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The dominoes are falling into place. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is retiring. Kenseth’s out at Joe Gibbs Racing, and Erik Jones is taking over the No. 20 Toyota.   Now, the hottest silly season rumor surrounds the popular No. 88 ride and who’s going to drive it next year.   Sure, it’s been in good hands over the past several seasons, winning races and showing up in the playoffs. And the…

With the second half of the season underway, fantasy owners are looking for ways to give their team a much-needed boost. Sometimes looking on the waiver wires and keeping your fingers crossed is the way to go, but sometimes it’s the disappointments you drafted or picked up early then held onto who wind up being your saviors over the final months. Maikel Franco was expected to take a huge step…

The future of baseball is up in the air thanks to Major League Baseball‘s intent to make rule changes to speed up games. Commissioner Rob Manfred has been harping on pace-of-game issues since he took over for Bud Selig, yet the average game time of 3 hours, 5 minutes in the first half of this season would set a new record if it holds up the rest of the year….

Christian McCaffrey might seem like one of those guys that was always destined to be a football player. He’s 5-foot-11, 205 pounds. His father, Ed McCaffrey, was a 6-foot-5, 215-pound wide receiver that played in the NFL for 13 seasons. His mother, Lisa, was a college soccer player. His older brother played college football. His younger brothers are both football players, too.  But while McCaffrey may have been destined for…

By Michelle R. Martinelli July 15, 2017 1:03 pm Follow @MMartinelli4

Sales are expected to have risen from £2.8bn to £3.2bn on the back of new store openings. Trading has been overshadowed by a whirlwind of negative publicity following last year’s investigation into its treatment of workers. A string of board resignations, unusual stake purchases and most recently a court battle with a former close ­adviser over an alleged £15m pub bet have wrecked the retailer’s reputation. For the last 12…

Tennis is a game where you can see the end coming from a long way off. Unlike most other major sports, you can’t turn defeat into victory on a single play. But tennis is a sport of momentum, where one point can kick loose an avalanche. Saturday morning at Wimbledon’s Centre Court, Venus Williams had that moment in front of her, had that opportunity to begin the final march to…

The British Grand Prix is live across radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website Lewis Hamilton sent the Silverstone crowd wild with a storming lap to set pole position at the British Grand Prix by more than half a second. He also equals the record for pole positions at the British Grand Prix with five – alongside Jim Clark. The Mercedes driver was 0.547 seconds quicker than Ferrari’s Kimi…

By most accounts, the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles were a smashing success: The air was clean, the freeways clear, the Soviets absent and the American athletes dominant. There’s also the little fact that the city actually made money hosting the Games. You wouldn’t know this reading letters submitted to The Times. Reacting to the International Olympic Committee’s unprecedented decision this week to award the 2024 and 2028…

With the second half of the season underway, fantasy owners are looking for ways to give their team a much-needed boost. Sometimes looking on the waiver wires and keeping your fingers crossed is the way to go, but sometimes it’s the disappointments you drafted or picked up early then held onto who wind up being your saviors over the final months. Maikel Franco was expected to take a huge step…

GOLF BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Some of the best golfers in the world are competing in New Jersey this weekend — and vying for attention with a guy whose best finish was an age-group club title. That would be President Donald Trump. The president’s arrival at his club created such a commotion that crowds at the U.S. Women’s Open were asked to keep it down as golfers Lexi Thompson, Brooke Henderson…

Last summer, millions watched as a hometown hero returned to reclaim victory in a winner-take-all battle as the leader of a group that for years knew nothing but heartbreaking loss. No, I’m not talking about the King of the NBA East, LeBron James. I’m talking about the King of the North, Jon Snow, and his victory in the “Battle of the Bastards,” the penultimate episode of last season’s “Game of…

I grew up watching [Venus] play, so it’s incredible to play the final [against her]. [The nerves] are inside, of course I was nervous. It was very tough [the first set], we both had chances. Two years ago I lost to Serena in the final and she told me one day I’d win.

Don’t go outside. That’s your pro tip for the weekend. The heat index is above average for most of the country, humidity is turning everywhere into a sauna, and it’s just no fun. It’s OK, though, because we’ve got some sweet sports to keep you entertained throughout the weekend. We’re hitting the business end of Wimbledon, and baseball is heating up after the All-Star break. Sprinkle in a little X-Games,…

Don’t let the beaming smiles, the friendly banter and the gentle camaraderie of its contestants fool you. Pickleball is not for the fainthearted. “Frank has left some of his DNA on the court,” Denny Johnson said of the many skinned knees and bruises earned by his 82-year-old friend and pickleball partner Frank Slater. Said Slater: “You’ve gotta be tough.” The dramatic growth of the game — which looks like tennis…

Ryan Lochte was given a 10-month suspension for his behavior in Rio. (Michael Sohn/Associated Press) An appellate court in Brazil ruled Friday that the case against Ryan Lochte should be dismissed. The U.S. swimmer had been accused of fabricating a story about getting robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro during August’s Olympics, causing an international scandal that drew in some of his teammates. Lochte was charged with a false crime report,…

With the second half of the season underway, fantasy owners are looking for ways to give their team a much-needed boost. Sometimes looking on the waiver wires and keeping your fingers crossed is the way to go, but sometimes it’s the disappointments you drafted or picked up early then held onto who wind up being your saviors over the final months. Maikel Franco was expected to take a huge step…

The kid is cursed, or so the story goes. Mike Trout’s talent is being wasted by the Angels, yada, yada, yada. It’s an accurate description of what’s happened to the best player in baseball over the last couple of seasons, except here we are in mid-July, two weeks from the nonwaiver trade deadline and the Angels are somehow within arm’s reach of a place in the postseason. This after 46…

GOLF BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Some of the best golfers in the world are competing in New Jersey this weekend — and vying for attention with a guy whose best finish was an age-group club title. That would be President Donald Trump. The president’s arrival at his club created such a commotion that crowds at the U.S. Women’s Open were asked to keep it down as golfers Lexi Thompson, Brooke Henderson…

Last summer, millions watched as a hometown hero returned to reclaim victory in a winner-take-all battle as the leader of a group that for years knew nothing but heartbreaking loss. No, I’m not talking about the King of the NBA East, LeBron James. I’m talking about the King of the North, Jon Snow, and his victory in the “Battle of the Bastards,” the penultimate episode of last season’s “Game of…