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The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs continue on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with just two races to go in the Round of 16. Martin Truex Jr. has already locked in his spot for the Round of 12, taking the checkered flag at Chicagoland but who will be the next to join him? Here are our picks for Sunday’s ISM Connect 300 at The Magic Mile. Winner: Kyle…

Commissioner Rob Manfred announced in May a reconstituted 16-member competition committee formed to address subjects such as the pace of game and roster sizes. Baseball owners, managers, a couple of former players and executives, including Cubs President Theo Epstein, had conference calls to discuss the game’s most pressing issues, which now presumably includes the debate over whether expanded netting at ballparks should be mandatory instead of optional. Obviously there have…

Trump ignites controversy with comments on NFL players Democratic strategist Robert Patillo and GOP strategist Sean Noble react Professional sports has been caught in President Trump’s crosshairs as of late after he issued stinging attacks against protesting athletes and team owners. “If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL, or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect …,”…

Donald Trump was the subject of startlingly strong abuse from major sports stars on Saturday, after he criticised NFL players protesting racial against injustice and appeared to withdraw an invitation for the Golden State Warriors to visit the White House, breaking a tradition dating back to the Reagan years. On Friday, point guard Steph Curry, the NBA champions’ star player, told reporters he planned to vote no when the players…

RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is celebrating the 87th anniversary of its foundation this weekend with a big program of concerts and performances, including a pageant operetta on Saturday evening which will allow women to enter the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh for the first time. The festivities are part of a government move to boost national pride and improve the quality of life for Saudis. Also on offer…

Mountain West action abounds on Saturday as the undefeated San Diego State Aztecs are facing off against the Air Force Falcons in a primetime showdown. San Diego State is looking to maintain its undefeated record against the 1-1 Falcons, who suffered a difficult loss to Michigan last Saturday in a grueling game. The Air Force defense limited Michigan throughout the game, although the triple option offense sputtered. SDSU is coming…

9.58am EDT09:58 Crash in the main group As news comes in that Italian favourite Giorgia Bronzini has been dropped there is a crash in the main group involving three more Italian, Longo Borghini is amongst them, there was a member of the Dutch team in there too. The USA also look to have lost Megan Guarnier. Updated at 10.10am EDT

Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend? IndyCar is over and Formula 1 isn’t back until next week with the Malaysia Grand Prix. Fortunately we always have NASCAR to watch and…

The NHL playing preseason games in China is a bittersweet reminder that the most international league of the four major sports and its biggest growth sector resides overseas. But it’s also a reminder that out of pettiness and greed they failed to convert on what is the best built-in marketing tool to grow the game in that sector, the Olympics. That was a sad reality that Alex Ovechkin finally came…

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BLACKSBURG – The Virginia Tech men’s soccer team defeated top-ranked and previously unbeaten Notre Dame 2-1 Friday night at Thompson Field. The win, Tech’s first over a No. 1 team since 2011, takes the Hokies’ record to 4-4 overall and 1-2 in conference play. The Hokies came up with two goals against a Notre Dame defensive unit that had given up three goals through the first six matches….

Bad news for sports fans who wish their sports would remain politics-free: the nation’s lead politician has fired off his own sports hot take, and that means “stick to sports” is dead and gone. During a Friday night rally in Alabama, President Trump took a moment to focus on the NFL, and in just a few paragraphs obliterated whatever lines still exist between politics and sports, while managing the remarkable…

The NHL playing preseason games in China is a bittersweet reminder that the most international league of the four major sports and its biggest growth sector resides overseas. But it’s also a reminder that out of pettiness and greed they failed to convert on what is the best built-in marketing tool to grow the game in that sector, the Olympics. That was a sad reality that Alex Ovechkin finally came…

This makes me look at my playing career differently. I wonder how, if Twitter had existed then, I would have handled the public release of, say, my father’s illness, or pushing back against trade rumors coming from every direction when I played for the Texas Rangers in 2003. I viewed privacy as having the choice of whether to address a personal issue beyond my trusted circle. For public figures today,…

The NHL playing preseason games in China is a bittersweet reminder that the most international league of the four major sports and its biggest growth sector resides overseas. But it’s also a reminder that out of pettiness and greed they failed to convert on what is the best built-in marketing tool to grow the game in that sector, the Olympics. That was a sad reality that Alex Ovechkin finally came…

The NHL playing preseason games in China is a bittersweet reminder that the most international league of the four major sports and its biggest growth sector resides overseas. But it’s also a reminder that out of pettiness and greed they failed to convert on what is the best built-in marketing tool to grow the game in that sector, the Olympics. That was a sad reality that Alex Ovechkin finally came…

Image credit: Angelica Alzona/GMG I thought I was done. My kids were no longer babies, which meant no more formula, which meant no more time laboring at the sink, hand-washing 90 separate Dr. Brown’s bottle parts and leaving them soaking on a dishtowel to dry. That part of my life, as far as I was concerned, was over. But no. No, it turns out that my time in Bottle Hell…

Would anyone skip the Olympics because of the latest North Korea tensions? (Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters) Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are running high this week as President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have traded barbs about the Asian nation’s nuclear capabilities. On Tuesday in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Trump called Kim “Rocket Man” and said he was leading a “depraved regime.” Kim shot back…

The NHL playing preseason games in China is a bittersweet reminder that the most international league of the four major sports and its biggest growth sector resides overseas. But it’s also a reminder that out of pettiness and greed they failed to convert on what is the best built-in marketing tool to grow the game in that sector, the Olympics. That was a sad reality that Alex Ovechkin finally came…

Photo credit: Pool/Getty Christian Pulisic. Matt Miazga. Josh Sargent. These are some of the budding talents soccer fans in the States hope will develop and flourish and eventually Make America Great At Soccer For The First Time. And it seems we’ve found another young upstart to add to that list. That youngster is none other than … Barron fucking Trump?! We knew the youngest of our dumbass president’s children was…