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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…

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…

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Closing out the home portion of the 2017 regular season on a high note, No. 18 Florida State (11-5-0, 5-4-0 ACC) clinched a spot in the upcoming ACC Tournament with a 2-1 victory on Sunday over Pitt (3-11-3, 0-8-1 ACC) at the Seminole Soccer Complex. Prior to the match, the 2017 senior class – Haylie Grant, Ari Hudson, Emma Koivisto and Cassie Miller – were recognized and…

BLACKSBURG — Goals were once again hard to come by for the slumping Virginia Tech men’s soccer team Sunday. Fourth-ranked North Carolina scored four second-half goals to beat the Hokies 4-0 at Thompson Field. The injury-plagued Hokies (7-8, 2-5 ACC), who were coming off a 4-1 loss at William and Mary last Tuesday, suffered their fourth straight defeat. They were shut out on Sunday for the…

RELATED: First look at the road course | Get a 360-degree VR view of the road course KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Goodyear executives have given a thumbs-up review of the two-day Goodyear tire test on the new Charlotte Motor Speedway road course last week. Drivers Jamie McMurray, Kurt Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Daniel Hemric ran laps Oct. 17-18 on the newly introduced 2.42-mile, 18-turn road course at Charlotte. Stu…

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,…

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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…

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….

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…

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…

RELATED: Dale Jr. and Amy announce they’re expecting KANSAS CITY, Kan. — As NASCAR’s Most Popular Driver and the sport’s all-around biggest superstar, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is typically enthusiastic and quite comfortable discussing his place in the sport heading into his retirement at season’s end. However, his demeanor noticeably changed some Saturday morning at Kansas Speedway. Listening to him speak about his wife Amy’s recently announced pregnancy was both moving…

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,…

reader comments 37 Game Details Developer: Polyphony DigitalPublisher: SonyPlatform: PS4Release Date: October 17thPrice: $59.99Links: Official website  Gran Turismo Sport is a great racing game. What it’s not is a simple PS4 port of the last GT game. Almost everything about this latest release is different from every game that has come before it in the series. There are way fewer selectable cars than the competition (and previous GT games). There aren’t many tracks. You won’t spend hours…

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…

Scrolling over the NASCAR leaderboard, you’ll find plenty of familiar faces. Atop the standings is Martin Truex Jr., who has been the man to beat all season long. Then there’s Brad Keselowski, the former Cup Series champ who won last week at Talladega to secure a spot in the third round of the playoffs. Keep going, and you’ll find a litany of other high-profile names: Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle…

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…