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NASCAR has scheduled a 1:30 p.m. press conference Tuesday with Chairman and CEO Brian France along with “key industry executives” for what the sanctioning body is calling a “major NASCAR announcement.” FOXSports.com has confirmed that the announcement will be that NASCAR and the Sprint Cup Series team owners have reached an agreement on a Charter system that would give owners a more secure financial position in the sport. NASCAR officials recently have…

Super Bowl 50 is in the books, leaving some folks in NASCAR with smiles on their faces and others down in the dumps. We all have known for some time that defending Sprint Cup champion Kyle Busch is a huge Denver Broncos’ fan, so he’s happy. So is Regan Smith, who used to drive for Furniture Row Racing, which is based in Denver, Colorado. The Broncos’ 24-10 victory over the…

Star Cuban infielder Yulieski Gourriel and his younger brother slipped away from their hotel in the Dominican Republic early Monday in an apparent effort to launch careers in Major League Baseball. The departure of Yulieski and his brother Lourdes was confirmed with remarkable swiftness by Granma, the Communist Party newspaper in Cuba that serves as an outlet for official government statements. The paper said on its website Monday morning that…

Rutgers two-sport athlete Jawuan Harris redshirted during football season but is in the mix for outfield playing time with the baseball team.(Photo: MARK R. SULLIVAN) PISCATAWAY – If Jawuan Harris was more apprehensive than most of his Rutgers football teammates about meeting their new coach, it’s only because he had more on the line. Harris arrived at Rutgers under an agreement between former football coach Kyle Flood and baseball coach…

HOME SPORTS NFL MLB NASCAR Soccer NBA NCAA BK NHL UFC NCAA FB GOLF MOTOR RACING TENNIS WWE BOXING HORSE RACING OLYMPICS OTHER SPORTS WATCH FANTASY MORE Who — if anyone — will dethrone the Royals this season? Now that the Super Bowl is over, Americans can properly realign their sports priorities. More to the point, spring training is 10 days away….

CAMDEN — Baseball season will soon be upon us but in Camden, the former home of the minor league Riversharks remains vacant following the team’s fall 2015 departure after 15 seasons there. The organization cited issues with lease negotiations and were unable to come to an agreement with the Camden County Improvement Authority (CCIA), which has owned Campbell’s Field since spring of 2015. Camden County Freeholder Louis Cappelli said last week that…

SAN ANTONIO — UTSA athletic director Lynn Hickey has asked an architect for a preliminary “schematic” design and cost estimate for a refurbished baseball facility at Roadrunner Field. Hickey said she wants to see whether it’s feasible to build a 2,500-seat stadium around the team’s current home field. “I’m hoping it’s $10 million or less, but I’m not for sure,” Hickey said.  “We’ll just have to wait and see.” Last…

James Corden used his post-Super Bowl 50 show and guests Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron, and Adam DeVine to recreate many of the best sports movies from the last 40 years on Sunday’s Late Late Show. Called “History of Sports in 7 Minutes,” the foursome actually ran through the sketches in just over six minutes. Starting with Bad News Bears and ending with a montage of Rocky movies (but not Creed),…

View photo . (AP) With over 50 years in professional baseball, Dusty Baker has experienced every high, every low and every in-between moment imaginable within our beloved game. And he’s not done yet. Not after accepting the Washington Nationals managerial job just this past November. Baker is a baseball lifer, some might say. And that, in part, is why his story is worth telling. But it’s his remarkable journey to…

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One of the beauties of the Super Bowl is that there’s something for everyone: If you don’t like the matchup between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers—or the sport itself for that matter—there’s always the bean dip, the commercials, and the left sharks.

There is encouraging news about Beth Tweddle. The Olympic gymnast, injured in a fall while training for Channel 4 show The Jump, is able to move “both her hands and feet” after surgery to fuse two fractured vertebrae in her neck. In a statement, Beth’s parents, Ann and Jerry, said: “The early medical indications were positive as Beth was able to move her hands and feet, despite being in a lot of discomfort….

So far users are giving Facebook’s Sports Stadium a thumbs down Facebook The Carolina Panthers are down 13-7 at halftime of Super Bowl 50, but Facebook might have had a worse first half. The social giant launched Sports Stadium a couple weeks ago in an attempt to grab some of the social conversation that goes on around live sports, which has been mostly dominated by…

View photo . (AP) With over 50 years in professional baseball, Dusty Baker has experienced every high, every low and every in-between moment imaginable within our beloved game. And he’s not done yet. Not after accepting the Washington Nationals managerial job just this past November. Baker is a baseball lifer, some might say. And that, in part, is why his story is worth telling. But it’s his remarkable journey to…

With our current sports-focused Critique the Community, now seems like a great time to share some tips and best practices to help you improve your sports and action photography in 2016. Read on for 11 solid suggestions to help you become a better shooter. Here’s some quick background on me: I started in photography in 2008 when I was in college. As a former high school athlete, I was immediately…

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Shifting gear for a second, Sam Levin has been out in San Francisco: Glenn Murphy and Nicole Eloriaga-Murphy were still hoping to get tickets to the Super Bowl just two hours before the game was scheduled to start. The couple from New York City were two of the thousands of football fans packed into Super Bowl City, the tacky entertainment complex in downtown San Francisco, on Sunday afternoon. “We’re hopeful…

1st Astley International Belt race at the “Aggie”, Islington, London, March, 1878. (Image: Kingofthepeds.com) If you’re a football fan—or if your coworkers talked you into it—you might have made a small wager on today’s Super Bowl. If your technique for picking a winner was more like flipping a coin than creating a spreadsheet, you can comfort yourself that you are participating in a ritual that has existed for most of…

Despite our being just minutes into tonight’s big game, Apple TV’s CBS Sport app is enduring streaming issues preventing fans from seeing the game online. CBS has confirmed it knows about the issue, and insists it’s working on a fix: @gm_richards We are aware of stream issues for 3rd Gen Apple TV. Our team is diligently working on a fix. Thank you for your patience. —…

And so with a couple minutes to go before kick-off a pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses knock on the door here at sweet home Allambie, Sydney, these smiling 20-year-old boys, going door-to-door selling immortality. Apparently they’d been talking to “our neighbours” about some “important literature”, and, well, needless to say old mate didn’t get said literature out his satchel before I said told him no thanks champion the Super Bowl’s on….