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When I was in seventh grade, there was a poetry contest at my school. The topic was the American flag and if you participated, you got extra credit. Spelling was not my strong suit so I needed all the extra credit I could get. I gave it a shot and get this, ended up taking third place. Won 50 bucks, which seemed like $500 back then. And still to this…

Chase Elliott, right, talks with Kasey Kahne in the garage during NASCAR Sprint Cup auto racing practice at Darlington Raceway, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, in Darlington, S.C. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)(Photo: The Associated Press) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jeff Gordon is mostly retired and Tony Stewart is almost out the door. Now Dale Earnhardt Jr. is sidelined for the rest of the year, exposing NASCAR’s glaring need for new stars to…

RELATED: Full race results | Standings | Chase Grid Breaking down the full field for the Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway: 1. Martin Truex Jr., No. 78 Toyota, Furniture Row Racing. Truex’s two victories this season are the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte and now the Southern 500 … and he finished second in the Daytona 500. Even with all the bad luck he has had, Truex is having a…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Jeff Gordon is mostly retired and Tony Stewart is almost out the door. Now Dale Earnhardt Jr. is sidelined for the rest of the year, exposing NASCAR’s glaring need for new stars to captivate the audience. The three big names who have moved the needle for NASCAR the past two decades have a combined seven championships, 168 career Cup wins and five Daytona 500 victories. More…

<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Scotland assistant manager Mark McGhee describes Robert Snodgrass, who scored a hat-trick in Sunday’s 5-1 win over Malta, as the midfielder who can do it all. “He can come short as a midfield player, work back defensively, run ahead of the centre forward, take people on and run wide,” said McGhee. (Various) Allan Preston, who gave Snodgrass his Livingston debut four days after his 17th birthday, says…

‘Only goal of Paralympic ban was not to see any Russian flag hanging in Rio’ – sports lawyer “I have no doubt that the attack on our athletes will continue in the same direction. Right now we have created an independent anti-doping commission headed by Vitaly Smirnov,“ Zhukov told journalists in Novosibirsk. “That is the first step, which we absolutely must take, in order to fully restore the reputation of…

Jeff Gordon is mostly retired and Tony Stewart is almost out the door. Now Dale Earnhardt Jr. is sidelined for the rest of the year, exposing NASCAR’s glaring need for new stars to captivate the audience. The three big names who have moved the needle for NASCAR the past two decades have a combined seven championships, 168 career Cup wins and five Daytona 500 victories. More important, they are the…

‘Only goal of Paralympic ban was not to see any Russian flag hanging in Rio’ – sports lawyer “I have no doubt that the attack on our athletes will continue in the same direction. Right now we have created an independent anti-doping commission headed by Vitaly Smirnov,“ Zhukov told journalists in Novosibirsk. “That is the first step, which we absolutely must take, in order to fully restore the reputation of…

In NASCAR’s long history, only two drivers have ever won the sport’s so-called “Triple Crown,” the Daytona 500, the Coca-Cola 600 and the Bojangles’ Southern 500 in the same season: The late LeeRoy Yarbrough did it in 1969, and David Pearson did it in 1976. This year, Martin Truex Jr. came within 0.01 seconds of adding his name to that list. Coming into 2016, Truex had just three career race…

(Recasts lead) TURKU, Finland, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Kosovo’s Valon Berisha, given permission to play only a few hours before kickoff, scored for his country in their first-ever competitive international to give them a 1-1 draw away to Finland in a World Cup qualifier on Wednesday. Berisha, who was allowed to switch to Kosovo by FIFA despite having played competitive matches for Norway, put away a penalty on the hour…

U .S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe knelt during the national anthem Sunday night before the Seattle Reign’s game against the Chicago Red Stars “in a little nod” to NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.  Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the national anthem to protest racial injustice and minority oppression came to public notice when he remained seated on the bench before a preseason game against Green Bay. On Thursday night in San…

In NASCAR’s long history, only two drivers have ever won the sport’s so-called “Triple Crown,” the Daytona 500, the Coca-Cola 600 and the Bojangles’ Southern 500 in the same season: The late LeeRoy Yarbrough did it in 1969, and David Pearson did it in 1976. This year, Martin Truex Jr. came within 0.01 seconds of adding his name to that list. Coming into 2016, Truex had just three career race…

(Denis Poroy/AP and Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) A member of the 2015 World Cup-winning U.S. women’s soccer team is standing, or rather kneeling, in support of Colin Kaepernick. On Sunday night, Megan Rapinoe took a knee while the national anthem played ahead of a game between the Seattle Reign, where Rapinoe is a star midfielder, and the Chicago Red Stars. And the 31-year-old said after the game that she will continue…

‘Only goal of Paralympic ban was not to see any Russian flag hanging in Rio’ – sports lawyer “I have no doubt that the attack on our athletes will continue in the same direction. Right now we have created an independent anti-doping commission headed by Vitaly Smirnov,“ Zhukov told journalists in Novosibirsk. “That is the first step, which we absolutely must take, in order to fully restore the reputation of…

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Across the world Monday, training camps are opening for the eight teams competing in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. While the last week has been rife with players dropping out due to injury, most players reported for camp Sunday and some teams have already hit the ice for their first practice. As camps get underway, here’s a look at one big question teams will be facing as they start…

Colin Kaepernick, whose protests over the National Anthem have drawn plenty of national attention, is gaining supporters. Before the 49ers last game against the Chargers, Kaepernick kneeled during the anthem. He was joined by a teammate, Eric Reid. Seahawks player Jeremy Lane also joined the silent protest, kneeling during a Seattle preseason game. Now he’s getting support from another sports as well. On Sunday afternoon, ahead of a game against…

This piece originally appeared on BillMoyers.com. When I go swimming — every day, for whatever part of an hour best suits my mood and muscles — I slip into another zone, a blue bubble of silence that restores my soul while it expands my horizons. Nothing intrudes: no conversations, no waterproof earphones pumping music into my head, no TV shout fests labeling something that happened 24 hours ago as “breaking…

GIF via FS1/nascarfan4888JJ YouTube I’m not sure what’s more insane about the end of today’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race. Not only was the race decided by a nose—specifically the nose of a truck that was pinning another truck into Mosport’s outer wall—but it was capped off by a crazy fight along the pit straight. You have to feel for Cole Custer here. Had he won this weekend’s race…

With a dominant Kevin Harvick repeatedly slowed in the pits, Martin Truex Jr. capitalized to win Sunday night’s Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Clearly possessing the fastest car, Harvick led a race-high 214 laps and was seemingly set to win his second Darlington race in three years and third of the season. But three slow pit stops over the final 100 laps cost the Stewart-Haas Racing driver a total…