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Led by Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid defeated Juventus to become the first team to win consecutive UEFA Champions League titles. Time Sports

The next time Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin swims competitively it will not be for records or glory or country, but simply because she wants to.The 22-year-old U.S. National Team member, on the mend after surgeries to her shoulders earlier this year, is recuperating with workouts inside and outside the pool. “When I return competitively it’s going to be for me and no one else,” the five times gold medalist…

Jimmie Johnson is seeking his 11th victory at Dover International Speedway, and he’ll have to charge through the entire field Sunday afternoon to do so as he is starting from the rear.  As a seven-time Monster Energy Series champion, Johnson is the most post prolific driver at Dover and currently sits third in the Sprint Cup standings. But the two men above him, Martin Truex Jr. and Brad Keselowski, will have…

NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. appears pleased with the results of his No. 88 team’s work in the Chevrolet Simulator. Earnhardt qualified 11th for Sunday’s AAA 400 Drive for Austism, the NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway (1 p.m., Fox Sports 1). Earnhardt gave some credit to his work in the simulator for his solid run. “It’s been bearing some fruit and helping us out and making us…

More than 1,500 people were injured when panic swept through a crowd of Juventus fans watching the Champions League final in a piazza in the northern Italian city of Turin, authorities said Sunday. The Turin prefect said in a statement that the crowd “was taken by panic and by the psychosis of a terror attack,” fearing that a loud noise was caused by attackers. The source of the loud noise…

NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. appears pleased with the results of his No. 88 team’s work in the Chevrolet Simulator. Earnhardt qualified 11th for Sunday’s AAA 400 Drive for Austism, the NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway (1 p.m., Fox Sports 1). Earnhardt gave some credit to his work in the simulator for his solid run. “It’s been bearing some fruit and helping us out and making us…

NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. appears pleased with the results of his No. 88 team’s work in the Chevrolet Simulator. Earnhardt qualified 11th for Sunday’s AAA 400 Drive for Austism, the NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway (1 p.m., Fox Sports 1). Earnhardt gave some credit to his work in the simulator for his solid run. “It’s been bearing some fruit and helping us out and making us…

Ever since it was added to the program during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, basketball has been one of the most popular parts of the sporting competition. And according to a report, it looks like there will be even more basketball being played at the next Summer Olympics, which will be held in Tokyo in 2020.  How is that, exactly? No, they aren’t expanding the field of teams or making…

— NASCAR lineup Monster Energy AAA 400 At Dover International Speedway Dover, Del. Lap length: 1 mile (Car number in parentheses) 1. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 158.954 mph. 2. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 158.877. 3. (19) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 158.346. 4. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 158.221. 5. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevy, 158.179. 6. (41) Kurt Busch, Ford, 158.144. 7. (77) Erik Jones, Toyota, 157.680. 8. (2) Brad Keselowski,…

As the Barrington girls soccer team lifted the Class 3A state-championship trophy after defeating New Trier in penalty kicks Saturday night, Fillies head coach Ryan Stengren paid tribute to the team’s 10 seniors. “I just had a good feeling tonight. I have 10 seniors and I trust them, and it worked out,” said Stengren, whose team captured the first title in program history by prevailing 3-0 in a shootout after…

RELATED: Race results | Series standings | Detailed breakdown DOVER, Del. – Saturday’s One Main Financial 200 ended as it started – as a two-man show with pole-sitter Kyle Larson on top. Larson and Ryan Blaney were in a class by themselves at Dover International Speedway in the 11th NASCAR XFINITY Series race of the season. In winning for the third time in six starts this year, Larson led 137 of…

Seven-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson already holds the record for most victories at Dover International Speedway with 10. The closest competitors to Johnson in terms of Dover victories are long-retired NASCAR Hall of Fame members Richard Petty and Bobby Allison, each of whom won seven times here. If Johnson wins Sunday’s AAA 400 Drive for Autism at the Monster Mile, he will tie a…

Former National Security Agency senior executive and whistleblower Thomas Drake revealed himself this week as the source for a lawsuit alleging the NSA conducted “blanket, indiscriminate surveillance” of Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics. In a declaration filed in discovery in the case in U.S. district court in Utah, Drake asserted the NSA, in coordination with the FBI, scooped up and stored the content of emails and text…

Former National Security Agency senior executive and whistleblower Thomas Drake revealed himself this week as the source for a lawsuit alleging the NSA conducted “blanket, indiscriminate surveillance” of Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics. In a declaration filed in discovery in the case in U.S. district court in Utah, Drake asserted the NSA, in coordination with the FBI, scooped up and stored the content of emails and text…

One official said the sport could appeal to the young and urban demographic. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer via Associated Press) Olympics organizers are eager to get the ball rolling, or rather bouncing, as they look toward the 2020 program in Tokyo. According to the Associated Press, the International Olympic Committee is all but certain it will add 3-on-3 basketball to its ever-changing list of events. “It would certainly be a…

Former National Security Agency senior executive and whistleblower Thomas Drake revealed himself this week as the source for a lawsuit alleging the NSA conducted “blanket, indiscriminate surveillance” of Salt Lake City during the 2002 Winter Olympics. In a declaration filed in discovery in the case in U.S. district court in Utah, Drake asserted the NSA, in coordination with the FBI, scooped up and stored the content of emails and text…

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RELATED: Buy tickets for Dover | Qualifying results | See every car in the field DOVER, Delaware – If Joe Gibbs Racing isn’t back, it’s hard to say what “back” is.   Kyle Busch put his No. 18 JGR Toyota on the pole for Sunday’s AAA 400 Drive for Autism at Dover International Speedway (1 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), edging favorite son Martin Truex Jr. for the…