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Denny Hamlin wins on a long day at Homestead
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Denny Hamlin found the magic at Homestead-Miami Speedway, once again. Hamlin went to the lead for the final time with 30 laps left and held off Chase Elliott for his record-tying third NASCAR Cup Series victory at Homestead. Former drivers Tony Stewart and Greg Biffle are the...
FIFA urges 'tolerance' after Trump's anthem kneeling rebuke
FIFA appealed Monday for “tolerance, mutual respect and common sense” after U.S. President Donald Trump denounced the annulment of a policy that required soccer players to stand during the national anthem. “I won’t be watching much anymore!” Trump tweeted Saturday. Trump retweeted a tweet by Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz,...
Daniel Berger wins in playoff as PGA Tour makes successful, healthy return 
FORT WORTH, Texas — Daniel Berger was playing some of the best golf no one noticed. Three months away because of the covid-19 pandemic didn’t slow his momentum, and he made it pay off Sunday with a victory at Colonial. The PGA Tour made a healthy return at the Charles...
Saints star RB Kamara lauds Bubba Wallace for standing against Confederate flag at NASCAR events 
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Bubba Wallace wore a mask in the colors of the American flag, his hand over his heart as he stood for the national anthem. This time, fans joined him. In troubled and unprecedented times, a bit of normalcy returned to sports Sunday. Fans — only 1,000 of...
St. John's fires assistant fencing coach for racist remarks 
NEW YORK — St. John’s fired an assistant fencing coach for racist remarks in a video posted to social media. Boris Vaksman was recorded saying the “majority” of blacks are troublemakers because “they don’t want to work,” and steal, do drugs and kill. Vaksman, a native of Ukraine who has...
Colonial spectators in bushes and temporary tents off course 
FORT WORTH, Texas — Max Butcher and his buddies felt as if they had front-row seats at Colonial, even in the bushes with no spectators allowed on the course. The group of five recent graduates from nearby TCU stood in a small gap between a row of shrubbery and a...
Schauffele leads Colonial over host of stars in tour return 
FORT WORTH, Texas — The PGA Tour went three months without playing. It took three days to show fans what they were missing, even if all they could do was watch on TV. Eight players had at least a share of the lead at some point Saturday in the Charles...
25 years ago, the Baltimore Stallions ruled CFL 
Twenty-five years ago, the Baltimore Stallions become the only U.S. team to win the CFL title. The Stallions won their final 13 games in 1995 in what turned out to be the CFL’s final season of a three-year run in the United States. This came after the team started 5-3,...
Heat is on: Hectic NASCAR tests drained drivers at Homestead 
MIAMI — Some fans will be back. Some flags will be gone. And after an exhausting few days, NASCAR is about to offer another daunting test at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Cup Series returns to the track for the third time in eight days Sunday at Homestead, which has previously hosted...
NBA gives teams, players more detailed schedule for restart 
The NBA gave teams a more definitive timetable for the restart to the pandemic-interrupted season Friday, including required coronavirus testing that is set to begin this month and mandatory individual workouts in early July before training camps. The league still is working on completing the health and safety protocols that...
Djokovic defends large crowd at charity tennis event 
BELGRADE, Serbia — There was no social distancing, and few among the thousands of fans wore face masks — and Novak Djokovic approved. The fans filled the makeshift stands Friday at Djokovic’s Belgrade tennis club on the banks of the Danube River for the opening day of his charity tennis...
Anxious moments ahead for undrafted baseball players, MLB teams 
NEW YORK — They sat anxiously by their phones, computers and TVs, hoping to hear their names called by big league teams. Instead, the waiting continues for hundreds of young baseball players. MLB’s amateur draft wrapped up Thursday night, shaved to only five rounds over two days from the usual...
Tokyo Olympic head says 80% of facilities lined up for 2021
TOKYO — About 80% of the facilities needed for next year’s postponed Tokyo Olympics have been lined up, the president of the organizing committee said Friday. Two of the largest venues have not yet been secured, however. “For a significant number of facilities, about 80% of them, we have already...
Rose, Varner lead at Colonial as PGA Tour resumes in quiet setting 
FORT WORTH, Texas — The start was even more quiet than usual for a Thursday morning on the PGA Tour, only the silence never left over the next 12 hours as golf was back to business at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Sung Kang made a hole-in-one on the 13th hole...
Confederate flag ban prompts obscure NASCAR driver Ray Ciccarelli to announce retirement 
While some NASCAR fans took to social media to disavow the sport over its ban on the Confederate flag, an obscure, part-time series driver did them one better. He announced he’s quitting. Ray Ciccarelli drives the No. 49 truck in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck series, according to...
NCAA football committee expected to approve extended preseason 
The NCAA football oversight committee finalized a plan for an extended preseason that would include an additional two weeks for teams to hold walk-throughs. The proposal goes to the Division I Council, which meets Tuesday, and is expected to be approved. With the pandemic wiping out spring practice for most...
NASCAR braces for potential fallout after banning Confederate flag 
NASCAR’s decision to ban the Confederate flag from its races and venues grabbed headlines, and stars such as actress Reese Witherspoon and New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara were quick to praise the stock car series for ridding itself of a symbol long associated with slavery and racism. Now...
Baseball card set honors 100th anniversary of Negro Leagues
In recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, which produced sports legends from Hank Aaron to Jackie Robinson, a centennial set of baseball cards has been released featuring 184 members of the league. Created through a partnership between Dreams Fulfilled, which operates the NegroLeagueHistory.com website, and the National...
X Games star Sara Price joins Ganassi
Sara Price needed less than two days in an off-road truck to complete an 800-mile solo race in Mexico. But to escape in a dune buggy from an entire flock of CGI ostriches? That daring drive in the desert took about nine days. Price has her own IMDB page, in...
Former Mars pitcher Will Bednar making most of time at home after successful start at Mississippi State
Throughout his baseball career, Will Bednar has created countless memories, which has made his past two seasons quite different. First, as a senior at Mars, Bednar was able to pitch only three innings because of biceps tendinitis. During his junior year he went 8-0 with a 0.64 ERA and 120...
Truex ends 2020 winless skid with victory at Martinsville
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Martin Truex Jr. cruised down the stretch and won his first NASCAR Cup race of the season Wednesday night in the first race under the lights at Martinsville Speedway. Truex, the 2017 Cup champion, has been one of NASCAR’s biggest winners over the last three years, but...
US Soccer repeals rule that banned kneeling during anthem 
U.S. Soccer’s board of directors voted to repeal a 2017 policy that required national team players to stand during the national anthem, a rule adopted after Megan Rapinoe kneeled in support of Colin Kaepernick. The board made the decision during a conference call, U.S. Soccer announced Wednesday. Policy 604-1 states:...
Women sue USA Swimming over sexual abuse by coaches 
Six women have filed civil lawsuits against USA Swimming, its local associations in California and three now-banned coaches claiming the national governing body failed to protect them from abuse by those coaches. Debra Grodensky, Suzette Moran and Tracy Palmero, along with three other women who remain anonymous, filed three lawsuits...
Golf passes initial test with no positive results from virus 
FORT WORTH, Texas — The PGA Tour is not simply picking up where it left off. Very little about the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial resembles the opening round of The Players Championship on March 12, the last professional golf played before the covid-19 pandemic shut down golf and most...
NASCAR bans Confederate flag from its races and properties 
NASCAR banned the Confederate flag from its races and venues Wednesday, formally severing itself from what for many is a symbol of slavery and racism. The move comes amid social unrest around the globe following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in Minneapolis while being...


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