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Kyle Busch has had himself a nice NASCAR career, it’s something that most NASCAR fans will readily agree with. However, when you begin to throw around the word legend, some fans will balk. It’s those fans that need to better understand Busch and his accomplishments. Do you like Kyle Busch? Be honest, do you like Kyle Busch? Chances are that unless Busch is your favorite driver, you most likely don’t…

The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are her own. China’s soccer field of dreams is taking shape. Tycoons and corporate giants are spending heavily on local clubs and foreign stars. Media and web groups are bidding up the value of broadcasting rights. Yet the Chinese league is missing one key element it needs to be viable: paying viewers. Super-fan President Xi Jinping has made soccer a…

Bolton Wanderers won 18 of Neil Lennon’s 79 competitive games in charge Championship strugglers Bolton Wanderers have parted company with manager Neil Lennon by mutual consent. The 44-year-old former Celtic manager was appointed in October 2014 and leaves with the club 11 points from safety at the foot of the table with nine games left to play. Lennon’s departure comes five days after the Sports Shield consortium completed their takeover…

SAN JOSE — After delaying construction of a highly demanded soccer park in January, city leaders are poised to put it off again Tuesday in a last-minute bid to buy time to move the fields a mile away to a much larger, more attractive site — but one that’s riddled with red tape. The city already spent $3 million from a voter-approved bond to build the new fields on Coleman…

The final act was a 5-1 romp of Colorado College in a game that was decided before the first period was complete. Nick Schmaltz had a goal and two assists, Brock Boeser had three assists and their linemate, Drake Caggiula, had a goal as UND easily won its first round National Collegiate Hockey Conference playoff series in a sweep. For the 14th year in a row, North Dakota is headed…

Photo credit: Getty Images Phoenix International Raceway featured one of the most breathtaking and fun endings ever to a NASCAR Sprint Cup race today. Not only did it end in a photo finish, but Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards were trading paint all the way up to the finish line. It’s everything awesome about NASCAR in a nutshell. Kasey Kahne wrecked after blowing a tire on lap 305, forcing today’s…

NASCAR handed Ryan Blaney and Bubba Wallace the keys to its Snapchat account on Sunday. The drivers did not disappoint on their drive from Phoenix to Los Angeles. After a little death metal thrashing, the guys busted out some of their very best driver impressions. They’re pretty spot on. What a fun way to celebrate “NASCAR Goes West.”

The final act was a 5-1 romp of Colorado College in a game that was decided before the first period was complete. Nick Schmaltz had a goal and two assists, Brock Boeser had three assists and their linemate, Drake Caggiula, had a goal as UND easily won its first round National Collegiate Hockey Conference playoff series in a sweep. For the 14th year in a row, North Dakota is headed…

Leicester City have never won a top-flight title Former Leicester City striker Gary Lineker says his old club “are on the edge of sporting immortality”. The Foxes, fighting relegation last year, are top of the Premier League with nine games to go. They can go five points clear if they win their game in hand against Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle on Monday. “They are on the edge of sporting immortality,” he…

The countdown begins for next month’s 2016 Masters tournament. Jordan Spieth and Lexi Thompson are the top male and female American golfers. Both began as teenage members of the 2008 U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team. CBS This Morning Jordan Spieth on Masters win, rivals and inspirational sister Jordan Spieth, 21, won his first major championship at the Masters on Sunday, tying the tournament records that Tiger Woods set when he…

Photo credit: Getty Images Phoenix International Raceway featured one of the most breathtaking and fun endings ever to a NASCAR Sprint Cup race today. Not only did it end in a photo finish, but Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards were trading paint all the way up to the finish line. It’s everything awesome about NASCAR in a nutshell. Kasey Kahne wrecked after blowing a tire on lap 305, forcing today’s…

Leicester City have never won a top-flight title Former Leicester City striker Gary Lineker says his old club “are on the edge of sporting immortality”. The Foxes, fighting relegation last year, are top of the Premier League with nine games to go. They can go five points clear if they win their game in hand against Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle on Monday. “They are on the edge of sporting immortality,” he…

This is how NASCAR racing is supposed to be: Two drivers who really don’t like each other and who drive for different teams and different manufacturers, wailing the crap out of each other over the final two laps of a race, each one desperately wanting to beat the other. They make hard contact repeatedly, but they don’t wreck. And in the end, the difference between the thrill of victory and…

RELATED: Harvick wins thrilling Phoenix race | Full results After a hectic, fender-banging finish Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway, three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was among those on pit road basking in the euphoria of the ending and the fruits of his Stewart-Haas Racing organization’s first victory of the season. But Stewart, whose final NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season has been interrupted by a severe back injury, also had good news to savor in terms…

Sunday was a typical day in the Arizona desert: warm, sunny, dry weather and Kevin Harvick winning at Phoenix International Raceway. Harvick fended off Carl Edwards in one of the closest finishes in NASCAR history – one-hundredth of a second – to take the Good Sam 500 in green-white-checkered overtime. Edwards’ Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and pole-winner Kyle Busch finished third and fourth. That Edwards couldn’t prevail in…

Arsene Wenger’s side are eight points behind Premier League leaders Leicester Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has used the FA Cup as a safety net for the last two seasons – final victories against Hull City and Aston Villa bringing the success that has eluded him elsewhere for so long. Now, he cannot rely on the famous old competition to protect him – or his failure to win the Premier League…

Brad Keselowski ran into late-race trouble in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, seeing a right-rear tire unravel in the 225th of 312 laps at Phoenix International Raceway.   Keselowski, who started 19th in the 39-car field, was the victim of the latest in a series of tire troubles in the Good Sam 500, the fourth of 36 Sprint Cup races this season. The right-rear tire on his Team Penske No. 2 Ford blew out on…

Sled hockey game in Wake Forest (Justin Quesinberry/CBS North Carolina). WAKE FOREST, N.C. (WNCN) – It may be a hockey tournament unlike anything you’ve seen before. “Sled hockey” teams from Nashville, Virginia Beach and Florida played in Wake Forest this weekend in the inaugural “Carolina Sled Hockey Classic.” The tournament was put on by the Town of Wake Forest and the Triangle Special Hockey Association, a hockey league for players…

It’s fitting, perhaps, that Kevin Harvick will make history at Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday.   The driver of the No. 4 Jimmy John’s Chevrolet who has had such dominance in the desert in recent years — he’s won five of the last seven races in Phoenix — officially made his 500th consecutive Sprint Cup Series start when the green flag dropped in the Good Sam 500.   In doing so, he passed Darrell…

Thirty-nine drivers and their teams will battle Phoenix International Raceway when the green flag waves at approximately 3:44 p.m. on Sunday. The Good Sam 500(k) can be viewed on FOX, with prerace coverage beginning at 3 p.m. Drivers should be in for much different conditions than when they qualified on Friday. The weather forecast calls for temperatures in the mid-70s at the desert track, or about 20 degrees cooler than…