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Peace in the Middle East could start on the soccer field … with Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreeing to put aside their differences and hold talks … for the good of the sport.  Leaders from both sides met today — after FIFA officials created a special task force aimed at getting everyone to work TOGETHER to improve the soccer experience for Palestinians and Israelis.  It’s a big step … considering…

Today’s episode of NASCAR America, which airs from 5 to 6 pm ET, takes another look at the stories from the weekend at Bristol. Dave Briggs hosts from our studio in Stamford (Conn.) and will be joined by Jeff Burton and Frank Stoddard from Burton’s Garage. On today’s episode: · “Stories of NASCAR”: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Joey Logano and Kurt Busch. · Logano once again showed he belongs among the Sprint…

The bid book for the 2024 Olympics that Los Angeles officials released Tuesday laid out an initial blueprint for 30 or so proposed venues. A renovated Coliseum will serve as the centerpiece, with other facilities arranged in five clusters across the city. Bidding is a long process and plans almost always change, but here is the current configuration: Downtown Cluster • Coliseum: Opening ceremony and closing ceremony, track and field…

Note to UC San Diego med school students: That first-year, 30-year-old woman sitting quietly in the back of your biochemistry class, you might want to get her on your intramural soccer team. Her name is Rachel Van Hollebeke. You might remember her by her maiden name, Rachel Buehler, or as No. 19 on the U.S. national women’s soccer team, winning gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, starting in…

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With restarts an increasingly topical debate subject among drivers, a senior NASCAR official said Monday that officials wants drivers to police themselves so that the sanctioning body doesn’t have to.  “(Restarts) certainly garner attention, but it’s one of those (items) that we’ve told the drivers that we’d like to leave it in (the drivers’) hands,” NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O’Donnell said on SiriusXM NASCAR’s…

ENLARGE Tehran Women, and women’s sports, still face stiff winds of resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hard-liners supported by the highest echelons of government oppose women even watching the country’s most popular sport, much less playing it in public. But quietly, there is something of a women’s soccer revolution going on here. And one of its leaders, of all people, is an Iranian-American. Katayoun Khosrowyar, 27, moved here…

Beer producer Anheuser-Busch had decided to switch its beer brand that is associated with NASCAR, beginning in 2016. Sports Business Journal first reported the news. Anheuser-Busch, a primary sponsor on Stewart-Haas Racing’s No. 4 Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick, will switch out its Budweiser brand with Busch. Busch was the brand long associated with NASCAR, beginning in 1982 when it began sponsoring what is now the Xfinity Series. Busch left its role as…

British driver Justin Wilson has died after being struck by flying debris and suffering a serious head injury in Sunday’s Pocono IndyCar 500 race. Wilson was airlifted to hospital from the Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania after Sage Karam’s car spun and crashed in front of him on lap 179 of 200. Debris from Karam’s car hit ex-Formula 1 driver Wilson, 37, and the Andretti Autosport…

Dan Wheldon celebtates his victory in the 2011 Indianapolis 500. (Darron Cummings, AP) Justin Wilson joins a group of esteemed and talented drivers who have died pushing the limits of speed. And his death will spark the safety debate in motor sports once again. Wilson, 37, died Monday, a day after he was struck in the head by a piece of debris during the Verizon IndyCar Series race at Pocono Raceway, according…

With restarts an increasingly topical debate subject among drivers, a senior NASCAR official said Monday that officials wants drivers to police themselves so that the sanctioning body doesn’t have to.  “(Restarts) certainly garner attention, but it’s one of those (items) that we’ve told the drivers that we’d like to leave it in (the drivers’) hands,” NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O’Donnell said on SiriusXM NASCAR’s…

ENLARGE Tehran Women, and women’s sports, still face stiff winds of resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hard-liners supported by the highest echelons of government oppose women even watching the country’s most popular sport, much less playing it in public. But quietly, there is something of a women’s soccer revolution going on here. And one of its leaders, of all people, is an Iranian-American. Katayoun Khosrowyar, 27, moved here…

Beer producer Anheuser-Busch had decided to switch its beer brand that is associated with NASCAR, beginning in 2016. Sports Business Journal first reported the news. Anheuser-Busch, a primary sponsor on Stewart-Haas Racing’s No. 4 Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick, will switch out its Budweiser brand with Busch. Busch was the brand long associated with NASCAR, beginning in 1982 when it began sponsoring what is now the Xfinity Series. Busch left its role as…

You’ve heard of the Seven Wonders? That list compiled by the Hellenic historian Herodotus of the world’s most spectacular manmade structures, from the Great Pyramid of Giza to the Colossus of Rhodes? His recognition of ancient marvels served as a guidebook for tourists of his time and has inspired several similar lists over the ages, honoring achievements ranging from the Great Wall of China to the Panama Canal. The hockey…

With restarts an increasingly topical debate subject among drivers, a senior NASCAR official said Monday that officials wants drivers to police themselves so that the sanctioning body doesn’t have to.  “(Restarts) certainly garner attention, but it’s one of those (items) that we’ve told the drivers that we’d like to leave it in (the drivers’) hands,” NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O’Donnell said on SiriusXM NASCAR’s…

Justin Wilson (Mike DiNovo, USA TODAY Sports) Justin Wilson sat at a table in a hospitality tent nestled inside the paddock at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg this March. He was intermittently grinning widely and squinting to watch a television monitor as the din surrounding him indicated practice had begun. The Englishman was left behind at the start of the IndyCar season, but Andretti Autosport had announced a deal that…

ENLARGE Tehran Women, and women’s sports, still face stiff winds of resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hard-liners supported by the highest echelons of government oppose women even watching the country’s most popular sport, much less playing it in public. But quietly, there is something of a women’s soccer revolution going on here. And one of its leaders, of all people, is an Iranian-American. Katayoun Khosrowyar, 27, moved here…

Beer producer Anheuser-Busch had decided to switch its beer brand that is associated with NASCAR, beginning in 2016. Sports Business Journal first reported the news. Anheuser-Busch, a primary sponsor on Stewart-Haas Racing’s No. 4 Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick, will switch out its Budweiser brand with Busch. Busch was the brand long associated with NASCAR, beginning in 1982 when it began sponsoring what is now the Xfinity Series. Busch left its role as…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United are willing to spend £240m on a deal for Barcelona’s Brazil forward Neymar, 23. (Sun – subscription required)  Chelsea will continue to pursue Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba, 22, until the transfer window closes despite the France international’s £70m price tag because manager Jose Mourinho has concerns…

ENLARGE Tehran Women, and women’s sports, still face stiff winds of resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hard-liners supported by the highest echelons of government oppose women even watching the country’s most popular sport, much less playing it in public. But quietly, there is something of a women’s soccer revolution going on here. And one of its leaders, of all people, is an Iranian-American. Katayoun Khosrowyar, 27, moved here…