Two NASCAR Cup Series Elimination races are now scheduled and two drivers will not have to burn out in the first elimination.Tyler Reddick continued his strong start to the playoffs, taking victory Sunday at Kansas Speedway a week after finishing second at Darlington. 23XI Racing driver joins Darlington winner and Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson with automatic spots for the second round.But Kansas proved extremely costly for regular season champion Martin Truex Jr. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver clipped a tire moments into the race, and the resulting crash left his car beyond repair and out of the race –…
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WASHINGTON — The best habit the Mavericks have developed this season is knowing how to generate good, healthy anger, then channel that aggravation in the right way. They lost three times in their first 12 games. And three times they fought back. On Wednesday, it was with a score of 130-117 against the woeful Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena, quickly erasing the bad taste of Tuesday’s blowout defeat in New Orleans. “Last year, the way it ended plays a big role in how we do things this year – after a loss, we try to do our best not…
Caitlin Clark is changing the conversation around women’s athletics, but there is still much work to be done to combat rampant sexism in sports. After finishing second in the national championship last year, Caitlin Clark and the Iowa women’s basketball team’s season tickets for the 2023-24 season sold out for the first time in history thanks to their unprecedented run and Clark’s undisputed role as the face of the team. *Forbes Magazine* said that, for the first time, tickets to the women’s Final Four were three times more expensive than men’s tickets. On top of that, the 2023 NCAA Championship…
Penn State head coach James Franklin discusses how the offense has adapted to recent changes State of Pennsylvania wide receiver Harrison “Trey” Wallace had a solid 2023 campaign. But the rest of this season could be in jeopardy following an injury he suffered against Indiana. When asked if Wallace would be willing to play in Penn State’s Week 12 game against Rutgers, head coach James Franklin couldn’t offer much on the situation, but confirmed his status as a second-year receiver for Saturday. “Yes, we won’t see him this week. But I’m not sure after that. said Franklin. Wallace had a…
See a depressed person MacJonesboth on the sidelines and during his press conference following the New England Patriots’ 10-6 loss Sunday to the Indianapolis Colts in Germany, it’s harder to imagine the quarterback having a future in New England beyond this season. Jones, a product of the Bolles School, continues to struggle for a Patriots team where he is adjusting to yet another new offensive coordinator and has no viable weapons around him. While Jones must shoulder responsibility as quarterback for the second-lowest offense in the NFL (14.1 points per game), as well as a horrific red zone interception that…
The Edmonton Oilers were blessed with Krise to stand out. I’m a roleplay created by the Seattle Kraken, built with a lifespan of 4:3, then a spin time of 1:3. This is a second game within a second game, in Edmonton where trainerwechsel vollzog and Kris Knoblauch from Jay Woodcroft’s team are on site. Although the Woodcroft era play took place, the Oilers had three seats in further errors. “The season will not be perfect. There is no Widrigkeiten gehen”, ordnete Knoblauch den Erfolg ein. as Jungs did, he realizes. Sie wissen, dass sie das können. Hoffentlich macht uns die…
Nicolas Rewey After tying the Michigan Wolverines in the Big Bear Trophy game, the 19th-ranked Michigan State men’s soccer team returned to the field to face the Maryland Terrapins on the day Alumni Appreciation Hall at DeMartin Stadium. The Spartans entered this game as one of six undefeated teams in the country and the only undefeated team in the Big Ten. The Spartans would recover from a 2-0 deficit, come away with a tie and remain undefeated on the season. The Terps came out fast, scoring a goal in the second minute of play. Senior defender Kento Abe perfectly set…
NCAA President Charlie Baker speaks to a group of Franklin College athletes at the Spurlock Center Wednesday evening as Andrew Hendricks, the college’s vice president and swimming coach, looks on. Ryan O’Leary | Daily newspaper Charlie Baker is no stranger to the world of college athletics. He played basketball at Harvard, his wife was a Northwestern gymnast, and his three children competed at that level in football or field hockey. But when he took over as president of the NCAA last March, Baker inherited a very different landscape than the one he or his children navigated. The 67-year-old former Massachusetts…
The Boston Celtics shrugged off the absence of Kristaps Porzingis and Jaylen Brown to defeat the Philadelphia 76ers and claim first place in the Eastern Conference on Wednesday.Jayson Tatum led Boston’s scoring with 29 points while Derrick White scored 27 to give Boston a 117-107 road victory in Philadelphia.The win moved Boston into first place in the Eastern Conference standings with a 9-2 record, with the Sixers falling to 8-3 in second place.“Top to bottom, we have a lot of guys that can do a lot of good things,” said White, who scored 14 points in the fourth quarter to…
Kenny Brooks and Virginia Tech have signed an elite 2024 recruiting class. (Jon Fleming) Virginia Tech women’s basketball ink a top-10 recruiting class in the 2024 cycle at the start of the signing period (November 8-15), an ESPN trio ranked sixth in the country. All three previously committed prospects signed with the Hokies: Lexi Blue, Myah Hazelton and Clara Silva. Fresh off an ACC championship and Final Four appearance, the 2024 class is arguably Tech’s best yet under head coach Kenny Brooks. This follows a 2023 group that included four top-100 recruits, all of whom are true freshmen for the…