It took 99 races before Chase Elliott scored his first career NASCAR Cup victory on Aug. 5, 2018, at Watkins Glen International.Elliott led 52 laps, including the final 34, and finished a startling seven seconds in front of second-place Martin Truex Jr. that day.Chase Elliott won the Xfinity Series championship in 2014, becoming, at 18, the youngest driver to win a major NASCAR title.Chase Elliott could count the close calls as they stacked up in the early years of his NASCAR Cup career.And, if he wasn’t counting, other people were.In 2016, his first full season at stock car racing’s top…
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We hope our annual tradition of spotlighting the best portraits Golf Digest has run the previous year is something you’ve come to look forward to. We sure enjoy the chance to glance back at what’s come to life in our pages from the talented network of photographers we employ. We’ll begin our look back with this image from Dustin Johnson from our Masters Preview (Issue 3). • • • The conventional wisdom on Dustin Johnson, 36, goes something like this: He doesn’t say much, so he must not be very intelligent. When asked at last year’s Masters about his favorite…
December 31, 2021 at 10:28 PM ESTBulldogs pull away, leading Michigan 34-3Stetson Bennett throws a 39-yard pass to RB James Cook for his third passing TD of the night with just over 10 minutes remaining in the final quarter.Cook now leads the Bulldogs with three receptions for 99 yards.The Athletic College Football StaffDecember 31, 2021 at 10:13 PM ESTGeorgia extends their lead despite a scoreless third quarterThe Orange Bowl score remains 27-3, but Georgia continues to pull away with nearly double Michigan’s total yards (400 compared to about 200). The two teams are averaging roughly the same yardage per play…
Controversial former England batsman Kevin Pietersen has devised a bold plan to introduce a Hundred-style red-ball competition to save Test cricket amid the Ashes debacle. Pietersen has implored the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to implement proper change for the Test team by the introduction of a franchise system for red-ball cricket, modelled on The Hundred tournament. “With the money elsewhere in the game, the (County) Championship in its current form is not fit to serve the Test team,” Pietersen wrote in his Betway blog.Catch every moment of The Ashes live and ad-break free during play on Kayo. New…
By Sean Jones: Speaking like a King Ryan Garcia, he demanded that Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz sign the contract on Friday to fight next in early 2022. The former WBC interim lightweight champion Ryan (21-0, 18 KOs) and Pitbull Cruz (22-2-1, 15 KOs) are negotiating a headliner fight on DAZN for April. Cruz is ready to give Ryan the fight, but he intends on making him regret that he picked him as his opponent. Ryan directed his laser sights on Pitbull Cruz after watching what he did to Gervonta ‘Tank Davis, and he wants to be seen doing a better job…
Emma Raducanu said she was “immensely proud and grateful” after her incredible breakthrough year ended with another accolade as she was made an MBE in the New Year Honours. The 19-year-old has swept the board at 2021’s sporting awards, including the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year, after becoming the first qualifier to win a grand slam title at the US Open in September. Now Raducanu has achieved the rare distinction of receiving an honour as a teenager having turned 19 in November. The British number one said: “It makes me immensely proud and grateful to be listed to receive…
Hawks sign goalie Cale Morris to NHL contract as insurance originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago The Blackhawks have agreed to terms with goaltender Cale Morris on a one-year, entry-level contract that runs through the 2021-22 season, the team announced Friday. His cap hit is $750,000. Morris was previously on an AHL contract with the Rockford IceHogs. He was promoted to Chicago’s taxi squad as an insurance policy. The move comes hours after Kevin Lankinen was placed in COVID-19 protocol, where he joined Marc-Andre Fleury, who was placed in protocol on Monday. Collin Delia and Arvid Soderblom were…
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Clare Aubry is 1 of 3 G League officials stepping in to call NBA games. The virus outbreak hasn’t just sent NBA teams looking for help from the G League. The NBA refereeing corps has had to do the same. A trio of G League officials — Tyler Mirkovich, Clare Aubry and Pat O’Connell — were assigned games on Friday, the NBA debuts for all three. It was the first time that the NBA had to call up G League officials to work games this season. Mirkovich was assigned Phoenix at Boston, Aubry got Atlanta at Cleveland and O’Connell was…
2021 is almost over, so to ring in the new year, there was a look back at the past NASCAR season. To be precise, there was a revisit of some of the biggest stories of the season. Apparently, the top story of the year was Brad Keselowski taking on the driver-owner role at Roush Fenway Racing for 2022. Needless to say, the driver himself was quite thrilled to be on top for once.ADVERTISEMENTArticle continues below this adSomething tells me it will be #1 again this time next year. 💪🏻🏁— Brian Obiedzenski (@TheRealObie29) December 31, 2021ADVERTISEMENTArticle continues below this adIn response,…