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Wearing sparkly hats and waving Union flags, more than 150,000 well-wishers gathered on the streets of Manchester today to celebrate Team GB’s stunning performance in Rio. Excited fans draped in red, white and blue waited for hours along the parade route as they prepared to welcome Britain’s triumphant Olympian and Paralympians to the city. Matt Whitlock, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Ellie Simmonds were among the sporting stars taking part in the…

Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s new president, has ambitious plans. They are, however, easy to execute and may help further the goals of some of the soccer body’s major sponsors.  Planned total of teams in World Cup 48 For a start, Infantino is pledging to invest $4 billion to increase the number of football participants to 60 percent of the world’s population, from the current 45 percent. Guess what: He doesn’t have to…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Brant James looks ahead to the Hollywood Casino 400 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race. USA TODAY Sports Sprint has been the sponsor of NASCAR’s premier series since 2004.(Photo: Jerome Miron, USA TODAY Sports) KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Sprint employees will convene at Kansas Speedway today for their final homecoming game. There…

Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s new president, has ambitious plans. They are, however, easy to execute and may help further the goals of some of the soccer body’s major sponsors.  Planned total of teams in World Cup 48 For a start, Infantino is pledging to invest $4 billion to increase the number of football participants to 60 percent of the world’s population, from the current 45 percent. Guess what: He doesn’t have to…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Brant James looks ahead to the Hollywood Casino 400 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race. USA TODAY Sports Sprint has been the sponsor of NASCAR’s premier series since 2004.(Photo: Jerome Miron, USA TODAY Sports) KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Sprint employees will convene at Kansas Speedway today for their final homecoming game. There…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Brant James looks ahead to the Hollywood Casino 400 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race. USA TODAY Sports Sprint has been the sponsor of NASCAR’s premier series since 2004.(Photo: Jerome Miron, USA TODAY Sports) KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Sprint employees will convene at Kansas Speedway today for their final homecoming game. There…

Erik Jones is having a very good day. The 20-year-old driver just won the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Chicagoland Speedway, branded the “Drive Safety 300” thanks to a deal with, as unlikely as it may sound for a sport based around the danger of high-speed driving, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Having survived 300 miles of racing, Jones stands atop his battle-scarred car in victory lane, with…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Brant James looks ahead to the Hollywood Casino 400 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race. USA TODAY Sports Sprint has been the sponsor of NASCAR’s premier series since 2004.(Photo: Jerome Miron, USA TODAY Sports) KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Sprint employees will convene at Kansas Speedway today for their final homecoming game. There…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Brant James looks ahead to the Hollywood Casino 400 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race. USA TODAY Sports Sprint has been the sponsor of NASCAR’s premier series since 2004.(Photo: Jerome Miron, USA TODAY Sports) KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Sprint employees will convene at Kansas Speedway today for their final homecoming game. There…

Enlarge this image A cyclist rides on the sidewalk in the NoMa neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Parth Shah/NPR hide caption toggle caption Parth Shah/NPR A cyclist rides on the sidewalk in the NoMa neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Parth Shah/NPR Bicycles are a type of vehicle so they belong on the road, right? This is how the wheels turn in places such as New York City and San Francisco, where bicyclists…

When NASCAR introduced the elimination format for the Chase for the Sprint Cup in 2014, Chairman and CEO Brian France said he want a style of playoffs that would produce “Game 7 moments.” By that, he meant high drama, edge-of-your-seat excitement, and must-see TV. Frankly, this year’s edition of the Chase has produced less of that than we saw in the first two years. Yes, there’s been some good racing,…

The man some NASCAR racing fans call the last of the ‘old school’ drivers is retiring soon. Tony Stewart is known for his aggressive and controversial style.

Enlarge this image A cyclist rides on the sidewalk in the NoMa neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Parth Shah/NPR hide caption toggle caption Parth Shah/NPR A cyclist rides on the sidewalk in the NoMa neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Parth Shah/NPR Bicycles are a type of vehicle so they belong on the road, right? This is how the wheels turn in places such as New York City and San Francisco, where bicyclists…

RELATED: Race results | Standings | Chase Grid | Photos from the day SHOP: Busch gear KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Kyle Busch‘s domination of Saturday’s Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway was about the only predictable thing that happened in the first race of the Round of 8 in the inaugural NASCAR XFINITY Series Chase. In winning his fourth XFINITY race at the 1.5-mile track, his ninth of the season and…

RELATED: Tackling the Jimmie question in fantasy KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Win a Chase race and take it easy? Put the ol’ piece on cruise control until the next round? Not so fast, say NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers. “The 48 (of Jimmie Johnson), I don’t think he’s going to ride around the track because he’s already won,” said Matt Kenseth, pole winner for Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 (2:15 p.m….

Clint Bowyer’s year of purgatory is almost over and for the Kansas native, it can’t end too soon. In the spring of 2015, Bowyer signed a contract extension to remain at Michael Waltrip Racing, where he finished a career-best second in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship in 2012. But MWR folded at the end of the year, a shock to Bowyer given that he had just re-upped with the…

Clint Bowyer’s year of purgatory is almost over and for the Kansas native, it can’t end too soon. In the spring of 2015, Bowyer signed a contract extension to remain at Michael Waltrip Racing, where he finished a career-best second in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship in 2012. But MWR folded at the end of the year, a shock to Bowyer given that he had just re-upped with the…

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RELATED: Tackling the Jimmie question in fantasy KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Win a Chase race and take it easy? Put the ol’ piece on cruise control until the next round? Not so fast, say NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers. “The 48 (of Jimmie Johnson), I don’t think he’s going to ride around the track because he’s already won,” said Matt Kenseth, pole winner for Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 (2:15 p.m….

When the World Anti-Doping Agency published its 2017 list of banned substances last month, it was most notable for a drug that wasn’t on the list: a powerful painkiller called tramadol. More surprising, perhaps, is the group lobbying for it to be banned: professional cycling, a sport wracked by doping for more than two decades. Since 2011, cycling authorities have begged WADA to add tramadol to the list of prohibited…