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NASCAR announced Tuesday that senior vice president of competition Robin Pemberton will leave the organization at the end of 2015. Although a replacement was not named, multiple sources say that former Michael Waltrip Racing executive vice president of competition Scott Miller will take over Pemberton’s old position. A NASCAR spokesperson told FOXSports.com that an announcement on Pemberton’s replacement wouldn’t come Tuesday, but “as soon as possible.” With a racing career…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Dec. 1, 2015) — The sport fittingly crowned a first-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, Kyle Busch, in what was a transformational season that saw the championship format produce a series of records, milestones and firsts on and off the track. The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship Race on NBC and NBCSN was the most-watched finale since 2005 – peaking with nearly 12.4 million average viewers. This concluded a successful…

HINGHAM, MASS. — Charlie Davies’ dad was gone. It happened again. He went off drinking, using maybe, with those friends from around town in Manchester, New Hampshire, those friends who weren’t really his friends. It had been days since his dad disappeared, but Charlie wasn’t sure how many. Two days. Maybe three. His mom looked at Charlie and his brother, Justin, two years younger, and shook her head. “I can’t…

In the earliest days of NASCAR, the No. 7 was a lucky number. Bob Flock, a member of one of the sport’s pioneering families, won the third race of the inaugural NASCAR Strictly Stock season behind the wheel of the No. 7 Oldsmobile at Occoneechee (N.C.) Speedway in 1949. Flock also won the year’s final race at North Wilkesboro Speedway, making him one of only two drivers to win twice…

Quicken Loans announced Tuesday that it will join Kasey Kahne and the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 Chevrolet team next season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Quicken plans to be a primary sponsor for three races and an associate sponsor for the remaining events on the 2016 calendar. One of the primary races will be part of a joint promotion with Hendrick Automotive Group, according to a news release provided by the Detroit-based…

Is it Brocktoberfest? Not quite, but Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler is getting notice. Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler is featured on the regional cover of the Dec. 2, 2015 issue of Sports Illustrated. (Provided by Sports Illustrated) A week after he was named the AFC offensive player of the week, the 25-year-old will be gracing the regional cover of this week’s cover of Sports Illustrated, which will be released Wednesday. Cleveland…

Peter Nelson completed a meteoric rise through the HBO Sports department on Tuesday when he was named executive vice president, landing its top spot. View photo . Peter Nelson (Getty) He will not have the title of president, but replaces Ken Hershman, who resigned in October, in leading HBO Sports. Nelson, who joined HBO Sports in August 2011 as director of programming, will oversee the network’s boxing franchise as one…

Some of Poland’s finest athletes posed nude to show off their chiselled and toned physiques for saucy calendar In one dark haired 400m sprinter Edyta Litwiniuk is pictured naked running at full speed barefoot next to a lake Another shows rower Anna Wierzbowska glancing coyly over her shoulder sitting on the floor surrounded by oars  Biathlonist-turned-photographer Dominika Cuda launched photo project to raise money for country’s rising stars  By Ed Wight…

The Miami coaching search has heated up in the past week. Sources tell FOX Sports that former Miami head coach Butch Davis and ex-Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano, a former ‘Canes DC, interviewed in the past few days. The Sun-Sentinel reports that Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen also has interviewed for the job and that ex-Georgia head coach Mark Richt, a Miami QB in the early ’80s, also is…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Dec. 1, 2015) — NASCAR announced today that Senior Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton will leave the organization at the end of 2015.   With a racing career that has spanned five decades, Pemberton joined the sanctioning body in August of 2004. Since that time, he has overseen all areas of NASCAR competition and been credited as a key component in bridging the gap between the sanctioning…

Motorola today announced that its Moto 360 Sport smartwatch will be available for purchase starting on January 7th in the US. It will be available in the UK and France a couple of weeks earlier, starting on December 18th. The $299 Moto 360 Sport is based on the Moto 360 that was released earlier this year and adds built-in GPS, sweatproof construction, and more fitness tracking features. The 360 Sport…

Let’s begin with a quiz question: name the British athletes who retained their world title this year with a comfortable victory – their 28th in a row – to remain the reigning Olympic, European and world champions in their sport? Here’s a clue: you won’t read their names on the Sports Personality of the Year award shortlist. In May this year, Helen Glover and Heather Stanning became the world, Olympic…

In late spring, a group of college sports and Olympic sports officials met at Duke University. Topic A: What is the future of our sports now that we’re paying extra for our student-athletes? The conclusion: we must hang together or be left hanging separately. The immediate issue: paying “full cost of attendance,” – which adds travel and other expenses to the value of a scholarship – on top of the…

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How difficult is it to work on a piece where the subject is a dying child? How do you tell the story of that child’s life with honor and poignancy? How can you be respectful of grieving parents while reporting an accurate piece? Those were some of the questions facing Kristen Lappas, an associate producer in the features unit for ESPN, as she reported and edited a piece for College…

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