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The starting lineup for NASCAR’s All-Star Race was set per the rulebook after an early evening thunderstorm forced the cancelation of qualifying Saturday at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Owners’ points aligned the 20-driver field, which gives Kevin Harvick the pole and defending Sprint Cup champion Kyle Busch the second position. Kurt Busch, Kyle’s older brother and Harvick’s Stewart-Haas Racing teammate, starts third alongside Carl Edwards. Jimmie Johnson, a four-time All-Star…

With an untested format that flip-flops faster cars to the back and slower cars to the front, plus a $1 million prize, Carl Edwards doesn’t know how the final 13-lap segment will unfold in Saturday’s All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway except that chaos is likely to emanate. “No one knows nobody has any way to predict how this is going to go,” Edwards said Friday. “I think it’s…

ATLANTA — USA Swimming has moved a pre-Olympic training camp out of Puerto Rico because of the Zika virus. There are no plans to bail on the Summer Games in Brazil, even though that country has been the epicenter of the outbreak. Frank Busch, the U.S. national team director, sent out a letter Thursday to all national team athletes and coaches telling them of the change. The camp will now…

Friday at 11 a.m. at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Dusenberry Martin Racing will unveil a new simulation-style video game called NASCAR Heat Evolution, which will go on sale Sept. 13 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC. Logo for new NASCAR Heat Evolution video game. Dunsenberry Martin Racing DMR, whose licensing agreement with NASCAR Team Properties runs through 2020, partnered with Monster Games to create NASCAR Heat Evolution. This is the same group who…

Post to Facebook Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Jagger (Shane O’Connor, left, during the opening night of “Hockey, the Musical!,” on Thursday, May 19, 2016, at City Theater, in Detroit, MI.   Salwan Georges, Detroit Free Press Jagger (Shane O’Connor, right, during the opening night of “Hockey, the Musical!,” on Thursday, May 19, 2016, at City Theater, in Detroit, MI.   Salwan Georges, Detroit Free…

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BEIJING—English soccer club Aston Villa, whose fans includes Britain’s Prince William, has found an owner from China, where President Xi Jinping has made development of the sport a national ambition. Recon Group, a holding company owned by businessman Tony Jiantong Xia, has bought “100%” of the Birmingham club from its former chairman, Randy Lerner, according to Mr. Xia and the club. Mr. Xia said in an interview on Thursday…

The United Soccer League has awarded an expansion franchise to DMD Soccer, a Nashville-based ownership group, to own and operate a team – USL Nashville 2018 – beginning with the 2018 USL season. In addition, the ownership group has confirmed that it will host a public event in mid-June to roll out its overall vision for the new team. The DMD Soccer ownership group is made up of a group…

RELATED: Harvick through the years Stewart-Haas Racing announced Thursday that it has signed Kevin Harvick to a long-term contract extension, scuttling any outlying speculation about his future with the team. Details of the deal were not released. Harvick, 40, is in his third year with the SHR No. 4 Chevrolet team and crew chief Rodney Childers. Harvick won his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship in 2014, his first year with the operation…

A Cobb County high school senior was hospitalized with a brain injury after a game of bubble soccer last Friday. Salvador “Chava” Reyes was celebrating the end of the Campbell High School soccer season with his teammates when he collided with another player, causing the traumatic head injury, according to Channel 2 Action News. Reyes was in the Critical Care Unit at WellStar Kennestone Hospital facing a long road to…

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RELATED: Kenseth survives for Dover victory NASCAR officials handed down a P3-grade penalty Wednesday to the Hendrick Motorsports No. 5 team of driver Kasey Kahne for infractions last weekend at Dover International Speedway. The Hendrick No. 5 team was found in violation of sections 20.17.3.1.2 (post-race general inspection measurements); 12.5.3.4.2 a, b, c, d; and 12.5.3.4.1 n,o (that spell out P3 penalty examples) in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rule Book. NASCAR fined crew chief…

U.S. Women’s National Team Roster by Position: GOALKEEPERS (4): Adrianna Franch (Portland Thorns FC), Ashlyn Harris (Orlando Pride), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars), Hope Solo (Seattle Reign FC) DEFENDERS (10): Whitney Engen (Boston Breakers), Jaelene Hinkle (Western New York Flash), Julie Johnston (Chicago Red Stars), Meghan Klingenberg (Portland Thorns FC), Ali Krieger (Washington Spirit), Gina Lewandowski (FC Bayern Munich), Kelley O’Hara (Sky Blue FC), Christie Rampone (Sky Blue FC),…

Usain Bolt has said that the announcement that 31 athletes from the 2008 Olympics have tested positive for banned substances after their samples were re-examined is “really bad news” – and marks another “rough” moment for the sport. The Jamaican, who won gold in the 100m and 200m at the Beijing and London Games, added that it was clear that drug use was “something that has been tarnishing the sport…

A contingent of players from newly crowned English Premier League champions Leicester City arrived in Bangkok in the early hours of Wednesday morning to be met by local media and a few dozen eager soccer supporters. Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, forward Shinji Okazaki and manager Claudio Ranieri were among those who posed for photos and greeted Thai fans with the traditional Buddhist gesture of a wai. The celebrations mark what has…

Forza 6 has gained a new NASCAR expansion, meaning that if you’ve ever wanted to race a NASCAR stock car against a 1970’s Formula One car, now you can. The expansion includes 24 2016-season NASCAR models from a variety of top teams, as well as the addition of Homestead-Miami Speedway. The expansion, which costs $20 on the Xbox One and requires the full version of Forza 6 to work,…

RELATED: Get to know the 2016-17 NASCAR Next class DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (May 17, 2016) – Two are following in the footsteps of their former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driving fathers. One is a long-time racer who competed on the reality television show “Survivor,” and later added a degree from Stanford University. Another is one of the fastest rising stock car drivers in the Midwest. There is even a pair of…

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