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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Bowling Green State University uses less money from student fees and other non-athletic school sources to pay for sports than nearly every other Mid-American Conference school in Ohio. Yet it still added up to $14.7 million in 2013-14, according to the school’s latest financial filings with the NCAA. That averages out to $934 a year per student on campus. In comparison, Akron subsidized sports with $22.7…

Tony Stewart hasn’t had much to be happy about lately. Slogging through the worst slump of his career, he’s 26th in the standings, winless over the past 25 months and unlikely to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup for a third straight season. This week, however, Stewart has ample reason to smile. For the third straight year, his beloved Eldora Speedway plays host to the Camping World Truck…

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NASCAR has issued written warnings to five teams on the heels of last weekend’s 5-Hour Energy 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The teams of drivers Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin, Paul Menard, Ryan Blaney and Eddie MacDonald were all given warnings for multiple irregularities discovered by NASCAR while they attempted to get through pre-race or pre-qualifying inspection. Post-race inspection was completed with no issues. According…

Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. Have a link you want to submit? Email us at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com. @blakeshelton @kam_086 what’s wrong with a big Sasquatch running on a treadmill! #trainingtime @JackLinks pic.twitter.com/kB0k95w7Vn — Brent Burns (@Burnzie88) July 22, 2015 • How is this man NOT the face of hockey?!…

Special Olympics competitors arriving in Southern California were greeted by a logistics mess that forced many to sleep on a gymnasium floor before they were finally shuttled to their host cities on Wednesday. At least 1,500 athletes and coaches spent the night at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles after flights and buses arrived late on Tuesday, Special Olympics spokesman Rich Perelman said. By midday Wednesday, the athletes from Norway,…

Bill Simmons is taking his talents to HBO. The former ESPN writer and commentator has signed a multi-year deal with HBO to host a new weekly television series for the network that will air on the main HBO service, as well as the HBO digital platforms HBO GO® and HBO NOW. HBO said the show, which will debut in 2016, will feature stories and guests from across the sports and cultural…

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Allan Cole, 54, an athlete from Johnson City, Tenn., carries the Special Olympics World Games Torch. To bring the nation together for awareness and understanding of the Special Olympics’ mission, over 10,000 people carried the Flame of Hope coast to coast across the United States. The Flame of Hope has now been delivered to Los Angeles.(Photo: Jay Janner, AP) LOS ANGELES —  When the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the…

PETAH TIKVA, Israel (AP) On the mound, Dean Kremer looks just like any other top-rated baseball prospect, whipping 90 mph fastballs and snapping nasty curves. When the 19-year-old pitcher greets his teammates in the dugout after striking out the side, however, he sounds different. Kremer is speaking Hebrew, not English. The 6-foot-2 Kremer is the golden boy of Israeli baseball, the first citizen to be selected in the major league…

The amount of domestic violence arrests involving MMA fighters is more than double the average national rate, according to a study conducted by HBO Real Sports. Public records research done by the show found that, per 100,000 U.S. men, there was a domestic violence arrest rate of 360. In that same sample, HBO Real Sports found 750 MMA fighters and 210 NFL players. There was no comparison listed between…

Scripted programming continues to take a backseat this summer, with reality series and a trio of sports specials dominating the top of the Nielsen program rankings in key demos. Tuesday’s coverage of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game on Fox (3.1 rating/11 share) and the previous night’s “Home Run Derby” (2.5/11) were the week’s top two primetime telecasts in 18-49. While the former was within 4% of last year’s average audience,…

i Kelly Hirano, vice president of engineering, demonstrates the Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy contest during a product launch in July in San Francisco. Yahoo has designed this experience for the mobile fantasy player and offers Daily Fantasy, Full Season Fantasy, and real-time sports news and scores as an all-in-one experience. Eric Risberg/AP hide caption itoggle caption Eric Risberg/AP Kelly Hirano, vice president of engineering, demonstrates the Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy…

Sky Sports has secured rights to show “near-live” highlights of the Premier League online for three years starting in 2016. The deal also means News UK titles the Sun and Times will be able to continue offering highlights as part of their digital packages through an arrangement with Sky. News UK has held the rights for online highlights since 2013, through a separate deal thought to be worth £20m. Sky…

YouTube/FIFA Portugal defeated Tahiti 5-3 in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup final to claim their second championship. But things might have been different if the match had not been played on Sunday. Tahiti played the match without their captain, Naea Bennett, who sat out the game because he is Mormon and does not work on Sundays, according to Tahiti Nui Television. Bennett was the team’s second-leading scorer, having hit…

Allan Cole, 54, an athlete from Johnson City, Tenn., carries the Special Olympics World Games Torch. To bring the nation together for awareness and understanding of the Special Olympics’ mission, over 10,000 people carried the Flame of Hope coast to coast across the United States. The Flame of Hope has now been delivered to Los Angeles.(Photo: Jay Janner, AP) LOS ANGELES —  When the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the…

U.S. ends prosecution of Bonds After a nearly decade-long prosecution, the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday formally dropped what was left of its criminal case against Major League Baseball career home run leader Barry Bonds over allegations he received performance-enhancing drugs. The prosecution of Bonds for obstruction of justice ended quietly with the Justice Department’s one-paragraph court filing announcing that its solicitor general would not ask the U.S. Supreme…

U.S. professional baseball’s Baltimore Orioles organization has signed Chinese infielder Xu Guiyuan, 19, to a professional contract, the first such signing since Major League Baseball opened developmental centers on the Chinese mainland in 2009. The international free agent deal for Xu — known in major league baseball circles as “Itchy” — covers 2016 and places him in the Orioles’ minor league developmental organization. Orioles Executive…

Ravenwood’s Bryce Denton signed with the Cardinals.(Photo: John A. Gillis / File / Gannett Tennessee) Vanderbilt baseball recruiting took its biggest hit in the Major League Baseball draft to date, and yet its signing class still will be among the nation’s best. Five Commodores signees inked professional contracts – the most in Vanderbilt history – before Friday’s deadline. But coach Tim Corbin said, “the ones we kept were some guys…

HBO’s “Real Sports” tonight takes a look at domestic violence in MMA, and fighter War Machine and former girlfriend Christy Mack’s sad tale is featured prominently. The show airs tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT on HBO, and replays are available throughout the week. “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” an influential monthly newsmagazine show that’s won numerous Sports Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award, has released a preview of the segment,…