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Here are the hot topics, trending news and key story lines to get you ready for this weekend’s races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. WEATHER Hurricane Matthew could make this weekend very soggy. Or, Matthew could take a turn and not affect Charlotte weather much at all. Right now, the National Weather Service says a high of 73 and partly sunny Thursday, with Sprint Cup Coors Light Pole Qualifying scheduled for…

With the imminent arrival of Hurricane Matthew, NASCAR, tracks and people in the community are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best.  Right now, everything is still on schedule at Charlotte Motor Speedway, which will host the Drive for the Cure 300 NASCAR XFINITY Series race Friday night and the Bank of America 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Saturday night. The forecast does not look good for…

Two years ago, Brad Keselowski revved up NASCAR’s Chase by using his bumper to rough up championship contenders Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon. His aggression sparked a wild postrace fight with Kenseth at Charlotte Motor Speedway and an all-out brawl with Gordon’s crew at Texas. MORE: Ranking the 12 Chase contenders in Round 2 The incidents fired up fans and sent a charge through the 10-race Chase, one that generated…

“The world has recognized that the time has come for Brazil,” then-President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva declared, as the news that Rio would host the Olympics sparked celebrations all along Copacabana Beach in October 2009. At least in the beginning, the country’s Olympic ambitions included the favelas. Social welfare programs put in place by Lula’s leftist Workers’ Party had begun to reduce illiteracy, extreme hunger and the worst of…

It has made me passionate about dispelling the idea you cannot be a successful sportsperson if you are not a certain size. But every sport is different, with any and many body types. For swimming, my body was my tool and I tried different things to make it work for me, but when I did weights, I got muscly, so that did not work for me in water. The biggest…

The University of Vermont men’s hockey team is in hot water over hazing allegations. USATSI The University of Vermont announced Thursday that it has placed its Division I men’s hockey team on probation for a year, while suspending both of its co-captains and two of three alternate captains for five games after an alleged hazing incident. According to UVM Athletics, allegations of a “prohibited initiation activity focused on first-year team…

“The world has recognized that the time has come for Brazil,” then-President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva declared, as the news that Rio would host the Olympics sparked celebrations all along Copacabana Beach in October 2009. At least in the beginning, the country’s Olympic ambitions included the favelas. Social welfare programs put in place by Lula’s leftist Workers’ Party had begun to reduce illiteracy, extreme hunger and the worst of…

It has been a bouncy ride for the Hendrick Motorsports gang this NASCAR season. Concussion-related issues have sidelined Dale Earnhardt Jr. for the rest of the year. Inconsistency again squeezed Kasey Kahne out of the Chase. Uncharacteristic miscues have marked an erratic run for six-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson. And then there’s the kid. Chase Elliott. He’s a rookie in this high-speed circus, replacing a guy you may have heard…

Here are the hot topics, trending news and key story lines to get you ready for this weekend’s races at Charlotte Motor Speedway. WEATHER Hurricane Matthew could make this weekend very soggy. Or, Matthew could take a turn and not affect Charlotte weather much at all. Right now, the National Weather Service says a high of 73 and partly sunny Thursday, with Sprint Cup Coors Light Pole Qualifying scheduled for…

During Women’s Sport Week 2016, BBC Sport will have a special column each day by a notable woman in sport. Four-time Olympic cycling champion Laura Kenny (nee Trott) explains how women’s road racing lags behind in the equality stakes and how changing her diet helped her win gold at Rio 2016. During my career, men’s and women’s track cycling has always been equal. We get equal prize money and there…

The world governing body for amateur boxing has sidelined all 36 of the referees and judges who officiated at the Rio Olympics and dismantled its controversial “five star” officiating system that was implicated in corruption allegations. Two months after the Guardian exclusively revealed concerns among senior officials over corrupt judging at the Rio Olympics and a string of high-profile incidents followed at the Games, the Amateur International Boxing Association (Aiba)…

During Women’s Sport Week 2016, BBC Sport will have a special column each day by a notable woman in sport. Four-time Olympic cycling champion Laura Kenny (nee Trott) explains how women’s road racing lags behind in the equality stakes and how changing her diet helped her win gold at Rio 2016. During my career, men’s and women’s track cycling has always been equal. We get equal prize money and there…

It has been a bouncy ride for the Hendrick Motorsports gang this NASCAR season. Concussion-related issues have sidelined Dale Earnhardt Jr. for the rest of the year. Inconsistency again squeezed Kasey Kahne out of the Chase. Uncharacteristic miscues have marked an erratic run for six-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson. And then there’s the kid. Chase Elliott. He’s a rookie in this high-speed circus, replacing a guy you may have heard…

It has been a bouncy ride for the Hendrick Motorsports gang this NASCAR season. Concussion-related issues have sidelined Dale Earnhardt Jr. for the rest of the year. Inconsistency again squeezed Kasey Kahne out of the Chase. Uncharacteristic miscues have marked an erratic run for six-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson. And then there’s the kid. Chase Elliott. He’s a rookie in this high-speed circus, replacing a guy you may have heard…

It has been a bouncy ride for the Hendrick Motorsports gang this NASCAR season. Concussion-related issues have sidelined Dale Earnhardt Jr. for the rest of the year. Inconsistency again squeezed Kasey Kahne out of the Chase. Uncharacteristic miscues have marked an erratic run for six-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson. And then there’s the kid. Chase Elliott. He’s a rookie in this high-speed circus, replacing a guy you may have heard…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Marcus Mariota began playing football in Pop Warner, as a receiver. When the previous year’s quarterback moved to a higher division – and coaches discovered Mariota was the only kid who could throw – he became a quarterback. But before then, he played soccer. And loved it. “For me, soccer provided me with the athletic fundamentals that allowed me to be the player that I am today,’’…

Fans who showed up on a late summer night to see Notre Dame take on the University of Connecticut got a rude awakening at the gates: they were closed. Notre Dame’s other football program, the one that calls the shots in the shadow of Touchdown Jesus, was holding a closed practice on a neighboring field. Spies might attempt to glean formations from Alumni Stadium’s seats, so the soccer fans were…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. again found himself in need of a substitute driver. Tony Stewart was there to answer the call.   Earnhardt Jr. was at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Tuesday for a Dale Jr. Foundation charity ride-along event. The problem: Earnhardt Jr. has not been cleared to drive by his doctors as he recovers from concussion-like symptoms. The event raises “quite a bit of money,” Junior said in a video…

In 1996, San Francisco’s department of parking and traffic published a draft of what was to be the city’s first bicycle-specific transport plan. Almost immediately, cyclists in the city noticed something amiss: there were no bike lanes planned for Valencia Street, a popular route through the largely Latino Mission neighbourhood. Opposition to the plan grew so intense that the following year, a crackdown against pro-cycling protesters ended in a riot….

HMOne of the most shocking things in the last six weeks was [when] we were invited on to a TV channel to talk about women in sport and had a great discussion with a female presenter before we went live on TV, and the male presenter kicked off with, ‘So, now there’s gender equality’ … I thought ‘Sorry?’ He absolutely ambushed it. Because the women’s hockey team made it on…