Formula One to stop using female models on the grid
LONDON (Reuters) – Formula One is ending the use of female models who parade on the starting grid and stand with the drivers’ name boards before every grand prix.
Fox pays over $3 billion for Thursday Night Football rights: source
(Reuters) – Twenty First Century Fox Inc’s Fox Sports has agreed to pay over $3 billion to broadcast the National Football League’s “Thursday Night Football,” for the next five seasons, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters Wednesday.
Canada’s Guay out of Games with back pain
(Reuters) – Erik Guay, a three-time Olympian and Canada’s most successful alpine skier, will miss the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang due to continuing back pain, Alpine Canada said on Wednesday.
‘A lottery:’ Russians criticize Olympic team selection process
NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (Reuters) – Several Russian athletes competing at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics next month questioned on Wednesday why some of their team mates did not receive invitations from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to take p…
Fox Sports to air next five seasons of Thursday Night Football
(Reuters) – FOX Sports has reached an agreement with the National Football League to broadcast the next five seasons of “Thursday Night Football” starting with the 2018 season, the two companies said on Wednesday.
Doping: No need for panic action over testing bottles, says anti-doping group
(Reuters) – Anti-doping officials do not need to take panic actions over a potential integrity issue with new doping sample collection bottles, the global group of national anti-doping organizations told Reuters on Wednesday.
Japan’s revised smoking measures threaten smoky 2020 Olympics, critics say
TOKYO (Reuters) – Two Japanese doctors on Wednesday raised concerns about the government’s latest effort to prevent second-hand smoking, saying it could lead to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo being held in an “extremely smoky environment”.
Arbitration court to announce verdicts in Russian athletes’ doping appeals on Thursday
ZURICH (Reuters) – The verdicts on appeals from 39 Russian athletes who were given lifetime Olympic bans for doping violations at the 2014 Sochi Games will be announced on Thursday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said in a statement on Wednes…
Ex-USA Gymnastics doctor faces second sentencing
(Reuters) – Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is scheduled to appear in a Michigan courtroom on Wednesday for a second sentencing hearing, after already being sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for abusing young female gymnasts who were ent…
Game plan for Super Bowl commercials: Avoid politics
(Reuters) – After politics seeped onto the football field during the regular season, Super Bowl advertisers are opting to stay far away from anything divisive when they pitch to the year’s biggest television audience on Sunday.
