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Third-generation racer Austin Dillon is a serious patriot. That much was clear after Dillon’s media availability Friday afternoon at Richmond International Raceway. Asked how he thought NASCAR fans would react if a driver didn’t stand during the National Anthem as Colin Kaepernick and other National Football League players have done recently, Dillon minced no words “I don’t know how it would go over with our fans,” said Dillon, who drives…

This afternoon USA Swimming officially announced the 2016-17 USA Swimming National Team. The 106 member team is made up of swimmers finishing in the top six of each Olympic event. A fifth of this group includes National Team rookies. The Open Water National Team has twelve members. Read more from USA Swimming here: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – With 37 medalists from the 2016 Olympic Games headlining the roster,…

In Tim Tebow, the Mets now have their Ben Affleck equivalent. The guy whose obvious talents, at multiple positions, are mitigated by a polarizing personality. Even before Thursday, the Mets had their Matt Damon. That would be Kelly Johnson. “What does that mean?” Johnson asked The Post, when the comparison was presented to him this past week in Cincinnati. The comparison first occurred to me when the Mets reacquired Johnson…

No. 17 Tennessee will face Virginia Tech Saturday (8 p.m. ET, ABC) at one of the most historic venues in all of motor sports: 153,000-seat Bristol Motor Speedway. The matchup, which has been in the works for about three years, has been coined as “college football’s biggest ever.” Sounds pretty cool, right? Here’s how and why the Battle at Bristol came to be. So, how exactly do you…

When the World Cup of Hockey was announced with two teams that aren’t actually countries, many – including me – snickered at the idea. Adding a team of players from the European countries that didn’t get invited and pulling players away from Canada and the U.S. to form a 23-and-under team quashed any notion that the league had the purity of international hockey in mind. As a big fan of…

During Bawitha Tling’s tumultuous journey fleeing war and forced labor under Myanmar’s dictatorship — first to a Malaysian refugee camp, and eventually to Philadelphia — one of the few constants in his life was soccer. “We played every day in our country at school … in recess time or after school,” Tling said. “I came here, and play every day, every weekend. Soccer is my favorite way to relax myself,…

The report explains that Amazon hired a former Sports Illustrated executive, James DeLorenzo, to head up a sports division earlier this year. In addition, the company poached a former YouTube executive, Charlie Neiman, to look into partnering with sports companies and build new business opportunities. Amazon has refused to make a public comment, but these preliminary negotiations could be the start of a whole new broadcasting platform. One of the…

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Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow on Thursday agreed to terms with the Mets. As noted in this very space, Tebow, who’s 29 years old and hasn’t played organized baseball since high school, will report to fall instructs to work on his fledgling yet aging baseball skills. Needless to say, this is a critical and very fundamental step toward his stated goal of making the major leagues….

The morning after their bittersweet victory in the third and final game of the Intercity League baseball championship in August, members of the Lexington Blue Sox paid tribute to their critically ill teammate Dave Ahern. The first and only baseball All-American at Babson College, Mr. Ahern was in his fifth season with the Blue Sox when he was found unconscious and in cardiac arrest Aug. 18 in his South Boston…

New York — Rookie Tyler Austin hit a solo homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees their season-high fifth straight victory, 5-4 over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday night. Brian McCann hit two homers for the Yankees, who moved a season-high nine games over .500 (74-65). Austin homered off Erasmo Ramirez (7-11) on a 3-2 pitch for his third homer since…

4:31 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Tim Tebow is beginning his professional baseball career at 29 years old, so the New York Mets can exercise only so much patience in seeing what they have. It’s a baseball judgment they claim they’ll make internally, with no preconceived notions and minimal regard for public perception. “I think this will run its natural course,” general manager Sandy Alderson said on…

The morning after their bittersweet victory in the third and final game of the Intercity League baseball championship in August, members of the Lexington Blue Sox paid tribute to their critically ill teammate Dave Ahern. The first and only baseball All-American at Babson College, Mr. Ahern was in his fifth season with the Blue Sox when he was found unconscious and in cardiac arrest Aug. 18 in his South Boston…

4:31 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Tim Tebow is beginning his professional baseball career at 29 years old, so the New York Mets can exercise only so much patience in seeing what they have. It’s a baseball judgment they claim they’ll make internally, with no preconceived notions and minimal regard for public perception. “I think this will run its natural course,” general manager Sandy Alderson said on…

For the first time ever in the sport F1 teams could invest in shares to help develop it further Formula 1 teams are to be given the chance to buy shares in the sport for the first time following a takeover by US giant Liberty Media. The first stage of a buyout was completed on Wednesday, with Liberty taking 18.7% in a deal that values F1 at $8bn (£6.25bn). The…

The inflation-busting deals being secured by sports rights owners around the world demonstrate the unwavering value of live sports. Sky and BT Sport paid more than £5 billion for live Premier League TV rights for three seasons from 2016-17, representing a 70 percent increase on the previous cycle. Meanwhile, Comcast reportedly paid around $12 billion for rights to the Olympics through 2032 and the cost of a 30-second slot for advertisers in the Super Bowl…

Strasburg walks off the field. (Photo by John McDonnell / The Washington Post) Some sports towns measure time and place by championships. Where were you during Game 7? Or during the championship parade? Or when the banner was raised to the rafters? Washington sports fans do not measure time and place by championships. They use MRI results. I remember exactly where I was when Robert Griffin III fell to the ground, his…

Former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback Tim Tebow made his intentions to play baseball known several weeks ago, and now he has an organization. And wouldn’t you know it, he’s signed with another orange and blue team, much like the Florida Gators and Denver Broncos. Tim Tebow … Meet the Mets. The AP reports that Tebow and the Mets agreed to a $100,000 signing bonus. As James Wagner notes…

Ryan Lochte is banned from swimming through next June and will forfeit $100,000 in bonus money that went with his gold medal at the Olympics, part of the penalty for his drunken encounter at a gas station in Brazil during last month’s games. The U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Swimming announced the penalties Thursday. Lochte agreed to a ban that will also render him ineligible for world championships next July…