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If another car spins off Turn 3 at Pocono Raceway and hits the inside wall to pit road, it won’t be from a lack of effort to prevent it. That was the gist of the message deliverered Monday by NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O’Donnell on the heels of a weekend when three competitors spun off Turn 3 and struck the track’s inside pit wall…

By Fred Dreier Published Aug. 6, 2015 Updated 6 hours ago Photo: iStockPhoto.com and Tim de Waele As cycling fans, we have grown accustomed to our sport’s constant chaos. Cycling’s transfer window is not yet a week old, and already numerous marquee athletes have either confirmed or hinted at team changes. Two teams face evaporation if their respective searches for title sponsorship come up empty. A fan-friendly American rider…

0 Shares Print Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR this week: Turn 1: We never see a car impact the pit wall like Kasey Kahne’s did on Sunday, yet we just saw it twice in one weekend. Should — or is — there anything that can be done to prevent that in the future? Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: It can be corrected by…

ENLARGE Nothing signals the possibility of violence in Major League Baseball quite like the sight of benches clearing. One player gets angry with another. Teammates spill out of the dugouts. Relievers run in from the bullpens. Headlines are made. But the modern-day baseball melee has become devoid of one seemingly essential element: actual fighting. For all players’ bombast and gesticulating, the incidents commonly labeled as bench-clearing brawls look a lot…

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0 Shares Print Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR this week: Turn 1: We never see a car impact the pit wall like Kasey Kahne’s did on Sunday, yet we just saw it twice in one weekend. Should — or is — there anything that can be done to prevent that in the future? Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: It can be corrected by…

Dean Lombardi (Ludlow, Mass.), president and general manager of the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, has been named general manager of Team USA for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey it was announced today by USA Hockey. Lombardi has guided the Kings to a pair of Stanley Cup titles in the last four seasons and has served as part of the U.S. Men’s National Advisory Group since 2009. In…

facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest Kyle Busch’s quest for wins in four consecutive races ended when his car ran out of gas in the closing laps at Pocono last weekend. Busch will be in great position to start a new streak this weekend as the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit heads to Watkins Glen for the second road race of the season. Having already won at Sonoma, Busch gets the chance to sweep the road courses in Sunday’s Cheez-It 355….

HAMBURG, N.Y. (WKBW) – Sources in Hamburg tell 7 Eyewitness News that police are investigating an alleged incident involving Chicago Blackhawks player and South Buffalo native Patrick Kane and a woman that began at a bar in Evans. A manager at Mickey Rat’s Beach Club in Evans tells 7 Eyewitness News that Hamburg police called the bar to see if Patrick Kane was there this past Saturday.  The Manager said…

Last weekend, just a few days after Boston’s Olympics dream officially died, the three 30-somethings who helped orchestrate its demise found themselves with a luxury unavailable during the preceding months: a weekend off. Kelley Gossett went to the beach, thumbing through issues of the New Yorker and Vanity Fair and enjoying a reprieve from the Olympics-related literature that had dominated her reading for months. Liam Kerr spent time with his…

Pennant races are coming on hot and heavy, and myriad players have rapidly separated themselves from the pack. Meanwhile, other notable stars have cooled off in recent weeks since the All-Star break. The difficult part with daily fantasy baseball is picking which players will keep producing and which ones will falter Thursday. That’s where we come in. Before locking in your lineups, consider starting the studs and ditching these…

AKRON, Ohio – University of Akron baseball alumni and supporters have launched a website and are working to save the program. The program, which cost about $700,000 a year, was eliminated by the university last month as one measure to deal with a $60 million deficit. Baseball alumni on Thursday launched SaveZipsBaseball.com to serve as the primary source of news and organization for alumni and supporters. A GoFundMe site has raised…

If you’re not old enough to drink (legally), you’ve never experienced anything but blissful baseball labor peace — 21 seasons of rainouts and cold weather posing the biggest threats to a fixed schedule. But the 22 years before that were a little different — five strikes, three lockouts and seemingly as much Marvin Miller and Donald Fehr as Yankees and Red Sox. Thursday marks the 30th anniversary of the start of…

This time last year, Major League Baseball, like that lady with no nose on The Knick, was in danger of losing its face. Derek Jeter, the fist-pumping, jump-throwing, grounder-up-the-middle-missing icon who’d been baseball’s most recognizable star for close to two decades, was retiring, leaving the league with a void that countless doomsaying columnists fretted it wouldn’t be able to fill. So how are we holding up in Year 1 A.D….

But lately, baseball is forcing its way into the conversation. Back-to-back state North Dakota American Legion Class B titles will do that. Beginning on Thursday, Carrington Post 25 plays in the Central Plains Division II Regional in Le Sueur, Minn.. Last year, Post 25 didn’t get to play in the regional, but a format change now allows all state champions to play in the regionals. It’s not an unexpected run…

Dave Dombrowski has a .468 winning percentage as a general manager. Basically, every team he’s put together has gone 76-86, adrift and out of contention, on average. Heck, even Ruben Amaro, Jr. has a career .510 winning percentage. And we’re supposed to believe that teams are so excited about Dombrowski that there’s a bidding war for his services? That there’s even a MYSTERY CLUB? Seems unlikely. Unless there’s more…

The tragic story of 9-year-old bat boy who died Sunday after he was accidentally hit in the head in Kansas caught the baseball community off guard. “Absolutely brutal,” said Mike Zirelli, a former assistant coach at Santa Clara University who managed the PUF Capitalists, a collegiate summer baseball program which played its home games at Palo Alto High. “I have an 8-year-old son myself and a 5-year-old son, and they…

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A swimmer with a heart-wrenching history is about to race at the Olympics, so of course NBC will first air a slickly produced feature full of teary interviews and stirring music. Not next year. Not enough time. With the 2016 Summer Games taking place in Rio de Janeiro, which is just an hour ahead of the United States’ Eastern time zone, the network can broadcast many high-profile events live in…