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The lack of unanimity within UK Sport over how it spends its budget of £550 million over the next four years raises further questions about a strategy that has already led to redundancies on the elite programmes of those sports that have lost out. As will the revelation that the quango’s latest board meeting on Wednesday deferred for the second time a decision that threatens to strip wheelchair tennis of all…

BUY TICKETS: See the Daytona 500 live! Where do you see yourself in five years? If Daniel Suarez were asked that question in 2012, he admits the answer would not have included sitting in the No. 19 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series car for Joe Gibbs Racing. But that’s exactly where Suarez will be when teams take the track at Daytona International Speedway to prepare for the Daytona 500 —…

A sport-by-sport look at the US prospects for the XXIIIrd Winter Games, which begin in Pyeongchang a year from this week, with 2014 and projected 2018 medals in parentheses: Alpine skiing (5/2): If the Americans can stay out of the operating room they could match their Sochi haul. Mikaela Shiffrin will be favored to repeat her slalom victory and also should medal in the giant slalom. Ted Ligety, who won…

A sport-by-sport look at the US prospects for the XXIIIrd Winter Games, which begin in Pyeongchang a year from this week, with 2014 and projected 2018 medals in parentheses: Alpine skiing (5/2): If the Americans can stay out of the operating room they could match their Sochi haul. Mikaela Shiffrin will be favored to repeat her slalom victory and also should medal in the giant slalom. Ted Ligety, who won…

BUY TICKETS: See the Daytona 500 live! Saturday is designated as World Cancer Day, and the impact of fighting this disease is not lost on young NASCAR star driver Bubba Wallace, who is an Ambassador for the national Movember Foundation. Wallace is among a long list of celebrities and sports stars who have made it a priority to recognize the annual effort to bring attention to fighting this disease. And…

With Super Bowl LI less than 48 hours away, it’s time to start thinking about what kind of snacks you’ll be serving up for your big-game parties. Luckily, your favorite NASCAR drivers have given us some pretty tasty ideas for what they’ll be munching on when the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons face off Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET, following a full day of pre-game coverage on FOX. From…

BUY TICKETS: See the Daytona 500 live! Front Row Motorsports announced Friday afternoon that it has purchased a third charter for use in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series ahead of a planned expansion for the 2018 season. The Bob Jenkins-owned organization indicated that it has acquired the charter last used by BK Racing‘s No. 83 entry in the series in 2016. Front Row said it intends to lease the…

On Friday afternoon, Front Row Motorsports announced they have completed the purchase of a NASCAR charter from BK Racing, giving the organization a third charter in the Monster Energy Cup Series. On Dec. 6, NASCAR transferred ownership of the charter that was used by BK Racing for the No. 83 in 2016. FRM will turn around and lease the charter to TriStar Motorsports for the 2017 season. The purchase will help…

A standoff between the NHL and the International Olympic Committee continues with no end in sight, but with each passing day it increasingly threatens the league’s participation in the 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Caught in the middle of the skirmish are players who want to represent their countries on the sport’s biggest stage. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and his deputy, Bill Daly, painted a grim picture of…

Purposely “heading” a soccer ball may lead to concussion symptoms despite research suggesting those issues mainly arise from accidental knocks to the head, according to a new study. While amateur soccer players were at an increased risk of concussion-like symptoms from colliding with each other and objects, they also had an increased risk for those symptoms if they often used their head to hit the ball – an action…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Growing up in New York City, her parents encouraged her to play against the boys in order to be tough. Fast-forward two decades and that’s exactly what Julia Landauer is doing with her racing career booming and off-track accolades, including a recent Forbes feature, helping to form her growing brand. Coming off a fourth-place finish in the standings in NASCAR’s K&N Pro Series West, Landauer, who got…

RELATED: Meet the 2016-17 NASCAR Next class There are several traditional routes to stock-car racing’s big leagues. Several stars have emerged from asphalt Late Model circles, others from the sprint cars ranks, either on pavement or dirt. Alon Day has made a path where just five years ago, he says, none existed in his homeland of Israel. “I grew up without any motorsports — nothing,” says Day, who fantasized about…

Finley Stadium (Steven Goff/The Washington Post) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Columbus, Washington, Carson … Chattanooga? The U.S. Soccer Federation broke from standard scheduling practices by placing Friday’s men’s friendly against Jamaica in a city off the sport’s beaten path. The women have played at 20,000-seat Finley Stadium. The men have visited Tennessee in recent years, two hours up the road in Nashville, but never in the southeastern corner of the Volunteer…

RELATED: Meet the 2016-17 NASCAR Next class There are several traditional routes to stock-car racing’s big leagues. Several stars have emerged from asphalt Late Model circles, others from the sprint cars ranks, either on pavement or dirt. Alon Day has made a path where just five years ago, he says, none existed in his homeland of Israel. “I grew up without any motorsports — nothing,” says Day, who fantasized about…

BUDAPEST Hungary’s bid organizers for the 2024 summer Olympics in Budapest plan to engage the public in dialogue to quell a growing popular movement opposing the campaign to host the Games. Budapest, one of three cities competing to stage the event, is bidding to become the first Eastern European country to host the summer Games in the post-Communist era and is hoping to fulfill the International Olympic Committee’s Agenda 2020…

RELATED: Meet the 2016-17 NASCAR Next class There are several traditional routes to stock-car racing’s big leagues. Several stars have emerged from asphalt Late Model circles, others from the sprint cars ranks, either on pavement or dirt. Alon Day has made a path where just five years ago, he says, none existed in his homeland of Israel. “I grew up without any motorsports — nothing,” says Day, who fantasized about…

RELATED: Meet the 2016-17 NASCAR Next class There are several traditional routes to stock-car racing’s big leagues. Several stars have emerged from asphalt Late Model circles, others from the sprint cars ranks, either on pavement or dirt. Alon Day has made a path where just five years ago, he says, none existed in his homeland of Israel. “I grew up without any motorsports — nothing,” says Day, who fantasized about…

Jeff Sauer coached the Wisconsin men’s hockey team from 1982-2002.(Photo: JOURNAL SENTINEL FILES) MADISON – Jeff Sauer, who embraced the challenge of replacing legendary men’s hockey coach Bob Johnson at the University of Wisconsin in 1982 and went on to win two NCAA titles in 20 seasons, died Thursday of pancreatic cancer. Sauer, a native of Fort Atkinson, was 73. “It’s a tough day, certainly for the people that were…

Japan plans to turn old electronics into 5,000 medals for the Olympic and Paralympic games. JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images Sayonara, old iPhone. Konnichiwa, Olympic medal. Tokyo 2020, the organizing committee for the Japanese city’s Olympics Games, said on Wednesday it would make the medals for the quadrennial sporting event from metal reclaimed from old smartphones. The effort is part of the Olympic agenda, which says sustainability should be part of all…

RELATED: See Whitt’s ride for Daytona STATESVILLE, N.C. — TriStar Motorsports announces it will return to competition in NASCAR’s premier series fielding one full-time entry in the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series for the 2017 season.   Cole Whitt has secured the seat of the No. 72 in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Whitt brings with him Florida Lottery to serve as the primary sponsor of the No. 72…