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From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. Brazil is preparing to host the Olympic Games in August, but the South American nation may not be celebrating. Political problems and other issues have drawn attention away from the games in Rio de Janeiro and toward the country’s troubles. This week, Brazil’s Senate voted to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial for manipulating the budget. She is suspended from office….

Associated Press/Silvia IzquierdoA man holds a banner designed with images of people killed during police operations against drug traffickers, framed in Olympic rings, with a message that reads in Portuguese; “”Rio, Olympic champion of the killing of Indians, and Black people for 450 years” during a protest at the Complexo de Alemao slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, April 2, 2016. See Also LONDON (AP) — Doping scandals. Bribery…

RELATED: Live weather updates   DOVER, Del. — Friday’s qualifying sessions for both the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series were canceled due to inclement weather at Dover International Speedway.   On-and-off bouts of rain dropped from the skies above the “Monster Mile” early Friday morning of the tripleheader weekend, but it came on strong during the second NASCAR XFINITY Series practice, sending cars off the track during two separate incidents….

“Do you guys ever turn right?” As far as bad jokes related to NASCAR go, this one is up there. (We do turn right a couple of times a year when we run road courses. But yes, for the most part our races are on tracks where we just turn left.) Another common question — way too common, actually — is, “What do you do if you need to go…

PASADENA, Calif. • When the Navy wouldn’t let Mitch Harris leave it for baseball, Mitch Harris made sure to bring baseball with him. He wasn’t going to be inactive on active duty. For five years and a handful of deployments around the world, Harris served his country with honor and brought two baseball gloves and a few baseballs so that he could do whatever possible to keep his…

It should be said up front that however distant, a dream run to Omaha for the 2016 Texas Longhorns baseball team is not technically dead. While there is zero chance of an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament, the Longhorns could repeat the feat of 2015 and slip in as Big 12 Tournament champions. But therein lies part of the reason why, no matter what happens in the postseason,…

Whether it’s hockey or baseball, cats just can’t seem to stay away from the high-stakes world of sports. An Angels-Cardinals game was briefly halted this week when an eager orange cat sprinted across the diamond, making it pretty far into the stands before an official scooped him up. Unfortunately, the cat did not round the bases in a mid-game stunner, but if he knew what bases were, we are confident…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Like so many kids growing up in Ohio, Andy Billman learned to love Cleveland’s sports teams. And to have his heart broken. But true to the passion of a proud city whose long-suffering fans haven’t celebrated a major professional championship since 1964, the director of an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary chronicling Cleveland’s half-century of sports misery has undying hope a title will come. One day. “It’s…

(Reuters Health) – Many sports organizations need to do a better job of protecting athletes against not just sexual harassment and physical abuse but also neglect and psychological taunts, the International Olympic Committee argues in a recent article. Despite the well-recognized benefits of participating in sports, there are also negative influences on athlete health, wellbeing and integrity caused by harassment and abuse, the IOC noted in a consensus statement published…

(Via CSN) If you’re a D.C. sports fan, you’re probably familiar with the humorous bits that Comcast SportsNet anchor Michael Jenkins weaves into his shows. During the Capitals’ first-round series against the Flyers, Jenkins endeared himself to Philadelphia sports fans after they threw wristbands on the ice in Game 3 with a brutal takedown that opened with the following question: “At what point did you wake up and, as a collective group of people, decide that…

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If the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro proceed as planned this summer, the threat of the mosquito-born Zika virus may substantially increase, according to Canadian professor and biologist Amir Attaran. Writing in an article posted to the Harvard Public Health Review this week, Attaran argues for postponing or moving the Rio Olympics. He says the games, which are estimated to bring 500,000 foreign tourists to Brazil, could both speed up the…

RELATED: Live weather updates   DOVER, Del. — Friday’s qualifying sessions for both the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series were canceled due to inclement weather at Dover International Speedway.   On-and-off bouts of rain dropped from the skies above the “Monster Mile” early Friday morning of the tripleheader weekend, but it came on strong during the second NASCAR XFINITY Series practice, sending cars off the track during two separate incidents….

RELATED: Full results from opening practice   DOVER, Del. — Only four minutes into NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series opening practice on Friday at Dover International Speedway, Danica Patrick, Tony Stewart and Jamie McMurray all had single-car wrecks — a result of a gear failure on Patrick’s car that collected the other two drivers when her car left oil on the 1-mile racing surface. The Stewart-Haas Racing team — that fields Patrick’s and Stewart’s cars — confirmed the…

“Do you guys ever turn right?” As far as bad jokes related to NASCAR go, this one is up there. (We do turn right a couple of times a year when we run road courses. But yes, for the most part our races are on tracks where we just turn left.) Another common question — way too common, actually — is, “What do you do if you need to go…

MILROY, Minn. – On the first Sunday in May, the Milroy Irish opened their fifth season of play at Irish Yard, a baseball diamond carved into a soybean field on the outskirts of this southwestern Minnesota town. About 60 fans showed up – a small weekend crowd by Irish standards, but decent considering the breezy, high-50s weather – to watch the Irish hold on for a 6-5 win over Stark,…

LSU will attempt to tie its longest winning streak of the season Friday at Tennessee. The No. 11 Tigers (33-16, 14-10) return to SEC play as winners of their past five with this weekend’s games scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, 12 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. Follow live updates of the first contest in the comments stream below. “Momentum’s huge at this point in the season,” junior catcher Jordan…

Major League Baseball handed down Jose Reyes‘ suspension for his domestic violence incident this offseason, and it will see him forfeit his salary for the first two months of the season. Reyes will be eligible to return to action June 1, as he has agreed not to appeal the discipline. With the Rockies‘ shortstop position seemingly set with Trevor Story, Reyes might not have a job waiting for him even…

A collegiate baseball team in Georgia adopted a puppy as their “bat dog” after it was found abandoned in their stadium. The Savannah Bananas announced earlier this week that team president Jared Orton and his wife Kelsey adopted 7-week-old Daisy. The puppy was found crying in Grayson Stadium parking lot with no identifiable tags, according to the team’s website. The Savannah Bananas/Facebook A baseball team in Savannah Georgia, The Savannah…