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– This is Saturday night. Derrike Cope into the wall less than five laps to go. This is with Martin Truex, Jr. leading this thing, all right? You can see the frustration for Cole Pearn saying, you got to be kidding me. We were going to win our fifth race of the year. So then post race we saw some tweets that were very, very interesting. – Yep, Adam. So…

LIMA, Peru — Los Angeles has received its formal go-ahead to host the 2028 Olympics, getting a thumbs-up from the International Olympic Committee’s evaluation commission. On Wednesday, the full IOC will award the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Games to Los Angeles. Los Angeles had originally bid for 2024, but because of the new date, it had to make changes to its host contract. The evaluation commission signed off…

This story was originally published on Feb. 16, 2017. NASCAR competition officials issued an updated deterrence system Thursday for its three national series, shifting toward an officiating process that penalizes pre-race infractions within a given race weekend. The updated system is months in the making, with the sanctioning body and teams working concurrently on the new procedures. The move was one of several fundamental changes made to the penalty structure…

This summer has seen a clear bubble in transfer fees and valuations in the prominent five European soccer leagues, above all in the English Premier League. This is because of the monumental international and domestic (BT Sport and Sky Sports) television deals coming into effect from 2016 through to 2019. The deals have enabled a flood of fiscal overreaching at the lower-ranked and more domestic-orientated EPL clubs, allowing them to…

Thirty contenders, six finalists, and now, one trophy left standing. The most coveted symbol of stock car supremacy. Introducing the @MonsterEnergy NASCAR Cup. pic.twitter.com/te7wAEtTNW — NASCAR (@NASCAR) August 31, 2017 At the end of August, NASCAR and Jostens officially released the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series trophy, putting an end to months of brainstorming and craftsmanship. The centerpiece of the trophy, which stands 37 inches tall and weighs almost…

It’s as easy to say sports don’t matter as it is to forget they’re not the most important thing on earth. But at 8:46 a.m. on September 11th, 2001—as Flight 11 careened into the North Tower—both of these diametrically opposed perspectives were rendered simultaneously and horrifyingly true. In the hours and days that followed 9/11, sports were nothing more than a footnote. Games were postponed. Superstar athletes became fellow terrified…

Getty Images Manchester City’s Gabriel Jesus (from left), Benjamin Mendy and Kevin De Bruyne celebrate one of their side’s five goals vs. Liverpool on Saturday. The most expensive soccer team ever assembled will play in England this season. Manchester City FC is the costliest squad the world has ever seen, based on the total transfer fees —…

What do Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle have in common? Besides all three being in the Baseball Hall of Fame, each of them also sits on a shelf in the office of Rob Bernshteyn, chief executive of San Mateo-based Coupa. Well, they don’t literally sit in Bernshteyn’s office. Instead, Bernshteyn, an avid baseball card collector, has replicas of some of the players’ most-famous cards, to go along with some…

“Every single obstacle to prevent the commercialization of beIN channels has been put in place by the Saudi authorities,” Jordan said. Photo Saudi Arabia’s Nawaf al-Abid, right, with Japan’s Hotaru Yamaguchi during a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday. BeIN owned the rights to the game, but it could not get members of its production staff into Saudi Arabia to broadcast it, and then had one of its reporters ejected from…

When Chicago entrepreneur Brian Brundage was indicted on federal fraud charges in December for allegedly operating a multimillion-dollar electronics recycling scheme, he turned his attention to salvaging his side gig: professional sports agent. With a client roster that included Chicago Bears linebacker John Timu and other players, Brundage’s nascent Worldwide Career Management seemed poised to offer him a glamorous alternative to the once-booming recycling business, Intercon Solutions, that was derailed…

Even through the years of NCAA sanctions, Southern California Trojans had a talented roster with future pros. And throughout the last decade, it has usually finished the year in the neighborhood of 10 wins. It’s been the unfulfilled expectations (2012) and falling short in big-time conference contests that frustrates fans and has left college football pundits wary of declaring that USC is “back.”  So when the Trojans started the year…

The Crossover is proud to offer our list of the Top 100 NBA players of 2018, an exhaustive exercise that seeks to define who will be the league’s best players in the 2017-18 season. Given the wide variety of candidates involved and the deep analytical resources available, no single, definitive criterion was used to form this list. Instead, rankings were assigned based on a fluid combination of subjective assessment and…

News & Observer ACC sports writers Andrew Carter and Joe Giglio will talk about UNC and N.C. State when the Raleigh Sports Club meets from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday in Bradley Hall at Highland United Methodist Church, 1901 Ridge Road, Raleigh. During the weekly meeting, Carter, who covers the Tar Heels, and Giglio, who covers the Wolfpack, will offer an inside look at the football teams and their mixed…

What do Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle have in common? Besides all three being in the Baseball Hall of Fame, each of them also sits on a shelf in the office of Rob Bernshteyn, chief executive of San Mateo-based Coupa. Well, they don’t literally sit in Bernshteyn’s office. Instead, Bernshteyn, an avid baseball card collector, has replicas of some of the players’ most-famous cards, to go along with some…

Don Ohlmeyer, one of television’s most successful and honored innovators as a producer and programmer in both sports and entertainment and one of the original producers of Monday Night Football, has died at the age of 72. “It is with heavy hearts we share that Don Ohlmeyer, our beloved husband, father and grandfather, has passed away at age of 72 due to cancer,” Ohlmeyer’s family said in a statement. “Surrounded…

The Cleveland Indians picked up their 18th consecutive win on Sunday night, knocking off the Baltimore Orioles by a 3-2 final score. The Indians had already set a new franchise record by winning 15 games in a row. Their current 18-game winning streak is also the second-longest in baseball over the last 50 years — behind only the 20-game stretch authored by the 2003 Oakland Athletics: 2002 Athletics: 20 wins 2017…

See more of the story In 1966, The Standells released a single titled “Dirty Water,” about Boston’s filthy harbor. The song became the city’s sports anthem and foreshadowed decades of Massachusetts malfeasance. The Boston sports mascot should be Whitey Bulger. Bill Belichick has defied or bent NFL rules, and last week the New York Times reported that the Boston Red Sox used Apple watches and television broadcasts — maybe the…

Hi. I’ll be at this one, recapping from the car on the way back as well. Isn’t it great to have a sister who is willing to drive / too nice to admit that she really doesn’t want to? As the streak continues, the power of superstition builds. I’ve not worn a hat during a game for the entire streak, and frankly hope I never see one again if it…

Stephen Strasburg was first out of the clubhouse and up the dugout steps, and Bryce Harper was right behind him, and that’s just the perfect introduction to the 2017 National League East champions — the two players who best represent the transformation from irrelevant, 100-loss jokes into what the Washington Nationals are now, which is a contender for best franchise in baseball. Strasburg turned to face what was left of…