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I don’t care who you are, this is hilarious. Matt Dillner and Chuck Bush have put together a tremendously funny NASCAR video they call “The F-Post Presents: Authentic NASCAR gibberish.” Featuring bad lip-syncing of some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, this is good for a serious belly laugh or two.

I don’t care who you are, this is hilarious. Matt Dillner and Chuck Bush have put together a tremendously funny NASCAR video they call “The F-Post Presents: Authentic NASCAR gibberish.” Featuring bad lip-syncing of some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, this is good for a serious belly laugh or two.

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…

Carli Lloyd’s long climb to global soccer stardom has been neither quick nor easy. And she’s seemingly had as many people rooting against her as she’s had cheering for her. But don’t take my word on that. Ask Lloyd. Or better yet read her book, “When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World,” which goes on sale Monday. In the book, written with Wayne…

LONDON The hacking of confidential medical exemptions risks tarnishing innocent athletes and turning people off elite sport, former world champion runner Steve Cram has warned. The 55-year-old Briton, the 1983 world champion at 1,500 meters and 1984 Olympic silver medalist, spoke before a fifth batch of documents were published by cyber hackers on the fancybear.net website on Friday. The data related to Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs), which allow athletes to…

Race fans, vote now on the hottest issue in NASCAR after the decision was made earlier in the week to change the way the sanctioning body will assess penalties for the remainder of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. We pose the question in the wake of NASCAR’s decision not to penalize Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their cars flunked laser inspection following the first Chase race at…

I don’t care who you are, this is hilarious. Matt Dillner and Chuck Bush have put together a tremendously funny NASCAR video they call “The F-Post Presents: Authentic NASCAR gibberish.” Featuring bad lip-syncing of some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, this is good for a serious belly laugh or two.

Carli Lloyd’s long climb to global soccer stardom has been neither quick nor easy. And she’s seemingly had as many people rooting against her as she’s had cheering for her. But don’t take my word on that. Ask Lloyd. Or better yet read her book, “When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World,” which goes on sale Monday. In the book, written with Wayne…

12:16 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment NEW YORK — Barry Larkin doesn’t have any delusions of baseball supplanting soccer as the king of sports in Brazil. But the Hall of Fame shortstop, who serves as manager for Brazil in baseball’s version of the World Cup, is deeply ambitious about the potential to cultivate the game in Latin America’s most populous nation — and he knows the best…

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…

Cole Hamels, Rangers – In a weak slate of starting pitchers (I’m not using Jake Arrieta since he plays in the lone early game), Hamels might be the best option. On the road this season, he is 9-3 with a 2.57 ERA. Chris Archer, Rays – He’s allowed three earned runs or fewer in six consecutive starts and has struck out at least six batters in 11 of his past…

3. Chapman finally has company in the 100-mph-for-a-season club. Mauricio Cabrera, 23 years old, 6-foot-3, 250 pounds, arrived with the Atlanta Braves on June 27. And all he’s done ever since is average 100.1 mph on his fastball, the fastest palindrome possible. Just as impressive, Cabrera has the biggest changeup in baseball, averaging 91 mph. How hard is that? It’s faster than the average fastball of 169 pitchers who have…

Mira Nair’s inspirational chess drama Queen of Katwe is remarkable in the simplest but most profound way: it’s an American film about Africa that doesn’t feel like it was made by tourists. The film, based on the life of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, was partially shot in the Kampala slum of Katwe, where Mutesi grew up. Nair, the Indian-born, New York-based director of Monsoon Wedding and The Namesake, has…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck looks ahead to the Bad Boy Off Road 300 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. USA TODAY Sports Martin Truex Jr., bottom, and Jimmie Johnson, top, shown here in 2015, failed post-race inspection at Chicagoland Speedway, but NASCAR decided not to penalize them.(Photo: Matthew O’Haren,…

Carli Lloyd’s long climb to global soccer stardom has been neither quick nor easy. And she’s seemingly had as many people rooting against her as she’s had cheering for her. But don’t take my word on that. Ask Lloyd. Or better yet read her book, “When Nobody Was Watching: My Hard-Fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World,” which goes on sale Monday. In the book, written with Wayne…

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