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It’s going to be an interesting weekend at Richmond International Raceway. Wednesday, Tony Stewart did a brief national media tour, including an appearance on FS1’s NASCAR Race Hub, where he told the media there was still no timetable for his return to the cockpit and that he was still rehabbing his broken back. Thursday morning at 11 a.m. ET, Stewart announced he would be back behind the wheel of the…

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(Photo: The Associated Press) RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — At the flame-lighting in the ruins of Ancient Olympia, Brazil’s sport minister Ricardo Leyser tried to assure the world about the troubled Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Hours later on Thursday back in Rio, a 50-meter (150-feet) section of a bike path built high above the sea — opened just three months ago as a legacy project for the games — crashed…

The first National League baseball game was played on April 22, 1876, between the Boston Red Stockings and the Philadelphia Athletics. But it would take nearly a century before baseball fans and officials recognized that day as the birthday of Major League Baseball. See More: Start the Season Right With These 19th-Century Baseball Portraits As MLB historian John Thorn has explained, there were a few different dates in the running…

x Embed x Share Tony Stewart will race this weekend at Richmond International and is looking for a medical exemption in order to participate in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. USA TODAY Sports Tony Stewart will make his 2016 debut this weekend at Richmond International Raceway.(Photo: Peter Casey, USA TODAY Sports) Tony Stewart made news twice on Thursday. First, he announced a return to NASCAR this weekend at Richmond…

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Last Updated Apr 21, 2016 4:24 PM EDT RIO DE JANEIRO — At least two people were killed Thursday in the collapse of a new elevated bike path that has been heralded as a top legacy project of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. The accident on the Tim Maia bike path is the latest in a series of problems besetting preparations for the Aug. 5-21 games, which include worries about…

As well as the much publicised London mayoral election, in just under two weeks the Scots also go to the polls, to select their next government. As transport policy is largely devolved, the vote could make a big difference to anyone who cycles or walks. Campaign group We Walk, We Cycle, We Vote – which is supported by over two dozen organisations and primarily funded by Cycling UK – aim…

It’s official: Tony Stewart has been granted a medical waiver by NASCAR and if he races his way into the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, he will be eligible to compete for a series championship in this, his final season of racing. Stewart announced Thursday morning on Twitter that he’ll return to the cockpit of the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet this weekend at Richmond International Raceway. The three-time…

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On the same day Tony Stewart announced his return from a serious back injury, he also found himself the recipient of a $35,000 fine for comments that questioned NASCAR’s commitment to safety pertaining to loose wheels and the number of lug nuts teams are using. Stewart criticized NASCAR Wednesday for its rule that does not require all five lug nuts to be secured on a wheel before a driver…

Golf was added to the Olympics this year for the first time since 1904. The qualifying rules are a little weird and the event is a 72-hole individual stroke play format making it seem just like any other tournament and not something special like it should be. While there are several players who are definitely excited for the event, there are many who see it as just another tournament in…

Kelly Holmes has admitted for the first time she fears she never competed in a clean race at the Olympics or world championships. Britain’s double Olympic gold medallist also revealed her frustrations that she was deprived of major championship medals by athletes who cheated. “In the Commonwealth Games I reckon I was probably up against clean athletes,” she said, when asked about major championships, “but if you get one person…

Flags frame the Olympic Stadium as participants form the Olympic rings on the field during opening ceremonies in Seoul on September 17, 1988. (AP Photo / Lineno Cironneau) Thanks to an exhaustive as well as emotionally exhausting article published by the Associated Press, we now know that the 1988 Seoul Summer Games in South Korea were a horror show of torture, rape, slavery, and death. There has long been a fiction…

MIAMI, Fla. (WRIC) — A bus carrying the University of Virginia baseball team crashed into several cars in Miami, Florida Thursday afternoon after the driver went unconscious behind the wheel. According to a release, the bus was crossing U.S. Route 1 in Miami when the driver lost consciousness. The team coach and his staff attempted to gain control of the bus before it crashed into three parked vehicles and a motorized…

(Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images) Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred endorses Bryce Harper’s campaign to bring more flair to the sport. Harper caused a stir during spring training, especially among the game’s old guard, when he told an ESPN reporter that baseball was a “tired sport, because you can’t express yourself.” Hall of Fame pitcher Goose Gossage, for one, responded to Harper’s comments with disgust, telling Chicago’s ESPN 1000 in March that Harper “doesn’t know squat…

For Schilling, a conservative loudmouth known for calling into radio talk shows during his time with the Philadelphia Phillies, speaking out was nothing new. But the high-profile Bush endorsement made politics part of Schilling’s brand — one which led to an ESPN commentator job that ended Wednesday after Schilling tweeted an image of a man apparently in women’s clothing that many deemed transphobic amid an ongoing…

The dream of bringing back baseball to the University of Wisconsin dies hard. Ever since UW decided to drop baseball, along with men’s and women’s fencing and gymnastics, in response to a $2.1 million budget shortfall in 1991, baseball boosters have been trying to find a way to revive the sport. The latest effort is being led by Jeff Block, coach of the UW club baseball teams,…

COOPER CITY, Fla. – Two Cooper City youth baseball coaches have been dismissed for the season after cellphone video surfaced, showing the coaches getting into a brawl. Cooper City Optimist Club president Dwight Vander Linde told Local 10 News Thursday that a committee determined that both coaches violated the league’s Coaches Code of Conduct. Both coaches are also barred from returning for future seasons, Vander Linde said. The fight was…

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