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USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck breaks down the race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

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BRISTOL, Tenn. — The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series begins a stretch of consecutive short tracks Sunday with the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Here are the particulars (all times are ET): START: Ella and Leo Gordon, the children of four-time Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon, will give the command for drivers to start their engines at 1:07 p.m. ET. The green flag is scheduled for 1:13 p.m.DISTANCE: The…

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CBS’s Los Angeles affiliate shared this tweet with their 80,000 followers on Twitter earlier today, before deleting it soon thereafter and apologizing: We apologize for an earlier tweet sent in error. — CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) April 18, 2015 The important lesson here is the obvious one: before you tweet dumb shit, make sure it is from your personal, not work, account. Or maybe don’t tweet dumb shit at all….

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal is lining up a £25m move for Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke, 24. (Daily Star Sunday)  Liverpool forward Raheem Sterling, 20, could buy out the last year of his contract, leaving Chelsea and Manchester City clear to make £25m offers. (Mail…

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Last SlideNext Slide Buy Photo Mayor Karl Dean cuts the ribbon as Sounds owner Frank Ward, left, and Gov. Bill Haslam, right , and other dignitaries look on.(Photo: John Partipilo / The Tennessean)Buy Photo It left more than a half-century ago, but baseball is back at Sulphur Dell. And though the clock was ticking, Mayor Karl Dean and First Tennessee Park’s construction crew got it done on time. Fans soaked…

Nashville a next Major League city?(Photo: Tennessean Illustration) With its booming population and growing list of prominent companies relocating here, Nashville could sustain a Major League Baseball team, according to one of the city’s top professional sports executives. The opening of First Tennessee Park, the city-funded home for the Triple A Nashville Sounds, offers another opportunity to take stock of Music City’s potential to one day be home to a…

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CBS’s Los Angeles affiliate shared this tweet with their 80,000 followers on Twitter earlier today, before deleting it soon thereafter and apologizing: We apologize for an earlier tweet sent in error. — CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) April 18, 2015 The important lesson here is the obvious one: before you tweet dumb shit, make sure it is from your personal, not work, account. Or maybe don’t tweet dumb shit at all….

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Legendary sport agent J.B. Bernstein, marketing pioneer and inspiration for Disney’s “Million Dollar Arm” speaks during Thursday’s forum at the Else School of Management at Millsaps College in Jackson.(Photo: Greg Jenson/The Clarion-Ledger) Using the true story on which the Disney movie “Million Dollar Arm” was based, celebrity sports agent and marketing pioneer J.B. Bernstein shared why “the worst idea” his friends and associates said they had ever heard turned out…

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been placed on suicide watch, TMZ reports. Hernandez, who was convicted of first-degree murder on Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, is currently being held at MCI Cedar Junction in Massachusetts. He will stay there until he’s transferred to Souza-Baranowkis prison in Shirley, Mass. A suicide watch is not uncommon in situations such as this…