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x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck looks ahead to the Bad Boy Off Road 300 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. USA TODAY Sports Martin Truex Jr., bottom, and Jimmie Johnson, top, shown here in 2015, failed post-race inspection at Chicagoland Speedway, but NASCAR decided not to penalize them.(Photo: Matthew O’Haren,…

I don’t care who you are, this is hilarious. Matt Dillner and Chuck Bush have put together a tremendously funny NASCAR video they call “The F-Post Presents: Authentic NASCAR gibberish.” Featuring bad lip-syncing of some of NASCAR’s biggest stars, this is good for a serious belly laugh or two.

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck looks ahead to the Bad Boy Off Road 300 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. USA TODAY Sports Joey Logano says the violent protests in Charlotte have been a ‘scary situation.’(Photo: Mike Dinovo, USA TODAY Sports) LOUDON, N.H. – With few exceptions, NASCAR drivers call…

x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Jeff Gluck looks ahead to the Bad Boy Off Road 300 and the story lines that fans should keep an eye on leading up to this weekend’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. USA TODAY Sports Martin Truex Jr., bottom, and Jimmie Johnson, top, shown here in 2015, failed post-race inspection at Chicagoland Speedway, but NASCAR decided not to penalize them.(Photo: Matthew O’Haren,…

Team USA forward Derek Stepan (21) reacts as he looks up at the video board as Czech Republic players celebrate a goal.(Photo: Dan Hamilton, USA TODAY Sports) TORONTO — Team USA’s 4-3 loss to the Czech Republic in its final World Cup game put a frame around the Americans’ most disappointing tournament performance since the 1998 Olympics, when an unexpected early exit led to players trashing rooms in the Olympic Village. This…

Media playback is not supported on this device Manchester United v Leicester: Ranieri dismisses talk of Mourinho feud Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri says Jose Mourinho “is a fantastic person” and any issues between the two are “prehistoric”. The champions play Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday, with the two managers having clashed in the past. Mourinho called Ranieri “a loser” after replacing him at Chelsea and also insulted him…

After a disappointing performance at the Rio Olympics an Indian government think tank has come up with a strategy to help the country achieve 50 medals at the 2024 Games. India sent more than 120 athletes to Rio de Janeiro with hopes of exceeding the six medals won at London in 2012, but returned with a silver in badminton and a wrestling bronze. The National Institution for Transforming India Aayog…

TORONTO Ralph Krueger stood at the podium talking hockey but thinking soccer. As the chairman of Premiership side Southampton FC, Krueger’s mind was on a far away Europa Cup match that was just getting underway against Sparta Prague. As head coach of Team Europe, his focus was on the World Cup of Hockey and his team’s tournament opener the next day against the United States. It would be a good…

NASCAR‘s Hall of Fame suffered heavy damage when the Charlotte protests turned into rioting and looting.  Police put the area on lockdown after the crowds shattered windows in several buildings in Charlotte’s NASCAR Plaza. The riots also hit the Charlotte Hornets team store. Cops used tear gas to clear the area after one protester was shot and killed, but not by police. North Carolina’s Governor has declared a state of emergency.

Game Details Developer: PES ProductionsPublisher: KonamiPlatform: PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 (PS4 reviewed)Rating: E for EveryoneRelease Date: September 18, 2015 (UK), September 17 (Europe), September 15 (US)Price: £36 / £56Links: Amazon (UK) | Amazon (US) | Official website reader comments 33 There are many ways to interpret the beautiful game. Some teams prefer to keep the ball on the turf. Others prefer to launch it into the air. Defending deep in…

The NASCAR community is poorer this week with passing of two legends of the garage, reporter Bob Margolis and long-time insider Herbert Ames, both of whom were fixtures in the sport for many years. Margolis was a first-rate writer and reporter, someone who called it exactly like saw it. And he was someone who never said no to a young reporters trying to navigate the complicated NASCAR landscape. In that…

Here’s some hard truths about NASCAR and racing in the wake of the sanctioning body’s decision not to penalize Martin Truex Jr. and Jimmie Johnson after their cars flunked post-race inspection at Chicagoland Speedway. First, a quick recap of the news.  NASCAR decided — quite correctly — that giving a 10-point P2 penalty for both drivers for being minimally out of spec wasn’t fair. By virtue of his win, Truex…

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NASCAR is being sued on allegations that it blocked efforts to racially diversify U.S. motor sports, according to multiple media reports. The lawsuit, filed Friday by Diversity Motorsports CEO Terrance Cox, charges that the stockcar racing organization “has intentionally interfered with the efforts of Cox and Diversity Motorsports to integrate the U.S. motorsports industry by perpetuating, condoning and actively participating in actions designed to humiliate, degrade, ostracize and exclude Cox.” Cox…

9:39 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment A Georgia man has filed a $500 million race discrimination lawsuit against NASCAR and its race teams, claiming his attempts to make NASCAR more racially diverse were rebuffed by the sanctioning body. Terrance Cox III, who operated Diversity Motorsports Racing and who founded a group to protest what it views as injustices of NASCAR by sponsors and team owners toward the…

Martin Truex Jr. celebrates winning the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.(Photo: Mike Dinovo, USA TODAY Sports) JOLIET, Ill. — NASCAR fans are suddenly longing for the days when they never heard of the terms “encumbered” and “LIS.” Once again, NASCAR seems to have backed itself into a corner with a rules change, which then spawned unintended consequences and resulted in another rules change. This is the circle…

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