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In Florida, it’s probably a good idea to thoroughly check all corners of your swimming pool before diving in — you never know when a massive alligator may be waiting for you at the bottom. That’s a warning the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office is spreading after getting a call Monday from a woman cleaning a family’s pool in Venice. At the bottom of the chlorine-filled pool sat a 7-to-8-foot female…

Are more changes in store for NASCAR’s race format and unique points system? In an effort to heighten drama, NASCAR vice president Steve O’Donnell said Tuesday the sport could add additional race segments and tinker with its points system for the 2018 season.  One idea is to add bonus points for “major races” including the Daytona 500, the Coca-Cola 600, the Brickyard 400 and Southern 500. Another idea is to add an additional…

Ten drivers already in the NASCAR Hall of Fame competed in at least one race in the No. 3 in what is now known as the Sprint Cup Series: Tim Flock, Cotton Owens, Fireball Roberts, Junior Johnson, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Buck Baker, Fred Lorenzen, Richard Childress and Dale Earnhardt.

GIF via Greg Engle NASCAR driver Kyle Busch was disappointed in his second place finish at this weekend’s Coke 600, and wasn’t in the mood to answer questions. So, he gave a brief answer to the one he was asked in the media pit, and to signify he done once and for all, he threw the microphone down. Kyle Busch desperately wanted to follow up his All-Star Race win with…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The NHL is heading to Asia next season. Just not the Olympics. Commissioner Gary Bettman emphatically reasserted the league will not take a break next February to participate in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea next February. The league previously announced it would skip going to Pyeongchang earlier this spring, a point Bettman bluntly reiterated on Monday just hours before Pittsburgh and Nashville met in Game…

The Pittsburgh Penguins are the luckiest team in hockey. I’m a fan, and I freely concede that much. That’s been true historically, like when some of the worst teams in Penguins history yielded Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby in the draft. It’s been true in these Stanley Cup Playoffs, too, with the Pens overcoming massive shot attempt deficits as a matter of routine practice and winning anyway. In that regard,…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The NHL is heading to Asia next season. Just not the Olympics. Commissioner Gary Bettman emphatically reasserted the league will not take a break next February to participate in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea next February. The league previously announced it would skip going to Pyeongchang earlier this spring, a point Bettman bluntly reiterated on Monday just hours before Pittsburgh and Nashville met in Game…

Using his most emphatic language to date, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Monday that the league will not take a break next season to allow players to participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. In addition, he said the 2018 NHL All-Star Game has been awarded to Tampa, which reinforces his resolve because the league has not held its All-Star festivities during recent Olympic seasons. NHL players…

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Austin Dillon passed an out-of-gas Jimmie Johnson two laps from the end in the Coca-Cola 600 for his first NASCAR Cup victory, returning the iconic No. 3 car to Victory Lane early Monday. Dillon, the grandson of Hall of Fame car owner Richard Childress, was among several drivers who chose not to pit down the stretch. Johnson ran out of fuel on Lap 399, and Dillon was able to cruise…

9:19 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment The pomp and circumstance was already flowing through Portugal’s national stadium prior to Sunday’s Portuguese Cup final between Benfica Lisbon and Vitoria Guimaraes when something truly unexpected occurred. As if sent from the future, a mysterious man with golden shoulder pads suddenly appeared on the scene, gliding through the rainy weather on a drone while holding the match ball….

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RELATED: NASCAR holds pit crew combine | Learn about the Drive for Diversity program CONCORD, N.C. — The pit guns are buzzing. Lug nuts are flying off tires. There’s chatter and instruction back and forth. Encouragement, competitive banter. It’s a money stop taking place not on pit road in a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event, but in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity National Pit Crew Development Combine Presented by…

CONCORD, N.C. — The marathon race became more like a short sprint for strong contenders Brad Keselowski and Chase Elliott early in Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. A part broke in Jeffery Earnhardt’s No. 33 Chevrolet at Lap 19 of 400 scheduled laps, dropping fluid and debris onto the race track. Elliott ran over the piece, causing damage to his car and losing control…

Bruce Arena’s U.S. squad will face Trinidad and Tobago on June 8 outside of Denver and Mexico on June 11 in Mexico City. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press) In Bruce Arena’s first gathering of the U.S. men’s national soccer team this winter, every candidate from Europe and most from Mexico were not available because of club commitments. When he summoned a couple dozen for two 2018 World Cup qualifiers in March,…

By STEVE REEDAP Sports Writer CONCORD, N.C. (AP) – Steven Soderbergh was never a big NASCAR fan despite growing up in the South. But the Academy Award winning director has become one after working on his new film “Logan Lucky,” depicting a theoretical heist at Charlotte Motor Speedway during the Coca-Cola 600. “NASCAR was kind of mystery to me,” Soderbergh said in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday…

RELATED: NASCAR holds pit crew combine | Learn about the Drive for Diversity program CONCORD, N.C. — The pit guns are buzzing. Lug nuts are flying off tires. There’s chatter and instruction back and forth. Encouragement, competitive banter. It’s a money stop taking place not on pit road in a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series event, but in the NASCAR Drive for Diversity National Pit Crew Development Combine Presented by…

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