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BUY TICKETS: See the races in Atlanta DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR® and Lilly Diabetes announced today that Lilly is expanding its involvement in NASCAR with a multi-year official partnership with the sanctioning body. The new collaboration designates Lilly Diabetes as the “Official Diabetes Health Partner of NASCAR.” The partnership with Lilly Diabetes builds upon its primary sponsorship of the No. 16 Ford Mustang driven by Roush Fenway Racing’s Ryan…

Kevin Harvick will lead the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup field of 39 to the green flag Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway (2:30 p.m. ET) in the final race on the historic racing surface before the track will undergo a re-pave.  Harvick’s lap of 190.39 mph in Friday’s final round of qualifying was slightly ahead of Ryan Newman, who clocked in at 189.87 mph. Newman, who was fastest in Friday’s first practice, leads all active Cup drivers in average…

Carl Edwards wants to stress that he hasn’t necessarily retired from racing. “Everybody calls it retirement,” Edwards said Friday at Atlanta Motor Speedway. “I haven’t called it retirement officially.” By just saying that, Edwards continued to leave the door open to racing again. In the time being, he’s enjoying his time away from NASCAR, but he came to the Atlanta track Friday to help coach rookie Daniel Suarez, who is…

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The implosion of a state building, a NASCAR race and the usual road construction are a few of the things that may mess with your weekend driving plans. The state will implode the old Georgia archives building on Capitol Avenue in downtown Atlanta at 7 a.m. Sunday. That will mean temporary closure of some local roads and highways. I-75/85 northbound and southbound will see rolling lane closures,…

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Every type of exercise has its selling points. But swimming is unlike any other aerobic workout in a few important ways. First, the fact that you’re submerged in water means your bones and muscles are somewhat unshackled from the constraints of gravity, says Hirofumi Tanaka, a professor of kinesiology and director of the Cardiovascular Aging Research Lab at the University of Texas. This makes swimming the ideal exercise for people…

British Cycling has promised to overhaul its relationship with Team Sky and launched an investigation into what happened with the triamcinolone that was ordered by its doctor, as revealed at Wednesday’s parliamentary hearing. The revelations around Team Sky and British Cycling from the Ukad head, Nicole Sapstead, were described as “shocking” and “unacceptable” by the UK Sport chief executive, Liz Nicholl, at a press briefing in Manchester with the British…

FC Barcelona, arguably the most powerful soccer club in the world, will open a training academy in Austin this summer, with facilities at Circuit of the Americas and the new Round Rock Multipurpose Complex. The move is part of the Spanish giant’s push for a bigger footprint in the United States and a world-wide boost of its FCB Escola project. FCB Escola is the flagship FC Barcelona…

Cush Revette paced down the starting line with a checkered flag and a full handle of Coulsons Rum, exhorting to the crowd with a carnival barker’s brio. “Who’s next? I need two more dumb rednecks,” the 59-year-old from Tampa cried. “Speaking of two dumb rednecks, I see three right there.” It was just before 11pm on Friday night in the infield of Daytona International Speedway, at the campground known as…

A quickly growing youth cycling program in Middletown has been named the top cycling club in the country for 2016 by USA Cycling, the official organization for competitive cycling in the U.S. The Connecticut Cycling Advancement Program’s youth programs and teams have brought an increase of young riders to a sport traditionally dominated by adults. The organization, founded in 2013, has started 36 programs for 490 registered youth riders throughout…

If 19 December 2016 was the day that Sir Dave Brailsford proved to be an emperor with no clothes, with his admission to the culture, media and sport committee that he had been over-enthusiastic in his explanation for Simon Cope’s trip to the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2011, on 1 March 2017 the committee stripped Team Sky and British Cycling of any remaining credibility. The demolition agent was the lapidary…

BUY TICKETS: See the races in Atlanta Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 Ford crew chief Drew Blickensderfer has been fined $10,000 for lug nut(s) that were not properly installed at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR announced Wednesday afternoon.  Blickensderfer took over for Trent Owens as crew chief for Aric Almirola ahead of last fall’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway. Patrick Magee, crew chief for Harrison Rhodes’ No….

BUY TICKETS: See the races in Atlanta Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 Ford crew chief Drew Blickensderfer has been fined $10,000 for lug nut(s) that were not properly installed at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR announced Wednesday afternoon.  Blickensderfer took over for Trent Owens as crew chief for Aric Almirola ahead of last fall’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway. Patrick Magee, crew chief for Harrison Rhodes’ No….

12:49 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment The tracks that host the bulk of NASCAR races saw their admissions revenues drop 7.4 percent in 2016, marking the ninth consecutive year of declines and the largest drop in the past four. International Speedway Corp. (12 tracks), Speedway Motorsports Inc. (eight) and Dover Motorsports (one) reported a combined admissions revenue of $221.1 million, down from $238.8 million in…

Russ McPhedran/Sydney Morning News/Getty Images The attack began in the early morning hours of Sept. 5, 1972, when eight armed Palestinians affiliated with the Black September Organization snuck into the Olympic Village in Munich. They made their way to 31 Connollystrasse, where the Israeli delegation was housed, killed two men and took nine others hostage. Advertisement Television coverage of the standoff transfixed the world for 21 consecutive hours. Pre-9/11, this…

Now the real Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season begins. Daytona Speedweeks was what it always is — two incredibly busy weekends of high-intensity, wide-open racing that resulted in a ton of wrecked race cars and dashed hopes, and an emotionally charged triumph for the winner, in this case, Kurt Busch. That said, Daytona is its own animal, with a totally different rules package than we will see this weekend…

The credibility of Team Sky and British Cycling was “in tatters” on Wednesday night according to Damian Collins MP, with the General Medical Council now likely to intervene in the ongoing doping investigation into the two organisations. Collins, the chair of the Culture Media and Sport select committee, was speaking after a devastating two-hour hearing in which UK Anti-Doping chief executive Nicole Sapstead criticised British Cycling, Team Sky and their…