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NASCAR has arrived out west for Champion’s Week in Las Vegas, Nevada to being a week-long celebration of the 2016 Sprint Cup Series season. After Jimmie Johnson earned his record-tying seventh championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway, members of the NASCAR community and fans alike are gathered for a week of events honoring the champion, Chase drivers, Rookie of the Year Chase Elliott and more. The festivities will be capped off by…

LA UNION, Colombia/CHAPECO, Brazil The pilot of a plane that crashed in Colombia virtually wiping out a Brazilian soccer team had radioed he was running out of fuel and in an emergency, according to a recording of his final communications. Monday night’s disaster killed 71 people and sent shock waves round the global soccer world. Only six on board the LAMIA Bolivia charter flight survived, including three of the Chapecoense…

Many types of exercise are linked to a lower risk of premature death, but activities like racquet sports, swimming and aerobics seem best at improving people’s chances of staving off an early demise, according to a new study. Researchers found that people in the study who regularly played racquet sports had a 47 percent lower risk of dying over the course of the nine-year study than people…

The pilot of a British-model plane that was carrying a Brazilian soccer club said he ran out of fuel before the crash that killed himself and 70 others late Monday near Medellin, Colombia, a leaked recording showed. In a four-minute recording of communication from an air traffic tower, obtained by Colombian media outlets, the pilot can be heard repeatedly asking for permission to land because of a “total electric failure”…

Two weeks ago, retired British professional soccer player Andy Woodward stepped out from the shadows, telling the Guardian newspaper in an extensive interview that he was raped hundreds of times as a child by serial pedophile Barry Bennell, a former elite youth soccer coach who used his power and prestige in the sports world to lure, manipulate and sexually abuse his players decades ago. What was shocking about Woodward’s raw…

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LA UNION, Colombia/CHAPECO, Brazil Doctors treated survivors of an air crash in Colombia that killed 71 people and wiped out Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team en route to a cup final in Colombia as an investigation got underway on Wednesday. Only six people – three players, a journalist and two crew members – survived the crash on Monday night when Chapecoense’s charter plane, a BAe 146 made by BAE Systems Plc,…

The marketing-driven rule change I’m about to suggest did not stem from the Blackhawks shootout win over the Panthers on Tuesday night, but it seems timely: Allow skaters to take off their helmets and shields during shootouts. Boom. Personality comes to a sport that needs to sell exactly that. You only have to go back to last year’s All-Star Game to see how stumbling, bumbling NHL wonks tried to squash…

RIO DE JANEIRO — It was the culmination of an astonishing climb to the top of South America’s soccer world — a modest club from Brazil heading to the finals of a continent-wide tournament. Then came a distress call from the cockpit of the plane carrying the team to Colombia. Moments later, late Monday, radar contact was lost with the charter jet carrying 77 people, including players and coaches from…

The trip to Medellin, Colombia, was supposed to be a joyous one for the members Chapecoense, a soccer club from the small city of Chapeco, Brazil, and they were in the middle of a fairy tale season. Now their journey will go down in history as a tragedy. Investigators will likely comb through the evidence for the next several months, hoping to discover why a charter flight crashed Monday night…

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RELATED: Buescher joins second JTG team   Roush Fenway Racing announced Tuesday a restructuring plan that will pare its racing operations to a two-car effort in NASCAR’s premier series next year.   Trevor Bayne will return for a third season driving the team’s No. 6 Ford, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will be back for a fifth year in RFR’s No. 17 Ford.   The organization announced last week that it…

The English Football Association is launching an internal review into allegations of child abuse in their professional soccer clubs. This comes after several former players — Andy Woodward, David White, Steve Walters, and Paul Stewart — waived their anonymity rights and told the British media stories of their abuse at the hands of men who had been entrusted with their athletic development and safety. Woodward was first to speak on…

FRAMINGHAM — Eduardo Ribeiro is a lifelong Brazilian soccer fan — he was named after a soccer star who represented the South American country in two World Cups. “I was a fan before I was born,” the software engineer said during his lunch break Tuesday at Terra Brasilis Restaurant on Union Avenue. Advertisement So when his wife told him that a plane carrying a popular Brazilian soccer team had crashed…

Photo credit: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer sued his HScott Motorsports team for breach of contract and fraud for at least $2.223 million, reports ESPN. The lawsuit alleges that the team missed two monthly payments as well as a commission for bringing sponsorship to the team. Advertisement Bowyer made a one-year deal with HScott to ride out 2016 while he prepared to take over retiring driver Tony Stewart’s…

RIO DE JANEIRO — It was the culmination of an astonishing climb to the top of South America’s soccer world — a modest club from Brazil heading to the finals of a continent-wide tournament. Then came a distress call from the cockpit of the plane carrying the team to Colombia. Moments later, late Monday, radar contact was lost with the charter jet carrying 77 people, including players and coaches from…

RELATED: Buescher joins second JTG team   Roush Fenway Racing announced Tuesday a restructuring plan that will pare its racing operations to a two-car effort in NASCAR’s premier series next year.   Trevor Bayne will return for a third season driving the team’s No. 6 Ford, and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. will be back for a fifth year in RFR’s No. 17 Ford.   The organization announced last week that it…

RELATED: Champion’s Week live streaming schedule Jimmie Johnson made history Nov. 20 at Homestead-Miami Speedway with a record-tying seventh championship in NASCAR’s premier series. Just over a week removed from the accomplishment, the spirit of celebration is still going, but with a fitting change of venue. NASCAR Champion’s Week is here culminating in a season-ending toast Friday night at the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards at the Wynn Las Vegas….

MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian first division soccer team crashed outside Medellin while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people, Colombian officials said Tuesday. Six people initially survived, but one of them later died in a hospital. The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, declared an emergency and lost radar contact just before…

SÃO PAULO—They were the pride of a small city in southern Brazil, a scrappy bunch of no-names who clawed their way into the top ranks of Brazilian soccer and were preparing for the biggest match of their lives. The plane crash in Colombia that killed most members of the Chapecoense soccer team Monday night plunged the international football world into mourning. Superstars Neymar and Lionel Messi sent condolences via Twitter….