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RELATED: Full schedule for Pocono, Texas WELCOME, N.C. – VELVEETA® Shells & Cheese is partnering with Richard Childress Racing (RCR) and the No. 31 Chevrolet SS team to give NASCAR fans a taste of the one and only LIQUID GOLD. VELVEETA Shells & Cheese will serve as primary sponsor for select races, beginning June 18 at Michigan International Speedway, and associate sponsorship for the remainder of the 2017 season. The…

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. – The NASCAR Foundation today appointed Nichole Krieger Executive Director. Krieger – who served as Acting Executive Director since February following five years as Senior Director, Development and Marketing – will assume her new role effective immediately and report into NASCAR Vice Chairman Mike Helton. As Executive Director, Krieger will build on the legacy of the Foundation’s late Founder and Chairwoman Emeritus Betty Jane France, whose mission…

Masahiro Tanaka, right, talks with Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild, catcher Gary Sanchez (24) and interpreter Shingo Horie. (Adam Hunger/USA Today) The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry has had its share of memorable moments, but Jerry Remy’s comments Tuesday overshadowed the latest installment and led to an apology by the longtime Red Sox broadcaster for saying that Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka should not be able to use an interpreter for coaches’ visits…

LEWIS CENTER, OH (WCMH) — It’s baseball season, and kids in Lewis Center joined a three-day baseball camp at Olentangy High School. Around 130 kids between ages eight and 14 came to learn how to improve their baseball techniques. What better way to learn than from a former professional Cleveland Indians player? Eric Efland has been playing baseball for six years and he’s currently in the 8th grade. He says he is…

If Major League Baseball ever wants to stop being the third wheel, behind the NFL and the NBA, then it will have to start by getting rid of all the subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, racist antics that people of color have always realized are a part of “America’s Pastime.” After dealing with what happened with Adam Jones in Fenway Park only weeks ago, Major League Baseball…

Kevin Durant hit a go-ahead three-pointer with 45 seconds left as the Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 118-113 in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night, setting a record for longest playoff win streak in the history of the four major pro sports. Ice water in his veins. @KDTrey5 delivers some 💦#SPLASH 💦 (ABC) #StrengthInNumbers #NBAFinals #DubNation pic.twitter.com/LVp1POMVkL — GoldenStateWarriors (@warriors) June 8, 2017 “All I was…

x Embed x Share CLOSE VIDEOS: BEST OF PREDATORS’ 2017 NHL PLAYOFFSPredators tie the series with another win at home | 0:45 Have the Predators finally figured out Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Matt Murray? It sure looked like it in Game 4. The Predators tie the series 2-2 with another win at home. Ayrika Whitney/USA TODAY NETWORK x Embed x Share CLOSE VIDEOS: BEST OF PREDATORS’ 2017 NHL PLAYOFFSStanley Cup Final…

Billing themselves as “Atlanta’s premier social experience for the LGBT community,” Pride Kickball has a spring, summer, and fall season, playing on Monday’s in Piedmont Park, with socializing time at a nearby bar afterwards. Full details available on their website.

“OK, in 12 years in the league, he has one ring. And he wants to be the highest-paid quarterback?” Shannon Sharpe: “He deserves it!” Skip Bayless: “Why wouldn’t he just go to Mike McCarthy privately, or Ted Thompson privately and just say, ‘Hey, I think it’s time that you take care of me.’ Why would you make a stink publicly about it?” Shannon Sharpe: “He’s saying, ‘You…

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Masahiro Tanaka, right, talks with Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild, catcher Gary Sanchez (24) and interpreter Shingo Horie. (Adam Hunger/USA Today) The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry has had its share of memorable moments, but Jerry Remy’s comments Tuesday overshadowed the latest installment and led to an apology by the longtime Red Sox broadcaster for saying that Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka should not be able to use an interpreter for coaches’ visits…

Wichita is about to be down another sports shop. Last month, Have You Heard? reported that Sports Time Fan Shop at NewMarket Square is closing in late June. Now, the Ultimate Sports Shop in the Westway Shopping Center at 2491 S. Seneca is closing as well. “Due to health, I need to retire,” says Diana Freund, who has had the store for 17 years. She says she’s “sad, but, you…

Bob Stoops, the longtime Oklahoma head coach who led the Sooners to an undefeated season and national championship in 2000, is retiring effective immediately. Offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley will take over. NewsOK.com’s Berry Tramel first reported the news. In just his second season in Norman, Stoops brought Oklahoma back to glory, going 13-0 and winning the 2001 Orange Bowl over Florida State to clinch the school’s first national championship since 1985. The Sooners…

“OK, in 12 years in the league, he has one ring. And he wants to be the highest-paid quarterback?” Shannon Sharpe: “He deserves it!” Skip Bayless: “Why wouldn’t he just go to Mike McCarthy privately, or Ted Thompson privately and just say, ‘Hey, I think it’s time that you take care of me.’ Why would you make a stink publicly about it?” Shannon Sharpe: “He’s saying, ‘You…

“OK, in 12 years in the league, he has one ring. And he wants to be the highest-paid quarterback?” Shannon Sharpe: “He deserves it!” Skip Bayless: “Why wouldn’t he just go to Mike McCarthy privately, or Ted Thompson privately and just say, ‘Hey, I think it’s time that you take care of me.’ Why would you make a stink publicly about it?” Shannon Sharpe: “He’s saying, ‘You…

Elliot Bloom, Purdue’s director of basketball operations, keeps an electric guitar in his office so he can play Tom Petty songs.(Photo: Eric Schlene / For the Journal & Courier) WEST LAFAYETTE – Maybe this happened because of Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter. He’s the one who had the bizarre idea of taking his sports information guy, a former pre-med student named Elliot Bloom, and putting his publicist on his coaching…

Trevor Simonian will be off to the University of Pennsylvania to play baseball, but he won’t be soon forgotten because of his impact at Malibu High. He was the Frontier League co-MVP on defense and originally committed to play football at Penn. But he was also a top baseball player. This season, he batted .441 with 41 hits and 26 RBI. Now he’s going to focus on baseball at Penn….

Masahiro Tanaka, right, talks with Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild, Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez (24) and interpreter Shingo Horie. (Adam Hunger/USA Today Sports) The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry has had its share of memorable moments, but Jerry Remy might prefer that his comments Tuesday be quickly forgotten. During a game in New York, the longtime Red Sox broadcaster said that Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka should not be able to use an interpreter…

You might have heard a low, baleful moaning noise across the country over the past week. Don’t be alarmed, it’s just 100 million baseball fans, wearing robes of sack cloth, marching around and chanting out of grief at Mike Trout’s busted thumb, like the monks in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. However, there is one upside to Trout’s absence. From the moment his second big league stint started in…

A college football game being played in one of sports’ most historic and iconic stadiums will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network this fall. On Wednesday, it was announced that the nonconference game between Boston College and UConn in Fenway Park would be broadcast on CBSSN on Nov. 18. Despite the event being played in Boston, the Huskies are the host for the game, which is part of The Fenway…