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Matt Kenseth scored his 3rd win of 2013 in the Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway Saturday night after passing his teammate, Kyle Busch, with under 15 laps to go.

Kenseth was seen as a long shot since he was without his usual crew chief Jason Ratcliff, but replacement Wally Brown made two late-race calls on adjustments that helped the #20 car improve and overtake Kyle Busch’s #18 for the lead

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It was not a good week for Major League Baseball umpire Angel Hernandez. 

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One of the PGA Tour's most lucrative tournaments and the NBA and NHL playoffs highlight the upcoming sports calendar. Here's what to watch this weekend:

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You hear it all the time in professional sports—'These guys are too old, they can't hack it anymore'—but the San Antonio Spurs are beating teams half their age, and have been doing so for over a decade.

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Grand Canyon West is privately owned by the Hualapai tribe, and it was they who conceived of and now operate the Grand Canyon Skywalk -- A transparent, horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge in Arizona that allows you to get a feel for just how gigantic the Grand Canyon truly is, by scaring the life out of you.

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We know that by asking such a question we are at risking the ridicule of NBA purists, but after LeBron James won his fourth Most Valuable Player award, we're a bit curious.

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The David vs. Goliath metaphor is one we use a lot in sports, but when trying to describe the final results of this week’s Sprint Cup Series race, nothing else seems appropriate.

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Jason Collins made sports history last week when he announced that he was gay. Will that lead other athletes to do the same?

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The Alabama-Auburn rivalry is bigger than anything else in Alabama. As a native of Birmingham, Ala., Sam Williams, the lead singer of Nashville-based band The Weeks, knows all about the gridiron war.

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It's hard to believe it, but there has officially been a full month of baseball. While a month might be too early to, say, tab the currently reigning Kansas City Royals as the "team to beat" in the AL Central, it is a reasonable period of time to react to rookies' performances.

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