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Photo credit: Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images Like an impending dentist appointment on the calendar, I’ve been trying to forget about NASCAR’s upcoming changes to its race day format. If I don’t think about it, maybe it will go away! But no, it’s become all too real now: NASCAR has announced how they’re chopping the Daytona 500 into three “stages.” Per Racer: Advertisement Advertisement The stage breakdown for the Daytona 500 is…

With all due respect to the hundreds of hard-working crew members in the NASCAR garage, I’m thrilled that they won’t be fixing wrecked race cars and sending them out on the tracks anymore. But I’m curious if, in the process of doing the right thing, NASCAR didn’t inadvertently send a huge mixed message to its competitors. Allow me to explain. A couple of weeks ago, NASCAR announced that all races in…

Rio de Janeiro pulled off last year’s Olympics, keeping crime at bay and fending off dire forecasts of corruption, environmental degradation, and cost overruns. Six months after South America’s first games, the flood gates have burst open. Rio organizers still owe creditors about $40 million. Four of the new arenas in the main Olympic Park have failed to find private-sector management, and ownership has passed to the federal government. Another…

Over the past 18 years, as Jeffrey Loria sprayed the stench of his naked greed across baseball like the skunk he is, as he destroyed the sport in one city and bilked another out of billions of dollars, as he tore asunder a championship team and micromanaged countless others and behaved like the lamest sort of wannabe George Steinbrenner possible, all blowhard, zero substance, the aggrieved could take solace in…

PRO BASKETBALL NEW YORK (AP) – Charles Oakley maintains he did nothing wrong before he was surrounded by Madison Square Garden security officials. Something has happened, though, to turn him from popular player to persona non grata within his former franchise. Oakley blamed his strained relationship with the Knicks and owner James Dolan on Thursday for the altercation that led to his ejection and arrest from New York’s 119-115 loss…

https://www.instagram.com/p/BQTSO11h3Z4/?taken-by=bwagz54&hl=en    SEATTLE, Wash. — Seattle Seahawks linebacker Bobby Wagner and legend Jacob Green were honored Wednesday evening in front of a hefty crowd at the Paramount Theatre at the 82nd Annual MTRWestern Sports Star of the Year Awards.  Wagner took the stage and received the Male Sports Star of the Year award, which is given to a male athlete or coach for their outstanding sports achievement in the past…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The tie-up is the biggest of its kind in the US The National Basketball Association has teamed up with video game publisher Take-Two Interactive to create an e-sports league in the US. It represents one of the biggest tie-ups between video gaming and a major sports league. Eventually all of the 30 NBA teams will have an e-sports division, but initially only a few…

With all due respect to the hundreds of hard-working crew members in the NASCAR garage, I’m thrilled that they won’t be fixing wrecked race cars and sending them out on the tracks anymore. But I’m curious if, in the process of doing the right thing, NASCAR didn’t inadvertently send a huge mixed message to its competitors. Allow me to explain. A couple of weeks ago, NASCAR announced that all races in…

Photo credit: Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images Like an impending dentist appointment on the calendar, I’ve been trying to forget about NASCAR’s upcoming changes to its race day format. If I don’t think about it, maybe it will go away! But no, it’s become all too real now: NASCAR has announced how they’re chopping the Daytona 500 into three “stages.” Per Racer: Advertisement Advertisement The stage breakdown for the Daytona 500 is…

The sport is called “swimming and diving.” It says so on the backs of many warm-up jackets, although 11 of the 12 high school events are about racing end to end of the pool. And because diving is part of the sport, the Triangle can claim a state record-setter from the N.C. High School Athletic Association 1A/2A state finals Thursday night at the Triangle Aquatic Center. Overall, diving accounted for…

South Korean Byun Chun-sa, a 2006 Turin Winter Olympics gold medalist for Short Track Speed Skating, left, and Byun Jong-moon, a 1996 Harbin Winter Asian Games gold medalist, right, wearing torch runners uniforms, hold the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics torch during the unveiling ceremony for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics at the Gangneung Hockey Centre in Gangneung, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. The opening ceremony for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic…

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Caption Close Crazy times in baseball: •So it’s the top of the 10th inning, all tied up, back from the commercial break and … wait a minute, there’s a runner at second base? How did he get there? “Oh, glad you asked,” says the representative from Major League Baseball. “We’re trying to make the games move along a little faster. Easier to score that tie-breaking run if you’ve got a…

DURHAM, N.C. – Grayson Allen was running late. He had to do an ESPN interview right after Duke’s pulsating, 86-78 victory over North Carolina, so he was the last Blue Devil to make a run past the Cameron Crazies, slap their hands and soak up the moment. When Allen arrived for the 94-foot lovefest, the Crazies surged so enthusiastically that they shoved press row several feet forward to get to…

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With all due respect to the hundreds of hard-working crew members in the NASCAR garage, I’m thrilled that they won’t be fixing wrecked race cars and sending them out on the tracks anymore. But I’m curious if, in the process of doing the right thing, NASCAR didn’t inadvertently send a huge mixed message to its competitors. Allow me to explain. A couple of weeks ago, NASCAR announced that all races in…

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Italian giants Juventus traveled to Crotone on Wednesday for a Serie A match, and it was a hot ticket. With the best Italian team making the trip, the match was obviously sold out. So what do you do when you can’t get a ticket? You fake a sickness in order to enter the hospital across the street which has an awesome view of the stadium, of course. Per Reggio Informa,…

MOSUL, Iraq –  After months of fighting, Mosul residents can finally practice their favorite game again at a soccer field in the eastern part of the city — and this time without the restrictions imposed by Islamic State group militants. The venue was closed for almost four months while Iraqi forces and militants fought a fierce battle for the city. Signs of war are still visible, with broken windows…