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In the aftermath of the Rams’ departure for Los Angeles in January, the Blues and Cardinals came together for a show of solidarity to the city’s fans. On Jan. 15, three days after the NFL approved the Rams’ relocation, Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III and Blues owner Tom Stillman dropped a ceremonial puck before a game at Scottrade Center. In a strong sign of support, the two…

Graphic credit Sam Woolley NASCAR CEO and majority owner Brian France endorsed presidential candidate and half-empty bag of rancid tapioca Donald Trump the other week. But what might seem like good synergy for both France and Trump is an incredibly bad omen for the future of NASCAR. http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/nascar-ceo-end… NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO…

Graphic credit Sam Woolley NASCAR CEO and majority owner Brian France endorsed presidential candidate and half-empty bag of rancid tapioca Donald Trump the other week. But what might seem like good synergy for both France and Trump is an incredibly bad omen for the future of NASCAR. http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/nascar-ceo-end… NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO…

Three teams — all participants in last year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup — received written warnings from NASCAR Wednesday afternoon after issues getting through inspection last weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing team of Carl Edwards and the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing team of Martin Truex Jr. were each handed a written warning for failing template inspection twice in pre-qualifying inspection…

Stewart-Haas Racing announced Wednesday afternoon that Tony Stewart‘s doctors are satisfied with the healing of an L1 vertebra burst fracture the No. 14 SHR driver and co-owner sustained in a Jan. 31 all-terrain vehicle accident.   Stewart’s doctors now are implementing a rehabilitation regimen to hasten the driver’s recovery, SHR said.   No timetable for Stewart’s return has been set, as further evaluations of his progress are needed.   The three-time Sprint Cup…

Patrick Smith/Getty ImagesA fan watches TV in his tent during practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on July 3, 2015 in Daytona Beach, Florida The cost of broadcasting live sports has exploded. As the looming threats of declining ratings and subscriber losses weigh on traditional TV networks, live sports have been a central component of strategies aimed at gaining and retaining existing…

Graphic credit Sam Woolley NASCAR CEO and majority owner Brian France endorsed presidential candidate and half-empty bag of rancid tapioca Donald Trump the other week. But what might seem like good synergy for both France and Trump is an incredibly bad omen for the future of NASCAR. http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/nascar-ceo-end… NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO Endorses Trump Despite Huge Trump Backlash Last Year NASCAR CEO…

Stewart-Haas Racing announced Wednesday afternoon that Tony Stewart‘s doctors are satisfied with the healing of an L1 vertebra burst fracture the No. 14 SHR driver and co-owner sustained in a Jan. 31 all-terrain vehicle accident.   Stewart’s doctors now are implementing a rehabilitation regimen to hasten the driver’s recovery, SHR said.   No timetable for Stewart’s return has been set, as further evaluations of his progress are needed.   The three-time Sprint Cup…

Google Images NASCAR is still struggling to get back on its feet. America’s most popular racing sport has been in steady decline since its peak in the mid-2000s. Viewership across major networks has fallen by about a third, according to data cited by JP Morgan. Attendance at races has also declined too, indicating that the decline in TV audience has not been offset by an increase in live audiences. And analysts at JP Morgan, led…

HOWELL — Parents and referees involved in a post-high school ice hockey match brawl will get the chance to work out their dispute through mediation. Howell Municipal Court Judge Susan Schroeder-Clark ordered the referees and parents to mediation in an attempt to avoid prosecution or a trial. In sending the matter to mediation, Schroeder-Clark allowed the charges and counter charges to proceed. “I can tell you that this matter involving this high…

Just three races into the season, several of NASCAR’s top drivers already need radical reversals of fortune. In fact, for some, if they didn’t have bad luck they wouldn’t have any luck at all this season. This weekend, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rolls into the 1-mile Phoenix International Raceway for the Good Sam 500. Here are five drivers who need some luck this weekend: KYLE LARSON — It’s been…

Authorities searched the offices of France’s soccer federation and seized documents to help a Swiss investigation into former FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Switzerland’s prosecutor said on Wednesday. The operation, carried out a day earlier, was linked to a 2 million Swiss franc ($2 million) payment to France’s Michel Platini at the heart of proceedings against Blatter, Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said. Swiss prosecutors said in September they…

To make it all work, Murphy goes to the bank and takes out a loan each year and uses it to cover the expenses it takes to allow her son to play the game he loves. “Financially, you plan everything around hockey,” Murphy said. “Outside of that, we don’t do a whole lot.” Murphy is one of hundreds of parents in Grand Forks and the surrounding area who face the…

Russian athletics is not devoting “enough energy” to rid itself of doping and has a “steep hill” to climb if it wants to compete at this year’s Olympics, according to Dick Pound, the investigator whose coruscating investigation into Russian track and field led to it being suspended from international competition. “There seems to be some evidence that they’re just changing deckchairs on the Titanic,” Pound told an anti-doping conference in…

Authorities searched the offices of France’s soccer federation and seized documents to help a Swiss investigation into former FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Switzerland’s prosecutor said on Wednesday. The operation, carried out a day earlier, was linked to a 2 million Swiss franc ($2 million) payment to France’s Michel Platini at the heart of proceedings against Blatter, Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said. Swiss prosecutors said in September they…

The parents and neurosurgeon of paralyzed MN hockey player Matt Olson meet with reporters in Chicago to offer an update on his condition.  (Photo: KARE) CHICAGO – A Minnesota hockey player could benefit from experimental stem cell therapy after he was paralyzed during a game last month. Matt Olson, a 20-year old defenseman for the Chicago Cougars Junior Hockey team lost control during at a game on February 21 crashing…

When Khalida Popal arrived alone at an asylum camp in Denmark – having been forced out of her native Afghanistan by death threats – she turned to her greatest passion as a source of strength: soccer. “You feel so alone and so unhappy in an asylum camp,” Popal tells PEOPLE. “The women there didn’t have any opportunities, so I encouraged them to come fight their stress and depression by playing…

  Just three seasons after creating the Minnesota United FC brand, local professional soccer seems headed for a name reboot. “Minnesota FC” is the name Major League Soccer registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Feb. 18, according to the Empire of Soccer blog. The filing occurred one day after a Sports Illustrated report that MLS did not want expansion franchises Atlanta and Minnesota entering the league with…

When Khalida Popal arrived alone at an asylum camp in Denmark – having been forced out of her native Afghanistan by death threats – she turned to her greatest passion as a source of strength: soccer. “You feel so alone and so unhappy in an asylum camp,” Popal tells PEOPLE. “The women there didn’t have any opportunities, so I encouraged them to come fight their stress and depression by playing…

Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR’s executive vice president and chief racing development officer, admits that NASCAR officials probably should have thrown the caution flag sooner when Cody Ware wrecked with 63 laps left in Saturday’s XFINITY Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Ware, who hit the wall in Turn 2, was clobbered by the oncoming car of Darrell Wallace Jr., who had nowhere to go in his Roush Fenway Racing Ford….