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NASCAR fans have nothing to worry about. That was the message NASCAR CEO Brian France delivered during a Wednesday appearance on SiriusXM satellite radio. His optimism comes during a time when there is diminishing interest in the sport, the lowest television ratings since 2000 and the imminent retirement of the sport’s most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr. But France says NASCAR is just stuck in an annual cycle….

If you want all your favorite athletes to “stick to sports” and stay out of politics, you’re going to wind up disappointed, the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay says. On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Gay argued that, as a huge part of American culture, sports have always been political. He said the NFL players like Colin Kaepernick who have knelt during the national anthem to…

At the start of the 2014 National Football League season, the Baltimore Ravens unveiled a statue of their star linebacker Ray Lewis outside the team’s stadium. During his 17-year career, Lewis had been named All-Pro seven times, made the Pro Bowl a dozen times, and led the Ravens to two Super Bowl titles. For maximum dramatic effect, the last one took place on 4 February 2013, in Lewis’s final game….

Watching a sports match can stress your heart just as much as playing in the game itself, suggests a small new study in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. Researchers found that people’s pulses increased by 75% when they watched a hockey game on television and by 110% when watching one in person—equivalent to the cardiac stress of vigorous exercise. Previous studies have linked watching sporting events to an increased risk…

Cardiff was the host city for the 2017 Champions League Final as Real Madrid were crowned champions The Football Association could bid to host the Champions League final in 2023, according to confidential UK Sport documents obtained by the BBC. The game is one of a number of “hosting targets” and a “strategic priority”. The staging of parts of the Tour de France in 2021 and athletics’ World Championships “in…

By Kelly McElroy Staff Writer A collection of some of the top current and former homegrown college baseball players to come through the area in recent years are uniting to hold a youth baseball camp in December. The second annual Brock Hebert Baseball Camp will take place Dec. 20-22 at the South Terrebonne High School in Bourg and is open to players in first through eighth…

Fox Sports’ cable network FS1 has been dealt a rough hand over the past 24 hours. Colin Cowherd is continuing to receive harsh criticism after calling Philadelphia the “dumbest sports city in America.” Katie Nolan, a rising star at the network, is heading to ESPN. And Fox Sports was forced to pull back from an odd advertising campaign…

What tech gadgetry and apps do you always have with you when you’re on assignment? I always have my iPhone, my battered Olympus digital recorder, a small spiral notebook and a pocketful of pens taken from cheap hotels. (I figure the hotels owe me for all the free advertising I have given them over the years.) I’m learning I can have nothing but an iPhone and I’m fine. I don’t…

Those watching the spectacle live experienced an average heart increase of 110 per cent, while there was a 75 per cent increase for those watching remotely. The study, published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology, advised doctors to warn sports-supporting patients at risk of cardiovascular ill-health to be aware of possible symptoms during games. “Our analysis of elements of the hockey game associated with peak heart rates supports the notion…

Pity the mid-priced sports car, carrying neither bragging rights with a stratosphere sticker, nor winning you points with the millionaire next door who boils an egg, eats half and puts the other half in a plastic bag in the fridge. That said, there are a plethora of stylish, speedy machines under the $50,000 price tag. We recently tested and fell for BMW’s 230i Xdrive, for example, a steal beginning at…

Leading the charge is Laura Gentile, a powerhouse at the forefront of the world of women in sports. She’s the founder and senior vice president of espnW and Women’s Initiatives, a council member on the U.S. State Department’s Council to Empower Women and Girls Through Sports, and an avid New York Giants fan. An athlete herself, Gentile played field hockey for Duke University, an experience that she now uses as…

Now we get to the good part. Last week’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover, Del., eliminated four playoff drivers – Kasey Kahne, Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman, and Austin Dillon . That leaves 12. Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson … they’re all still alive. And now they’re going to go straight at each other. The thing is, while the playoffs have been going on for three races, the…

After a five-year absence, the Yankees are back in the Division Series following Tuesday’s thrilling come-from-behind 8-4 win over the Minnesota Twins. These Baby Bombers, led by Aaron Judge, Didi Gregorius and Gary Sanchez, played like seasoned vets as they fought out from under a first-inning three-run deficit in the one-and-done wild-card playoff. MVP candidate Judge contributed with a dinger — naturally enough, since he just set the MLB rookie…

CLEVELAND — A decade after midges attacked him on the mound at what was then Jacobs Field, Joba Chamberlain has deleted any attempt at trying to get back to the big leagues from his mind. In a conversation Wednesday with The Post about his midges memories, Chamberlain was asked if he had one more try to get back to the big leagues in him. “No, it’s time to be a…

The next one comes Wednesday night in Phoenix, with the Arizona Diamondbacks playing host to the Colorado Rockies. Maybe the starters, Arizona’s Zack Greinke and Colorado’s Jon Gray, can stick around longer than Severino and the Twins’ Ervin Santana, who made a dubious sort of history: Never before had the starters in a winner-take-all game both been gone by the third inning. That is knockout baseball, though, the kind of…

PHOENIX – The MLB Wild Card round will feature the Colorado Rockies facing the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on Wednesday night in Phoenix. Here’s what you need to know for the game: Time: 8:08 p.m. ET  Location: Chase Field — Phoenix, Arizona Starting Pitchers:  Jon Gray (10-4) vs. Zack Greinke (17-7)TV Channel: TBS  Online Stream: Watch TBS Live You can follow live Rockies-Diamondbacks score updates below: A well-rested Carlos…

In the 1990’s and early 2000’s, Ato Boldon was one of the world’s fastest men. He won Olympic medals in both the 100- and 200-meter sprints, collecting three bronzes and a silver over his illustrious career. He competed against track legends Maurice Green and Frankie Fredericks, and he came out ahead sometimes. He is, by all measures, one of the sport’s most accomplished sprinters. So what is he doing in…

1:57 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Denny Hamlin knows NASCAR teams are struggling to find dollars, but when the suggestion that drivers should take pay cuts comes up, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver will lobby that those who risk their lives don’t get paid enough. Hamlin looks at the eight-figure and nine-figure deals that stars in other sports make and feels there’s…

Beaver Stadium on the campus of Penn State University. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Happy Valley Jam) In 2009, I had an opinion column with Matt Denhart in the Wall Street Journal in which we bemoaned the massive financial exploitation of super good college athletes, such as star football quarterbacks or high scoring basketball players. In 2011 Taylor Branch wrote his magnificent and widely discussed “The Shame of College…

Leading the charge is Laura Gentile, a powerhouse at the forefront of the world of women in sports. She’s the founder and senior vice president of espnW and Women’s Initiatives, a council member on the U.S. State Department’s Council to Empower Women and Girls Through Sports, and an avid New York Giants fan. An athlete herself, Gentile played field hockey for Duke University, an experience that she now uses as…