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Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in motorsports as the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series makes its lone visit to Kentucky Speedway: Turn 1: Which Gibbs driver wins first? Other than rookie Daniel Suarez, who is in the most trouble? Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: Kyle Busch will be the first Gibbs driver to win because he has…

The NASCAR Xfinity Series race ending under caution at Daytona International Speedway. Photo credit: Sarah Crabill/Getty Images There’s a thing southern folks like to say, and surely you’ve heard it before: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That’s what NASCAR did by making “overtime” rules at the start of the 2016 season, and it’s gone about as well as enrolling a cat in swim lessons. And maybe, just maybe,…

Jul 5, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017, on newsstands on July 7. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in motorsports as the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series makes its lone visit to Kentucky Speedway: Turn 1: Which Gibbs driver wins first? Other than rookie Daniel Suarez, who is in the most trouble? Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: Kyle Busch will be the first Gibbs driver to win because he has…

The NASCAR Xfinity Series race ending under caution at Daytona International Speedway. Photo credit: Sarah Crabill/Getty Images There’s a thing southern folks like to say, and surely you’ve heard it before: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” That’s what NASCAR did by making “overtime” rules at the start of the 2016 season, and it’s gone about as well as enrolling a cat in swim lessons. And maybe, just maybe,…

Listen to Andreas Koukorinis, founder of UK sports betting company Stratagem, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that soccer games are some of the most predictable events on Earth. “They’re short duration, repeatable, with fixed rules,” Koukorinis tells The Verge. “So if you observe 100,000 games, there are patterns there you can take out.” The mission of Koukorinis’ company is simple: find these patterns and make money off them. Stratagem…

Subscription-based streaming sports service FloSports has attracted a growing following of sports fans by putting under-the-radar events online, from amateur wrestling to jiu-jitsu to cheerleading. But the Austin-based startup has also been steadily expanding into more mainstream sports, like basketball, hockey, and—coming soon—football. On Thursday, FloSports announced that it will begin streaming live football games starting in mid-July. The games stem from the company’s new streaming rights deals with outfits…

Bayless is still unleashing unpopular yet irresistible commentary daily. Horowitz’s career — several job changes later — might have collapsed this week when he was abruptly fired amid an investigation into sexual harassment. “Everyone at Fox Sports, no matter what role we play, or what business, function or show we contribute to — should act with respect and adhere to professional conduct at all times,” Eric Shanks, the president of…

A dark mood fell over Wimbledon on Thursday night after Bethanie Mattek-Sands suffered a sickening knee injury that sparked complaints about the state of the courts at the All England Club and the speed with which the American was treated. Tournament organisers swiftly defended the condition of the courts and denied that Mattek-Sands had not been treated quickly enough. Mattek-Sands, 32, could be heard crying and screaming out for help…

Photo credit: Maddie Meyer/Getty I think figure skating has this stereotype as a sport for little girls—that we are these pretty porcelain dolls … That’s how Ashley Wagner’s “in her own words” story in this year’s edition of ESPN The Magazine’s annual Body Issue begins. The 2016 world silver medalist is one of the athletes featured on ESPN’s list of what elite athletes look like naked. Wagner is featured on…

Sport Clube Gaucho are a Brazilian third-division side who haven’t been relevant since they briefly made the first division in the 1980s. That changed, though, when four players had their contracts rescinded after a video showing one of them jerking off two of his teammates in the club showers leaked. The three players in the video were kicked off the team, as was the one who filmed it. ***WARNING: THE…

N.C. State baseball’s Brock Deatherage earned his rightful recognition Wednesday for a lifetime of having to use “death” and “rage” every time he writes his name. Baseball America’s Michael Lananna, a UNC grad, tweeted his 52 favorite names in Division I baseball Wednesday morning in no particular order, and Deadspin writer Emma Baccellieri, a Duke grad, decided to rank the list. The Wolfpack’s Deatherage (pronounced DEATH-er-rige), born to be a…

Magglio Ordonez was a much better baseball player than he is a politician. (via Cbl62) An old baseball player is a young man. Even the lengthiest careers leave a man with half his life still ahead of him. Bartolo Colon just celebrated his 44th birthday in May, but a month later, he found himself designated for assignment after posting an 8.14 ERA in 13 starts for the Braves. It’s unlikely that…

Bayless is still unleashing unpopular yet irresistible commentary daily. Horowitz’s career — several job changes later — might have collapsed this week when he was abruptly fired amid an investigation into sexual harassment. “Everyone at Fox Sports, no matter what role we play, or what business, function or show we contribute to — should act with respect and adhere to professional conduct at all times,” Eric Shanks, the president of…

CLIFFWOOD, N.J. — On a stormy Saturday, a group of young boys wearing red soccer uniforms and cleats in a dizzying array of colors clip-clopped out of the rain and into an old warehouse, where wealthy residents of this historic community along Raritan Bay once stored their antique cars. That space is now occupied by an unlikely tenant, and serving a very different clientele. Xolos Academy FC New Jersey,…

Jul 5, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…

Tonsser, the Copenhagen-based startup that offers a vertical social network aimed at youth soccer players who want to build their own online profile and potentially get discovered by a bigger club, continues to grow at a clip, both in terms of signups but also the influence it wants to have on the beautiful game. The company has signed on Nike as its first brand channel partner, and now has 380,000…

ROCK HILL, S.C.—With soccer’s popularity soaring in the United States, the kids who kick are becoming overshadowed by the parents who throw temper tantrums. A simple search of “soccer parents” on YouTube quickly turns into “soccer parents out of control.” The competitive juices have extended outside of the pitch and the outbursts are taking a toll on referees in the Palmetto State. “We’re only retaining about 30 percent of our…

Magglio Ordonez was a much better baseball player than he is a politician. (via Cbl62) An old baseball player is a young man. Even the lengthiest careers leave a man with half his life still ahead of him. Bartolo Colon just celebrated his 44th birthday in May, but a month later, he found himself designated for assignment after posting an 8.14 ERA in 13 starts for the Braves. It’s unlikely that…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This is an online exclusive story from ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue 2017. Subscribe today! The U.S. women’s national hockey team is no stranger to making bold statements. Six members posing nude on the ice for the 2017 Body Issue? Not even their bravest move this year. In March, they announced they would boycott the world championship, demanding equitable…