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CLEMSON, S.C. — The first month of the college football season doubled as a highlight tape for the Louisville football program. There was Lamar Jackson leaping over helpless cornerbacks, connecting with streaking receivers and catapulting the Cardinals to unprecedented heights. Few teams have ever streaked into the national consciousness as violently and surprisingly as Louisville. It crashed the top five of the polls, emerged as a College Football Playoff darling…

T: TRUMP was NEVER labeled a racist by liberal media and crooked Hillary until his running for POTUS. DONALD TRUMP, as the Republican presidential candidate, is truly an OUTSIDER who goes against the corrupt PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS who have led USA on a wrong track of economic and military disadvantage for the last eight years. SINCE CROOKED HILLARY BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE IN 2009 WITH FAILED FOREIGN POLICY, USA has been…

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RELATED: Live weather updates | Weekend schedule After spotty rain affected events all day Saturday at Dover, NASCAR postponed the XFINITY Series’ Drive Sober 200 until 10 a.m. ET Sunday (CNBC, MRN, SIRIUS XM). The second race of the NASCAR XFINITY Series Chase was set to be the capstone to a day of action at Dover International Speedway. Fans with tickets to either race will be admitted for both. Tickets are available here. …

RELATED: See photos from Saturday’s rainy day at Dover   The XFINITY Series Dover race postponement — due to weather — left teams scrambling to assemble their lineups Saturday afternoon with playoff chances on the line.   Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup contenders, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano and Austin Dillon were expected to perform double-duty, but with both races now on Sunday, teams had to reassemble its lineups so…

RELATED: Chase Grid | Sunday’s full lineup DOVER, Del. — The track that has brought Jimmie Johnson so much success is also the site of one of his biggest disappointments. It was here at year ago at Dover International Speedway that Johnson’s No. 48 Chevrolet was felled by a broken axle seal, relegating the Hendrick Motorsports driver to a 41st-place finish. RECAP: What plagued Johnson at Dover last year One…

Half the beauty of high school sports is being able to see athletes at their genesis: think Valor Christian’s Christian McCaffrey before he became a Heisman Trophy front-runnner, or Mountain Vista’s Mal Pugh before she ascended to soccer stardom on the U.S. Women’s National Team. But what if the best athletes in their respective sports didn’t play for their local high school? What if we missed that first fleeting look…

Did you hear that? I think that loud screaming you heard was Knoxville celebrating the latest Tennessee comeback win. After falling behind 17-0 in the game, Tennessee closed out the game on a 34-14 run, stealing the game from the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens with a Hail Mary pass from Joshua Dobbs to Jauan Jennings. If you listen closely, you can hear a lone voice screaming “OMAHAAAAAAAAAAA!” This is the Volunteers…

RELATED: Chase Grid | Sunday’s full lineup DOVER, Del. — The track that has brought Jimmie Johnson so much success is also the site of one of his biggest disappointments. It was here at year ago at Dover International Speedway that Johnson’s No. 48 Chevrolet was felled by a broken axle seal, relegating the Hendrick Motorsports driver to a 41st-place finish. RECAP: What plagued Johnson at Dover last year One…

Michigan defensive back Jourdan Lewis made a ridiculous one-handed catch to intercept Wisconsin quarterback Alex Hornibrook and seal a 14–7 victory. Lewis was back covering wide receiver George Rushing, and as he fell to the ground he reached up to get the ball with his right hand. He then puled it into his body to complete the catch, as Rushing tried to deny that he had possession. How he didn’t drop…

RELATED: Chase Grid | Sunday’s full lineup DOVER, Del. — The track that has brought Jimmie Johnson so much success is also the site of one of his biggest disappointments. It was here at year ago at Dover International Speedway that Johnson’s No. 48 Chevrolet was felled by a broken axle seal, relegating the Hendrick Motorsports driver to a 41st-place finish. RECAP: What plagued Johnson at Dover last year One…

LONDON — A 14-year-old girl received a photo on Snapchat that showed a man holding a black placard with the message: “Are you British, or are you Muslim?” She eventually told a mentor on her soccer team, Shamender Talwar, who said the girl was being recruited by the Islamic State. He urged her to decide what was more important: soccer or the militant group. She picked soccer. Weeks earlier, reports…

RELATED: Live weather updates | Weekend schedule Saturday’s on-track action started well for the second Sprint Cup practice at Dover International Speedway — home of this weekend’s Sprint Cup Series and XFINITY Series races. But sprinkles turned to heavier rain with 15 minutes left in that practice, bringing out the red flag after 45 minutes of the 55-minute session. XFINITY Series qualifying was also off to a good start, but was scrapped…

Seventeen drivers will take part in a three-day tryout next month at New Smyrna (Fla.) Speedway to compete for spots in the 2017 edition of NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity driver development program. This is the 13th year of the combine, where promising ethnically diverse and female drivers from across North and South America are evaluated for inclusion in next season’s program. In a partnership with Rev Racing, drivers…

ON THE COVER Team USA won 16 Olympic gold medals in Rio—and 33 total medals, including at least one in 29 of 32 events! No fewer than 38 of its 45 swimmers won at least one medal, while 18 Americans went home with multiple medals. The standouts for the U.S. included the obvious names (Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky), some newer faces (Ryan Murphy, Maya DiRado, Lilly King,…

Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed autoplay autoplay NEW YORK — Chants of “Allahu Akbar” are not what you’d expect to hear at a Brooklyn baseball diamond directly after “The Star-Spangled Banner.” But a 29-member all-Pakistan squad that last week visited the U.S. seeking a berth at the World Baseball Classic brought a new flavor to America’s pastime. As a former British colony, the world’s oldest Islamic republic is cricket…

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John Hanley has made a living by balancing his two childhood loves — baseball and art. The 54-year-old veteran sports artist has sold hundreds of Cubs-related paintings and prints to baseball fans across the country in a decadeslong career that began at a Chicago advertising agency. As a child in Crystal Lake, Hanley doodled on whatever he could get his hands on, from napkins to envelopes. But art really didn’t…

PRO FOOTBALL HOUSTON (AP) A person familiar with J.J. Watt’s condition said the Houston Texans’ star defensive lineman had back surgery and is expected to miss the rest of the season. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team hasn’t announced the surgery. Watt was placed on injured reserve Wednesday with a back injury. It’s his second back surgery in two months after he…