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WASHINGTON (AP) – Lisa Leslie will have help from Los Angeles Sparks teammate Candace Parker when the U.S. women’s basketball team tries to win a fourth straight Olympic gold medal. They were two of the nine players placed on the team Saturday. The announcement came before Los Angeles played Washington in a WNBA game.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Three members of Brad Keselowski’s team, including crew chief Tony Eury Sr., were penalized Wednesday for participating in post-race altercation with Denny Hamlin’s crew on pit road at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Crew members from both teams scuffled after late race contact between the two drivers in Saturday night’s Nationwide Series event.…

NEW YORK (AP) – A hoof specialist changed the steel sutures in Big Brown’s foot Saturday and said the unbeaten colt remains on target for the Belmont Stakes in a bid for the Triple Crown. “When you push on it now, he doesn’t even feel it,” hoof specialist Ian McKinlay said from Belmont Park. The…

(AP) – Martin Truex Jr. remembered it all. Every minor race, all the hard work tinkering with cars, even the failures were on his mind as drove toward the finish line with the lead. Truex spent a lifetime imagining the feeling of winning a Cup race. Now, he was about to live it for real…

(AP) – Greg Biffle took the pole. Kyle Busch took the heat. Biffle held off the Busch brothers, turning a lap of 155.219 mph on Friday at Dover International Speedway to take the top spot and bolster his bid to drive the No. 16 Ford to his first victory of the season. Kurt Busch was…

Pioneer Youth Football Sign-Ups Sign-ups for the Pioneer Youth Football league will begin on Saturday, June 12 from 9a.m.-noon, in the locker room at Bobby Ray Elementary Sign-ups are for ages 5-12 and the registration fee is $40. Sign-ups will continue every Saturday until July 26. For more information please call 507-8014 or 668-2304. Sports…

Adam Wood left, works on post moves with Daulton Foster during last week’s May Madness Basketball Camp held at the Warren County Middle School. WCMS basketball coach Monica Moore ran the week-long camp with 61 kids participating. The camp offered instructions on the basic fundamentals of the game. This was the largest turnout coach Moore…

By Dale Stubblefield Warren County High School golfer Austin Fairchild traveled to Dickson, Tn. on Wednesday to compete in the Tennessee Golf Associa-tions’ Junior Tour tournament at the Greystone Golf Club. Fairchild finished the 6,858 yard par 72 course with a score of 9-over-par for the two day event, which was good enough for second…

By Duane Sherrill Why do professional sports insist on using college athletics as their minor leagues when athletes should be free to choose their own direction even if it doesn’t mean college. Now before you get wild and start saying, Duane is against higher education, let me say that I realize that higher education is…

By Dale Stubblefield Sundrop improved to 3-3 on the season after downing Rotary Club 10-0 Thursday night in Babe Ruth action on the Edley Newman Field. Alex Bragg took the mound for Sundrop and picked up the win, while Logan Walker took the loss for Rotary. Aaron Taylor led Sundrop with two hits. Ethan Wilson…