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With Watkins Glen International repaving the entire racing surface after this weekend’s Sprint Cup Series event, many have called on NASCAR to run ‘the boot’ section of the track utilized by many of the sports car series that also run the facility. The current layout run by NASCAR does not utilize the nearly one-mile section of track between Turns 6 through 9. The stock cars have never used the boot…

A rendering of Nippert Stadium showing the logo of the new Cincinnati soccer team(Photo: Provided) The “beautiful game” will have a new home in Cincinnati, but will it last this time? The city has seen many soccer teams come and go, but with a prominent home, notable backers and a solid league, the latest endeavor will attempt to last. The Enquirer has learned that an announcement will come Monday about…

(CNN)Four coaches and 11 members of the U.S. rowing squad fell ill after taking part in a pre-Olympics test event in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, amid ongoing concerns over water quality ahead of next year’s Games. The squad was taking part in the 2015 World Junior Rowing Championships, held at the weekend on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in the heart of Rio. U.S. Rowing said Tuesday it was looking…

(CNN)Four coaches and 11 members of the U.S. rowing squad fell ill after taking part in a pre-Olympics test event in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, amid ongoing concerns over water quality ahead of next year’s Games. The squad was taking part in the 2015 World Junior Rowing Championships, held at the weekend on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in the heart of Rio. U.S. Rowing said Tuesday it was looking…

As Los Angeles moves closer to bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics, officials said they can host the massive 17-day sporting event for $4.1 billion and offered to guarantee that the city will cover any cost overruns. In an interview with The Times’ editorial board Monday, Mayor Eric Garcetti said he is pushing for Los Angeles to be named as the replacement for Boston, which dropped its bid amid financial…

Buddy Baker competed on NASCAR’s premier circuit for more than three decades, running 700 races and winning the 1980 Daytona 500.(Photo: AP) NASCAR has lost one of its greats. Buddy Baker, who announced last month he had inoperable lung cancer, died early Monday morning at 74. Baker, known as NASCAR’s ‘Gentle Giant’ as he towered over most of his competitors at 6-foot-6, won the 1980 Daytona 500, was a NASCAR…

Buddy Baker competed on NASCAR’s premier circuit for more than three decades, running 700 races and winning the 1980 Daytona 500.(Photo: AP) NASCAR has lost one of its greats. Buddy Baker, who announced last month he had inoperable lung cancer, died early Monday morning at 74. Baker, known as NASCAR’s ‘Gentle Giant’ as he towered over most of his competitors at 6-foot-6, won the 1980 Daytona 500, was a NASCAR…

Buddy Baker competed on NASCAR’s premier circuit for more than three decades, running 700 races and winning the 1980 Daytona 500.(Photo: AP) NASCAR has lost one of its greats. Buddy Baker, who announced last month he had inoperable lung cancer, died early Monday morning at 74. Baker, known as NASCAR’s ‘Gentle Giant’ as he towered over most of his competitors at 6-foot-6, won the 1980 Daytona 500, was a NASCAR…

Buddy Baker competed on NASCAR’s premier circuit for more than three decades, running 700 races and winning the 1980 Daytona 500.(Photo: AP) NASCAR has lost one of its greats. Buddy Baker, who announced last month he had inoperable lung cancer, died early Monday morning at 74. Baker, known as NASCAR’s ‘Gentle Giant’ as he towered over most of his competitors at 6-foot-6, won the 1980 Daytona 500, was a NASCAR…

0 Shares Print RIO DE JANEIRO — Thirteen rowers on the 40-member U.S. team came down with stomach illness at the World Rowing Junior Championships — a trial run for next summer’s Olympics — and the team doctor said she suspected it was due to pollution in the lake where the competition took place. The event went on amid rising concerns about the water quality at venues for the Rio…

Buddy Baker competed on NASCAR’s premier circuit for more than three decades, running 700 races and winning the 1980 Daytona 500.(Photo: AP) NASCAR has lost one of its greats. Buddy Baker, who announced last month he had inoperable lung cancer, died early Monday morning at 74. Baker, known as NASCAR’s ‘Gentle Giant’ as he towered over most of his competitors at 6-foot-6, won the 1980 Daytona 500, was a NASCAR…

The decision to host some finals after midnight at the Rio 2016 Olympics has come under fire from word swimming’s governing body as well as leading coaches and swimmers. Finals will begin at 10pm local time in Rio – about four hours later than swimmers are used to. To compensate, what are usually known as “morning” heats will begin at 1pm. Related: World swimming championships 2015: five things we learned…

Chris Graythen/Getty Images One week after running out of gas on the final laps at Pocono, Joey Logano won a chaotic Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen when he was able to pass Kevin Harvick, who himself ran out of gas, in the final turns of the final lap of the road course. Things started to get hairy with about 15 laps to go. During the next five laps, several in-car…

Manuel Rebelo said Bello’s Pub and Grill on Market Street normally plays host to a group of New York Red Bulls faithful, who gather on the bar’s second floor to cheer on the team, which plays its home games just miles away in Harrison. Just before the Red Bulls were set to take the pitch, however, more than 20 fans of their new rivals across the Hudson arrived and began…

While the big boys and girls were over in Russia competing in the 2015 world championships, the last major international competition before next year’s Olympics, Michael Phelps was relegated to swimming a not-as-big, but still-important national meet in San Antonio as part of his six-month suspension for DUI that ended four months ago but for some reason included August’s worlds. And though I, like many others, questioned the seemingly arbitrary suspension…

0 Shares Print Buddy Baker, noted for a 34-year career in NASCAR’s top series that produced 19 victories, including the 1980 Daytona 500, died Monday morning from lung cancer. He was 74. Buddy Baker won 19 races and ranks 14th in NASCAR history with 38 poles in his 700 career starts from 1959 to 1992. ISC Images & Archives/Getty Images The 6-foot-6 Baker, the son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Buck…

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ENLARGE Aug. 9, 2015 7:06 p.m. ET “Listen, it really sucks,” Jonathan Vaughters said. It had been a rough week for Vaughters, the high-profile boss of the Cannondale-Garmin cycling team, ever since he looked at his phone on the night of Aug. 2 and saw a flurry of messages from his veteran rider Tom Danielson. Danielson would soon announce via his own Twitter account that he had received notice from…

0 Shares Print WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — NASCAR has spent months trying to create an aerodynamic package that would encourage organic last-lap passes for a win. But some weeks, it doesn’t need an aerodynamic package to create the drama it wants. All it needs are long green-flag runs to the end that has drivers and crew chiefs wondering if they will have enough gas to make it to the finish….