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NASCAR’s best are set to do battle in the sport’s longest race, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway (Sunday, FOX, 5:30 p.m. ET). This race dates back to 1960, when the track first opened. Then called the World 600, the first race featured a 60-car field, with only 18 cars running at the finish and Joe Lee Johnson winning by four laps over Johnny Beauchamp. As reliability has improved…

MOSCOW — Russia’s Olympic Committee says eight of the country’s athletes have registered positive in doping retests for the 2012 London Games. CBS Evening News New details in Russian doping scandal Secretly recorded conversations obtained by “60 Minutes” implicate at least three Russian gold medalists from the 2014 Sochi Olympics for the use… The brief statement from the ROC on Saturday did not give names or what disciplines the athletes…

With Brazil already swarming with Zika-loaded mosquitoes, hosting 500,000 foreign athletes and spectators for the 2016 Olympic games there in August poses unnecessary health risks and is downright “unethical,” according to an international group of 150 health experts. In an open letter to Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, the group strongly urged that the games be moved or postponed. The health experts appealed to WHO, a…

Caroline Wozniacki hits a forehand against Vania King on day three of the Miami Open at Crandon Park Tennis Center on Key Biscayne. Wozniacki won 7-5, 6-2. (Photo: Geoff Burke, USA TODAY Sports) PARIS — There lies only one problem with Caroline Wozniacki being Denmark’s flag-bearer at the Rio Olympics this summer, but it’s a big one: She might not be there. Wozniacki, a former world No. 1 and one of…

Cameron Spencer/Getty When an American Indian named Jim Thorpe won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, legend has it that King Gustav V of Sweden presented him the medal and said, “You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.” (“Thanks, King,” Thorpe is rumored to have responded.) Exactly 100 years later, at the 2012 Olympics in London, Oregon-native Ashton Eaton became the…

Current NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Greg Biffle, Clint Bowyer, Jeff Burton, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Jamie McMurray trace their racing legacy to the NASCAR Whelen All American Series.

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7:27 PM ET print The World Cup of Hockey rosters are set. Each of the eight teams taking part in the tournament in Toronto this September revealed its final seven players on Friday, completing the full 23-man World Cup rosters. Barring injury — or, in the case of Russian defenseman Slava Voynov, possible league intervention — these players will be entrusted with reviving the once-dormant event. Were there surprises among…

Friday is a dark day at Charlotte Motor Speedway and we don’t mean that in a bad way. There is no on-track activity today, as the Friday before the Coca-Cola 600 is traditionally a day teams use for fan events, shop open houses, sponsor meetings and other activities. With that in mind, here are five things we’ve learned about this weekend so far as we approach NASCAR’s longest race, which…

Pat Bush spent 20 years completely detached from the game of hockey, which only makes what he’s been able to accomplish since all the more remarkable. He moved to Raleigh from his native Michigan in 1970 after meeting his wife, a North Carolina native, while serving in Germany in the Air Force. He left hockey behind. Then the minor-league Raleigh IceCaps arrived in 1990, desperate for any locals with hockey…

Children play in a water fountain next to Olympic rings at Madureira Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July 2015. (AP/Silvia Izquierdo) More than 100 prominent physicians, bioethicists and scientists from around the world posted a letter Friday urging WHO Director-General Margaret Chan to exert pressure on Olympic authorities to move the Olympics from Rio de Janeiro or delay the games because of public health concerns over the Zika virus….

Greg Rutherford, who won long-jump gold on Super Saturday at London 2012, added: “It’s all well and good getting caught years later, as we’ve seen from Beijing and London. But we have to see people receive a punishment. “Obviously, they lose their medals but they’ve been able to enjoy the plaudits and money that comes from winning Olympic medals. “There has to be a stronger stance towards those people. Because…

It’s not cricket! Whenever England and Australia meet it’s normally for The Ashes! But this time, the Socceroos are heading to the Stadium of Light on May 27 to face off against the Three Lions in what should be an entertaining encounter full of goals. Catch the international friendly with us right here at 2:45 p.m. EST! England and Australia don’t usually meet in the world of soccer too often,…

Friday is a dark day at Charlotte Motor Speedway and we don’t mean that in a bad way. There is no on-track activity today, as the Friday before the Coca-Cola 600 is traditionally a day teams use for fan events, shop open houses, sponsor meetings and other activities. With that in mind, here are five things we’ve learned about this weekend so far as we approach NASCAR’s longest race, which…

All eight teams that will compete in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey are announcing their complete, 23-man rosters today, featuring their final seven selections. We’ll update this page as the selections are announced. So far, Russia, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic have revealed their selections. Here’s the schedule for remaining teams (all times Eastern): Team Europe: 6:09 p.m. Team USA: 6:13 p.m. Team North America: 6:16 p.m. Team…

Twenty-three athletes at the London 2012 Olympic Games, from five different sports and of six different nationalities, tested positive for banned drugs after samples were reanalysed, the International Olympic Committee has announced. The results, taken from 265 selected doping samples and focused on athletes who could potentially take part at the Rio Games this summer, were all based on intelligence-gathering that began in August 2015, and the IOC said that…

(Photo: The Associated Press) CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. put himself in good position for another strong showing at the Coca-Cola 600, a race he thought he should have won last year. Truex turned a lap of 192.328 to grab the pole away from Joey Logano on his final lap of qualifying Thursday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Logano, who had the top time in the first two…

REUTERS/Ints KalninsEstonian Olympic team female marathon runners Lily, Liina, and Leila Luik at a training session in Tartu, Estonia, on Thursday. Leila, Liina, and Lily Luik are not expected to medal when they compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. But the three Estonian marathon runners will make history as the first set of triplets to compete together. The triplets, now 30, will race in their first Olympics…

(Photo: The Associated Press) CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. put himself in good position for another strong showing at the Coca-Cola 600, a race he thought he should have won last year. Truex turned a lap of 192.328 to grab the pole away from Joey Logano on his final lap of qualifying Thursday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Logano, who had the top time in the first two…