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Toyota teams have won one championship, 30 races and made 10 total Chase appearances with six total drivers since 2015, the last time the automaker made any significant changes to its on-track product. This past season, its teams won 16 races, the most since the company began competing at NASCAR’s top level in 2007. It also won its first premier series manufacturer championship as well.  SEASON REVIEWS: Busch | Edwards…

Rory McIlroy caught a lot of flak, from all sides, when he told reporters at the British Open why he wasn’t taking part in golf’s return to the Olympic games. Among other things, McIlroy said he “didn’t get into golf to try and grow the game,” a saucy retort to many in the sport that opined participation in Rio was practically compulsory for the future of the sport. McIlroy didn’t…

The Triangle is about to get a second professional soccer team. Gov. Roy Cooper joined Steve Malik, owner of North Carolina F.C., to announce the purchase of the Western New York Flash, champions of the National Women’s Soccer League. The team will be renamed the North Carolina Courage and will begin play at Cary’s WakeMed Soccer Park in April. “We, in North Carolina, are an epicenter for sports,” Cooper said…

RELATED: Full 2017 schedule The start of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season is more than one month away but four competitors will be back behind the wheel much sooner. Jamie McMurray (Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates No. 1 Chevrolet), Chase Elliott (Hendrick Motorsports No. 24 Chevrolet), Joey Logano (Team Penske No. 22 Ford) and Matt Kenseth (Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 Toyota) are scheduled to take…

Toyota showed up with a big display Monday at the 2017 North American International Auto Show by debuting its 2018 production Camry, along with the 2018 NASCAR Camry race car, which will be raced in the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season, starting with The Clash at Daytona on Feb. 18. The new Toyota race car features a sleek design with an effort to showcase a body style that…

Thomas Clayton BATH, N.Y. – A murder trial is set to begin for a former professional hockey player accused of hiring a man to kill his wife and set fire to their house in New York. Prosecutors say Thomas Clayton hired Michael Beard to kill 35-year-old Kelley Clayton in September 2015 in her home in rural Caton, on the Pennsylvania border near Elmira. Beard was convicted of first- and second-degree…

North Carolina F.C. owner Steve Malik continued to break down soccer barriers in the Triangle Monday, announcing the acquisition of the Western New York Flash, which is undergoing a rebrand to become the North Carolina Courage. North Carolina governor Roy Cooper made an appearance at the press conference, held at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary. “We, in North Carolina, are an epicenter for sports,” Cooper said. “This is my first…

World number two Rory McIlroy has said he still resents the Olympic Games for forcing him to choose between Britain and Ireland and revealed that Tiger Woods sends him texts in the early hours. The Northern Irishman, who agonized for years before opting to represent Ireland, ultimately withdrew from last year’s Rio de Janeiro Games after citing health fears over the Zika virus. The four times major winner told Ireland’s…

Sir Bradley Wiggins has acquired new management at the M&C Saatchi Merlin agency as he attempts to reconfigure his image following the controversy last September over therapeutic use exemptions and with a UK Anti-Doping inquiry still to report on the delivery of a medical package to Team Sky at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné. Wiggins’s low-key confirmation on 28 December that his racing days were finally over would appear to be…

Bruce Arena. (Ted S. Warren/Associated Press) LOS ANGELES – Southern California is the hub of American soccer this week as players gather for training camps, leagues in varying degrees of stability prepare for a new year, and thousands from all corners of the sport converge for the annual National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention. The spotlight is tightest on the men’s national team, which, after a bruising autumn, will…

Wealthy Asian investors unwilling to splurge on owning their own European soccer teams are showing their enthusiasm by helping fund the sport. Sales of football finance notes, backed by television rights of soccer clubs, doubled to $11 million last month from the amount issued in April, when they were opened to investors in the region, according to data from Swiss-Asia Holding Pte. The Singapore-registered firm that operates the investment says total…

The key moments in football are so often defined by rivalries. The clash of personalities, the season’s crucial fixture. The sweetest victory, and the bitterest defeat, will almost always be the away match at the ground of your biggest rival. Your greatest win there, or biggest loss, will remain lodged in your memory. Even so, there is also a shared understanding among fans from all sides. While you want to…

Wealthy Asian investors unwilling to splurge on owning their own European soccer teams are showing their enthusiasm by helping fund the sport. Sales of football finance notes, backed by television rights of soccer clubs, doubled to $11 million last month from the amount issued in April, when they were opened to investors in the region, according to data from Swiss-Asia Holding Pte. The Singapore-registered firm that operates the investment says total…

Wealthy Asian investors unwilling to splurge on owning their own European soccer teams are showing their enthusiasm by helping fund the sport. Sales of football finance notes, backed by television rights of soccer clubs, doubled to $11 million last month from the amount issued in April, when they were opened to investors in the region, according to data from Swiss-Asia Holding Pte. The Singapore-registered firm that operates the investment says total…

Bruce Arena. (Ted S. Warren/Associated Press) LOS ANGELES – Southern California is the hub of American soccer this week as players gather for training camps, leagues in varying degrees of stability prepare for a new year, and thousands from all corners of the sport converge for the annual National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention. The spotlight is tightest on the men’s national team, which, after a bruising autumn, will…

In this image from a video, these Georgia Tech swimmers practice their relay in the snow after their meet against Virginia Tech was canceled in Blacksburg, Va. The hardest part, said Matt Casillas, a sophomore from Georgia Tech who grew up in Southern California, was taking his shoes off. It was well below 20 degrees in Christiansburg, Va., their swim meet with Virginia Tech and the University of Kentucky had…

Wealthy Asian investors unwilling to splurge on owning their own European soccer teams are showing their enthusiasm by helping fund the sport. Sales of football finance notes, backed by television rights of soccer clubs, doubled to $11 million last month from the amount issued in April, when they were opened to investors in the region, according to data from Swiss-Asia Holding Pte. The Singapore-registered firm that operates the investment says total…

Bruce Arena. (Ted S. Warren/Associated Press) LOS ANGELES – Southern California is the hub of American soccer this week as players gather for training camps, leagues in varying degrees of stability prepare for a new year, and thousands from all corners of the sport converge for the annual National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention. The spotlight is tightest on the men’s national team, which, after a bruising autumn, will…

Wealthy Asian investors unwilling to splurge on owning their own European soccer teams are showing their enthusiasm by helping fund the sport. Sales of football finance notes, backed by television rights of soccer clubs, doubled to $11 million last month from the amount issued in April, when they were opened to investors in the region, according to data from Swiss-Asia Holding Pte. The Singapore-registered firm that operates the investment says total…