Sports

The top-ranked Riverside girls cross country team has one goal in mind this fall: three-peat.

Having won back-to-back state titles during the last two seasons, the Lady Warriors are again the favorites to take home the prize.

Blue Ridge saw its first minutes of game action last Friday at Chesnee during one of the team’s scheduled preseason scrimmages.

For head coach Shane Clark, it was a chance to see his guys go full speed against full contact.

It was appropriate that the Windows 10 400 at Pocono Raceway was decided by the fuel “window.”

Matt Kenseth passed three drivers who ran out of gas – Joey Logano with three laps left, Martin Truex Jr. who had two laps to go and Kyle Busch on the final go-around – to win his first race at Pocono in 32 attempts.

By Mark Vasto

On Friday, July 31, 2015, the world -- America certainly -- was a very different place. We were a world that seemed to have lost its heroes.

Senior leadership sent Greer High’s offense off to a flying start when fall football practice began Friday.

“I feel good about the team because the things that we are able to do after just two days of practice was impressive,” declared Yellow Jackets Head Coach Will Young.

Things are heating up on the local gridiron as area teams began fall practice this week.

With only a couple of weeks remaining before the first game of the high school season, Blue Ridge, Byrnes, Eastside, Greer and Riverside are trying to find the right balance.

By Reid Spencer
NASCAR Wire

Matt Kenseth, the unexpected winner of Sunday’s Windows 10 400 at Pocono Raceway, had to do a double take.

So did second and third-place finishers Brad Keselowski and Jeff Gordon.

By Rob Gray
NASCAR Wire

As the cautions — and wreckage — piled up, Ryan Blaney didn’t blink.

Trouble reigned for most in the late tension-filled stages of the U.S. Cellular 250 NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Iowa Speedway, but the driver of the No. 22 Discount Tire Ford remained calm and poised.

Seemed so, anyway.