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0 Shares Print HAVEN, Wis. — Jim Furyk looked at the calendar when golf was added to the Olympics for 2016. He realized he would be 46, and most likely would not be among the top four Americans who could earn a spot for Rio de Janeiro. “I just assumed it wasn’t going to be an issue for me,” Furyk said. And then he had a strong season a year…

Danica Patrick’s already found a new sponsor to replace GoDaddy, which announced it would be dropping the NASCAR driver after this season. Patrick announced Tuesday she and Nature’s Bakery have agreed to a 28-race deal beginning in 2016. She also announced a new deal with Stewart-Haas Racing. “They have ambitious goals and they’re going to rely on me and everyone at Stewart-Haas Racing to deliver,” Patrick said in a release. “I…

Boston’s failed bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics underestimated costs for hosting the games, potentially leaving Massachusetts taxpayers on the hook for significant cost overruns, a state-funded report released Tuesday concludes. Watch the report Boston 2024, the local group organizing the bid, had projected that construction costs for the Olympic Stadium, athletes village and other key facilities would total about $918 million out of a proposed $4.6 billion plan. Read…

It was a heroes’ welcome you may have missed. Cheering crowds lined the streets, children on bikes wore polka dot jerseys and two sporting idols waved from the open roof of a polka dot Toyota headed straight to meet the president. Not footballers, nor runners, but cyclists. Daniel Teklehaimanot and Merhawi Kudus were returning to their home country after making history by becoming the first black Africans to compete in…

It was a heroes’ welcome you may have missed. Cheering crowds lined the streets, children on bikes wore polka dot jerseys and two sporting idols waved from the open roof of a polka dot Toyota headed straight to meet the president. Not footballers, nor runners, but cyclists. Daniel Teklehaimanot and Merhawi Kudus were returning to their home country after making history by becoming the first black Africans to compete in…

Danica Patrick’s already found a new sponsor to replace GoDaddy, which announced it would be dropping the NASCAR driver after this season. Patrick announced Tuesday she and Nature’s Bakery have agreed to a 28-race deal beginning in 2016. She also announced a new deal with Stewart-Haas Racing. “They have ambitious goals and they’re going to rely on me and everyone at Stewart-Haas Racing to deliver,” Patrick said in a release. “I…

One of the reasons I was keen to move back up to my native north of England a few years ago was the chance to go riding out into the hills right from my door, without having to do battle with 20 miles of London sprawl first. Little did I know when I put my bike on the Pendolino back then that there would come a day when I’d be…

BT has signed up Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane to appear on its football shows and in adverts promoting its sport channels. BT has been signing high-profile sport personalities to front and appear on its shows as it looks to use sports rights, in particular football, to take on TV and telecoms rival Sky. The deal, which sees the 22-year-old become an “ambassador” for the online channels, allows BT to…

Buy Photo The skyline of Detroit.(Photo: ROMAIN BLANQUART, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo It’s probably an Olympic record we don’t want, and it’s not marked with any banner or highway sign. But no other city in the world has made more Summer Olympic bids than Detroit — seven — and never landed the games. The closest Detroit ever came was its 1963 proposal for the 1968 games, when it finished second…

0 Shares Print At No. 3 and up two spots last week with a bullet, Matt Kenseth was the highest-ranked driver from Joe Gibbs Racing in the most recent edition of ESPN.com’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Power Rankings. Drivers happy to put high-drag packages behind them Drivers’ terse postrace answers showed how unhappy they were with the high-drag aero package tested at the Michigan 400. Matt Kenseth came away the winner…

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As opposed to how they acted the last time NASCAR used a high-drag aerodynamic package, drivers were mostly reserved with their criticisms following Sunday’s race at Michigan International Speedway. It wasn’t necessarily what drivers said, but how they said it — and in a couple of notable instances, how they expressed their disdain for a rules package that largely failed to generate additional passing opportunities NASCAR officials intended. …

It was a heroes’ welcome you may have missed. Cheering crowds lined the streets, children on bikes wore polka dot jerseys and two sporting idols waved from the open roof of a polka dot Toyota headed straight to meet the president. Not footballers, nor runners, but cyclists. Daniel Teklehaimanot and Merhawi Kudus were returning to their home country after making history by becoming the first black Africans to compete in…

For a list of all the latest deals, check out the transfers page. Real Madrid will give goalkeeper David De Gea, 24, a £12m signing-on fee if he sees out his Manchester United contract and moves to the Bernabeu on a free transfer next summer. (Daily Mirror)  Manchester City are close to completing the £28.5m signing of Valencia defender Nicolas Otamendi,…

NASCAR is amping up its commitment to original content by teaming up with Mexican helmer-thesp Eugenio Derbez on a comedy feature. A partnership between one of Mexico’s most powerful stars and one of the biggest brands in sports dovetails with the motorsports company’s overall original content strategy, which includes more Latino-themed projects. NASCAR’s cachet among Latinos has grown in recent years as drivers such as Cuban-American Aric Almirola and Mexican…

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Race winner Matt Kenseth surges to the lead on a restart during Sunday’s Pure Michigan 400.(Photo: Andrew Weber, USA TODAY Sports) BROOKLYN, Mich. — NASCAR’s high-drag aerodynamic package got its second race test Sunday in the Pure Michigan 400, and post-race reactions from drivers ranged from outright disapproval to muffled disappointment. Matt Kenseth won the race in dominant fashion, leading 146 of 200 laps. He rarely was challenged at the front at…

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Matt Kenseth put on a dominant performance in the sweltering Sunday heat in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway, leading 146 of the 200 laps en route to his third victory of the season. It was a riveting performance from the veteran and one for the ages, given the ridiculous temperatures and amount of yellow caution flags. Behind Kenseth were Series leader Kevin Harvick…