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Lacking no shortage of peculiar moments or drama, a little bit of everything transpired during Sunday’s NASCAR race at Pocono Raceway. On a track where cautions are usually a rarity, the proceedings saw four yellow flags within the opening 30 laps, which took an hour to complete. Included was a 20-minute delay allowing track workers to repair damage to pit a road wall after Kasey Kahne was involved in…

Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Buy Photo Angela Ruggiero, left, with her brother Bill Ruggiero, speaks on Jan. 26, 2005, during a news conference in Tulsa, Okla. Angela Ruggiero, the defenceman for the U.S. Women’s hockey team and Bill Ruggiero, who is a goaltender, became the first brother and sister to play in a professional hockey game together when their Tulsa Oilers hosedt the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees…

Thankfully everyone was okay from this, because Brad Keselowski’s pit stop was a total mess. The No. 2 car has had trouble with pit stops in the past, but nothing compares to running over your crew and overshooting the pit box. Here are the highlights if you can’t watch the video: One crew member dives on the hood and lets a tire roll into pit road. …

Prerace coverage of the Windows 10 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race begins this afternoon with NASCAR America on NBCSN at noon ET, followed by the Countdown To Green prerace show at 1 pm ET. You also can watch online at http://nascarstream.nbcsports.com. Host Krista Voda will anchor Sunday’s coverage alongside analyst Kyle Petty. Kelli Stavast, Dave Burns and Mike Massaro will patrol pit road. NBCSN analyst Jeff Burton and specialty reporter Rutledge Wood will also join in on the festivities. Included in…

USA Today Sports’ Jeff Gluck breaks down the Windows 10 400. USA TODAY Sports

China, which has 1.35 billion people, made approximately that many promises about the improved human rights in the country that would result from Beijing’s hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. After seven years of breaking those promises and creating an atmosphere more repressive than what existed prior to 2008, the Olympics are going back to Beijing. This time, it will be the 2022 Winter Games, making Beijing the first city to…

This wasn’t exactly the going-away party Kenny Wallace had in mind, but the veteran driver made the most of a challenging final XFINITY Series start in Saturday night’s U.S. Cellular 250 at Iowa Speedway. Wallace, a FOX Sports TV personality making his 547th appearance in NASCAR’s No. 2 division, finished 15th and on the lead lap after surviving two spins not of his own making. Starting seventh in the No….

LOS ANGELES — “USA. USA. USA.” The chants echo at a jam-packed Balboa Sports Park field as 16-year-old Ordray Smith drapes an American flag over his back following his team’s bronze-medal winning victory Friday against China. Autographs are next. Kids greet him with sharpies. Then it’s team photo time and his teammates embrace him with pride. His smile tells several invigorating stories. Ordray Smith signs autographs for fans at the World Games (Aaron Mills/Special Olympics…

LONG POND  — The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series makes its second and final visit of the season to Pocono Raceway with Kyle Busch looking to extend his winning ways. He’s won the last three Cup races and four of the last five. Already this weekend he’s won the Cup pole and the Camping World Truck Series race at Pocono. He looks for another victory today.  Here are the particulars for today’s…

0 Shares Print LONG POND, Pa. — Pocono Raceway always lives up to its name “The Tricky Triangle” and the drivers in Sunday’s Windows 10 400 know it. It’s not about being the best driver in all three turns — each with a different radius and banking — but about being better than everyone else overall. Pocono has been host to many repeat winners over the years, the most notable…

LOS ANGELES — “USA. USA. USA.” The chants echo at a jam-packed Balboa Sports Park field as 16-year-old Ordray Smith drapes an American flag over his back following his team’s bronze-medal winning victory Friday against China. Autographs are next. Kids greet him with sharpies. Then it’s team photo time and his teammates embrace him with pride. His smile tells several invigorating stories. Ordray Smith signs autographs for fans at the World Games (Aaron Mills/Special Olympics…

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Kenya’s Joseph Njunie, left, and Victor Masila celebrate during a match at the World Games in Long Beach.(Photo: Kelvin Kuo, USA TODAY Sports) LOS ANGELES — A top player on Kenya’s beach volleyball team here at the Special Olympics has no intellectual disability, yet he helped lead Kenya into the medal round this week at the World Games. He played volleyball in high school, expects to play in college and his…

i Concerns about pollution in the waters around Rio have prompted the world sailing federation to take action ahead of next year’s Olympic Games. Here, garbage is seen on Bica Beach, on the banks of the Guanabara Bay, with the Sugar Loaf mountain in background, earlier this year. RICARDO MORAES/Reuters /Landov hide caption itoggle caption RICARDO MORAES/Reuters /Landov Concerns about pollution in the waters around Rio have prompted the world…

LOS ANGELES — “USA. USA. USA.” The chants echo at a jam-packed Balboa Sports Park field as 16-year-old Ordray Smith drapes an American flag over his back following his team’s bronze-medal winning victory Friday against China. Autographs are next. Kids greet him with sharpies. Then it’s team photo time and his teammates embrace him with pride. His smile tells several invigorating stories. Ordray Smith signs autographs for fans at the World Games (Aaron Mills/Special Olympics…

Rio de Janeiro is a city born by the water, and defined by it. Its very name brings to mind images of palm-fringed sunsets over the Atlantic. This exuberant setting was used to entice the International Olympic Committee into choosing Rio as host of the 2016 Games: The video IOC members watched before voting had shot after gorgeous shot of runners jogging by Guanabara Bay shining golden in the afternoon…

For fans who love a cozy, idyllic Winter Olympic site—in a place without a tainted human rights record—the host city selection for the 2022 Games wasn’t an inspiring bake-off. On Friday in Kuala Lumpur, the International Olympic Committee awarded the Games to Beijing over Almaty, Kazakhstan; Beijing becomes the first city in history to host both a summer and winter Olympics. The Bird’s Nest, where Usain Bolt thrilled the world…

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