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Photo credit: Eddie Wood/Wood Brothers. Glen Wood stands next to his first NASCAR Grand National car, a 1953 Lincoln, at Martinsville Speedway on May 17, 1953 – his first NASCAR start. It’s a home game for the Wood Brothers.   But the April 3 STP 500 (1 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) is a home game the Wood Brothers haven’t experienced as a full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team with a…

The president of the Professional Cyclists Association, Gianni Bugno, has demanded that lessons are learned following the death of the Belgian cyclist Antoine Demoitié, who was hit by a motorbike after a fall during the Gent-Wevelgem cycling classic on Sunday. The 25-year-old rider was taken to the University Hospital of Lille after the accident during a section of the race in Northern France but his team, Wanty-Gobert, confirmed Demoitié’s death…

Saturday afternoon, UConn’s women’s basketball team beat Mississippi State by a score of 98-38 in the Sweet 16. Their 60-point margin of victory was the largest of any Sweet 16 game of all time, and larger than any other margin of victory in the NCAA Tournament. Mississippi State was not a chump. The Bulldogs went 28-8 this year and earned a 5-seed in the NCAA Tournament. They won two…

ENLARGE There is going to come a time when the U.S. men’s national soccer team gets bounced unceremoniously from a qualifying tournament for the World Cup. Even great soccer nations experience these calamities. England wasn’t part of the 1994 World Cup or the 2008 European Championship. The Netherlands, which came within a penalty shootout of a second consecutive World Cup final in 2014, failed to qualify for this summer’s Euro….

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Proponents of a soccer complex on The Fly are scrapping the project, which was to be built with $4 million in donations from the likes of Saints owner Tom Benson and quarterback Drew Brees. John Payne, who began his drive for improved soccer facilities in Audubon Park two years ago, said in a statement that the project had become “hugely divisive,” so much so that he has told others involved in the project…

Get all of Joan Niesen’s columns as soon as they’re published. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS or Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers. ST. LOUIS – Sa’ad Hussein is huddled under a heated bus stop in a country where nothing makes sense. His two suitcases, which stand nearly waist-high, are tagged from Nairobi to Zurich to Atlanta to Chicago to here, St….

The president of the Professional Cyclists Association, Gianni Bugno, has demanded that lessons are learned following the death of the Belgian cyclist Antoine Demoitié, who was hit by a motorbike after a fall during the Gent-Wevelgem cycling classic on Sunday. The 25-year-old rider was taken to the University Hospital of Lille after the accident during a section of the race in Northern France but his team, Wanty-Gobert, confirmed Demoitié’s death…

Buy Photo The 2016 ALL-USA Central Indiana Preseason Baseball team.(Photo: IndyStar)Buy Photo With Indiana a flat-out baseball hotbed, it’s not easy winnowing down a list of the talented Indianapolis-area players to come up with the best at their respective positions. So consider this a primer of players to watch, as we present this year’s American Family Insurance Preseason All-USA Central Indiana high school baseball team. INDYSTAR 2016 PRESEASON ALL-AREA BASEBALL…

To many baseball observers, the hiring of Dave Roberts by the L.A. Dodgers came as a surprise. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY ROB TRINGALI / GETTY Farhan Zaidi, a thirty-nine-year-old who was born in Canada to Pakistani parents and grew up mostly in the Philippines, holds a Ph.D. in behavioral economics from the University of California at Berkeley. While he was working on that degree, he read Michael Lewis’s book “Moneyball,” published…

print Often, the best approach in a mock draft can be one you don’t think will work. Tristan H. Cockcroft has been looking to use the “Modified Labadini” approach in an ESPN Fantasy staff mock draft for a month now, but has been blocked from getting the integral piece of the puzzle by just a pick or two on several occasions. “Pretty much, it’s Kershaw, 14 hitters and 10 pitchers,…

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“A box score is more than a capsule archive. It is a precisely etched miniature of the sport itself, for baseball, in spite of its grassy spaciousness and apparent unpredictability, is the most intensely and satisfyingly mathematical of all our outdoor sports.” — Roger Angell, The New Yorker Angell penned those lines for The New Yorker in the 1960s, when the promise of a new spring made him increasingly eager…

Even as the rest of the television business was showing signs of strain, with younger users cutting the cable cord or even avoiding cable altogether, sports seemed like a bastion of safety for media companies—the one reliable thing for which users would always be willing to pay. But cracks are starting to appear in the foundation of that assumption. Some of the biggest cracks so far have shown up at…

Within the next year, we should get a peek at the future of how we will get our sports on television. The networks and three of the Power 5 conferences will have to make decisions that should offer clues about how we should expect to watch sports in 2026. The world of cable television and rights fees has changed considerably since schools tore up the conference landscape in the Great…

At our newsroom morning meeting last Thursday, one of the Strib’s entertainment editors said our guy Colin Covert would rather punch himself in the face for 2.5 hours than watch “Batman v Superman” again. That sentiment came through in Colin’s review of the too-violent, too-boring superhero flick that opened this past weekend. And it sounds like his review was one of the nicer ones. We didn’t go. (We haven’t yet figured out…

Saturday afternoon, UConn’s women’s basketball team beat Mississippi State by a score of 98-38 in the Sweet 16. Their 60-point margin of victory was the largest of any Sweet 16 game of all time, and larger than any other margin of victory in the NCAA Tournament. Mississippi State was not a chump. The Bulldogs went 28-8 this year and earned a 5-seed in the NCAA Tournament. They won two…

Caption Close Josh InnesFormerly: KILT-AMCurrent whereabouts: Hosts an extremely popular and sometimes controversial drive-time show in Philadelphia on WIP-FM. Source: CBS Philly Josh Innes Formerly: KILT-AM Current whereabouts: Hosts an extremely popular and sometimes controversial drive-time show in Philadelphia on WIP-FM. Source: CBS Philly Photo: Dave Rossman Panagiotis KalentzisFormerly: KKHH-FMCurrent whereabouts: “PK” accepted a morning co-host position with Atlanta’s WWPW-FM (Power 96.1) Source: The PK and DK Channel Trailer! Panagiotis Kalentzis Formerly:…

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The president of the Professional Cyclists Association, Gianni Bugno, has demanded that lessons are learned following the death of the Belgian cyclist Antoine Demoitié, who was hit by a motorbike after a fall during the Gent-Wevelgem cycling classic on Sunday. The 25-year-old rider was taken to the University Hospital of Lille after the accident during a section of the race in Northern France but his team, Wanty-Gobert, confirmed Demoitié’s death…