And then he looked like he might win before settling for third in the Bojangles Southern 500. That’s the roller-coaster ride with NASCAR’s green-white-checkered restarts. Johnson had no hope of catching Kevin Harvick as the race went into its final 10 laps but when a caution flag came out with eight laps remaining, Johnson had the opportunity he was hoping for — one last pit stop. Crew chief Chad Knaus chose a two-tire pit stop, which put Johnson in the lead, a lead he kept following the restart with five laps remaining....

Atlanta realized how much money Lester is commanding on the free-agent market and thus decided not to offer him a contract when the sides met recently, reports David O’Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. MORE: Red Sox willing to pay tax to add Lester | Top 10 free-agent pitchers The Cubs reportedly are offering about $23 million per year for the free-agent left-hander, who makes his home in the Atlanta area....

Jon Moxley (Dean Ambrose) helped turn that expectation into a reality. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year Moxley made his way through the crowd and made his new wrestling home apparent during the waning moments of Double or Nothing. The moment came after Chris Jericho defeated Kenny Omega in the main event to move on to a match with Adam Page to crown the first AEW heavyweight champion....

Stewart spoke to Newsmax host Shaun Kraisman on Thursday and the clip has so far been viewed over 3 million times. Stewart’s rant on Newsmax comes after he already criticized the senators while on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday in an expletive-laced speech. In June, the Senate passed the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 2022 in a bipartisan effort to address health care, research, resources and more for veterans exposed to toxic substances during military service, Newsweek reported....

The team announced Wednesday the catcher will be sidelined 4-6 weeks with a mild hamstring strain. The Brewers said the injury was diagnosed Monday by Dr. William Raasch and confirmed Tuesday by Dr. Lee Kaplan. The team did not specify how Lucroy was injured. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel spoke with assistant GM Gord Ash and it sounds like the injury isn’t too serious. While the injury will force him to miss some at-bats during spring training, the 28-year-old is expected to be ready by opening day....

For the present, it is not clear when (or if) Martin will rejoin the team. At some point he will meet Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. It also remains to be seen what will happen to Incognito, who filed a grievance this week against the team to fight his suspension. Incognito, a leader on the embattled Dolphins, also faces questions about what happens next in his checkered career. In his grievance Incognito seeks the immediate resumption of his career....

In a tweet on Tuesday, Mikhaila Peterson shared a link to the Vice report that detailed the outcry among staff at the publishing giant over the decision to publish Peterson’s new book, a follow-up to the bestselling 12 Rules for Life, in March next year. According to the report, “several” employees confronted management in a bid to have the book’s release canceled during an internal town hall meeting on Monday....

The youngest of the Kardashian sisters used Peterson’s viral speech about spending time with your kids in a cute video featuring her own daughter, True Thompson. The endorsement of Peterson’s work comes at a good time for Peterson after one pillar of his social media empire fell. The conservative public figure has millions of followers across YouTube, Instagram and Twitter, but he was recently removed from the latter after tweeting about Elliot Page....

Spieth, at odds of 8-to-1, is behind only Rory McIlroy on the Westgate’s futures board for the second major of the year, which is set for June 18-21 at Chambers Bay in University Place, Washington. McIlroy finished in fourth place at the Masters, at 12-under par, six strokes back of Spieth. Tiger Woods’ solid performance at Augusta went a long way to win over oddsmakers, as he’s listed at 15-to-1 for the U....

Now, Jordan Spieth is starting to have the same effect on his peers. MORE: PGA Tour winners of the 2015-16 season | Spieth’s historic 2015 rivals Tiger’s best But unlike Woods, Spieth doesn’t feed off the discomfort he conjures up around the rest of the PGA Tour. In fact, he might not even recognize it’s there. Yet facts are facts, and the fact is guys seem to struggle while playing with Spieth on the weekend....

Spieth didn’t need to go low on Saturday. While he cut two strokes off his score against par, his 68 wasn’t the stuff of awe. But it didn’t have to be. MORE: Spieth’s place among under-25 champions | Leaderboard | Spieth’s dark days With that 68, matching his first-round total and following Friday’s 66, Spieth walked off the course one stroke better than Henrik Stenson. They will play again on Sunday, in the final round of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club near Atlanta....

Staal suffered a fractured fibula in the Carolina Hurricanes’ second preseason game during an awkward collision with Sabres’ defenseman Josh Gorges. Staal, the Canes’ second-line center, underwent surgery that same week. MORE: The lights go out in Detroit | Krejci placed on IR | Are the Blues a bunch of bullies? Staal, who has been sidelined for the first 23 games of the season, is out of his walking boot and Hurricanes coach Bill Peters said Saturday that Staal is ready to begin off-ice workouts....

I’ll wait while you try not to hurl. MORE: Jays need pitching more than Martin | Megadeal right for Stanton, Marlins That’s pretty shocking, even for Canseco. That’s also what makes it so ridiculously improbable to happen. You can’t sell fingers on eBay. Hell, you can’t even sell guns on eBay, so this is all just posturing. Canseco knows we’re all just watching his Twitter feed at this point and he’s going for the gross-out factor while we wait to write posts like these....

A federal indictment obtained by 40/29 News alleges that the 33-year-old knowingly received and possessed child pornography in May 2019. The material reportedly included images of minors under the age of 12. If convicted, Duggar faces up to 20 years of imprisonment and fines of up to $250,000 on each count. Josh, the oldest of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s 19 children, previously served as the executive director of Family Research Council, a pro-life and pro-marriage lobbying organization, before sexual misconduct allegations were reported against the TV star....

Trump entered Election Day trailing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden by an average of over eight points in nationwide polls. The race to the White House, however, has proved to be far closer than expected. So far Biden has secured 227 of the electoral college votes needed to become president, with Trump on 213. Biden holds a wafer-thin lead in several key states including Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona at the time of writing, but the outcome of the election is yet to be fully tabulated....

Sen. Hawley of Missouri and Sen. Cruz from Texas are facing a probe from the Senate Ethics Committee, with questions around their conduct ahead of the Capitol riot and their opposition to the Electoral College results. “I think at a minimum, at a minimum, they should be censured,” Casey told CNN. “In the history of the United States Senate, there’s been just a handful of times where there’s been censures....

In true “Browns gonna Brown” fashion, McCown ran out of bounds in the second quarter and while he tried to stop himself, he kind of trotted into a wall and just dropped. It was uncoordinated and clumsy and hilarious. MORE: Week 7 photos from the gridiron | The best 25 under 25 | Week 7 live scoreboard McCown was seen flexing his hand after the, uh, tackle, but he came back into the game....

On Monday, the longtime Patriots assistant was named as the next head coach of the Raiders, and some eyebrows were raised over the move. While McDaniels fosters a reputation of building great offenses, some questioned replacing the beloved Rich Bisaccia with someone with a rough history as a boss (or a potential one). It’s been 12 years since McDaniels was fired from the Broncos head-coaching job, and on Monday, the 45-year-old coach explained why his 11-17 Denver tenure was disastrous:...

Now, the NFL gets to see if a cornerback can make that big a difference — as much as a $36.5 million difference. MORE: Norman’s journey, in photos | Norman isn’t who you think he is Washington, Norman’s new benefactors, isn’t one player away from the Super Bowl, where Norman was last year with Carolina. But it’s one player better at that position than it was last year, when it felt sometimes as if they had negative-players out there, going 7-on-11 — linemen and linebackers and then lots of fresh air and green grass....