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0 Shares print As drivers sweat out potential elimination in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, the jockeying behind closed doors appears just as intense as NASCAR and owners furiously try to hash out a plan to make the team business a more stable one. NASCAR and the owners might not spin each other out, but they have plenty of details to work through. As with a car, any small…

Following the unquestioned wave of success during its MLS debut season, Orlando City unveiled the next step for soccer in Central Florida. The club announced Tuesday the launch of the Orlando Pride, an expansion franchise in the National Women’s Soccer League that will begin play in 2016. The Pride become the 10th franchise in the league, which is entering its fourth season. It is the first iteration of a women’s pro soccer league…

0 Shares print As drivers sweat out potential elimination in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, the jockeying behind closed doors appears just as intense as NASCAR and owners furiously try to hash out a plan to make the team business a more stable one. NASCAR and the owners might not spin each other out, but they have plenty of details to work through. As with a car, any small…

As expected, NASCAR has changed its procedure on green-white-checkered finishes for Sunday’s Chase elimination race a Talladega Superspeedway. For Sunday’s CampingWorld.com 500, NASCAR will allow for just one attempt at a green-white-checkered finish. If the caution flag waves on the first lap of the first attempt, the race is over, rather than NASCAR lining up the cars for another attempt, as has been customary at all tracks for more than…

BROOKLYN, MI — While the Chase for the Sprint Cup heats up, NASCAR was looking to the future at Michigan International Speedway Tuesday, Oct. 20.  Drivers Erik Jones, Chris Buescher and Chase Elliott were on the two-mile oval in the Irish Hills testing out NASCAR’s new rules package, which will be implemented in the 2016 season. Jones, of Byron, leads the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series points standings and served as Denny Hamlin’s replacement for Tuesday’s test. …

When Canada withstood a fierce comeback to defeat Russia 5-4 in the International Ice Hockey World Junior Championship final last January, 19,014 fans packed the Air Canada Centre in Toronto to witness. The scene was breathtaking, featuring dramatic hockey, an electric atmosphere and the world’s best young players locked in an epic battle. If Canada is the birthplace of hockey, Toronto is the mother ship. The setting and the circumstances…

Rick Hendrick is a pretty astute judge of driving talent. Hendrick Motorsports drivers Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt and Kasey Kahne have won 10 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships and 208 races among them. And before they came on the scene, Hendrick employed guys like Terry Labonte, Darrell Waltrip, Tim Richmond and Geoff Bodine. So when Hendrick uses the word “special” to describe a driver, well, chances are pretty…

When Canada withstood a fierce comeback to defeat Russia 5-4 in the International Ice Hockey World Junior Championship final last January, 19,014 fans packed the Air Canada Centre in Toronto to witness. The scene was breathtaking, featuring dramatic hockey, an electric atmosphere and the world’s best young players locked in an epic battle. If Canada is the birthplace of hockey, Toronto is the mother ship. The setting and the circumstances…

NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is breaking out a special helmet for this weekend’s race at Talladega.  Stenhouse, a Mississippi native, is wearing a helmet styled after the ones the Ole Miss football team wore its big win over Alabama in September. Stenhouse’s decision to wear the new helmet at Talladega (in the state of Alabama) can’t be a coincidence, can it? Unfortunately for Stenhouse, he’s already been eliminated from NASCAR’s Chase for the Cup….

I am upside-down on a stretch of bright green astroturf, encased in a plastic bubble. I’ve just attempted, with delusions of balletic grace, to execute a sort of standing backflip – and now I’m stuck halfway. My feet kick the air helplessly. My arms and head are safely inside the bulbous tomb. I feel like a turtle someone has cruelly flipped. It’s only with a galvanic full-bodied thrust that I’m…

0 Shares Print So you still don’t think the elimination-style Chase format is a good thing for NASCAR? Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth may agree with you, but the NASCAR suits in Daytona Beach and Charlotte surely don’t. They’re practically bursting with enthusiasm, because the constant pressure of being knocked out of championship contention has produced the kind of hard, ‘have at it, boys’ racing that NASCAR so desperately wanted…

fullscreen view fullscreen close New Yorkers looking for a novel way to break a sweat this weekend can sign up for a game of “Bubble Soccer,” a full-contact sport growing in popularity with adults. The rules are effectively the same as standard soccer, but with the addition of giant plastic bubbles encasing each player, to protect everyone from all the aggressive body-slams that make the game fun. What better way…

The second half of the Chase begins at Talladega. The sixth overall race and the third in the Contender Round will be run Sunday with the CampingWorld.com 500. Brad Keselowski is the defending champion, having won the race last season in the final Contender Round event to advance to the Eliminator Round. MORE:  Logano wins, Kenseth spinning | Results | Chase standings | Kansas photos The first two races in…

Clumsy Stretcher Bearers Repeatedly Drop Injured Soccer Player (Video) If Leonardo Koutris was faking an injury, a pair of stretcher-bearers ensured he’d feel real pain by the time they carried him to the sideline. Koutris and the stretcher-bearers were involved in a hilarious moment worthy of its place in worldwide blooper reels Sunday during a Greek second division soccer game between host AEL Larissa and Ergotelis. They first pushed Koutris forcibly…

NEW YORK/TORONTO – The 17th annual Hockey Fights Cancer™ campaign, a joint initiative between the National Hockey League (NHL) and National Hockey League Players’ Association (NHLPA), invites fans to join the fight, Oct. 19 – Nov. 13, 2015. Since its inception in 1998, through the charitable initiative, more than $15 million has been donated, and it has been dedicated to supporting national and local organizations involved in cancer care and…

0 Shares Print KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Joey Logano finally gave NASCAR the Chase for the Sprint Cup moment it wanted. NASCAR Chairman Brian France has called NASCAR “a contact sport,” and this time, for the first time since France’s brainchild of an elimination-style Chase turned into reality last year, NASCAR had a crash among the leaders that determined the victor. While drivers scuffling on pit road or tackling one…

Last night in the Greek second division, AEL Larissa beat Ergotelis 2-1 on two late goals. Both goals came after this medic here delivered some staggeringly poor medical attention to an injured Leonardo Koutris. Before you even get to the highlight reel headbutt or unceremonious, potato sack-style drop at the end, you have a circus of errors. First, he just sort of tosses him onto the stretcher. Then, he yips…

Joey Logano arrived at Kansas Speedway as the most relaxed driver in the garage still alive in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. As the race-winner last week at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Logano was the only driver locked into the next round when the green flag dropped Sunday for the Hollywood Casino 400. After spinning Matt Kenseth with five laps remaining, Logano remains the only driver able to relax…