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Even if the International Olympic Committee sweetens its offer, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman insists that his league will not participate in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea. “We’re not going,” Bettman said Friday during his annual meeting with a group of sports editors at league headquarters. “That decision has been made.” The issues on the table included insurance and travel expenses for players, and the IOC appeared to be…

BUY TICKETS: See the races at Bristol BRISTOL, Tenn. — After his victory two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway, Jimmie Johnson was late for his post-race press conference – and with good reason. Because of a malfunction with his fluid delivery system, Johnson was dehydrated by the end of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. Consequently, a trip to the infield care center for IV fluids delayed his…

BUY TICKETS: See the races at Bristol BRISTOL, Tenn. — After his victory two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway, Jimmie Johnson was late for his post-race press conference – and with good reason. Because of a malfunction with his fluid delivery system, Johnson was dehydrated by the end of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. Consequently, a trip to the infield care center for IV fluids delayed his…

Even if the International Olympic Committee sweetens its offer, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman insists that his league will not participate in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea. “We’re not going,” Bettman said Friday during his annual meeting with a group of sports editors at league headquarters. “That decision has been made.” The issues on the table included insurance and travel expenses for players, and the IOC appeared to be…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — To commemorate the holistic effort being made to help protect and preserve the environment, NASCAR® announced its fifth annual NASCAR Race to Green™ initiative. Beginning today and culminating with Sunday’s TOYOTA OWNERS 400 at Richmond International Raceway, the initiative will build awareness around the programs NASCAR, the industry and multiple partners have developed to help reduce its carbon footprint. A key pillar of NASCAR Race to…

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Is Dale Earnhardt Jr. finally all the way back? After a fifth-place finish for Earnhardt two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway, at least two of Junior’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series fellow drivers certainly think so. In fact, seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson said he thinks his Hendrick Motorsports teammate soon will make a return to Victory Lane. “To go to Texas two weeks ago…

RELATED: Bristol weather updates | Stay up-to-date with the schedule Rain has forced the cancellation of Coors Light Pole Qualifying for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at Bristol Motor Speedway, with NASCAR officials issuing a revised Friday schedule for on-track activity.   Instead, race officials have planned for a pair of 55-minute practices for the Monster Energy Series and the NASCAR XFINITY Series. The starting lineup for Sunday’s Food City…

On Tuesday, police investigators work on a reconstruction of the April 11 bombing of the Borussia Dortmund team bus in Dortmund, Germany. Three bombs detonated as the bus was pulling away from a nearby hotel. Lukas Schulze/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Lukas Schulze/Getty Images On Tuesday, police investigators work on a reconstruction of the April 11 bombing of the Borussia Dortmund team bus in Dortmund, Germany. Three bombs detonated…

BUY TICKETS: See the races at Charlotte “Daylight Racing Time” is back for the Bank of America 500 as the race returns to a Sunday afternoon start time in 2017, Charlotte Motor Speedway announced on Thursday. The fourth race of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs and first race in the Round of 12 will now be held on Sunday, Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. ET with TV coverage…

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Change is coming to Formula One and the sport, which has evolved in an awkward, disjointed and unsatisfactory fashion in recent years, badly needs to get it right. In the short term the new 2017 regulations seem to have at least worked in the sense of having two teams – Mercedes and Ferrari – competing at the front, with a good chance Red Bull will be joining them as the…

Owning a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race team is not a young man’s game. In fact, by the end of the year, there will be as many owners who are at least 80 years old than there will be owners who are younger than 60. Here are the ages of the primary team owners of the top 25 Cup teams in points.

Image copyright Getty Images Want to live longer? Reduce your risk of cancer? And heart disease? Then cycle to work, say scientists. The biggest study into the issue linked using two wheels with a halving of the risk of cancer and heart disease. The five-year study of 250,000 UK commuters also showed walking had some benefits over sitting on public transport or taking the car. The team in Glasgow said…

Dr Jason Gill, from the institute of cardiovascular and medical sciences at Glasgow University, said the government must do more to make cycling safer and more popular. “Cycling all or part of the way to work was associated with substantially lower risk of adverse health outcomes.   “If these associations are causal, these findings suggest that policies designed to make it easier for people to commute by bike, such as…

SAINT PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Wild, along with FOX Sports North and Minnesota Hockey, announced Wednesday that the city of St. Cloud will host the 12th annual Wells Fargo Hockey Day Minnesota 2018. The outdoor games will be played on a rink located at Eastman Park adjacent to Lake George in St. Cloud. Details were announced as part of “Wild Live” on FOX Sports North. Host Tom Hanneman was…

Over 250 pieces of original NASCAR art, including 85 autographed pieces of sheetmetal, by Sam Bass will be sold at an auction as part of a court-ordered bankruptcy sale. The auction will take place on May 3 at 10 a.m. ET at the Cabarrus Arena and Events Center in Concord, North Carolina. Bidding will also take place over the internet, with pre-bidding opening up on April 25. Iron Horse…

If Kevin Harvick had his way Charlotte Motor Speedway would no longer host NASCAR’s All-Star Race every year. Instead, other tracks would stage the annual event — specifically two short tracks that aren’t currently on the Monster Energy Cup Series schedule. Harvick would like to see the mid-May non-points race rotate among different tracks, with venues even submitting bids to host the race featuring a select field of drivers. He…

RELATED: Kenseth’s career stats CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Circle K, an international chain of convenience stores, will serve as the primary sponsor for six races this season with driver Matt Kenseth and the No. 20 Toyota fielded by Joe Gibbs Racing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. The multi-year sponsorship was announced Wednesday by JGR and Circle K officials at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. “It seems like today, in…

Ask most people to name a sport that’s popular with immigrants and they’ll probably say soccer or baseball. But with the Stanley Cup playoffs underway, we thought we’d check in with growing popularity of ice hockey among immigrants. Shagana Ehamparam is a reporter with Feet in 2 Worlds, a project at The New School in New York that brings stories by immigrant journalists to public radio. She grew up in…

I wrote last week that to avoid a situation in which an NBA star misses a game, I’d reduce the schedule. I’d reduce it from 82 games to 72. Would that be feasible? Sure. When I was in college, analytics had yet to be invented. But somebody who finds numbers compelling can figure out how to make a 72-game schedule work. She or he can’t, however, touch the playoffs. I…