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Barcelona is going to become the first European club to have a team in the National Women’s Soccer League. The Spanish soccer club, known for its elite men’s soccer team, received approval from its board to develop a plan for a women’s team in the United’s States, it announced.  The plan is for the team to begin playing in 2018. Proposals for the team came from the club’s new office…

Karkamis Refugee Camp, Turkey In July 2012, when Firas al-Khatib announced he would no longer play for Syria, his hometown, Homs, was in flames. The west-central city, once Syria’s third largest, is known as the “capital of the revolution.” The previous year, when peaceful protests against Assad’s authoritarian government spread across the country, thousands of Homs residents took to the streets. As he did in other cities, Assad responded with…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heads to Kansas Speedway this week: Turn 1: This is the last race before the All-Star Race. State your case for a driver to win the fan vote. Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: I would enjoy seeing the Wood Brothers’ No. 21 car…

With the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heading to the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway this week, the sanctioning body released some statistics about how Cup drivers have performed at intermediate tracks. Some of the numbers, frankly, are startling. Here are the eight active drivers who have led the most laps at intermediate tracks since the start of the 2014 season.

Karkamis Refugee Camp, Turkey In July 2012, when Firas al-Khatib announced he would no longer play for Syria, his hometown, Homs, was in flames. The west-central city, once Syria’s third largest, is known as the “capital of the revolution.” The previous year, when peaceful protests against Assad’s authoritarian government spread across the country, thousands of Homs residents took to the streets. As he did in other cities, Assad responded with…

As Dale Earnhardt Jr. said last weekend, “ever since (NASCAR) made the first rulebook,” teams have been pushing to find a way around it for even the smallest competitive edge. But rules are rules, and when teams are caught bending them a little too much, they usually accept NASCAR’s punishment. Although it doesn’t seem like much of a deterrent. This week, it was Aric Almirola’s turn. After finishing fourth in…

Every so often a match occurs that acts as a watershed for the discussion over video technology in soccer. The recent Champions League quarterfinal second leg between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich was one of those matches, with three of the six goals scored the result of controversial refereeing decisions. Indeed, Real Madrid’s have referee Viktor Kassai to thank, in some part, for advancing to the competition’s final four. They…

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Each week SB Nation’s NASCAR reporter Jordan Bianchi answers your questions about the latest news and happenings within the sport. If you have a mailbag question, email jordanmbianchi@gmail.com. I don’t get fans. All I’ve heard for the last several years is that they no longer cared about NASCAR because the racing wasn’t good, but even now with a bunch of great races this season not many are watching. What gives?…

RELATED: Talladega results The Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 Ford team received an L1-level penalty from NASCAR on Wednesday after the car failed post-race inspection following the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. According to NASCAR, the car failed post-race rear wheel steer on the LIS. As part of the penalty, crew chief Drew Blickensderfer was fined $65,000 and suspended from the next three Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series points events. Additionally,…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Next Race: Go Bowling 400 The Place: Kansas Speedway The Date: Saturday, May 13 The Time: 7:30 p.m. ET TV: FS1, 7 p.m. ET Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Distance: 400.5 miles (267 laps); Stage 1 (Ends on lap 80), Stage 2 (Ends on lap 160), Final Stage (Ends on lap 267) NASCAR XFINITY Series Next Race:…

Vladimir Putin said the Russian government had “nothing to do with” the surprise firing of FBI director James Comey, following up his first public comments on Tuesday night’s shock announcement with a six-goal outburst in a gala hockey match for the Night Hockey League on Wednesday at Sochi’s Bolshoy Ice Dome. The Russian president finished with 11 points on six goals and five assists in leading his team, a mix…

When the Ottawa Senators traveled to New York to take on the Rangers in Game 6 on Tuesday night, it was fair to think the series would probably head back to Ottawa for a Game 7. The Senators got drubbed in the series’ first two contests in New York, and the nervously raucous Madison Square Garden crowd was hoping to give the Rangers a key home-ice edge in an otherwise…

As I dragged my tired body up the last climb, each limb straining and aching with every turn of the pedals, the distant rattle of cowbells drew slowly closer. I (slowly) rounded the corner at the crest of the hill, and the source of the rattling appeared. Crowds cheered my arrival, rang their bells, and plastered a smile across my otherwise drained face, while raising my mood – and speed…

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Image via CBS Russian President Vladimir Putin sometimes entertains himself by getting decked out in hockey gear and forcing other people to skate around him and pretend to play defense while he scores a bunch of goals. He did that in Sochi today, but before taking the ice he was confronted by a CBS reporter who asked him about Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI director James Comey, and that…

Some railway terminals have a way of tapping into our imagination. They are architecturally rich, hark back to a long lost past and a few of them even end up as tourist attractions in themselves. None more so than Grand Central Terminal in New York City, where John Nimick has fashioned a sensational World Series squash event, the Tournament of Champions, or TOC. Moving the event to Grand Central was…

Long has been out since Dodge was still in NASCAR’s Cup Series. Photo credit: J Pat Carter/AP Images Carl Long was suspended from NASCAR’s top-level Cup Series and fined an absurd $200,000—the series’ largest fine to-date—at the 2009 All-Star Race. Long’s engine was 0.17 cubic inches over the regulation displacement for the series, and NASCAR threw the book at him. Now he’s finally making a comeback in the Cup Series…