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It’s probably easier to save the following line than to type it again this season, since it’s almost certain we’ll see it again: Martin Truex Jr. won another NASCAR race on Sunday, and he’s still the favorite to win the championship in November at Homestead. The only difference between this race, Truex’s league-leading seventh win this season, and the other wins is that Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 was the second…

RELATED: Race results | Updated Playoffs standings KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Raise your hand if prior to the season you had Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series sophomore Ryan Blaney advancing further in his first NASCAR Playoffs appearance than former champions Matt Kenseth and Kurt Busch, or even Kyle Larson, who set the world on fire in 2017. Blaney, himself, might not even be among that crowd, but the Wood Brothers…

The Furniture Row Racing team will be mourning the loss of a team member at Kansas Speedway Sunday. The team announced Sunday morning that James “Jim” Watson, a road-crew fabricator for Furniture Row Racing’s NASCAR Cup Series teams, passed away Saturday night at the age of 55 after suffering a heart attack. In the press release announcing the passing, the team said that Watson, a native of Greenfield,…

When Dale Earnhardt Jr. straps into his No. 88 Hendrick Chevrolet for the 627th time of his career on Sunday, it will be his last start at Kansas Speedway. Before the season Earnhardt announced his plans to retire from Cup racing at the conclusion of the 2017 season ending his 19-year career in NASCAR’s top series. While he has never won a Monster Energy Series Cup championship over his career,…

Whether they’re doing it for health, camaraderie, an activity that’s easy on the joints or simply to get outside, more older people than ever are turning to biking. In fact, recreational cycling among Americans over 50 jumped 62 percent between 2001 and 2009 and continues to climb, according to the latest statistics available from the National Household Travel Survey, conducted by the…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — James “Jim” Watson, a road-crew fabricator for Furniture Row Racing’s NASCAR Cup Series teams, passed away Saturday night at the age of 55 after suffering a heart attack. A native of Greenfield, Wisconsin (near Milwaukee), Jim had been a member of Furniture Row Racing since February 2017. He worked for Roush Fenway Racing from 2006-2015 and spent last season with HScott Motorsports. Jim was a longtime race car…

KABUL — The lights beamed on inside the Afghan Football Federation soccer stadium and 5,000 people, drawn to a spectacle unheard of for nearly four decades, came out to see. Security in Afghanistan’s capital is tenuous, proved earlier in the week by several attempted suicide bomb attacks around the city while, elsewhere in the country, dozens of Afghan police and soldiers had been killed by Taliban fighters in one of…

Guram Kashia with LGBT captain’s armband for Vitesse. I know its team decision more than a choice, but would’ve not imagined in past. Kudos pic.twitter.com/UNhsTeeRfr — Mac’Andrews (@MacAndrews) October 16, 2017 The rainbow-colored captain’s armband that SBV Vitesse star Guram Kashia wore last week was designed to call for unity among Dutch soccer fans. In Georgia, the small country located some 2,300 miles away from the Netherlands, that simple strip of…

RELATED: Full race results | See the contact | Bell scores first XFINITY win KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Getting pushed to the win? That’s the kind of thing we typically would’ve seen last week at Talladega Superspeedway in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Erik Jones and race-winner Christopher Bell illustrated a bit of a different interpretation of that Saturday at Kansas Speedway in the Kansas Lottery 300, albeit unintentionally…

Guram Kashia with LGBT captain’s armband for Vitesse. I know its team decision more than a choice, but would’ve not imagined in past. Kudos pic.twitter.com/UNhsTeeRfr — Mac’Andrews (@MacAndrews) October 16, 2017 The rainbow-colored captain’s armband that SBV Vitesse star Guram Kashia wore last week was designed to call for unity among Dutch soccer fans. In Georgia, the small country located some 2,300 miles away from the Netherlands, that simple strip of…

Three drivers, nine combined NASCAR championships … but probably not three playoff berths. That’s the reality Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth are facing this weekend at Kansas Speedway. The three former Cup Series champions – Kenseth won in 2003; Busch in 2015; and Johnson every year from 2006 to 2010, plus 2013 and 2016 – are essentially competing for one spot in the next round of the playoffs….

The FC pundits share their thoughts and experiences with coaches in the U.S. youth system and how it has contributed to the national team’s World Cup failure. INCLINE VILLAGE, Nevada — Steve Gans and Eric Wynalda stated their respective cases to replace current U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati on Saturday. Speaking before the National Council of the U.S. Adult Soccer Association, both candidates were given five minutes to lay…

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – North Dakota took out five-plus years of frustration against the Gophers on Saturday night, most of it during one five-minute power play. Gophers defenseman Jack Glover took a major penalty for checking from behind, drawing Minnesota’s third game misconduct of the young season. By the time his penalty box substitute returned to the ice, North Dakota had scored three times, paving the way to a 4-0…

Following Bruce Arena’s resignation as US men’s national team manager in the wake of the USMNT’s failure to qualify for the World Cup earlier this month, the rumor mill has churned out the names of several managers who might take over the position. One name that’s emerged repeatedly among the soccer punditocracy? Atlanta United manager Gerardo “Tata” Martino. He’s certainly got the resume to take charge of the USMNT. The…

RELATED: Final practice results | Consecutive 10-lap averages | Full schedule for Kansas Ryan Blaney nestled the Wood Brothers Racing No. 21 Ford into the top spot in final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice Saturday afternoon at Kansas Speedway. Blaney logged a fast lap of 182.057 mph in the 50-minute session. It came one day after his speed in Coors Light Pole Qualifying was disallowed because of a technical infraction,…

10:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment CONCORD, N.C. — Martin Truex Jr., who has been able to pass just about anything and everything this year, didn’t have an answer for how he will make a pass in the 2018 opening-round elimination race next season. That race will take place on the 2.42-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway “roval” — a road course that uses nearly all of…

10:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment CONCORD, N.C. — Martin Truex Jr., who has been able to pass just about anything and everything this year, didn’t have an answer for how he will make a pass in the 2018 opening-round elimination race next season. That race will take place on the 2.42-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway “roval” — a road course that uses nearly all of…

10:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment CONCORD, N.C. — Martin Truex Jr., who has been able to pass just about anything and everything this year, didn’t have an answer for how he will make a pass in the 2018 opening-round elimination race next season. That race will take place on the 2.42-mile Charlotte Motor Speedway “roval” — a road course that uses nearly all of…

Everton and Lyon, exchanging pleasantries. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson) Things got a little chippy during Thursday’s Europa League group-stage match between English club Everton and French side Lyon in Liverpool. In the 64th minute, Everton captain Ashley Williams appeared to shove Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes into the sideline advertisement boards as he retrieved the ball from the corner. The usual pushing and shoving commenced along the edge of the field, close…