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Have you ever been on a bus full of hockey players? It’s always loud. I have been riding on buses to hockey games for 20 years now, and there’s only one time in my life I can remember it being completely silent. It was 2006, during the Olympic Gold Medal Game. Sweden vs. Finland. Do you understand this rivalry in North America? Maybe you think all the Nordic countries are…

NASCAR announced major changes to its ownership structure on Tuesday, with the stock car racing organization set to adopt a charter system that should alter the sport’s relationship with the corporate sponsors on which it heavily relies. NASCAR said it has agreed with the team owners from its Sprint Cup Series to move the sport away from its longstanding independent contractor model in favor of a new system that divvies…

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Do you know what these names have in common? Robert Yates, Teresa Earnhardt, Ray Evernham, Robby Gordon, Bill Saunders, Doug Bawel, Nelson Bowers, Kirk Shelmerdine, Beth Ann Morganthau, Bill Davis, James Finch, Jeff Stec, Cal Wells and Mike Anderson? These 14 individuals share two things in common. The first is that each of them was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team owner who fielded a car that competed in the…

Liverpool fans made their point to owners Fenway Sports Group – who replied with a 937-word open letter Liverpool’s owners have scrapped their controversial £77 ticket and apologised for the “distress caused” by last week’s pricing announcement. Thousands of fans left 77 minutes into Saturday’s draw with Sunderland at Anfield in protest at the planned top-price £77 ticket in the new main stand. Club owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG) said:…

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Caption Close UC Berkeley has been overspending by millions of dollars a year since 2013, a precarious course that prompted Chancellor Nick Dirks to announce Wednesday the possibility of layoffs and cuts to intercollegiate athletics to balance the budget. The campus will also receive a financial infusion from University of California headquarters and will spend the next several months working with UC officials, faculty and the campus’ fundraising foundation to…

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Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

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President Barack Obama is trying (again) to take federal taxpayers off the hook for financing new sports stadiums. In the 2017 budget proposal the White House released Tuesday, Obama proposed repealing a federal tax exemption on the bonds cities and states use to finance new stadiums. That exemption allows cities and states to pay for stadiums with tax-free bonds that have discounted interest rates, a practice that will cost federal taxpayers…

ESPN, the sports network that drives Disney’s profit engine, has hit a soft patch. Subscribers have fallen by about 7.2 million over the last three years, according to Nielsen, and it’s coming off a round of layoffs in the latest quarter. As more people cut the cord to watch programming online, its perch on top of the pay TV empire is looking unsteady at best. The network’s troubles are a…

Saudi Arabian Women’s Sports Bust Stereotypes Playlist MP3 – 128.0kb/s – 4.3MB wav – 1.0Mb/s – 34.6MB MP3 – 64.0kb/s – 2.2MB Women athletes in Saudi Arabia say sports are helping to break down traditions that crush the voices of many women. In the city of Jeddah, a group of basketball players is urging women and girls to…

i Cuban baseball star Yulieski Gourriel at Latin American Stadium in Havana in the spring of 2015. Eyder Peralta/NPR hide caption toggle caption Eyder Peralta/NPR Cuban baseball star Yulieski Gourriel at Latin American Stadium in Havana in the spring of 2015. Eyder Peralta/NPR In a further sign that Cuban baseball is in shambles, Cuban state media reports that two of the island’s brightest stars left their team in Santo Domingo…