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2017 National Soccer Hall of Fame Nominees Announced – U.S. Soccer (press release) (registration) (blog)
CHICAGO (May 24, 2017) – Ballots have been finalized for the National Soccer Hall of Fame Class of 2017 elections and voting will begin immediately for the Player, Veteran Player and Builder categories. The results of the voting and induction ceremony details for the Class of 2017 will be announced at a later date. Players in their first year of eligibility include the following: 2006 FIFA World Cup participant…
Why NASCAR has an image problem it can’t fix because of money – Charlotte Observer (blog)
If the men who run Charlotte Motor Speedway approached NASCAR now and said, “Five-hundred miles is not enough, we want to race 600 miles every Memorial Day weekend,” you know what the answer would be? Drugs are bad. The more technology pushes us forward, the more our patience declines. Drive 600 miles from Charlotte and you’re almost at New York City’s Times Square. But distance is the quality that distinguishes…
Several Athletes Have Defective Medals From Rio Olympics – New York Times
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How to Be Mindful While Swimming – New York Times
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Blue Beats Red in Congressional Soccer Game – Roll Call
<!– Nevada Rep. Ruben Kihuen scored a goal and had two assists for the Democrats in Tuesday’s rainy Congressional Soccer Game. (Bill Clark/ CQ Roll Call) –> On a rainy Tuesday evening in Washington, Democrats won the Congressional Soccer Game but Republicans won the cheering section. The men and women in blue, with four members of Congress on their team, took home the trophy at the fifth annual Capitol Soccer…
Nashville, suddenly hockey-crazed, has transformed around Predators’ success – Sporting News
As a native Minnesotan, I grew up in hockey country and loved the Minnesota North Stars before they were uprooted to Dallas in the early 1990s. When I moved to Nashville in 1999 to work for the Titans, the Predators were an infant NHL franchise. I supported the other major pro sports team in town by attending Preds games, but I was shocked when I saw half-filled arenas and heard the PA…
NASCAR Finally Adds A Road Course To The Playoffs – Jalopnik
Photo credit: Jerry Markland/Getty Images It’s always felt weird that NASCAR has a couple road courses on their schedule, but none in their championship-deciding playoffs. They included a restrictor-plate track—Talladega—but no road course. That is, until next year. Charlotte Motor Speedway’s road course is coming to the playoffs. NASCAR announced a host of tweaks to its 2018 schedule, which moves the Daytona 500 back onto President’s Day weekend, moves the…
Indy to host NASCAR’s regular-season finale – ESPN
4:43 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Indianapolis Motor Speedway will replace Richmond International Raceway as the site of the NASCAR Cup regular-season finale starting in 2018 as part of several changes to the schedule announced Tuesday. NASCAR also will change the opening race of its playoffs, with Las Vegas Motor Speedway taking the spot formerly held by Chicagoland Speedway. It also will move the playoff…
With the 2018 Olympics in South Korea, Will the North Be Participant or Provocateur? – New York Times
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Scathing report on 2016 Rio Olympics: venues ‘White Elephants’ – USA TODAY
CLOSE x Embed x Share Almost six month after Rio hosted the Olympics and Paralympic Games, the cities Olympic legacy is deteriorating rapidly. Maria Mercedes Galuppo (@mariamgaluppo) has more. Buzz60 A trash can lays by ripped seats in one of the dugouts in Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.(Photo: Silvia Izquierdo, AP) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A federal prosecutor looking into last year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics says…
NASCAR community reacts to passing of Nicky Hayden – FOXSports.com
The NASCAR community on Monday extended its condolences to the family of motorcycle racer Nicky Hayden, 35, who died five days after being hit by a car while training on his bicycle in Italy. The Maurizio Bufalini Hospital in Cesena, Italy, announced Hayden’s death after last week saying he had severe cerebral damage and multiple traumatic injuries from a crash on the Rimini coast last Wednesday. Hayden won…
From Hockey 101 to a Ph.D. in Nashville – New York Times
Here’s who Dale Earnhardt Jr. thinks should replace him in the No. 88 when he retires – Charlotte Observer
Intense as it may be, speculation on who will replace Dale Earnhardt Jr. when he retires at the end of the NASCAR season remains just that, for now, but NASCAR’s most popular driver has established his own favorite. If Earnhardt had his druthers, Alex Bowman would be driving the No. 88 Cup Series car next season for Hendrick Motorsports. At least that’s what Earnhardt told fans near the end of…
From Hockey 101 in Nashville to a Ph.D. With Predators – New York Times
NASCAR’s Driver Only Broadcast Team Next Month Could Be Great Or A Big Mess – Jalopnik
Danica Patrick, the Hollywood Hotel broadcaster for the June race at Pocono Raceway, being interviewed by ESPN back in 2012—when the network actually covered NASCAR. Photo credit: Tyler Barrick/Getty Images for True Speed Communication In June, things are going to get pretty weird in NASCAR broadcasting. For the first time, the entire broadcast team will be active drivers—the booth, the pit-road reporters and everyone else. Fox Sports, the broadcaster for…
NASCAR’s Driver Only Broadcast Team Next Month Could Be Great … – Jalopnik
Danica Patrick, the Hollywood Hotel broadcaster for the June race at Pocono Raceway, being interviewed by ESPN back in 2012—when the network actually covered NASCAR. Photo credit: Tyler Barrick/Getty Images for True Speed Communication In June, things are going to get pretty weird in NASCAR broadcasting. For the first time, the entire broadcast team will be active drivers—the booth, the pit-road reporters and everyone else. Fox Sports, the broadcaster for…
Race fans will know the last names of these N.C. teens on the NASCAR Next watch list – Charlotte Observer
Teen NASCAR drivers Harrison Burton and Todd Gilliland are both from North Carolina and are sons of men who raced at the Cup Series level. The pair both started racing cars at age 5, when many children are learning to ride a bicycle. Now Burton, 16, and Gilliland, 17, are members of the 2017 NASCAR Next class, a watch list of nine rising stars climbing the NASCAR ladder. “The NASCAR…
Sweden beats Canada to win ice hockey world title – BBC News
Image copyright EPA Image caption It is Sweden’s 10th world title Sweden has won the ice hockey world championship, beating favourites Canada in a dramatic penalty shootout. The teams were tied at 1-1 after three periods in Cologne, Germany, with Victor Hedman scoring for the Swedes and Canada’s Ryan O’Reilly equalising. The overtime brought no goals, but the Scandinavians then were twice on target in the shootout, while the North…
Nine months after the Rio Olympics, a new problem emerges … – Chicago Tribune
The Rio Olympics experienced their fair share of problems last summer (green pool water, controversial boxing judges, basic plumbing). Now nearly nine months after the Games ended, it looks like organizers in Rio de Janeiro are still experiencing some hiccups. The latest issue has to do with medals handed out to more than 130 winners – they’re rusting, chipping or as Agence France-Presse put it, “falling to pieces.” “We’re seeing…
NASCAR’s Driver Only Broadcast Team Next Month Could Be Great Or A Big Mess – Jalopnik
Danica Patrick, the Hollywood Hotel broadcaster for the June race at Pocono Raceway, being interviewed by ESPN back in 2012—when the network actually covered NASCAR. Photo credit: Tyler Barrick/Getty Images for True Speed Communication In June, things are going to get pretty weird in NASCAR broadcasting. For the first time, the entire broadcast team will be active drivers—the booth, the pit-road reporters and everyone else. Fox Sports, the broadcaster for…
