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RELATED: Richmond results | Official Chase Grid   RICHMOND, Va. — A multicar accident triggered by hard racing between former teammates Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman brought out a 20-minute red flag with 37 laps remaining in Saturday night’s regular season finale at Richmond International Raceway.   The incident ruined what chance Newman had of racing himself into a Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup position after he entered the…

Some 500 rare baseball artifacts including a “Shoeless” Joe Jackson game-used bat, an 1887 autographed photo of former Boston player Mike “King” Kelly, a Carl Yastrzemski rookie card and material from the Negro Leagues are going on the auction block at Christie’s next month. “The Golden Age of Baseball” sale will feature $5 million worth of memorabilia from the National Pastime Museum, an online museum featuring items from a private…

Anthony Rieber Anthony Rieber has been at Newsday since Aug. 31, 1998 and in his current position since 2004. This has all happened already. A famous athlete from another sport announces he wants to play baseball. He is signed to a minor-league contract. The sports world and media go nuts. People get upset that he’s even trying it. Baseball is too hard, they say. The guy is too old and…

Kerber is the first German to win the US Open since Steffi Graf in 1996 Germany’s Angelique Kerber backed up her status as the new world number one with a thrilling win over Czech Karolina Pliskova in the US Open final. Kerber, 28, won 6-3 4-6 6-4 in New York to add the US Open to her victory at the Australian Open in January. Pliskova’s semi-final win over Serena Williams…

Barcelona had won their previous seven La Liga games Barcelona suffered a shock home defeat by newly promoted Alaves as manager Luis Enrique left Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez out of the starting XI. Brazilian forward Deyverson silenced the Nou Camp when he stabbed home Kiko Femenia’s cross from seven yards. Defender Jeremy Mathieu headed the equaliser from Neymar’s corner. Ibai Gomez scored the winner – beating debutant keeper Jasper…

TENNIS NEW YORK (AP) — For quite a while, Novak Djokovic‘s opponent in the U.S. Open semifinals, Gael Monfils, looked as if he didn’t want to win – or even be there at all. That premeditated ”great strategy” of hoping to lull the No. 1 seed and defending champion into complacency and mistakes did not prevent Monfils from falling into a two-set deficit. So he transformed back into his entertaining,…

Media playback is not supported on this device Man Utd 1-2 Man City: Jose Mourinho’s rotten luck v Pep Guardiola continues Pep Guardiola emerged victorious from his first Premier League battle with old adversary Jose Mourinho as Manchester City secured a fully deserved win in a frantic Old Trafford derby. Kevin de Bruyne’s cool finish and Kelechi Iheanacho’s tap-in after the Belgian hit the post put City in complete control…

TENNIS NEW YORK (AP) – For quite a while, Novak Djokovic’s opponent in the U.S. Open semifinals, Gael Monfils, looked as if he didn’t want to win – or even be there at all. That premeditated “great strategy” of hoping to lull the No. 1 seed and defending champion into complacency and mistakes did not prevent Monfils from falling into a two-set deficit. So he transformed back into his entertaining,…

TENNIS NEW YORK (AP) For quite a while, Novak Djokovic’s opponent in the U.S. Open semifinals, Gael Monfils, looked as if he didn’t want to win – or even be there at all. That premeditated ”great strategy” of hoping to lull the No. 1 seed and defending champion into complacency and mistakes did not prevent Monfils from falling into a two-set deficit. So he transformed back into his entertaining, athletic…

Amazon is pursuing video rights to a wide range of sports, including the French Open tennis championship and professional rugby, as the company looks for ways to draw new customers to its online TV service, people with knowledge of the matter said. The world’s largest online retailer has expressed interest in sports with global appeal, such as tennis, golf, soccer and auto racing, said the people, who took part in…

Snowboarders have higher concussion rates than most other adventure athletes.Laurent Salino/Agence Zoom/Getty Images When we talk about brain injuries in sports, we talk a lot about football. We mention boxing and mixed martial arts and might talk about repeated head trauma in soccer or hockey, but we mostly talk about football. There’s good reason for that, but that doesn’t mean that less traditional sports are incident free or brain injury free. The…

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Alex Morgan, center, celebrates with teammates Mallory Pugh, left, and Crystal Dunn after scoring during the U.S. Women’s National Team’s loss to Sweden in the Olympics last month. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) For families like mine, September doesn’t just mean back to school — it also means back to soccer. My oldest daughter, 15, adopted from India, has just begun her first season of high school ball. Although my younger son,…

RELATED: Practice 1 results | Final practice results   Casey Mears set the pace in final NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice Friday afternoon at Richmond International Raceway.   Mears steered the Germain Racing No. 13 Chevrolet to a best lap of 120.557 mph on the .75-mile track in final preparation for Saturday night’s Federated Auto Parts 400 (7:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM). Saturday’s regular-season finale will determine the 16-driver field…

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,…