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Emporia, Kan., native Clint Bowyer has not had the season he had hoped for heading into this week’s homecoming at Kansas Speedway. In his first year with Stewart-Haas racing, Bowyer finished the regular season 17th in the points race, just one spot shy of making NASCAR’s Monster Energy Series playoffs. His winless streak has continued through the year, and he still hasn’t reached victory lane since October of 2012 at…

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…

RELATED: Play DraftKings today Driver rankings for Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway are based on a mixture of expected output and DraftKings’ NASCAR salaries for that day. The ordering is not based on highest projected fantasy totals, but rather by value of each driver. (FPPK = average fantasy points per $1,000 of salary.) 1. Martin Truex, Jr. ($10,800) — Nothing has changed: He’s still the NASCAR daily fantasy…

The University of San Diego has had an intercollegiate men’s soccer program for 39 seasons. It has had one head coach. Think about that for a moment. For that, the university can thank the foresight of Tom Burke for hiring Seamus McFadden to start the program in 1979, and the longevity and work ethic and recruiting prowess and tactical acuity and teaching skill and raw competitiveness and nurturing demeanor of…

The UK government could potentially consider providing subsidies for electric bicycles and electric cars as part of a concerted policy effort to get more people cycling, the roads minister, Jesse Norman, has said. With the UK facing health crises from pollution and inactive living, other plans could include using electric cargo bikes to deliver packages from internet retailers rather than vans, Norman told the Guardian. Saying his ambition was to…

The scene at RFK for a World Cup qualifier between the United States and Honduras, Sept. 1, 2001. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) We don’t have a national soccer stadium, and because of our country’s size and diversity, frankly we don’t need one. The pulse of the sport, performed at the highest levels, reverberates across time zones, from the South Ward at Red Bull Arena to The Cauldron in Kansas City…

Dale Earnhardt Jr., stands on the grid with his wife, Amy, prior to a NASCAR race at Brooklyn, Mich., on Aug. 13. (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images) Dale Earnhardt Jr. (who else?) made the biggest news in NASCAR this week when he said he and his wife, Amy, are expecting their first child, a daughter. This caused the crew at the “Glass Case of Emotion” racing podcast to playfully suggest…

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s foreign ministry stressed the Pyeongchang Olympics will be safe from North Korean provocations in a briefing to diplomats and executives at foreign companies in the country on Friday, as concerns persist over tensions with the North. Officials and executives from around 120 embassies and companies in South Korea were hosted by the ministry to explain the government’s efforts for a safe Olympic Games scheduled for…

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s foreign ministry stressed the Pyeongchang Olympics will be safe from North Korean provocations in a briefing to diplomats and executives at foreign companies in the country on Friday, as concerns persist over tensions with the North. Officials and executives from around 120 embassies and companies in South Korea were hosted by the ministry to explain the government’s efforts for a safe Olympic Games scheduled for…

Photo Marc Bamuthi Joseph, left, and Amara Tabor-Smith in “/peh-LO-tah/” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Credit Rebecca Greenfield A line in the dance-theater show “/peh-LO-tah/” hits a timely raw nerve: “The Defender explains why Americans suck at soccer.” When these words flash on the back wall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, they are a biting reminder that the U.S. recently failed to qualify for the next…

The doctor at the centre of the Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins Jiffy bag scandal has resigned from his position at British Cycling with the chief executive, Julie Harrington, admitting she was concerned his failings could come back to haunt the organisation in the future. Doctor Richard Freeman, who worked for both Team Sky and British Cycling between 2009 and 2015, has walked away from his position without a pay-off….

x Embed x Share CLOSE USA TODAY Sports’ Heather Tucker previews the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway. USA TODAY Sports Here’s a look at how Jimmie Johnson’s car will look at this weekend’s NASCAR race at the Kansas Speedway. Johnson’s car features the logo of MARSHALLTOWN, an Iowa-based tool maker.(Photo: Contributed photo/Special to the Register) Driver Jimmie Johnson’s car will prominently feature the logo of an Iowa company at…

Photo Marc Bamuthi Joseph, left, and Amara Tabor-Smith in “/peh-LO-tah/” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Credit Rebecca Greenfield A line in the dance-theater show “/peh-LO-tah/” hits a timely raw nerve: “The Defender explains why Americans suck at soccer.” When these words flash on the back wall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, they are a biting reminder that the U.S. recently failed to qualify for the next…

x Embed x Share CLOSE USA TODAY Sports’ Heather Tucker previews the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway. USA TODAY Sports Here’s a look at how Jimmie Johnson’s car will look at this weekend’s NASCAR race at the Kansas Speedway. Johnson’s car features the logo of MARSHALLTOWN, an Iowa-based tool maker.(Photo: Contributed photo/Special to the Register) Driver Jimmie Johnson’s car will prominently feature the logo of an Iowa company at…

United States’ Christian Pulisic, left, fights for control of the ball with Trinidad and Tobago’s Joevin Jones, right, during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match this month in Couva, Trinidad. (Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press) Afshin Molavi is co-director of the emerge85 Lab and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. You may have never heard of Paul Caligiuri — unless, of course,…

An Italian soccer player is being punished this week for leaving a little too much on the field. Giovanni Liberti, who plays for the lower-tier squad Turris, has been ordered to sit out the next five matches after he “urinated in the direction of the away section, making obscene and vulgar gestures, while showing his genital organ,” Serie D’s disciplinary committee said in a statement on Wednesday. The incident occurred…

The Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heads back to Kansas Speedway for the final playoff race in the Round of 12. When the checkered flag flies on Sunday, four drivers will be eliminated from championship contention. As it stands, two former champions — Matt Kenseth (2003) and Kyle Busch (2015) — are below the cutline. Kenseth began the round in 11th and has since moved up to 10th while Busch…

ATHENS (Reuters) – Champions League winner Park Ji-sung will be the first South Korean to carry the flame for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics after the torch lighting ceremony in Olympia next week, the Greek Olympic committee said on Thursday. Park, 36, who won a string of titles with Manchester United and Eindhoven before retiring, will be the second torchbearer in Olympia, site of the ancient Greek Olympics, after Greece’s Nordic…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Carlos Nuzman is accused of organising the payment of a $2m bribe Prosecutors in Brazil have formally charged the former head of the country’s Olympics committee with corruption during the campaign to win last year’s Games for Rio de Janeiro. Carlos Nuzman is accused of running a criminal organisation, money laundering and violating currency laws. The charges follow an investigation into a payment of $2m…

Pole-dancing is emerging as a sport — and a clean one in more ways than one. Their clothes stay on and top-level participants must comply with World Anti-Doping Agency standards. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images) No strip club necessary. Pole-dancing now stands on its own as a provisionally recognized sport thanks to the Global Association of International Sports Federation, which granted the activity’s international governing federation “observer status” earlier this month….