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LAS VEGAS  — The arena has all the features that a professional sports venue needs: stands, warm-up areas for teams, massive screens for spectators and a broadcast platform for commentators. But what distinguishes this new Las Vegas arena is its dozens of video game consoles. The 15,000-square-foot e-sports venue slated to open Friday will host competitive video game tournaments. It’s part of…

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RELATED: Key changes in NASCAR | Fast facts on race enhancements NASCAR.com’s Kenny Bruce, Holly Cain, Zack Albert and Jonathan Merryman make their predictions for the 2017 NASCAR season: KENNY BRUCE NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion: Timothy Peters. Rebounds from winless ’16 to ride the Red Horse to the title. NASCAR XFINITY Series champion: Elliott Sadler. So close a year ago; his JRM team is rock solid. Monster Energy…

Real Betis and Sevilla battled on Saturday in the Seville Derby, one of the most underrated rivalries in European soccer. The derby match is always frantic, and despite the teams sometimes not always being in the best of form entering it, these matches are something to take in and enjoy. And while it was a highly entertaining match, the greatest moment was before the game. Check out these sick scenes…

CLOSE x Embed x Share Hendrick Motorsports driver hopes to secure his eighth Cup Series title this season. Jimmie Johnson is a seven-time Cup champion but has never been the sport’s most popular driver.(Photo: Jasen Vinlove, USA TODAY Sports) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —The script goes something like this: a NASCAR driver emerges from the car, mentions his car sponsor followed by the engine manufacturer, says a few sentences about what…

Photo credit: Mark Thompson/Getty Images If you’ve watched any American stock-car racing lately, you might have noticed a few changes in NASCAR for the 2017 race season. But Circuit of The Americas chairman Bobby Epstein wants things to get even weirder in the future, because it sounds like he really, really wants NASCAR to come to Austin. Advertisement In a story from the Austin American-Statesman on Friday, Epstein said he’s…

n this Feb. 18, 2017, photo, Teams compete against each other playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive during the Dreamhack Masters e-sports tournament at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. A permanent 15,000 square-foot e-sports facility is scheduled to open in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) The arena has all the features that a professional sports venue needs: stands, warm-up areas for teams, massive screens for spectators and a broadcast…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A couple years back Dale Earnhardt Jr. went to Terminal West, an old foundry turned mid-sized concert venue in Atlanta, to see a band that had caught his attention. Lord Huron had popped up on his Twenty One Pilots Pandora station and Junior was hooked by the Los Angeles-based indie folk music. Earnhardt had met someone close to the band, so after the show he was…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It used to be that a NASCAR race didn’t need explaining, that even a child could put it all together. Take a whole bunch of cars, put ‘em on a track and spin ‘em around for an even number of laps; the one that crosses the finish line first, wins. It was all so blissfully straightforward. But then in advance of the 2017 season, the…

NASCAR has made a significant change in the inspection process for 2017. In years past, if a car failed one the inspection stations, the team would pull it out of line, make repairs and send it back on through. But crew chiefs are a wily lot. Sometimes, a team would pull a car out of line and correct the problem, but at the same time make other changes to areas…

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Diego Costa has now scored 16 Premier League goals this season Chelsea stretched their lead at the top of the Premier League table to 11 points after victory over battling Swansea City at Stamford Bridge. Cesc Fabregas marked his 300th Premier League appearance by putting the Blues ahead, poking the ball through the legs of Jack Cork and into the net. The hosts were stunned when Swansea equalised from their…

NPR’s Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of ESPN about possible rule changes for Major League Baseball that are designed to make games shorter.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It used to be that a NASCAR race didn’t need explaining, that even a child could put it all together. Take a whole bunch of cars, put ‘em on a track and spin ‘em around for an even number of laps; the one that crosses the finish line first, wins. It was so blissfully straightforward. But then in advance of the 2017 season, the sanctioning…

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RELATED: Race results | Grala earns first career win DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Matt Crafton‘s position as a 17th-year veteran and two-time champion in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has afforded him the clout to hand out scrutiny about how his peers race. The late-race intensity that sent his No. 88 Toyota arcing skyward like paper in a gale, though, was met with a shrug and a grin. “That was…

Ahead of Sunday’s big Daytona 500, racing legend Roger Penske dismissed claims that his sport is faltering. “I see the sport as stronger than ever from a competitive standpoint,” he said on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” As the Nascar season kicks off at Daytona 500, new questions have emerged about the state of stock car racing as both viewership numbers and admissions are seeing major declines. Nascar’s television viewership…

I did not wake up today expecting to write about a spring training home run. Do you remember the first spring training homer from last year? You do not. No one cared by the next morning, and too much “HERE’S THE FIRST HOMER OF SPRING” is bad for your health. This damned homer, though. This damned homer. Start with Aaron Judge, who eats granite and juggles bears. He is a…

Just when you think you have a handle on a player’s value, the format question rears its ugly head. “He’s more valuable in Format A than Format B,” Pundit C says on Program D. And you die a li Want more for Draft Day? Well, you can live again, because I’m here to set the record straight for the two formats most played on CBS Sports: Rotisserie and Head-to-Head. For…

As the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the baseball’s color barrier nears, baseball l commissioner Rob Manfred said he is committed to increasing the participation of African-Americans in the sport. Black players accounted for 8.3 percent of rosters in 2016, according to MLB. The highest percentage was 19 in 1986, MLB said, citing researcher Mark Armour from the Society for American Baseball Research. advertisement | advertise on newsday…