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(Photo: The Associated Press) TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — Nobody needs to be reminded that racing is inherently dangerous. We all know drivers assume the risks. It’s understood that no one forces a driver to compete. That shoulder-shrug approach doesn’t make the scorecard from Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway any easier to accept. The delicate line between sport and entertainment was dangerously straddled by 40 drivers roaring along in a pack…

(AP Photo/John Bazemore) NASCAR made its return to Talladega on Sunday, and to the surprise of exactly no one, there were big crashes. And bigger crashes. This is nothing new at Talladega, the treacherous 2.66-mile tri-oval at which speeds of 200-plus mph are attainable, or at least would be if NASCAR didn’t mandate the use of restrictor plates — which limit engine power by cutting down on air and fuel intake. And…

(Photo: The Associated Press) LONDON (AP) — Leicester City players crowded around a television inside the house of teammate Jamie Vardy, locked arm in arm, watching the action 100 miles away. And when the final whistle blew at Stamford Bridge, they raised their arms in triumph. One of the greatest sporting achievements in English history was complete. In the second tier two years ago, in a relegation fight last season,…

Midfielder Paolo Carrillo-Weisenburger played one game of school soccer, in the seventh grade, and finished with two goals and an assist. It was an experience, the 15-year-old remembers, that taught him two things: He was pretty good and interscholastic soccer wasn’t. “I knew that level of play wasn’t going to help me get better,” he said. “I wanted to put myself in a challenging environment.” The high school sophomore found…

A propaganda campaign run by the British government hid from the public its funding of a London Olympics documentary shown on 15 TV channels and watched by 30 million Muslims worldwide. Journalists who made the documentary also say they were not told about the government funding, a claim denied by officials. One journalist says his life could have been in danger because he was sent to work in two dangerous…

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If sport is a quest for the epic then this English premiership football season is one for the ages. Little Leicester City has spent most of its 132 years flitting between the top two tiers of English football. Their best-ever finish to a season came when they finished second in 1929. Last year only an end-of-season rally allowed them to avoid being relegated from England’s top flight yet again. And…

(AP Photo/John Bazemore) NASCAR made its return to Talladega on Sunday, and to the surprise of exactly no one, there were big crashes. And bigger crashes. This is nothing new at Talladega, the treacherous 2.66-mile tri-oval at which speeds of 200-plus mph are attainable, or at least would be if NASCAR didn’t mandate the use of restrictor plates — which limit engine power by cutting down on air and fuel intake. And…

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RELATED: Full race results | Updated series standings Breaking down the full field for the GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway: 1. Brad Keselowski, No. 2 Ford, Team Penske. Keselowski stayed out of trouble all day, and that was the difference in picking up his second win of the year and fourth at Talladega. Big pushes from Jamie McMurray and Kyle Busch helped, too. Keselowski led a race-high 46 laps, including the final 17. Grade: A+ 2. Kyle Busch, No. 18 Toyota, Joe Gibbs Racing. The No….

(AP Photo/John Bazemore) NASCAR made its return to Talladega on Sunday, and to the surprise of exactly no one, there were big crashes. And bigger crashes. This is nothing new at Talladega, the treacherous 2.66-mile tri-oval at which speeds of 200-plus mph are attainable, or at least would be if NASCAR didn’t mandate the use of restrictor plates — which limit engine power by cutting down on air and fuel intake. And…

Joe Bernal, most recently the coach of a swim club that had his name attached to it, has been banned for life by USA Swimming. Earlier this year we reported on the sale of the club, and the subsequent scrubbing of Bernal’s name. Now Bernal has been judged by USA Swimming to have violated the following pieces of the code of conduct: 304.3.5 Any sexual contact or advance or other inappropriate…

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Karishma Kapoor, 20, is a business student, and a fan of soccer — or football, as the game is known outside the U.S. She’s also a betting woman. One day last August, she was at her grandmother’s house. “We just all sat ’round just talking, and then football came up. And we thought, ‘Why not?’” Kapoor recalls. “It’s only a pound, so we put 2 pounds on, at 5,000-to-one odds.”…

International soccer academies are looking to expand into the United States. (Photo: Arsenal Soccer Schools USA) The British are coming, the British are coming! And so are the Spanish and Germans! No, this isn’t a historical recreation in Boston’s North End. It’s the evolution of elite-level soccer training for young American athletes. A growing number of elite European clubs are bringing their brand to the United States and attaching it…

Karishma Kapoor, 20, is a business student, and a fan of soccer — or football, as the game is known outside the U.S. She’s also a betting woman. One day last August, she was at her grandmother’s house. “We just all sat ’round just talking, and then football came up. And we thought, ‘Why not?’” Kapoor recalls. “It’s only a pound, so we put 2 pounds on, at 5,000-to-one odds.”…

Frightening crashes that include multiple cars getting airborne. Hold-your-breath racing featuring a pack of cars just inches apart running 200 mph that makes you appreciate the fortitude of those behind the wheel. A garage with parts and pieces strewn throughout because of the inevitable and unavoidable accidents that occur. In every facet Sunday personified a NASCAR race at Talladega Superspeedway. And that’s a problem. At what point…

Photo credit: Getty Images Remember the end of last year, when NASCAR’s headlines were all dominated with the beef between Matt Kenseth and Joey Logano? It’s baaaaaaaack! This time, Kenseth blamed Logano for contact during today’s Talladega race and gave him a bit of a warning as they were both outside the infield care center. http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/nascars-kenset… NASCAR’s Kenseth Suspended For Two Races For Punting Logano Into Wall NASCAR’s Kenseth Suspended…

Cars collide and pile up during one of the many crashes in Sunday’s GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.(Photo: John David Mercer, USA TODAY Sports) TALLADEGA, Ala. — Trevor Bayne, drenched in sweat with beads of perspiration clinging to his forehead, wandered off pit road after Sunday’s Talladega Superspeedway race and smiled. His No. 6 car was untouched, but it was one of only a handful that survived a demolition derby of…