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Channing Tatum at the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards. Tatum will star in next fall’s “Logan Lucky,” a heist film directed by Steven Soderbergh.(Photo: Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY) CONCORD, N.C. – NASCAR hasn’t been the vehicle for a major Hollywood feature film since Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby a decade ago. That’s set to change with Logan Lucky, a heist movie starring Channing Tatum that filmed several scenes at…

6:00 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment CONCORD, N.C. — There was a time when cable channel TNT carried NASCAR Cup Series racing. There was also a time when TNT’s slogan was “We know drama.” Sunday afternoon’s 500-mile race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the first race of the second round of the 2016 Chase for the Sprint Cup, would have fit perfectly into an old TNT time slot….

RELATED: Race results | Updated series standings | Chase Grid CONCORD, N.C. — If stealing a race were against the law, there would be an arrest warrant out for Joey Logano on Sunday night. Grabbing the lead from Kyle Larson after a restart on Lap 183 of 200, Logano held off a charging Elliott Sadler by .462 seconds to win the Drive for the Cure 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race…

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And it’s time now for sports. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MARTIN: It’s the playoffs – the baseball playoffs, where heroes and goats are made, or so I’m told. Mike Pesca of “The Gist” joins us from the studios of Slate in New York. Hi, Mike. MIKE PESCA, BYLINE: Hi. The goats – let us talk of the goats. MARTIN: The goats. OK, truth be told, I’d never heard…

Photo credit: Jason Miller/Getty Images Three of the four MLB division series have one team in an 0-2 hole. This isn’t a great spot to be in a best-of-five series, but it’s a very great spot for hearing the emptiest and most hackneyed postgame platitudes that athlete speak has to offer. Some highlights from this weekend, grouped by team strategy: Advertisement Get existential: This isn’t just about how you played,…

Argentina boss Edgardo Bauza said he was surprised at how much superstar Lionel Messi knows about soccer, according to Sport. Currently preparing for Tuesday’s World Cup qualifying match against Paraguay which Messi will miss due to injury, Bauza detailed his meeting with Messi before the season in which it was believed he tried to convince the superstar to return from retirement and lead the national team. Bauza met with Messi…

Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins shouts ‘Play Ball’ before Game 1 of the National League Division Series between the Nationals and Dodgers on Friday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) The postponement of Game 2 of the National League Division Series on Saturday created a dilemma for some D.C. sports fans, or at least fans of both the Nationals and Redskins who can’t prioritize one team over the other. Sunday marked the third time that the Redskins played a…

When Carson Wentz jogged onto the field with one minute and 28 seconds left in the fourth quarter with the Eagles trailing the Lions by one, I immediately assumed he was going to lead a game-winning drive because a) What can’t Wentz do? and b) What team is better suited to give up a rookie quarterback’s first-career game-winning drive than the Lions? Then, the unthinkable happened: Wentz threw his first interception…

Channing Tatum at the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards. Tatum will star in next fall’s “Logan Lucky,” a heist film directed by Steven Soderbergh.(Photo: Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY) CONCORD, N.C. – NASCAR hasn’t been the vehicle for a major Hollywood feature film since Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby a decade ago. That’s set to change with Logan Lucky, a heist movie starring Channing Tatum that filmed several scenes at…

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And it’s time now for sports. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MARTIN: It’s the playoffs – the baseball playoffs, where heroes and goats are made, or so I’m told. Mike Pesca of “The Gist” joins us from the studios of Slate in New York. Hi, Mike. MIKE PESCA, BYLINE: Hi. The goats – let us talk of the goats. MARTIN: The goats. OK, truth be told, I’d never heard…

Junior outfielder Julian Boyd of St. John Bosco has committed to Nevada. Boyd is a top athlete who continues to play football for the Braves. He’s a backup quarterback. In baseball, his hitting skills continue to improve each season. For the latest on high school sports, follow @LATSondheimer on Twitter

Andy Murray has reached nine finals in 2016, winning five of them Andy Murray secured his fifth singles title of 2016 – and 40th of his career – by beating Grigor Dimitrov 6-4 7-6 (7-2) in the China Open final. World number two Murray was seriously tested by his Bulgarian opponent but the Scot ended a near-faultless week in Beijing with the main prize. The British top seed did not…

The Japanese Grand Prix is live on the BBC Sport website and 5 live Mercedes say they are prepared to accept “some collateral damage” from Lewis Hamilton following his controversial behaviour in Japan. Hamilton refused to answer questions in his post-qualifying news conference on Saturday, accusing the media of being “disrespectful” and then walking out. It was in response to some reports of his behaviour in an earlier conference. “Let…

On a sports field, Argentina’s white and blue stripes are unmissable. They have left a mark on the football, rugby and hockey pitches, and have now turned their attention to kabaddi. While the ancient Indian sport was brought to Argentina in 1999, the country will be making their first international appearance at the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup, which is currently underway in Ahmedabad on Friday. “Most of the sports teams in Argentina…

Gareth Bale is three behind Ian Rush in the list of all-time Wales goalscorers after heading in his 25th international goal Wales suffered a setback in their World Cup qualifying campaign as a sloppy display saw them held at home by lowly Georgia. Gareth Bale headed the hosts into an early lead but Georgia, ranked 137th in the world, equalised as an unmarked Tornike Okriashvili nodded in. Wales unravelled from…

Johanna Konta is the first British woman for 32 years to make the world top 10 after reaching the China Open final British number one Johanna Konta was overpowered 6-4 6-2 by world number three Agnieszka Radwanska in the final of the China Open. Konta, 25, was chasing the biggest title of her career but unravelled against the Polish number three seed after a battling first-set display. The 11th seed,…

Good news: The weather is perfect at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which today will host a NASCAR Sprint Cup/XFINITY Series doubleheader. After two solid days of rain in the area, the weather forecast couldn’t be better: zero percent chance of rain, with a high of 72 degrees at the track. The  Bank of America 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race will start at noon ET today, with the Drive for the Cure XFINITY…

The Japanese Grand Prix is live on the BBC Sport website and 5 live Mercedes say they are prepared to accept “some collateral damage” from Lewis Hamilton following his controversial behaviour in Japan. Hamilton refused to answer questions in his post-qualifying news conference on Saturday, accusing the media of being “disrespectful” and then walking out. It was in response to some reports of his behaviour in an earlier conference. “Let…

NASCAR and the Charlotte Motor Speedway did the only sensible thing they could do by postponing tonight’s Bank of America 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, which will now run Sunday at noon ET. The Drive for the Cure 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race will then follow 45 minutes after the end of the Cup race. While it’s true that the forecast calls for the weather to clear in the…