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Don’t read too much into Danica Patrick’s seemingly aggressive foray into off-the-track ventures. She says she’s not planning any kind of post-racing exit strategy. Asked about that specifically Tuesday on the first day of the NASCAR preseason media tour at the Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina, Patrick responded: “Yeah, you’re wrong in thinking that’s the purpose. The things that I have done outside of racing that all really are happening…

Imhof announced Wednesday that he would retire from professional baseball, ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick reports. The 47th overall pick in the 2014 MLB Draft, Imhof pitched for four of the Phillies‘ minor-league affiliates in two and a half seasons before losing his right eye during a freak accident last June, Imhof was able to replace the eye with a prosthetic one, but determined it was best to call it a career….

Don’t read too much into Danica Patrick’s seemingly aggressive foray into off-the-track ventures. She says she’s not planning any kind of post-racing exit strategy. Asked about that specifically Tuesday on the first day of the NASCAR preseason media tour at the Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina, Patrick responded: “Yeah, you’re wrong in thinking that’s the purpose. The things that I have done outside of racing that all really are happening…

Julia Landauer originally got into racing when she was about 10 years old because her parents wanted something she could compete in with her brother. Now she gets to compete with “the boys” regularly as an up-and-coming driver in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. Landauer is back for her second season in the series in 2017, driving full-time this time around for owner bob Bruncati and his Sunrise Ford…

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Florida State baseball, a consensus top 10 team entering the 2017 season, has been picked as the Atlantic Coast Conference preseason favorite in a vote of the league’s 14 head coaches, the conference announced Wednesday morning. The Seminoles received 10 of the 14 first place votes, with Atlantic Division rivals Clemson, Louisville and NC State receiving one vote each. North Carolina, picked to win the Coastal Division,…

Imhof announced Wednesday that he would retire from professional baseball, ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick reports. The 47th overall pick in the 2014 MLB Draft, Imhof pitched for four of the Phillies‘ minor-league affiliates in two and a half seasons before losing his right eye during a freak accident last June, Imhof was able to replace the eye with a prosthetic one, but determined it was best to call it a career….

Brent Musburger began at CBS in 1973. Here he is pictured in 1985. Getty Images You are looking live at one heck of a retirement. Longtime play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger, the legendary Hall of Fame broadcaster and one of the most iconic voices in sports history who first came to national prominence in the 1970s and 80s for CBS Sports, is retiring at the age of 77. Musburger’s career spanned…

If you have kids, there’s a chance you’ve heard about sport stacking (or speed stacking, or cup stacking, or whatever you feel like calling it). The goal is simple — to assemble cups in different formations (or “upstack” them) and then disassemble them as quickly as possible (which stackers call “downstacking”). The above video shows stacking skills that you have to see to believe. I spoke to Melissa Gomez, Zhewei…

Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals after one of his Jamaican 4x100m relay teammates, Nesta Carter, was stripped of his 2008 Olympic participation for doping by the International Olympic Committee. “The Jamaican team is disqualified from the men’s 4x100m relay event,” the IOC said. “The corresponding medals, medalist pins and diplomas are withdrawn and shall be returned.” Carter, part of winning 4x100m relay teams with Bolt in 2008…

News about a fun Super Bowl week event in Houston in a few paragraphs—podcast fun and good beer—but we open on a non-Super Bowl bit of news from Tuesday: Ben Roethlisberger hinting that, at 34, he may have played his last snap for the Steelers. First: I do not believe he will quit. Not for a second. But I do have some interpretation of his comments. In an appearance on…

The MMQB staff writer Emily Kaplan discusses how Erin Andrews was able to keep working while fighting cervical cancer. Her safety belt clicked shut. As her highly public and emotionally draining civil trial entered a weekend break, Erin Andrews sunk into her seat, wishful that her flight—Nashville to Minneapolis to visit her boyfriend—would allow for two hours of solitude. Not so. Her seat neighbor kept glancing over. …

When Hartley was asked if he had changed his game in response to the third red card of his career, Jones interrupted: “He’s had 60 weeks off mate, he’s a world expert!” Hartley has been practising his defensive technique during England’s training camps in Brighton and Portugal this month on the instruction of Jones after felling O’Brien with a clothesline from behind. “The much-documented tackle technique – I’ve been working…

My introduction to sports writing included the fascination of covering former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz, a master motivator who harmlessly twisted the truth like a Bavarian pretzel. Before his second-ranked Irish beat Navy 58-27 in 1993, for instance, Holtz said the game was bigger than playing No. 1 Florida State and called the Midshipmen “the most improved team in the country.” Players believed Holtz, and nothing else mattered….

The pup nipping at ESPN’s heels was finally too annoying to ignore. The Worldwide Leader always has positioned itself as above the fray in the cable sports ratings battle, letting upstart Fox Sports spin its numbers and launch unprovoked attacks into its natural television enemy. On Tuesday, ESPN bent its nose down. In an unprecedented move, ESPN Public Relations crafted “Fox v. ESPN: Anatomy of a moving target,” a propagandist look inside…

NASCAR’s executive vice president, Steve O’Donnell, explains a new racing format for all three of the sanctioning body’s top series on Monday. Photo credit: Chris Graythen/Getty Images Perhaps one of the most widespread critiques about NASCAR is that “something has to change.” The races are “too long” or “too boring,” and all they do is “make left turns.” But if you look back on the last few years, too much…

Even baseball’s fiercest defenders will admit the sport went in the wrong direction in 2016: The games ran too long, managers called on too many relievers who took forever. Sitting through nine innings, especially in the postseason, was a test of patience, if not one’s sanity. Even the historic postseason came at a steep price. Game 2 of the World Series lasted four hours, four minutes without even going into…

A Wake County school board committee recommended Tuesday not offering interscholastic sports for students at a new high school opening this year. The panel said more time is needed before action can be taken about sports at eight existing specialized schools. The school board’s policy committee is considering a staff recommendation to stop allowing students from five high schools and three middle schools that don’t have interscholastic sports to play…

The MMQB staff writer Emily Kaplan discusses how Erin Andrews was able to keep working while fighting cervical cancer. Her safety belt clicked shut. As her highly public and emotionally draining civil trial entered a weekend break, Erin Andrews sunk into her seat, wishful that her flight—Nashville to Minneapolis to visit her boyfriend—would allow for two hours of solitude. Not so. Her seat neighbor kept glancing over. …

My introduction to sports writing included the fascination of covering former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz, a master motivator who harmlessly twisted the truth like a Bavarian pretzel. Before his second-ranked Irish beat Navy 58-27 in 1993, for instance, Holtz said the game was bigger than playing No. 1 Florida State and called the Midshipmen “the most improved team in the country.” Players believed Holtz, and nothing else mattered….

The pup nipping at ESPN’s heels was finally too annoying to ignore. The Worldwide Leader always has positioned itself as above the fray in the cable sports ratings battle, letting upstart Fox Sports spin its numbers and launch unprovoked attacks into its natural television enemy. On Tuesday, ESPN bent its nose down. In an unprecedented move, ESPN Public Relations crafted “Fox v. ESPN: Anatomy of a moving target,” a propagandist look inside…