Blog

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment DARLINGTON, S.C. — Martin Truex Jr. needs just a 17th-place finish to pick up three wins this weekend at Darlington Raceway. Let’s explain: Truex enters the Southern 500 with a 101-point lead on Kyle Busch and a 106-point lead on Kyle Larson in the regular-season standings. If he leaves Darlington with a 61-point edge going into the regular-season finale…

Image copyright PA Image caption MPs have declared about £215,000 worth of gifts, benefits and hospitality Sports and betting companies top the list of donors treating MPs to gifts and hospitality. The Ladbrokes Coral group appeared 15 times in the register of members’ interests, more than any other donor. Out of 187 donations from UK sources registered by MPs, 58 were from the world of sport. A further 19 were…

A cycling magazine has apologised for an “idiotic” picture caption that labelled a female cyclist a “token attractive woman”. The image showed the Hinckley Cycle Racing Club from Leicestershire, which was showcased in Cycling Weekly magazine’s regular “We ride with …” feature, in which a writer goes on a club ride. The caption was noticed by one of the club’s members, who posted on Twitter: “So my cycling club made…

RELATED: Full results Propelling his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota at 173.320 mph, Kyle Busch put his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota atop the speed charts in Friday’s final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Darlington Raceway despite an earlier spin. Busch slid his No. 18 Toyota up the track to avoid trouble 30 minutes into the session and appeared to avoid hitting the wall. He returned…

Gameday is finally upon us. Saturday gives us our first full slate of college football games since January, and that means it’s time for wild predictions and plenty of hype. CBS Sports Network will be carrying a doubleheader on Saturday, chock full of SEC football to open the season. Here’s what you need to know going into these games, as both Kentucky and Vanderbilt are looking to start off on…

A cycling magazine has apologised for an “idiotic” picture caption that labelled a female cyclist a “token attractive woman”. The image showed the Hinckley Cycle Racing Club from Leicestershire, which was showcased in Cycling Weekly magazine’s regular “We ride with …” feature, in which a writer goes on a club ride. The caption was noticed by one of the club’s members, who posted on Twitter: “So my cycling club made…

Dressed in scrubs with her hair pulled back, Morgan Abel is on the first flight out nearly every Monday morning – leaving whichever city NASCAR spent its weekend in. She is practically unrecognizable compared with only a few hours earlier in Victory Lane. She trades her loosely curled hair and wedge-heeled boots for a ponytail and comfortable shoes, completing her weekly transition from a Monster Energy Girl to a nurse…

Here’s this week’s responses from the NASCAR team at Motorsport.com to fans’ questions. With what Adam Stern reported on Tuesday, 8/22 of Smithfield likely staying with the 43 car, who do you see driving that? Also, there was the report that they could switch to Chevrolet, do you see that happening or are they just using it as leverage to get a better deal with Ford? Lastly, since…

At the end of a wobbly month for everyday cycling, it is depressing to hear that it has become too scary to contemplate even for one of its great paragons. Days after ugly generalisations in some media followed the conviction of a man involved in a fatal collision with a pedestrian in east London, Chris Boardman told the Guardian that, despite being rather handier on a bike than your average…

British Cycling has launched an investigation after it emerged that a soigneur who allegedly injected American teenagers with steroids without their knowledge was working around young British riders as recently as 2016. Angus Fraser was named in a deposition in a case settled out of court in the United States in which he was alleged to have administered performance-enhancing drugs to former US junior cyclists in 1990 without their knowledge…

Around 10 p.m. EDT Tuesday night, Brad Miller yanked a 2–1 slider from Brandon Maurer over the right-field wall in Kauffman Stadium, drawing the Rays to within a run of the Royals at 3–2 in a game they’d lose 6–2. The homer wasn’t anything special in itself, save for being the 5,000th home run of the 2017 season. It’s the 12th time in baseball history, all since expansion to 30 teams in 1998,…

A cycling magazine has apologised for an “idiotic” picture caption that labelled a female cyclist a “token attractive woman”. The image showed the Hinckley Cycle Racing Club from Leicestershire, which was showcased in Cycling Weekly magazine’s regular “We ride with …” feature, in which a writer goes on a club ride. The caption was noticed by one of the club’s members, who posted on Twitter: “So my cycling club made…

Dressed in scrubs with her hair pulled back, Morgan Abel is on the first flight out nearly every Monday morning – leaving whichever city NASCAR spent its weekend in. She is practically unrecognizable compared with only a few hours earlier in Victory Lane. She trades her loosely curled hair and wedge-heeled boots for a ponytail and comfortable shoes, completing her weekly transition from a Monster Energy Girl to a nurse…

At the end of a wobbly month for everyday cycling, it is depressing to hear that it has become too scary to contemplate even for one of its great paragons. Days after ugly generalisations in some media followed the conviction of a man involved in a fatal collision with a pedestrian in east London, Chris Boardman told the Guardian that, despite being rather handier on a bike than your average…

British Cycling has launched an investigation after it emerged that a soigneur who allegedly injected American teenagers with steroids without their knowledge was working around young British riders as recently as 2016. Angus Fraser was named in a deposition in a case settled out of court in the United States in which he was alleged to have administered performance-enhancing drugs to former US junior cyclists in 1990 without their knowledge…

In an interview with the South China Morning Post, president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach explained the Games had recently made a push to bring in new sports that appeal to millennials, such as skateboarding and surfing. Related Disney May Start Hosting eSports Events At ESPN’s Wide World Of Sports Disney looks to ESPN’s massive complex as a host for esports events Given the recent rise of esports…

Baseball is a religion in Venezuela. The country cheers Felix Hernandez, Miguel Cabrera and other local boys who’ve made it in the Major Leagues up north, then turns its attention to its very own winter league that runs from September through the end of the year. They’re raucous games featuring drumming, cheerleaders and copious amounts of beer. Alongside hot dogs, vendors hawk arepas. But this season, no one is in the…

CARACAS (Reuters) – Young baseball players from poor families in Venezuela are not getting the nourishment needed to realize their dream of playing professionally in the United States, as acute food shortages close off one of the few remaining avenues out of poverty in the recession-hit country. Venezuela is home to superstar players, including Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera and the Houston Astros’ diminutive but mighty second baseman, Jose Altuve….

Phillies manager Pete Mackanin picks between two pairs of red sneakers based on which ones have been on his feet during hard-to-come-by wins. Brewers catcher Stephen Vogt gets dressed in a specific sequence each day, down to how he pulls on his socks and in what order. Sometimes, Kansas City’s Brandon Moss pretends to be superstitious by going with a good-luck bat. Oakland manager Bob Melvin rotates between several parking…

They call it a deadline for a reason, you know. No matter. Twenty minutes into September, the world learned that the Tigers had traded Justin Verlander to the Astros before the clock struck midnight, convincing their franchise player to sign off on the deal at the last possible minute. And for Verlander’s Fantasy owners, it was well worth the wait. The defending AL Cy Young runner-up (note: he was robbed)…