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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — Scattered rain showers may have forced some creative track scheduling Tuesday morning at New Smyrna Speedway, but it was all sunny skies ahead for the 12 NASCAR Drive for Diversity candidates turning laps and turning heads. The talented group of drivers representing all regions of the country — and even Mexico — took part in Day Two of a three-day combine by running two 10-lap…

San Diego’s new professional soccer team has a name: 1904 FC. The FC stands for Football Club, a standard abbreviation for soccer teams around the world. The 1904 is not quite as obvious. It is not the year the city was established (San Diego was in 1769), or the year the club began like Germany’s FC Schalke 04, which was founded in 1904. It is a numerical representation of “SD,”…

reader comments 16 As Ars’s resident car guru Jonathan Gitlin tears through the racing nuts and bolts of this week’s new racing video game, Gran Turismo Sport, he has asked me to kill time by reviewing its higher-end elements. Namely, Jon owns neither a PlayStation VR headset nor a 4K HDR display, and both of those are specifically and uniquely supported by the latest Gran Turismo game (and first in the series…

As thousands of Californians take stock of the damage caused by wildfires, one boy’s story has at least half of the teams in Major League Baseball rallying behind him. In a letter to the Oakland Athletics, posted on Twitter by Katie Utehs, an ABC 7 News Bay Area journalist, 9-year-old Loren Jade Smith writes about his love of the team and the loss of his beloved baseball collection in the…

<!– –> VISIT CNBC.COM Home Entrepreneurs Leadership Careers Money Specials PRIMETIME Careers Careers 5 Hours AgoCNBC.com Kansas City Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer’s home run during a game against the Cleveland Indians this past May was one of the season’s most epic. And it wasn’t just because of the distance and velocity — an estimated 469 feet at 110 mph — it was also because of the bat. Hosmer wasn’t…

Rob Tornoe Rob Tornoe/Cartoon of the Day Baseball fans are all abuzz after Baseball America’s Tracy Ringolsby wrote there is a “growing consensus” within the MLB to expand the league to 32 teams, with the likely expansion cities being Portland and Montreal (I was rooting for Mexico City). The question I would ask is why anyone, other than MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, clamoring for more baseball teams? I guess it’s…

If you haven’t noticed, Major League Baseball hasn’t added any teams since 1998. That’s the longest stretch without new teams since baseball added four teams, including the Twins, in 1961 and 1962. The prevailing wisdom for most of that time is that baseball had run out of cities that could sustain new franchises. But, as a recent story in Baseball America pointed out, there’s an ownership group in Portland, Ore.,…

Ryne Sandberg’s basement is a treasure trove of baseball curios and tributes to his 16-year career. The Cubs Hall of Fame second baseman has his nine Golden Glove arranged pyramid style on a wall There’s a three-dimensional painting for Sandberg which he views through 3D movie glasses A rhinoceros figurine in a Cubs uniform (“Ryno,” get it?) stands guard by the fireplace Sandberg keeps old gloves in…

Cris Carter gives Dez Bryant a strong ultimatum 2 hours ago

Let’s all welcome back basketball, shall we? Welcome back, basketball Yes, after a long offseason full of petty social media strife and bonkers trades, Tuesday night brought the return of the NBA, now with all kinds of zany new subplots. Kyrie Irving is on the Celtics! Chris Paul is on the Rockets! Carmelo Anthony is finally free of the Knicks! And the first night of the season gave us plenty…

Paul Tagliabue, Mike Nelms and Tom McMillen talk before entering the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame in July. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) In one of the hardest-hitting pieces of journalism published over the past 12 months, The Washington Post’s D.C. Sports Bog asked some probing questions this summer about the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame, such as: Why are there so many more baseball and football players than hockey and…

reader comments 16 As Ars’s resident car guru Jonathan Gitlin tears through the racing nuts and bolts of this week’s new racing video game, Gran Turismo Sport, he has asked me to kill time by reviewing its higher-end elements. Namely, Jon owns neither a PlayStation VR headset nor a 4K HDR display, and both of those are specifically and uniquely supported by the latest Gran Turismo game (and first in the series…

Entry to the Forbes 400 is harder than ever, with a minimum net worth of $2 billion needed to crack the list of richest Americans. The bar for entry is up 18% from last year thanks to a booming stock market. The world of sports is well represented, with more than 10% of the 400 owning a major sports team. Franchise owners are profiting from a media landscape in which…

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — Scattered rain showers may have forced some creative track scheduling Tuesday morning at New Smyrna Speedway, but it was all sunny skies ahead for the 12 NASCAR Drive for Diversity candidates turning laps and turning heads. The talented group of drivers representing all regions of the country — and even Mexico — took part in Day Two of a three-day combine by running two 10-lap…

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You never know what’s going to happen at Talladega — and that’s not a spotter-less Brad Keselowski reference. Few expected nearly two-thirds of the field to get wiped out in crashes, including eight of the 12 remaining playoff drivers, but it happened Sunday. Here’s what was good and bad about 500 miles at Talladega to mark the halfway point of this year’s playoffs. Thumbs Up: Racing Without a Spotter If…

Welcome to Power Rankings. As always, Power Rankings are far from a scientific formula. In fact, it’s the perfect blend of analytics and bias against your favorite driver. Direct all your complaints to us at nickbromberg@yahoo.com and we’ll try to have some fun. 1. Brad Keselowski (LW: 9): No, Brad Keselowski didn’t assume the role of best restrictor plate racer with his win on Sunday. He was already there. Keselowski’s…

  The Uganda Cycling Association (UCA) has okayed the Mbarara bicycle race to be included on the association calendar as an annual event starting next year. This comes after Mbarara held a successful national bicycle race that went as far as Bushenyi over the weekend. John Richard Sseninde, the UCA vice president in charge of technical matters, confirmed that starting next year, Mbarara will have a national…

The WNBA San Antonio Stars (in gray) are moving to Las Vegas under new owners – S&P 500 company MGM Resorts International. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Spectator sports has long been America’s favorite form of entertainment, and Las Vegas has long been one of America’s favorite vacation destinations. But for decades, the two existed in a relative vacuum – at least outside of the race and sports books, where billions…