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With his team’s season already in a dangerous downhill spiral, coach Dave Joerger is ready to make changes designed to get the Sacramento Kings steadily flying again. He’ll see if they have any effect Sunday when Sacramento welcomes the Toronto Raptors, one of the few teams they’ve beaten this season. A new starting lineup is expected on the floor for the Kings at Golden 1 Center. Joerger pointed to the…

The Latest on NASCAR’s season finale (all times local): 12:15 p.m. Xfinity Series champion Daniel Suarez is getting a lot of attention at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto congratulated Suarez on Twitter after the 24-year-old Mexican became the first foreign champion in a NASCAR national series. Nieto tweeted in Spanish to Suarez, and called him “a pride for Mexico and Latin America.” “The very first time that I…

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Destined to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, Tony Stewart’s NASCAR career ends Sunday in the final race of the 2016 season at Homestead-Miami Speedway.  For his last race, Stewart will drive a special black and gray “Smoke” paint scheme and wear a unique helmet paying tribute to his career, which began with grassroots racing in Indiana. MORE: What Smoke will do post-retirement Intended to replicate a weathered helmet from a seasoned local-track veteran, Stewart’s…

Four years ago, an unexpected guest crashed a celebration in Manhattan so he could hang out with U.S. Olympians who were on their way to the London Games. The guest: Donald Trump. The president-elect, who also carried the torch in the lead-up to the Athens Games, has been a longtime sports fan and admirer of the Olympics. He also likes winning, which is what has attracted him, over the years,…

The competition on the asphalt isn’t the only battle going on at Homestead-Miami Speedway this weekend. Beneath the roar of the race cars on the track, there is a quiet, subtle competition for car sales going on. In the business, it is called, “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.” Whether they know it or not, car purchases by fans can be influenced by which brand of car they see win…

By Bill Thomas, Correspondent WORCESTER — If you build it, they will come. Although emblematic of the popular flick “Field of Dreams,” that inspirational phrase could just as well be the watchword for Baseball Swag, a growing, web-based purveyor of lifestyle apparel inspired by the game of hardball. Baseball Swag is perhaps representative of nascent, online entrepreneurship, in that its genesis stemmed from a Twitter account…

Los Angeles Dodgers legend Tommy Lasorda visited “Rams Primetime Saturday” to talk baseball and football. He said Dodgers’ outfielder Joc Pederson should stick to baseball when asked about his dip into football during a Los Angeles Rams practice session. Lasorda also talked about the difficulties that can come with managing a sports team that has rookie players and the decision to put them in starting positions. Host Rob Fukuzaki even…

Nov 19, 2016 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Some things never change. Another year of awards voting from the Baseball Writers Association of America, another year of giving fans and people inside the game reasons to complain about the process and especially about the voters, perhaps none of those complaints more epic than the one from Kate Upton, Justin Verlander fan-in-chief and spouse to be named later. While moaning…

The Red Sox will have some sort of outside help in their bullpen next season. They need it. Perhaps Brad Ziegler — technically on the outside now as a free agent — comes back and is part of the plan, at least against righties. No matter the signings ahead for president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski, right-hander Matt Barnes should have no shortage of important innings in 2017. He just…

The Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant celebrating with his teammates after they won the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America named him the National League Most Valuable Player for 2016. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP The Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant celebrating with his teammates after they won the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America…

LAS VEGAS – This one had the look and smell of a loss for Andre Ward. He was being bullied around the ring Saturday for by the bigger and more powerful Sergey Kovalev. He was dropped in the second round by a straight right by the Russian bear, who by about the third or fourth round seemed ready to crush Ward, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist. But Ward is one…

Caption Close While Stanford and Cal were tussling in the rain at Memorial Stadium on Saturday, another battle between the two schools raged down the road in a much more surprising setting. In front of a crowd of a few thousand people at Oracle Arena and nearly 40,000 more watching online, Stanford defeated Cal 27-26 in a League of Legends “Big Game show match” during the Intel Extreme Masters, one…

RELATED: Full race results | Final Chase Grid   HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Daniel Suarez, 24 and only two years into a NASCAR XFINITY Series career, can check another box off his career bucket list. Series champion. The Monterrey, Mexico, native became a winner in the series for the first time earlier this season to qualify for the inaugural XFINITY Series Chase. Saturday evening at Homestead-Miami Speedway, he led 133 of…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment HOMESTEAD, Fla. — NASCAR’s final four, er, sorry, Championship 4, have been jetted from city to city, talk show to talk show and media conference to media conference. Now, finally, it is time for Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson and Joey Logano to get on with the business of one of those four actually winning that championship. Exactly what that…

It resembles the symbol for infinity: a sideways “S” that Kara Goucher, Molly Huddle and other elite U.S. athletes suddenly are sporting on biceps, wrists and shins. The tattoos are temporary. But the campaign they represent is an all-out attempt to permanently purge competitive athletics of doping. “People are getting the impression that everyone’s dirty,” Goucher, a top-ranked marathoner based in Boulder, Colorado, told The Associated Press. “We need to…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment HOMESTEAD, Fla. — NASCAR’s final four, er, sorry, Championship 4, have been jetted from city to city, talk show to talk show and media conference to media conference. Now, finally, it is time for Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson and Joey Logano to get on with the business of one of those four actually winning that championship. Exactly what that…

Today’s Six Hours of Bahrain marks the end of an era for sports car racing, as Audi’s factory LMP1 program draws to a close after a remarkable 18-year involvement in top-level prototype racing. Launched in 1999 at the Twelve Hours of Sebring, the German manufacturer’s ever-present prototype effort amassed 106 victories, more than a dozen championships worldwide and 13 overall victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans through its…

Mike Tomlin might not have the backing of the armchair coaches who criticize him for going for two-point conversions more than any other head coach in the NFL. But you won’t hear any criticism from those in the world of sports analytics who praise him and say a simple math equation supports his penchant for two-point conversions, including the controversial second attempt Sunday afternoon against the Cowboys that…