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Bold prediction: Kasey Kahne will lead a lap in 2017. Along with leading a lap, Kahne will grab a win and make the playoffs for the first time since 2014. The fact is if he doesn’t, there will be a ton of pressure for Hendrick to hand over his ride to one of the young guns, like William Byron, sooner rather than later. After two disappointing seasons, Kahne…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This started with a crush on Starling Marte. Marte is an outfielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates and my favorite baseball player to watch. He’s fast enough to have stolen 47 bases last year, third-most in the majors. His arm is one of the best in the game, capable of firing 101 mph bullets from the outfield. He is strong…

Prep baseball players to watch Top pitchers Tanner Bibee; Mission Viejo; Sr.; Cal State Fullerton signee had 1.61 ERA Jesse Bergin; Harvard-Westlake; Jr.; shut out JSerra in DI semifinals Hans Crouse; Dana Hills, Sr.; first-round draft pick in the making Hagen Danner; Huntington Beach; Sr.; he’s healthy and throwing strikes Jeremiah Estrada; Palm Desert; Sr.; UCLA signee was 10-3 with 1.00 ERA Chase Farrell; Valencia; Sr.; UCLA signee made dramatic improvement…

“Their top three starters are all projected to be first-round, second-round guys, so they’re going to be very good,” Mercer said. “It’s going to be a big, hostile environment, very similar to last weekend, but I would imagine probably ratcheted up just a little bit. It’s going to be the next challenge in a series of challenges, so we’ve got to make sure we’re mentally prepared for that, and I’m…

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3:46 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment The 40th anniversary of the iconic movie “Slap Shot” will be celebrated on Feb. 25 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Steve Carlson, Jeff Carlson and Dave Hanson, better known as the Hanson brothers, will host the “Boys are Back in Town” celebration on the original site of the film. Many consider the movie, which starred Paul Newman, as one of the…

NASCAR’s cup series will have a new sponsor this year, Monster Energy. The storyline ahead of the 59th running of the Daytona 500 was the sons of two Hall of Famers, Bill Elliott and Dale Earnhardt, starting in the 1 and 2 position.

As Jimmie Johnson stood alongside fellow title contenders Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, and Joey Logano in the back of a pickup waving to the fans before the start of last season’s Cup Series championship final, he witnessed something unfamiliar. Instead of the boos and middle finger salutes that customarily accompanied him during pre-race driver introductions, fans inside Homestead-Miami Speedway were actually indicating their support for the man who in just…

BELGRADE, Serbia — Partizan Belgrade midfielder Everton Luiz was in tears after persistent racist chants during his team’s victory over Rad in the Serbian league. The Brazilian, who joined Partizan last year, played through monkey chants and other abuse, including a racist banner in the stands where Rad fans were standing. The banner was removed after intervention from the referee. There were scuffles between the players after the match on…

Caption Close Latham Abigail and Chloe Batchler were greeted with hugs and tears Monday as they walked into Afrim’s Sports Dome in Latham. It was the first time that friends, teammates and the larger Rotterdam community had seen the 11-year-old twins since a car crash left them orphaned and injured on Jan. 22, and it was an emotional reunion. Their grandparents trailed behind, wiping tears and watching closely over the…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This started with a crush on Starling Marte. Marte is an outfielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates and my favorite baseball player to watch. He’s fast enough to have stolen 47 bases last year, third-most in the majors. His arm is one of the best in the game, capable of firing 101 mph bullets from the outfield. He is strong…

Prep baseball players to watch Top pitchers Tanner Bibee; Mission Viejo; Sr.; Cal State Fullerton signee had 1.61 ERA Jesse Bergin; Harvard-Westlake; Jr.; shut out JSerra in DI semifinals Hans Crouse; Dana Hills, Sr.; first-round draft pick in the making Hagen Danner; Huntington Beach; Sr.; he’s healthy and throwing strikes Jeremiah Estrada; Palm Desert; Sr.; UCLA signee was 10-3 with 1.00 ERA Chase Farrell; Valencia; Sr.; UCLA signee made dramatic improvement…

Welcome to “Out of the Box,” SEC Country’s weekly LSU baseball column, with LSU beat writer Nick Suss. Today we discuss the awesomeness that was Jared Poché’s no-hitter, LSU’s impressive youth movement and why sons should always listen to their fathers. Batter up! When Poché comes to shove… It was an opening weekend that LSU baseball players and fans alike won’t soon forget. In the second leg of Saturday’s rain-forced doubleheader,…

The GameChanger App has become a reliable way for fans to follow their teams in high school baseball and softball. It’s a scorebook App used by teams for iPhones, iPads and also just added Android devices. Fans get yo follow live the scoring of their teams. GameChanger is also getting into the business of tracking pitch counts now that state rules have changed. The spring season moves into high gear…

Over the past few days, you might have seen tweeted pictures of MLB stars holding a baseball bat with barbed wire wrapped around it. It’s a fairly brilliant tie-in for the AMC TV show The Walking Dead, which recently had its midseason premiere. A number of players were seen holding replicas of Lucille, the name of the bat that’s used by the supremely terrifying Negan. (Yes, the bat has a…

If NASCAR fans were shocked by the appearance of the Monster Energy Girls’ outfits this weekend, they clearly didn’t hear the promises that the company’s vice president of sports marketing, Mitch Covington, made earlier this year when discussing Monster Energy’s debut as the title sponsor of NASCAR’s Cup Series. Via NBC Sports: “Monster, we were built on girls, music and racing,” Covington said in January. “We think that fits with…

Race fans were thrilled that the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series began over the weekend at Daytona International Speedway, where Joey Logano won the Advance Auto Parts Clash and Hendrick Motorsports teammates Chase Elliott and Dale Earnhardt Jr. swept the front row in Daytona 500 qualifying. And from the looks of things, the drivers and teams were pretty happy to be back, too. , LAT Images www.latphoto.co.uk John…

Retired U.S. women’s soccer player Lauren Holiday took to social media over the weekend to open up about her life as a new mother and the obstacles she faced upon learning she had a benign brain tumor while six months pregnant. Holiday, 29, posted a photo of daughter Jrue on Saturday to her Instagram page and wrote, “I have never quite known suffering like I experienced the last 6 months….

No sport enjoys messing with its points system more than NASCAR, and it reached new heights in confusion this time around. Drivers don’t even know how it’s going to work. Something about stages and playoff points and more arbitrary phrases like “carryover to the Round of 8” are being tossed around all in the name of adding excitement to races. Does Chris Buescher know how far regular-season wins or points…

From left, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer, Austin Dillon and Joey Logano wait on pit road for a turn on the track during NASCAR auto racing practice at Daytona International Speedway, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)