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Graphic credit Sam Woolley NASCAR CEO and majority owner Brian France endorsed presidential candidate and half-empty bag of rancid tapioca Donald Trump the other week. But what might seem like good synergy for both France and Trump is an incredibly bad omen for the future of NASCAR. http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/nascar-ceo-end… NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO…

Graphic credit Sam Woolley NASCAR CEO and majority owner Brian France endorsed presidential candidate and half-empty bag of rancid tapioca Donald Trump the other week. But what might seem like good synergy for both France and Trump is an incredibly bad omen for the future of NASCAR. http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/nascar-ceo-end… NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO…

Three teams — all participants in last year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup — received written warnings from NASCAR Wednesday afternoon after issues getting through inspection last weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing team of Carl Edwards and the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing team of Martin Truex Jr. were each handed a written warning for failing template inspection twice in pre-qualifying inspection…

Stewart-Haas Racing announced Wednesday afternoon that Tony Stewart‘s doctors are satisfied with the healing of an L1 vertebra burst fracture the No. 14 SHR driver and co-owner sustained in a Jan. 31 all-terrain vehicle accident.   Stewart’s doctors now are implementing a rehabilitation regimen to hasten the driver’s recovery, SHR said.   No timetable for Stewart’s return has been set, as further evaluations of his progress are needed.   The three-time Sprint Cup…

Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesA fan watches TV in his tent during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on July 3, 2015 in Daytona Beach, Florida The cost of broadcasting live sports has exploded. As the looming threats of declining ratings and subscriber losses weigh on traditional TV networks, live sports have been a central component of strategies aimed at gaining and retaining existing…

FORT MYERS, Fla. — This June 16 will mark two years since Paul Molitor lost his close friend and fellow hall of famer Tony Gwynn at age 54 to parotid (mouth) cancer. Before he died, Gwynn blamed his failing health on years of chewing tobacco on a baseball field, a pastime Molitor still includes as part of his daily work routine. “Tony’s case being an extreme consequence of usage and what…

By Ed Friedrich of the Kitsap Sun BREMERTON — Bob Feller’s Hall of Fame pitching stats have a hole in them. The Hall of Famer’s career was interrupted by four years in the Navy during…

TOKYO—Three top executives at Japan’s oldest and most prestigious baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants, will step down after a fourth player admitted this week to betting on baseball games. The latest revelation, just weeks before the start of a new season, is attracting widespread attention and some hand-wringing in Japan. Chief Cabinet…

Say you’re flipping a fair coin, and it comes up heads three times in a row. That’s kind of remarkable. Now, what are the odds the coin comes up heads a fourth time? The correct answer is that the odds are unchanged. There’s always a 50/50 chance the next toss will result in heads. The coin has no memory. It doesn’t know what happened in the past. But humans have…

By Adam Greene, sports@knoxnews.com PIGEON FORGE — For the public, the ribbon cutting and remarks were over quickly Wednesday, but for the children that took the fields at the Ripken Experience Pigeon Forge Youth Baseball Complex, the memories of getting coached up by Hall of Fame shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. might last a…

SANTA CLARA — Intel deepened its drive to digitize sports Wednesday by acquiring Replay Technologies, an Israeli company that makes a novel 3-D viewing technology called “freeD.” The deal not only gives Intel a way to digitize athletic matches, but also a new buzz word: “immersive sports,” meaning technology that puts viewers on the playing field virtually. Replay’s freeD technology was developed by three Israelis — an aviation engineer, a…

Graphic credit Sam Woolley NASCAR CEO and majority owner Brian France endorsed presidential candidate and half-empty bag of rancid tapioca Donald Trump the other week. But what might seem like good synergy for both France and Trump is an incredibly bad omen for the future of NASCAR. http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/nascar-ceo-end… NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO…

Stewart-Haas Racing announced Wednesday afternoon that Tony Stewart‘s doctors are satisfied with the healing of an L1 vertebra burst fracture the No. 14 SHR driver and co-owner sustained in a Jan. 31 all-terrain vehicle accident.   Stewart’s doctors now are implementing a rehabilitation regimen to hasten the driver’s recovery, SHR said.   No timetable for Stewart’s return has been set, as further evaluations of his progress are needed.   The three-time Sprint Cup…

Google Images NASCAR is still struggling to get back on its feet. America’s most popular racing sport has been in steady decline since its peak in the mid-2000s. Viewership across major networks has fallen by about a third, according to data cited by JP Morgan. Attendance at races has also declined too, indicating that the decline in TV audience has not been offset by an increase in live audiences. And analysts at JP Morgan, led…

HOWELL — Parents and referees involved in a post-high school ice hockey match brawl will get the chance to work out their dispute through mediation. Howell Municipal Court Judge Susan Schroeder-Clark ordered the referees and parents to mediation in an attempt to avoid prosecution or a trial. In sending the matter to mediation, Schroeder-Clark allowed the charges and counter charges to proceed. “I can tell you that this matter involving this high…

Sporting-goods retailers and equipment makers are feeling a ripple effect from Sports Authority’s bankruptcy. Continue Reading Below Performance Sports Group (PSG), the owner of recognizable brands such as Easton and Bauer, lost more than half its value on Tuesday after slashing its outlook. The maker of baseball bats and hockey skates cited a loss of sales to Sports Authority, in addition to a weak baseball and softball market. Meanwhile,…

Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesA fan watches TV in his tent during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on July 3, 2015 in Daytona Beach, Florida The cost of broadcasting live sports has exploded. As the looming threats of declining ratings and subscriber losses weigh on traditional TV networks, live sports have been a central component of strategies aimed at gaining and retaining existing…

Just three races into the season, several of NASCAR’s top drivers already need radical reversals of fortune. In fact, for some, if they didn’t have bad luck they wouldn’t have any luck at all this season. This weekend, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rolls into the 1-mile Phoenix International Raceway for the Good Sam 500. Here are five drivers who need some luck this weekend: KYLE LARSON — It’s been…

Authorities searched the offices of France’s soccer federation and seized documents to help a Swiss investigation into former FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Switzerland’s prosecutor said on Wednesday. The operation, carried out a day earlier, was linked to a 2 million Swiss franc ($2 million) payment to France’s Michel Platini at the heart of proceedings against Blatter, Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said. Swiss prosecutors said in September they…

To make it all work, Murphy goes to the bank and takes out a loan each year and uses it to cover the expenses it takes to allow her son to play the game he loves. “Financially, you plan everything around hockey,” Murphy said. “Outside of that, we don’t do a whole lot.” Murphy is one of hundreds of parents in Grand Forks and the surrounding area who face the…