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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — As stock car racing’s brightest stars prepare for the grueling, 10-week road to Ford Championship Weekend, NASCAR® is showcasing all the drama and intensity of the 2017 NASCAR Playoffs with a new, integrated marketing campaign. From the first green flag to the final burnout, the 2017 NASCAR Playoffs campaign will engage fans across platforms with the rigors of the journey, the ferocity of the competition, and…

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Riding out a hurricane is no way to prep for the Olympics. But that was the situation the U.S. women’s national hockey team faced this weekend when Hurricane Irma made a late turn and came barreling up the west coast of Florida. While other teams – including the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning evacuated to a safer locations – USA Hockey opted to have its female top players…

Despite carrying a 95-pound gas can while running onto pit road as NASCAR driver Erik Jones barrels down toward the stall at up to 55 miles per hour, his gas man, Matt Hewtyrrell isn’t thinking about the highly flammable 12 gallons of fuel on his shoulder. “If you’re worried about catching on fire, you’re not doing your job,” he said Saturday at Richmond Raceway before the Federated Auto Parts 400….

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There is a ton of racing action in NASCAR Heat 2’s beefed up Career mode. If possible, a little too much. This is still a good problem for the stock-car racing simulator to face. Fans have clamored for the return of NASCAR’s other two national series — the Xfinity Series and the Camping World Trucks Series — and many will be delighted to see them again. They triple the real-driver…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — There’s an outside shot the United States won’t have to wait 11 years to host its next Olympics. It’s a longshot, but there’s talk in Salt Lake City, and even some in Denver, of a bid for the 2026 Winter Games, which take place two years before the Summer Olympics return to Los Angeles. The same country hosting back-to-back Olympics hasn’t happened since before World War…

- This is Saturday night. Derrike Cope into the wall less than five laps to go. This is with Martin Truex, Jr. leading this thing, all right? You can see the frustration for Cole Pearn saying, you got to be kidding me. We were going to win our fifth race of the year. So then post race we saw some tweets that were very, very interesting. – Yep, Adam. So…

LIMA, Peru – Los Angeles has received its formal go-ahead to host the 2028 Olympics, getting a thumbs-up from the International Olympic Committee’s evaluation commission. On Wednesday, the full IOC will award the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Games to Los Angeles. Los Angeles had originally bid for 2024, but because of the new date, it had to make changes to its host contract. The evaluation commission signed off…

This summer has seen a clear bubble in transfer fees and valuations in the prominent five European soccer leagues, above all in the English Premier League. This is because of the monumental international and domestic (BT Sport and Sky Sports) television deals coming into effect from 2016 through to 2019. The deals have enabled a flood of fiscal overreaching at the lower-ranked and more domestic-orientated EPL clubs, allowing them to…

Thirty contenders, six finalists, and now, one trophy left standing. The most coveted symbol of stock car supremacy. Introducing the @MonsterEnergy NASCAR Cup. pic.twitter.com/te7wAEtTNW — NASCAR (@NASCAR) August 31, 2017 At the end of August, NASCAR and Jostens officially released the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series trophy, putting an end to months of brainstorming and craftsmanship. The centerpiece of the trophy, which stands 37 inches tall and weighs almost…

RICHMOND, VA – SEPTEMBER 08: Matt Kenseth, driver of the #20 Hurricane Harvey Relief Toyota, looks on from the garage during practice for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond International Raceway on September 8, 2017 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Sarah Crabill/Getty Images) If there really is justice in the skidding world of NASCAR, a good-natured, soft-spoken 45-year-old veteran from Cambridge, Wis., named Matthew…

RICHMOND, Va. — Kyle Larson won the regular-season finale Saturday at Richmond Raceway. At least for now. Nothing against Larson, but after what happened in the past week, it’s hard to be sure of anything in NASCAR these days. He’ll have to wait until Tuesday, when his car goes through an additional inspection at NASCAR’s research and development center, before he can be sure of the victory. That’s the circus…

11:30 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment RICHMOND, Va. — Kyle Larson won the regular-season finale Saturday at Richmond Raceway. At least for now. Nothing against Larson, but after what happened in the past week, it’s hard to be sure of anything in NASCAR these days. He’ll have to wait until Tuesday, when his car goes through an additional inspection at NASCAR’s research and development center,…

When you haven’t been on a bicycle for four years – and the reason is because last time you were cycling, you fell off, broke your shoulder bone clean in half and have been slightly traumatised by the sight of bicycles ever since – is it wise to sign up for a 15km mountain bike ride? When you were never much of a cyclist anyway? And you have never been…

Photo credit: Jonathan Moore/Getty Images When you’re one of few women in an industry full of men, it’s easy to want to blend in—to not get the looks and comments that go with being the girl. But, in a world where dudes need more education on feminine health, power to NASCAR driver Julia Landauer for wanting to slap a tampon ad on the side of her race car. Landauer, if…

Richmond, Va. – The Federated Auto Parts 400 is the final regular season race in the NASCAR Cup Series, and the drivers found a special way to thank their fans. Before the race officially started, the drivers circled Richmond Raceway’s track, warming up their cars with a pace car leading the way. As they prepared for the green flag, the whole field – which usually starts and restarts two cars…

Richmond, Va. – The Federated Auto Parts 400 was a pretty uneventful race through the first half. But relatively early in the third stage, the strangest thing happened. Austin Dillon appeared to spin out Danica Patrick, and a yellow caution flag was thrown, but that’s not it. As the drivers slowed down and circled the track, they prepared to hit pit road. Totally inexplicably, an ambulance was on the track’s…

No charges have been filed against Mr. Nuzman, and he has emphatically denied all accusations of wrongdoing. Mr. Maleson, who piloted Brazil’s first bobsled team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, said he had spoken with the authorities in Brazil and France. “I started speaking to the I.O.C. in 2011,” Mr. Maleson said in a telephone interview. “Every year, we had scandals with the organizing committee and…