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7:13 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Other than opening day, Memorial Day Monday is my favorite day of the season. There’s wall-to-wall baseball with all 30 teams playing all day long. The card may be full, but it’s lacking aces. The highlight is David Price making his 2017 debut with the marquee matchup featuring Mike Leake and the St. Louis Cardinals hosting Rich Hill and…

The South Carolina baseball team is awaiting its postseason fate. According to Baseball America, the Gamecocks are one of the “first four teams out” along with Connecticut, Gonzaga and Maryland. Fellow SEC bubble team Ole Miss is also projected to miss the tournament. D1Baseball also projects USC as missing the tournament. The Gamecocks (35-25) were 13-17 the SEC regular season and 3-2 in tournament play. USC finished No. 31 in…

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RELATED: NASCAR holds pit crew combine | Learn about the Drive for Diversity program CONCORD, N.C. — The pit guns are buzzing. Lug nuts are flying off tires. There’s chatter and instruction back and forth. Encouragement, competitive banter. It’s a money stop taking place not on pit road in a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event, but in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity National Pit Crew Development Combine Presented by…

CONCORD, N.C. — The marathon race became more like a short sprint for strong contenders Brad Keselowski and Chase Elliott early in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. A part broke in Jeffery Earnhardt’s No. 33 Chevrolet at Lap 19 of 400 scheduled laps, dropping fluid and debris onto the race track. Elliott ran over the piece, causing damage to his car and losing control…

Bruce Arena’s U.S. squad will face Trinidad and Tobago on June 8 outside of Denver and Mexico on June 11 in Mexico City. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press) In Bruce Arena’s first gathering of the U.S. men’s national soccer team this winter, every candidate from Europe and most from Mexico were not available because of club commitments. When he summoned a couple dozen for two 2018 World Cup qualifiers in March,…

By STEVE REEDAP Sports Writer CONCORD, N.C. (AP) – Steven Soderbergh was never a big NASCAR fan despite growing up in the South. But the Academy Award winning director has become one after working on his new film “Logan Lucky,” depicting a theoretical heist at Charlotte Motor Speedway during the Coca-Cola 600. “NASCAR was kind of mystery to me,” Soderbergh said in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday…

Northwestern came up one victory short of its first NCAA baseball tournament berth in 60 years, losing 13-4 to Iowa in Sunday’s Big Ten championship game in Bloomington, Ind. The Wildcats had reached the final by defeating Maryland 6-5 on Sunday morning. Northwestern never has won the Big Ten tournament and last qualified for the NCAAs in 1957. The surprising run to the championship game began with wins over Michigan…

A three-run fourth inning and a dominant performance by starting pitcher Eric Walker propelled LSU to a 4-2 win over Arkansas in the SEC Baseball Tournament championship at the Hoover Met on Sunday. It was LSU’s sixth SEC Baseball Tournament championship in the last 10 years, but first since 2014. “That was a thrilling game today,” LSU head coach Paul Mainieri said. “Two teams really going after each other.” Walker, a…

HOOVER, Ala. — Arkansas baseball’s first SEC Tournament title will have to come another year. LSU stayed the king of the league Sunday. A stellar start from freshman Eric Walker was the LSU highlight as the Tigers won their 12th SEC title, 4-2. Arkansas fell to 0-4 in the baseball championship since joining the league in 1992. Matters little, really, other than for record books. Arkansas already had done enough during…

CLOSE x Embed x Share Xavier’s Zac Lowther had his coming out party during the 2016 NCAA Tournament, and later in the 2016 Cape Cod Baseball League. Now, he attracts regular attention from scouts and scouting services. The Enquirer/Patrick Brennan Xavier players celebrate after winning the Big East Championship against Creighton on Sunday.(Photo: Jason DeCrow/AP) Xavier baseball is going back to the NCAA Tournament. The Musketeers (32-25) upset 42-win St….

Players hold up the trophy following their victory in the 2017 ACC Baseball Tournament in Louisville, KY, Sunday, May. 28, 2017. (Photo By Timothy D. Easley, theACC.com)(Photo: Timothy D. Easley, Timothy D. Easley, theACC.com) Florida State took down No. 2 seed North Carolina to win its seventh ACC Championship on Sunday afternoon. The Seminoles (39-20) defeated the Tar Heels 7-3 at Louisville Slugger Field to take the tournament after starting…

Watch the moment ex-Prime Minister David Cameron appears to jump to the front of a queue – to buy some socks in JD Sports. Flanked by two bodyguards, he can be seen taking the white socks to the cash desk to pay, before realising he has the wrong size.   He then returns to the accessories rack to swap the socks before heading back to the cashier – pushing past…

FIFA 18 will launch sometime this autumn on the usual spread of consoles and PC. Nintendo Switch owners will instead get EA Sports FIFA. That isn’t some parsed misreading of marketing copy. As noticed Friday by Eurogamer, Electronic Arts itself has specified two different FIFA video games to be shown at EA Play 2017 during E3: FIFA 18 and something called “EA Sports FIFA on the Nintendo Switch“ Given the…

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CONCORD, N.C. — NASCAR is trying to inject some excitement into Charlotte Motor Speedway, where recent races have been relatively predictable, even dull: When a lead car breaks free from the pack, it’s been nearly impossible to catch.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is not a fan of his country’s hockey team right now. (Dmitry Brushko/Associated Press) Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t the only Eastern European authoritarian leader who plays hockey. So does Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. But unlike Putin, who once gave the entire Russian national hockey team luxury vehicles for winning the world championships, Lukashenko has no love for Team Belarus. During a meeting this week that…

Would Dale Earnhardt, a seven-time NASCAR Cup champion hailed by many as the greatest driver in the sport’s history, be able to land a ride in today’s NASCAR? That question caught Dale Earnhardt Jr. by surprise this week. Scott Fowler of the Charlotte Observer sat down with the popular driver for a wide-ranging interview, and stumped the driver with that hypothetical question. “That’s a good damn question,” Earnhardt said. “I’ve never been asked…