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ESPN could look much different by the next time you turn on the network or look for an article from your favorite writer. Due to changes in the sports media industry and cord cutting among cable subscribers, reports have surfaced in recent months surrounding an eventual scale back in Bristol, Conn. The latest? Those cut backs could happen today, with even more jobs lost than originally thought. Both John Ourand of…

BEIJING China’s Dalian Wanda Group, controlled by the country’s richest man Wang Jianlin, has signed a deal to sponsor races with the world’s top organizer, Abbott World Marathon Majors (WMM), the latest move by Wanda to expand its global sports business. Wanda’s sports division and WMM on Wednesday signed a deal that will see Wanda hold three WMM races in the Asia-Pacific region in the next ten years, including a…

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For the first time, NASCAR is hosting in Charlotte its annual party celebrating the completion of the first half of the season. Also for the first time, the party will be open to fans. And as part of the event, Maren Morris, of country music’s biggest stars, will headline a performance at the Fillmore. The NASCAR Silver Bullet Bash on May 18 will kick off the All-Star weekend at Charlotte…

Apr 20, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment PHILADELPHIA — Art Nelson knows that up the New Jersey Turnpike on Park Avenue, Major League Baseball’s deepest thinkers are hard at work trying to solve maybe the hottest topic on commissioner Rob Manfred’s to-do list: pace of game. But here in Ashburn Alley, with a cheesesteak in his hand and a Mets-Phillies game about to unfold before his…

Seth Wickersham’s daughter, Maddie, waits on deck in her first baseball game. As if I needed more anxiety, my daughter lost a tooth as she walked to the batter’s box. It was a crisp, orange Connecticut afternoon, the first baseball game of the year — and the first one of Maddie’s life as a participant. The Angels, her little league team, were playing the A’s, and she was on her…

As top sports officials and the American public soften their decades-long opposition to legal sports betting, the American Gaming Association, one of the leading advocates for a regulated marketplace for wagers, says that an end to the federal ban on the popular pastime is near. Continue Reading Below Both the NHL and the NFL voted to place permanent franchises in the U.S. gambling capital this year, even as they…

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Unless you’re an avid transport campaigner, it’s likely that among the rush of government announcements made last week, you will have missed one very important one: the publication of the cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS), The government’s intention to launch a CWIS was first announced in January 2015. It took more than two years, but we now have the first legislation of its kind in England to bind the…

Two U.K. soccer teams found themselves in the middle of the sport’s latest scandal after authorities conducted sweeping raids and made arrests over suspected tax fraud. The offices of West Ham United and Newcastle United were targeted, according to the BBC and other U.K. media. One of the men arrested was Lee Charnley, Newcastle’s managing director, the BBC said. U.K. tax authorities have targeted teams, sending Glasgow’s Rangers into bankruptcy in…

As top sports officials and the American public soften their decades-long opposition to legal sports betting, the American Gaming Association, one of the leading advocates for a regulated marketplace for wagers, says that an end to the federal ban on the popular pastime is near. Continue Reading Below Both the NHL and the NFL voted to place permanent franchises in the U.S. gambling capital this year, even as they…

Regardless of the playing field, regardless of the stature of the champion, it is the last act of a career in professional sports that is most difficult to master. How does an athlete know when to quit? How does he recognize that dreaded sweet spot, just before the joy is lost and before time and age, in their inexorable way, start chipping away at a legacy? With Tuesday’s announcement that…

It’s morning on a soccer field, somewhere in America. Two teams of 10-year-olds play a typical youth match, a constantly moving mass of arms and legs. There’s passing and shooting, goals and saves. It looks like soccer, except for one thing: There’s no heading. When the ball flies up into the air, the children control it with their chests, thighs, or feet, or they let it hit the ground. They…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Digital games publisher and developer 704Games has announced the worldwide release of NASCAR Heat Mobile, the first authentic NASCAR racing game on mobile to feature 40 stock cars racing simultaneously. NASCAR Heat Mobile is available globally today on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, as well as Google Play for Android devices.   704Games tapped veteran developer Firebrand Games, creators of NASCAR Unleashed, to build this…

The scale of the challenge facing sports broadcasters in combating piracy has been made clear in figures that show more than half of young people watch illegal streams of live events. Research into the viewing habits of “millennials”, those aged between 18 and 24, has found piracy has become normalised among this generation while the take-up for traditional subscription services is far less than among older viewers. The figures, which…

Even though Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be the fourth big name to leave NASCAR in a three-year window, he thinks the sport is in good hands. “Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, just to name two of probably a dozen guys that I’m excited about,” he said. “I think that’s all I read about on Twitter yesterday was how awesome the race was and how much fun it is to watch…

RELATED: Reactions | Relive every Dale Jr. win | Top quotes from day CONCORD, N.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. announced his retirement from the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series after the 2017 season on Tuesday, saying that he wanted to leave stock-car racing competition on his own terms. But his words also struck a tone of optimism, that his involvement with the sport would remain strong. The emotional, engaging hourlong press…

The headline in USA Today on Tuesday morning summed things up painfully. “NASCAR takes serious blow with Dale Earnhardt Jr. retirement.” Fans and sports industry analysts echoed the idea, questioning how NASCAR could survive the loss of Dale Earnhardt Jr. not long after the departures of Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Carl Edwards. “Tuesday’s news that Dale Earnhardt Jr. will retire from driving at the end of this season comes…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is hanging things up after 2017. (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images) Hendrick Motorsports announced Tuesday morning that Dale Earnhardt Jr. will retire from NASCAR Cup Series racing at the end of the 2017 season. The son of legendary driver Dale Earnhardt Sr. has 26 victories at NASCAR’s top level since 2000, his first full-time year in the Cup Series, but never was able to take home the season…