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NASCAR notified teams that it will seek the firmest penalty currently available for a specific rear suspension violation after observing a rules infraction trend developing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR XFINITY Series. Effective immediately, any penalty associated with the Section 20.14.2 Rear Suspension I-4 portion of the NASCAR Rule Book found in post-race inspection will be elevated to the maximum L1-level penalty. The maximum penalty includes:…

State lawmakers shelved a bill Friday that would have fast-tracked bus, train and other transit projects for Los Angeles’ 2028 Olympic Games and a new Inglewood arena for the Los Angeles Clippers. The measure, SB 789, unveiled a week ago, would have lessened the projects’ developers duties under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. The law requires developers to disclose and reduce a project’s effects on the environment, a…

After a brief pause for the FIFA international break, Europe’s top leagues return to action this weekend with a number of interesting early season matchups. Here are a few worth watching Saturday in place of college football: English Premier League: Both Manchester teams will be in action with unbeaten Manchester City hosting unbeaten Liverpool in an early morning match (NBCSN, NBC Universo, 4:30 a.m. PT) that figures to be a…

NASCAR Cup Series driver Daniel Suarez will need a new sponsor for the Oct. 15 race at Talladega Superspeedway after sandwich chain Subway pulled out of a four-race sponsorship, stating “due to circumstances beyond our control” that it “had to terminate” the deal. What were those circumstances? Suarez handing out Dunkin’ Donuts from a golf cart in an NBC TV segment. The video, made with with Rutledge Wood near New…

Photo credit: Sarah Crabill/Getty Images Somehow in this year of oppressive engine penalties over in Formula One, NASCAR wants to institute annoying engine penalties of their own in 2018, reports ESPN. Granted, they’re less complex than F1’s, but if your favorite driver has to change an engine over a weekend next year, oof. I’m sorry. NASCAR announced that it’s going to a single-engine rule for all Cup Series events, meaning…

NASCAR Cup Series driver Daniel Suarez will need a new sponsor for the Oct. 15 race at Talladega Superspeedway after sandwich chain Subway pulled out of a four-race sponsorship, stating “due to circumstances beyond our control” that it “had to terminate” the deal. What were those circumstances? Suarez handing out Dunkin’ Donuts from a golf cart in an NBC TV segment. The video, made with with Rutledge Wood near New…

With a victory on Monday night in the K&N Pro Series East race at Langley Speedway in Virginia, Todd Gilliland is one step closer to accomplishing something that hasn’t been achieved in nearly 20 years: winning two NASCAR championships in the same season. His victory pulled him six points ahead of Harrison Burton in the East standings with just two races remaining at New Jersey and Dover. Meanwhile,…

NASCAR Cup Series driver Daniel Suarez will need a new sponsor for the Oct. 15 race at Talladega Superspeedway after sandwich chain Subway pulled out of a four-race sponsorship, stating “due to circumstances beyond our control” that it “had to terminate” the deal. What were those circumstances? Suarez handing out Dunkin’ Donuts from a golf cart in an NBC TV segment. The video, made with with Rutledge Wood near New…

by Arthur L. Caplan & Lee H. Igel People’s beliefs about war monuments, social movements, immigrants, and even the severity of hurricanes seem to be creating widespread division and disagreement everywhere you look these days. Athletes choosing to protest the national anthem shows that sports aren’t immune to discord, either. But leave it to sports to also offer a rare bit of good news about bringing people together, as hockey…

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New for the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, a driver that goes to a backup car will have to start at the rear of the field regardless of circumstances. Current regulations allow a driver to retain his or her starting positions if the driver starts the race in a car that was used during qualifications. In other words, the current protocol only sends drivers to the…

A woman considered to be one of the top up-and-coming female drivers in NASCAR said she would “love to have a tampon on the side of my car.” Julia Landauer, who competes in NASCAR’s K&N Pro Series West, made the statement to Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in a profile of her and her racing career in its Sept. 4 edition. Her point: Female and unisex family brands are missing out by…

A woman considered to be one of the top up-and-coming female drivers in NASCAR said she would “love to have a tampon on the side of my car.” Julia Landauer, who competes in NASCAR’s K&N Pro Series West, made the statement to Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in a profile of her and her racing career in its Sept. 4 edition. Her point: Female and unisex family brands are missing out by…

A woman considered to be one of the top up-and-coming female drivers in NASCAR said she would “love to have a tampon on the side of my car.” Julia Landauer, who competes in NASCAR’s K&N Pro Series West, made the statement to Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in a profile of her and her racing career in its Sept. 4 edition. Her point: Female and unisex family brands are missing out by…

This is it – after eight months of racing, we’ve finally reached the regular-season finale. Thirteen drivers will suit up in Richmond with their fates secure. They range from regular-season points champion Martin Truex Jr. to Austin Dillon, whose victory at May’s Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte was the first of his Cup Series career. But 16 drivers make the playoffs, meaning there are three slots up for grabs at Saturday…

A woman considered to be one of the top up-and-coming female drivers in NASCAR said she would “love to have a tampon on the side of my car.” Julia Landauer, who competes in NASCAR’s K&N Pro Series West, made the statement to Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in a profile of her and her racing career in its Sept. 4 edition. Her point: Female and unisex family brands are missing out by…

The London 2012 bid team have defended themselves against any suggestion of corruption, insisting they are “as close to certain as possible” the right to host the Olympics in the capital was won cleanly. A deepening of the bribery scandal engulfing the International Olympic Committee has led to questions about how the Sochi 2014, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games were awarded. Sir Keith Mills, the former chief executive of…

NASCAR handed the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series an L1-level penalty following the race last weekend at Darlington Raceway for violating sections 20.14.2 (rear suspension) of the NASCAR Rule Book. Crew chief Mike Wheeler was fined $50,000 and suspended for two races, the team was assessed with the loss of 25 owner points and 25 driver points, and Denny Hamlin’s first-place finish…

RELATED: Go behind the scenes at JTG Daugherty Racing HARRISBURG, N.C. — Chris Buescher already has something heading into 2018 that he’s never had before in his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career — peace of mind. That’s because the 24-year-old knows exactly where he’ll be next year, a measure of comfort that’s been foreign in the past. “It is a little comforting to know we’ve got a place we…

To make the World Cup every four years, the United States men’s national team needs to do the bare minimum — that usually entails not being worse than teams from a couple of Central American or Caribbean countries that have a GDP roughly 0.1 percent the size of ours. In Honduras on Tuesday night, the USMNT delivered on that promise: They accomplished the bare minimum. A late Bobby Wood goal…