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The Browns seem comfortable with the guys currently on the roster, after passing on Mitchell Trubisky and Deshaun Watson in the draft. They did take DeShone Kizer in the second round, but no one expects him to be the starter in Week 1. He’ll compete with Cody Kessler, Brock Osweiler and Kevin Hogan with the best player winning the job. Unfortunately, none of those guys has a particularly stacked NFL…

A German-born soccer player who plays for Afghanistan’s national team said she was detained at a U.S. airport for several hours Monday, but given no explanation why. “I was asking, ‘Why?’ ” Mena Ahmadi told Fusion.net on Wednesday about her ordeal at Houston International Airport on Monday. “Maybe [I was detained] because my parents are from Afghanistan? I didn’t have anything suspicious about the reason I [was coming] here.” “I’m…

NASCAR memorabilia owned by artist Sam Bass, from car parts signed by Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Jr. to a custom guitar used in the film “Talladega Nights,” is up for auction this week – but not by choice. A U.S. Bankruptcy Court ordered the auction involving his Sam Bass Illustration and Design Inc. Bass has been battling health problems recently in addition to facing financial concerns. He took to Twitter…

CLOSE x Embed x Share The official announcement that Comerica Park will host an International Champions Cup soccer match on July 19 in downtown Detroit, the first-ever soccer match at the ballpark. Video by Kevin Bull, DFP. Buy Photo AS Roma Youth Academy partnership director Alex Zecca, from left, with Detroit Tigers owner Chris Ilitch, Relevant Sports chairman Charlie Stillitano and former Paris Saint-Germain player Juan Pablo Sorin after a…

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ST. LOUIS • A woman was grazed in the arm by a stray bullet during Tuesday night’s Cardinals game inside Busch Stadium. Police sources say there had been a call for shots fired near the 14th Street and Chouteau Avenue area moments before the woman was struck, and that the bullet may have come from someone shooting into the air. That intersection is less than a…

The Browns seem comfortable with the guys currently on the roster, after passing on Mitchell Trubisky and Deshaun Watson in the draft. They did take DeShone Kizer in the second round, but no one expects him to be the starter in Week 1. He’ll compete with Cody Kessler, Brock Osweiler and Kevin Hogan with the best player winning the job. Unfortunately, none of those guys has a particularly stacked NFL…

NASCAR memorabilia owned by artist Sam Bass, from car parts signed by Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Jr. to a custom guitar used in the film “Talladega Nights,” is up for auction this week – but not by choice. A U.S. Bankruptcy Court ordered the auction involving his Sam Bass Illustration and Design Inc. Bass has been battling health problems recently in addition to facing financial concerns. He took to Twitter…

CLOSE x Embed x Share Chris Ilitch, President and CEO of Ilitch Holdings spoke briefly after Wednesday’s news conference at Comerica Park. Al Willman, Special to The Detroit News The International Champions Cup will be at Comerica Park on July 19. The matchup will feature AS Roma and Paris Saint-Germain.(Photo: Al Willman / Special to The Detroit News) Detroit — Professional soccer is coming to the Motor City, but it’s…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment CONCORD, N.C. — Travis Pastrana loved trying to compete in NASCAR. He just couldn’t make the transition quick enough to keep throwing money at a stock car racing career. So after a full season of Xfinity Series racing in 2013, he decided to return to his action-sports-star roots on off-road motorcycles and his Nitro Circus shows. He neither stopped…

Each week SB Nation’s NASCAR reporter Jordan Bianchi answers your questions about the latest news and happenings within the sport. If you have a mailbag question email jordanmbianchi@gmail.com. If everything is equal isn’t Kyle Larson the obvious choice to replace Dale Earnhardt Jr. at Hendrick Motorsports? — Andy When you take into account Larson’s immense talent (he’s leading the Cup Series standings) and age (24), he certainly represents an ideal…

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Matt Shepard(Photo: iHeartRadio) For being such a great sports town — Chris Ilitch on Wednesday called Detroit the greatest sports city in America — it’s pretty remarkable this market can’t support more than one all-local, sports-talk radio station. Well, the truth is, it probably can, but the powers-that-be who’ve taken a stab at creating competition for 97.1 The Ticket have done a ridiculously poor job of executing a game plan….

Fans at a game between the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox give a standing ovation for the Orioles’ Adam Jones in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 2, 2017. (AP Photo / Michael Dwyer) This week Baltimore Orioles All-Star outfielder Adam Jones spoke candidly about the racism he faced in Fenway Park. On Monday, a group of “fans” shouted at him from the outfield stands, calling him “n—–.” One threw a bag…

WLS-Ch. 7 meteorologist Cheryl Scott hosts the Fire’s Soccer and Style Fashion Show on Wednesday at ROOF on the Wit, where players such as Bastian Schweinsteiger will act like runway models to raise money for disadvantaged children in the Chicago area. Scott talked to Inc. about being a big fan of Chicago sports and her own background as an athlete. On mixing weather and sports What I love to do…

The Browns seem comfortable with the guys currently on the roster, after passing on Mitchell Trubisky and Deshaun Watson in the draft. They did take DeShone Kizer in the second round, but no one expects him to be the starter in Week 1. He’ll compete with Cody Kessler, Brock Osweiler and Kevin Hogan with the best player winning the job. Unfortunately, none of those guys has a particularly stacked NFL…

NASCAR memorabilia owned by artist Sam Bass, from car parts signed by Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Jr. to a custom guitar used in the film “Talladega Nights,” is up for auction this week — but not by choice. A U.S. Bankruptcy Court ordered the auction involving his Sam Bass Illustration and Design Inc. Bass has been battling health problems recently in addition to facing financial concerns. He took to Twitter…

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A New York City man is on a mission to flush the cremated remains of his lifelong friend — a plumber — down ballpark toilets around the country. Tom McDonald tells the New York Times that it’s a fitting tribute for Roy Riegel. The two baseball fans were childhood friends in Queens, not far from — wait for it — Flushing Meadows, where the Mets play. Like baseball, this endeavor…

When Red Sox fans hurled peanuts and the N-word toward Orioles outfielder Adam Jones in Fenway Park, it was a reminder of the Boston’s racial legacy — particularly around its sports teams. Boston’s reputation as a racist sports town developed through decades of barriers broken and maintained, intertwined with broader struggles for progress along with today’s climate of racial tension that sports can’t avoid. Despite its teams and the city…