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The driver starting dead-last, 40th, for Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway didn’t make a qualifying lap on Friday afternoon. The grid printout shows his qualifying time as 0.000 seconds at 0.000 miles per hour. His name is Matt DiBenedetto, and he hopes to someday become a Cup star. The driver starting 39th is Reed Sorenson, something of a tour veteran. The grid…

Retirement Dale has been Blunt Dale. As his final season ticks away, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has grabbed a bullhorn and demanded change — in 140-character bursts, on his podcast and through the media — on matters big and small in NASCAR. He referenced John F. Kennedy in a tweet and was the first driver to take a stand on NASCAR’s place in the national anthem debate. He angered fellow veteran…

RELATED: Final practice results | 10-lap averages | Weekend schedule Chase Elliott set the pace in final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice, topping the Saturday afternoon charts with a 157.363-mph lap at Dover International Speedway. Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevrolet edged teammate Jimmie Johnson by .067 seconds in the 55-minute final tune-up at the “Monster Mile.” Elliott will start 12th in Sunday’s Apache Warrior 400 (2 p.m. ET,…

When a young girl was injured by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium last week, a cry went up across the baseball world for increased protection for fans from batted balls. In the search for an answer, perhaps Major League Baseball can look to Japan, where the danger of foul balls has been monetized. The good news is that the girl who was hit by a foul ball crushed by…

(Reuters) – Demonstrators unfurled a banner that read “Stop Killing Us” at a Major League baseball game on Friday in St. Louis, where they were protesting the acquittal of a white former police officer who was accused of murdering a black man, local media reported. A video posted on Facebook showed a group of demonstrators high above the playing field holding a banner with the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot drawn…

This one is going to anger a lot of people so you are warned. I don’t care if you are a liberal. I don’t care if you are a conservative. I don’t really want to hear it. If I want to hear it, I’ll ask. (I’m not going to ask because I don’t give a rip). If I want to hear it, I’ll get myself to a venue that addresses…

There was a frightening moment during the Amiens vs. Lille French soccer match on Saturday. Following a goal form Lille, the visiting fans of the team celebrated the goal by rushing down the section where they were sitting. The problem was there was so much weight and pressure, it resulted in the barrier collapsing and fans getting hurt as they fell onto the field area. Take a look: Here’s another…

RELATED: Final practice results | 10-lap averages | Weekend schedule Chase Elliott set the pace in final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice, topping the Saturday afternoon charts with a 157.363-mph lap at Dover International Speedway. Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevrolet edged teammate Jimmie Johnson by .067 seconds in the 55-minute final tune-up at the “Monster Mile.” Elliott will start 12th in Sunday’s Apache Warrior 400 (2 p.m. ET,…

(Reuters) – Demonstrators unfurled a banner that read “Stop Killing Us” at a Major League baseball game on Friday in St. Louis, where they were protesting the acquittal of a white former police officer who was accused of murdering a black man, local media reported. A video posted on Facebook showed a group of demonstrators high above the playing field holding a banner with the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot drawn…

About 40 people gathered on a grassy North Philadelphia field Saturday morning to celebrate a new state historical marker honoring the spot where, on Sept. 3, 1869, civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto captained the all-black Pythians baseball team in the country’s first recorded interracial game. …

Photo credit: Andy Lyons/Getty Images In its continuing quest to greatly injure public discourse by gifting legitimacy to arguments from all sides, the Washington Post op-ed page published a hilariously dumb and wrong-headed column Friday by rural Ohio newspaper editor Gary Abernathy, mourning the loss of American professional sports’ apolitical purity. What makes sports so popular in our culture? The answer is simple: It’s a couple of hours of escape from…

Going to the Olympics was a life-changing experience for T.J. Oshie, a shootout star for the United States against Russia in Sochi. Oshie and dozens, if not hundreds, of NHL stars are disappointed they won’t get a chance to do it again at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. He would like to ensure Olympic participation in the future — but not at any cost. “To what end, like…

When Dale Earnhardt Jr. says something, it’s different. This week a firestorm broke out among sports media, and regular media, and really regular people. Politics and sports spilled across their neatly drawn lines and wrestled right in front of the general public. That’s why you heard President Donald Trump call any NFL player who kneels during the national anthem a “son of a bitch,” and that’s why you watched hundreds…

Winning a World Cup is a steep enough challenge. Pelé had the gifts, and talented and remarkable team-mates, to accomplish that not once, not twice, but three times. Trying to win over a country? That might be even harder. That seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb, even for a man nicknamed O Rei (The King). Yet, in 1975 Pelé took a gamble and ventured to the one major…

(Reuters) – Demonstrators unfurled a banner that read “Stop Killing Us” at a Major League baseball game on Friday in St. Louis, where they were protesting the acquittal of a white former police officer who was accused of murdering a black man, local media reported. A video posted on Facebook showed a group of demonstrators high above the playing field holding a banner with the St. Louis Cardinals’ mascot drawn…

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Oakland Athletics’ Bruce Maxwell takes a knee during the national anthem on September 24, 2017. (Associated Press) Ready to Resist? Sign up for Take Action Now and we’ll send you three meaningful actions every Tuesday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in…

Brandi Chastain celebrates after scoring the winning goal of the 1999 World Cup. Hector Mata/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hector Mata/AFP/Getty Images Brandi Chastain celebrates after scoring the winning goal of the 1999 World Cup. Hector Mata/AFP/Getty Images Title IX is often credited with getting more girls involved in sports, but there’s another, more intimate milestone in the women-in-sports story that deserves some recognition: This year, the Jogbra turns…

NFL LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police acted appropriately and professionally detaining Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett when he ran from a casino as officers searched for an active shooter following a report of gunfire at an after-hours club on the Las Vegas Strip, the head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Friday. A review of hundreds of videos, including police body-worn cameras, found no evidence that the…

RELATED: Practice 1 results | Full schedule for Dover, Las Vegas Matt Kenseth rose to the top of the chart Friday in opening Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Dover International Speedway. Kenseth, a three-time Dover winner, guided the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 Toyota to a best lap of 162.550 mph around the 1-mile concrete track. Drivers involved in the NASCAR Playoffs swept the top nine spots. There…