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x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck looks ahead to the Bad Boy Off Road 300 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. USA TODAY Sports Martin Truex Jr., bottom, and Jimmie Johnson, top, shown here in 2015, failed post-race inspection at Chicagoland Speedway, but NASCAR decided not to penalize them.(Photo: Matthew O’Haren,…

After a disappointing performance at the Rio Olympics an Indian government think tank has come up with a strategy to help the country achieve 50 medals at the 2024 Games. India sent more than 120 athletes to Rio de Janeiro with hopes of exceeding the six medals won at London in 2012, but returned with a silver in badminton and a wrestling bronze. The National Institution for Transforming India Aayog…

Media playback is not supported on this device Manchester United v Leicester: Ranieri dismisses talk of Mourinho feud Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri says Jose Mourinho “is a fantastic person” and any issues between the two are “prehistoric”. The champions play Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday, with the two managers having clashed in the past. Mourinho called Ranieri “a loser” after replacing him at Chelsea and also insulted him…

TORONTO Ralph Krueger stood at the podium talking hockey but thinking soccer. As the chairman of Premiership side Southampton FC, Krueger’s mind was on a far away Europa Cup match that was just getting underway against Sparta Prague. As head coach of Team Europe, his focus was on the World Cup of Hockey and his team’s tournament opener the next day against the United States. It would be a good…

The NASCAR community is poorer this week with passing of two legends of the garage, reporter Bob Margolis and long-time insider Herbert Ames, both of whom were fixtures in the sport for many years. Margolis was a first-rate writer and reporter, someone who called it exactly like saw it. And he was someone who never said no to a young reporters trying to navigate the complicated NASCAR landscape. In that…

Islamic State militants reportedly beat six boys to death for playing soccer in central Mosul,  The Mirror newspaper reported. It is unclear when the boys were handcuffed and beaten with welding irons in front of a crowd, but the report said ISIS claimed that the boys were part of a resistance faction in the city. “The execution took place in Mosul in front of a large gathering,” one…

Drivers who are competing in the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup tell us what it means to be a champion.

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. Two straight weeks Martin Truex Jr.’s car has failed inspection. How many more weeks are needed before everyone realizes he’s only running this good and winning because his cars are obviously cheated up? –Matt A common perception is that…

Game Details Developer: PES ProductionsPublisher: KonamiPlatform: PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 (PS4 reviewed)Rating: E for EveryoneRelease Date: September 18, 2015 (UK), September 17 (Europe), September 15 (US)Price: £36 / £56Links: Amazon (UK) | Amazon (US) | Official website reader comments 9 There are many ways to interpret the beautiful game. Some teams prefer to keep the ball on the turf. Others prefer to launch it into the air. Defending deep in…

Here’s some hard truths about NASCAR and racing in the wake of the sanctioning body’s decision not to penalize Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their cars flunked post-race inspection at Chicagoland Speedway. First, a quick recap of the news.  NASCAR decided — quite correctly — that giving a 10-point P2 penalty for both drivers for being minimally out of spec wasn’t fair. By virtue of his win, Truex…

NASCAR has decided not to penalize Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their cars both flunked post-race tech in the laser inspection station following Sunday’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway. In a late-afternoon teleconference on Wednesday, NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O’Donnell talked about the decision to not penalize the drivers and teams, and explained procedures going forward. Sunday night at Chicagoland…

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NASCAR is being sued on allegations that it blocked efforts to racially diversify U.S. motor sports, according to multiple media reports. The lawsuit, filed Friday by Diversity Motorsports CEO Terrance Cox, charges that the stockcar racing organization “has intentionally interfered with the efforts of Cox and Diversity Motorsports to integrate the U.S. motorsports industry by perpetuating, condoning and actively participating in actions designed to humiliate, degrade, ostracize and exclude Cox.” Cox…

Martin Truex Jr. celebrates winning the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.(Photo: Mike Dinovo, USA TODAY Sports) JOLIET, Ill. — NASCAR fans are suddenly longing for the days when they never heard of the terms “encumbered” and “LIS.” Once again, NASCAR seems to have backed itself into a corner with a rules change, which then spawned unintended consequences and resulted in another rules change. This is the circle…

Lately, the post-race buzz after NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races isn’t about who won, it’s about who flunked post-race technical inspection. For those of you keeping track at home, Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway, the cars of race-winner Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson both flunked NASCAR’s Laser Inspection Station twice, but only by what a NASCAR spokesman called “the lowest possible level.” Kyle Busch’s car flunked post-race LIS once, but…

12:05 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment TORONTO — Never mind 1996 or 1987, or any of the Canada Cups or even the first incarnations of the World of Cup of Hockey. The past, as glorious as it might have been, is the past. Finis. Over and done with. But the future? That’s really the story of the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, the sport’s first best-on-best tournament…

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Each week in a northern suburb of Rio de Janeiro, a dozen or so girls meet to play handball but are learning far more than how to master the fast-paced game. Part of a project called One Win Leads to Another, organized by U.N. Women and the International Olympic Committee, the teens take part before each game in group sessions with a psychologist…