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Sean Weide worked off-camera, behind the scenes, writing without a byline. You may not know his name. Yet he was key to the telling of cycling’s great stories, more than most cycling fans will ever know. Sean died on Tuesday, in his home in Omaha, Nebraska. He was 49. He the press officer for Axeon Hagens Berman and previously worked for Team Type 1, Toyota-United, Rock Racing, and BMC. Pro cycling…

Rankings below 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. The typical median fppk for a 2016 race was in the 3s. Plate tracks tend to be lower and short tracks tend to run higher due to the…

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s national soccer team played its first game on home soil in years on Thursday, beating Jordan 1-0 in Basra, a city that suffered some of the worst violence after Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror. The match drew 60,000 fans — and everything went smoothly. But the match was about much more than sports. It was widely seen as a sign that the country is moving beyond the…

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s national soccer team is due to play its first game on home soil in years on Thursday — taking to the field in a city that suffered some of the worst violence after Saddam Hussein. But the match against neighboring Jordan is about much more than sports. It is widely seen as a sign the country is moving beyond the conflict and bloodshed that has plagued it…

Photo credit: Jerry Marklund/Stringer/Getty Images Before the 2017 race season, the powers that be in NASCAR decided to overhaul the sport’s rules—like, seismic levels of change here. But they couldn’t leave it alone for more than 11 races, changing the race format for the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday. And now, they’re considering more rule changes for 2018. The idea to change things yet again appears to have come after the…

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Screencap via WBTV Fans leave behind all sorts of things at major race weekends—tents, coolers, old couches, and in the case of this weekend’s Coke 600, even one of their own. Over 100,000 people attended this weekend’s Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, per WBTV—including Jody Nash. Advertisement Nash fell asleep at some point during the Coke 600 weekend, which was somewhat understandable given the way NASCAR’s longest race suffered…

Screencap via WBTV Fans leave behind all sorts of things at major race weekends—tents, coolers, old couches, and in the case of this weekend’s Coke 600, even one of their own. Over 100,000 people attended this weekend’s Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, per WBTV—including Jody Nash. Advertisement Nash fell asleep at some point during the Coke 600 weekend, which was somewhat understandable given the way NASCAR’s longest race suffered…

Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Last summer, Rio de Janeiro put on an Olympic Games that should serve as a blaring warning siren to any potential host city stupid enough to want to pay billions for the rights to the Games. Before the Games had been out of town four months, Rio de Janeiro had to declare bankruptcy because they were $31 billion in debt. The power’s out and the medals are…

Screencap via WBTV Fans leave behind all sorts of things at major race weekends—tents, coolers, old couches, and in the case of this weekend’s Coke 600, even one of their own. Over 100,000 people attended this weekend’s Coke 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, per WBTV—including Jody Nash. Advertisement Nash fell asleep at some point during the Coke 600 weekend, which was somewhat understandable given the way NASCAR’s longest race suffered…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// I wasn’t lucky enough to be able to open up Sports Illustrated every few weeks and find a new Frank Deford story waiting for me, but I can still remember opening up “The World’s Tallest Midget” and reading his lyrical prose for the first time. Deford didn’t write for…

Manchester United’s least-winning season in the Premier League hasn’t prevented the 20-time English champion from taking a clear lead atop a list of soccer’s most-valuable clubs. United, which finished sixth in the league and hasn’t won it since storied coach Alex Ferguson stepped down in 2013, increased its value to 3.1 billion euros ($3.5 billion), according to accounting firm KPMG. That moved the club owned by the U.S.-based Glazer family ahead of Spanish…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment sports + biz + culture + lifeGet REDEF delivered to your inbox rantnrave:// I wasn’t lucky enough to be able to open up Sports Illustrated every few weeks and find a new Frank Deford story waiting for me, but I can still remember opening up “The World’s Tallest Midget” and reading his lyrical prose for the first time. Deford didn’t write for…

Two soccer coaches from a Chino Hills high school were among four people killed in a crash near the Desert Center area. Matt Hodges, 30, was the head coach of the varsity girls’ soccer team at Ayala High School, and Gabby Constante was the assistant coach of the team. Both coaches and two other people were killed Monday afternoon in a head-on collision between the car they were in, a…

In Florida, it’s probably a good idea to thoroughly check all corners of your swimming pool before diving in — you never know when a massive alligator may be waiting for you at the bottom. That’s a warning the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office is spreading after getting a call Monday from a woman cleaning a family’s pool in Venice. At the bottom of the chlorine-filled pool sat a 7-to-8-foot female…

GIF via Greg Engle NASCAR driver Kyle Busch was disappointed in his second place finish at this weekend’s Coke 600, and wasn’t in the mood to answer questions. So, he gave a brief answer to the one he was asked in the media pit, and to signify he done once and for all, he threw the microphone down. Kyle Busch desperately wanted to follow up his All-Star Race win with…

Do you remember when hockey was fun to watch? When you could spot Gordy Howe jerseys on kids from the suburbs and the inner cities? When Wayne Gretzky was the greatest athlete on Earth next to Michael Jordan? When people actually tuned into NHL All-Star Skills challenges just to watch Sergei Fedorov skate like a bat outta hell across the ice? How about when children all over the world begged…

The Pittsburgh Penguins are the luckiest team in hockey. I’m a fan, and I freely concede that much. That’s been true historically, like when some of the worst teams in Penguins history yielded Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby in the draft. It’s been true in these Stanley Cup Playoffs, too, with the Pens overcoming massive shot attempt deficits as a matter of routine practice and winning anyway. In that regard,…

Ten drivers already in the NASCAR Hall of Fame competed in at least one race in the No. 3 in what is now known as the Sprint Cup Series: Tim Flock, Cotton Owens, Fireball Roberts, Junior Johnson, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Buck Baker, Fred Lorenzen, Richard Childress and Dale Earnhardt.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The NHL is heading to Asia next season. Just not the Olympics. Commissioner Gary Bettman emphatically reasserted the league will not take a break next February to participate in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea next February. The league previously announced it would skip going to Pyeongchang earlier this spring, a point Bettman bluntly reiterated on Monday just hours before Pittsburgh and Nashville met in Game…