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Dale Earnhardt Jr. warned Monday that his return to NASCAR could take longer than planned. NASCAR’s most popular driver is scheduled to miss his third consecutive race this Sunday with concussion-like symptoms. On his weekly podcast, he said he will have another evaluation soon to see “what kind of gains we’ve made and get in front of my doctors . and let them tell me where they think I’m at…

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(Photo: The Associated Press) Roger Federer is sitting out the rest of this season, including the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and U.S. Open, to protect his surgically repaired left knee. Federer wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday that he needs “more extensive rehabilitation following my knee surgery earlier this year.” “The doctors advised that if I want to play on the ATP World Tour injury free for another few years,…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. warned Monday that his return to NASCAR could take longer than planned. NASCAR’s most popular driver is scheduled to miss his third consecutive race this Sunday with concussion-like symptoms. On his weekly podcast, he said he will have another evaluation soon to see “what kind of gains we’ve made and get in front of my doctors . and let them tell me where they think I’m at…

Sevens rugby players are runners. They’re fit, hard, athletic sports people. Their bodies are fat-less and trim – strong thighs, cut calves. They’re not fit like competitive body-sculptors or cross-fit types. Sevens players are purpose-built to run. We’re watching the Australian women’s team train at the Sydney Academy of Sport and Recreation in Narrabeen. It’s a couple of days before the team flies out for Rio. And though they’ve been…

Photo credit: @keselowski WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Brad Keselowski escaped uninjured — “still upright,” in his words — after a scary crash Tuesday during an organizational test for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams at Watkins Glen International. Keselowski had just turned a session-topping 124.572 mph on his 18th lap of the day, best of the 14 drivers participating on the freshly repaved 2.45-mile road course. But just after registering that…

Russian Alexander Dyachenko won gold in the kayak doubles sprint at the London Olympics in 2012 Nineteen more Russian rowers have been banned from competing at next month’s Olympics, taking the number of Russian athletes suspended this week to 37. Earlier on Tuesday, eight athletes across canoeing, modern pentathlon and sailing were banned, as seven swimmers and three rowers were on Monday. Governing bodies are making the rulings following the…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. warned Monday that his return to NASCAR could take longer than planned. NASCAR’s most popular driver is scheduled to miss his third consecutive race this Sunday with concussion-like symptoms. On his weekly podcast, he said he will have another evaluation soon to see “what kind of gains we’ve made and get in front of my doctors . and let them tell me where they think I’m at…

x Embed x Share A resident of Rio’s Marina da Glória at Guanabara Bay, where Olympic sailing and rowing will take place, describes the state of the water quality. USA TODAY Sports Workers gather debris carried by the tide and caught by the “eco-barrier” before entering Guanabara Bay July 20.(Photo: Yauyoshi Chiba, AFP/Getty Images) RIO DE JANEIRO – Luiz Goldfeld was excited in 2009 when he heard the Olympics were coming…

Some things never change. When Baron De Coubertin, founder of the Olympic movement, estimated the costs of the inaugural 1896 games in Athens, he thought that a quarter of a million drachmas should do the job. The final bill, about $10 million in today’s terms, was six times that. The country’s experience of Athens 2004 was not dissimilar in terms of sticking to the budget, but the comparison ends there….

Which nation will field the most doping-free team at the Rio Olympics, due to start on Aug. 5? Russia, the country that narrowly avoided a blanket ban from the games for drug abuse.  On Sunday, the International Olympic Committee’s executive board decided that Russian athletes will not enjoy a presumption of innocence — in other words, they will all be considered potential dopers and subject to “a rigorous additional out-of-competition…

When you think of the founding fathers of the modern professional soccer in the United States, names such as Clive Toye, Phil Woosnam, Lamar Hunt and Robert Hermann come to mind. They did their own thing to make sure the game gained a foothold. But when William Drought Cox is mentioned, you’re more likely to be met with a blank look. As it happens, he did a lot. Cox had…

In July 2015, one year before the Olympic Games that will begin in Rio de Janeiro next month, the Associated Press conducted a five-month-long investigation into the “chronically polluted” water where some of the events will take place. What the AP described in an impressively reported 2,500 words, the British photographer Giles Price presents in a single image. His aerial photo of Rio’s Guanabara Bay shows water tinged a noxious…

x Embed x Share IndyStar’s Curt Cavin and Gregg Doyel discuss Sunday’s Brickyard 400. Kyle Busch dominates, Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon have a nice moment and where are the fans? Clark Wade/IndyStar Buy Photo Nearly empty stands on the front stretch at the Brickyard 400, Sunday, July 24, 2016.(Photo: Robert Scheer/IndyStar)Buy Photo Attendance at NASCAR races is down across the country, as are television ratings. While the sport and…

Photo credit: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Athletes are arriving in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics, and have been greeted at the Athletes’ Village with gas leaks, power outages, and “a small fire.” The Australian Olympic Committee already declared the Village “uninhabitable”, and according to The Guardian, 19 of the 31 apartment towers (all of which are 17 stories tall) that comprise the Village have not passed safety tests. The list…

Having the Rio 2016 Olympics in a country with an ongoing Zika epidemic has some athletes and physicians concerned. But a growing number of scientists are predicting few new infections from the virus during the Games. A new report, published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, predicts that in a worst-case scenario there will be between six to 80 new cases of Zika among travelers at this summer’s…

The IOC was banking on the federations adhering to the criteria laid down and not putting forward individuals whose subsequent expulsion would cause them huge embarrassment. As of Monday, only three of the 23 governing bodies affected had announced they were satisfied the Russians in their competitions met the IOC criteria, those of tennis, triathlon and archery. World Archery said the country’s three qualified archers, Tuiana Dashidorzhieva, Ksenia Perova and Inna…

Kyle Busch has done it all—at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, anyway. The reigning Sprint Cup champion started on the pole and dominated both the Combat Wounded Coalition 400, the featured event, and Saturday’s Xfinity Series race, the Lilly Diabetes 250. No one else has ever done that on the same NASCAR weekend. The race today was boring…i love Indy but a 330 start, 100+ degrees and coupled with no…

We had a pretty strange Brickyard 400 Sunday that only saw three cautions in the first 130 laps. Then in the last 40 laps, because we did go into “Overtime”, we had five cautions. We had a red flag and two overtimes. When the checkered flag finally did wave, we had Kyle Busch and his No. 18 Toyota team kissing the bricks. That No. 18 was as close to flawless…

Stewart-Haas Racing will field a full-time, single-car team in the NASCAR XFINITY Series in 2017, the organization announced Monday.   The driver and sponsor of the team will be announced before the end of the 2016 season, SHR said. The team will be run from SHR’s headquarters in Kannapolis, North Carolina.    “In order to maintain the competitiveness that has earned SHR two championships since our debut in 2009, we…