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If you’re a fan of goals (who isn’t?), then Ligue 1 is your spot. PSG’s Edinson Cavani has seven goals in his last six matches and the Parisians have 50 for the season already. That half-century mark is good for only second in the league, however.  Monaco, the highest-scoring team in the league, have that mark well covered. With an eye-watering 76 goals this season, Monaco are crushing the…

A young Mexican driver is making the leap to NASCAR’s top level this year, and he’s looking to bring more Latino fans with him. Along with the addition of Daniel Suárez, NASCAR is pursuing efforts to become more diverse.

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…

Mexican-born Daniel Suarez relaxes in a chair at Joe Gibbs Racing headquarters, just feet away from the orange-and-white race car that is, by far, the finest he’s ever driven. A rookie with the personality and potential to be NASCAR’s next star, he is still two weeks from driving that car, the No. 19 Toyota, in the Super Bowl of NASCAR’s Monster Energy Cup Series, Sunday’s Daytona 500 at Daytona International…

Kings backup goaltender Jeff Zatkoff was born seven years after the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team pulled off its stunning upset of the Soviets and went on to beat Finland 37 years ago Friday to win the gold medal at the Lake Placid Games. But Zatkoff, a Detroit native, learned at a young age about the 1980 team’s improbable feats and appreciates that group’s accomplishments on many levels. “As a…

Caption Close The Warriors have contacted Turner Sports about Shaquille O’Neal’s ongoing coverage of center JaVale McGee, a source confirmed to The Chronicle. The news was first reported by ESPN. Golden State reached out to Turner officials to voice concerns that McGee’s numerous appearances on “Shaqtin’ a Fool,” TNT’s bloopers segment on “Inside the NBA,” is unnecessarily hurting McGee’s reputation. This comes after O’Neal and McGee engaged in a heated…

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…

While soccer will be the main event at Atlanta Sports City, it will host more than two dozen sports including football, baseball, basketball, lacrosse, volleyball, martial arts and rugby.

How’s this for buzzworthy? Bees are not only very intelligent, they can be taught to play a sport that looks like a mashup of soccer and basketball, rolling tiny yellow balls in exchange for food. That’s according to research published Thursday in the journal “Science” by academics at the Queen Mary University of London. While previous research has shown that bees are actually capable of performing complex cognitive tasks, contrary…

In a move that has shocked U.S. media companies, Turner Sports picked up the U.S. English-language media rights to the UEFA Champions League starting in fall 2018, according to multiple sources. Turner, which has not carried soccer programming of any kind for at least 27 years, was a surprise bidder and aggressively committed more than $60 million per year as part of a three-year deal that runs through the…

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…

Tommy John we know. Tommy John we can handle. When Matt Harvey had Tommy John surgery at the end of the 2013 season, it hurt coming off a Cy Young-caliber breakthrough, but it also felt just right, like the chapter you’re always tempted to skip in a story you’ve read time and time again. But this … thoracic outlet syndrome? That sounds super clinical and imposing … and obscure enough…

   Spring training games are beginning, and the weather here is feeling unseasonably springlike, so I’m starting to think seriously about another baseball season.    One thing I’m not looking forward to is the snail-like pace of some major league games, an issue that could be addressed rather easily if players and owners could come to agreements about it.    I see that they’re going to dispense with throwing four…

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…

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…

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published an article examining the slide in NASCAR’s popularity. The piece highlighted several factors explaining why stock car racing has yet to recover from the slump caused by the 2008-09 economic crash: A less affluent audience base than other major sports; conflicts between track owners, racing teams, and the sport’s governing body; and power struggles among NASCAR executives. But to this longtime auto racing…

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LaJoie finished 18th in the first of two Can-Am Duel races, emerging as one of the four drivers for non-chartered teams not already qualified for the 500. Kennington was 15th in the nightcap, taking the final transfer spot by half a car-length. Brendan Gaughan and Elliott Sadler, both full-time NASCAR XFINITY Series drivers with one-off Daytona 500 rides, previously clinched berths in Sunday’s Coors Light Pole Qualifying as the two…

OLATHE, Kan. –  A man has been charged with murder in what some witnesses described as a racially motivated shooting at a crowded suburban Kansas City bar that left one Indian man dead and two other men hospitalized. Local police are working with the FBI to investigate the shooting Wednesday night in Olathe, Kansas, but have declined to describe the attack as a hate crime. A bartender at…