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The NASCAR Foundation has joined efforts to support a comprehensive relief campaign for those affected by the recent tragic fires in Sevier County, Tennessee, with a contribution to the Food City Charitable Foundation. Led by Food City’s President and CEO Steve C. Smith, action was taken quickly to build a response to the tragedy through the Food City Charitable Foundation. Bristol Motor Speedway contributed to the effort with a company-wide…

Left-hander David Rollins might not be a household name, but, given the way his offseason is going, chances are you’ve seen him pop up on a transactions page at some point. On Friday, the Cubs announced they’ve claimed Rollins off waivers from the Rangers. Small little moves like that happen daily in baseball, and no one knows that better than Rollins. He has now been claimed off waivers five times…

Already, you hear the chirping. Already, more to the point, teams are planning. The free-agent class of 2018-19 is going to be one for the ages. Bryce Harper. Manny Machado. Clayton Kershaw. Matt Harvey. Josh Donaldson. Adam Jones. Zach Britton. Andrew Miller. Daniel Murphy. Brian Dozier. The list goes on. The Yankees, their offseason shopping done for now, are headed on a path that takes them below the luxury-tax threshold…

Cleveland and New Orleans are among the smallest and poorest pro sports markets in the country, making them some of the most vulnerable to a potential economic slowdown. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images) In recent years there have been few better investments than pro sports teams. Largely thanks to a booming stock market, rebounding economy and low interest rates, the values of American pro sports teams have been skyrocketing. Even just…

It’s tradition for newspapers to run a list of the top stories of the year as January approaches. It allows readers to debate which story had the biggest impact, and it gives editors something to fill their papers with at a time of the year when every writer, all at once, decides to take vacation time. But, c’mon. Was there a bigger national sports story in 2016 than the Cubs…

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Former USMNT manager Bob Bradley isn’t just having issues on the pitch, but he is having some issues off of it. The Swansea City manager, who has won just two of 10 matches since joining the club in October, is being criticized for his American soccer vocabulary and the confusion it creates in England. According to ESPNFC, Bradley has received some flack for using “PK” to say penalty kick, and…

Some folks just can’t let go when it comes to NASCAR die-cast model cars – and Star Wars memorabilia. According to The Progress (Pa.) newspaper, Joseph Sabatose, 52, of Treasure Lake, Pennsylvania was sentenced to serve 90 days in a Clearfield County jail after breaking into a woman’s home and taking two NASCAR die-casts, two Star Wars “models” and some rosaries. The two apparently had a previous relationship, but the…

Come January 18, the 2017 Hall of Fame class will be revealed. In the time leading up to that announcement, we’ll be profiling a Hall of Fame candidate per day — provided, that is, the candidate received votes on at least five percent of the ballots. However we’re going to begin the process by looking at the one-and-done candidates — those who, in their first year of eligibility, are expected…

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Stephen Park has been appointed the British Cycling performance director at the embattled governing body. The Glasgow-born 48-year-old might have stayed in place as the Royal Yachting Association’s Olympic manager but the fact he has jumped ship to an organisation veering from one crisis to another – and a new sport – shows his ambition. “Welcome aboard,” British Cycling declared on Twitter in announcing Park’s arrival. The two-times Olympic sailing…

Princeton University announced Thursday that it will cancel the rest of the season for the men’s swimming and diving team following findings of “misogynistic and racist” content shared by team members. The team will not compete in its two final meets of the regular season, scheduled to take place against Navy on Jan. 7 and Harvard and Yale on Feb. 5. The team will also not compete in the Ivy…

It was somehow typical of 2016 that on the morning after Andy Murray accepted the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year Award for a third time in his career, the focus should switch so joltingly to a man whose strategic brilliance had produced an avalanche of Olympic medals and the first British winner of the Tour de France, but who was now seen trying to persuade a sceptical House of…

David Ortiz earned approximately $160 million in his baseball career (Photo by Ken Babbitt) Chances are that upon retirement, David Ortiz and Mark Teixeira didn’t need job placement services or financial advice. But for the non one-percenters of baseball, a transition out of the game is loaded with questions. Major League Baseball is hoping to fix that. “Over the last two years, we’ve started taking a more direct look at post-career…

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Score one for revenue sharing. The Indians, who ranked 28th in home attendance last season, reached agreement on a three-year, $60 million contract Thursday with free-agent slugger Edwin Encarnacion, according to major-league sources. The Athletics, who ranked 29th, also were prominent in the bidding. I’m not suggesting that the low-revenue teams are on a level playing field with their high-revenue brethren — heavens no. The sport’s economic structure never will be…

Come January 18, the 2017 Hall of Fame class will be revealed. In the time leading up to that announcement, we’ll be profiling a Hall of Fame candidate per day — provided, that is, the candidate received votes on at least five percent of the ballots. However we’re going to begin the process by looking at the one-and-done candidates — those who, in their first year of eligibility, are expected…

Princeton University announced Thursday that it will cancel the rest of the season for the men’s swimming and diving team following findings of “misogynistic and racist” content shared by team members. The team will not compete in its two final meets of the regular season, scheduled to take place against Navy on Jan. 7 and Harvard and Yale on Feb. 5. The team will also not compete in the Ivy…

Stephen Park, the Royal Yachting Association’s Olympic manager, has been named the new performance director at British Cycling, filling a role left vacant since Sir Dave Brailsford stepped aside in 2014 to focus his energies on Team Sky. Park, 48, will begin his role in the spring, by which time the independent review investigating the culture at cycling’s national governing body will have delivered its report.   Despite the success of…

UKAD previously called on British Cycling’s HQ two months ago while they were investigating an unspecified claim of wrongdoing. Team Sky principal Sir Dave Brailsford was grilled by a House of Commons select committee this week about the package, which he said contained the decongestant Fluimucil, although there is no suggestion that this latest Ukad visit is linked to Brailsford’s explanation. Meanwhile, a number of contributors to an independent review…