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FOOTBALL GOSSIP Security is to be stepped up at future Scotland matches in the wake of the terrorist atrocities in Paris, where the Stade de France was targeted. Herald (subscription required)   Partick Thistle forward Mathias Pogba was at the Stade de France on Friday watching his brother Paul play, with the Firhill club saying they will do all they can to rally…

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Jeff Gordon, left, and Kyle Busch, will compete for the 2015 Sprint Cup Series championship along with Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. (not pictured).(Photo: Sean Gardner, Getty Images) AVONDALE, Ariz. — One of the strangest seasons in NASCAR history got another bizarre twist in setting the field for its championship race Sunday night at Phoenix International Raceway. The four drivers themselves, though, will give NASCAR a great chance to have…

LONDON (AP) — Russia’s track and field athletes will be eligible for the Olympics only if the country falls into line with all global anti-doping rules and the reforms are verifiable, IOC President Thomas Bach said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press. “The important goal is not bringing them back,” Bach said. “The goal has to be Russia being compliant again with all the international anti-doping regulations. That…

NASCAR’S final four set Ricky Craven breaks down the attributes of Jeff Gordon, Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick as they prepare for the Sprint Cup championship.

USA Today Sports’ Jeff Gluck breaks down the Quicken Loans Race For Heroes 500. USA TODAY Sports

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The penultimate race of the 2015 NASCAR season is the Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 from Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday afternoon, an elimination race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. The eight drivers still alive in The Chase will be pared down to just four after Sunday in Phoenix. Kevin Harvick, who finished third last week at Texas, enters Sunday third in points. He’s just three…

For the second week in a row, three of the four Joe Gibbs Racing cars have had issues clearing NASCAR technical inspection. Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway, the cars of Chase driver Kyle Busch and his teammates Denny Hamlin and Erik Jones went through the tech inspection multiple times without being cleared by the NASCAR officials.  According to FOXSports.com’s Tom Jensen, the issue with Busch’s car was with the rear…

Martin Truex Jr. and the rest of the NASCAR community raced with heavy hearts on Sunday after the death this week of 10-year-old Elijah Aschbrenner, who had a rare form of cancer. Elijah, whose mother, Becky Hughes, works in the NASCAR industry, was diagnosed with epithelioid sarcoma in May 2014. He had become a big part of the NASCAR community as numerous drivers and teams helped and supported him throughout…

Juergen Klinsmann’s face was a combination of shock and horror. His U.S. national soccer team, which rode a historic winless streak into Friday’s first qualifier of the 2018 World Cup cycle, had just fallen behind St. Vincent and the Grenadines — the 129th-best team in the world — after five minutes. A team that could seemingly go no lower had just reached a new depth: no American squad had never…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Former Tottenham winger David Ginola believes Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo, 30, and Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, 52, will move to Ligue 1 champions Paris St-Germain next year. (BT Sport)  Chelsea want Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann, 24, and will make a £40m bid for the French forward….

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Russia’s Olympic committee has said it would lead efforts to reform Russian athletics, with the sport’s head saying he is prepared to resign as a doping scandal threatened to cost Russia its place at the 2016 Olympics. The International Association of Athletics Federations voted overwhelmingly on Friday to suspend the Russian Athletics Federation for widespread and state-sponsored doping. “The Russian Olympic Committee is ready to take the initiative to reform…

0 Shares print AVONDALE, Ariz. — Brad Keselowski has faced must-win situations in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. He turned that pressure into results last year with a daring move on the way to victory at Talladega Superspeedway. He failed to repeat that feat a few weeks later at Phoenix International Raceway. So he knows the pressure he faces Sunday at Phoenix. He characterized the pressure as not necessarily…

“I’m appalled by the shocking scenes in Paris at the moment. My thoughts are with all the victims and innocent people suffering right now,” tweeted soccer legend Thierry Henry, who played on four World Cup squads for France. A “shocked” and “very anxious” German national team remained in Stade de France, the country’s national stadium, overnight after the attacks, German assistant coach Oliver Bierhoff told L’Equipe. “We wanted to avoid…

Several sporting fixtures in France have been postponed after a series of attacks across Paris in which at least 128 people were killed. Three suicide bombers died in blasts outside the Stade de France while France played Germany on Friday. The explosions were early in the match and with fans unable to leave after full-time, many came on to the pitch. All European Rugby…

ENLARGE A sold-out stadium hosting a live soccer match before more than 80,000 fans was among the sites targeted in Friday night’s attacks in Paris. Witnesses reported hearing two explosions at the Stade de France, or in its immediate vicinity, in the first half of an exhibition game between the French national soccer team and Germany, the defending world champion. At least one of the blasts was heard clearly inside…