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Kyle Busch continued his domination at Bristol Motor Speedway with a victory Friday night in the Xfinity Series race. The win was the 19th national series victory at Bristol for Busch, who also won the Truck Series race Wednesday night. And just like that win, Busch had to overcome a speeding penalty on pit road to get to victory lane. “Just a great car,” Busch said about his Joe Gibbs…

Who will own the night at Bristol Motor Speedway? Here are our picks for Saturday’s race under the lights in Tennessee. Winner: Martin Truex Jr. Seems like the cliche choice to pick the guy who has dominated this season, but we like to get these things right. Truex nearly won last week’s race at Michigan, only to be passed by Kyle Larson on an overtime restart, and has shown he…

A referee watches over competitors play “Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare” at an eSports video game tournament in Toronto, \March 26, 2017. Picture taken March 26, 2017. Photo by REUTERS/Mark Blinch As athletes leap, lift and dive at the 2024 Paris Summer Games, will video game players also be competing for gold medals? Adding “eSports” to the roster could be the International Olympic Committee’s next attempt to attract younger viewers. Tony…

Bristol Motor Speedway’s second and final race of the NASCAR Cup Series season is Saturday, and for a number of reasons, drivers love racing at the half-mile track. But one decades-old race at the Last Great Colosseum stands out in the NASCAR world as one of the most truly terrifying crashes in the sport’s history. During one of the two 1990 Bristol races, Michael Waltrip came out of the short…

Twitter announced another live sports stream Thursday — a deal to bring in-car NASCAR race camera perspectives to its 328 million monthly users. The deal marks the first time each of the 10 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races can be viewed from in-car cameras, the race organization said. Terms of the deal were not released. Twitter has signed Toyota as a sponsor of the streams, the microblogging giant said….

At the end of the 2016 National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL) season, Harrison Browne decided to retire. The 24-year-old was both emotionally and physically spent. His team, the Buffalo Beauts, had won the Isobel Cup — the equivalent of the Stanley Cup in the NHL —and early on in the season, he had come out to his teammates, the NWHL and the world as transgender. It was an overwhelming and…

For fans of the work of Durham filmmaker Cynthia Hill, award-winning director of the documentary “Private Violence” and the PBS series “A Chef’s Life,” Hill’s new “Road to Race Day” docuseries about NASCAR may have been unexpected. But Hill says racing fits a larger theme that runs through her career. “For me, it’s iconically Southern, and I like the idea of exploring things that are iconically Southern,” says Hill. “This…

Ever wonder what the scenery looks like from inside a race car going about 200 mile per hour? NASCAR has you covered. Perhaps looking for a way to connect with a younger audience, NASCAR disclosed Thursday that it plans to stream live video on Twitter from a race car for all 10 postseason NASCAR Cup Series races. The streaming video will be accessible from NASCAR’s official Twitter handle and NASCAR.twitter.com….

NASCAR is in scramble mode these days, dealing with declines in attendance and TV ratings, sponsors dropping out, and veteran drivers getting the heave-ho to get rid of fat contracts. We now add a battle to protect a NASCAR legacy. Kevin Harvick lashed out at Dale Earnhardt Jr. last week for having the gall to be Mr. Popularity. Harvick connected the dots to some of NASCAR’s…

The field is, as well, a space where Rojas’s age does not matter and where she feels good about herself. Originally from Durango, Mexico, Rojas has resided in Georgia for 26 years and spends her time selling tamales and caring for her grandchildren. All this, and she still finds time to play goalkeeper for the all-female community soccer league, El Barsa, the first few months out of the year.

Kevin Durant, the 2017 NBA Most Valuable Player of the champion Golden State Warriors, has said he won’t be making the trip to the White House to meet with President Trump as part of the tradition of US sports champions. Could Trump’s incendiary position of not forcefully denounce white supremacy in all its forms could create an environment where so few players would visit Trump that the photo op would be…

Winning NASCAR’s regular-season points championship is unquestionably a big deal, but no trophy is awarded and few will remember who won when Round 1 of the playoffs begin next month. Still, driver Martin Truex Jr. of Denver-based Furniture Row Racing envisions a celebration when he clinches the title as early as Saturday night in Bristol, Tenn. Those sentiments are echoed by FRR general manager Joe Garone, the Colorado native who…

Twitter announced another live-sports stream on Thursday — a deal to bring in-car NASCAR race camera perspectives to its 328 million monthly users. The deal marks the first time each of the 10 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series races can be viewed from in-car cameras, the race organization said. Terms of the deal were not released. Twitter has signed Toyota as a sponsor of the streams, the microblogging giant said….

GONZALES — Trust is a two-way street and, in the end, the Ascension Parish Council agreed to trust that the Gonzales Soccer Club will live up to the word of its leaders and fulfill its end of what could be a 10-year deal to use the parish’s new multi-million soccer fields at the Lamar-Dixon Expo Center.  With minor revisions that open the club’s books to parish audits and…

Thursday’s attack in Barcelona, Spain, that left at least 13 people dead, following Saturday’s killing of a protester at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, leaves most people searching for words to express their sorrow, outrage, bewilderment and fear. Athletes such as Dale Earnhardt Jr. are no exception. Thursday at Bristol Motor Speedway, NASCAR’s most popular driver struggled to explain his reaction to the two most recent attacks on…

Brad Keselowski Racing announced Thursday that it will cease operations after the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, prepping for a potential move to NASCAR’s top division at a much later date. The announcement came from namesake team owner Brad Keselowski, the 2012 champion of NASCAR’s premier series. Keselowski’s organization currently fields Fords F-150s for Chase Briscoe, 22, and 18-year-old Austin Cindric, both in their first full season of…

They won’t be the Pirates. Nor will they be Moosequitoes or Wharf Rats. Take Our Poll Portland’s newest professional hockey franchise will be nicknamed from one of five options that the team announced Thursday. The finalists were culled from 3,805 submissions during a name-the-team contest over the past few weeks: – Mariners (whether Maine or Portland remains to be seen). – Watchmen (think lighthouse keepers). – Lumberjacks (Bunyanesque). – Puffins…

NASCAR — for the first time in its history — will live-stream an in-car camera feed on Twitter for all 10 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs races in 2017. Under the deal, NASCAR’s look from inside a race car with a live camera stream that can be accessed via its official Twitter handle (@NASCAR) and nascar.twitter.com. On the same screen of the live stream, fans will see a real-time curated timeline…

They won’t be the Pirates. Nor will they be Moosequitoes or Wharf Rats. Take Our Poll Portland’s newest professional hockey franchise will be nicknamed from one of five options that the team announced Thursday. The finalists were culled from 3,805 submissions during a name-the-team contest over the past few weeks: – Mariners (whether Maine or Portland remains to be seen). – Watchmen (think lighthouse keepers). – Lumberjacks (Bunyanesque). – Puffins…

Ronald Chavez Hassan leads kids in a trust walk at the Muslim Youth Camp of California. He has been a teacher at the Muslim Youth Camp for 25 years. Maggie Starbard for NPR hide caption toggle caption Maggie Starbard for NPR Ronald Chavez Hassan leads kids in a trust walk at the Muslim Youth Camp of California. He has been a teacher at the Muslim Youth Camp for 25 years….