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Ever wanted to take a tour around one of the race shops of one of NASCAR’s most storied teams?  Well, now you can — thanks to Wood Brothers Racing, formed in 1950. While the team is old, the shop is new. The organization recently moved headquarters to Mooresville, North Carolina to be closer to their Ford-affiliated counterpart, Team Penske. Now separated by just seven miles, expect the technical alliance between…

After soccer’s international governing body moved to expand the World Cup, regional officials are considering creating a new tournament pitting the best national teams in the Americas against each other, according to several people with knowledge of the discussions. Concacaf, which oversees the sport in North and Central America and the Caribbean, is weighing holding its biennial national team competition every four years, said the people, who asked not to…

Ever wanted to take a tour around one of the race shops of one of NASCAR’s most storied teams?  Well, now you can — thanks to Wood Brothers Racing, formed in 1950. While the team is old, the shop is new. The organization recently moved headquarters to Mooresville, North Carolina to be closer to their Ford-affiliated counterpart, Team Penske. Now separated by just seven miles, expect the technical alliance between…

After soccer’s international governing body moved to expand the World Cup, regional officials are considering creating a new tournament pitting the best national teams in the Americas against each other, according to several people with knowledge of the discussions. Concacaf, which oversees the sport in North and Central America and the Caribbean, is weighing holding its biennial national team competition every four years, said the people, who asked not to…

Mark Martin has a sound reason why his NASCAR Hall of Fame career didn’t include a championship at the sport’s highest level. “It’s because I never scored enough points to win one,” Martin said in his typical matter-of-fact, no-nonsense manner. “That’s that. I would have won (championships) if I had scored more points than anyone else.” To make the Hall of Fame – he will be inducted into the 2017…

Mark Martin Born: Jan. 9, 1959, Batesville, Ark. Family: Wife Arlene, son Matt, four step-children. Career highlights: Winner of 40 races in NASCAR’s top series, now the Monster Energy Cup. … Four-time champion in both the International Race Of Champions Series (IROC) and the American Speed Association tour. …. Five-time runner-up in points races for the championship of NASCAR’s foremost circuit – 1990,’94, ’98, 2002, ’09. … His first victory…

Halfway through the season, Antonio Conte, the excitable, tactically savvy manager of Chelsea, is running ahead of rivals in first place in England’s top soccer league. The Italian also stands out in another way: his team is the only one of the major teams whose television viewership has risen this season (albeit only very slightly). Elsewhere, the trend of fewer people tuning in to the country’s biggest sport that was detected…

OKLAHOMA CITY –  Think it’s hard for firefighters to rescue a cat in a tree? Try a cow in a swimming pool. Firefighters in Oklahoma City were summoned Sunday morning after a homeowner reported hearing some sort of “snorting” coming from his swimming pool area. Emergency responders arrived and discovered a hole in the swimming pool’s liner and a cow trapped in the water. Related stories… Neglected dogs become…

Less than a month before the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s “Super Bowl,” FS1’s NASCAR Race Hub takes the show to Houston, site of Super Bowl LI, in the week leading into FOX’s live broadcast of the big game. In the days preceding FOX’s live broadcast of Super Bowl LI (Sunday, Feb. 5 at 6:30 p.m. ET), NASCAR Race Hub, NASCAR’s most-watched daily news and information program, airs live from Discovery Green…

The Government is being urged to investigate whether the stripping of elite funding from wheelchair rugby indicates a “discriminatory” attitude to Paralympic sport, as the game known as ‘murderball’ fights to have its income restored. Great Britain Wheelchair Rugby, which was dropped from the Tokyo cycle, has written to Penny Mordaunt, the Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work, and Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Culture, Media…

Halfway through the season, Antonio Conte, the excitable, tactically savvy manager of Chelsea, is running ahead of rivals in first place in England’s top soccer league. The Italian also stands out in another way: his team is the only one of the major teams whose television viewership has risen this season (albeit only very slightly). Elsewhere, the trend of fewer people tuning in to the country’s biggest sport that was detected…

Sunday saw a pair of dramatic NFL playoff games, with the Green Bay Packers kicking a last-second field goal to beat the Dallas Cowboys 34-31 on FOX, and the Pittsburgh Steelers using six field goals to edge the Kansas City Chiefs 18-16. And like other sports fans across the country, the NASCAR community was into the games in a big way. Denny Medley Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports

Before his friendship with Dale Earnhardt that produced such amazing dividends, before his NASCAR Hall of Fame election, before he bought an old taxi for $20 and turned it into his first race car, Richard Childress fell in love with racing. He was 8 years old. This was in the early 1950s at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, one of the sport’s legendary short-track venues. Childress, who on Friday will…

Before his friendship with Dale Earnhardt that produced such amazing dividends, before his NASCAR Hall of Fame election, before he bought an old taxi for $20 and turned it into his first race car, Richard Childress fell in love with racing. He was 8 years old. This was in the early 1950s at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, one of the sport’s legendary short-track venues. Childress, who on Friday will…

The Pachuca vs. Jaguares Liga MX match only brought one goal, but it brought two of something else. The two Mexican teams battled on Saturday night, and it produced a couple of great moments. In the second half, a cute dog interrupted the match. Look at this friendly thing. Not to be outdone by its rival, a cat came up to step it up for the felines, interrupting the game…

RELATED: Driver Tracker | Photo gallery: Who’s on the move for 2017   NASCAR competition officials issued memos detailing rule book changes for the 2017 season in its three national series, including limits on tire allocation, restrictor-plate and spoiler size, and an allowance for drivers to use biometric devices.   The 80 total pages of revisions released Friday afternoon pertain to Sections 20 (Vehicle and Driver Safety specifications) and 21…

Christopher Bell rang in the start of his 2017 season with perhaps the biggest win of his burgeoning racing career — the 31st annual Chili Bowl.   Bell, a full-time driver for Kyle Busch Motorsports in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, won what many consider to be the world’s most prestigious Midget Car race after midnight ET on Sunday morning. Over the course of a week, he outlasted 364…

Frazer Meek jumps down from a wooden platform and jogs across the floor of the Fluidity Freerun Academy, a 7,000 sq ft warehouse in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Cardiff. It is a wintry Thursday evening and there are only a few hardy souls practising their leaps and swings on the purpose-built equipment, designed to mimic the bollards, railings and concrete building blocks of the great urban outdoors….

Somewhat lost in all the hoopla regarding Carl Edwards’ announcement that he is stepping away from NASCAR is the ripple effect it had on the 2017 Monster Energy Cup Series rookie landscape. Let’s just say that with Daniel Suarez, a rookie, now stepping in to fill Edwards’ shoes in the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, it just got a whole lot more interesting. Prior to the Edwards-Suarez seat swap,…

Saturday’s Sydney Derby between Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers didn’t bring anything in terms of goals, but it brought so much more. During the 0-0 match, goalkeeper Vedran Janjetovic was front and center. Having played for Sydney FC from 2012-16, he just switched to Western and the fans let him have it by throwing snakes on his goal. Take a look. Here’s another look. That’s pretty nuts, but that…