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A UNLV hockey assistant who was among the more than 500 people injured in a mass shooting during a concert in Las Vegas on Sunday night is out of surgery and is expected to make a full recovery, the UNLV hockey team’s account tweeted out in a statement.  “UNLV assistant coach Nick Robone is out of surgery to remove a bullet wound form a gunshot wound to the chest, resulting from the…

Kyle Busch won the third race of these NASCAR playoffs at Dover on Sunday, his second straight postseason win, but there are other implications from the race as well. Here are the three biggest takeaways from Sunday’s Apache Warrior 400 race: 1. The playoff field shrinks from 16 to 12 Dover was the first playoff cutdown race, and coming into the weekend, it was clear which drivers were in trouble….

Kyle Busch won the third race of these NASCAR playoffs at Dover on Sunday, his second straight postseason win, but there are other implications from the race as well. Here are the three biggest takeaways from Sunday’s Apache Warrior 400 race: 1. The playoff field shrinks from 16 to 12 Dover was the first playoff cutdown race, and coming into the weekend, it was clear which drivers were in trouble….

Kyle Busch won the third race of these NASCAR playoffs at Dover on Sunday, his second straight postseason win, but there are other implications from the race as well. Here are the three biggest takeaways from Sunday’s Apache Warrior 400 race: 1. The playoff field shrinks from 16 to 12 Dover was the first playoff cutdown race, and coming into the weekend, it was clear which drivers were in trouble….

Two of my grandmother’s favorite athletes were Venus and Serena Williams, who grew up in South Los Angeles in the nineteen-eighties. The Williams sisters have lately been named by Los Angeles’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, as the poster children for the benefits of the Olympics, because they played in tennis programs funded with money for youth sports that came from the 1984 Games, hosted by L.A. While people in other cities…

RELATED: Blaney rolls to Dover victory | XFINITY Playoffs standings DOVER, Del. — As highly-motivated race car drivers are prone to be, William Byron was admittedly conflicted standing on Dover International Speedway pit road Saturday afternoon following the “Use Your Melon. Drive Sober 200.” He won the pole position, led laps (62), won the opening stage, and took the checkered flag in third position behind JR Motorsports teammate Justin Allgaier…

There was a frightening moment during the Amiens vs. Lille French soccer match on Saturday. Following a goal form Lille, the visiting fans of the team celebrated the goal by rushing down the section where they were sitting. The problem was there was so much weight and pressure, it resulted in the barrier collapsing and fans getting hurt as they fell onto the field area. Take a look: Here’s another…

x Embed x Share CLOSE USA TODAY Sports’ Brant James previews the Apache Warrior 400 at Dover International Speedway. USA TODAY Sports Gene Stilp burns a flag Saturday outside Dover International Speedway.(Photo: Brant James, USA TODAY Sports) DOVER, Del. – Just beyond the main entrance of Dover International Speedway, activist/attorney/Grand Canyon guide Gene Stilp pulled his bespoke Nazi-Confederate flag from a metal garbage can and set it ablaze. He knelt…

The driver starting dead-last, 40th, for Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover International Speedway didn’t make a qualifying lap on Friday afternoon. The grid printout shows his qualifying time as 0.000 seconds at 0.000 miles per hour. His name is Matt DiBenedetto, and he hopes to someday become a Cup star. The driver starting 39th is Reed Sorenson, something of a tour veteran. The grid…

Retirement Dale has been Blunt Dale. As his final season ticks away, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has grabbed a bullhorn and demanded change — in 140-character bursts, on his podcast and through the media — on matters big and small in NASCAR. He referenced John F. Kennedy in a tweet and was the first driver to take a stand on NASCAR’s place in the national anthem debate. He angered fellow veteran…

RELATED: Final practice results | 10-lap averages | Weekend schedule Chase Elliott set the pace in final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice, topping the Saturday afternoon charts with a 157.363-mph lap at Dover International Speedway. Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevrolet edged teammate Jimmie Johnson by .067 seconds in the 55-minute final tune-up at the “Monster Mile.” Elliott will start 12th in Sunday’s Apache Warrior 400 (2 p.m. ET,…

There was a frightening moment during the Amiens vs. Lille French soccer match on Saturday. Following a goal form Lille, the visiting fans of the team celebrated the goal by rushing down the section where they were sitting. The problem was there was so much weight and pressure, it resulted in the barrier collapsing and fans getting hurt as they fell onto the field area. Take a look: Here’s another…

RELATED: Final practice results | 10-lap averages | Weekend schedule Chase Elliott set the pace in final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice, topping the Saturday afternoon charts with a 157.363-mph lap at Dover International Speedway. Elliott’s Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevrolet edged teammate Jimmie Johnson by .067 seconds in the 55-minute final tune-up at the “Monster Mile.” Elliott will start 12th in Sunday’s Apache Warrior 400 (2 p.m. ET,…

Going to the Olympics was a life-changing experience for T.J. Oshie, a shootout star for the United States against Russia in Sochi. Oshie and dozens, if not hundreds, of NHL stars are disappointed they won’t get a chance to do it again at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. He would like to ensure Olympic participation in the future — but not at any cost. “To what end, like…

When Dale Earnhardt Jr. says something, it’s different. This week a firestorm broke out among sports media, and regular media, and really regular people. Politics and sports spilled across their neatly drawn lines and wrestled right in front of the general public. That’s why you heard President Donald Trump call any NFL player who kneels during the national anthem a “son of a bitch,” and that’s why you watched hundreds…

Winning a World Cup is a steep enough challenge. Pelé had the gifts, and talented and remarkable team-mates, to accomplish that not once, not twice, but three times. Trying to win over a country? That might be even harder. That seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb, even for a man nicknamed O Rei (The King). Yet, in 1975 Pelé took a gamble and ventured to the one major…

RELATED: Practice 1 results | Full schedule for Dover, Las Vegas Matt Kenseth rose to the top of the chart Friday in opening Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Dover International Speedway. Kenseth, a three-time Dover winner, guided the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 Toyota to a best lap of 162.550 mph around the 1-mile concrete track. Drivers involved in the NASCAR Playoffs swept the top nine spots. There…

DOVER, Del. – Danica Patrick’s future in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series remains unsettled as one of the sport’s big-name “free agents” for 2018. But she sure sounded calm and reflective Friday in advance of qualifying for the Apache Warrior 400 at Dover International Speedway. Patrick, 35, spoke to reporters about her situation, reiterating that there is no “new” news in terms of where she may race in the…

North Korea boycotted the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, the South Korean capital. And North Korea’s current leader, Kim Jong-un, is highly unpredictable. When the skaters were asked minutes after Friday’s performance if they hoped to compete at the Games, their coach, Kim Hyon-son, stepped in and said, “It is up to the North Korean Olympic Committee to decide whether they will participate or not.” The North Koreans appeared…

On his podcast this week, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. further separated himself from other heavyweights in the sport who don’t feel like he does about the rights of NFL players to kneel during the national anthem. Earnhardt, voted by fans as the sport’s most popular driver for 14 years, tweeted this week that he supported the players’ right to protest during the national anthem despite President Donald Trump’s feelings…