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CHAPECO, Brazil –  Relatives of victims who died in an air crash that killed most the Brazilian soccer club Chapecoense spoke out in anger on Thursday, several saying the crash was avoidable. Only six of the 77 passengers and crew survived, three of them players. Nineteen other players perished in the crash on Monday, a few kilometers (miles) from an airport Medellin, Colombia. Recordings of conversations with the…

In the moments before the charter jet plummeted more than 9,000 feet into the Colombian mountains Monday night, the plane’s pilot signaled a fuel emergency, calling out for assistance with an emergency landing. An audio recording of the final conversation between the pilot and air traffic controller was leaked to Colombian press Wednesday, providing the clearest image yet of the crash that killed 71 people, including the members of the Chapecoense soccer team…

MEDELLIN, Colombia The plane that crashed in Colombia killing 71 people including most of a Brazilian soccer team had no fuel on impact, according to initial findings by aviation officials, prompting an investigation into why the plane flew under those conditions. The comments by the civil aviation authority late Wednesday night confirmed Bolivian pilot Miguel Quiroga’s final words to the control tower at Medellin’s airport on a crackly audio obtained…

NASCAR has arrived out west for Champion’s Week in Las Vegas, Nevada to being a week-long celebration of the 2016 Sprint Cup Series season. After Jimmie Johnson earned his record-tying seventh championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway, members of the NASCAR community and fans alike are gathered for a week of events honoring the champion, Chase drivers, Rookie of the Year Chase Elliott and more. The festivities will be capped off by…

The plane that crashed in Colombia killing 71 people was owned by a Venezuelan businessman and one-time leftist politician and run by a tiny Bolivian company specializing in transporting soccer teams. The aircraft, LAMIA Bolivia’s only operational one, hit a mountain on Monday and wiped out Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team en route to the Copa Sudamericana final, shocking soccer-lovers and professional players and clubs around the world. Just a few…

LA UNION, Colombia/CHAPECO, Brazil The plane that crashed in Colombia virtually wiping out an entire Brazilian soccer team was running out of fuel, had no electrical power, and was preparing for an emergency landing, according to the pilot’s final words. The disaster on Monday night killed 71 people and sent shock waves round the global soccer world. Only six on board the LAMIA Bolivia charter flight survived, including three of…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay The pilot of the plane carrying a doomed Brazilian soccer team reportedly told a Colombian air traffic controller he had run out of fuel moments before the jet crashed into the Andes Mountains, killing all but six of the 77 people aboard. Those frantic last words from the jet chartered by the Chapecoense team were captured on a recording of the flight’s…

NASCAR has arrived out west for Champion’s Week in Las Vegas, Nevada to being a week-long celebration of the 2016 Sprint Cup Series season. After Jimmie Johnson earned his record-tying seventh championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway, members of the NASCAR community and fans alike are gathered for a week of events honoring the champion, Chase drivers, Rookie of the Year Chase Elliott and more. The festivities will be capped off by…

The Crewe Alexandra Sports Academy entrance. Photo credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Andy Woodward, a former defender for fourth-tier English soccer team Crewe Alexandra, told The Guardian two weeks ago about the repeated sexual abuse he had suffered at the hands of convicted pedophile Barry Bennell, who was a Crewe youth coach in the 1980s and 1990s. Since then Bennell has been charged with eight additional counts, a number of additional alleged victims…

LA UNION, Colombia/CHAPECO, Brazil Doctors treated survivors of an air crash in Colombia that killed 71 people and wiped out Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team en route to a cup final in Colombia as an investigation got underway on Wednesday. Only six people – three players, a journalist and two crew members – survived the crash on Monday night when Chapecoense’s charter plane, a BAe 146 made by BAE Systems Plc,…

Former English soccer coach and recruiter Barry Bennell appears in a Duval County courtroom in Jacksonville, Fla., in June 1995. (Will Dickey/Florida Times Union via Associated Press) Two weeks ago, retired British professional soccer player Andy Woodward stepped out from the shadows, telling the Guardian newspaper in an extensive interview that he was raped hundreds of times as a child by serial pedophile Barry Bennell, a former elite youth soccer…

The marketing-driven rule change I’m about to suggest did not stem from the Blackhawks shootout win over the Panthers on Tuesday night, but it seems timely: Allow skaters to take off their helmets and shields during shootouts. Boom. Personality comes to a sport that needs to sell exactly that. You only have to go back to last year’s All-Star Game to see how stumbling, bumbling NHL wonks tried to squash…

RIO DE JANEIRO — It was the culmination of an astonishing climb to the top of South America’s soccer world — a modest club from Brazil heading to the finals of a continent-wide tournament. Then came a distress call from the cockpit of the plane carrying the team to Colombia. Moments later, late Monday, radar contact was lost with the charter jet carrying 77 people, including players and coaches from…

The trip to Medellin, Colombia, was supposed to be a joyous one for the members Chapecoense, a soccer club from the small city of Chapeco, Brazil, and they were in the middle of a fairy tale season. Now their journey will go down in history as a tragedy. Investigators will likely comb through the evidence for the next several months, hoping to discover why a charter flight crashed Monday night…

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RIO DE JANEIRO — It was the culmination of an astonishing climb to the top of South America’s soccer world — a modest club from Brazil heading to the finals of a continent-wide tournament. Then came a distress call from the cockpit of the plane carrying the team to Colombia. Moments later, late Monday, radar contact was lost with the charter jet carrying 77 people, including players and coaches from…

The trip to Medellin, Colombia, was supposed to be a joyous one for the members Chapecoense, a soccer club from the small city of Chapeco, Brazil, and they were in the middle of a fairy tale season. Now their journey will go down in history as a tragedy. Investigators will likely comb through the evidence for the next several months, hoping to discover why a charter flight crashed Monday night…

The English Football Association is launching an internal review into allegations of child abuse in their professional soccer clubs. This comes after several former players — Andy Woodward, David White, Steve Walters, and Paul Stewart — waived their anonymity rights and told the British media stories of their abuse at the hands of men who had been entrusted with their athletic development and safety. Woodward was first to speak on…

RELATED: Buescher joins second JTG team   Roush Fenway Racing announced Tuesday a restructuring plan that will pare its racing operations to a two-car effort in NASCAR’s premier series next year.   Trevor Bayne will return for a third season driving the team’s No. 6 Ford, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will be back for a fifth year in RFR’s No. 17 Ford.   The organization announced last week that it…