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Have you ever been on a bus full of hockey players? It’s always loud. I have been riding on buses to hockey games for 20 years now, and there’s only one time in my life I can remember it being completely silent. It was 2006, during the Olympic Gold Medal Game. Sweden vs. Finland. Do you understand this rivalry in North America? Maybe you think all the Nordic countries are…

NASCAR announced major changes to its ownership structure on Tuesday, with the stock car racing organization set to adopt a charter system that should alter the sport’s relationship with the corporate sponsors on which it heavily relies. NASCAR said it has agreed with the team owners from its Sprint Cup Series to move the sport away from its longstanding independent contractor model in favor of a new system that divvies…

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Do you know what these names have in common? Robert Yates, Teresa Earnhardt, Ray Evernham, Robby Gordon, Bill Saunders, Doug Bawel, Nelson Bowers, Kirk Shelmerdine, Beth Ann Morganthau, Bill Davis, James Finch, Jeff Stec, Cal Wells and Mike Anderson? These 14 individuals share two things in common. The first is that each of them was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team owner who fielded a car that competed in the…

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NASCAR chairman Brian France announced a plan designed to “promote a more predictable, sustainable and valuable team business model,” in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.(Photo: Alan Diaz, AP) NASCAR’s business model evolved Tuesday, and teams that provide the cars and drivers that draw the fans might have gained some of the financial security they’ve long sought. In a stated effort to provide Sprint Cup teams with “increased business certainty…

5:29 PM ET print CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It’s just a sheet of paper. But man, what a sheet of paper it is. On Tuesday, NASCAR and its team owners rolled out its new, long-anticipated “charter” ownership system. For the first time in stock car racing’s nearly seven-decade history, those who hire the racers and field the racecars they drive will now own, well, something. Beginning with this year’s Daytona 500,…

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In one of the most significant announcements in NASCAR history, chairman and CEO Brian France confirmed that a deal has been struck between the sanctioning body and the Sprint Cup team owners to create a charter system. In effect as the 2016 NASCAR season prepares to kick off this weekend at Daytona International Speedway, the new charter system addresses three key areas — participation, governance and economics — to promote…

Not familiar with the League Cup in England? It’s a pretty big deal in the soccer world. Absolutely first class. Fabulous. If you saw it, you’d love it. Arguably no one has done more for the game’s growth in the United States than Donald Trump. Just no one. And really, he’s happy to have done it. American football? It’s a fine game. Trump likes football. He knows…

Lemov was thrilled to hear from U.S. Soccer. But he was nervous, too, like a fanboy unexpectedly pulled up onstage. He understood teaching, and it so happened that he loved soccer, but he didn’t know whether his work would translate for coaches—or whether they would listen. Lemov started playing soccer when he was about 7 and still has the build of an athlete, tall and broad-shouldered. He was never a…

7:37 PM ET print NASCAR has set a news conference for Tuesday, when it will announce the implementation of a franchise-like system, according to those with knowledge of the discussions. Now that the paperwork is signed, how much one of these franchises — “charters,” as NASCAR will call them — is worth in the coming years is as big a guess as picking the winner of the Daytona 500. The…

The United States won most medals at the last Olympics in London in 2012, so any disruption to its presence would be important for the Rio games. Global health authorities suspect the mosquito-borne Zika virus has caused a spike in Brazil of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by an abnormally small head. As a result, the World Health Organization declared an international health emergency Feb. 1, and the U.S. Centers…

LONDON—Watch out, warns Arsenal Football Club manager Arsène Wenger: A mass exodus of soccer talent from Europe to China may be under way, encouraged by record-breaking transfer fees and fat salaries. Yes, China. This is a country where the national men’s team is a humiliating failure, reflecting a long history of corruption and match-fixing at a league level. In FIFA’s latest world rankings it sits just one place above the…

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HOWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Two parents are accused of attacking a referee at a high school hockey game in New Jersey. As CBS2’s Emily Smith reported the incident happened Sunday afternoon during a Howell High School hockey game against Manalapan at Ice World. Howell Township Police confirmed that a referee called a hockey mom from Howell a curse word, telling her to leave the game for yelling at the…

So what exactly is a charter system and why is one needed in NASCAR? NASCAR officials will formally reveal their new charter system during a Tuesday press conference at the Charlotte Convention Center at 1:30 p.m. ET. Neither NASCAR officials nor the Sprint Cup team owners have disclosed many details about the particulars about what they will announce. That said, the charter system is expected to be somewhat similar to…

NEW YORK — The United States Olympic Committee told U.S. sports federations that athletes and staff concerned for their health over the Zika virus should consider not going to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in August. The message was delivered in a conference call involving USOC officials and leaders of U.S. sport federations in late January, according to two people who participated in the call. Federations were told that no…