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MADISON, ILLINOIS – AUGUST 20: Hailie Deegan, driver of the #1 Monster Ford, waits the grid prior to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Toyota 200 presented by CK Power at Gateway Motorsports Park on August 20, 2021 in Madison, Illinois. (Photo by Jeff Curry/Getty Images)A pair of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series drivers made a notable swap this week.Hailie Deegan and Tanner Gray swapped crew chiefs heading into this weekend’s race.”Hailie Deegan and Tanner Gray are swapping crew chiefs. Jerry Baxter now with Deegan and Mike Hillman Jr. with Gray. Only crew chiefs changing, rest of David Gilliland Racing road…

Meet the Mets The Mets finished their weekend series against the Defensively Incapable Phillies with a 6-0 win, only made possible by the team’s Lucky Hits. Choose your recap: Amazin’ Avenue, NY Post, Daily News, MLB.com, Newsday, ESPN. With five scoreless innings on Sunday, Chris Bassitt extended his scoreless streak to 24 consecutive innings. As Luis Guillorme undergoes an MRI for groin tightness, the Mets haven’t completely ruled out bringing up Brett Baty if Guillorme is out long-term. Still dealing with tightness of his own, Eduardo Escobar still doesn’t think a trip to the IL is in his future. Despite…

FORT MILL, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A Fort Mill man will attempt to break a speed record this week, the record for the fastest golf cart. The all-time mark for that speed is one he set himself in 2014 at 118.76 MPH.Robby Steen has spent the last 20 years going after the world records. His strategy was to build publicity for his business that makes electric motors for golf carts. He now has the recognition, but his need for speed remains. “I build them, but I just can’t play golf,” said Steen. The golf carts Steen gets his hands…

(Photo by Mike Zarrilli/Getty Images) The preseason ended on a sour note for Auburn’s soccer team when they lost to Memphis 2-0 Saturday. Memphis opened the scoring in the 17th minute when Saorla Miller scored on a deflected penalty kick. They added on in the 85th minute to put the game away. “Memphis is a great team, so this was a good second exhibition to help gear us up for top-25 play,” head coach Karen Hoppa said. “We saw some really good performances and we saw some big areas that we’ve got to improve in, so we need to go into…

The massive sums of money collected by fast increasing Twenty20 leagues around the world, according to Indian great Kapil Dev, should be used to develop and defend Test cricket. He was speaking on the same day that Cricket Australia announced its five-year strategy, which acknowledged the impact of privatisation and the expansion of T20 leagues on the global cricket landscape. Image Source: TwitterIt Seems As If International Cricket Only Will Be For World Cups: Kapil Dev Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Dev said that Test cricket is fading out. “The ICC [International Cricket Council] has a bigger responsibility how…

Since its opening to the west of the King Abdullah Sports City in June 2021, the Jeddah Super Dome that will host Anthony Joshua’s shot at revenge over Oleksandr Usyk has been promoted as a symbol of Saudi Arabia’s sporting growth. The venue set a world record courtesy of a roof that spans more than 689ft — the largest ever for a dome of its kind — and hosted the seventh WWE wrestling event in the country as part of a 10-year partnership with the promotion. Boxing, too, is about to visit the 35,000-capacity setting in the latest fight to be…

With the Commonwealth Games the focus of the nation’s sporting attention earlier this month, the events in Birmingham were inspiring for aspiring wheelchair tennis stars Will Barton, McKenzie O’Reilly, Lucas Town and Scarlett Walker, despite tennis not featuring in the Games sports programme. Like so many of the British medal-winning heroes, these four wheelchair starlets are being supported by the SportsAid programme, after they fell in love with tennis when they played for the first time via the LTA’s Wheelchair Tennis Initiative programme. SportsAid is a charity which enriches the lives of talented young athletes by recognising and nurturing their abilities…

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY SportsWelcome to the latest file for The THN Hot Seat series, an ongoing set of THN.com columns in which we pick out one member of each NHL team who’ll face the most pressure in the upcoming season. The Hot Seat person can be an NHL player, head coach, GM, or franchise owner. In today’s file, we’re examining the Dallas Stars. STARS HOT SEAT: (tie) TYLER SEGUIN, CENTER; AND JAMIE BENN, FORWARDWHY: The Stars aren’t currently salary cap-strapped, but that’s only an illusion: yes, they have more than $10.3-million in cap space, but they have two very important…

NFL roster rules are confusing. NFI, IR, PUP, ABC, 123? Not quite. The 2022 NFL season is imminent, and as teams play preseason games to sort out their rosters, coaches across the league will be taking long, hard looks to determine the best back end of the roster that they can build. While most teams have their 53-man units penciled in, there’s still a matter of sorting out the 37 men who will hit waiver wires off the 90-man rosters currently constituting all 32 NFL squads. With three separate cut days leading up to the final game of the preseason,…

Australia’s own Jack White is already making his mark at the Denver Nuggets, with star guard Jamal Murray revealing he’s quickly set a new record for the team’s 100 three-pointers shooting drill. White was rewarded for his strong NBA Summer League form, singing a two-way contract with the Nuggets and joining the team after national team commitments.The former Melbourne United and Duke captain hasn’t wasted time in making an impression.Watch The Biggest Sports from The US with ESPN on Kayo. NBA, NHL, MLB & NFL. Live Coverage Every Week in Season. New to Kayo? Start your free trial now >“He…