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Drivers who are competing in the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup tell us what it means to be a champion.

Each week SB Nation’s NASCAR reporter Jordan Bianchi answers your questions about the latest news and happenings within the sport. If you have a mailbag question email jordanmbianchi@gmail.com. Two straight weeks Martin Truex Jr.’s car has failed inspection. How many more weeks are needed before everyone realizes he’s only running this good and winning because his cars are obviously cheated up? –Matt A common perception is that…

Game Details Developer: PES ProductionsPublisher: KonamiPlatform: PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 (PS4 reviewed)Rating: E for EveryoneRelease Date: September 18, 2015 (UK), September 17 (Europe), September 15 (US)Price: £36 / £56Links: Amazon (UK) | Amazon (US) | Official website reader comments 9 There are many ways to interpret the beautiful game. Some teams prefer to keep the ball on the turf. Others prefer to launch it into the air. Defending deep in…

RENTON, Wash. (AP) NATIONAL ANTHEM PROTESTS Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman said Wednesday the public isn’t listening to the message NFL players are trying to send with their actions during the national anthem. While some fans are obsessing about whether players take a knee, raise a fist or lock arms during the national anthem before games, Sherman said they should be talking about the reasons why players are protesting. Sherman…

When Skip Bayless was a newspaper columnist, his colleagues laughed at the idea of sports journalism on TV, the “talking heads in funny suits.” Now with more than a decade of TV sports under his belt — including 12 years at ESPN and a new show on Fox Sports 1, “Skip and Shannon: Undisputed” — Bayless knows it’s no laughing matter. He explained his hyper-prepared process for arguing…

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You’ve learned the rules of the game, and you’ve met the players, but now meet the man who brought Pitch to life on the small screen. Paris Barclay, whose credits include shows on opposite ends of the spectrum — Sons of Anarchy and Glee — was tasked with directing the pilot for Fox’s new baseball drama, which follows a young female pitcher (Kylie Bunbury) who defies the odds when she…

As September draws to a close with multiple teams still locked in tight playoff races, baseball fans across the country have ample reason to pore over every last detail of their managers’ decisions. And when it comes to bullpen management, they have a great deal to scrutinize. Mistakes in this arena — which, by definition, almost always occur late in games — usually come in the form of either saving…

Whether you’re a high school student or an NFL team owner, everybody texts. ReplyBuy, a finalist in the 1st and Future competition, wants to use the text message to get you tickets for sporting events. 1st and Future is a sports-centric startup competition produced as a joint effort between the NFL, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and TechCrunch. The current version of ReplyBuy works like this — the company sends a text message to all San…

The great Rio sportsfest is over. The Paralympians have arrived home, and they are recovering from their jet lag. The Olympians are already on to the next thing. Memories are fading of the state-sponsored doping scandal that overshadowed the opening of the Games in August and led to around 100 Russian athletes being excluded from the Olympics, and all Russian athletes being banned from the Paralympics. So there is a…

Barcelona tweeted shortly after the game that Lionel Messi will be out for three weeks Lionel Messi will be out for three weeks after suffering a groin strain in Barcelona’s draw with Atletico Madrid. The striker went off on 59 minutes on Wednesday after a Diego Godin tackle. He was forced to miss Argentina’s World Cup 2018 qualifier against Venezuela earlier this month with a groin injury, but has played…

With the start of the NBA season on the horizon, the Clippers and Fox Sports Prime Ticket announced Wednesday that they had  finally reached an agreement to extend their exclusive television deal. The deal will earn the Clippers around $50 million to $55 million per season — which just about doubles the $25 million annually Prime Ticket paid the team in the previous deal — according to officials who were not authorized…

Here’s some hard truths about NASCAR and racing in the wake of the sanctioning body’s decision not to penalize Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their cars flunked post-race inspection at Chicagoland Speedway. First, a quick recap of the news.  NASCAR decided — quite correctly — that giving a 10-point P2 penalty for both drivers for being minimally out of spec wasn’t fair. By virtue of his win, Truex…

NASCAR has decided not to penalize Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their cars both flunked post-race tech in the laser inspection station following Sunday’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway. In a late-afternoon teleconference on Wednesday, NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O’Donnell talked about the decision to not penalize the drivers and teams, and explained procedures going forward. Sunday night at Chicagoland…

Whether you’re a high school student or an NFL team owner, everybody texts. ReplyBuy, a finalist in the 1st and Future competition, wants to use the text message to get you tickets for sporting events. 1st and Future is a sports-centric startup competition produced as a joint effort between the NFL, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and TechCrunch. The current version of ReplyBuy works like this — the company sends a text message to all San…

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