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College football isn’t just played on Saturdays anymore, and that can be easy to forget. With that in mind, there are several games airing on CBS Sports Network over the course of the next few days. You can think of it as an appetizer to Saturday’s full slate of games, but football is football and football season is back. There will be doubleheaders played on both Thursday and Friday, as…

Hendrick Motorsports has been one of the most vocal advocates for NASCAR teams embracing the new technology offered in simulated rides. While not everyone has bought into this yet, many Cup Series drivers now enjoy getting some extra practice laps in their Chevrolets, Fords and Toyotas on a simulated version of whatever the upcoming track is. Here’s a look at HMS driver Kasey Kahne practicing for Sunday’s Southern 500 at…

PHOTOS: See the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Introducing the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup. Watch the unveil video above for your first look at what the 2017 Monster Energy Series champion will earn after the final race of the season in Miami. Outlines of all 23 Monster Energy Series tracks adorn the 68-pound Monster Energy NASCAR Cup, which stands more than 3 feet high. Want more? Made of machined aluminum,…

Cue the 30 for 30 voice: What if I told you there’s a place where the No. 1 football prospect in the country was just another face in the crowd? That place exists. It’s called a baseball diamond. And Baseball America expert Carlos Collazo was blind to the gridiron hype when he watched 5-star high-school quarterback Justin Fields play shortstop this summer. “I actually didn’t know much about him on…

Let September 2017 be the tipping point. I, for one, will tolerate a month of horrific baseball if it finally motivates players, their union, front offices and the Commissioner’s Office to find unanimity to end what just might be the dumbest rule in sports. On Friday, teams can begin expanding their rosters — sorry for the annual rant — but if you want to know how stupid that edict is,…

Michael Dwyer/Associated Press Clutch: -2.28 The Yankees are mainly worried about snapping Aaron Judge out of his second-half slump. But even if he can do that, he’ll still have to find his way out of clutch purgatory.  The rookie’s leverage splits break down like so: Low Leverage: 1.045 OPS Medium Leverage: .963 OPS High Leverage: .924 OPS Like Goldschmidt, part of the reason Judge’s clutch is in the red is that…

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain joined Arsenal from Southampton in August 2011 Liverpool have completed the £35m signing of England midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain from Arsenal. The 24-year-old, who rejected a move to Chelsea on Tuesday after a fee had been agreed, joins on a five-year contract worth £120,000 a week. Oxlade-Chamberlain, who was in the last year of his Arsenal contract, rejected a new deal worth up to £180,000 a week to stay…

Sanchez made his first appearance of the season in Arsenal’s 4-0 defeat by Liverpool on Sunday Manchester City have made an improved second bid of around £60m for Arsenal’s Chile forward Alexis Sanchez. The Gunners have already rejected a £50m bid from City for the player. Sanchez, 28, who scored 24 league goals last season, is out of contract next summer and wants to play for City manager Pep Guardiola….

One way to baptize a baby Brecken Archibald. Get used to the name. He’s the son of Penguins right-winger Josh Archibald and three-week-old Brecken was baptized in the Stanley Cup on Wednesday. And if you don’t think the above image of the baptism will be showed endlessly on ESPN in 25 years after Brecken wins the Cup, you don’t know sports media very well. Albert Pujols is the worst player in…

Fox is making good on its promise to bring innovation to TV advertising formats. Fox Networks Group on Thursday confirmed it will offer six-second advertising spots in its upcoming pro football and baseball telecasts as a means of improving the game-watching experience for viewers and offering more effective brand messaging vehicles for marketers. The short blurbs will be available as part of Fox Sports regular inventory for NFL games starting…

Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s impending retirement at the end of the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series season has been a talking point at every race, but this weekend in Darlington, he’ll finally take a backseat to someone else – his late father. Saturday evening, the night before the Bojangles’ Southern 500, Darlington Raceway will host “An Evening Honoring Dale Earnhardt Sr.” to commemorate the former face of the sport. Earnhardt Sr. died…

Earlier this month, organizers of the upcoming 2024 Olympics in Paris indicated that esports may be a part of their games. The president of the International Olympic Committee now says not so fast. And if it does happen, IOC President Thomas Bach says it may not involve esports’ most popular games. In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Bach went on to express some views of video games…

Christian Pulisic’s status is blooming to such a degree with both his German Bundesliga club and the U.S. national team that global speculators are placing his market transfer value in the tens of millions — incomprehensible figures for an American soccer player. Next summer, if all goes as planned over the coming six weeks, he will take center stage at the World Cup in Russia. He is, without question, on…

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….

Sports provide relief from catastrophes like the recent flooding in Houston. In turn, the lucrative fraud of the Floyd Mayweather–Conor McGregor fight provided relief from the banal late-summer sports journalism monotony of NFL training camps (ACL injuries, quarterback battles), the dog days of baseball and the exhausting search to find half-decent American tennis players to spotlight at the U.S Open. So thanks to both HBO’s Real Sports for a superb…

Earlier this month, organizers of the upcoming 2024 Olympics in Paris indicated that esports may be a part of their games. The president of the International Olympic Committee now says not so fast. And if it does happen, IOC President Thomas Bach says it may not involve esports’ most popular games. In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Bach went on to express some views of video games…

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….

Ben Hansen (left) watches data on a hand-held device as Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Matt Benedict throws a ball. Benedict is wearing sensors that recorded 39 sets of measurements. Tamara Lush/AP hide caption toggle caption Tamara Lush/AP Ben Hansen (left) watches data on a hand-held device as Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Matt Benedict throws a ball. Benedict is wearing sensors that recorded 39 sets of measurements. Tamara Lush/AP In a stats-driven sport…