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Last August, Rick Hendrick was constantly asked if teenager William Byron was really ready to drive in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. Twelve months later, Hendrick has determined Byron, 19, is really ready for Cup series racing. Hendrick Motorsports made it official Wednesday that Byron, a graduate of Charlotte Country Day, will take over the No. 5 Chevrolet for the 2018 season. Hendrick invited Byron and his father to his home…

Rafa Marquez has led Mexico in the past four World Cups. (Henry Romero/Reuters) The U.S. Treasury announced Wednesday that it was sanctioning Rafa Marquez, along with 20 other people, for providing support to a Mexican drug trafficking organization with ties to a pair of major cartels. Marquez, 38, is a longtime captain of Mexico’s national soccer team and is viewed as one of the greatest defensive players in the country’s…

Amare Kramer, 11, left, and his brother, Masi, 7, participate in a free, two-week soccer camp at Brentwood Park on Wednesday as part of a push by Madison School & Community Recreation to increase program participation in neighborhoods throughout the city. 

William Byron at Talladega Superspeedway in May. Photo credit: Daniel Shirey/Getty Images A few weeks after winning one of NASCAR’s biggest races, the Brickyard 400, 37-year-old Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Kasey Kahne got booted from one of the series’s best teams a year early. His teenage replacement in 2018 is William Byron, who’s only been in a real race car for four years—total. That’s because Byron spent his…

eSports could be added to the Olympic programme as an official medal sport in 2024. Tony Estanguet, co-president of the Paris bid committee, has confirmed that he will speak with the International Olympic Committee and eSports representatives about the full-fledged inclusion of competitive video gaming when the Games come to France in seven years’ time. “We have to look at it because we can’t say, ‘It’s not us. It’s not…

The NASCAR Mailbag is back to answer your questions. A while back NASCAR limited the number of full-time cars per team to four. Recently we’ve gotten an inside look at the inner workings of the Gibbs, Furniture Row relationship with Gibbs suspending the No. 78 crew members. It doesn’t look very good, especially when the 18 and 78 are racing for the win each week. Is JGR secretly…

The closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics saw Tokyo teasing the 2020 Games with a video featuring Pac-Man and Mario. The 2024 Games in Paris, however, might take things a step further. Tony Estanguet, co-president of the Paris Olympic committee, says he plans to hold talks with esports officials and the International Olympic Committee about adding competitive video games to the Games. It’s not as unusual as it might sound….

Despite their age, the three young girls have heard it all. They’ve been called boys when they show up at the soccer field. They’ve been heckled and ridiculed, with even referees questioning what they’re doing on a girls’ soccer team. It’s because of their hair. The three girls, who play on a Madison, Wis., under-11 club team called the 56ers, prefer to wear their hair cropped close, in a manner…

RELATED: Dale Jr., teammates react | All of Byron’s national series wins Hendrick Motorsports announced today that 19-year-old NASCAR XFINITY Series standout William Byron will move to the team’s No. 5 Chevrolet to compete in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series beginning in 2018, completing the organization’s overhauled four-car lineup. Byron, who has 10 national series wins in less than two combined full-time seasons in the XFINITY Series and Camping World…

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German carmaker Volkswagen said on Wednesday it had won a deal to become the new mobility partner of the EURO 2020 soccer championship, which it said it would use to showcase its new I.D. electric car model. Volkswagen is banking on the popularity of soccer as it seeks to restore its image following the “dieselgate” emissions test cheating scandal and makes a strategic shift towards electric cars….

Despite their age, the three young girls have heard it all. They’ve been called boys when they show up at the soccer field. They’ve been heckled and ridiculed, with even referees questioning what they’re doing on a girls’ soccer team. It’s because of their hair. The three girls, who play on a Madison, Wis., under-11 club team called the 56ers, prefer to wear their hair cropped close, in a manner…

Velotopia is as circular as the topography has allowed, for the usual reason that citizens are always clamouring to live near the civic centre. Development has been restricted to level ground and city limits have been restricted to a diameter of 15km. That ensures average commuting distances of less than 7km and average trip times of less than 30 minutes by bike. The 15km limits define an area of 177…

Despite their age, the three young girls have heard it all. They’ve been called boys when they show up at the soccer field. They’ve been heckled and ridiculed, with even referees questioning what they’re doing on a girls’ soccer team. It’s because of their hair. The three girls, who play on a Madison, Wis., under-11 club team called the 56ers, prefer to wear their hair cropped close, in a manner…

Despite their age, the three young girls have heard it all. They’ve been called boys when they show up at the soccer field. They’ve been heckled and ridiculed, with even referees questioning what they’re doing on a girls’ soccer team. It’s because of their hair. The three girls, who play on a Madison, Wis., under-11 club team called the 56ers, prefer to wear their hair cropped close, in a manner…

Despite their age, the three young girls have heard it all. They’ve been called boys when they show up at the soccer field. They’ve been heckled and ridiculed, with even referees questioning what they’re doing on a girls’ soccer team. It’s because of their hair. The three girls, who play on a Madison, Wis., under-11 club team called the 56ers, prefer to wear their hair cropped close, in a manner…

A man who died while attempting to swim the Channel has been named as endurance athlete Douglas Waymark. Waymark, who had previously reached the summit of Mount Everest, was taking part in the near-300-mile Enduroman Arch to Arc triathlon when he got into difficulty on Monday night. His sister, Jo Ikel, wrote on Facebook: “Douglas Waymark has not completed his Channel swim. Last night he felt he could no longer…

In just six months, snowboarders, slalom skiers, speed skaters and others will arrive at Pyeongchang in pursuit of Olympic gold. We’ll watch as athletes from around the world compete in 15 winter sports, catching their dreams or seeing them dashed on the mountains of South Korea during the 2018 Winter Games Olympians who fell short at the Sochi Games four years ago will be focused fiercely on dazzling this time,…

Then, by the end of this year, the owners will award franchises to two additional cities from a list that includes not just Nashville, Cincinnati and Sacramento but also Raleigh, Charlotte, Tampa, Detroit, Indianapolis, St. Louis, San Antonio, Phoenix and San Diego. And next year, the owners will pick two more from the group that remains. Critics of M.L.S. contend that the league’s chase for new markets — and ever-rising…

Three men were stabbed when a fight broke out, reportedly over a referee’s call, during a soccer game between two adult teams Sunday at a high school in Whittier, Calif. The brawl erupted shortly after 12:30 p.m. Pacific time when a man, who was described by police as wearing a black T-shirt and being about 20 years old, started swinging a knife, injuring three men who were taken to a…

Three men were stabbed when a fight broke out, reportedly over a referee’s call, during a soccer game between two adult teams Sunday at a high school in Whittier, Calif. The brawl erupted shortly after 12:30 p.m. Pacific time when a man, who was described by police as wearing a black T-shirt and being about 20 years old, started swinging a knife, injuring three men who were taken to a…