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Taya Kyle will be honored by NASCAR and Charlotte Motor Speedway at Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600.(Photo: Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports) CONCORD, N.C. — Taya Kyle, the widow of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, will attend Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 and receive Charlotte Motor Speedway’s Stonewall Jackson Award. The racetrack’s award, which honors patriotism through personal support of the military, would have made her husband proud. After all, Chris Kyle — who…

Terry Labonte won NASCAR Cup championships in 1984 and 1996.(Photo: Chuck Burton, AP) CHARLOTTE – Four drivers and a leading speedway builder were voted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame Wednesday. Drivers Terry Labonte, Curtis Turner, Jerry Cook and Bobby Isaac were selected along with former Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith. The five new hall members were chosen by a panel of 57 voters, including NASCAR officials, news media…

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Wednesday is the day we learn the five new members of the NASCAR Hall of Fame. I’ll just tell you all right up front: I thank the good Lord that I am not on that voting committee. There are no wrong five names from the list of 20 to choose from. Every single one of these gentlemen on that list deserves to be in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. That’s…

By Andrew Hood Published 7 hours ago Richie Porte’s decision to accept a wheel from a member of another team came a steep price. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com FORLI, Italy (VN) — In a sport with a public image about two shades greyer than black, Tuesday’s 10th stage at the Giro d’Italia showed cycling at its best. And a few hours later, its most convoluted. Late…

ENLARGE California is to high-school swimming as Texas is to high-school football. The Golden State is the sport’s scholastic epicenter. Northern California produced Mark Spitz, Summer Sanders and Matt Biondi, Olympic champions all. Southern California gave us Janet Evans, Amanda Beard and Aaron Peirsol, among others. But until now, the two sides of the state never battled it out. There was no such thing as a California statewide swim meet….

On Wednesday, legendary late-night TV host David Letterman hangs up his cleats, so to speak, after more than 30 years behind the desk. In honor of his retirement, we count down the Top 10 (!) soccer moments on Letterman. 10. Update from Brazil with Graham Fenwick-Jones Anyone around here speak “British”? 9. Top Ten Ways to Get Americans Excited about Soccer Ahead of the 2002 World Cup, the USMNT players…

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Hakstol was introduced as Flyers head coach at news conference today in Philadelphia. Brad Berry was set to be introduced as the next head coach at UND later Monday. Berry has been an assistant on the UND staff, coaching defensemen and the power play. He played defense at UND and in the NHL. “I want to thank Dave for the tremendous job he did in leading the men’s hockey program…

Debate continues in the aftermath of last weekend’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. While some observers have bemoaned the aero-dependency of the cars and the lack of passing that resulted, others continue to take issue with the race’s ever-changing format. But for some of NASCAR’s top drivers, the late start time has been the biggest criticism. The green flag for the first segment of the five-segment race flew at 9:42 p.m….

Want to see what it’s like to photograph a NASCAR race up close? Check out the video above, which shows a photographer shooting through a fence that surrounds the track. It’s a wild experience. The guy is sports photographer misterding, who was covering the LifeLock 400 NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway back in 2009. He positioned himself in “the precarious vantage point” of a hole in a fence…

Two schools separated by 14 miles of road met Monday night to decide the Nebraska School Activities Association Class A boy’s soccer state championship. For the first time ever, the games were aired live by NET Nebraska. Millard West and Creighton Prep played beneath the lights in Creighton’s Morrison Stadium for a sizable crowd, but only the Wildcats left the stadium as state champions, winning 3-1. A push inside the…

Russia’s Alexander Ovechkin (2nd R) reacts after the gold medal match Canada vs Russia at the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships on May 17, 2015 at the O2 Arena in Prague.(Photo: AFP PHOTO/MICHAL CIZEK) Russia is at the center of another embarrassing international incident and this time it has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin running around shirtless and wrestling with a panda. Actually, I don’t know if the…

UND MEN’S HOCKEY COACHING HISTORY (NCAA Division I era):   1946-47: John Jamieson – 7-6-0 (.538) 1947-49: Don Norman – 20-17-1 (.539) 1949-56: Cliff “Fido” Purpur – 94-75-8 (.554) 1956-57: Al Renfrew – 18-11-0 (.621) 1957-59: Bob May – 44-17-2 (.714) 1959-64: Barry Thorndycraft – 71-65-8 (.521) 1964-66: R.H. “Bob” Peters – 26-12-0 (.684) 1966-68: Bill Selman – 39-20-3 (.653) 1968-78: Rube Bjorkman – 149-186-11 (.447)…

Winning a fifth term in office will be a cakewalk for FIFA’s oft-criticized president Sepp Blatter, when measured against the challenges posed to him by the looming Israeli-Palestinian showdown in world soccer’s governing body. Blatter is expected to travel to the Middle East ahead of FIFA’s May 29 congress, hoping to forge a compromise between the two rival soccer associations to head off the Palestine Football Association’s (PFA) bid to have Israel suspended…

Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) stadium renderings The Los Angeles Football Club may not know exactly what the team will be called when they begin play in Major League Soccer in 2018, but they know where they’ll be playing. On Monday, LAFC’s ownership group announced its intent to build a new 22,000-seat stadium in South Los Angeles, at the site of the Los Angeles Sports Arena, located next to the…

Team Russia and Team Canada shake hands after the gold medal match at the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships . (AFP/Getty Images) Team Canada destroyed Team Russia 6-1 at the IIHF World Hockey Championship final in Prague on Sunday afternoon. After the game, where the lone Russian goal was tapped in by Evgeni Malkin with 10 minutes left in the third, the Russian team was so eager to get…

ON BOSTON’S BID TO HOST THE 2024 OLYMPICS. NEWSCENTER 5’S TODD KAZAKIEWICH IS LIVE FROM CITY HALL. THE FOCUS IS ON THE IOC’S INITIATIVE TO HOST ECONOMICAL AND SUSTAINABLE OLYMPIC GAMES AND HOW THAT IMPACTS BOSTON’S BID. BOSTON HAD A GREAT OPPORTUNITY AND I REALLY HOPE THAT BOSTON CAN SEE THAT. JIM: THIS MORNING, THE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE AND USOC AND BOSTON 2024 MADE THE PITCH TO…