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The United States lost to Jamaica 2-1 in the Gold Cup semifinals on Wednesday night. Jamaica is 76th in the FIFA rankings, and until yesterday, had only beaten the U.S. once in 22 tries. Wednesday marked the first home loss to a Caribbean team since 1968. Lyndon B. Johnson announced he wouldn’t seek re-election the last time the U.S. lost to a Caribbean team at home. Led Zeppelin made their first…

The lone NASCAR dirt track race took place at the historic Eldora Speedway in New Weston, Ohio on Wednesday night, with the Camping World Truck Series putting on one heck of a show. While the field included past champions, series regulars and even a former Sprint Cup champ, it was dirt track specialists Christopher Bell and Bobby Pierce that brought the fans to their feet all race long. Before a…

Boston 2024 Chair Steve Pagliuca, left, and No Boston Olympics Co-Chair Chris Dempsey are two of four who will square off in a televised debate over the city’s quest for the 2024 Summer Olympics. (AP) BOSTON An unusual debate comes to Boston this week. Boston 2024, the group overseeing the bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, will face off in a prime-time debate against the opposition group No Boston Olympics. Here…

ATLANTA — The United States had everything on its side. History. A raucous home crowd. And, supposedly, the better team. None of it prevented Jamaica from handing the Americans their biggest upset defeat. The Reggae Boyz stunned the U.S. team with a pair of first-half goals, one off a blunder by goalkeeper Brad Guzan, and held on for a 2-1 victory in the CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinals Wednesday night. Instead…

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Boston 2024 Chair Steve Pagliuca, left, and No Boston Olympics Co-Chair Chris Dempsey are two of four who will square off in a televised debate over the city’s quest for the 2024 Summer Olympics. (AP) BOSTON An unusual debate comes to Boston this week. Boston 2024, the group overseeing the bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics, will face off in a prime-time debate against the opposition group No Boston Olympics. Here…

Tony Stewart hasn’t had much to be happy about lately. Slogging through the worst slump of his career, he’s 26th in the standings, winless over the past 25 months and unlikely to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup for a third straight season. This week, however, Stewart has ample reason to smile. For the third straight year, his beloved Eldora Speedway plays host to the Camping World Truck…

NASCAR has issued written warnings to five teams on the heels of last weekend’s 5-Hour Energy 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The teams of drivers Clint Bowyer, Denny Hamlin, Paul Menard, Ryan Blaney and Eddie MacDonald were all given warnings for multiple irregularities discovered by NASCAR while they attempted to get through pre-race or pre-qualifying inspection. Post-race inspection was completed with no issues. According…

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Special Olympics competitors arriving in Southern California were greeted by a logistics mess that forced many to sleep on a gymnasium floor before they were finally shuttled to their host cities on Wednesday. At least 1,500 athletes and coaches spent the night at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles after flights and buses arrived late on Tuesday, Special Olympics spokesman Rich Perelman said. By midday Wednesday, the athletes from Norway,…

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Allan Cole, 54, an athlete from Johnson City, Tenn., carries the Special Olympics World Games Torch. To bring the nation together for awareness and understanding of the Special Olympics’ mission, over 10,000 people carried the Flame of Hope coast to coast across the United States. The Flame of Hope has now been delivered to Los Angeles.(Photo: Jay Janner, AP) LOS ANGELES —  When the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the…

YouTube/FIFA Portugal defeated Tahiti 5-3 in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup final to claim their second championship. But things might have been different if the match had not been played on Sunday. Tahiti played the match without their captain, Naea Bennett, who sat out the game because he is Mormon and does not work on Sundays, according to Tahiti Nui Television. Bennett was the team’s second-leading scorer, having hit…

Allan Cole, 54, an athlete from Johnson City, Tenn., carries the Special Olympics World Games Torch. To bring the nation together for awareness and understanding of the Special Olympics’ mission, over 10,000 people carried the Flame of Hope coast to coast across the United States. The Flame of Hope has now been delivered to Los Angeles.(Photo: Jay Janner, AP) LOS ANGELES —  When the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the…

Allan Cole, 54, an athlete from Johnson City, Tenn., carries the Special Olympics World Games Torch. To bring the nation together for awareness and understanding of the Special Olympics’ mission, over 10,000 people carried the Flame of Hope coast to coast across the United States. The Flame of Hope has now been delivered to Los Angeles.(Photo: Jay Janner, AP) LOS ANGELES —  When the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the…

The Christ the Redeemer statue overlooks Guanabara Bay, which will host Olympic sailing and is repository for Rio’s sewage.(Photo: USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANEIRO — When the municipal velodrome was inaugurated here for the 2007 Pan American Games, it was the first training space for competitive indoor cyclists in the city. The wooden floors of the $7 million structure were the best quality in the country, as velodromes in the Brazilian…

It doesn’t sound as though NASCAR is ready to prohibit drivers from tossing their water bottles onto the racetrack, a common practice that came under scrutiny when a bottle was spotted on the apron during a caution for debris in Sunday’s 5-Hour Energy 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. It does, however, sound as if the sanctioning body will crack down on the practice of water-bottle tossing if there’s reason…

It’s like soccer with race cars. That’s the elevator pitch for San Diego studio Psyonix’s Rocket League, a zany ball-punching demolition derby for PC and PlayStation 4. The game arrived without ceremony two weeks ago, but it’s already clinched over 5,000 “overwhelmingly positive” reviews on Steam. It’s now pretty much what everyone’s talking about. Imagine Hot Wheels with something like Moon-gravity physics: swarms of splashy, customizable rocket-propelled dragsters that can…

Austin Dillon poses with the trophy and a shovel after winning the 2013 Mudsummer Classic at Eldora Speedway.(Photo: Andrew Weber, USA TODAY Sports) A good race excites drivers — even when they aren’t driving — as much as it does fans. Case in point — last July. Sprint Cup driver Carl Edwards was riveted by the drama unfolding on his television as Darrell Wallace Jr. and Kyle Larson raced frantically in the closing…