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Next season for NASCAR’s 2018 Bank of America 500, Charlotte Motor Speedway is ditching its traditional 1.5-mile oval and will incorporate a windy, infield road course into it, creating a 2.42-mile, 18-turn loop. Drivers tested on the “roval” last week, and their reactions were varied. Martin Truex Jr. called it unique and crazy, Kurt Busch said it’s too slow and Jamie McMurray said the best word to describe it is…

Competitors play bridge at the Acol Bridge Club in London in 2015. (Tim Ireland/AP) The card game bridge is many things. It is a game of strategy and skill, with complex rules and a rich history played by millions of people, with tournaments held every year around the world. But bridge is not — according to a European court — a sport. On Thursday, the European Court of Justice ruled…

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The home run is the greatest play in American sports — not only the most efficient way to put numbers on the board but also the most beautiful. The slugger swinging from his heels, driving the ball as a hammer drives the nail deep into the wood. Boom. Just like that, it’s a white dot in the sky, a God-ball that ascends to heaven, breaking a million hearts as it…

Competitors play bridge at the Acol Bridge Club in London in 2015. (Tim Ireland/AP) The card game bridge is many things. It is a game of strategy and skill, with complex rules and a rich history played by millions of people, with tournaments held every year around the world. But bridge is not — according to a European court — a sport. On Thursday, the European Court of Justice ruled…

“I feel fortunate because it’s like having your cake and eating it, too,” Mr. Shanus said. “You get a lot of pleasure in holding it, but if you sell it, it’s an appreciating asset.” Photo A baseball signed by Ronald Reagan, as shown, and also Mikhail Gorbachev, not pictured, in Mr. Shanus’s collection. Credit George Etheredge for The New York Times Unlike, say, fine art or coins, the growth in…

When Jonida Lagji was contacted by Fort Worth-based Touchdown Sports about buying a banner and 1,000 T-shirts to support the local high school, she thought it was a good way to raise awareness for her insurance agency in Old Bridge, N.J. She had just opened a few months earlier and also wanted to support the schools in her community, which is about 35 miles south of New York City. Lagji…

– He contacted his head, because his head didn’t get down on the ground. – So that’s a dirty hit. – No– it’s not a dirty hit. It’s illegal. – Right. Dirty implies either some malice, or that he was trying to hurt the guy. The reality is this though, CC. This– that play only happens to quarterbacks, and it only happens quarterbacks because we are trying to protect quarterbacks….

The home run is the greatest play in American sports — not only the most efficient way to put numbers on the board but also the most beautiful. The slugger swinging from his heels, driving the ball as a hammer drives the nail deep into the wood. Boom. Just like that, it’s a white dot in the sky, a God-ball that ascends to heaven, breaking a million hearts as it…

Competitors play bridge at the Acol Bridge Club in London in 2015. (Tim Ireland/AP) The card game bridge is many things. It is a game of strategy and skill, with complex rules and a rich history played by millions of people, with tournaments held every year around the world. But bridge is not — according to a European court — a sport. On Thursday, the European Court of Justice ruled…

8:20 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment It was a nasty game between the Belfast Giants and the Sheffield Steelers on Sunday night in the U.K.’s Elite Ice Hockey League, and that nastiness manifested in one of the most stunning displays of violence in the young season — and one of the most controversial decisions by a hockey league’s player safety department. Defenseman Spiro Goulakos of…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Shane Doan is beginning his post-playing career in the NHL’s hockey operations department, where the longtime Arizona Coyotes captain will get a feel for how the league office works. After playing 21 seasons for the Winnipeg Jets/Coyotes franchise, the 41-year-old will work closely with senior executive vice president of hockey operations Colin Campbell, who hasn’t carved out a specific set of responsibilities…

My happiest moments come when I’m able to watch a sporting event – either live or on TV – with an audiobook playing in my ears. Living in a college town affords me frequent opportunities to attend high level sports for shockingly low costs. At every live basketball, soccer, hockey, field hockey, or football game (the teams I follow), I’ll listen to an audiobook while watching the game. …

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At 33 years of age and an NBA pro since 2004, Carmelo Anthony is still keeping both sides in the game. Sunday at home against the Timberwolves, Anthony hit a 3-pointer with 4.7 seconds left to give the Thunder a 113-112 lead. He then strutted around making with his three-shots-to-the-head gesture. But he was so busy kissing his own fanny he either didn’t know or forgot that Minnesota had no…

Mark Cuban, billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters A new report by UBS and PwC found the total wealth of the world’s billionaires grew by 17% in 2016 to $6 trillion.  Billionaires, according to the report, are “ turning their attention to sports.” John Matthews, coauthor of the report, told Business Insider that owning a sports team is not just an ego play for billionaires. Billionaire wealth grew by…

x Embed x Share CLOSE Take a look at some of the memorable times athletes have flipped the bird for fans to see. USA TODAY Sports Old Hoss Radbourn, top left, flips the bird in a pre-game photo from 1886.(Photo: Library of Congress, Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) A football player from the University of Tennessee raised a pair of middle fingers to the University of Alabama student section Saturday. A…

At 33 years of age and an NBA pro since 2004, Carmelo Anthony is still keeping both sides in the game. Sunday at home against the Timberwolves, Anthony hit a 3-pointer with 4.7 seconds left to give the Thunder a 113-112 lead. He then strutted around making with his three-shots-to-the-head gesture. But he was so busy kissing his own fanny he either didn’t know or forgot that Minnesota had no…

The World Series hasn’t just been a slugfest on the field … Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch was involved in a heated altercation after Game 1 and cops were called … TMZ Sports has learned.  Here’s what we know … Hinch was hanging out at the bar at the team hotel in Pasadena on Tuesday night after Houston lost Game 1 to the Dodgers.  We’re told he was having some…

North Korea claims to have identified the latest U.S. plot to bring down its self-proclaimed socialist paradise—a vicious assault on the reclusive, militarized state’s supreme sports legacy. Following a fresh round of harsh U.S. sanctions against North Korea and its nuclear weapons program, Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) carried a statement attributed to the National Sports Guidance Committee in which the government body accused Washington of “stretching its…