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The charter plane that ran out of fuel 8 miles short of its destination this week and crashed in Colombia, killing 71 people including most of a Brazilian soccer team, had bypassed a possible refueling stop that lacked lights as the flight was running behind and darkness fell. That was one of a series of apparent miscues that emerged as investigators focused on the role of the Bolivian three-airplane company,…

CHAPECO, Brazil — They came here because the pain is everywhere, and there is nowhere else to go. They came to the stadium to mourn their heroes, lost in a plane crash only a few agonizing days ago. They came to cry and embrace, to put up murals and photos, to light candles. Some came just to stand and stare at the field. “It’s so sad what’s happened to all…

The private bid committee seeking to bring the Olympics back to Southern California for a third time has released a new budget estimating it would spend $5.3 billion to stage the Games. The total exceeds the initial $4.6 billion estimate included in LA 2024’s original budget from the summer of 2015. However, that budget also had $1.7 billion in costs not tied to the local organizing committee, bringing the total…

RELATED: Johnson wins seventh championship, joins historic company As Jimmie Johnson climbed out of his race-winning, title-clinching Chevrolet at Homestead-Miami Speedway, another Chevy team owner, Richard Childress made his way toward the erupting celebration. Childress walked quickly and deliberately, pausing to shake hands with Johnson’s father Gary and to share his heartfelt praise for Johnson’s extraordinary accomplishment.    Johnson will formally accept his seventh trophy Friday night at NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series banquet…

x Embed x Share The Olympic Games are done and billions of dollars in spending were used to get ready for the games but now the state of Rio is broke. Jose Sepulveda (@josesepulveda87) has more. Buzz60 A general view of the Rocinha favela on June 9, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.(Photo: Richard Heathcote, Getty Images) From the front steps of Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theater, the ballet company…

Around 350 victims have reported child sexual abuse within United Kingdom soccer clubs, following a former player’s allegation that he was sexually assaulted as a young boy by a coach in the 1980s. Here’s everything you need to know about the ongoing scandal: How did it start?On Nov. 17, The Guardian published a front page story in which Andy Woodward, a former lower league soccer player, broke his silence to…

Maggie Bill has mastered the art of the middle back for the Tar Heels, who play West Virginia on Friday in the College Cup semifinals. SAN JOSE, Calif. — University of North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance has some experience when it comes to the NCAA Women’s College Cup. The coach has so much experience, in fact, that he has won three times as many national championships in the San Jose-Santa…

NASCAR said on Thursday it reached an agreement that will see energy drink company Monster Energy become the title sponsor for the stock car racing series starting with the 2017 season. Terms of NASCAR’s deal with the Coca-Cola ko owned energy drink company were not disclosed. “Monster has built its brand on racing and motorsports, and NASCAR is the pinnacle of motorsports in America,” said Mitch Covington, vice president of…

x Embed x Share The Olympic Games are done and billions of dollars in spending were used to get ready for the games but now the state of Rio is broke. Jose Sepulveda (@josesepulveda87) has more. Buzz60 A general view of the Rocinha favela on June 9, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.(Photo: Richard Heathcote, Getty Images) From the front steps of Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theater, the ballet company…

SAO PAULO One of the three surviving soccer players pulled from the wreckage of the Colombian air crash that killed 71 people this week is doing well after leg surgery and will play again, his father said. “My son is getting better all the time,” Helam Marinho Zampier, father of Chapecoense player Helio Neto, wrote in a Facebook post late on Thursday night. “He has just had surgery on his…

Around 350 victims have reported child sexual abuse within United Kingdom soccer clubs, following a former player’s allegation that he was sexually assaulted as a young boy by a coach in the 1980s. Here’s everything you need to know about the ongoing scandal: How did it start?On Nov. 17, The Guardian published a front page story in which Andy Woodward, a former lower league soccer player, broke his silence to…

Maggie Bill has mastered the art of the middle back for the Tar Heels, who play West Virginia on Friday in the College Cup semifinals. SAN JOSE, Calif. — University of North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance has some experience when it comes to the NCAA Women’s College Cup. The coach has so much experience, in fact, that he has won three times as many national championships in the San Jose-Santa…

Maggie Bill has mastered the art of the middle back for the Tar Heels, who play West Virginia on Friday in the College Cup semifinals. SAN JOSE, Calif. — University of North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance has some experience when it comes to the NCAA Women’s College Cup. The coach has so much experience, in fact, that he has won three times as many national championships in the San Jose-Santa…

RELATED: NASCAR, Monster Energy announce entitlement deal LAS VEGAS — Mark Hall called it “a rare opportunity that doesn’t come along every day.” “If you would have asked me five years ago if I’ve ever contemplated something like this, the answer would be never in a million years,” said Hall, Chief Marketing Officer for Monster Energy. Time flies. Contemplation became reality Thursday as NASCAR and officials with the energy drink…

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3:29 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment BUFFALO, N.Y. — The NHL Players’ Association is expected to reject the NHL’s verbal proposal to extend the current collective bargaining agreement in exchange for Olympic participation in 2018. The players’ association is expected to notify the league of its decision before next week’s board of governors meeting in Florida. An NHLPA spokesperson said Thursday that the group has not officially…

RELATED: Official NASCAR release | NASCAR Nation reacts to news LAS VEGAS – NASCAR announced on Thursday at Wynn Las Vegas a multi-year deal that will make Monster Energy only the third entitlement sponsor in premier series history. The length and terms of the deal were not disclosed, but both parties hailed the partnership as the perfect fit for both brands. “Monster Energy is a brand built on excitement and enthusiasm,…

Four-time NASCAR premier series champion Jeff Gordon will make his return to the Rolex 24 At Daytona for the first time in 10 years as Wayne Taylor Racing on Thursday confirmed Gordon alongside full-season co-drivers Jordan and Ricky Taylor and endurance driver Max Angelelli as the driver lineup in the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac DPi-V.R for the 55th Rolex 24 At Daytona. The race opens the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar…

LONDON What began as a harrowing account of child abuse suffered by a former professional English soccer player last month has lifted the lid on what could be one of the worst pedophile scandals Britain has ever known. Andy Woodward, 43, who played in the lower divisions of English soccer, told the Guardian newspaper in an interview two weeks ago how his life had been ruined because he had been…

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