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ENLARGE BOSTON—Public backing for hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics here has improved slightly but remains low, a poll released Thursday shows, despite a threat that weak support could imperil the bid. The poll from local National Public Radio affiliate WBUR found 40% of about 500 Boston-area voters support hosting the Olympic Games, while 50% are against it. In March, just 36% of voters were in favor. The poll has a…

  A NASCAR appeals panel has upheld a penalty against Richard Childress Racing for intentionally manipulating the tires on a car driven by Ryan Newman at Fontana. The three-panel committee did reduce the amount of points deducted from Childress and Newman from 75 to 50. The original $125,000 fine against crew chief Luke Lambert was cut to $75,000. However, the six-race suspensions against Lambert, tire technician James Bender and race…

MONTREAL — Well, it all worked out for P.K. Subban and the Montreal Canadiens, didn’t it? Subban slashed the Ottawa Senators’ Mark Stone in the playoff opener Wednesday night. He received a major penalty and a game misconduct. But the Canadiens survived without their best defenseman for half the game – when they were already without their best forward, Max Pacioretty – and won, 4-3. Now Subban has not been…

ENLARGE The cycling world, for the most part, would prefer to forget the 1990s—doping allegations, stripped titles, a generally bad scene. But over the past year, the sport has managed to salvage at least one trend: the one-hour record. It is the excruciating exercise of riding as far as you can for 60 minutes. And since a significant change to the regulations governing it last May, this archaic mark is…

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ENLARGE The cycling world, for the most part, would prefer to forget the 1990s—doping allegations, stripped titles, a generally bad scene. But over the past year, the sport has managed to salvage at least one trend: the one-hour record. It is the excruciating exercise of riding as far as you can for 60 minutes. And since a significant change to the regulations governing it last May, this archaic mark is…

ENLARGE The cycling world, for the most part, would prefer to forget the 1990s—doping allegations, stripped titles, a generally bad scene. But over the past year, the sport has managed to salvage at least one trend: the one-hour record. It is the excruciating exercise of riding as far as you can for 60 minutes. And since a significant change to the regulations governing it last May, this archaic mark is…

NEWS Soccer match brings out rivalries SAN ANTONIO – A bitter showdown between rivals kicked off Wednesday at the Alamodome, as the men’s national soccer teams from the U.S. and Mexico brought fans packing in from all over both countries. RELATED CONTENT Slideshow: Fans at the US-Mexico match KSAT employees get into soccer spirit Fans from all over in SA for big soccer game Fans flood River Walk for big…

Richard Childress Racing has an awful lot riding on Thursday’s appeal of penalties levied by NASCAR after Ryan Newman’s No. 31 RCR Chevrolet was found with tire irregularities following last month’s Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway. NASCAR hit RCR with what it calls a P5 penalty, the second most severe infraction on a scale that runs from P1-P6. Among other offenses, NASCAR cited RCR with violating section 20.16…

BOSTON—A poll released Thursday shows public backing for hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics here has improved slightly but remains low, despite a threat that weak support could imperil the bid. The poll from local National Public Radio affiliate WBUR found 40% of Boston-area voters support hosting the 2024 Olympics, while 50% are against it. That is a slight improvement from March, when just 36% of Boston-area voters said they were…

U.S. Coach Jill Ellis (By Rick Bowmer — Associated Press) Starting with Coach Jill Ellis, the U.S. Women’s World Cup squad will have a distinctive mid-Atlantic flavor. Six weeks before the roster deadline, the British-born but Virginia-raised Ellis on Tuesday settled on her 23-player team that will head to Canada this summer in pursuit of its first global title since 1999. The squad includes two members of the Washington Spirit…

ENLARGE The cycling world, for the most part, would prefer to forget the 1990s—doping allegations, stripped titles, a generally bad scene. But over the past year, the sport has managed to salvage at least one trend: the one-hour record. It is the excruciating exercise of riding as far as you can for 60 minutes. And since a significant change to the regulations governing it last May, this archaic mark is…

NEWS Morris scores in 1st US start in 2-0 win over Mexico SAN ANTONIO – A bitter showdown between rivals kicked off Wednesday at the Alamodome, as the men’s national soccer teams from the U.S. and Mexico brought fans packing in from all over both countries. RELATED CONTENT KSAT employees get into soccer spirit Fans from all over in SA for big soccer game Fans flood River Walk for big…

ENLARGE The cycling world, for the most part, would prefer to forget the 1990s—doping allegations, stripped titles, a generally bad scene. But over the past year, the sport has managed to salvage at least one trend: the one-hour record. It is the excruciating exercise of riding as far as you can for 60 minutes. And since a significant change to the regulations governing it last May, this archaic mark is…

Matt York—AP Michael Phelps during a practice session in Mesa, Ariz. on April 15, 2015. The swimmer’s 6-month-long suspension for DUI arrest ended on April 6 Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps said Wednesday that he will try to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, according to ESPN’s Wayne Drehs. It is the first time Phelps has publicly committed to trying for the 2016 Games. One year…

Having been a race fan all my life plus having raced in NASCAR for 30 years and now having been in the TV booth for the last fifteen years gives me a unique perspective on our sport. With seven races in the books, I have to say I like a lot of things NASCAR has done recently. They have gone back and reevaluated a lot of the rules. They’ve either…

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ENLARGE The cycling world, for the most part, would prefer to forget the 1990s—doping allegations, stripped titles, a generally bad scene. But over the past year, the sport has managed to salvage at least one trend: the one-hour record. It is the excruciating exercise of riding as far as you can for 60 minutes. And since a significant change to the regulations governing it last May, this archaic mark is…

Kyle Busch said there’s no timeframe for returning to NASCAR after breaking his right leg and fracturing his left foot in a Feb. 21 crash at Daytona International Speedway. But he hopes to be back in his No. 18 Toyota when the Sprint Cup circuit returns to Daytona for the July 4 holiday weekend. “First and foremost, I’ve got to please my doctors, and they say my recovery is going…

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