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Please, let us keep the tar snakes. Photo credit: Matt Sullivan/Stringer/Getty Images Since virtually every human the planet doesn’t want Atlanta Motor Speedway to repave its racing surface after the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, the track may actually reconsider its plans to destroy everything that’s good and holy in the world of cookie-cutter race tracks. This is a beautiful day. Advertisement While the potential for an…

CLOSE x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Nicole Auerbach says you shouldn’t be surprised if these small school teams make a magical run in the NCAA tournament. USA TODAY Sports Vanderbilt Commodores guard Riley LaChance (13) and forward Jeff Roberson (11) celebrate during the second half at Memorial Gymnasium. Vanderbilt won 73-71.(Photo: Jim Brown, USA TODAY Sports) Ah, Madness. It’s undoubtedly here in the form of small conference tournament…

MOSCOW –  A Russian lawmaker has proposed an unorthodox solution to the country’s problems with soccer hooliganism ahead of next year’s World Cup — legalize it and make it a spectator sport. Organized groups of Russian fans, many with martial arts training, fought English fans on the streets of Marseille during last year’s European Championship. That inspired Igor Lebedev, who sits in the Russian parliament, to draw up…

Prof. G.L Khanna is a former Senior Scientific Officer from National Institute of Sports Patiala, Sports Authority of India and is working as Professor and Dean of Faculty of Applied Sciences of Manav Rachna International University Faridabad. He has been playing an active role in various sports faculties and government policies and is presently a member of Olympic Task Force. In this interview, he talks about the Task Force and…

Barbara Slater joined the BBC in 1983, 10 years after women were allowed to play on official football pitches after a 50-year ban and years before their matches were televised. More than three decades later and the BBC’s first female head of sport is to announce on Monday that the corporation has won the rights to broadcast the 2019 Women’s World Cup, having seen off competition which has “never been…

If Charlotte is wrestling in a singles match on a pay-per-view, she doesn’t lose. This has been the case since July of 2015, and it would be stunning if Flair’s pay-per-view streak was snapped just a few weeks before WrestleMania, as WWE could use it to promote whatever match she’s a part of.  That doesn’t mean that Bayley has to lose her championship, though. Barring a surprise NXT debut,…

Go fast. Turn left. Win. For decades, you could boil NASCAR down to this simple set of rules. The ethos is so concise that it’s often the main source of derision for the sport. (“All they do is turn left,” you might cry.) But that simplicity is also the backbone that made NASCAR popular in the first place. That’s why it felt cataclysmic when, this past January, NASCAR changed how…

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11:28 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Maybe the World Baseball Classic isn’t your thing. That’s OK, we don’t have to agree on everything. The tournament kicks off Monday, with two Pool A games in Seoul, including Israel versus South Korea at 4:30 a.m. What, you have something better to do? The U.S. team kicks off against Colombia on Friday at 6 p.m. in Miami (all…

HOUSTON – Ryan Merrill’s walk-off double capped a wild comeback for No. 1 TCU as it rallied to defeat No. 15 Texas A&M 11-10 in 15 innings. The Horned Frogs scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth to send the game to extra innings. Here’s the game-winner courtesy of Ryan Merrill! #LateNightWithTheFrogs #GoFrogs pic.twitter.com/umIgvU96ys — TCU Baseball (@TCU_Baseball) March 5, 2017 Josh Watson’s…

HOUSTON, Texas – The No. 10 Texas Tech baseball team got back in the win column on Saturday afternoon, taking down No. 11 Ole Miss, 5-1, in game two of the 2017 Shriners Hospitals for Children College Classic at Minute Maid Park.   The Red Raiders (10-2) reached the 10-win mark after receiving another masterful performance by sophomore left-handed pitcher Steven Gingery, earning his third win in his third start of the…

Barbara Slater joined the BBC in 1983, 10 years after women were allowed to play on official football pitches after a 50-year ban and years before their matches were televised. More than three decades later and the BBC’s first female head of sport is to announce on Monday that the corporation has won the rights to broadcast the 2019 Women’s World Cup, having seen off competition which has “never been…

LAS VEGAS — Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson probably wishes that UFC president Dana White was a judge in Las Vegas right now. When the scores were read for the main event on Saturday night, Thompson came up short against welterweight champion Tyron Woodley in a majority decision loss just four months after earning a draw with him at UFC 205. After the fight was over, UFC president Dana White spoke to…

A Russian politician has proposed an unorthodox solution to the country’s problems with football hooliganism before hosting the World Cup next year – legalise it and make it a spectator sport. Organised groups of Russian fans fought English supporters on the streets of Marseille during the European Championship last year. That inspired Igor Lebedev, who sits in the Russian parliament, to draw up rules for what he calls “draka” –…

CLOSE x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Nicole Auerbach says you shouldn’t be surprised if these small school teams make a magical run in the NCAA tournament. USA TODAY Sports Vanderbilt Commodores guard Riley LaChance (13) and forward Jeff Roberson (11) celebrate during the second half at Memorial Gymnasium. Vanderbilt won 73-71.(Photo: Jim Brown, USA TODAY Sports) Ah, Madness. It’s undoubtedly here in the form of small conference tournament…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Kevin Harvick will start on the pole today at Atlanta Motor Speedway for NASCAR’s Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500. The race is at 2:30 p.m. on FOX and will be streamed live on Fox Sports Go. You can get live scoring and updates all weekend at NASCAR’s Race Center. Harvick had a qualifying run of 29.118 seconds (190.398 mph) on Friday to claim the pole, his second…

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RELATED: Race results | Standings | Detailed breakdown HAMPTON, Ga. – Christopher Bell unquestionably had the dominant truck in Saturday’s Active Pest Control 200, but, in the end, the driver of the No. 4 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota Tundra had to work hard for the third NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory of his career. In the nightcap of a NASCAR doubleheader at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bell held off fellow Tundra driver…

Image via Fox Sports NASCAR on Twitter NASCAR decided that rather than running its weekend triple header over three days like usual, it would run both the Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series races on the same day. Both races started with a wreck in the first two laps at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Saturday. Advertisement The Xfinity race started the day in Atlanta, with Ty Dillon’s No. 3…

Move over, Doug The Pug, and make room for Mr. Tickles. Well, that might be a bit premature. But if you’re looking for an animal with an entertaining social media personality, look no further than NASCAR driver AJ Allmendinger’s cat, Mr. Tickles. (He’s presumably Allmendinger’s cat based on the driver’s frequent cameos in his videos and the number of times they retweet and mention each other.) With more than 2,300 followers on…