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Concentrated quiet turned to crazed screams in Lincoln Park on Sunday night as thousands watched the U.S. women’s national team score two goals on Japan within the first few minutes of the World Cup final. The crowd ignited as Carli Lloyd rewrote the World Cup record books with a hat trick — three goals — in 16 minutes, as the U.S. went on to defeat Japan 5-2. “Unbelievable,” said Mike…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. dominated the Coke Zero 400 in a race long delayed by rain.(Photo: Jerry Markland, Getty Images) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A recap of all the results and action from Sunday night/Monday morning’s rain-delayed Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway: WINNER: That Dale Earnhardt Jr. guy is pretty darn good at restrictor-plate races. Earnhardt won his second straight plate race early Monday morning, taking the Coke Zero…

There are dozens of ways women’s soccer teams become great, from hard work to star players to stronger funding commitments. An interesting analysis from Public Radio International suggests another possible factor that can help: gender equality. Countries that have better gender equality, it found, tend to have way better women’s soccer teams. Kuang Keng Kuek Ser, a journalism fellow at PRI, looked at what characteristics differentiate the 23 countries…

0 Shares Print The United States women’s soccer team became the latest in a long line of teams to avenge previous notable defeats. After losing a heartbreaking match to Japan in the 2011 World Cup final, the U.S. bounced back for a dominating triumph in the 2015 final. Here’s a look at others who pulled off a similar accomplishment, beating the team that previously beat them in a notable situation….

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR Vice Chairman Mike Helton warned drivers in Sunday night’s drivers meeting about blocking. Helton explained the genesis of the double yellow line at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway before getting into a discussion about blocking. Drivers are not permitted to go below the yellow lines to advance their position. If so, NASCAR will penalize them. If a driver blocks and forces a competitor below the…

Concentrated quiet turned to crazed screams in Lincoln Park on Sunday night as thousands watched the U.S. women’s national team score two goals on Japan within the first few minutes of the World Cup final. The crowd ignited as Carli Lloyd rewrote the World Cup record books with a hat trick — three goals — in 16 minutes, as the U.S. went on to defeat Japan 5-2. “Unbelievable,” said Mike…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — After a rain delay of more than two hours, NASCAR was making progress drying Daytona International Speedway and hoped to start around 11 p.m. Sprint Cup spotters were summoned to their perch above the grandstands at 10:30 p.m., and NASCAR began conducting radio checks, which is standard procedure before starting and event. The green flag was scheduled to wave at 8:08 p.m. ET, but persistent rain showers began around…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR Vice Chairman Mike Helton warned drivers in Sunday night’s drivers meeting about blocking. Helton explained the genesis of the double yellow line at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway before getting into a discussion about blocking. Drivers are not permitted to go below the yellow lines to advance their position. If so, NASCAR will penalize them. If a driver blocks and forces a competitor below the…

The United States Sunday will fight to win its third Women’s World Cup and extend a quarter-century run of dominance in women’s soccer. The national team has never finished worse than third in the competition and has consistently ranked near the top of the worldwide rankings since FIFA started keeping such records in 2003. Four Olympic gold medals in five tries adds to the Americans’ haul. Victory is normal. Losses…

Rico Abreu has earned his first career stock car victory, racing to the win in Saturday night’s NASCAR K&N Pro Series East event at Columbus Motor Speedway in Ohio. Abreu first set a track record in winning the pole for Saturday’s race. He then held on for the victory in the race that followed qualifying, drawing praise and congratulatory notes via Twitter from several of his driver friends in NASCAR…

Seven-goal thriller the highest scoring women’s final Carli Lloyd hits 13-minute hat-trick Captain Lloyd’s third from halfway line USA first nation to win three Women’s World Cups Carli Lloyd scored an incredible 13-minute hat-trick as the United States thrashed Japan to win their third Women’s World Cup title. In a repeat of the 2011 final, which Japan won on penalties, …

London Olympics 2012 promised to leave the legacy of an inspired generation engaged in sport. So, three years on, how is it looking? Numbers released on the amount of people playing sport regularly have been closely scrutinised since the big event According to the latest release of Sport England’s annual active people survey, the number of people in England who regularly take part in sport is rising. But is has…

“Beyond the rapacious machinations of FIFA, the game is an art form.” We’ve all had them. They might have come via TV or a live event, through personal participation or from reading the paper or listening to the radio. They are those moments when sports lifted our emotions somewhere past fandom to a place where adrenaline and passion create a potent and focused form of…

Steven Rebenstorf has numerous flags flying atop his canopy tent inside Daytona International Speedway. The Confederate flag is front and center. It’s been like that for years. And the 57-year-old Rebenstorf has no plans to take it down — not even if NASCAR decides to ban the embattled flag from its racetracks. “They’d have to come and get it,” Rebenstorf said Saturday, pointing out that his American flag purposely flies…

VANCOUVER, B.C. — The twisted brilliance of the four-year World Cup crystallizes a player’s legacy in an instant, ignores the years of dedicated training for a single moment of fast-twitch muscle memory. There’s a reason that, for all his subsequent drug problems and post-career shenanigans, to most, Diego Maradona will forever be the merry little thief who stuck a thumb in mighty England’s eye. Brandi Chastain will always…

A few years from now, when your buddy asks if you’ve heard about the 4-foot-4 NASCAR driver who regularly wins races, you can smile and pat him on the back. Uh, yeah. You heard of Rico Abreu way back in 2015, when he won his first stock car race in just his seventh start. Abreu is on the fast track to NASCAR’s national series, and his win Saturday night in…

The last time the U.S. women’s national team won the World Cup, it was on home soil, before a record crowd of more than 90,000 people at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. They did it in one of the most dramatic ways possible, with Brandi Chastain scoring on the final kick of the penalty shoot-out. And if those factors weren’t enough to make the game memorable, Chastain’s shirt-twirling, bra-bearing celebration…

Donald Trump knew he’d get attacked from all sides when he threw his hat in the Presidential ring, but he says he was taken by surprised by the NASCAR boycott. Trump was on “Fox and Friends” Saturday and said he knew he’d be a target, but he felt NASCAR was simpatico with his views on immigration. As we reported, Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis said his group is boycotting the…

After a brief reprieve at a road course out West, NASCAR hits the familiar turns of Daytona International Speedway Sunday for the Coke Zero 400. It’s one of the most important events on the calendar as the Sprint Cup Series returns to NBC and the Chase looms in the distance. As expected, things are a little more cluttered than usual on the leaderboard after the winding bends of Sonoma….

Are you missing watching Steve Nash play sports already? Well, good news! He’s coming back. Maybe. Kind of. According to a report in the New York Daily News, Steve Nash has been training with the New York Cosmos B Team of the National Premier Soccer League. Steve Nash is making a comeback in New York. Just not in basketball. The future NBA Hall of Famer trained this week…