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Drivers line up on the grid before the start of the 2015 Indianapolis 500. (Brian Spurlock, USA TODAY Sports) By Stephanie Wang INDIANAPOLIS — Trash talk over NASCAR versus IndyCar may have led to a domestic violence situation Sunday, according to a Johnson County (Ind.) Sheriff’s Office news release. Deputies responded around 8 p.m. to an incomplete 911 call from a Franklin, Ind., home, the release said. A woman told…

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Three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams have been penalized for infractions last week at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the sanctioning body announced Wednesday afternoon. Matt McCall, the crew chief for Jamie McMurray’s Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates team, has been placed on NASCAR probation through Dec. 31, after the right rear quarter panel wheel opening on the No. 1 Chevrolet was found to be modified after qualifying inspection for Sunday’s…

For more than two decades, Charles “Chuck” Blazer reveled in the perks of being general secretary of the confederation that oversees soccer in North and Central America. He lived in a Trump Tower apartment, flew on private jets, dined at the world’s finest restaurants, and hobnobbed with celebrities and world leaders. He detailed much of it on his blog, “Travels with Chuck Blazer and his Friends,” which features pictures of…

LONDON — The United States is leading an unlikely charge to save the rest of the world from its beloved beautiful game. Soccer has wallowed in accusations of bribery and corruption for decades, culminating in the ludicrous and unexplained decision by the sport’s governing body, FIFA, to award the next two World Cups to Russia and Qatar, two oil-rich nations with poor human-rights records and none of the conditions or…

NEW YORK — Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and other U.S. law enforcement officials launched a sweeping effort to clean up corruption in world soccer that she termed “rampant, systemic and deep-rooted” Wednesday, indicting 14 influential figures in the globe’s most popular sport on racketeering and bribery charges. In a series of remarkable scenes, FBI agents raided international offices in Miami Beach, while Swiss authorities working with the United States…

The soccer corruption investigation announced Wednesday by U.S. authorities covers 18 defendants in all. Here are their names, ages, nationalities and backgrounds, as identified by the Justice Department: Seven defendants, all connected to FIFA, were arrested in Zurich: Rafael Esquivel, 68, of Venezuela: FIFA executive and member of the executive committee of CONMEBOL, the governing body…

A combination of file pictures made on May 27 shows FIFA officials. From left to right from upper row: Rafael Esquivel, Nicolas Leoz, Jeffrey Webb, Jack Warner, Eduardo Li, Eugenio Figueredo and Jose Maria Marin. The seven men are among several soccer officials arrested. (AFP/Getty Images) The Justice Department unsealed a 47 count indictment early Wednesday charging 14 world soccer figures, including officials of FIFA, with racketeering, bribery, money laundering…

U.S. authorities are preparing to unveil a criminal indictment against officials of soccer’s international governing body that will detail allegations of widespread corruption, according to people familiar with the matter. The indictment against officials of the International Federation of Association Football, known as FIFA, was expected to be unsealed in Brooklyn federal court against multiple individuals as early as Wednesday, the…

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i Gabriel Ramirez, a 25-year-old full-time college student, cheers on the U.S. national soccer teams in his spare time. His family is from Mexico City and still roots for El Tri, the Mexican national team. Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR hide caption itoggle caption Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR Gabriel Ramirez, a 25-year-old full-time college student, cheers on the U.S. national soccer teams in his spare time. His family is from Mexico City and…

0 Shares Print SEATTLE — Throughout the process, Seattle arena investor Chris Hansen has remained open to the idea of a hockey team being the first tenant for a proposed facility in the city’s stadium district even if his focus is on basketball.  One problem: Even with indications that Seattle could be a viable expansion market for the NHL, no one has come to Hansen’s group with a proposal for…

NASCAR’s longest race, the Coca-Cola 600, can be a grind for a driver who’s perfectly healthy, let alone someone still recovering from major injuries to both their legs. Nevertheless, Kyle Busch showed no lingering effects from the broken right leg and left foot that sidelined him for the first 11 Sprint Cup Series races of the season, as he finished a competitive 11th on Sunday night at Charlotte Motor…

JOHNSON COUNTY, Ind. (May 26, 2015) – A Franklin man was arrested Sunday evening after choking his fiancée in a dispute over whether NASCAR or IndyCar is better. Police responded to an incomplete 911 call from an address in the 2500 block of South U.S. 31 in Franklin around 7:45 p.m. A woman at the residence told officers that she was the one who called 911. She told police that…

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i Gabriel Ramirez, a 25-year-old full-time college student, cheers on the U.S. national soccer teams in his spare time. His family is from Mexico City and still roots for El Tri, the Mexican national team. Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR hide caption itoggle caption Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR Gabriel Ramirez, a 25-year-old full-time college student, cheers on the U.S. national soccer teams in his spare time. His family is from Mexico City and…

A Franklin man was arrested Sunday after allegedly attacking his fiancée over a race-related argument. Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies say 57-year-old David Wilson’s fiancée called 911 during the Indianapolis 500, saying Wilson had gotten upset during a fight over whether NASCAR or IndyCar was better. PICS: Um…what? Strange sights at the Speedway  | PICS: Scenes from the Indy 500 Snake Pit Wilson’s fiancée told police they had been drinking all day….

i Gabriel Ramirez, a 25-year-old full-time college student, cheers on the U.S. national soccer teams in his spare time. His family is from Mexico City and still roots for El Tri, the Mexican national team. Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR hide caption itoggle caption Shereen Marisol Meraji/NPR Gabriel Ramirez, a 25-year-old full-time college student, cheers on the U.S. national soccer teams in his spare time. His family is from Mexico City and…