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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…

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…

Jimmie Johnson, front, and Carl Edwards, shown here at the 2013 Brickyard 400, are skeptical of the new package NASCAR created for Indianapolis Motor Speedway.(Photo: Marc Lebryk, The Indianapolis Star) LOUDON, N.H. — Aerodynamics changes instituted by NASCAR at Kentucky Speedway for the July 11 event were well-received after what was widely deemed one of the most entertaining races of the Sprint Cup season. Another adjustment this weekend at Indianapolis Motor…

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Kessel, 23, sustained a concussion while playing for the U.S. National Team and hasn’t played hockey since the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. She sat out last season with concussion-like symptoms and hasn’t participated in any U.S. National Team activities since Sochi. Kessel used her first redshirt to play in the Winter Olympics and her second one last year, closing the door for any future return to college hockey….

Jimmie Johnson, front, and Carl Edwards, shown here at the 2013 Brickyard 400, are skeptical of the new package NASCAR created for Indianapolis Motor Speedway.(Photo: Marc Lebryk, The Indianapolis Star) LOUDON, N.H. — Aerodynamics changes instituted by NASCAR at Kentucky Speedway for the July 11 event were well-received after what was widely deemed one of the most entertaining races of the Sprint Cup season. Another adjustment this weekend at Indianapolis Motor…

Kessel, 23, sustained a concussion while playing for the U.S. National Team and hasn’t played hockey since the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. She sat out last season with concussion-like symptoms and hasn’t participated in any U.S. National Team activities since Sochi. Kessel used her first redshirt to play in the Winter Olympics and her second one last year, closing the door for any future return to college hockey….

Professional soccer stadium renderings first began floating around St. Paul City Hall nearly two years ago, well before discussions with Minnesota United FC owner Bill McGuire reignited in May. And the sides are discussing a St. Paul soccer stadium with more intensity than the mayor’s administration has recently let on. Mayor Chris Coleman met with McGuire last week for the third time in as many months as St. Paul tries…

Jimmie Johnson, front, and Carl Edwards, shown here at the 2013 Brickyard 400, are skeptical of the new package NASCAR created for Indianapolis Motor Speedway.(Photo: Marc Lebryk, The Indianapolis Star) LOUDON, N.H. — Aerodynamics changes instituted by NASCAR at Kentucky Speedway for the July 11 event were well-received after what was widely deemed one of the most entertaining races of the Sprint Cup season. Another adjustment this weekend at Indianapolis Motor…

The Special Olympics World Games are making history in Los Angeles. The city is officially opening its host doors today and welcoming national delegations from more than 165 countries. The event — kicking off on July 25 — will be the single largest event in Los Angeles since the 1984 Olympics, with more that 7,000 athletes supported by more than 500,000 spectators. Opening Ceremony The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum —…

NASCAR returns to its roots this week when the NASCAR Ca.m.ping World Truck Series slings dirt at Eldora Speedway for the third consecutive year. Tony Stewart’s dirt track in Ohio hosts NASCAR’s only national series dirt race on Wednesday, July 22, live on FOX Sports 1 at 9:00 p.m. ET. Beginning with practice on FOX Sports 1 at 10:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, FOX Sports offers nine hours of live…

Jimmie Johnson, front, and Carl Edwards, shown here at the 2013 Brickyard 400, are skeptical of the new package NASCAR created for Indianapolis Motor Speedway.(Photo: Marc Lebryk, The Indianapolis Star) LOUDON, N.H. — Aerodynamics changes instituted by NASCAR at Kentucky Speedway for the July 11 event were well-received after what was widely deemed one of the most entertaining races of the Sprint Cup season. Another adjustment this weekend at Indianapolis Motor…

FIFA 16 will finally add female players to the long-running video game series, but they won’t just be in the game: they’ll also be on the cover. EA announced today that the North American versions of the game will feature female stars on the box; in the US forward Alex Morgan will be on the cover, while team captain Christine Sinclair will do the same in Canada. Also featured on…

NASCAR returns to its roots this week when the NASCAR Ca.m.ping World Truck Series slings dirt at Eldora Speedway for the third consecutive year. Tony Stewart’s dirt track in Ohio hosts NASCAR’s only national series dirt race on Wednesday, July 22, live on FOX Sports 1 at 9:00 p.m. ET. Beginning with practice on FOX Sports 1 at 10:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, FOX Sports offers nine hours of live…

For many players, an NHL development camp is an entirely new experience where players from all over the world get to meet all sorts of players, all trying to impress the coaches on hand. But for forward Jinhui Ahn, defenseman Wonjun Kim and goaltender Kye Hoon Park, there was a little bit more emphasis on that entirely new experience. The three young players are from South Korea, and they were…

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NASCAR returns to its roots this week when the NASCAR Ca.m.ping World Truck Series slings dirt at Eldora Speedway for the third consecutive year. Tony Stewart’s dirt track in Ohio hosts NASCAR’s only national series dirt race on Wednesday, July 22, live on FOX Sports 1 at 9:00 p.m. ET. Beginning with practice on FOX Sports 1 at 10:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, FOX Sports offers nine hours of live…

For many players, an NHL development camp is an entirely new experience where players from all over the world get to meet all sorts of players, all trying to impress the coaches on hand. But for forward Jinhui Ahn, defenseman Wonjun Kim and goaltender Kye Hoon Park, there was a little bit more emphasis on that entirely new experience. The three young players are from South Korea, and they were…

FIFA 16 will finally add female players to the long-running video game series, but they won’t just be in the game: they’ll also be on the cover. EA announced today that the North American versions of the game will feature female stars on the box; in the US forward Alex Morgan will be on the cover, while team captain Christine Sinclair will do the same in Canada. Also featured on…

A year before the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics, Rio de Janeiro is a city in motion, rehearsing, training, driving, sweeping, protesting, calculating and preparing for arguably the biggest event in its history. At the Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca, a small forest of cranes swings back and forth over the velodrome and gymnasium even as the last few hold-outs in a nearby favela resist police attempts to…