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Martin Truex Jr. may have won the first race of the NASCAR playoffs at Chicagoland on Sunday, but there are other implications from the results, too. Here are the three biggest takeaways from Sunday’s race: 1. Truex still the man to beat Truex struggled at the start, as a pit road penalty meant he finished Stage 1 in 10th place. But as has been the case all season, Truex Jr….

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – In the annual Battle for the Big Bear Trophy, junior forward DeJuan Jones knocked in the game-winner with less than a minute remaining in the first overtime to lift No. 6 Michigan State men’s soccer past No. 18 Michigan, 1-0, Sunday in Ann Arbor. This was the first-ever meeting when both teams were ranked. With timing ticking down in the first overtime, junior defender Connor Corrigan began the play with…

What has the sitcom done for his English proficiency? “It’s near perfect,” said Flores’s teammate, Jerry Blevins, who is from Tennessee. “When he doesn’t know something, it’s surprising.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Flores, Peralta and Galvis built a rudimentary command of English in school in Venezuela. “But I always got bad grades because I didn’t like that way of learning,” Galvis said. Gonzalez, who was surrounded by Spanish,…

The focus of the baseball world over the previous two months of the season has been on two teams: the Dodgers, first as the second coming of the 1927 Yankees and then as the reincarnation of the 2003 Tigers; and the Indians, who spent three weeks laying waste to the league around them amid their 22-game win streak. Lost in the shuffle was the team that first laid claim to…

The Nationals couldn’t seem to get on third base during the early innings of Sunday’s ballgame. It was 1-0 Dodgers in the sixth inning when the Nationals put two runners on base. Jayson Werth stepped up to the plate and laced an 0-2 pitch down the line into left field. It was close and called foul by the third base umpire, Gary Cederstrom. If that ball is fair, and it…

The veteran N.F.L. reporter Andrea Kremer said she was hardly surprised by the backlash against Mowins’s play-by-play on the sport’s biggest stage. “I have no doubt that ‘hating the sound of her voice’ is code for ‘I hate that there was a woman announcing football,’” Kremer told me. The whining was neither surprising nor accurate, Kremer said: “One of the many positives about Beth doing the game, in addition to…

Years ago, it seemed standards were pretty clear for most journalists: Keep your opinions to yourself. This is still the ethos many of us try to live by as an understanding that our professional life and our personal lives overlap as journalists. We aren’t really ever off the clock or not representing the media outlet for which we work. But that’s getting trickier with social media and news outlets like…

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Clemson moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, jumping Oklahoma and closing in on Alabama after beating a team ranked in the Top 15 for the second straight week. The Tigers received 15 first-place votes, the most the defending national champions have received this season, and 1,446 points after beating Louisville 47-21 on the road. Alabama remains No. 1 with 45 first-place votes…

Martin Truex Jr. may have won the first race of the NASCAR playoffs at Chicagoland on Sunday, but there are other implications from the results, too. Here are the three biggest takeaways from Sunday’s race: 1. Truex still the man to beat Truex struggled at the start, as a pit road penalty meant he finished Stage 1 in 10th place. But as has been the case all season, Truex Jr….

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – In the annual Battle for the Big Bear Trophy, junior forward DeJuan Jones knocked in the game-winner with less than a minute remaining in the first overtime to lift No. 6 Michigan State men’s soccer past No. 18 Michigan, 1-0, Sunday in Ann Arbor. This was the first-ever meeting when both teams were ranked. With timing ticking down in the first overtime, junior defender Connor Corrigan began the play with…

What has the sitcom done for his English proficiency? “It’s near perfect,” said Flores’s teammate, Jerry Blevins, who is from Tennessee. “When he doesn’t know something, it’s surprising.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Flores, Peralta and Galvis built a rudimentary command of English in school in Venezuela. “But I always got bad grades because I didn’t like that way of learning,” Galvis said. Gonzalez, who was surrounded by Spanish,…

The focus of the baseball world over the previous two months of the season has been on two teams: the Dodgers, first as the second coming of the 1927 Yankees and then as the reincarnation of the 2003 Tigers; and the Indians, who spent three weeks laying waste to the league around them amid their 22-game win streak. Lost in the shuffle was the team that first laid claim to…

Former Los Angeles Dodgers catcher, Steve Yeager, visited with some baseball fans on Sunday at the Congregation Beth Shalom in Canyon Country. Over 50 fans were welcome to a meet and greet with the world champion, taking photos and asking very specific baseball questions about the Dodger’s during Yeager’s time. “We asked if we could do something to help the kids in the neighborhood….

If you are a sports fan on Twitter, you might have already seen it: Over the last 72 hours a number of prominent African-American sports journalists have changed their avatars to the face of Jemele Hill. It is, they say, their way of showing support for the ESPN commentator and her First Amendment rights. CSN New England Celtics reporter A. Sherrod Blakely, the Chair of the National Association of Black…

Photo: Sean M. Haffey/Getty We are still in the part of the year where the Sunday counterprogramming schedule is chunky with other sports—early season European soccer, regular season baseball, the WNBA playoffs—which is good for sports fans in general, because the NFL’s product so far this season has been poor. Just five of 15 NFL games played so far have been settled by fewer than nine points, and of those…

Sanctuary City? I’d settle for a cot. Perhaps you saw that video, last week. At the London weigh-in for Saturday’s middleweight fight between champ Billy Joe Saunders and Willie Monroe, the boxers were muscle-posing for the cameras when Saunders’ son, roughly 8 years old, wandered in front of Monroe. Smiling, Monroe reached down to make nice, to greet the kid with a pat on his head, when the kid, also…

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Clemson moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll, jumping Oklahoma and closing in on Alabama after beating a team ranked in the Top 15 for the second straight week. The Tigers received 15 first-place votes, the most the defending national champions have received this season, and 1,446 points after beating Louisville 47-21 on the road. Alabama remains No. 1 with 45 first-place votes…

Bobby “The Brain” Heenan has died at the age of 73, according to a tweet by wrestling announcer Jim Ross. “The news of Bobby “The Brain” Heenan’s passing today gutted me,” Ross wrote on Twitter. “I loved our time together. No one ever did it better than the Wease.” The WWE confirmed Hennan’s death and issued the following statement: “WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Bobby Heenan, regarded…

Martin Truex Jr. may have won the first race of the NASCAR playoffs at Chicagoland on Sunday, but there are other implications from the results, too. Here are the three biggest takeaways from Sunday’s race: 1. Truex still the man to beat Truex struggled at the start, as a pit road penalty meant he finished Stage 1 in 10th place. But as has been the case all season, Truex Jr….

Put sports, and athletes, at the forefront Photo Subway stations were decorated to celebrate the successful bid. Credit Lionel Bonaventure/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images After the failed 2012 Paris bid was deemed too political, the word went out that French athletes should take the lead for the 2024 campaign. “The main conclusion was that you had to put sports much more at the center of the bid,” said Mike Lee,…