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RELATED: Full lineup for Saturday’s race MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Successful late model drivers Claire and Paige Decker, along with cousin Natalie Decker, all hoped to take the green flag in Saturday’s Alpha Energy Solutions 250 (2:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway. Claire, 21, and Paige, 23, are sisters from Eagle River, Wisconsin, and both made the field, qualifying 31st (92.038 mph) and 30th (92.389 mph)…

12:42 PM ET print Martinsville. There isn’t a track on the circuit I enjoyed more. There isn’t a track on the schedule that better represents our heritage as a sport. The half-mile paperclip-shaped short track, almost exclusively, symbolizes how we all became race car drivers, and it symbolizes how NASCAR was formed, created, sprouted into formation. It is, in my view, the purest form of auto racing. Pure because the…

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In fact, this marks Quinnipiac’s second Frozen Four appearance, having lost the 2013 title game to its archrival Yale, situated in New Haven, Connecticut, just 10 miles south of QU’s sprawling Hamden campus. “Three years ago you were the Cinderella team at the Frozen Four,” Lahey reminded the team. “Now you’ve got a big target on your backs, because you’re recognized as one of elite programs in the country.” That’s…

print LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao said he is thinking about fighting for his country in the Olympics this summer, if the boxing competition is open to professional fighters. Pacquiao’s promoter, however, thinks having any pro — much less the eight-time world champion — fight in Rio is a terrible idea. “The idea [that] you’ll allow professionals into the Olympics at this short notice is absolutely insane,” promoter Bob Arum…

AP With Peyton Manning officially retired and his future plans unofficially in limbo, the investigation sparked by a December report from Al Jazeera that Manning obtained HGH through his wife from an Indianapolis clinic has faded. But the issue has hardly disappeared, due to the other athletes mentioned in the same documentary. One of them, free-agent baseball catcher Taylor Teagarden, has received an 80-game suspension from Major League Baseball. Via…

The U.S. Major League Baseball season starts on Sunday, and fantasy players are already making their predictions. But before you get wrapped up in this year’s games, take a look at these photos of people playing baseball across the globe.

Photo via Kevork Djansezian/Getty. Last week, celebrity gossip website Fameolous posted a video that it said showed Los Angeles Laker Nick Young admitting to cheating on his fiancée, pop star Iggy Azalea. It further claimed that the video was recorded by Young’s teammate, D’Angelo Russell. Normally, something posted on Fameolous wouldn’t merit a second glance. After all, here’s Fameolous’s “Disclaimer” section: Data and information provided on this site is for…

The financial contributions of star NCAA basketball players to universities are well-documented. According to a recent report from the National College Players Association, the fair market value of a Louisville basketball player in the 2011-2012 season was more than $1.6 million. Syracuse, Duke, and UNC players were all worth nearly $1 million each. But these lucrative players contribute much more than just to the bottom line. It’s common belief in…

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RELATED: Larson sidelined after hard hit at Auto Club MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Kyle Larson says he feels no ill effects from a heavy crash two weeks ago at Auto Club Speedway, despite soreness in his upper body and legs that lingered for a handful of days after the impact. Larson declared himself fit Friday in advance of Sunday’s STP 500 (1 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM) at Martinsville Speedway, where he’s running double duty this weekend in the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Camping World Truck Series. “Yeah, I feel…

MARTINSVILLE, Va. — With a simple, conversational tweet this week, Dale Earnhardt Jr. let his 1.39 million followers — and many others through the message’s social spread — know that he would donate his brain for scientific research upon his passing.   Earnhardt Jr. didn’t expect the informal mention over social media during Easter weekend to become national news, part of a growing focus on professional sports and brain injuries. But Friday…

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RELATED: Full starting lineup MARTINSVILLE, Va. – The third time was the charm for Joey Logano. Then again, so were the first and second. The driver of the No. 22 Team Penske Ford dominated qualifying for Sunday’s STP 500 (1 p.m. ET on FS1), topping the speed chart in all three sessions of Friday’s knockout qualifying at Martinsville Speedway. The Coors Light Pole Award was the third straight for Logano at the .526-mile paperclip-shaped…

June 1950. The French national championships is coming to a climax at the autodrome at Montlhéry, a banked concrete oval 30km outside Paris. Camille Danguillaume, winner of the 1949 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, is part of a three-man breakaway going into the final circuit, hoping to climb one step higher on the podium after the disappointment of his second-place finish the year before. He never made it to the finish line. Three days…

April 1 marks one of the saddest anniversaries in NASCAR: The 23rd anniversary of the death of 1992 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Alan Kulwicki. Kulwicki was one of five people who died on April 1, 1993, in an airplane crash near Bristol, Tennessee, where NASCAR was racing that weekend. At Bristol Motor Speedway, team members knew they couldn’t race without their owner/driver and so the decision was made to…