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Scientists, in their never-ending quest to replace all fields of human achievement with our new insect overlords, have studied the best way to teach a bee to play soccer. Advertisement This is actually interesting! They had three groups of bees give it a try: One group that came in cold, one group that watched the ball roll itself into the goal (with the help of a magnet), and one group…

The former British Cycling employee who carried a mystery package to France at the end of the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné race did not ask what was in it as he trusted his employers and wanted to keep his job, he has told a committee of MPs. Simon Cope, who had been a coach at British Cycling, said that in retrospect he should have asked what was in the jiffy…

If you think NASCAR drivers are racing around the track for hours alone with their thoughts, you’re sorely mistaken. Drivers are in constant communication with their crew chiefs, spotters and pit crews, coordinating every detail of the race – who’s coming up behind them, when a crash is about to take place, whether the car needs new tires or just fuel on a pit stop. Of course, there’s a little…

It is an antisocial act that normally goes under the radar, but many swimmers have long suspected the truth: people are peeing in the pool. Now scientists have been able to confirm the full extent of offending for the first time, after developing a test designed to estimate how much urine has been covertly added to a large volume of water. Regular swimmers with a keen sense of hygiene may…

Four Hollywood studios are teaming up with the city of Los Angeles to promote its bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Disney, Fox, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. will bring their combined star power and media savvy to boost L.A.’s chances of bringing the Games back to the city for the first time in more than 30 years. L.A. is going head to head with Paris for the 2024 Olympic and…

NASCAR Twitter has no chill today. This has been the most polarizing day in stock-car social media since Jeff Gordon was added as the 13th driver in the 12-driver Chase for the Championship back in 2013. The Daytona 500 was a crashfest with an unpopular winner in Kurt Busch. That’s the cause for much of the uproar right there. But the social media subset of NASCAR fandom is…

Childers wrote that her team is scattered all over India, where the women arrived as refugees from Tibet. The autonomous region of China — known as “the roof of the world” for its mountain ranges — has a volatile history with the government in Beijing. When the women came out of the embassy without visas last week, they looked at their coach for answers, Childers wrote. They had carried folders with their passports,…

CLOSE x Embed x Share Another city dropped their bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The IOC will make their final selection on September 13th. USA TODAY Sports In this Aug. 1972, file photo, Olga Korbut, of Russia, throws up her arms in joy at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, Aug. 1972.(Photo: AP) While the Russian media reported that Olympic gold medalist Olga Korbut sold several of her medals…

A mysterious wave of deaths recently struck Big Major Cay, the uninhabited Bahamas island famous for its tourist-friendly swimming pigs. Up to half of the pig colony died and the bodies were tossed into the sea, according to reports from over the weekend. Early investigations could not identify an explicit cause of death. Wayde Nixon, a Bahamas man who brought the pigs to the island decades ago, suggested that tourists killed the animals with a lethal…

Caption Close DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Daytona 500 was sold out, the grid packed with celebrities, the fan area full of activities including a motorcycle “Ball of Death.” Owen “Lightning McQueen” Wilson was on hand, and so was Waka Flocka Flame, Gronk and nearly two dozen women scantily clad in Monster Energy outfits. One thing NASCAR had for its season opener was a much-needed spark and an atmosphere worthy…

Caption Close DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The Daytona 500 was sold out, the grid packed with celebrities, the fan area full of activities including a motorcycle “Ball of Death.” Owen “Lightning McQueen” Wilson was on hand, and so was Waka Flocka Flame, Gronk and nearly two dozen women scantily clad in Monster Energy outfits. One thing NASCAR had for its season opener was a much-needed spark and an atmosphere worthy…

NASCAR’s first crack at running the Daytona 500 in three stages of 60, 60 and 80 laps was a success in the eyes of the sanctioning body, according to NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O’Donnell. “I’d say overall, really pleased,” O’Donnell said Sunday night after Kurt Busch’s first Daytona 500 victory. “We saw a lot of great, hard racing. Everybody knows that every driver wants…

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Buy Photo Pelham wins the Section 1 Division II championship title against John Jay in a 6-1 win at the Brewster Ice Arena in Brewster, February 26, 2017 (Photo: Michael Giacalone for The Journal News) BREWSTER – Even the postgame celebration is well-executed. Pelham has enjoyed more practice than any team in Section 1 over the last four seasons. The Pelicans wrapped up a fourth consecutive Division II title with a…

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Denny Hamlin wins the second of the two Can-Am Duels at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday night, giving him a good starting spot for the Daytona 500. Hamlin won the race in 2016. Photo credit: Brian Lawdermilk/Stringer/Getty Images The biggest day in American stock-car racing is here, and you may have noticed that it’s going to look a whole lot different—and more complicated—this time around. Luckily, we’ve got your back….

Photo credit: David Becker/Getty Images NASCAR CEO and chairman Brian France, who usually doesn’t publicly comment on competition issues in his sport, uncharacteristically instructed drivers not to block at the Daytona 500 drivers meeting, reports NBC Sports. The problem is, you have to keep the other drivers behind you somehow in order to win at a restrictor plate track like Daytona International Speedway. That’s…blocking. Advertisement Here’s what France told drivers…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Happy Daytona Day! It’s the morning of the 500-mile Great American Race, and NASCAR’s best drivers are doing everything they can to give themselves the best chance of victory after the green flag flies (2:30 p.m. ET, FOX). But breakfast can be tricky because they need to devour something high in protein that won’t weigh them down once they’re in the driver’s seat. So what are…

The unofficial Super Bowl of racing is set to kick off NASCAR’s 2017 season in Daytona Beach on Sunday. The Daytona 500 brings NASCAR’s best racers together all with the goal of winning at one of racing’s most famous tracks. One of the racers in the field is making his return to the track after an extended layoff while dealing with concussions: Dale Earnhardt Jr. After much discussion with doctors,…