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Matt Kenseth’s meeting on Monday with NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France must have been a productive one. At least this much is certain: The 2003 Sprint Cup champion seems excited about returning to his No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota for this weekend’s season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Kenseth, suspended for races at Texas and Phoenix the past two weekends for deliberately wrecking Joey Logano on Nov. 1 at…

France and England, historic soccer rivals, joined forces to sing the French national anthem Tuesday at a soccer match between the two countries. As a show of solidarity following Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, the lyrics to the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise,” were broadcast at Wembley Stadium in London during the friendly between the two national teams, the Guardian reports. Some 70,000 fans sang along and the French national—colors,…

March 3, 2010: Former New York Yankees’ player, manager and coach Yogi Berra waves to the crowd before the Yankees home opener spring training baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida. (Reuters) New York Yankees icon Yogi Berra was among the greatest to have ever played the game – and now the baseball legend will join the ranks of other Hall of Famers to…

Oregon State baseball released a list Tuesday featuring 11 players who signed their National Letters of Intent to play with the Beavers starting in the 2017 season. Five of the 11 players from Oregon, while three others are from Washington. Two of the remaining signees are from California and another is from Utah. “We have some guys who are very multi-talented; they can play different positions. There is a good balance within the class,” Oregon…

JONESBORO, AR (astateredwolves.com) – The Arkansas State baseball program announced the addition of 10 student-athletes, including six from the state of Arkansas, Tuesday during the early signing period for the 2017 season. “First of all, I would like to commend the efforts of assistant coaches Noah Sanders and Caleb Longshore for a great early signing period for the Arkansas State baseball program,” Red Wolves head baseball coach Tommy Raffo said….

New York State’s top prosecutor on Tuesday filed for a temporary injunction that would shut down daily fantasy sports leaders DraftKings and FanDuel in the state in the latest blow to the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar industry. Daily fantasy sports gaming “is nothing more than a rebranding of sports betting,” New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in legal documents filed in a Manhattan trial court. “It is plainly illegal.” In response…

Germany’s friendly with the Netherlands on Tuesday was called off because of an “intention to ignite explosives” at the Hannover stadium. Evacuation began less than two hours before kick-off after a “concrete security threat”, said the city’s president of police Volker Kluwe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to attend the match at the 49,000-capacity HDI Arena. The German national team’s players were put…

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Athlete sponsors understandably love when their athletes win big. It gives them a chance to show that people who endorse their products are successful and, in some cases, give the impression to consumers that use of their products helped lend a hand in the athlete’s victory. That makes sense and is par for the course. So, it isn’t surprising to see a sponsor of Holly Holm‘s like supplement brand Intel…

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(Photo: The Associated Press) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — In this topsy-turvy second season of NASCAR’s new championship format, it was only fitting that the race to set the final four ended in an empty, unsatisfying way. A rain delay of nearly seven hours Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway turned the final elimination race of the playoffs into a water-logged nightmare. There was no frantic jockeying for the final three slots…

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Andong Song, a New York Islanders pick from the 2015 draft, is a post-graduate student at Phillips Academy.(Photo: Greg M. Cooper, USA TODAY Sports) ANDOVER, Mass. — It’s a glorious autumn day in this prep-school town, and the most improbable groundbreaker in hockey is heading to the rink, ready to put in a couple of more hours at the blue line with a physique not much wider than the shaft of…

Buy Photo John Cohen and Mississippi State open their season against Florida Atlantic on Feb. 19.(Photo: Keith Warren)Buy Photo STARKVILLE — Mississippi State released its 2016 baseball schedule Tuesday morning, which includes trips to UCLA, Southern Cal and Dodger Stadium. The Bulldogs make the trip to the West Coast on March 4. MSU opens with road games against UCLA and USC, before playing Oklahoma at Dodger Stadium as part of the…

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) George Genovese, a minor league shortstop and manager who became a scout for the San Francisco Giants and signed such future standouts as Bobby Bonds, George Foster and Gary Matthews, has died. He was 93. He died Sunday of a blood infection at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, near his longtime home in North Hollywood, his daughter Kathleen Haworth said Monday. ”He had been in…

It’s Monday, which means our regularly scheduled programming of This Week in (Dumb) Baseball is ready for consumption. As regular readers already know, this feature has the title, sure, but it’s mostly for fun— a fact that eludes the masses but remains the case. For example, if you tell me to “quit whining,” you are missing the point. I’m mostly chuckling to myself as I write these things (with some…

It was 5am in tiny Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Saturday and the bus was already started and roaring, ready for the trip to the hallowed ground. Five hours, 282 miles ahead – and later that day, back – past towns named Rochester and Waterloo and Cedar Rapids to Iowa City. On the bus was a family, really, the wrestling family of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. That included Tyler Kennedy, a…