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NASHVILLE — Clint Dempsey wants to look ahead to helping the US defend its CONCACAF Gold Cup title and not back to his confrontation with a referee that caused American coach Jurgen Klinsmann to replace the fiery forward as captain for the tournament. Dempsey converted a penalty kick in his return from a suspension, Timmy Chandler scored his first international goal, and the United States routed Guatemala, 4-0, Friday night…

0 Shares Print DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR will not return to the Trump National Doral Miami resort for its postseason Camping World Truck Series and Xfinity Series banquet after Donald Trump’s recent comments on the presidential campaign trail. NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion Matt Crafton poses with his trophies during last year’s Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series banquet at Trump National Doral Miami. NASCAR announced it…

By Garrett Wilson Are the Angels now the worst organization in baseball? It seems almost impossible that any franchise could ever step to the Marlins and dare displace them atop the dysfunction power rankings. Yet somehow in the last six months and culminating in the resignation of Jerry Dipoto, Arte Moreno and company have shown the world that when it comes to reprehensible behavior, they go to 11. To be…

You’ll recall that Yankees DH Alex Rodriguez homered off Justin Verlander on June 19 and in doing so recorded the 3,000th hit of his career. You’ll also recall that said home run ball was retrieved by an enterprising sort named Zack Hample, who actually wrote a book on catching home run balls and foul balls. That, of course, brought us to this … Here’s A-Rod’s 3,000th hit/ball. Told the @Yankees…

The organization that attempted to take a urine sample from Jose Aldo last month only for its representative to get in trouble with Brazilian authorities is saying it did nothing wrong. Drug Free Sport sent Ben Mosier to Rio de Janeiro to conduct a urine test on Aldo, the UFC featherweight champion, on June 11 on behalf of the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC). When Mosier arrived at Aldo’s Nova…

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While golf organizations apparently hope the Donald Trump controversy will go away, NASCAR on Friday cut ties with the Republican billionaire presidential candidate, who has doubled down on racist remarks that called Mexican immigrants “rapists.” On the same day one of its top sponsors called on NASCAR to take a stance against Trump, the motorsports series said it will not hold its season-ending awards ceremony at the Trump National Doral…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Despite requests from NASCAR and track officials and drivers, fans gearing up for this week’s race in Daytona Beach are flying the Confederate flag. [RELATED: Fans offered Confederate flag swap | Activist who took down flag OK with jail time] The Confederate flag became more of a hot topic in the wake of a mass killing last month at a South Carolina church, where a man…

More on this Big inning lifts Cuba past USA, 5-1 07/02: Team USA blanks Cuba again, 2-0 07/01: Team USA no-hits Cuba in 2-0 win 06/30: Medlin: USA-Cuba series mirrors world events Duke’s Clark, NCSU’s DeJuneas added to Team USA roster 06/30: Seiler: Sports can be a bridge between countries Durham, N.C. — Ahead of Friday night’s game between the USA Collegiate National Team and the Cuban Senior National Team…

You’ll recall that Yankees DH Alex Rodriguez homered off Justin Verlander on June 19 and in doing so recorded the 3,000th hit of his career. You’ll also recall that said home run ball was retrieved by an enterprising sort named Zack Hample, who actually wrote a book on catching home run balls and foul balls. That, of course, brought us to this … Here’s A-Rod’s 3,000th hit/ball. Told the @Yankees…

When Derek Jeter retired last year, the pundits puzzled over who would be the next “Face of Baseball.” Jeter was the guy on the Wheaties box, after all. And more broadly, Jeter’s retirement seemed to close one era of baseball and open another. Without an elder statesman, the game belonged to the kids. But would there be enough excellent, prodigious young players to replace Jeter’s cohort? We already have an…

Two Cuban baseball players have defected while in the United States for a series of games against U.S. collegians, the island’s official sports media confirmed. Third baseman Luis Yander La O left the team in North Carolina, where the Cuban team has been playing tuneups ahead of the Pan American Games in Toronto, according to a Friday report by the sports website Jit — a phonetic rendering of “hit” in…

1904 — The Philadelphia Phillies snapped the New York Giants’ 18-game winning streak with a 6-5 10-inning victory. 1935 — Tony Cuccinello of the Dodgers and his brother Al — for the Giants — each hit home runs in the same game to mark the first time in major league history that brothers on opposing teams connected for homers. Brooklyn beat New York 14-4. 1937 — Hal Trosky hit three…

A Confederate flag is seen in the infield at Daytona International Speedway on Friday.(Photo: Jerry Markland, Getty Images) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Confederate flag with the snarling Iron Maiden logo in the center declared that the South will rise again. Hanging from another side of John Wilson’s tent, a black POW/MIA banner stirred in the barely-existent breeze on Friday afternoon at Daytona International Speedway. An American flag had been…

Donald Trump(Photo: Joe Camporeale, USA TODAY Sports) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR will not return to the Trump National Doral Miami resort for its postseason award banquets after Donald Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants this week. NASCAR spokesman David Higdon said the decision was made Friday to hold the sport’s Xfinity and Camping World Truck series banquets at another location, as well as the Sprint Cup Series’ championship weekend news…

As the U.S. women’s national soccer team tries Sunday to claim its first World Cup since 1999, the sport itself appears to be in great shape. More girls and women than ever are participating at the high school and college levels, and the best even have a chance to make money by playing professionally. It’s a success story with few equals in the era of Title IX, the 1972 law…

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A 28-year-old man died early Friday morning in a possible alligator attack in Orange, just outside of Beaumont, police said. The last fatal alligator attack in Texas occurred about two centuries ago.   The man, whose identity was not released pending notification of his family, was swimming with a woman in Adams Bayou off Burkart’s Marina in the 1800 block of Mississippi Street when police said a large alligator…

One of the biggest NASCAR sponsors in all of racing is pumping the brakes on Donald Trump — trying to pull a huge awards ceremony from one of Trump’s properties and urging all of NASCAR to cut ties. TMZ Sports has learned … Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis reached out to NASCAR head Brian France to express his anger over Trump’s comments regarding Mexican immigrants. Lemonis is a HUGE player…

In all my years doing NASCAR weather there has been only ONE race weekend where I totally got the weather forecast wrong. That race was the 2014 Coke Zero 400 in Daytona last July. NASCAR is back to the track where the 2015 season started, and it’s my chance for a little redemption. Weather in Florida during the month of July is hot, humid with nearly a constant threat…