2015 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season, Season summary, July
The Indians' inconsistent play continued throughout July, as they would have several winning and losing streaks of at least three games. Shortly after the All-Star Break, the Indians had a major set-back as they would get swept in four games by the Chicago White Sox at home, part of a 1–6 home stand. This moved the Indians back into last place in the division, and seemingly out of the playoff race.


2015 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season, Season summary, July
The Indians would make several trades before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline. They sent OF David Murphy to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for AA infielder Eric Stamets. They traded 1B/OF Brandon Moss to the St. Louis Cardinals for pitching prospect and 2013 first round draft pick Rob Kaminsky. Lastly, they traded RP Marc Rzepczynski to the San Diego Padres for AAA OF Abraham Almonte.


2015 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season, Season summary, July
Despite these struggles, the Indians would go on to win the final three games of the month to finish July at 13–13.


2015 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season, Season summary, August
The Indians struggles continued, as they would lose five of their first six games of the month, falling ten games below .500 on August 7. On that day, they traded CF Michael Bourn and 1B/OF Nick Swisher and $10 million in cash considerations to the Atlanta Braves for 1B Chris Johnson. The team would bring up OF Abraham Almonte from AAA Columbus after the trade.


2015 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season, Season summary, August
The Tribe began a turnaround on August 8, as they would win their next four games, and close out the month winning 15 of 23, including 9 of 10 home games. During this stretch, the Indians recorded 10 base hits in 10 consecutive games, something the Indians had not accomplished since 1936. At the end of the month, the Indians had climbed to within two games of .500 at 64–66, and four games behind the Texas Rangers for the second wild card spot.


2015 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season, Season summary, September–October
The Indians played the majority of the season's final month against their Central Division rivals. The Indians lost 3 of their first 4 games of the month while Kluber suffered a hamstring injury, causing him to miss 12 days. The Indians then won five of their next six games between September 6 and 13, improving their record to 70–70 and marking the first time the Indians were .500 since they were 2–2. The Indians would also be 71–71, 72–72, 73–73, and 74–74, but lost the following game each time. They briefly made it over the .500 mark at 77–76 on September 26, but went on to lose three in a row.


2015 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season, Season summary, September–October
The Indians spent much of September 3–5 games behind the Texas Rangers or Houston Astros for the second wild card spot in the American League. They remained mathematically in the playoff race until the final week of the season, when they lost three out of four to the Minnesota Twins, another one of the teams in the hunt for the last playoff spot. The Indians were officially eliminated from the wild card race during this series on September 30. The Tribe however went on to sweep the Boston Red Sox in their final series of the season, to finish the season at 81–80. This marked the third straight season that the Indians finished above .500, which had not happened since 1999 through 2001.


2015 Cleveland Saints season
The 2015 Cleveland Saints season was the first season for the American Indoor Football (AIF) expansion franchise, and their first season in the AIF.


2015 Cleveland Saints season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated April 7, 201522 Active, 0 Inactive


2015 Clifford Cup
The 80th Clifford Cup tournament was held between the 20 and 29 March 2015.


2015 Clifford Cup, Seedings
The seeding is based upon the teams standings at the end of the 2014-15 Dialog Rugby League season. Last year's cup holder, Navy SC, even though they won twelve matches narrowly lost the league by percentage to Kandy SC, who won eleven games. As Colombo Hockey and Football Club and the Hambantota Sharks both withdrew from the league competition midway through the season the second-round games were played only between seven teams. Kandy SC having the top seeding were awarded a first round bye in the Cup competition.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape
The 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape took place on June 6, 2015, when two inmates, Richard Matt and David Sweat, were discovered missing during a 5:17 a.m. bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. Matt was serving 25 years to life and  Sweat was serving life without parole, both for murder. The two prisoners had dug a tunnel out of the prison, with tools obtained from two cooperating prison employees. Nearly three weeks after the escape, Matt was found in Malone, New York, where he was shot and killed; two days after that, Sweat was shot and taken into custody. The manhunt and investigation was said to have cost about $23 million.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Inmates, Richard Matt
Richard William Matt (June 25, 1966 – June 26, 2015) was born and raised in the Buffalo suburb of Tonawanda, New York where he and his brother Robert began receiving foster care early in life. Due to his distaste for legitimate work, Matt served recurrent prison terms in the 1980s and 1990s for various crimes including burglary, rape, theft and assault.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Inmates, Richard Matt
Having first escaped from a group home in his early teens, Matt had a history of escaping from correctional facilities before he and his accomplice Lee Bates kidnapped Matt's former boss William Rickerson from his home in North Tonawanda in an attempt to rob him on December 3, 1997. Matt demanded to know the location of a large sum of money he believed Rickerson possessed. Matt and Bates drove for more than 24 hours with Rickerson in the trunk of a car to Ohio and back, periodically stopping to open the trunk to beat and torture him.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Inmates, Richard Matt
Matt eventually killed Rickerson by breaking his neck before dismembering his body, throwing the parts in a river and escaping to Mexico. While in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Matt murdered a second man, Charles Arnold Perreault, an American engineer working at a local factory. Matt tried to rob him and then stabbed him to death at a bar as he was using the restroom on February 20, 1998. Matt was soon arrested and given a 23-year sentence for murder in a Mexican court. In 2007, he was extradited back to the United States to face trial for Rickerson's murder, where Bates testified against him, and Matt received a 25-years to life sentence for second-degree murder with no chance of parole until 2032.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Inmates, David Sweat
David Paul Sweat (born June 14, 1980) was raised in the Binghamton metropolitan area by his single mother Pamela Sweat along with his two sisters. He had a troubled childhood characterized by violent tendencies. After being sent to Florida to be raised by an uncle, he stole and wrecked his aunt's car and soon went into foster care. By the time they were in their late teens, Sweat and his cousin Jeffrey A. Nabinger Jr. were sporadically homeless, holding short-lived jobs and became involved in marijuana.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Inmates, David Sweat
Sweat was known as a meticulous planner who elaborately planned burglaries he intended to commit with Nabinger, and they were arrested several times for burglaries in the late 1990s and served prison time. In the early morning hours of July 4, 2002, Sweat, Nabinger and a third accomplice, Shawn Devaul, burglarized a fireworks store in Great Bend, Pennsylvania to steal firearms. Upon returning to New York, they were spotted by Broome County Sheriff's Deputy Kevin Tarsia while transferring the stolen firearms in a parking lot from one vehicle to another.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Inmates, David Sweat
Sweat opened fire on Tarsia, hitting him multiple times, before running over him with a car. As he was still alive, Nabinger shot him two more times in the face. The three men were arrested a few days later. During the trial, Sweat and Nabinger both pled guilty to first degree murder and received life without parole to avoid capital punishment while Devaul, who cooperated with authorities, was sentenced to five years in prison plus five years of supervised release. Unlike Matt, Sweat had no prior history of escaping from prison.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Escape
On June 6, 2015, the two prisoners were found to be unaccounted for during the 5:30 a.m. morning count, having been last seen at 10:30 p.m.'s count the night before. It was reported that an "external breach" was found on a street approximately 500 feet (150 m) outside of the prison wall. The inmates had tunneled out of the facility. They had been housed in Honor Block, a privileged housing unit, that allowed them access to cooking stations, televisions, wall mounted telephones, showers, and card tables in the cell house at specified intervals during the day. According to news reports, the escapees used tools from contractors to cut their escape way during the nights, and returned them to their toolboxes afterwards.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Escape
The escape was elaborate and has been compared to the escape made in the novella and film by Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo took a walking tour of the facility with publicity cameras present.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Escape
Authorities found that the two had planned to be picked up by a prison employee, Joyce Mitchell, who then, according to a relative, developed chest pains and was hospitalized. A second employee, prison guard Gene Palmer, was also charged with aiding the escape. Palmer admitted to investigators that he smuggled tools into the prison and did other favors for Richard Matt in exchange for paintings.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Escape
A note was left behind on the pipe the two escapees had cut to escape, reading, "Have a nice day," with a stereotypical "Asian smiley face" wearing a triangular rice hat.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Manhunt
Authorities searched the farms and fields around the town of Willsboro, New York, after receiving a tip that Matt and Sweat may have been spotted there on June 9.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Manhunt
Authorities spent June 9 and 10 retracing their steps near Dannemora after searching Willsboro, and also expanded the search to the border with Vermont, saying the two may have tried to flee to the state. Authorities in Canada, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and departments along the border with the U.S., and Mexico, where Matt had previously been convicted of murder, were also alerted.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Manhunt
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), state and local police, and the New York State Forest Rangers (the Adirondack Park Preserve covers the area) were all involved in the search, which was being led by the local police and the United States Marshals Service working with prison officials. A $50,000 bounty was set for each inmate by Cuomo and was subsequently increased to $75,000 when the U.S. Marshals added $25,000 for each escapee. There were no reports of break-ins, robberies, or homicides, but there were two reported sightings. In all the cases, police had not had any run-ins with the actual escapees before they presumably left the area.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Manhunt
A stretch of nearby New York State Route 374 was closed until further notice on June 11. School classes were canceled in Dannemora and Saranac. Later that day, the number of officers present in the area near the prison was increased to more than 500, from the initial estimate of between 300 and 400. That afternoon and evening, after bloodhounds picked up a scent and authorities discovered a footprint and a wrapper, police began methodically searching, until nightfall, a wooded area near the nearby town of Cadyville, New York.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Manhunt
Police, however, said this was not a lead that produced definite evidence that the escapees were still in that area. Areas of the more populous nearby city of Plattsburgh and parts of Lake Champlain had also been searched, and billboards asking for help were put up in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and along the Canada–U.S. border.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Manhunt
On June 12, the seventh day of the search, there were still no confirmed sightings of the escapees. Later that day, prison worker Joyce Mitchell was arrested and charged with aiding the escapees. On June 13, the search included helicopters, all-terrain vehicles, and search dogs. However, bad weather conditions, including rain, hampered search efforts. On June 20, the search continued in Allegany County in western New York based on a sighting in the town of Friendship, New York.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Manhunt
On June 22, the search shifted back to an area near the prison after a cabin near Owls Head in Franklin County was discovered to have signs of broken entry. DNA from the inmates was found in the cabin and investigators concluded that they had been there within the previous 24 hours. In the days after the escape some prisoners reported having been beaten by guards in an attempt to obtain information as to the whereabouts and plans of the escaped inmates.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Death of Matt, capture of Sweat
Matt was spotted in Franklin County, New York on June 26 after he shot at the driver of a passing recreational vehicle with a 20-gauge shotgun taken from a hunting camp. In the ensuing confrontation, he was shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol Supervisory Agent Chris Voss in the wilderness of Owl’s Head, south of Malone, New York, 50 miles (80 km) west of Clinton Correctional Facility. Sweat's location was unknown at the time of Matt's death.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Death of Matt, capture of Sweat
On June 28, New York State Trooper Sgt. Jay Cook passed Sweat as he walked along the road. As Cook circled back to question him, Sweat began running across a hay field towards a tree line.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Death of Matt, capture of Sweat
Cook, a firearms instructor, gave chase and when it became evident that Sweat might escape, fired two rounds from his .45 Glock 37 pistol, hitting Sweat twice in his right shoulder and left arm at a range of 73 yards (67 m), near Constable, New York, roughly 16 miles (26 km) north of where Matt had been killed and just 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the Canada–U.S. border. He was transported to the Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone. He was later transferred to Albany Medical Center, where he was in critical condition. His condition was later upgraded to fair by July 1. Sweat was moved on July 5 to a Special Housing Unit in the maximum security Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus, New York.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Investigation
On June 15, 2015, Governor Andrew Cuomo directed Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott to conduct a thorough investigation to determine all factors potentially involved in the escape of inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facility. At the governor's instruction, the Inspector General was to secure the services of a respected outside expert in corrections and law enforcement on issues such as prison design, operations and security with a view toward identifying how these inmates were able to escape, and recommend any potential reforms and best practices to prevent future incidents.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Investigation
On the morning of June 16, Mitchell confessed to her involvement with the prisoners still eluding capture. The Associated Press reported Mitchell had confirmed providing Matt and Sweat with hacksaw blades, chisels, and other tools. According to Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie, who oversaw the prosecution of Mitchell, "[s]he had agreed to be the getaway driver, but backed out because she still loved her husband and felt guilty for participating." The report also noted that the manholes used by the two inmates had since been welded shut. "Ms. Mitchell was Plan A and there was no Plan B, which is why authorities have now been concentrating their search to a perimeter around the maximum security prison," Wylie said. According to the Associated Press, Mitchell waived a preliminary hearing, allowing the case to immediately proceed in county court.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Investigation
On June 17, it was revealed that Mitchell, who had been suspended without pay from the $57,000-a-year position she held, had discussed having her husband, Lyle, killed in a potential murder-for-hire deal with Matt, whom she had been close to, and Sweat. According to Joyce Mitchell's confession,  Matt referred to her husband Lyle as the "glitch" and planned to kill him after the escape. Matt reportedly gave Mitchell two pills to give to her husband Lyle to incapacitate him, in order to facilitate Matt's planned murder of Lyle.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Investigation
Reportedly, she later decided not to go through with Matt's plan and threw away the two pills out of sentiment for her husband. Authorities did not believe Mitchell's husband knew of or participated in the breakout. According to the Press-Republican, he visited his wife on June 16, and then the New York State Police barracks in Malone, New York, the next day, to speak with authorities. The search then expanded to an area beyond the 16 square miles around the prison that was being searched. Some roadblocks were lifted and the force reduced from over 800 to about 600.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Investigation
Police received several tips during the last few days of the manhunt. They also deduced that Matt had fallen ill due to consuming spoiled food or dirty water, based on soiled undergarments discovered at one of the cabins the duo had broken into. Further investigation led to police finding Matt.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Investigation
Interrogations with Sweat after his capture revealed he and Matt practiced their escape once in the prison and were nearly found on two separate occasions during the manhunt. During the first instance, he and Matt were hiding in a cabin when three people arrived to check on it, debated whether they should stay or leave, and then left. On the second instance, Sweat was hiding in a hunting tree stand that was passed by a police officer. Sweat also claimed he and Matt separated on June 23 after Matt became unfocused and was "slowing him down".


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Investigation
An autopsy of Matt was released on August 6, which verified his cause of death as skull fractures and brain damage from being shot. It also revealed he had a blood alcohol level of 0.18%.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Aftermath
Sweat pleaded guilty to two felony counts of first-degree escape and an additional count of promoting prison contraband. He was sentenced to three-and-a-half to seven years, to be served consecutively with his previous life sentence. He was further ordered to pay $79,841 in restitution.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Aftermath
Joyce Mitchell, defended by a Clinton County public defender, pleaded guilty to promoting prison contraband and criminal facilitation. She was sentenced to two-and-a-third to seven years in prison, fined $6,375, and ordered to pay $79,841 in restitution. Mitchell was granted parole and released from prison in February 2020.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Aftermath
Gene Palmer pleaded guilty to promoting prison contraband, a felony, and was sentenced to 6 months in jail and fined $5,375. He served four months and was released for good behavior.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, Aftermath
The Inspector General's report was released in June 2016 and found "that longstanding, systemic failures in management and oversight by DOCCS enabled two convicted murderers to meticulously orchestrate their escape from a maximum security facility almost in plain sight." The report noted the failures of 20 individual correctional employees, both civilian and uniformed. Other than Palmer and Mitchell, no criminal charges were brought against any prison employee. One was demoted, two were suspended pending arbitration, nine returned to work after lesser penalties were applied, and the remainder retired or resigned before being punished. The report was highly critical of a lack of cooperation, and misleading and lying testimony by prison employees.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, In popular culture
On February 10, 2016, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, aired an episode Nationwide Manhunt that reflected the events that transpired with the Clinton Facility Escape.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, In popular culture
The escape was the subject of a television movie in 2017, New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell. Penelope Ann Miller starred as Joyce Mitchell, with Matt played by Myk Watford and Joe Anderson as Sweat. It was directed and written by Stephen Tolkin, and aired on the Lifetime Network.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, In popular culture
In 2018, the story of the escape was adapted into a seven-part television miniseries for Showtime, Escape at Dannemora, created and written by Brett Johnson and Michael Tolkin, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Benicio del Toro as Matt, Paul Dano as Sweat and Patricia Arquette as Mitchell. Mitchell criticized the mini-series, which includes several prison sex scenes, for containing "lies" and denied having sexual relations with the two inmates.


2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, In popular culture
On December 15, 2018, Oxygen Network premiered a special entitled Dannemora Prison Break, which features Bryce Dallas Howard as the narrator.


2015 Clipsal 500
The 2015 Clipsal 500 Adelaide was a motor race for V8 Supercars held on the weekend of 27 February to 1 March 2015. The event was held at the Adelaide Street Circuit in Adelaide, South Australia, and consisted of two races of 125 kilometres and one race of 250 kilometres in length. It was the first event of fourteen in the 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship.


2015 Clipsal 500
Chasing after his seventh V8 Supercar championship, Jamie Whincup made a great start by taking pole position for both Saturday races. The start of Race 1 was abandoned after Scott McLaughlin's car suffered an oil pump failure on the warm-up lap. The race eventually got under way and Whincup controlled the race to take the first win of 2015. Chaz Mostert and Fabian Coulthard finished second and third respectively after a safety car late in the race.


2015 Clipsal 500
McLaughlin's day became even worse when he was deemed to have jumped the start in Race 2. After serving his ten-second penalty at the conclusion of his pit stop, a further ten seconds was added to McLaughlin's race time as he served the penalty during a safety car period. Mostert retired after hitting the wall at turn 8, while Whincup fell down the order due to a punctured tyre. Brad Jones Racing's Fabian Coulthard took the win, followed by James Courtney and Craig Lowndes.


2015 Clipsal 500
Former V8 Supercar champion Marcos Ambrose stole the spotlight on Sunday by qualifying for the Top Ten Shootout. Courtney set the fastest time in the Shootout to score pole position for the 250 km Race 3. Courtney managed to convert his pole into a race win, his second Sunday race win in succession at the event. Teammate Garth Tander finished third, while Shane van Gisbergen finished second after a hard fought battle with Courtney. Whincup and Mostert were battling for fourth place on the final lap when they collided at Turn 10. Mostert spun into the wall and was collected by James Moffat with both failing to finish the race. Neither Mostert nor Whincup were penalised for the incident.


2015 Clipsal 500
Courtney became the fifth driver in V8 Supercars to win two Clipsal 500 events and only the fourth to win two events in a row.


2015 Clipsal 500, Support races
Seven support series raced during the weekend, including the Australian debut of Robby Gordon's Stadium Super Trucks.


2015 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season
The 2015 Club Atlético Boca Juniors season was the 86th consecutive Primera División season. During the season Boca Juniors took part in the Primera División, Copa Argentina and Copa Libertadores.


2015 Club Atlético Independiente season
The 2015 season Independiente Participate in the Argentine Primera División, Copa Argentina and the Copa Sudamericana .


2015 Club Atlético River Plate season
The 2015 season is Club Atlético River Plate's 4th consecutive season in the top-flight of Argentine football. The season began on February 13 and ended on December 6.


2015 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On February 11, River Plate defeated San Lorenzo de Almagro and obtained the 2015 Recopa Sudamericana.


2015 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On May 19, River Plate introduced the new third kit, featuring shades of red and black.


2015 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On July 3, River Plate lost to Rosario Central and was eliminated from the 2014-15 Copa Argentina at the Round of 32 stage.


2015 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On August 5, River Plate defeated Tigres UANL and obtained the 2015 Copa Libertadores.


2015 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On August 11, River Plate defeated Gamba Osaka at the Osaka Expo '70 Stadium and obtained the 2015 Suruga Bank Championship.


2015 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On December 16, River Plate made its debut on the FIFA Club World Cup, defeating Sanfrecce Hiroshima and qualifying to the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup Final.


2015 Club Atlético River Plate season, Season events
On December 20, River Plate lost to FC Barcelona and ended the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup as runner-up.


2015 Club Atlético River Plate season, Squad Winter
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Club Atlético River Plate season, Squad Summer
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season
The 2015 season is Clube Atlético Mineiro's 107th in existence and ninth consecutive season in the top-flight of Brazilian football. Along with the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and the Campeonato Mineiro, the club also competed in the Copa Libertadores and the Copa do Brasil.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season
On 3 May, Atlético Mineiro won its 43rd Campeonato Mineiro title, defeating Caldense in the finals. On 13 May, the team was eliminated from Copa Libertadores in the round of 16 by Internacional, the same stage it fell in Copa do Brasil to Figueirense on 26 August.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, Background and pre-season
The previous season ended with two important events for the club. On 26 November 2014 Atlético won its first Copa do Brasil by beating rivals Cruzeiro in the finals and secured a spot in the 2015 edition of the Copa Libertadores, its third consecutive participation. A change in the club's board also occurred, with successful president Alexandre Kalil's term, which had started in 2008, coming to an end. Daniel Nepomuceno was elected for the office on 3 December 2014.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, Background and pre-season
On 16 December 2014 Atlético announced the signing of Argentine striker Lucas Pratto from Vélez Sarsfield, elected Footballer of the Year of Argentina in the 2014 season. The pre-season, which started on 7 January, also saw the returns of Patric, Giovanni Augusto and Carlos César, previously out on loan. Danilo Pires, previously with Santa Cruz, joined the club on 12 January on loan from Corinthians Alagoano.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, Background and pre-season
Former team captain Réver left the club on 14 January, after 4 and a half years of service, joining fellow Série A side Internacional. That day also saw Nikão, who was previously on loan at Ceará, leave the club and join Atlético Paranaense. Despite training with the squad in the start of the pre-season, Diego Tardelli departed the club, this time joining Chinese side Shandong Luneng on 17 January 2015, for a €5.5 million fee. A number of previously loaned players also returned to the club, only to be loaned again.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, Background and pre-season
The pre-season included a friendly match against Shakhtar Donetsk, part of the Ukrainian club's tour in Brazil, that was played on 21 January and won by Atlético 4–2, with Pratto scoring its first goal for the club. A training match was also played against Minas Boca and ended 3–0.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, February
Campeonato Mineiro went underway on the first day of February and Atlético started the season with a 2–0 home win against Tupi, with goals by Dátolo and Pratto. On 6 February Sherman Cárdenas joined the club from Atlético Nacional, on a season-long loan deal with an option to purchase clause. The state league season seemed promising, with two more victories, 2–0 against Mamoré away and 2–1 over Democrata at home. The unbeaten run would end early, however, with three defeats happening in a single week.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, February
Copa Libertadores didn't start well for Atlético, with the team failing to secure a good result against Colo-Colo in Santiago, with the match ending 2–0 to the Chilean side on 18 February. Things got worse after a 2–1 defeat to rivals América in the Campeonato Mineiro on 22 February, despite Galo scoring first and América having one man sent off. The bad run continued on 25 February, with the season's first home defeat: 0–1 against Mexican club Atlas, for the second round of the Copa Libertadores second stage.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, March
March saw some improvement in the team's form, with a 2–0 victory against Guarani in the state league coming on the first day of the month. On 8 March, Atlético played its first Clássico Mineiro of the season against Cruzeiro away at the Mineirão, which ended 1–1. Caldense managed to defeat Atlético 1–0 and continue their good run in the Campeonato Mineiro on 12 March. Things finally improved in the following game, a 4–0 home win against URT on 15 March, which started a streak of 4 consecutive victories.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, March
The second of them happened in the Copa Libertadores, in which the team defeated Santa Fe at El Campín 1–0, the match-winner being a header by Pratto who had returned to the squad after an injury. Two more 3–0 victories in the state league followed, on 22 March against Tombense away, and on 29 March against Villa Nova at home.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, April
The first stage of Campeonato Mineiro ended for Atlético with a 2–0 away defeat to Boa Esporte on 5 April, which meant the team finished on 3rd position and would face rivals Cruzeiro in the semi-finals. On 7 April a new signing was announced, and Thiago Ribeiro joined the club on loan from Santos. The team's comeback on Group 1 of Copa Libertadores seemed to continue with a 2–0 home win against Santa Fe on 9 April, but was interrupted by a 1–0 defeat to Atlas at the Jalisco on 15 April. This meant a 2–0 victory against Colo-Colo was needed in order for the club to qualify for the knockout stage. On 10 April, after falling out of favor with manager Levir Culpi, midfielder Pierre left the club after 4 years, joining Fluminense.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, April
Meanwhile, the two-legged semi-finals against Cruzeiro started on home soil with a 1–1 at Independência on 12 April. The following week, on 19 April, the second leg was played at the Mineirão. Atlético trailed 1–0 in halftime, but two goals by Pratto, both of them assisted by Guilherme, were enough to secure a 2–1 victory and qualification to the finals to face Caldense. The decisive match against Colo-Colo was played on 22 April, and the needed 2–0 result came thanks to a sensational long strike by Rafael Carioca in the last minutes, which meant qualification to the round of 16. The first leg of the Mineiro finals against Caldense was Atlético's first home match of the season at the Mineirão, and ended 0–0 on 26 April.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, May
On 3 May, Campeonato Mineiro came to a conclusion, and Atlético were crowned champions of the competition for the 43rd time after a 2–1 win over Caldense in Varginha, with goals by newcomer Thiago Ribeiro and Jô. Cesinha's loan deal with the club ended and he returned to Bragantino on 5 May. The round of 16 of Copa Libertadores saw Atlético face fellow Brazilian side Internacional, with the first leg being played at the Independência on 6 May, and ending 2–2, with an injury time goal by Leonardo Silva.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, May
Centre-back Emerson was loaned to Avaí on 7 May until the end of the season. Atlético debuted in the 2015 Série A against Palmeiras at the Allianz Parque on 9 April, in a game which also ended 2–2, this time thanks to an injury time goal by the opposing team. Atlético's Libertadores campaign ended on 13 May, after a 3–1 defeat to Internacional at the Beira-Rio.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, May
With Campeonato Mineiro finished and out of Copa Libertadores, the club now focused only in the Série A, and had to play its first league home game of the season away from Belo Horizonte, to comply with a ban imposed by the Superior Tribunal de Justiça Desportiva. The match happened on 17 May at the Mané Garrincha, in Brasília, and Atlético defeated Fluminense 4–1. On 24 May the team was defeated 1–0 by Atlético Paranaense in an away match played at the Arena da Baixada, which was followed by a 3–0 home victory over Vasco da Gama. Winger Neto Berola, who had returned in March from a loan spell to Al Wasl, left the club in a new loan deal, this time to Santos on 27 May.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, June
On 3 June Atlético defeated Avaí 4–1 at Florianópolis, the team's third consecutive victory by a 3-goal margin. The club's unbeaten run against rivals Cruzeiro, which had started in 2013 and lasted 11 games, however, came to an end on 6 June, in a 1–3 home defeat, even with Luan scoring the first goal of the game. The derby was followed by a 2–2 tie with Santos also at home on 10 June., the same day in which forward André left the club to join Sport on loan, and Marion, previously loaned to Al Sharjah, left to Joinville. Série A resumed on 20 June, with a 2–0 win over Flamengo at the Maracanã, followed by a 1–0 home victory over Joinville at the Mineirão.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, July
The team kept its good run in the Série A with a 2–0 win against Coritiba at the Independência on 1 July. Atlético returned to the Beira-Rio to face Internacional, this time achieving a 3–1 victory on 5 July, after which the team reached the top of the table. The winning streak went on with a 2–1 victory over then title contenders Sport at the Mineirão, on 8 July, the same day Jô left the club to join Al Shabab, and a 2–0 away win against Ponte Preta at the Moisés Lucarelli on 11 July.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, July
The unbeaten run ended on 18 July, when Atlético lost 1–0 to title contenders Corinthians at their Arena. A comeback followed on 25 July, in the form of a 1–0 victory over Figueirense at the Independência, and continued with a 3–1 win against São Paulo at the Mineirão, courtesy of a sensational first-half hat-trick by Pratto on 29 July. Midfielder Maicosuel, who had joined the club in 2014, was loaned out for a year to Al Sharjah on 27 July.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, August
The following month didn't start well for Galo, with a 0–0 away tie with Goiás on 9 July, and a 0–2 home defeat to Grêmio at the Mineirão on 14 July, which meant Corinthians surpassed the team in the league table. The bad run continued with a 2–1 away defeat against Chapecoense at Arena Condá, in a match with questionable refereeing decisions. Atlético debuted in the Copa do Brasil with a 1–1 home draw against Figueirense at the Independência, with a Leonardo Silva equaliser coming at injury time, again.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, August
On 20 August, left-back Mansur joined the club on loan from Vitória. The team seemed to get back on track with a 2–1 comeback against Palmeiras for the 19th round of the Série A, thanks to a brace by Pratto in what was the 100th match of the club at the "new" Independência. Guilherme was released by the club on 25 August, eventually joining Antalyaspor.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, August
A setback occurred in the second leg of the Copa do Brasil round of 16 against Figueirense, in which despite scoring first, the team allowed a comeback by the opposition in the last minutes and was eliminated from the competition. A 2–1 away Brasileirão victory over Fluminense at the Maracanã followed on 30 August.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, September
2 September saw yet another game with controversial refereeing, in which the team lost by Atlético Paranaense at home 0–1. Atlético then traveled to Rio de Janeiro again, this time to face Vasco da Gama, and won 2–1, which meant all three clubs from the state were defeated at the Maracanã. A home match against Avaí was the next, which the team won 2–0.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, September
The second Clássico Mineiro of the Série A season happened on 13 September at the Mineirão with the rivals as the home team, and ended 1–1, as Victor made a mistake in Cruzeiro's goal but ended up saving a penalty in injury time, right after Atlético's equaliser. On 16 September the team visited Santos and had its worst result of the season, being defeated 4–0 at Vila Belmiro.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, September
A comeback of sorts came in the following matchday, in which the team defeated interstate rivals Flamengo 4–1 at the Independência, with a fine display by Jesús Dátolo, completing six victories out of six possible against Rio's clubs in the season. One week later, Atlético failed to defeat last-placed Joinville at Arena Joinville, as the match finished 2–2 on 27 September.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Season overview, October
October started with another away game, this one a 3–0 victory against Coritiba in Curitiba with a good performance by Pratto, on the third day of the month. After a ten-day break, the club defeated Internacional 2–1 at home on 14 October, with goals by Pratto and Marcos Rocha.


2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Kit
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2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Players, Squad information
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2015 Clube Atlético Mineiro season, Squad statistics, Player appearances and goals
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2015 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season
The 2015 season is the 120th year in the club's history, the 104th season in Clube de Regatas do Flamengo's football existence, and their 45th in the Brazilian Série A, having never been relegated from the top division.


2015 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season
This season Flamengo did not participate in continental competition, failing to qualify for either the Copa Libertadores or Copa Sudamericana based on the previous season's performance.


2015 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Club, First-team squad
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2015 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Friendlies, Super Series
Prior to the beginning of the Campeonato Carioca, Flamengo participated in a friendly tournament against São Paulo and Vasco da Gama in the Arena da Amazônia.


2015 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Friendlies, Other friendlies
Aside from the Super Series, Flamengo participated in a number of other friendlies, including a match against Ukrainian club Shahktar Donetsk in Brasília and a send-off match against Nacional for Léo Moura after ten years with Flamengo. The club also played against Icasa just before the start of the Brasileirão season, and two other matches during pauses in the Brasileirão season for 2018 World Cup qualifying matches.


2015 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Friendlies, Other friendlies
In commemoration of Flamengo's 120th anniversary, they played a friendly in the Maracanã against MLS club Orlando City on 15 November.


2015 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Competitions, Campeonato Carioca
Like the previous edition, the 2015 Campeonato Carioco was organized as a single table, called the Taça Guanabara, with the top four teams qualifying for the semifinals.


2015 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Competitions, Copa do Brasil
Flamengo entered the Copa do Brasil in the First Round via claiming the championship in the 2014 Campeonato Carioca. The draw was held on 16 December 2014. A second draw by CBF for the Round of 16 and onward was held on 4 August.


2015 Clube de Regatas do Flamengo season, Competitions, Copa do Brasil, Second round
Flamengo won by at least 2 goals in the stadium of the opposing team, qualifying directly to the next round without the need to play a second leg.


2015 Clube do Remo season
The 2015 season was Remo's 101st existence. The club participated in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série D, the Campeonato Paraense, the Copa Verde and the Copa do Brasil.


2015 Clube do Remo season
Remo finished in the 3rd place of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série D, conquering the promotion to the Série C of the following year. Remo also won the Campeonato Paraense, totalizing 44 titles of the championship. In the Copa Verde, the club was runner-up after losing the final by Cuiabá 6-5 on aggregate. In the Copa do Brasil, Remo was eliminated in the first round by Atlético Paranaense, after tied 2-2 on aggregate but lose on penalties by 5-4.


2015 Clásica de Almería
The 2015 Clásica de Almería was the 30th edition of the Clásica de Almería cycle race and was held on 15 February 2015. The race started and finished in Almería. The race was won by Mark Cavendish.


2015 Clásica de Almería, Teams
Twenty teams competed in the 2015 Clásica de Almería. These included eight UCI WorldTeams, ten UCI Professional Continental and two UCI Continental teams.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián
The 2015 Clásica de San Sebastián was a one-day cycling classic that took place in the Basque Country in Spain on 1 August 2015. It was the 35th edition of the Clásica de San Sebastián and was the nineteenth race of the 2015 UCI World Tour. The defending champion was Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team), who won a solo victory in the 2014 race.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián
The race took place in and around the city of San Sebastián and was 219 kilometres (136 mi) in length. The principal difficulty in the race was the sequence of climbs in the final part of the course. Adam Yates (Orica–GreenEDGE) attacked on the final climb, the Bordako Tontorra. Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team) was leading the race at the time, but he was hit by a race motorbike, forcing him out of the race. Yates went on to win a solo victory, 15 seconds ahead of the chasing group, becoming the first British rider to win the race. Valverde came third behind Philippe Gilbert (BMC).


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Route
The race began in San Sebastián with a 3.7 kilometres (2.3 mi) neutral zone and left the city to the west, along the coast of the Bay of Biscay. After 22.6 kilometres (14.0 mi), in Zarautz, the course turned to the south for another 24 kilometres (15 mi) to come to Azpeitia. Here the route turned to the east and began climbing towards the first categorised climb of the day. The road gradually climbed for over 13 kilometres (8.1 mi), but only the final 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) were categorised. This section of road, the Alto de Iturburu, had an average gradient of 5% and was a first-category climb. The summit of the climb came after 59.5 kilometres (37.0 mi).


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Route
After the descent, there was a fairly flat section of the course. This took the riders northeast for approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) through Hernani, Oiartzun and Lezo before the first of two ascents of the Alto de Jaizkibel. This was also a first-category climb; it was 7.8 kilometres (4.8 mi) in length at an average gradient of 5.8%. The summit of the climb came after 125 kilometres (78 mi), with 94 kilometres (58 mi) to go to the finish. There was then a descent and a fairly flat 20-kilometre (12 mi) section of road through Irun.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Route
The next climb was the second-category Alto Arkale. This was 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi) at 6.3%; the summit came with 71.2 kilometres (44.2 mi) remaining. The descent took the riders through Oiartzun and then into a second loop through the climbs of the Alto de Jaizkibel and the Alto Arkale. At the second summit of the Alto Arkale, there were 30.8 kilometres (19.1 mi) remaining to the finish line.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Route
The next section of the course was 20 kilometres (12 mi) of fairly flat roads. During this section of the race, the riders returned to San Sebastián and crossed the finish line; at this point there were still 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) remaining. The riders left the town again to face the final climb of the day, the second-category Bordako Tontorra. This was a 2.5-kilometre (1.6 mi) climb at 9%; at the summit there were 7.1 kilometres (4.4 mi) of descent and then flat roads to the finish. The final climb was introduced in the 2014 edition and included gradients up to 20%; the lead group was formed on this ascent in the 2014 race, with Alejandro Valverde attacking on the descent and maintaining a gap to the finish line.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Teams
As the Clásica de San Sebastián is a UCI World Tour event, all seventeen UCI WorldTeams were invited automatically and obliged to send a squad. Two UCI Professional Continental teams, Caja Rural–Seguros RGA and Cofidis, were given wildcard places to form a nineteen-team peloton. Seventeen teams started the race with eight riders; Team Sky and LottoNL–Jumbo started the race with seven men. There were therefore 150 riders in the peloton at the start of the race.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Pre-race favourites
The Clásica de San Sebastián is the most important one-day race in Spain. It comes a week after the conclusion of the Tour de France. Some riders, including Chris Froome (Team Sky), the winner of the Tour, chose not to participate in the race. Riders also arrived from the Tour in a variety of conditions: some were in good form, while others were exhausted. Another of the principal riders from the Tour de France, Alberto Contador (Tinkoff–Saxo), originally planned to participate but was forced to withdraw because of a fever.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Pre-race favourites
The principal favourite for the race was Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team), who was third in the Tour de France. Valverde was the defending champion in the Clásica de San Sebastián, having won the 2014 edition with an attack on the final descent; he had also won the 2008 race from a small group sprint. As well as his podium place at the Tour, Valverde had also won La Flèche Wallonne and the Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2015. The other principal favourite was Joaquim Rodríguez (Team Katusha). Rodríguez won two stages during the Tour and was expected to be in fresh condition, as he did not attempt a high position in the general classification.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Pre-race favourites
Several other riders were considered to have a strong chance of victory. These included Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing Team), the winner in 2011, Mikel Landa (Astana), who had been third in the Giro d'Italia, and Julian Alaphilippe (Etixx–Quick-Step), who had finished second to Valverde in both La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Race report
A breakaway of eight riders formed in the early part of the race. These were Manuele Boaro (Tinkoff–Saxo), Valerio Agnoli (Astana), Dennis Vanendert (Lotto–Soudal), Nathan Haas (Cannondale–Garmin), Maarten Wynants (LottoNL–Jumbo), Thomas Degand (IAM Cycling), Lluís Mas (Caja Rural–Seguros RGA) and Romain Hardy (Cofidis). These riders stayed together for approximately 160 kilometres (99 mi); the Movistar Team controlled the peloton and kept the breakaway's lead to around three minutes. Boaro attacked the group on the second climb of the Alto de Jaizkibel and opened a gap on the other riders, but he was too far from the finish to make a solo attack last to the finish of the race.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Race report
On the final climb of the Alto de Jaizkibel, there were several attacks in the main peloton. These attacks came together on the penultimate climb of the day, the Alto Arkale, to form a sixteen-rider lead group. This group included Warren Barguil (Giant-Alpecin), Dan Martin (Cannondale-Garmin), Philippe Gilbert and Greg Van Avermaet (both BMC Racing Team), Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team), Joaquim Rodríguez (Team Katusha) and Adam Yates (Orica–GreenEDGE). There was significant confusion on the final climb: the last riders from the early breakaway were being caught and the television coverage failed, so the teams were relying on race radio to follow the riders' positions.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Race report
The first attacks on the final climb came from Barguil and Van Avermaet, followed by Yates, while Rodríguez and Valverde waited in the main group. Yates passed Barguil and was chasing Van Avermaet, who was in the lead of the race. Towards the top of the climb, however, Van Avermaet was hit from behind by one of the motorbikes providing television coverage of the race. He was knocked to the ground and the frame of the bike was broken; Van Avermaet was unable to finish the race.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Race report
Yates therefore led the race alone at the top of the final climb as the race descended into San Sebastián. Unlike in the 2014 race, when he had crashed out of the lead group on the final descent, Yates extended his lead to 15 seconds as the road flattened out and was able to keep this advantage to the end of the race. As he crossed the finish line, Yates was unaware that he had won the race, as he believed that the initial breakaway had not been caught. It took some time for the message to come through from his team that he had won. In the group behind, Gilbert sprinted to second place ahead of Valverde.


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Race report
Yates's victory was the first UCI World Tour victory of his career and the first ever victory by a British rider in the Clásica de San Sebastián. Van Avermaet and the BMC team, however, were unhappy with the crash that had eliminated him from the race and issued a statement from Jim Ochowicz, the team's manager, saying that "Greg was robbed and the BMC Racing Team was robbed" and that the team would "explore every legal option".


2015 Clásica de San Sebastián, Race report
Simon Yates – Adam's brother and his teammate at Orica–GreenEDGE – described these comments as "quite disrespectful"; Van Avermaet later clarified that he considered Yates's victory well-deserved. The race organisers later wrote to Van Avermaet apologising for the incident; Van Avermaet was unable to read the letter, however, as it was written in Spanish.


2015 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team
The 2015 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team represented Coastal Carolina University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Joe Moglia and played their home games at Brooks Stadium. They were in their final season as a member of the Big South Conference. They finished the season 9–3, 4–2 in Big South play to finish in second place. They received an at-large bid to the FCS Playoffs where they lost in the first round to The Citadel.


2015 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers football team
The Chanticleers joined the Sun Belt Conference in July 2016, initially as a full but non-football member. The football team will begin a transition to the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), joining Sun Belt football in 2017 and gaining full FBS membership and bowl eligibility in 2018.


2015 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers men's soccer team
Statistics and information from the 2015 CCU Men's Soccer team.


2015 Coates Hire Ipswich Super Sprint
The 2015 Coates Hire Ipswich Super Sprint was a motor race for V8 Supercars held on the weekend of 31 July - 2 August 2015. The event was held at the Queensland Raceway in Ipswich, Queensland, and consisted of two sprint races, each over a distance of 60 kilometres (37 miles) and one endurance race over a distance of 200 kilometres (124 miles). It was the seventh round of fourteen in the 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship.


2015 Coca-Cola 600
The 2015 Coca-Cola 600, the 56th running of the event, was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on May 24, 2015 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.42 km) asphalt speedway, it was the 12th race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Carl Edwards won the race, his first of the season and first with Joe Gibbs Racing. Greg Biffle finished second. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished third. Matt Kenseth and Martin Truex, Jr. rounded out the top five.


2015 Coca-Cola 600
Matt Kenseth won the pole for the race and led 26 laps on his way to a fourth-place finish. Martin Truex, Jr. led the most laps for the second consecutive race with a race high of 131 laps on his way to a fifth-place finish. The race had 22 lead changes among nine different drivers, as well as eight caution flag periods for 39 laps.


2015 Coca-Cola 600
This was the 24th career victory for Carl Edwards, first at Charlotte Motor Speedway and fifth at the track for Joe Gibbs Racing. This win moved Edwards up to 16th in the points standings. Despite being the winning manufacturer, Toyota left Charlotte trailing Chevrolet by 71 points in the manufacturer standings.


2015 Coca-Cola 600
The Coca-Cola 600 was carried by Fox Sports on the broadcast Fox network for the American television audience. The radio broadcast for the race was carried by the Performance Racing Network and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Report, Background
Charlotte Motor Speedway is a motorsports complex located in Concord, North Carolina, United States 13 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina. The complex features a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) quad oval track that hosts NASCAR racing including the prestigious Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day weekend and the Sprint All-Star Race, as well as the Bank of America 500. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams located in the Charlotte area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI) with Marcus G. Smith (son of Bruton Smith) as track president.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Report, Background
The 2,000 acres (810 ha) complex also features a state-of-the-art quarter mile (0.40 km) drag racing strip, ZMAX Dragway. It is the only all-concrete, four-lane drag strip in the United States and hosts NHRA events. Alongside the drag strip is a state-of-the-art clay oval that hosts dirt racing including the World of Outlaws finals among other popular racing events.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Report, Background
Kevin Harvick entered Charlotte with a 46-point lead over Martin Truex Jr. following his runner-up finish. Jimmie Johnson entered 48 back following winning at Kansas Speedway. Joey Logano entered 62 back. Dale Earnhardt Jr. entered 77 back following a third-place finish at Kansas.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Report, Background
For the weekend's race, the names on the windshield of the cars — in lieu of the drivers last names — had those of United States Armed Forces members who've died in the line of duty. “The NASCAR community rallying to honor the U.S. Armed Forces, past and present, has long been part of our sport’s heritage,” said Brent Dewar, NASCAR chief operating officer. “As part of NASCAR: An American Salute, 600 Miles of Remembrance represents a special moment in time as we pay tribute to service members who have sacrificed dearly for our freedom.” The Toyota pace car for the race will follow suit as well.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Report, Background, Entry list
The entry list for the Coca-Cola 600 was released on Monday, May 18 at 3:41 p.m. Eastern time. Forty-eight drivers were entered for the race. Kyle Busch, who has missed the first eleven races of the season following being injured in an Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway, made his first Sprint Cup Series start since the 2014 Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Ryan Blaney made his first start since the 2015 GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Report, Background, Entry list
Jeff Gordon, whose first career win came in the 1994 Coca-Cola 600, made his 23rd and final Coca-Cola 600 start. Chase Elliott attempted and made his third career start in the No. 25 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Jeff Green attempted to make the race in the No. 30 Chevrolet for The Motorsports Group which hadn't been entered in a race since the 2015 Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Raceway. Mike Bliss returned to the seat of the No. 32 Go FAS Racing Ford that was las driven by Joey Gase in the 2015 SpongeBob SquarePants 400 at Kansas Speedway. Alex Kennedy drove the No. 33 Hillman-Circle Sport LLC Chevrolet that had been driven by Ty Dillon the previous week at Kansas. Travis Kvapil attempted to make his first start of the season in the No. 39 Hillman-Circle Sport LLC Chevrolet.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Practice, First practice
Carl Edwards was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 28.085 and a speed of 192.273 mph (309.433 km/h).


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Qualifying
Matt Kenseth won the pole with a time of 27.799 seconds and a speed of 194.252 mph (312.618 km/h). “I thought we had some speed in practice, just never really had the balance or the perfect lap,” he said. “Everyone at JGR has been working honestly around the clock to get all these cars done and get us better stuff. It's one lap. It's 600 miles Sunday, but it's a good place to start. A good way to start the weekend." “Second is nice, but look at the difference and how much I needed to pick up,” said Joey Logano.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Qualifying
“That was a very fast lap by the 20, congratulations to them. I don’t know how to go that fast. We’ve got a couple weeks to figure out how to beat the 20 car. He’s very, very fast obviously. That was an amazing lap they ran there at the end.” “Just trying to have confidence,” Greg Biffle said after qualifying fourth. “We haven’t seen it in race trim yet, whether it’s us taking the tape off the front of it or what it might be – the change between our qualifying and race trim.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Qualifying
We’re struggling a bit right now, so we’re just gonna work hard in practice and see what we can do.” None of the five Hendrick Motorsports drivers made it to the final round of qualifying for the first time since Sonoma last June. "I'm just disappointed in that second run out," said Gordon, who would start 18th. "The car never got down to the white line. It was real tight." Mike Bliss, Jeb Burton, Brendan Gaughan, Jeff Green and Travis Kvapil all failed to make the race.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Practice (post-qualifying), Second practice
Kurt Busch was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 28.031 and a speed of 192.664 mph (310.063 km/h).


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Practice (post-qualifying), Final practice
Kurt Busch was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 28.624 and a speed of 188.653 mph (303.608 km/h).


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, First half, Start
The Coca-Cola 600 was scheduled to start at 6:20 p.m. but started one minute late with Matt Kenseth leading the field to the green flag. Kenseth wouldn't lead the first lap however, as teammate Carl Edwards took the lead. Kenseth found his way to the head of the field on lap 4. The first caution flew on lap 26. This was a scheduled competition caution that came after Charlotte Motor Speedway general manager Marcus Smith had turns 1 and 2 washed down overnight. Brad Keselowski was tagged for removing equipment from his pit box and restarted from the tail-end of the field. Aric Almirola was tagged for his crew being over the wall too soon and also restarted from the tail-end of the field.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, First half, Start
The race restarted on lap 31 and Joey Logano shot out ahead of Kenseth to take the lead on lap 32. Denny Hamlin powered to the outside of Logano in turn 2 to take the lead on lap 44. Kevin Harvick took the lead on lap 65. As a round of green flag pit stops began, he surrendered the lead on lap 79 to make his pit stop and gave it to teammate Kurt Busch, who also was on pit road. This gave the lead to Keselowski, who pitted on lap 81 and gave the lead back to Harvick. The second caution flew on lap 90 when Jimmie Johnson got loose in turn 3 and spun out off the asphalt banking in turn 4. He saved the car and brought it to pit road. Keselowski chose not to pit and assumed the lead.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, First half, Second quarter
The race restarted on lap 95. Keselowski was no match for his teammate on fresher tires as Logano took the lead on lap 96. Kurt Busch, who took four tires during the previous caution, took the lead with ease on lap 98. The third caution flew on lap 136 when Justin Allgaier slammed the wall in turn 3.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, First half, Second quarter
The race restarted on lap 142, with Kurt Busch still out in front. The race settled into a green flag run. A second series of green flag pit stops began on lap 185, 15 laps to halfway. Busch surrendered the lead to pit on lap 190 and handed the lead to Johnson. He pitted on lap 191 and handed the lead to Edwards. He pitted the next lap and the lead cycled to Martin Truex Jr. Kasey Kahne was tagged for speeding on pit road and was forced to serve a drive-through penalty.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Halfway
The fourth caution flew on lap 229 when Trevor Bayne collected the wall in turn 3, leaving debris on the racetrack. Ryan Newman was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted from the tail-end of the field.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 236. Kurt Busch took back the lead on lap 238. Truex took back the lead on lap 263. The fifth caution flew on lap 273 when Johnson hit the wall near the entrance to pit road. “We had a really loose racecar," Johnson explained. "We came in with an aggressive mindset to bring an aggressive setup in the car, drive aggressively and take chances. We don’t have anything to lose. Unfortunately, we didn’t get long enough into the race for the aggressive setup to come into play.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Halfway
Another 30/40 laps, we would have had the car right where we wanted it. I just didn’t make it there." "I could see it, I could see that opening and I could see the No. 2 (Brad Keselowski) pit," Johnson said. "I was frightened that I was going to get through that hole. It wouldn’t have been pretty for me, but to have teams and stuff there ... that was something I was staring at sliding for a long way. I was very thankful the SAFER barrier was there. I wish we could find a way to extend a wall out and redirect the car away from that opening, or close that opening up."


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 279. The sixth caution of the race flew on lap 282 when Ryan Blaney hit the wall.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted on lap 292. The seventh caution of the race flew on lap 327 when Michael Annett, exiting turn 2, got loose and spun out on the backstretch.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted on lap 333. Hamlin took the lead from Truex, Jr. with 67 laps to go. The eighth caution of the race flew with 64 laps to go when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. hit the wall in turn 4, leaving debris on the racetrack.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Second half, Fourth quarter
The race restarted with 59 laps to go. Hamlin made an unscheduled stop with 38 laps to go for a loose wheel. Martin Truex Jr. reassumed the lead. He pitted with 22 laps to go and handed the lead to Harvick. He pitted the next lap and gave the lead to Edwards who drove his way to score the win.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
"JGR is back and so is Toyota," said Edwards, who pitted on Lap 338 for fuel and was able to stretch it all the way to the finish as others ran out in the closing laps. "Darian Grubb is so good as a crew chief and when it comes down to fuel mileage, there isn’t anyone else I’d want calling the shots like he did tonight. This is such a huge win." "I was hoping the guys in front of me would run too hard and run out of gas," said Earnhardt.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
"We had to try to go for a win. We didn’t have a car fast enough to beat the '41' (Kurt Busch) or the '78' (Truex). We had to do something different. I like to gamble." Martin Truex Jr. finished fifth after leading a race high 131 laps. "I didn't even think fuel mileage strategy was an option," said Truex, who also led the most laps in the previous race at Kansas Speedway. "I felt I only needed to pass the No. 11 (Hamlin). We had a very fast car all night.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
It really hurts knowing that you had the fastest car and didn't win. I don’t know what to do about fuel mileage races. I’ve never ever in my entire career come out on the right end of them." "We didn't make many adjustments throughout the race, the car was fast from the get-go," noted Truex. "Whatever we needed to do, Cole (Pearn, crew chief) and his engineering staff made the right calls. This is a talented team that works extremely hard and I want nothing more than to drive their car to victory lane."


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
In his first Cup Series points race since his injury, Kyle Busch finished eleventh. He was able to run the whole race, but in the event he couldn't finish, Joe Gibbs racing had Erik Jones ready to complete the race.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Post-race penalties
On the Wednesday following the race, NASCAR handed out penalties to three Sprint Cup teams.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Post-race penalties
As a result of the violations, crew chief Matt McCall was placed on probation through the remainder of the 2015 calendar year.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Race, Post-race, Post-race penalties
As a result of these infractions, both teams received the last two choices in the pit stall selections, respective to qualifying results, for the following weekend's event at Dover International Speedway.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Media, Television
Fox Sports covered their 15th race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Mike Joy, former crew chief Larry McReynolds, and five-time Coca-Cola 600 winner Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Chris Neville, Vince Welch, and Matt Yocum handled pit road for the television side.


2015 Coca-Cola 600, Media, Radio
PRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice, Mark Garrow, and Brendan Gaughan called the race in the booth when the field was racing down the front stretch. Rob Albright called the race from a scaffold outside turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2. Brad Gillie called the race from atop the turn 4 suits when the field was racing through turns 3 and 4. Brett McMillan, Jim Noble, Steve Richards, and Doug Turnbull worked pit road for PRN.


2015 Codasur South American Rally Championship
The 2015 Codasur South American Rally Championship is an international rally championship sanctioned by the FIA and run by the Confederacion Deportiva Automovilismo Sudamericana (Codasur). The championship was contested over five events held in five South American countries from April to November.


2015 Codasur South American Rally Championship, Event calendar and results
The 2015 Codasur South American Rally Championship was as follows:


2015 Codasur South American Rally Championship, Championship standings
The 2015 Codasur South American Rally Championship points were as follows:


2015 Cofidis season
The 2015 season for the Cofidis cycling team began in February at the Clásica de Almería. The team participated in UCI Europe Tour races and UCI World Tour events when given a wildcard invitation.


2015 Coke Zero 400
The 2015 Coke Zero 400 powered by Coca-Cola was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that was held between July 5 and 6, 2015 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Contested over 161 laps – extended from the scheduled 160 laps – on the 2.5 mile (4 km) superspeedway, it was the 17th race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. won the race, his second win of the season. His teammate Jimmie Johnson finished second while Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, and Kurt Busch rounded out the top five.


2015 Coke Zero 400
With qualifying rained out, the field was set by first practice speeds and Earnhardt, Jr. was given the first starting spot as a result. Further rain delays pushed the race's green flag back to 11:42 p.m., with the race concluding at 2:40 a.m. ET the following morning. Earnhardt Jr. led a race high of 96 laps on his way to winning the race. The race had 22 lead changes among twelve different drivers, as well as nine caution flag periods for 43 laps. The race was marred by a violent crash at the finish, most notably featuring Austin Dillon's car flipping into the outside catch fence.


2015 Coke Zero 400
It was Earnhardt, Jr.'s 25th career victory, tenth career restrictor plate race win (in points competition), fourth at Daytona, and 14th at the track for Hendrick Motorsports. The win moved him up to second in the points standings. Chevrolet left Daytona with an 83-point lead over Ford in the manufacturer standings.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Report, Background
Daytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. Since opening in 1959, it has been the home of the Daytona 500, the most prestigious race in NASCAR. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosts races of ARCA, AMA Superbike, USCC, SCCA, and Motocross. It features multiple layouts including the primary 2.5 miles (4.0 km) high speed tri-oval, a 3.56 miles (5.73 km) sports car course, a 2.95 miles (4.75 km) motorcycle course, and a .25 miles (0.40 km) karting and motorcycle flat-track. The track's 180-acre (73 ha) infield includes the 29-acre (12 ha) Lake Lloyd, which has hosted powerboat racing. The speedway is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Report, Background
The track was built in 1959 by NASCAR founder William "Bill" France, Sr. to host racing held at the former Daytona Beach Road Course. His banked design permitted higher speeds and gave fans a better view of the cars. Lights were installed around the track in 1998 and today, it is the third-largest single lit outdoor sports facility. The speedway has been renovated three times, with the infield renovated in 2004 and the track repaved twice — in 1978 and in 2010.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Report, Background
On January 22, 2013, the track unveiled artist depictions of a renovated speedway. On July 5 of that year, ground was broken for a project that would remove the backstretch seating and completely redevelop the frontstretch seating. The renovation to the speedway is being worked on by Rossetti Architects. The project, named "Daytona Rising", was completed in January 2016, and it costed US $400 million, placing emphasis on improving fan experience with five expanded and redesigned fan entrances (called "injectors") as well as wider and more comfortable seating with more restrooms and concession stands. After the renovations, the track's grandstands include 101,000 permanent seats with the ability to increase permanent seating to 125,000. The project was completed before the start of Speedweeks 2016.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Report, Background
Kevin Harvick entered Daytona with a 53-point lead over Martin Truex, Jr. Joey Logano entered 57 back, Jimmie Johnson entered 70 back, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. entered 71 back.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Report, Background, Changes
During the Xfinity Series' Alert Today Florida 300 earlier in the year, a crash occurred in which Kyle Busch  slammed into a concrete wall just past the exit to pit road, breaking his leg and sidelining him for the first eleven races of the Sprint Cup season. In response to the accident, the entire outer wall of the race track was fitted with SAFER barriers. The grass near the entrance of turn 1 and towards the exit of the tri-oval, where Busch's accident occurred, were paved over.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Report, Background, Changes
At the request of the race's broadcaster, NBC, the 2015 Coke Zero 400 was moved from its traditional Saturday night scheduling to Sunday night. Track president Joie Chitwood III explained that NBC wanted to treat the race as a special event to launch its revived coverage, similarly to NBC's Sunday Night Football. The move also removed a potential conflict with NBC's annual Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular special.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Report, Background, Entry list
The entry list for the Coke Zero 400 was released on Monday, June 29 at 11:41 a.m. EDT. Forty-five cars were entered for the race. All but the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford driven by Ryan Blaney were entered for the previous race at Sonoma Raceway. Driver changes for this race include Bobby Labonte in the No. 32 Go FAS Racing Ford normally driven by Mike Bliss, Brian Scott in the No. 33 Hillman-Circle Sport LLC Chevrolet normally driven by Alex Kennedy, and Brett Moffitt returning to the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Practice, First practice
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 44.492 and a speed of 202.284 mph (325.545 km/h). Ten minutes into the session, Brad Keselowski made contact with Kyle Busch and sent him spinning in the middle of the pack. Michael Annett, Trevor Bayne, Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Sam Hornish, Jr., Jamie McMurray, Ryan Newman and Martin Truex, Jr. were all collected in the wreck. “The 2 car got on my back rear and just spun us around,” Busch said. “There’s room to lift and sometimes you don’t.” “A couple of guys got in front of me right there,” Truex said. “They started checking up in front of me and the 18 went sideways, a lot of damage. We’re going to a backup car.”


2015 Coke Zero 400, Practice, Final practice
Danica Patrick was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 45.424 and a speed of 198.133 mph (318.864 km/h).


2015 Coke Zero 400, Qualifying
Two rounds of single-car qualifying were scheduled to take place on Saturday at 4:35 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, but were cancelled due to rain. The lineup was set by first practice results. So Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was declared as the polesitter per the NASCAR rulebook. “I asked Greg (Ives, crew chief) before we went out to practice what we were trying to accomplish in that first practice and that was the first thing he mentioned was to go out that first run and try to put a lap down because the weather wasn’t looking real good for today," Earnhardt said.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Qualifying
"That was his decision. It ended up working out for us.” "This track has been very special to me, we know how important is to the sport," said Jeff Gordon, who'll start 23rd in his 46th and final career race at Daytona. "I'm kind of bummed out that it was rained out." Despite posting the 22nd fastest lap in first practice, Ryan Blaney failed to make the race. When qualifying is rained out, NASCAR's rules state that the number of attempts a race team has made determines the starting lineup before practice times.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Qualifying
As a result, the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford failed to qualify for the first time in seven years. “I really hate this for Motorcraft/Quick Lane and all of our guests,” team co-owner Eddie Wood said in a release. “We’ve been lucky. This is the first time this has happened since we started part-time in 2009. We’ve dodged a lot of bullets, including last time in Michigan. This one got us, but if it has to happen, I’d rather it be for something we can’t control instead of for a lack of performance on our part.”


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race
The race was scheduled to begin at 8:04 p.m. EDT on Sunday, but was delayed by rain that had been falling all afternoon. The green flag eventually fell at 11:42 p.m, marking the longest start delay of the race since the 2005 race. Race finished at 2:40 am EDT on Monday


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half, Start
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. led the field to the green flag at 11:42 p.m. Austin Dillon drove to Earnhardt's outside on the backstretch to lead the first eight laps. The first caution of the race flew on lap 3 for a multi-car wreck exiting turn 4. It started when David Gilliland tried to drop in behind Earnhardt on the inside line, failing to see Clint Bowyer, and got turned around by Bowyer, and ten cars piled in. Michael Annett, Greg Biffle, Sam Hornish, Jr., Bobby Labonte, reigning Daytona 500 winner Joey Logano, and Danica Patrick were also collected in the melee.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half, Start
A. J. Allmendinger,  Annett, Biffle, Jeb Burton, Brendan Gaughan, Gilliland, Hornish, Jr., Logano, and Patrick were tagged for pitting before pit road was open and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field, although this was moot as they were going to restart at the rear of the field anyway as they had all taken on crash damage. Annett and Logano were held a lap on pit road for running the stop/go sign at pit exit.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half, Start
The race restarted on lap 9. Earnhardt passed Dillon going into three to take the lead on lap 10. While trying to pass Jamie McMurray, Kyle Busch got loose and pounded the wall in turn 2 on lap 17. To make matters worse for Busch, the race remained green. The second caution of the race, a scheduled competition caution to allow teams to check tire wear, flew on lap 26. Jimmie Johnson exited pit road with the race lead.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half, Start
Biffle and Kyle Busch were tagged for having too many crew members over the wall to service the car and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field. Gaughan was busted for both speeding on pit road and running the stop/go sign on pit exit. He was held a lap on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half, Start
The race restarted on lap 31. Earnhardt took back the lead on lap 32. Johnson got a run on him going into turn 2 to retake the lead on lap 34. The third caution of the race flew on lap 53, when exiting turn 4, Carl Edwards snapped loose and turned down the apron. The culprit was a flat tire. “This is really frustrating,” said Edwards. “I never have flat tires. Goodyear does a pretty job. We got it back together, and then this happened.”


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half, Start
Johnson swapped the lead with Earnhardt on pit road with the latter exiting with the lead. Biffle, Edwards, and Gaughan were tagged for pitting before pit road was open and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field. Casey Mears was tagged for driving through more than three pit boxes getting to his stall and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half, Second quarter
The race restarted on lap 58. The fourth caution of the race flew on the same lap when, out of turn 4, Gilliland spun and then stalled on the track. Biffle, Burton, Kyle Busch, and Logano were tagged for pitting before pit road was open and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field. Annett was tagged for having too many crew members over the wall to service the car and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half, Second quarter
The race restarted on lap 64. After riding single file for the first few laps, Kevin Harvick got a second line moving to the front of the pack. Johnson drove to Earnhardt's outside to take back the lead. Matt Kenseth used the outside line to briefly take the lead on lap 80. Johnson used the inside line to take back the lead on lap 81.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, First half, Second quarter
The fifth caution of the race flew on lap 86 for a multi-car wreck in turn 2, when Kyle Larson spun, and Edwards spun trying to avoid him, then was hit from behind by Brian Scott, submarining under Edwards' car. Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. also spun, but was able to save his car. Denny Hamlin exited pit road with the lead. Allmendinger, Edwards, and Larson were tagged for pitting before pit road was open and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field. Larson was also held a lap on pit road for running the stop/go sign at pit exit. Kyle Busch and Dillon were tagged for too many crew members over the wall to service the car and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted on lap 93. Kasey Kahne used a push from Harvick to take the lead. Hamlin used the outside line to take back the lead on lap 95. Earnhardt, Jr. drove under Hamlin to retake the lead on lap 104. The sixth caution of the race flew on lap 105 for a multi-car wreck on the front stretch. This one started when, out of turn 4, Kenseth got turned by Kasey Kahne.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half, Halfway
Kenseth's car then washed up the track, collecting nine additional cars: those of Aric Almirola, Larson, Martin Truex, Jr., Jamie McMurray, Brad Keselowski, Logano, Sam Hornish, Jr., David Ragan and Trevor Bayne. "I was following Jeff Gordon up through there and he got shuffled out and I kind of committed to him and we started moving back up there pretty good," Almirola said. "I was happy about the momentum we had and next thing I know some cars got together on the inside, and I heard the noise and heard them start to spin. ... It is a game of inches here sometimes, and I think a couple feet more forward and we wouldn't be in this. It stinks. I am certainly disappointed."


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted with 46 laps to go. Johnson retook the lead. Earnhardt, Jr. dove underneath his teammate to retake the lead with 43 laps to go. The seventh caution of the race flew with 33 laps to go when Patrick cut a right front tire in turn 2 and hit the outside wall. Michael Annett was tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half, Halfway
The race restarted with 28 laps to go. The eighth caution of the race flew with twelve laps to go when Ragan got loose and turned down into the backstretch grass. Ragan did not suffer major damage, and stayed on the lead lap. He would manage to get back up to twelfth place at the checkered flag.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half, Final laps
The race restarted on lap 151. The ninth and final caution of the race flew three laps later when Hornish, Jr. spun out on the backstretch in the same place that Ragan had spun in, and slid through the grass, getting airborne and almost flipping.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half, Final laps
The race restarted with two laps to go. Earnhardt, Jr. held off the field to take the victory. "I had a lot of fun tonight," said Earnhardt, who led a race-high 96 laps. "Our car was fast. I had to block a lot and you’ve got to run real, real hard to win here." As the field raced to the checkered flag, Harvick tapped Hamlin from behind, instigating a massive wreck involving at least 24 cars.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half, Final laps
In the resulting chaos, Dillon's car struck Hamlin at such an angle that it flipped over and flew two lanes in the air into the catch fence, ripping out the engine. Dillon's car landed back on the track upside down, coming to a rest at the exit to the pit road, and was then hit again by Keselowski, who spun in oil while trying to avoid the crash. The impact was eerily similar to Bobby Allison's 1987 Winston 500, Geoff Bodine's 2000 Daytona 250, Carl Edwards 2009 Aaron's 499, and Kyle Larson's 2013 DRIVE4COPD 300 wrecks.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Second half, Final laps
Five fans were injured by debris, with one taken to Halifax Medical Center and later released, while the other four were treated and released from the infield care center. Upon coming to a stop, Dillon was helped out of his car by Earnhardt's and Mears's pit crews to loud cheers, and walked away. He was treated and released from the infield care center with a bruised tailbone and forearm.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
"It was very vicious," Dillon said of the crash. "It's twisting you around in there, and the belts are loosening with each hit, so the hits are getting more and more violent. By the fourth hit, you've separated enough so that the fourth one is going to hurt more than others. I held on to the steering wheel as hard as I could. I'm sure I'm going to find more bumps and bruises during the week, but right now I feel all right. It was just crazy. It's part of this racing.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Everybody is pushing as hard as they can — pushing in a tight pack. I was pushing the 24 (Jeff Gordon) and the people behind are pushing me, It was just a wad right there at the end. At these speedway races, you're just praying and hoping that you get through it. I thought the wreck was over and I was sliding on the roof. I thought, 'We made it. We made it.' And then there was a big bang. I think it was the 2 car (Keselowski) that ran into me. Literally I had just got done stopping and crew members were everywhere. I thought that was really cool and special. It was comforting to me. They got to me pretty quick. I just wanted to get out of there and let the fans know I was OK."


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Dillon also spoke about the safety of the fans. "It's not really acceptable, I don't think," Dillon told reporters after exiting the care center. "We've got to figure out something. Our speeds are too high, I think. I think everybody could get good racing with slower speeds. We can work at that, and then figure out a way to keep the cars on the ground. That's the next thing. We're fighting hard to make the racing good. I hope the fans appreciate that. We don't, but it's our job. You go out there and hold it wide open to the end and hope you make it through."


2015 Coke Zero 400, Race, Post-race, Driver comments
Other drivers commented on Dillon's wreck after the race. "You are just on the verge of tears," Earnhardt said in victory lane. "I saw everything in the mirror pretty clearly ... I just was very scared for whoever that car was. I didn't care about anything except figuring out who was OK. The racing doesn't matter anymore." Audio of Earnhardt's radio chatter with his crew chief was later released revealing Earnhardt's horrified reaction to the crash in the moment, with him too concerned over Dillon's status to celebrate his win. "I'm shocked that Austin Dillon is even alive," said Jimmie Johnson after finishing runner-up. "I expected the worst when I came back around."


2015 Coke Zero 400, Media, Television
The 2015 Coke Zero 400 marked the return of NBC Sports to NASCAR, as part of a new ten-year deal replacing TNT and ESPN as broadcaster of the second half of the season; it was the first race broadcast by NBC since the 2006 Ford 400. Rick Allen, 2000 race winner Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Mike Massaro, Marty Snider and Kelli Stavast handled pit road for the television side.


2015 Coke Zero 400, Media, Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace called the race from the booth when the field was racing through the tri-oval. Dave Moody called the race from the Sunoco tower outside turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 & 2. Mike Bagley called the race from a platform on the inside of the track towards turn 3 when the field was racing down the backstretch. Kurt Becker called the race from the Sunoco tower outside turn 4 when the field was racing through turns 3 & 4. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post worked pit road for the radio side.


2015 Colchester Borough Council election
The 2015 Colchester Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect one third of the members of Colchester Borough Council in England. This was the same day as other local elections and as the General Election. Colchester Borough Council is made up of 60 councillors: 20 councillors were up for election.


2015 Colchester Borough Council election
Prior to the elections, Liberal Democrat councillor for New Town ward, Theresa Higgins, was appointed Mayor of Colchester for a term of one-year.


2015 Colchester Borough Council election, Composition of council seats before election
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:


2015 Colchester Borough Council election, Candidates by party
The Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, Labour Party and Green Party all stood a full slate of 20 candidates. UKIP stood 15 candidates and 3 independents (including a candidate with the description 'Patriotic Socialist Party') stood for election.


2015 Colchester Borough Council election, Results Summary
With 30 seats required for a dead-heat majority (of 0), no single grouping of councillors remained in overall control of policy decision-making. Conservatives fell 3 short this time whereas at the last election a five-becoming-six seat deficit existed during the four-year term for the largest grouping which had been the Liberal Democrats.


2015 Colchester Borough Council election, By-elections since the previous election
A by-election was held in Wivenhoe Quay on 3 July 2014 following the death of Labour councillor Steve Ford. The seat was held for Labour by Rosalind Scott with a majority of 228 votes over the Conservatives.


2015 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships
The 2015 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the eighteenth edition of the tournament and part of the 2015 ITF Women's Circuit, offering a total of $75,000 in prize money. It took place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, on 21–27 September 2015.


2015 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2015 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships – Doubles
Jan Abaza and Melanie Oudin were the defending champions, but Oudin chose not to compete. Abaza partnered Amra Sadiković, but they lost in the first round to Tamira Paszek and Anna Tatishvili.


2015 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships – Doubles
The top seeds Paula Cristina Gonçalves and Sanaz Marand won the title, defeating Paszek and Tatishvili in the final, 4–6, 6–2, [10–3].


2015 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships – Singles
Anna Tatishvili was the defending champion, but she lost to Julia Boserup in the quarterfinals.


2015 Coleman Vision Tennis Championships – Singles
Michaëlla Krajicek came through qualifying and won the tournament, defeating Naomi Broady in the final, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–3), 7–5.


2015 Colgate Raiders football team
The 2015 Colgate Raiders football team represented Colgate University in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Dan Hunt and played their home games at Crown Field at Andy Kerr Stadium. They were a member of the Patriot League. They finished the season 9–5, 6–0 in conference play to win the Patriot League championship. They received the Patriot League's automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs, where they defeated the New Hampshire in the first round and James Madison in the second round before losing in the quarterfinals to Sam Houston State.


2015 College Baseball All-America Team
This is a list of college baseball players named first team All-Americans for the 2015 NCAA Division I baseball season. The NCAA recognizes four different All-America selectors for baseball: the American Baseball Coaches Association (since 1947), Baseball America (since 1981), Collegiate Baseball (since 1991), and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (since 2001).


2015 College Basketball Invitational
The 2015 College Basketball Invitational (CBI) was a single-elimination tournament of 16 NCAA Division I teams that did not participate in the NCAA Tournament or the NIT. The opening games and the quarterfinals were held in mid-March on the home courts of participating teams. After the quarterfinals, the bracket were reseeded. A best-of-three championship series between the two finalist teams was held, with Loyola-Chicago winning the title with a two-game sweep. One change from this year's CBI Tournament was the use of a 30-second shot clock (instead of a 35-second clock).


2015 College Basketball Invitational, Participants
The following teams were announced as participants Sunday, March 15 after the NCAA Selection Show.


2015 College Basketball Invitational, Participants, Declined invitations
The following programs declined to participate in the 2015 CBI:


2015 College Football All-America Team
The 2015 College Football All-America Team includes those players of American college football who have been honored by various selector organizations as the best players at their respective positions. The selector organizations award the "All-America" honor annually following the conclusion of the fall college football season. The original All-America team was the 1889 College Football All-America Team selected by Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp.


2015 College Football All-America Team
In 1950, the National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, which is the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) service bureau, compiled the first list of All-Americans including first-team selections on teams created for a national audience that received national circulation with the intent of recognizing selections made from viewpoints that were nationwide. Since 1957, College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) has bestowed Academic All-American recognition on male and female athletes in Divisions I, II, and III of the NCAA as well as National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics athletes, covering all NCAA championship sports.


2015 College Football All-America Team
The 2015 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF), The Sporting News (TSN), Sports Illustrated (SI), USA Today (USAT) ESPN, CBS Sports (CBS), College Football News (CFN), Scout.com, and Yahoo! Sports (Yahoo! ).


2015 College Football All-America Team
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. Players are chosen against other players playing at their position only. To be selected a consensus All-American, players must be chosen to the first team on at least two of the five official selectors as recognized by the NCAA. Second- and third-team honors are used to break ties. Players named first-team to all five selectors are deemed unanimous All-Americans. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine consensus and unanimous All-Americans.


2015 College Football All-America Team
In 2015, there were 26 consensus All-Americans, 12 of which were unanimous. Unanimous selections are listed with an asterisk.


2015 College Football Playoff National Championship
The 2015 College Football Playoff National Championship was a bowl game that determined a national champion of NCAA Division I FBS college football for the 2014 season, which took place at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on January 12, 2015. It was the culminating game of the 2014–15 bowl season as the inaugural College Football Playoff National Championship, replacing the BCS National Championship Game. The national title was contested through a four-team bracket system, the College Football Playoff, which replaced the previous Bowl Championship Series.


2015 College Football Playoff National Championship
The game was played between the winners of two designated semi-final bowl games played on January 1, 2015: the No. 4 Ohio State Buckeyes, who upset No. 1 Alabama 42–35 in the 2015 Sugar Bowl, and the No. 2 Oregon Ducks, who defeated previously unbeaten No. 3 Florida State 59–20 in the 2015 Rose Bowl. This was the first championship game since 2006 that did not feature at least one SEC team, and the teams' first meeting since the 2010 Rose Bowl, which the Buckeyes won 26–17.