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RELATED: Full results for final practice   Kyle Larson made it a perfect sweep of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practices, as his No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Chevrolet flew to the top of the leaderboard at 132.577 mph in Saturday’s final practice session at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Larson paced the field in Friday’s lone session and tied Martin Truex Jr. for the fastest speed/time in Saturday’s…

In this election season, Mike Trout has a simple platform. “I try to be the best player in the league every year,” he said. He has succeeded this year, again. Now comes the vote for most valuable player, and the annual debate over whether “best” and “most valuable” are the same thing. If enough voters decide they are not, Trout loses. In his first four full seasons in the major…

Despite lacking resources and any history of success, the Pakistani national baseball team has managed to rise in the world rankings. The key is cricket players. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY EVE KILSHEIMER / MLB PHOTOS VIA GETTY When the Pakistani national baseball team arrived in Brooklyn, this week, to play in a qualifying round of the World Baseball Classic, it was the first time in a year that its players had…

OLYMPICS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) The U.S. Olympic Committee and leaders of the effort to bring the 2024 Games to Los Angeles reached terms on a marketing agreement, clearing a major hurdle nearly a year before those Olympics are awarded. The Joint Marketing Program Agreement would shift a majority of the USOC’s marketing revenue over to the host city for a period surrounding the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee requires…

Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Saturday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT: – Notable college football games: No. 8 Michigan State-No. 11 Wisconsin (noon); No. 10 Texas A&M-No. 17 Arkansas (9 p.m.); No. 12 Georgia-No. 23 Mississippi (noon); No. 14 Tennessee-No. 19 Florida (3:30 p.m.). – The Pittsburgh Steelers cross Pennsylvania to play the Philadelphia…

Team Russia forward Alex Ovechkin (8) and defenseman Andrei Markov (79) embrace goalie Sergei Bobrovsky (72) after a 3-0 win over Team Finland in preliminary round play in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey at Air Canada Centre.(Photo: Dan Hamilton, USA TODAY Sports) TORONTO – Most Canadian senior citizens can probably tell you where they were when man first walked on the moon in 1969 and when Paul Henderson scored the…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment LOUDON, N.H. — Carlos Contreras has spent the 2016 Camping World Truck Series season working hard to get to every race, and working with several drivers to get there. The match between driver and the Contreras Motorsports team for the race Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway is one made in multicultural heaven. Israeli driver Alon Day is competing for the Mexican-owned team of…

LOUDON, N.H. — NASCAR returns to the business of postseason Chases in all three of its top series this weekend. Two of those tours have landed in New England, greeted by crisp weather and the changing of the seasons.   But thoughts continue to focus on the news of this week’s social unrest nearly 900 miles away in Charlotte, North Carolina — stock-car racing’s hub and one of the sanctioning…

Photo credit @grommet on Twitter! An Interstate Batteries van gussied up in a NASCAR-themed livery based on the company’s sponsorship of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing team collided with one of them fancy-pants Google self-driving Lexus cars in Mountain View, California according to 9to5Google.com. Advertisement According to the report, there were no injuries from the crash. It wasn’t immediately clear which vehicle was at fault nor whether or not…

Matthew DeBord/BI I’m not going to get into the long and illustrious history of the Chevrolet Corvette, in continuous production since the 1950s and now into its seventh generation. You can look it up. Suffice it to say that we really, really like Vettes. The C7 Stingray was our 2014 Business Insider Car of the Year. It set a whole new standard for this most American of vehicles (still bolted together…

Despite lacking resources and any history of success, the Pakistani national baseball team has managed to rise in the world rankings. The key is cricket players. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY EVE KILSHEIMER / MLB PHOTOS VIA GETTY When the Pakistani national baseball team arrived in Brooklyn, this week, to play in a qualifying round of the World Baseball Classic, it was the first time in a year that its players had…

x Embed x Share Foothills Academy players voted they would only play their soccer game against Faith Christian with their two female teammates. (Obert/azcentral sports) Sisters Alyssa and Colette Hocking sit and watch so that their teammates could take the field and play Our Lady of Sorrows in a CAA boys soccer game. Our Lady of Sorrows had refused to take the field if the girls played.(Photo: Courtesy of Noelle…

Earlier this week, NASCAR decided not to penalize Chicagoland Speedway winner Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their respective cars both flunked post-race tech on NASCAR’s laser inspection station, or LIS. Both cars flunked the LIS at the lowest of three possible thresholds. Normally, that’s a 10-point penalty. Because Truex won the race, the first event of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, he automatically will advance to the…

Despite lacking resources and any history of success, the Pakistani national baseball team has managed to rise in the world rankings. The key is cricket players. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY EVE KILSHEIMER / MLB PHOTOS VIA GETTY When the Pakistani national baseball team arrived in Brooklyn, this week, to play in a qualifying round of the World Baseball Classic, it was the first time in a year that its players had…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Adrian Beltre hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning and the Texas Rangers secured their second straight AL West title, becoming the first American League team to clinch a playoff spot with a 3-0 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Friday night. Beltre’s homer came during a three-run seventh after Oakland starter Kendall Graveman (10-11) pitched six perfect innings. Texas got its first baserunner when Carlos…

NEW YORK — Liam Carroll probably couldn’t have picked a better location for the biggest games of his coaching career. As manager of the team representing Great Britain at this week’s World Baseball Classic qualifier, Carroll and his 28-man roster have their sights set on earning the final berth in next year’s 16-team WBC field. It would easily qualify as the biggest moment in the history of the British baseball…

But citing basketball as the reason for a decline is just scratching the surface. Youth sports participation is down among almost all games and all races, according to a Wall Street Journal article . From 2000-2013, baseball took the biggest hit, falling from 8.8 million players aged 7 to 17 to 5.3 million, a decrease of almost 40 percent. Economics also play a significant role when examining African-American youth participation…

Photo: Annie Wermiel The world’s most expensive baseball card has hit the auction block, and sports fans in Manhattan scored a peek at it Friday. The extremely rare 1909 Honus Wagner — which experts have called the “Holy Grail” of sports memorabilia — is expected to fetch up to $5 million in an online auction ending Oct 1, said Ken Goldin, founder of Goldin Auctions. “In the world of sports,…

OLYMPICS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) The U.S. Olympic Committee and leaders of the effort to bring the 2024 Games to Los Angeles reached terms on a marketing agreement, clearing a major hurdle nearly a year before those Olympics are awarded. The Joint Marketing Program Agreement would shift a majority of the USOC’s marketing revenue over to the host city for a period surrounding the Olympics. The International Olympic…

Earlier this week, NASCAR decided not to penalize Chicagoland Speedway winner Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their respective cars both flunked post-race tech on NASCAR’s laser inspection station, or LIS. Both cars flunked the LIS at the lowest of three possible thresholds. Normally, that’s a 10-point penalty. Because Truex won the race, the first event of the Chase for the Sprint Cup, he automatically will advance to the…