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Come Monday of every race week, the race fans will email, tweet or ask me on the street, “So who do you like this week?” My normal response is, “Let’s wait a get a couple practice sessions in and then I’ll have a better answer for you.” Well, that answer never really works where we are racing this weekend — Talladega Superspeedway. It doesn’t matter if we are six days…

facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest Jeff Gordon’s retirement as a NASCAR driver at the end of the 2015 season will leave the four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion with plenty of free time on his hands.  Will Gordon fill that void by joining Fox Sports’ NASCAR Sprint Cup broadcast booth? According to NBC Sports, Gordon says he might get some news on his possible future in NASCAR broadcasting within the next few weeks….

facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest Jeff Gordon’s retirement as a NASCAR driver at the end of the 2015 season will leave the four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion with plenty of free time on his hands.  Will Gordon fill that void by joining Fox Sports’ NASCAR Sprint Cup broadcast booth? According to NBC Sports, Gordon says he might get some news on his possible future in NASCAR broadcasting within the next few weeks….

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facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest Jeff Gordon’s retirement as a NASCAR driver at the end of the 2015 season will leave the four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion with plenty of free time on his hands.  Will Gordon fill that void by joining Fox Sports’ NASCAR Sprint Cup broadcast booth? According to NBC Sports, Gordon says he might get some news on his possible future in NASCAR broadcasting within the next few weeks….

facebook twitter googleplus tumblr pinterest Jeff Gordon’s retirement as a NASCAR driver at the end of the 2015 season will leave the four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion with plenty of free time on his hands.  Will Gordon fill that void by joining Fox Sports’ NASCAR Sprint Cup broadcast booth? According to NBC Sports, Gordon says he might get some news on his possible future in NASCAR broadcasting within the next few weeks….

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Special Olympics New York president Neal Johnson announces that the Winter 2016 and 2017 Special Olympics will be held in the Hudson Valley at the Mid Hudson Civic Center on Wednesday.(Photo: Patrick Oehler/Poughkeepsie Journal) Winter of 2016 may be cold, but it will bring a heartwarming athletic event to the mid-Hudson Valley, along with thousands of visitors and a nice boost for local business. It’s a first for the region….

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Fremd High School midfielder Missy Adrian knows how to head a soccer ball with skill and power, using her forehead to send a shot screaming toward the goalkeeper. But that’s not to say she enjoys it. “It’s something I put up with,” said Adrian, 16, who feels a little jolt of pain on most headers. “It’s not one of the best things (about soccer), but not one of the worst.”…

GoDaddy will no longer back Danica Patrick, as one of NASCAR’s most high profile driver-sponsor pairings will cease following the 2015 season. The decision ends sponsorship of Patrick’s No. 10 team, a relationship that paved the way for Patrick’s transition from IndyCar to stock car racing five years ago and helped her secure a ride with Stewart-Haas Racing, one of NASCAR’s premier organizations. The move comes as Patrick…

BELGRADE, Serbia—Fans of the soccer team Red Star, furious at being penned in at the stadium before a match against rival Partizan, began ripping out the hard plastic seats and hurling them by the dozens at the police. For 45 minutes it went on, fans throwing lighted flares and metal objects while police fought back with military-style maneuvers, surging toward the fans and clearing out sections of the stadium. Some…

0 Shares Print RICHMOND, Va. — Kurt Busch‘s victory in the Toyota Owners 400 will no doubt spark a spirited debate over whether he deserves his place in the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup. Of course Busch missed three races earlier this year, suspended by NASCAR while he was investigated in a domestic violence case. He has been on a tear since returning to the wheel of the No….

Pavel Datsyuk(Photo: David Guralnick / Detroit News) Detroit – It is something a player must experience. The veterans can tell young ones all about playoff hockey. Coaches can coach it. But because of better play all over the ice, tighter checking in both zones and through the middle, faster skating, keener attention to details, better goaltending, nervousness, jacked-up crowds and the threat of elimination, the maxim in the NHL is…

A Navy SEAL from Queens and another from Michigan died after a training accident in a swimming pool at a base in Virginia. Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Seth Cody Lewis of Queens and Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Brett Allen Marihugh of Livonia were found unresponsive Friday at the bottom of the Combat Swimming Training Facility at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story. Lewis, 32, died Friday and Marihugh,…

An Israeli soccer player in the second-highest level of professional German soccer tweeted on Sunday that security forces on duty at a match between FC Ingolstadt and Union Berlin forcibly removed an Israeli flag that was brandished by a fan in the stands. Almog Cohen, the Israeli national team player who is also a member of 2. Bundesliga side Ingolstadt, tweeted: “Today, an Israeli flag was removed…

0 Shares Print RICHMOND, Va. — Kurt Busch‘s victory in the Toyota Owners 400 will no doubt spark a spirited debate over whether he deserves his place in the NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup. Of course Busch missed three races earlier this year, suspended by NASCAR while he was investigated in a domestic violence case. He has been on a tear since returning to the wheel of the No….

An Israeli soccer player in the second-highest level of professional German soccer tweeted on Sunday that security forces on duty at a match between FC Ingolstadt and Union Berlin forcibly removed an Israeli flag that was brandished by a fan in the stands. Almog Cohen, the Israeli national team player who is also a member of 2. Bundesliga side Ingolstadt, tweeted: “Today, an Israeli flag was removed…