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Former employees who are yet to receive wages include freelance contractors who worked as stadium announcers, DJs, journalist who worked for the Olympic News Service who worked at the Olympics and Paralympics. “I’m working with a legal firm that is already representing someone involved with Rio 2016, so they have a pretty good handle what is going on,” Rocky Bester, a South African freelance show producer, told The Associated Press…

On the field, the US women’s soccer team has followed up a thrilling NWSL final with a couple of smashing debuts in friendlies against Switzerland. Off the field, the sport is bogged down in the courts and at the negotiating table. The talent pipeline is still intact, a fact US coach Jill Ellis celebrated by calling in a staggering 11 uncapped players for camp. Lynn Williams, fresh from winning the…

What would the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Round of 12 look like had it been acted out by drivers on foot? Well, the folks at NASCAR thought it would be interesting to recreate the Chase with actors dressed as drivers, running through the woods. To that end, they enlisted director Jonathan Taylor, who’s worked on chase and action scenes in franchise films like The Fast and the Furious,…

In what seems a natural fit for both GearWrench and Chip Ganassi Racing, the NASCAR team announced Tuesday that the innovative tool brand will serve as primary sponsor on the No. 1 Chevrolet driven by Jamie McMurray for multiple races in the 2017 season.   GearWrench executives joined Ganassi team officials and McMurray on Tuesday at the prestigious Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas to announce the…

Troy — Troy Athens goalie Mason Maziasz guessed right and saved a shot off the foot of Macomb Dakota’s Brendan Moore to give Athens a 3-2 (5-4) win Tuesday for a Division 1 regional championship. “I can’t even describe the feeling right now,” Maziasz said. “I had to keep my mind focused and help my team get through this.” Last Friday night, Athens (18-4-2) and Dakota (13-4-3) met and played…

SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER A British gymnast and Olympic champion has been banned from the sport for two months after appearing to ‘mock’ Islam in a leaked private video. British Gymnastics said in a statement that Louis Smith and his former teammate Luke Carson were found to have breached the sport’s standards of conduct in a formal disciplinary proceeding. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER Mr. Smith and Mr. Carson…

Former NASCAR team owner Robert Yates is beginning to receive treatment for liver cancer, according to his son, Doug, who tweeted about it on Monday. In 21 years as a NASCAR Premier Series team owner, Robert Yates won 57 races and had 49 poles. In 1999, NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Dale Jarrett won the championship driving the No. 88 Robert Yates Racing Ford Thunderbird. Early on, Yates built his…

I thought Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway was a pretty darn good race. There’s really nothing I can point to and say I didn’t like. Mother Nature graced us with unbelievable weather. The grandstands were full and we also saw some very hard racing. And on top of that, we saw two of the masters of Martinsville, Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin, beating and banging on each other. I think…

When it comes to NHL player bios, none of this season’s rookies can compete with Devils first-year defenseman Yohann Auvitu. Auvitu has gotten off to a hot start on American ice, with two assists and a +3 plus/minus rating through eight games. But he isn’t the usual 19-year-old college grad from Saskatchewan or 20-year-old free agent from Vladivostok. At 27, he is the NHL’s third-oldest rookie, and one of only…

UK Sport has conducted independent reviews in other sports recently and its chief operating officer Simon Morton said: “What UK Sport will be doing is looking in the next year at whether we have the right structures in place in terms of an investigatory function. “We understand that there is an increasing need for British sport to have an investigatory function around independent reviews.” Citing Fifa’s ethics committee as one…

Is it a river monster, a rope or something else entirely? View the video evidence of an unexplained object or critter going for a swim.

Almost two dozen people at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia were hurt after a driver ran right into the crowd after a NASCAR race Sunday. Police said they took the unnamed driver into custody for questioning, Fox 8 reported. The crash unfolded about 30 minutes after the race when the driver jumped a traffic line, according to MotorSport.com. Many of the injured reportedly were fans waiting for racers to leave the…

By now, you probably have heard of Leslie Jones. She is one of the more well-known and hilarious cast members on Saturday Night Live. She grew up playing basketball, but it seems like she hadn’t been exposed much to soccer … until this weekend. Jones live tweeted about soccer all Sunday, especially the MLS Playoffs, and it was so funny it will make your stomach hurt. This all got started…

Fabian Johnson, left, and Eintracht Frankfurt’s David Angel Abraham vie for ball during Moenchngladbach’s 0-0 draw in the Bundesliga. (Maja Hitij/EPA) Of note: Several players competing in lesser leagues or with reserve squads are not listed. Americans with dual nationalities representing other national teams have also been omitted. ENGLAND Premier League Stoke City defender-midfielder Geoff Cameron: vs. Swansea City on Monday (4 p.m., NBCSN) Middlesbrough goalkeeper Brad Guzan: in the…

A slot in NASCAR’s record books is absolutely in reach for Jimmie Johnson.  Johnson earned one of four coveted spots in next month’s title-deciding season finale on Sunday when he scored his ninth career victory at Martinsville Speedway. The six-time NASCAR champion will race for his seventh championship, which would tie him for the all-time record with Hall of Famers Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Jr.  The victory blocked Joe Gibbs…

Mike Nugent won the opener on a field goal in the last minute, but his missed PAT loomed large in Sunday’s 27-27 game with Washington at Wembley Stadium. The bloke choked. I wish I could take credit for that English-accented line, but @BruceCahill tweeted it after Dustin Hopkins’ 34-yard overtime shank allowed the Bengals to fly home from London with a 27-all tie against the Washington Redskins. “It’s a weird…

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A slot in NASCAR’s record books is absolutely in reach for Jimmie Johnson.  Johnson earned one of four coveted spots in next month’s title-deciding season finale on Sunday when he scored his ninth career victory at Martinsville Speedway. The six-time NASCAR champion will race for his seventh championship, which would tie him for the all-time record with Hall of Famers Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Jr.  The victory blocked Joe Gibbs…

Carl Edwards slammed hard into the outside wall in Turn 1 at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday after the right front tire on his No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota apparently went down, and he was forced to the garage. Following a lengthy caution, Edwards returned to the race but finished the day in 36th, 23 laps down. The JGR driver is now eighth in points and 32 points behind teammate…

Leslie Jones is a big sports fan and has no problem going all-in on things. We saw that at the Olympics, when she became America’s No. 1 fan and even got flown to Rio de Janeiro to check it all out. Well, the Saturday Night Live star is now all-in on soccer. And it all started with finding out that the players are attractive. (Warning: the videos in the tweets have…