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Tinley Park parents Dave and Lisbeth Becvar have deep roots in Venezuela: Dave spent seven years living in the country, and Lisbeth was born and raised there. The couple has been searching for ways to instill their love of Venezuela in their young children, 5-year-old Christopher and 2-year-old Davy. So when news came out that the Venezuela-Jamaica match of the Copa America Centenario would take place at Soldier Field, the…

The NASCAR race originally slated to run Sunday afternoon has been rescheduled for Monday due to persistent rain and heavy fog at Pocono Raceway. The Axalta 400 will now take the green flag at noon ET Monday, weather permitting. NASCAR’s 14th event of the season will be broadcasted by Fox Sports 1. Inclement weather has been an issue throughout the weekend at Pocono. Just 10 minutes into practice…

When American athletes arrive for the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro two months from now, they will compete in a country embroiled in political turmoil and facing the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Last month, Brazil’s Senate impeached the country’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, over accusations that she doctored Brazil’s accounts in order to present a rosier view of the country’s fiscal situation prior to her reelection…

The US Women’s National Team just played their soccer rivals, Japan, to a draw. Will Team USA take home the win during their June 5 clash at 12.30pm EST? It’s time for the second international friendly and HollywoodLife.com wants you to see it. Click to watch. It’s time for Round 2! Japan fought the United States Women’s National Team to the bitter end in a friendly soccer match, but neither…

The Philadelphia International Cycling Classic, the professional bike race that features the Manayunk Wall, is underway.  Watch it live:    Eduard Prades of Spain won the men’s race, covering 110.7 miles on the 12.3-mile course in 3 hours 57 minutes and 37 seconds. The women’s race, which is part of the newly…

Andrew Berkshire June 5, 2016, 10:43 AM Andrew Berkshire   June 5, 2016, 10:43 AM The 2016 World Cup of Hockey rosters have been announced, and although there has been a ton of controversy surrounding some of the players not named, what we’re looking at today is the approximated strength of each roster. Using Sportlogiq’s 2015-16 season data, we can combine the named players to create team averages for a variety…

When American athletes arrive for the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro two months from now, they will compete in a country embroiled in political turmoil and facing the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. Last month, Brazil’s Senate impeached the country’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, over accusations that she doctored Brazil’s accounts in order to present a rosier view of the country’s fiscal situation prior to her reelection…

Editor’s note: Updated at 9 a.m. The weather forecast in Northeast Pennsylvania continues to be dismal, which is threatening the scheduled running of today’s Axalta We Paint Winners 400 at Pocono Raceway (FS1, 12:30 p.m. ET). As of 9  a.m., moisture and heavy fog were major problems, and unfortunately it doesn’t appear that it will get much better by race time. Track officials have already canceled pace car rides and…

LONG POND, Pa. — An incident between Ryan Reed and Ryan Sieg on the race track spilled over into a garage altercation involving their crews during a rain delay in the NASCAR XFINITY Series’ inaugural event at Pocono Raceway on Saturday.   Reed and Sieg made contact in the 24th lap of the Pocono Green 250, a bump that sent Sieg’s No. 39 RSS Racing Chevrolet into the outside retaining wall. Reed continued but crashed…

LONG POND — During a rain delay at Pocono Raceway on Friday, the flat screens inside the Media Center showed a documentary called “The Perfect Storm” on the 1979 Daytona 500. That’s the race that supposedly began the popularity surge of NASCAR. It was the first 500-mile race ever shown on live national TV in its entirety (the Indy 500 was shown on tape delay) and also featured the famous…

PHOTOS: Best at-track pics Saturday from Pocono Caution came out for rain on Saturday at Pocono Raceway on Lap 52 of the scheduled 100 laps in the Pocono Green 250 NASCAR XFINITY Series race. Kyle Larson was leading at the time of the caution in the No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet. The race was red-flagged after 53 laps and called after nearly two hours of delay. Larson was declared the winner of the first-ever XFINITY…

More: Gymnastics Donnell Whittenburg leads bunched crowd at P&G Championships Gabby Douglas on Zika: ‘I don’t care about no stupid bugs’ Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas ease into Olympic selection meets at Secret Classic Aly Raisman opened the Olympic selection season just as she did four years ago — with an all-around victory at the Secret Classic. The three-time London 2012 medalist totaled 59.25 points in Hartford, Conn., beating an all-around field that…

RELATED: Drivers pay respects to Ali Boxing and cultural icon Muhammad Ali, who passed away Friday at age 74, has a direct connection to NASCAR — specifically, to Hall of Famer Bill Elliott. Yes, “The Greatest” and “Awesome Bill” have a history that dates back to 2001 when Elliott sported a likeness of Ali on his No. 9 Dodge while driving for Ray Evernham. The special paint scheme was revealed at historic…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. will serve as a guest driver analyst in the FOX NASCAR television booth for the XFINITY Series race at Michigan International Speedway on June 11, FOX Sports announced Saturday during the broadcast of the Pocono Green 250 event at Pocono Raceway.   The driver of the No. 88 will offer commentary for live coverage of the Menards 250 presented by Valvoline (June 11, 1:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), joining announcers Adam…

But Amir Attaran, a law and medicine professor at the University of Ottawa, who is among those leading the campaign to postpone or move the Games from Rio, accused the WHO of acting “irresponsibly”. He is one of the co-authors of an open letter to the WHO signed by 150 international experts, which last week argued the body was rejecting such calls due to its official partnership with the International…

“The Greatest” is the most succinct and definitive description of a truly transcendent athlete, one few in any sport could lay claim to without debate. In every senses of the word, Muhammad Ali was The Greatest – the best heavyweight fighter of all-time and a game-changer for the sport of boxing. Controversial, bombastic, cocky, political, outrageous, bold, and above all else supremely talented, Ali was like no other fighter that…

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By Tom McGowan and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, Shasta Darlington, Ivan Watson, Vasco Cotovio, CNN Updated 1:37 PM ET, Fri June 3, 2016 MUST WATCH (CNN) MUST WATCH They have got a lot of problems to deal with in these final 60-odd days. Ed Hula, Olympics expert MUST WATCH MUST WATCH MUST WATCH MUST WATCH MUST WATCH