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Great Britain are highly unlikely to repeat their stunning performance at the home Games, but Team GB chiefs remain confident that their athletes will impress once again.  “If all stars align and things go perfectly, it could be as good as 79 medals,” said Simon Timson, UK Sport director of performance. “We can be confident it will be our best ever away Games.” The sports data company Infostrada track all countries’…

RELATED: Dale Jr. shows how to make the perfect banana-mayo sandwich BRISTOL, Tenn. — Just 10 days after Dale Earnhardt Jr. tweeted out a photo of a banana-mayonnaise sandwich, NASCAR’s 13-time winner of the NMPA Sprint Most Popular Driver has helped raise $145,000 for Blessings in a Backpack, an organization that provides food for elementary school children across America who might otherwise go hungry. With $50,000 of the total donation coming from…

MORE: Cain: Busch keeps pedal down | Busch atop standings post-Texas The potential of a Kyle-Busch-to-Indy-500 bid has gained traction in recent weeks, with Busch himself fueling some of the speculation in the midst of his current NASCAR hot streak. The reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champ says he’s intrigued at the notion of running the IndyCar crown jewel race in a one-day double with the Coca-Cola 600, but that competing in the…

Fan struck by ball through netting at Begin Slideshow View the Gallery April 15 (Reuters) – A fan was taken to hospital after being struck in the head by a foul ball during the Tampa Bay Rays’ game against the Chicago White Sox at Tropicana Field in Florida on Friday. The game was held up for several minutes as the woman was carried out of the ballpark on a stretcher…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though. We’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

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RELATED: Full race lineup | See all 40 cars BRISTOL, Tenn. — When Carl Edwards wins the pole at Bristol, good things happen — for Edwards. So forgive the driver of the No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing if he feels optimistic about Sunday’s Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway (1 p.m. ET, FOX, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), the eighth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race of the season. With the only sub-15-second lap in the money round of…

If you doubted that drone racing was a real sport—that robots flying through garish neon gates belong in the same league as muscled athletes who actually sweat—consider this: It’s coming to ESPN. This week, the International Drone Racing Association and ESPN announced a multi-year distribution deal. It’s not about to knock Sportscenter out of its time slot, however. The collaboration’s first event, the US National Drone Racing Championships, will be…

Academy Sports + Outdoors and Dick’s Sporting Goods have expressed interest in buying the assets of rival U.S. retailer Sports Authority that are on sale in a bankruptcy auction, according to people familiar with the matter. The auction will determine whether Sports Authority, which opened its first store in Florida in 1987 and expanded nationwide, will be sold off in pieces, or its creditors will hold on to it and…

Here are five things we learned in Atlanta sports business this week: 1. Liberty Media’s reaction to the Braves’ poor start. John Malone, the billionaire chairman of Braves owner Liberty Media, was asked at a stockholders meeting Monday when the team, then 0-5, would win its first game. “It’ll be awhile,” Malone answered (accurately as it turned out). “Listen, we’re rebuilding.” With Liberty on the verge of issuing a separate…

uproxx Throughout the 1990s, Hollywood gave us an abundance of sports movies that spanned every major popular sport. Baseball and football were well-represented, of course, but we also saw plenty of movies that attempted to portray what life was like for athletes in less-popular sports like golf (Tin Cup), track and field (Without Limits), and even bowling (Kingpin). The look and feel of a sports movie is always important in…

BRISTOL, Tenn. — The unveiling of Colossus, the world’s largest outdoor, center-hung, four-sided video screen, is the latest addition in amenities race fans can enjoy when attending NASCAR-sanctioned events at Bristol Motor Speedway. “To be able to unveil Colossus today is a neat experience and definitely one for the history books at Bristol Motor Speedway,” BMS General Manager Jerry Caldwell said Thursday during a private unveiling of the engineering marvel. The entire piece weighs…

New York City-based Modell’s Sporting Goods is also interested in ports Authority, which has 464 stores across the country, the people said. But family-owned Modell’s, whose stronghold is on the U.S. East Coast, has not yet decided whether it will participate in the auction, the people added. Dick’s, Academy Sports and Modell’s are jockeying for position as the sporting goods industry sees increased competition from new entrants such as Wal-Mart…

Why would anyone spend $24 million to buy a 1 percent stake in the New York Yankees? Minority ownership seems like a lose-lose proposition: A lot of money for very little power. For wealthy sports fans, though, it’s cool — and can be one heck of a tax shelter. Owning a piece of a team can create the kind of on-paper losses that cut a wealthy owner’s bill to the Internal…

CHICAGO — WGN Morning News sports anchor Pat Tomasulo tells us how he REALLY feels about Kobe Bryant’s retirement in a video that has since gone viral on Facebook. “I’m sorry, but sometimes this job makes me snap,” Tomasulo wrote with his post on his Facebook page. In less than 24 hours, Tomasulo’s epic video rant was viewed over 100,000 times and shared nearly 1,000 times. “What a crazy night it hot sports takes,” Tomasulo begins….

View photo . Zhou Qi, center, defends in a game two years ago. (Getty Images) Zhou Qi, a 7-foot-2 prospect in the Chinese Basketball Association, will declare for the 2016 NBA draft, league sources told The Vertical. Zhou has the potential to be a first-round selection, and NBA front-office executives have closely monitored the center’s development in his two seasons with Xinjiang. Zhou will submit paperwork for early entry and…

‘Every club lives on its history…apart from Chelsea. They haven’t got any!’ There were handbags over the airwaves on Thursday night as Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher and Sports Bar co-host Jason Cundy rowed live on air following another stunning European night for the Reds. In the car on the way home from a rocking Anfield, regular talkSPORT listener Carra was ‘high as a kite’ after watching his beloved Reds fight…

Academy Sports + Outdoors and Dick’s Sporting Goods have expressed interest in buying the assets of rival U.S. retailer Sports Authority that are on sale in a bankruptcy auction, according to people familiar with the matter. The auction will determine whether Sports Authority, which opened its first store in Florida in 1987 and expanded nationwide, will be sold off in pieces, or its creditors will hold on to it and…