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Alexis Sanchez has scored 50 Premier League goals for Arsenal Champions League-chasing Arsenal moved within a point of fourth-placed Liverpool with a comfortable Premier League victory over Stoke. Despite collecting the three points, manager Arsene Wenger faced further protests from his own supporters during the game, as they flew a plane over the Bet365 Stadium and held banners inside the ground calling for him to leave the club. But the…

RELATED: See the races in Kansas | Full Kansas schedule KANSAS CITY, Kansas — Eleven Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers failed to make qualifying attempts Friday after a backlog of cars scrambled to make their way through the inspection line at Kansas Speedway. The list of drivers missing out included Jimmie Johnson, a two-time winner this year; his Hendrick Motorsports teammates Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne; and hometown…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will retire after the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, continuing an exodus of the sport’s biggest stars that already includes four-time champion Jeff Gordon, three-time champion Tony Stewart and Columbia native Carl Edwards in the last two years. Several other prominent drivers — Matt Kenseth (age 45), Jimmie Johnson (41), Kevin Harvick (41), Joplin, Mo., native Jamie McMurray (40), Ryan Newman (39), Kurt Busch (38),…

Gabriel Jesus has scored five goals in six starts for Manchester City Manchester City held on to beat Leicester City and move back into third place after referee Bobby Madley disallowed Riyad Mahrez’s late penalty for the Foxes. Mahrez, who had been brought down by Gael Clichy, had the chance to make it 2-2 but slipped as he took his spot-kick and touched the ball with his right foot as…

News came down Friday that injured Mets closer Jeurys Familia had surgery due to a blood clot in his shoulder and will miss several months. Given the conversation I had earlier Friday with sports injury expert John Gallucci Jr, president of JAG Physical Therapy, I wasn’t too surprised.  Gallucci is currently the medical coordinator for Major League Soccer, overseeing all 20 teams nationwide, as well as the chair of the…

Want your son to play in the NFL? Then throw him in the pool. Or hand him a tennis racket or cricket bat. Those sports were just a few of the non-football activities the 49ers’ most recent draft picks took part in as kids, thus supporting the stance held by former 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh and others that the best athletes usually are the ones who played multiple sports. According…

News came down Friday that injured Mets closer Jeurys Familia had surgery due to a blood clot in his shoulder and will miss several months. Given the conversation I had earlier Friday with sports injury expert John Gallucci Jr, president of JAG Physical Therapy, I wasn’t too surprised.  Gallucci is currently the medical coordinator for Major League Soccer, overseeing all 20 teams nationwide, as well as the chair of the…

The Associated Press reports that NASCAR Monster Energy Cup driver Carl Long’s team on Friday had to remove the hood logo for the Colorado-based Veedverks from Long’s No. 66 Chevrolet. A NASCAR spokesman said the logo and sponsorship by Veedverks had not been approved beforehand, which is standard procedure for the sanctioning body. However, a spokesperson for the Denver-based Veedverks said in a Facebook post that NASCAR had approved the sponsorship. They…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will retire after the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, continuing an exodus of the sport’s biggest stars that already includes four-time champion Jeff Gordon, three-time champion Tony Stewart and Columbia native Carl Edwards in the last two years. Several other prominent drivers — Matt Kenseth (age 45), Jimmie Johnson (41), Kevin Harvick (41), Joplin, Mo., native Jamie McMurray (40), Ryan Newman (39), Kurt Busch (38),…

Los Angeles hopes to beat out Paris for the 2024 Olympics bid. Members the International Olympic Committee will decide the winner later this year. But soaring financial costs may offer some surprises.

RELATED: Practice 1 results | Final practice results Defending race winner Kyle Busch led final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Kansas Speedway on Friday, turning a lap at 187.963 mph in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Series points leader Kyle Larson, driving in a backup car because of an incident earlier in the practice session, was second at 187.833 mph in the No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing…

Rankings below are based on a mixture of expected output and DraftKings’ NASCAR salaries for that day. The ordering is not based on highest projected fantasy totals, but rather by value of each driver. (fppk = average fantasy points per $1,000 of salary. The typical median fppk for a 2016 race was in the 3s. Plate tracks tend to be lower and short tracks tend to run higher due to the…

If you thought driving a NASCAR race car around a track took some talent, watch what the truck drivers who haul those cars around can do. On Thursday, the dozens of semi-trailer trucks that haul NASCAR team cars and the gear to support them were allowed into the infield garage area of Kansas Speedway for a weekend of racing. Just like their racing teammates, the truck drivers have a coordinated…

A beloved soccer coach coming out to his team as transgender has been captured on video. Kaig Lightner, 36, founder and director of Portland Community Football Club in Portland, Oregon, revealed his story to the kids on May 1. “I thought it was really fantastic that the first question was, ‘How old are you?” Lightner told ABC News. “Kids don’t have as many concerns about these larger social issues as…

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Starting pitcher: Cueto looks strong, but Porcello is better… Patrick Corbin ($8,100) and Miguel Gonzalez ($8,000) are playable in cash games. The Pirates have struggled vs. LHP with a .299 wOBA and 22.7 percent K rate … Remember when I wanted to target Dylan Bundy ($7,500) on Thursday? That was against the Red Sox. A matchup with the putrid Royals is much friendlier … Yankee rookie Jordan Montgomery ($7,100) has…

The title of “best rivalry in baseball” is not a permanent title any more than “best team in baseball” or “best player in baseball” is a permanent title (or at least wasn’t before Mike Trout came around). In the early 1950s, the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers finished first and second in the National League three times in four seasons, the first of which led to a best-of-three series,…

Thanks to Field of Dreams and other times where baseball has been in popular culture, baseball is pretty well linked as a game shared between fathers and sons. That’s great, but Father’s Day isn’t until next month, and a lot of our moms like baseball too. Mother’s Day, on the other hand, is just a couple of days away. So my question for you for this week’s FanPost is pretty…

If you think about what constitutes a sport, the contest that took place recently at Robert Morris University checked many of the boxes. Did the competitors put in many hours of practice? Yes. Did they possess physical and mental gifts? Affirmative. Was teamwork a crucial ingredient for success? Absolutely. The only thing missing, really, was perspiration — it’s hard to break a sweat when you’re sitting in a climate-controlled room,…