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Buy Photo Detroit City FC is one of five semi-professional soccer teams in the tri-county area.(Photo: Daniel Mears, The Detroit News)Buy Photo Semi-professional soccer is experiencing a big bounce in the Metro Detroit area. This month, five teams kicked off their respective seasons in the tri-county region, highlighted by Detroit City FC’s regular-season debut before 5,041 supporters Friday at Keyworth Stadium in Hamtramck. Le Rouge’s immense popularity, as evidenced by its…

Martin Truex Jr. finally ended his string of rotten luck at Kansas Speedway. Danica Patrick was left to rue more bad luck of her own. Truex pulled away from Ryan Blaney and Kevin Harvick on a late restart Saturday night, winning the NASCAR Cup Series race that he seemed to dominate every year without reaching victory lane. “They’re all so special, honestly. These races are so hard to win,” said…

NASCAR heads to Kansas Speedway for Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events. Check out the full weekend schedule below. Note: All times are ET SATURDAY, MAY 13: ON TRACK–6:55 p.m.: Driver Introductions –7:35 p.m.: Presentation of Colors by Whiteman Air Force Base Honor Guard –7:35 p.m.: Invocation by Chaplain Major Benjamin Hayden, 442d Fighter Wing –7:36 p.m.: National Anthem by Major Ellen Stephenson, 442d…

Danica Patrick walked away after her car slammed into the wall and caught on fire, while Aric Almirola is in stable condition after their involvement in a horrific multi-car crash during Saturday night’s Monster Energy Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway. Joey Logano and Patrick were racing for position in Turn 2 with 67 laps remaining when an apparent mechanical failure believed to be a broken right-front brake rotor caused…

Ryan Blaney appeared set to score his first career win, but Martin Truex Jr. was better over a sequence of late restarts to pick up the Go Bowling 400 victory Saturday night at Kansas Speedway, a race marred by a multi-car accident that sent Aric Almirola to hospital. The win was redemption for Truex, who dominated this race a year ago before a fluky parts failure during a late pit…

A late start, weather delay and heavy downpour weren’t going to derail the Chapin boys soccer team Friday night. The Eagles braved all of those circumstances on their way to a 2-0 win over Eastside for the Class 4A Boys Soccer championship at Irmo’s W.C. Hawkins Stadium. It was Chapin’s second straight state title and fourth in school history. “This team battled all year and struggled with mental toughness and…

Two unrelated events this week more than a thousand miles apart involving NASCAR and medical marijuana stirred the pot. Wednesday, a Pennsylvania company encountered opposition as it sought permission to use land leased from Pocono Raceway, where two NASCAR Cup Series races take place each year, to grow and process medical marijuana. The company’s president is a part of the family that built and runs the track. Friday, NASCAR officials…

Photo credit: Orlin Wagner/AP Images Sorry, anyone who dreams of puff-puff-passing the competition on a banked oval thanks to some help from the legal weed industry. NASCAR just said no to Carl Long running with a hemp vape shop as a sponsor, reports ESPN. Long is racing in the top-level Cup Series for the first time in eight years after receiving NASCAR’s largest ever fine in 2009. Colorado-based Veedverks originally…

RELATED: See the races in Kansas | Full Kansas schedule KANSAS CITY, Kansas — Eleven Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers failed to make qualifying attempts Friday after a backlog of cars scrambled to make their way through the inspection line at Kansas Speedway. The list of drivers missing out included Jimmie Johnson, a two-time winner this year; his Hendrick Motorsports teammates Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kasey Kahne; and hometown…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will retire after the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, continuing an exodus of the sport’s biggest stars that already includes four-time champion Jeff Gordon, three-time champion Tony Stewart and Columbia native Carl Edwards in the last two years. Several other prominent drivers — Matt Kenseth (age 45), Jimmie Johnson (41), Kevin Harvick (41), Joplin, Mo., native Jamie McMurray (40), Ryan Newman (39), Kurt Busch (38),…

The Associated Press reports that NASCAR Monster Energy Cup driver Carl Long’s team on Friday had to remove the hood logo for the Colorado-based Veedverks from Long’s No. 66 Chevrolet. A NASCAR spokesman said the logo and sponsorship by Veedverks had not been approved beforehand, which is standard procedure for the sanctioning body. However, a spokesperson for the Denver-based Veedverks said in a Facebook post that NASCAR had approved the sponsorship. They…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will retire after the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, continuing an exodus of the sport’s biggest stars that already includes four-time champion Jeff Gordon, three-time champion Tony Stewart and Columbia native Carl Edwards in the last two years. Several other prominent drivers — Matt Kenseth (age 45), Jimmie Johnson (41), Kevin Harvick (41), Joplin, Mo., native Jamie McMurray (40), Ryan Newman (39), Kurt Busch (38),…

Los Angeles hopes to beat out Paris for the 2024 Olympics bid. Members the International Olympic Committee will decide the winner later this year. But soaring financial costs may offer some surprises.

RELATED: Practice 1 results | Final practice results Defending race winner Kyle Busch led final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Kansas Speedway on Friday, turning a lap at 187.963 mph in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Series points leader Kyle Larson, driving in a backup car because of an incident earlier in the practice session, was second at 187.833 mph in the No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing…

Rankings below are based on a mixture of expected output and DraftKings’ NASCAR salaries for that day. The ordering is not based on highest projected fantasy totals, but rather by value of each driver. (fppk = average fantasy points per $1,000 of salary. The typical median fppk for a 2016 race was in the 3s. Plate tracks tend to be lower and short tracks tend to run higher due to the…

If you thought driving a NASCAR race car around a track took some talent, watch what the truck drivers who haul those cars around can do. On Thursday, the dozens of semi-trailer trucks that haul NASCAR team cars and the gear to support them were allowed into the infield garage area of Kansas Speedway for a weekend of racing. Just like their racing teammates, the truck drivers have a coordinated…

A beloved soccer coach coming out to his team as transgender has been captured on video. Kaig Lightner, 36, founder and director of Portland Community Football Club in Portland, Oregon, revealed his story to the kids on May 1. “I thought it was really fantastic that the first question was, ‘How old are you?” Lightner told ABC News. “Kids don’t have as many concerns about these larger social issues as…