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NASCAR Xfinity: Kyle Busch wins for 19th time at Bristol – Los Angeles Times

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Kyle Busch continued his domination at Bristol Motor Speedway with a victory Friday night in the Xfinity Series race. The win was the 19th national series victory at Bristol for Busch, who also won the Truck Series race Wednesday night. And just like that win, Busch had to overcome a speeding penalty on pit road to get to victory lane. “Just a great car,” Busch said about his Joe Gibbs…

NASCAR at Bristol picks, odds: Martin Truex Jr. racing for fifth win, regular-season title – CBSSports.com

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Who will own the night at Bristol Motor Speedway? Here are our picks for Saturday’s race under the lights in Tennessee. Winner: Martin Truex Jr. Seems like the cliche choice to pick the guy who has dominated this season, but we like to get these things right. Truex nearly won last week’s race at Michigan, only to be passed by Kyle Larson on an overtime restart, and has shown he…

A Baseball Manager Retires Again, Knowing It Rarely Sticks – New York Times

Saturday, August 19, 2017

It was a rough season. Salina, a so-called travel team, plays only a handful of home games. Undermanned and underfinanced, the Stockade were 10-58 when Droddy stepped down as planned. In the visiting manager’s office at CHS Field before a recent game with the Saints, Droddy remained upbeat. “Some people show their grandchildren; I’ve got to show you Milly,” said Droddy, pulling out his smartphone to flip through photos of…

Fantasy Baseball Forecaster for Week 20: Aug. 21-27 – ESPN

Saturday, August 19, 2017

3:30 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment The Fantasy Baseball Forecaster has been updated as of Friday, Aug. 18, at 3:30 p.m. ET. Quickly jump to any page for specific intel Projected starting pitchers Starting pitcher rankings Hitting matchup ratings On tap: Three doubleheaders, all of them a result of making up previous postponements, grace the Week 20 schedule, leading to a busy week in which…

A sports rout on Wall Street – The Mercury News

Saturday, August 19, 2017

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…

Parents link concussion with football, but ignore other contact sports: survey – ABC News

Saturday, August 19, 2017

New research from a state-wide survey in Arizona may hold true for the rest of the country. Parents seem to understand that football can cause serious concussions, which in turn could cause serious long term neurological damage. But they are missing the memo when it comes to the risks associated with other contact sports. Soccer and cheerleading also have high rates of concussion, according to researchers at the Barrow Neurological…

Sports Tonight: Phils lost more than their hearts to San Francisco – Philly.com

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Even though both franchises joined the National League in 1883, the Phillies and San Francisco Giants are never referred to as one of the historic rivalries in Major League Baseball. Personally, I still feel a pain in my stomach whenever the Phillies play…

Could Trump’s Position On White Supremacists Cause Cancellation of Sport Team Visits To White House? – Forbes

Saturday, August 19, 2017

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…

LOOK: LeBron James sports new-look Cleveland Cavaliers jersey – CBSSports.com

Saturday, August 19, 2017

It’s only fitting that LeBron James, the face of Nike, help show off the Cleveland Cavaliers‘ new-look uniform now that Nike has replaced Adidas as the jersey provider for the NBA for next season.  James teased the new uniform threads via an Instagram post Thursday, and although we had a good idea what they might look like thanks to an internet leaker, there’s no replacement seeing it up-close and personal…

2024 Olympics could include competitive video gaming – PBS NewsHour

Friday, August 18, 2017

A referee watches over competitors play “Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare” at an eSports video game tournament in Toronto, \March 26, 2017. Picture taken March 26, 2017. Photo by REUTERS/Mark Blinch As athletes leap, lift and dive at the 2024 Paris Summer Games, will video game players also be competing for gold medals? Adding “eSports” to the roster could be the International Olympic Committee’s next attempt to attract younger viewers. Tony…

Twitter announces deal to livestream NASCAR races – New York Post

Friday, August 18, 2017

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….

NASCAR drivers remember one of the sport’s worst wrecks at Bristol track – For The Win

Friday, August 18, 2017

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…

Transgender Hockey Star Harrison Browne Comes Out of Retirement – NBCNews.com

Friday, August 18, 2017

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…

From ‘A Chef’s Life’ to NASCAR, Durham filmmaker explores the true characters of the South – News & Observer (blog)

Friday, August 18, 2017

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…

A sports rout on Wall Street – Seattle Times

Friday, August 18, 2017

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…

Watch YouTuber Rap Names of Over 100 Different Sports Teams in One Song – RollingStone.com

Friday, August 18, 2017

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…

Could Trump’s Position On White Supremacists Cause Cancellation of Sport Team Visits To White House? – Forbes

Friday, August 18, 2017

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…

Sports networks hope you’re down with OTT – WRALSportsFan.com

Friday, August 18, 2017

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 unveiled as BT Sport pundit with humorous dig at handshake routines used by Dele Alli and Paul Pogba – Daily Mail

Friday, August 18, 2017

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…

Here’s how NASCAR plans to let Cup fans watch playoff races like a true insider – Charlotte Observer

Friday, August 18, 2017

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….