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MORE: Buy tickets for ’16 | NASCAR announces ’16 schedule | Key highlights DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Oct. 26, 2015) – NASCAR today announced agreements with 23 tracks to field NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races for the next five years. Additionally, 24 tracks will host NASCAR XFINITY Series races through 2020.   NASCAR also announced its 2016 schedule for both of these national series. The schedule and actual placement of the dates…

If anyone had reason to be upset with the finish to Sunday’s Chase-elimination race at Talladega Superspeedway, it was Dale Earnhardt Jr. — NASCAR’s 12-time most popular driver. Earnhardt, who had to win the race to advance to the next Chase round, was battling Joey Logano for the lead and the victory when the caution flag waved for the final time, freezing the field on the heels of a multi-car…

Orion Pictures If Joseph Gordon-Levitt flapping his wings in Angels in the Outfield was a movie quote, you better believe it would make this list. (So, spoiler alert, it doesn’t.) Tomorrow night the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals go head-to-head in the first game of the 2015 World Series. Even if your team didn’t make it (you had a lot of Back to the Future enthusiasts behind…

A Mets fan thought he bought a bat similar to the one Daniel Murphy used to break the consecutive games with a home run record in the MLB playoffs only to be told that it was “out of stock.” Will Smith ordered a signed Murphy bat for $175 off the Topps website for his 12th birthday in November. However, things changed when Murphy broke the MLB record with home runs…

Rob Manfred, commissioner of baseball, before Game 4 of baseball’s American League Championship Series on Oct. 20. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) KANSAS CITY – Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday his league is making efforts to foster diversity among managers and executives even as the hiring processes of the 30 major league clubs have led to a landscape in which only one current manager isn’t white. Manfred, speaking at Kauffman Stadium…

He’s big on youth and collaboration, has hopped on the movement to harness advanced statistics in baseball scouting and is eager to bring about a cultural revolution within the Seattle Mariners organization. It’s no wonder that new manager Scott Servais gets along with his new boss, general manger Jerry Dipoto, whom he’s known since their playing days with the Colorado Rockies in 2000. Servais, 48, was introduced as the Mariners’…

COLUMBIA — Clarke Schmidt’s original plan for this past summer involved pitching in the Coastal Plain League and putting himself in position to contend for a weekend starter’s spot with the South Carolina baseball team. But very suddenly, baseball didn’t seem to matter as much anymore. Online Read David Caraviello’s blog at postandcourier.com/blog/spur-of-the-moment. Get more USC sports news at postandcourier.com/gamecocks. …

Though circumstantial, the evidence overwhelmingly suggests Kevin Harvick intentionally crashed Trevor Bayne in the final laps of Sunday’s playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway to preserve his own championship hopes. With an ailing car on the verge of losing its motor, Harvick found himself in a precarious position, sitting 10th and assured of tumbling down the running order once NASCAR waved the green flag and restarted the CampingWorld.com 500. If…

Humans playing soccer is so “been there, done that.” There’s an untapped deer market waiting to play soccer and show us all up. Their graceful majesty is perfect for the pitch, while we will our ape-frames into doing cool things with the two legs bolted to our stumpy torsos. This isn’t complicated: 4 > 2. Deer have four legs, we do not. This is the future of the…

LONDON — Craven Cottage is a rustic, farm-like soccer arena nestled gently on the bank of the historic River Thames, and it plays home to Fulham FC. A half hour before kickoff, the line for pints begins to dwindle and the pavement walkways surrounding the pitch are dotted with huddled fans waiting for the starting lineups to be announced. The first thing one notices after crossing the barrier between concessions…

Last month, Los Angeles was chosen as the U.S. Olympic Committee’s official bid for the 2024 Summer Games after Boston, the initial selection, revolted over taxpayers potentially picking up a piece of what is often a very large bill. The group No Boston Olympics protested, public opinion was awfully sour, and Mayor Martin Walsh ultimately rejected backstopping the games’ budget, declaring, “I refuse to mortgage the future of the city…

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Caption Close NEW MILFORD — The New Milford Youth Baseball Softball League is asking residents to support the renovation of two softball fields at Sarah Noble Intermediate School to be used by the league through donations to a Go Fund Me account, www.gofundme/nmbbsb. Garick Farms, the league’s landlord for the Boardman Road ball fields needs to expand its footprint and will be reclaiming Field A and Little A. The loss…

Anyone watching sports on television can see that the business of daily fantasy sports contests has exploded. Fueled by incessant TV advertising, the daily fantasy sports market — led by the two privately held online giants of the sector, FanDuel Inc. and DraftKings Inc. — has swelled into a multibillion-dollar business in just a few years. Now the U.S. government and some state authorities, responding in part to a recent…

0 Shares print TALLADEGA, Ala. — Matt Kenseth indicated that he is now part of a circus, part of a sport that has turned from a race into an entertainment show on wheels with this new Chase for the Sprint Cup format. You know what? Circuses can be fun — as long as the clowns don’t get too scary. The 2015 Chase has turned into a circus in which it…

LONDON — Craven Cottage is a rustic, farm-like soccer arena nestled gently on the bank of the historic River Thames, and it plays home to Fulham FC. A half hour before kickoff, the line for pints begins to dwindle and the pavement walkways surrounding the pitch are dotted with huddled fans waiting for the starting lineups to be announced. The first thing one notices after crossing the barrier between concessions…

NASCAR fans — and at least one driver — were apoplectic on social media Sunday after sport vice chairman Mike Helton said there was nothing suspect in the way the CampingWorld.com 500 ended at Talladega Superspeedway. Many fans took to social media to accuse Kevin Harvick of intentionally causing a wreck so he could stay in the Chase. MORE: Sprint Cup: Eight drivers in the Eliminator Round The caution ended Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s title…