…

BROOKLYN, Mich. — Don’t read anything into the term of Jimmie Johnson’s new contract with Hendrick Motorsports. Yes, Johnson signed a three-year extension with the organization that has provided him a ride for his entire Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career. Yes, that’s shorter than the five-year deal he inked last time. At the end of the 2020 season, Johnson will be 45, a year older than his car owner…

NEW YORK/BERLIN McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N) ended its 41-year-old sponsorship of the Olympic Games three years early, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday, reflecting the U.S. fast-food giant’s focus on its core business as well as rising Olympics sponsorship costs and declining TV ratings. McDonald’s deal would have run through the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, and bowing out will likely to save it hundreds of million of dollars if it…

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Jamie Squire/Getty Last week, the IOC announced the addition of several new events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, aimed at gender equality. Swimming added three new events — women’s 1500-meter freestyle, men’s 800-meter freestyle, and a 4×100-meter mixed gender relay. The addition of the events should be welcomed news for swimmers like Katie Ledecky who now have a shot at more medals. However, Michael Phelps is apparently not a fan…

Alon Day will become the first driver from Israel to ever compete in NASCAR’s top series next weekend in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 driving the BK Racing No. 23 EarthWater Limited Toyota Camry. Day, a 25 year-old native of Tel Aviv, Israel, was named Israel’s 2016 “Athlete of the Year.” As a result of his outstanding achievements in NASCAR’s Euro Series, Day has the unique distinction of being the first…

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Image copyright Getty Images McDonald’s and the International Olympics Committee (IOC) are ending their long-running sponsorship deal three years early. The fast food chain said it was “reconsidering all aspects of its International Olympics Committee business” as part of a plan to re-invigorate its business. The IOC said it understood “that McDonald’s is looking to focus on different business priorities”. The partnership began in 1976. “For these reasons, we have…

Rankings below are based on a mixture of expected output and DraftKings’ NASCAR salaries for that day. The ordering is not based on highest projected fantasy totals, but rather by value of each driver. (fppk = average fantasy points per $1,000 of salary. The typical median fppk for a 2016 race was in the 3s. Plate tracks tend to be lower and short tracks tend to run higher due to the…