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William Byron got his second win of the season, and this time he got to do it in front of his bosses. Byron won his second consecutive Xfinity Series race on Saturday by leading a 1-2 finish at Daytona International Speedway for JR Motorsports. Byron raced to his first career Xfinity victory last weekend at Iowa, but team owners Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Rick Hendrick weren’t at the track to…

For these games, Arena has given many of his top-choice players a rest. In their place on the 23-man roster are some other veterans and a host of new faces and second-tier players, all hoping to catch the coaching staff’s eye a year before the World Cup. A couple did that on Saturday: Forward Dom Dwyer slammed in a deflection to open the scoring 19 minutes into his debut with…

RELATED: Set your Fantasy Live lineup now! Dale Earnhardt Jr., $20: Earnhardt Jr. is the best restrictor-plate racer in NASCAR, his car was fastest in final practice and teammate Chase Elliott says Earnhardt is more locked in than he’s ever seen. Oh, and the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet is starting on the Coors Light Pole. Yes, picking the driver starting P1 is a risk at big tracks due to…

For these games, Arena has given many of his top-choice players a rest. In their place on the 23-man roster are some other veterans and a host of new faces and second-tier players, all hoping to catch the coaching staff’s eye a year before the World Cup. But the players also know a hard truth: Whatever they do in the next month, most of them will watch the World Cup…

Give a couple of tournament organizers eight days, 50 states and hundreds of hours of TV time to work with and you think they’d be able to stay out of each others’ way, right? Apparently not. At least not in the case of this month’s CONCACAF Gold Cup, the continent’s biennial international championship that starts Friday, and the International Champions Cup, an annual summer series of exhibitions featuring some of…

Surafel Wodajo’s most cherished memory from his childhood in Ethiopia is sitting on the cement floor in his living room watching Zinedine Zidane, a French soccer star who was in an Italian league at the time, on his family’s black-and-white TV. Armon Tenaw, who now plays on a team with Wodajo in Seattle, can’t pinpoint when he was introduced to the sport. It’s just always been there. He remembers playing…

NASCAR driver Mike Wallace is suing Live Nation and other corporate entities, claiming they were negligent by allowing him and his daughter to be beaten ruthlessly by multiple intoxicated men after a Rascal Flatts concert in Charlotte last year, according to the Charlotte Observer. Brutal beating of #NASCAR driver after Rascal Flatts concert prompts lawsuit https://t.co/YVH9lzDHk1 #RascalFlatts @NASCAR pic.twitter.com/cbu0j4kzwr — Doug Miller (@DougObserver) June 30, 2017 In the lawsuit, which…

Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s retirement tour is making an emotional stop at NASCAR’s most famous track. Earnhardt won his first pole Friday since Sept. 29, 2013, and will lead the field to the green flag in what could be his final Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway. Earnhardt reached 190.973 mph during his fast lap, putting his No. 88 Chevrolet in the top spot for the Saturday night race. The…

When a piece of media coverage a league dislikes pops up, it’s often passed around and complained about inside that league’s offices. It’s sometimes even complained about publicly, as with the NFL and The New York Times, or with all sorts of various snarkiness from league PR execs on Twitter. It’s much rarer to see league executives actually pass those stories on to their sport’s athletes and cite them as “the kind of…

NASCAR driver Mike Wallace has resumed his legal fight over the 2016 mauling he took during a post-concert brawl at PNC Pavilion, with the veteran racer and his family accusing the venue’s owners and management of irresponsibly failing to head off the fight. In a lawsuit moved to federal court on Friday, Wallace, his wife, daughter and son-in-law accuse the corporate owners/operators of allowing an unruly group with a history…

EDINA, Minn. (WCCO) — As the Holy Family high school hockey players skate their summer training, junior defenseman Michael Spinner can only look on. He is sidelined for the next ten days after a near-fatal on ice accident. “This is something that nobody should have to ever go through,” Michael said. The 16-year-old Prior Lake resident is lucky to be alive after the accident during Wednesday’s practice. While Spinner was…

Who takes the checkered flag as the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series heads to Daytona? Here are our picks for Sunday’s race. Winner: Dale Earnhardt Jr. It is Dale Jr. weekend at Daytona after all! The No. 88 team will be doing everything it can this week to get a playoff-clinching race at arguably its best track. Final practice proved just that with Dale Jr. posting the fastest speed. He…

NASCAR driver Mike Wallace has resumed his legal fight over the 2016 mauling he took during a post-concert brawl at PNC Pavilion, with the veteran racer and his family accusing the venue’s owners and management of irresponsibly failing to head off the fight. In a lawsuit moved to federal court on Friday, Wallace, his wife, daughter and son-in-law accuse the corporate owners/operators of allowing an unruly group with a history…

Kobe Bryant is an AC Milan fan, but also loves Barcelona. Soon after then-6-year-old Kobe Bryant moved to Italy with his family, he went down to a local park in search of a basketball game. The court was easy enough to find but what the local kids were doing on it looked a lot different. Underneath each basket was a set of goalposts, allowing the kids to play pickup games…

*Okay we are headed into a long weekend so let’s keep things short and light: Scott Hartnell is being bought out by the Columbus Blue Jackets. Come back to us, Scott! [BSH] *But maybe not any more because late last night Jordan Weal re-signed! [BSH] *We still need a dang goalie. And it’s not going to be Steve Mason … but it might be Brian Elliott? [BSH] *Some…

“The costume is a symbol, and we, the team, carry it with great responsibility,” he said. “It stands for all the indigenous peoples of the country, and for Guatemala as a whole.” The women in Xejuyup weave the shirts for the men in their families, a task that usually takes two months. The skirt is made of wool and bought in the region. A full uniform is worth about 2,000…

Brian Skerry has been intrigued by the ocean ever since he took a course in scuba diving as a teenager. He turned it into his day job by becoming a nature photographer specializing in underwater life. His work is now featured in the exhibit “Sharks: On Assignment With Brian Skerry” at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C., running through October. (There’s a $25 companion book, “Shark,” as well.) Capturing…

An anonymous bomb threat was called in Thursday regarding Daytona International Speedway but local law enforcement swept through the facility and found no traces of any explosive devices. A statement from the Daytona Police Department reads as follows: “On Thursday afternoon, June 29, 2017, a call was received at the front desk of the Daytona Beach Police Department regarding a bomb threat at the Speedway. The caller said…

CONCORD, N.C. — Summer typically consists of swimming, beach trips, and family barbecues. On a late June day, a group of high school students took a moment away from the standard summer scene to experience their possible future with NASCAR. Twenty-two young NASCAR fans, encompassing all regions of the nation, traveled to the Leavine Family Racing headquarters in Concord, North Carolina, for Camp 95. Handpicked, these students came to Camp…