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The Government is being urged to investigate whether the stripping of elite funding from wheelchair rugby indicates a “discriminatory” attitude to Paralympic sport, as the game known as ‘murderball’ fights to have its income restored. Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby, which was dropped from the Tokyo cycle, has written to Penny Mordaunt, the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work, and Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Culture, Media…

OKLAHOMA CITY –  Think it’s hard for firefighters to rescue a cat in a tree? Try a cow in a swimming pool. Firefighters in Oklahoma City were summoned Sunday morning after a homeowner reported hearing some sort of “snorting” coming from his swimming pool area. Emergency responders arrived and discovered a hole in the swimming pool’s liner and a cow trapped in the water. Related stories… Neglected dogs become…

Halfway through the season, Antonio Conte, the excitable, tactically savvy manager of Chelsea, is running ahead of rivals in first place in England’s top soccer league. The Italian also stands out in another way: his team is the only one of the major teams whose television viewership has risen this season (albeit only very slightly). Elsewhere, the trend of fewer people tuning in to the country’s biggest sport that was detected…

Before his friendship with Dale Earnhardt that produced such amazing dividends, before his NASCAR Hall of Fame election, before he bought an old taxi for $20 and turned it into his first race car, Richard Childress fell in love with racing. He was 8 years old. This was in the early 1950s at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, one of the sport’s legendary short-track venues. Childress, who on Friday will…

The Pachuca vs. Jaguares Liga MX match only brought one goal, but it brought two of something else. The two Mexican teams battled on Saturday night, and it produced a couple of great moments. In the second half, a cute dog interrupted the match. Look at this friendly thing. Not to be outdone by its rival, a cat came up to step it up for the felines, interrupting the game…

RELATED: Driver Tracker | Photo gallery: Who’s on the move for 2017   NASCAR competition officials issued memos detailing rule book changes for the 2017 season in its three national series, including limits on tire allocation, restrictor-plate and spoiler size, and an allowance for drivers to use biometric devices.   The 80 total pages of revisions released Friday afternoon pertain to Sections 20 (Vehicle and Driver Safety specifications) and 21…

RELATED: Driver Tracker | Photo gallery: Who’s on the move for 2017   NASCAR competition officials issued memos detailing rule book changes for the 2017 season in its three national series, including limits on tire allocation, restrictor-plate and spoiler size, and an allowance for drivers to use biometric devices.   The 80 total pages of revisions released Friday afternoon pertain to Sections 20 (Vehicle and Driver Safety specifications) and 21…

Somewhat lost in all the hoopla regarding Carl Edwards’ announcement that he is stepping away from NASCAR is the ripple effect it had on the 2017 Monster Energy Cup Series rookie landscape. Let’s just say that with Daniel Suarez, a rookie, now stepping in to fill Edwards’ shoes in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, it just got a whole lot more interesting. Prior to the Edwards-Suarez seat swap,…

Saturday’s Sydney Derby between Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers didn’t bring anything in terms of goals, but it brought so much more. During the 0-0 match, goalkeeper Vedran Janjetovic was front and center. Having played for Sydney FC from 2012-16, he just switched to Western and the fans let him have it by throwing snakes on his goal. Take a look. Here’s another look. That’s pretty nuts, but that…

Frazer Meek jumps down from a wooden platform and jogs across the floor of the Fluidity Freerun Academy, a 7,000 sq ft warehouse in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Cardiff. It is a wintry Thursday evening and there are only a few hardy souls practising their leaps and swings on the purpose-built equipment, designed to mimic the bollards, railings and concrete building blocks of the great urban outdoors….

Like many of us in the sporting world, the good folks at Roush Fenway Racing weren’t too impressed with the “new” logo initially trotted out on social media for the NFL’s Chargers who are leaving San Diego to begin playing in Los Angeles. For those blissfully unaware, the logo the new L.A. Chargers trotted out on Thursday looked almost identical to the Major League Baseball logo already sported by the…

NASCAR issued a massive rules update to teams across all three national divisions on Friday — not unusual for this time of the year. The most noteworthy addition is that the Sanctioning Body will allow drivers to wear biometric devices like Fitbits while inside the car. NASCAR will mandate the devices to operate under its own internal power and not have telematics capability — in other words real-time…

Like many of us in the sporting world, the good folks at Roush Fenway Racing weren’t too impressed with the “new” logo initially trotted out on social media for the NFL’s Chargers who are leaving San Diego to begin playing in Los Angeles. For those blissfully unaware, the logo the new L.A. Chargers trotted out on Thursday looked almost identical to the Major League Baseball logo already sported by the…

Chevy is shopping for a new NASCAR. The automaker confirmed this week that it is discontinuing the SS sedan that its current entry in the top Cup series is based on after the 2017 model year, and will need to rebrand the race car for 2018. Unlike the Ford Fusion and Toyota Camry it competes against, the production SS is a low-volume sports sedan that is the only…

Maracanã Stadium, pictured just months ago when it was in its Olympic-level shape for the Rio Games. Hundreds of millions of dollars have gone into renovating the decades-old stadium, a venue that has been described as Brazil’s “soccer cathedral.” Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images Maracanã Stadium, pictured just months ago when it was in its Olympic-level shape for the Rio Games. Hundreds of millions of…

Hockey net(Photo: Julio Cortez, AP) DENVER — Anyone who knows Tony Salazar knows he’s a fighter. Now, the Colorado hockey family is once again rallying around the former Ralston Valley standout as he faces his biggest battle yet. On Sunday, Salazar, 18, suffered a heart attack in his first ever hockey game for Metro State University. He was airlifted to the hospital where doctors determined his heart was working at just…

As NASCAR’s 2017 season draws near – only six weeks until the Daytona 500 – here are five burning questions facing the sport, with more coming periodically over the next few weeks: What kind of impact will new sponsor Monster Energy have on the Cup series? NASCAR has moved on from 12 years of sponsorship by telecommunications companies to an edgy energy drink company. With the sport’s attendance and television…

Maracanã Stadium, pictured just months ago when it was in its Olympic-level shape for the Rio Games. Hundreds of millions of dollars have gone into renovating the decades-old stadium, a venue that has been described as Brazil’s “soccer cathedral.” Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images Maracanã Stadium, pictured just months ago when it was in its Olympic-level shape for the Rio Games. Hundreds of millions of…

Most sports at various levels are known to have rich traditions that have stuck for years, and college hockey is no different.  From flying tennis balls and flying fish to loud bands and cheers, college hockey has a few interesting (and sometimes strange) traditions that stand out.  Here are some of the most notable traditions:  Dartmouth and flying tennis balls Yes, it…

Ford Performance announced Thursday another major push in its NASCAR initiative, launching a driver development program ahead of the 2017 season. The first phase includes an agreement with Brad Keselowski Racing, placing new Ford signee Chase Briscoe in a full-time ride in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Ford Performance indicated that other stages of the driver development program would be announced at a later time. The program is designed…