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Twitter announced another live sports stream Thursday — a deal to bring in-car NASCAR race camera perspectives to its 328 million monthly users. The deal marks the first time each of the 10 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races can be viewed from in-car cameras, the race organization said. Terms of the deal were not released. Twitter has signed Toyota as a sponsor of the streams, the microblogging giant said….

Bristol Motor Speedway’s second and final race of the NASCAR Cup Series season is Saturday, and for a number of reasons, drivers love racing at the half-mile track. But one decades-old race at the Last Great Colosseum stands out in the NASCAR world as one of the most truly terrifying crashes in the sport’s history. During one of the two 1990 Bristol races, Michael Waltrip came out of the short…

At the end of the 2016 National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) season, Harrison Browne decided to retire. The 24-year-old was both emotionally and physically spent. His team, the Buffalo Beauts, had won the Isobel Cup — the equivalent of the Stanley Cup in the NHL —and early on in the season, he had come out to his teammates, the NWHL and the world as transgender. It was an overwhelming and…

For fans of the work of Durham filmmaker Cynthia Hill, award-winning director of the documentary “Private Violence” and the PBS series “A Chef’s Life,” Hill’s new “Road to Race Day” docuseries about NASCAR may have been unexpected. But Hill says racing fits a larger theme that runs through her career. “For me, it’s iconically Southern, and I like the idea of exploring things that are iconically Southern,” says Hill. “This…

NEW YORK (AP) — Sporting goods retailers can’t shake their losing streak. Shares of stores that mostly sell sneakers and sporting gear plummeted Friday after Foot Locker and smaller rival Hibbett Sports reported a drop in sales in the latest quarter. Both also offered gloomy outlooks for the rest of the year. Sporting goods retailers are facing increasing competition from department stores and clothing chains, which are beefing up the…

Mac Lethal, a rapper on YouTube with over 800,000 subscribers, worked the names of basically every team from the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB into a song for his latest video. Related See Drake as Steph Curry in NBA Awards’ ‘Get Out’ Spoof Ayesha Curry sends her husband to “sunken place” in comic tribute to Jordan Peele’s beloved horror film The song begins with Mac Lethal talking about how his…

Kevin Durant, the 2017 NBA Most Valuable Player of the champion Golden State Warriors, has said he won’t be joining the customary trip to the White House of champion teams. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) As the country fractures over the violence in Charlottesville sparked by a white supremacist rally, how President Trump has reacted has done more to increase tensions than quell them. Trump has refused to directly denounce white supremacists saying that…

By Joe Ovies OTT, how can I explain it? I’ll take it frame by frame. To have y’all all jumping, shouting, saying it. “O” is for “over,” “T” is for “the,” The last “T,” well that’s pretty simple – “top.” Over-the-top content, delivered via an internet connection without a cable or satellite middleman, has generated a ton of industry buzz ever since Sling TV went online in 2015. Similar services…

Frank Lampard has joined BT Sport as a pundit for the new season The broadcaster made the announcement with a humorous short video In the clip Lampard shows off a number of handshake routines They are similar to those done by Man United midfielder Paul Pogba and Tottenham’s Dele Alli, much to the annoyance of  fellow BT man Jake Humphrey By Tom Bassam For Mailonline Published: 11:54 EDT, 18 August…

Ever wonder what the scenery looks like from inside a race car going about 200 mile per hour? NASCAR has you covered. Perhaps looking for a way to connect with a younger audience, NASCAR disclosed Thursday that it plans to stream live video on Twitter from a race car for all 10 postseason NASCAR Cup Series races. The streaming video will be accessible from NASCAR’s official Twitter handle and NASCAR.twitter.com….

NASCAR is in scramble mode these days, dealing with declines in attendance and TV ratings, sponsors dropping out, and veteran drivers getting the heave-ho to get rid of fat contracts. We now add a battle to protect a NASCAR legacy. Kevin Harvick lashed out at Dale Earnhardt Jr. last week for having the gall to be Mr. Popularity. Harvick connected the dots to some of NASCAR’s…

The field is, as well, a space where Rojas’s age does not matter and where she feels good about herself. Originally from Durango, Mexico, Rojas has resided in Georgia for 26 years and spends her time selling tamales and caring for her grandchildren. All this, and she still finds time to play goalkeeper for the all-female community soccer league, El Barsa, the first few months out of the year.

Kevin Durant, the 2017 NBA Most Valuable Player of the champion Golden State Warriors, has said he won’t be making the trip to the White House to meet with President Trump as part of the tradition of US sports champions. Could Trump’s incendiary position of not forcefully denounce white supremacy in all its forms could create an environment where so few players would visit Trump that the photo op would be…

Winning NASCAR’s regular-season points championship is unquestionably a big deal, but no trophy is awarded and few will remember who won when Round 1 of the playoffs begin next month. Still, driver Martin Truex Jr. of Denver-based Furniture Row Racing envisions a celebration when he clinches the title as early as Saturday night in Bristol, Tenn. Those sentiments are echoed by FRR general manager Joe Garone, the Colorado native who…

Kevin Durant, the 2017 NBA Most Valuable Player of the champion Golden State Warriors, has said he won’t be making the trip to the White House to meet with President Trump as part of the tradition of US sports champions. Could Trump’s incendiary position of not forcefully denounce white supremacy in all its forms could create an environment where so few players would visit Trump that the photo op would be…

Kevin Durant, the 2017 NBA Most Valuable Player of the champion Golden State Warriors, has said he won’t be making the trip to the White House to meet with President Trump as part of the tradition of US sports champions. Could Trump’s incendiary position of not forcefully denounce white supremacy in all its forms could create an environment where so few players would visit Trump that the photo op would be…

Twitter announced another live-sports stream on Thursday — a deal to bring in-car NASCAR race camera perspectives to its 328 million monthly users. The deal marks the first time each of the 10 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races can be viewed from in-car cameras, the race organization said. Terms of the deal were not released. Twitter has signed Toyota as a sponsor of the streams, the microblogging giant said….

GONZALES — Trust is a two-way street and, in the end, the Ascension Parish Council agreed to trust that the Gonzales Soccer Club will live up to the word of its leaders and fulfill its end of what could be a 10-year deal to use the parish’s new multi-million soccer fields at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center.  With minor revisions that open the club’s books to parish audits and…

Thursday’s attack in Barcelona, Spain, that left at least 13 people dead, following Saturday’s killing of a protester at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, leaves most people searching for words to express their sorrow, outrage, bewilderment and fear. Athletes such as Dale Earnhardt Jr. are no exception. Thursday at Bristol Motor Speedway, NASCAR’s most popular driver struggled to explain his reaction to the two most recent attacks on…

Brad Keselowski Racing announced Thursday that it will cease operations after the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, prepping for a potential move to NASCAR’s top division at a much later date. The announcement came from namesake team owner Brad Keselowski, the 2012 champion of NASCAR’s premier series. Keselowski’s organization currently fields Fords F-150s for Chase Briscoe, 22, and 18-year-old Austin Cindric, both in their first full season of…