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Atlanta United is one of two new MLS squads that started play over the weekend. While the team waits on its new digs to open up in downtown Atlanta, it’s the primary offseason tenant at Bobby Dodd Stadium, which typically houses the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (insert your joke here about a team in red and black invading Georgia Tech). Atlanta fans absolutely packed the place to the gills, so…

Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway looked like a runaway victory for Kevin Harvick, until a late-race pit-road speeding penalty allowed Brad Keselowski to score the victory for Team Penske. In general, the first use of NASCAR’s low-downforce package was a success, as drivers fought ill-handling race cars all day long, with lots of dicing in the pack. Here’s some of the best social…

U.S. Soccer has adopted a new policy requiring all players to “stand respectfully” for the playing of the national anthem. The move comes after one of the women’s team players, Megan Rapinoe, kneeled while in uniform as “The Star-Spangled Banner” played before games against Thailand and the Netherlands in September. New Policy added to @ussoccer bylaws: Players “shall stand respectfully during playing of national anthem @ which federation is represented” pic.twitter.com/fkVtCI1iHC…

Playing soccer with billionaires doesn’t come cheap. BT Group Plc had to stump up 30 percent more to keep the broadcast rights to the UEFA Champions League from 2018 to 2021. Bidding against Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Plc pushed the price up to 1.2 billion pounds ($1.5 billion). Champions League price $1.5 billion It’s an inexorable law by now: the cost of flagship sports rights, whether for the NFL or the…

An Orange County deputy who was injured while trying to break up a fight among fans after the Orlando City soccer game Sunday is at home and recovering, the Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Gustavo “Gus” Marinoni, a 14-year department veteran, was working extra duty for the Orlando Police Department at the soccer team’s home opener, the team’s first game in its new stadium. After the game ended about 7:45 p.m.,…

Playing soccer with billionaires doesn’t come cheap. BT Group Plc had to stump up 30 percent more to keep the broadcast rights to the UEFA Champions League from 2018 to 2021. Bidding against Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Plc pushed the price up to 1.2 billion pounds ($1.5 billion). Champions League price $1.5 billion It’s an inexorable law by now: the cost of flagship sports rights, whether for the NFL or the…

British telco BT’s pay-TV sports service, BT Sport, has secured the exclusive U.K. rights to soccer matches from UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League until the end of the 2020/21 season. The deal with UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, is worth around £394 million ($483 million) a year, and extends the existing pact with BT by a further three seasons for a total £1.18 billion ($1.45 billion). The deal…

Go fast. Turn left. Win. For decades, you could boil NASCAR down to this simple set of rules. The ethos is so concise that it’s often the main source of derision for the sport. (“All they do is turn left,” you might cry.) But that simplicity is also the backbone that made NASCAR popular in the first place. That’s why it felt cataclysmic when, this past January, NASCAR changed how…

Kevin Harvick probably lost Sunday’s Folds Of Honor QuikTrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway by driving too fast. It’s funny how that works in NASCAR. Harvick was completely dominating the race – leading 292 laps – until he was caught speeding on pit road with 11 laps remaining. The penalty for exceeding the 45 mph speed limit on Atlanta’s pit road shuffled Harvick to 18th place. That allowed Brad Keselowski…

Go fast. Turn left. Win. For decades, you could boil NASCAR down to this simple set of rules. The ethos is so concise that it’s often the main source of derision for the sport. (“All they do is turn left,” you might cry.) But that simplicity is also the backbone that made NASCAR popular in the first place. That’s why it felt cataclysmic when, this past January, NASCAR changed how…

RELATED: Race recap | Results | Standings   HAMPTON, Ga. — A peach of a day was within the grasp of home-state favorite Chase Elliott at Atlanta Motor Speedway. A fast car, combined with a crucial late-race error by race dominator Kevin Harvick, had left the door open. Elliott rallied for a fifth-place finish in Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, overcoming a mid-race, pit-road speeding penalty to work his way back…

Nice swimming pool. How much do you want to bet that there’s pee in there? Photographer: Rafael Fabres/Bloomberg Stop peeing in pools. You may claim you are not doing it. But as indicated in my previous FORBES piece about how dirty many swimming pools and hot tubs are, one in five people admit to peeing in a pool…with the emphasis on the word admit. And now researchers at University of Alberta have…

Please, let us keep the tar snakes. Photo credit: Matt Sullivan/Stringer/Getty Images Since virtually every human the planet doesn’t want Atlanta Motor Speedway to repave its racing surface after the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, the track may actually reconsider its plans to destroy everything that’s good and holy in the world of cookie-cutter race tracks. This is a beautiful day. Advertisement While the potential for an…

Go fast. Turn left. Win. For decades, you could boil NASCAR down to this simple set of rules. The ethos is so concise that it’s often the main source of derision for the sport. (“All they do is turn left,” you might cry.) But that simplicity is also the backbone that made NASCAR popular in the first place. That’s why it felt cataclysmic when, this past January, NASCAR changed how…

MORE: Atlanta starting lineup HAMPTON, Ga. — Goodyear and driver Kyle Busch seem to be inextricably linked in the news fodder of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, and that continued to be the case Sunday morning at Atlanta Motor Speedway. An errant step by a fan in the garage sent oil spilling onto two tires of the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, necessitating a trip to…

Following protests from a women’s national team member last year, U.S. Soccer has ordered all players to “stand respectfully” during the playing of the national anthem. Adopted by the U.S. Soccer Board of Directors last month and originally reported by Fox Soccer TV analyst Stuart Holden, the policy reads: “All persons representing a Federation national team shall stand respectfully during the playing of national anthems at any event in which…

Please, let us keep the tar snakes. Photo credit: Matt Sullivan/Stringer/Getty Images Since virtually every human the planet doesn’t want Atlanta Motor Speedway to repave its racing surface after the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, the track may actually reconsider its plans to destroy everything that’s good and holy in the world of cookie-cutter race tracks. This is a beautiful day. Advertisement While the potential for an…

Kevin Harvick dominated the first two segments of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at Atlanta Motor Speedway Sunday, but a late speeding penalty against the No. 4 team allowed Brad Keselowski to swoop in for the checkered flag. Keselowski passed Kyle Larson for the lead with six laps to go for his first win of 2017. Harvick’s critical error came when the field pitted on Lap 311 of 325. The…

Go fast. Turn left. Win. For decades, you could boil NASCAR down to this simple set of rules. The ethos is so concise that it’s often the main source of derision for the sport. (“All they do is turn left,” you might cry.) But that simplicity is also the backbone that made NASCAR popular in the first place. That’s why it felt cataclysmic when, this past January, NASCAR changed how…

Please, let us keep the tar snakes. Photo credit: Matt Sullivan/Stringer/Getty Images Since virtually every human the planet doesn’t want Atlanta Motor Speedway to repave its racing surface after the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, the track may actually reconsider its plans to destroy everything that’s good and holy in the world of cookie-cutter race tracks. This is a beautiful day. Advertisement While the potential for an…