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RELATED: Talladega leaderboard | How Stewart will be scored   Ty Dillon subbed in for three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart on Sunday, taking over the Stewart-Haas Racing No. 14 Chevrolet at Talladega Superspeedway.   The team made the driver switch in the 52nd of a scheduled 188 laps in Sunday’s GEICO 500. The swap went according to plan, with Dillon intending to fill in during the first caution period as Stewart eases back to…

PHILADLEPHIA – When the baseball gods go against a team, it’s easy to tell. In the seventh inning Saturday night, David Lough blooped a single into center field with the Phillies and Indians tied, 3-3. Rookie center fielder Tyler Naquin broke the wrong way and it fell in front of him. Tommy Hunter was on the mound in his first appearances for the Indians and he retired the next two batters,…

of Cody Elliott, Tanya Elliott, and Trevor Elliott, reading a card which contained a check for $2100 from a quilt raffle, presented from Fredericktown’s league president. Tanya donated the money to the Danville Youth Baseball Association. by: Kurt J. Geiger, “The Danville Times” Related Coverage DANVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) — The Danville Youth Baseball Association celebrated opening day on Saturday with a touching tribute to fallen Danville Police Officer Thomas Cottrell….

‘Dega! It’s legendary for a reason, and much of that reason is the insanity of restrictor plate racing. Everyone’s as aggressive as possible to finish well at one of NASCAR’s most famous tracks, which often leads to chaos. Bonus: after a last-lap review, today’s winner wasn’t who everyone thought it would be. Today’s Xfinity Series race ended with two restarts. The first of the final two restarts happened with five…

Australian Shane Sutton won Commonwealth Games gold as a rider Shane Sutton should have got a “slap on the wrist” if necessary but should have stayed on at British Cycling, ex-swimming boss Bill Sweetenham says. Sutton resigned as technical director on Wednesday amid claims of sexism and discrimination towards elite cyclists. The Australian has denied the allegations and said he stepped down in the best interests of British Cycling. “There…

The English Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world. But in the U.S., it isn’t even the most-viewed soccer league. Mexico’s Liga MX is averaging more than 1.1 million viewers on the Univision-owned UniMas Spanish-language network, an audience 19% larger than NBC averages for its weekly EPL telecasts. And that’s a success built largely on time and loyalty, two advantages Univision’s Mexican soccer coverage has over NBC…

New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony doesn’t know if he wants to play in the Olympic Games this summer. He has represented the United States at the last two Olympics, and USA Basketball included him on its list of 30 finalists in January. In an interview with The Vertical’s Michael Lee, Anthony said that he’ll wait and see how he’s feeling in the summer: USA Basketball has provided Anthony his…

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — More than 60 years after he started playing and more than 30 years after he started coaching, the hockey rink is still where Doug Woog feels most comfortable. Even at 72 years old, he can’t help but stay involved. “Thirty-some years, you just don’t want to drop off the map either,” said Woog. Woog’s latest pet project is called Crown Hockey — an offseason program for kids…

A TV sports anchor in Nashville paid homage to the passing of Prince by infusing the music icon’s lyrics into a recent broadcast. 25 greatest Prince songs ever As iconic for his overt sexuality and gender-bending wardrobe as his infectious hooks, Prince leaves behind some of the greatest songs to ever gr… Unfortunately, the on-air tribute apparently cost him his job. The Tennessean reports that WZTV Fox-17 sports anchor Dan…

‘Dega! It’s legendary for a reason, and much of that reason is the insanity of restrictor plate racing. Everyone’s as aggressive as possible to finish well at one of NASCAR’s most famous tracks, which often leads to chaos. Bonus: after a last-lap review, today’s winner wasn’t who everyone thought it would be. Today’s Xfinity Series race ended with two restarts. The first of the final two restarts happened with five…

The English Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world. But in the U.S., it isn’t even the most-viewed soccer league. Mexico’s Liga MX is averaging more than 1.1 million viewers on the Univision-owned UniMas Spanish-language network, an audience 19% larger than NBC averages for its weekly EPL telecasts. And that’s a success built largely on time and loyalty, two advantages Univision’s Mexican soccer coverage has over NBC…

New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony doesn’t know if he wants to play in the Olympic Games this summer. He has represented the United States at the last two Olympics, and USA Basketball included him on its list of 30 finalists in January. In an interview with The Vertical’s Michael Lee, Anthony said that he’ll wait and see how he’s feeling in the summer: USA Basketball has provided Anthony his…

4:59 PM ET print TALLADEGA, Ala. — Members of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Drivers Council said they appreciated NASCAR chairman Brian France coming for part of their meeting Friday night at Talladega Superspeedway. NASCAR’s chief executive had not gone to any meetings since the group’s inception last year, theorizing that the drivers might be more open without him there. McGee: Drivers and NASCAR working together … finally Drivers organized at…

Three years ago, Miguel Yrigoyen sat in a classroom at Southeastern Community College in West Burlington, Iowa. He was on his own in a different country, without knowledge of local customs and did not speak or know English. “My first class was a health class, and my teacher started talking and I was like, ‘Woah boy, this is going to be tough,’” said Yrigoyen, who was 2,550 miles from his…

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The twin failures of Sports Authority and Sport Chalet is not about weak consumer spending or traditional merchants’ growing competition from online shopping. This is a tale about the slow, agonizing death of the concept of a supermarket selling anything but groceries. Sports Authority and Sport Chalet – with in a combined 59 stores in the region – will both be shut and liquidated through their respective owners’…

‘Dega! It’s legendary for a reason, and much of that reason is the insanity of restrictor plate racing. Everyone’s as aggressive as possible to finish well at one of NASCAR’s most famous tracks, which often leads to chaos. Bonus: after a last-lap review, today’s winner wasn’t who everyone thought it would be. Today’s Xfinity Series race ended with two restarts. The first of the final two restarts happened with five…

Roger Faulkner in 1994.(Photo: Kris Gillette) Roger Faulkner, who founded the most prominent soccer team to play in Michigan to date, said he was impressed by the $1-billion plan unveiled Wednesday in downtown Detroit by Dan Gilbert — in partnership with Pistons owner Tom Gores — to bring a Major League Soccer expansion team to Detroit. Gilbert, founder and chairman of Quicken Loans and majority owner of the NBA’s Cleveland…