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After two straight blowouts to begin the Eastern Conference finals and the news that inured Boston Celtics star Isaiah Thomas will miss the remainder of the series, the Cleveland Cavaliers entered Game 3 on Sunday as 16.5-point favorites — a spread you’ll rarely even see so high in the regular season. It took all of 23:39 for the Cavs to build a lead big enough to cover that 17-point margin, and they…

Danica Patrick, the Hollywood Hotel broadcaster for the June race at Pocono Raceway, being interviewed by ESPN back in 2012—when the network actually covered NASCAR. Photo credit: Tyler Barrick/Getty Images for True Speed Communication In June, things are going to get pretty weird in NASCAR broadcasting. For the first time, the entire broadcast team will be active drivers—the booth, the pit-road reporters and everyone else. Fox Sports, the broadcaster for…

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) – The mayor of a Louisiana city says a new arena has been proposed with hopes of securing a bid for an NBA minor league team. The Times reports (http://bit.ly/2qAn7py ) Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler has proposed the construction of a sports event center in an effort to acquire the bid for the New Orleans Pelicans’ Developmental League affiliate. Shreveport is one of six cities working to…

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s federal sports minister Greg Hunt has thrown his weight behind a push for a national lottery to boost funding for athletes and arrest the country’s slide down the Olympic medals table. Australia had its worst medal haul in 24 years at the 2016 Rio Games, finishing 10th in the standings to continue a decline that has set in since consecutive top-five finishes at the home 2000…

TRENTON, N.J. — Lawmakers in New Jersey are set to vote on legislation to regulate and tax daily fantasy sports. The Democrat-led Assembly is scheduled to vote Monday on a bill that would impose a quarterly fee of 10.5 percent of gross revenues on daily fantasy sports providers. The measure calls for the Division of Consumer Affairs to issue permits to fantasy sports operators including casino licensees and racetracks. The…

<!– “Chelsea – Premier League thoroughbreds and deserved champions” Chelsea – 1st <!– Chelsea captain John Terry said farewell during Chelsea’s final game of the season on Sunday Premier League thoroughbreds and deserved champions. Brilliantly managed by Antonio Conte in his first season at the club – addressed early failings with tactical acumen, repaired a broken squad and got Chelsea’s best players playing again. McNulty’s pre-season prediction: 3rd What he…

Kelly Rohrbach has one very big advantage when it comes to conquering Hollywood: her backswing. It turns out the 5-foot-9 model and actress, who is stepping into Pamela Anderson’s red swimsuit in the “Baywatch” movie in theaters Thursday, is an ace on the golf course. “I love to go out there and beat the guys,” Rohrbach told The Post. “It’s kind of an ego boost. “Golf [has been] a big…

Danica Patrick, the Hollywood Hotel broadcaster for the June race at Pocono Raceway, being interviewed by ESPN back in 2012—when the network actually covered NASCAR. Photo credit: Tyler Barrick/Getty Images for True Speed Communication In June, things are going to get pretty weird in NASCAR broadcasting. For the first time, the entire broadcast team will be active drivers—the booth, the pit-road reporters and everyone else. Fox Sports, the broadcaster for…

Teen NASCAR drivers Harrison Burton and Todd Gilliland are both from North Carolina and are sons of men who raced at the Cup Series level. The pair both started racing cars at age 5, when many children are learning to ride a bicycle. Now Burton, 16, and Gilliland, 17, are members of the 2017 NASCAR Next class, a watch list of nine rising stars climbing the NASCAR ladder. “The NASCAR…

Image copyright EPA Image caption It is Sweden’s 10th world title Sweden has won the ice hockey world championship, beating favourites Canada in a dramatic penalty shootout. The teams were tied at 1-1 after three periods in Cologne, Germany, with Victor Hedman scoring for the Swedes and Canada’s Ryan O’Reilly equalising. The overtime brought no goals, but the Scandinavians then were twice on target in the shootout, while the North…

The Rio Olympics experienced their fair share of problems last summer (green pool water, controversial boxing judges, basic plumbing). Now nearly nine months after the Games ended, it looks like organizers in Rio de Janeiro are still experiencing some hiccups. The latest issue has to do with medals handed out to more than 130 winners – they’re rusting, chipping or as Agence France-Presse put it, “falling to pieces.” “We’re seeing…

GIF via NASCAR How Trevor Bayne kept his car on the pavement and out of the wall in Saturday night’s Monster Energy Open race, I still don’t know. Trevor Bayne’s No. 6 car was sent into a crazy rollercoaster of countersteer after Danica Patrick’s No. 10 made contact with his left-rear fender during Saturday’s race before the All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The save is so impressive, it’s a…

Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 14 goals in his last nine games for Real Madrid Real Madrid won their first La Liga title since 2012 thanks to a final-day victory at Malaga. Cristiano Ronaldo scored early on to settle the nerves, latching onto Isco’s through ball to step around Carlos Kameni and tap into an empty net. Karim Benzema added their second goal after the break after Kameni parried Sergio Ramos’…

Fernando Torres was substituted to a standing ovation in the second half Fernando Torres scored twice as Atletico Madrid ended life at the Vicente Calderon with victory over Athletic Bilbao. The boyhood Atleti fan, who is out of contract this summer, scored twice in the opening 11 minutes, netting from close range and hooking home a volley. The 33-year-old scored more La Liga goals at the Calderon than any other…

“Caught the [Swiss team] Katusha-Alpecin … dumping raw sewage from their RV on the side of highway 330,” the YouTube account of Ryan Patrick Early captioned the video, which appears to show two men outside an RV spraying liquid on the ground. Early noted the highway where the men allegedly emptied their team’s septic tank runs adjacent to “running springs,” and that they tried to hide their misdeed by spraying it…

Kyle Busch used a bold three-wide pass for the lead Saturday night to win NASCAR’s annual All-Star race for the first time. Although the race does not count in the standings, it was Busch‘s first Cup victory of the season and first at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Busch also won the Truck Series race Friday night, but the victory Saturday was worth a cool $1 million. Busch dove low around Brad…

11:56 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment CONCORD, N.C. — On the 25th anniversary of an incredible evening of racing dubbed “One Hot Night,” NASCAR tried to do something to rekindle the dramatics for its all-star event. It didn’t get it. The 2017 version of the Monster Energy All-Star Race will go down in history as “One Hot Blight.” Kyle Busch pockets $1M with All-Star triumph…

Screencap via TSN NASCAR introduced multiple tire compounds for tonight’s All-Star race with the stipulation that all four new stickier green “option” tires must go on at the same time. But they didn’t say that all four had to be left on or pulled off at the same time, as Clint Bowyer’s No. 14 team pointed out during tonight’s race. During Stage 3 of 4, Bowyer came into the pits…

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