According to USA Today, Ward Jr.’s car will be driven by Dylan Swiernik, Ward’s best friend, at the Canadian Sprint Car Nationals at Ohsweken Speedway in Ontario. The story was first reported Friday by USA Today’s Jeff Gluck. MORE: SHR drivers thinking about Stewart during Chase | Investigation: What’s next for Stewart? | Stewart gets warm reception Ward’s family-owned team has not raced since Ward was struck and killed by Stewart’s sprint car on Aug....

Keeping track of the NHL’s calendar of events can be tricky, so we put together a list of the must-know dates starting with opening night in October through the start of free agency in July. Bookmark this page and stay on top of it all. October 2018 3: Opening night of 2018-19 NHL regular season 6: 2018 NHL Global Series: Edmonton Oilers at New Jersey Devils (Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden)...

And when you look ahead at the rest of their schedule, there’s a good chance the Jets won’t win a game the rest of the year. At the very least, the Jets won’t win very many, and this puts them in the running for the No. 1 pick in the 2021 NFL Draft. And the consensus top player in this year’s draft is Trevor Lawrence. So, naturally, many are tying Lawrence to the Jets....

Already coming to market with the EV6 crossover in January 2022, the EV9 is an electric response to the company’s three-row Telluride SUV. The EV9’s design springs from the pillars of Kia’s “Opposites United” philosophy, emphasizing clear and simple lines that have been created to evoke feelings of serenity, calmness and wellbeing, according to the automaker. This stands in direct contrast to the rugged exterior and interior design of the current generation Telluride....

Why the Kidneys Are Important The kidneys perform several important functions. By producing urine, they help regulate fluid in your body, making sure your blood can flow with enough pressure. They also regulate the balance of certain minerals and other substances in your blood. Additionally, the kidneys filter away normal toxins created in the body, passing them safely through your urine. COVID-19 and the Kidneys In some people with severe cases of COVID-19, the disease damages the kidneys....

Grant now says the killing 13 blows to the head with a crystal candlestick- -was self-defense. Her mother, Dorothy Mayfield, was an alcoholic who threatened her physically and verbally she says. (Her father died of cancer in 1987.) Though a boyfriend tried to make the incident look like suicide by plunging a knife into Mayfield’s neck and placing her hand around its handle, Grant pleaded no contest to manslaughter and served six months in juvenile detention in 1991....

The silk neckwear has gone over big. Both Bill Clinton and Al Gore own Garcia ties, and Whoopi Goldberg recently had a Garcia-patterned dress made. Stone Ltd., which makes and the ties, has done $30 million in retail sales on the Garcia tie over the past 11 months and hopes for similar success with the Davis line. The Lennon ties, introduced last December, have done well enough that, ‘Imagine’ just in time for Father’s Day, maker Burma Biebas has issued a new batch featuring sketches Lennon drew for his son Sean....

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, died peacefully in her sleep at Balmoral Castle, the royal family’s country retreat, on Thursday afternoon, aged 96. Since the queen died there have been continuous ceremonies in Britain, as well as in Commonwealth countries, to mark her passing and Charles’ ascension to the throne. On Sunday, the late monarch’s coffin took a six-hour trip through Scotland, from Balmoral to Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The procession drew thousands of onlookers to see the queen arrive in the Scottish capital....

Los Angeles announced Tuesday it has hired former Oilers head coach Todd McLellan to the same position. Edmonton was 9-10-1 this season when it fired McLellan. McLellan did help lead the Oilers back to the playoffs for the first time in 11 years when Edmonton went to the conference semifinals in 2016-17, but the team underwhelmed in his last year and a half with the organization and he was replaced by Ken Hitchcock on Nov....

Gaborik is set to miss his fourth straight game on Thursday night with an undisclosed injury believed to be in the groin/abdominal region. Jon Rosen reported Thursday Gaborik is likely to start skating early next week but was uncertain if he’d join the Kings on their next road trip. It’s early, and Gaborik dealing with injuries is nothing new, but the Kings certainly appear to need him. We went over this when he signed his seven-year deal in the offseason; Gaborik adds a goal-scoring punch that the Kings tend to lack, and he makes star center Anze Kopitar even better:...

Japan’s music industry has long been dominated by saccharine bubble-gum acts. The formulaic groups sell well at home but lack the edge and originality to appeal to Western markets. Years ago Japanese companies like Yamaha and Akai helped spawn a breakthrough musical genre–selling sophisticated digital-sampling machines and turntables to hip-hoppers in Europe and America. The music swept through the West, but was largely unnoticed by Japanese music fans. Now there is no escaping it....

Syndicators are the folks who sell shows to TV stations, clipping off a percentage of the price for themselves. if they have enough shows, and the shows get healthy ratings on enough stations, they can make a decent living. King World reaps an annual net income of $100 million and enjoys a cash cache of about half a billion. That kind of money-the kind David Letterman refers to as “Oprah money”-can buy a lot of flamboyance, presuming one has the appetite for it....

The last release came in 2013 (“NCAA Football 14”) due to a settlement that got the publisher out of the Ed O’Bannon-led class action lawsuit that the NCAA ended up losing and is now appealing. Realistically, there are still two to three years before the game could possibly return. MORE: O’Bannon appeal complicates ‘NCAA Football’ return | What O’Bannon ruling means In an interview with SEC Country, ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit was asked whether EA should bring the “NCAA Football” series back....

Alley’s two children, True and Lillie Parker, posted a statement to their mother’s Twitter account Monday evening, sharing that Alley’s cancer diagnosis had been recently discovered. “She was surrounded by her closest family and fought with great strength, leaving us with a certainty of her never-ending joy of living and whatever adventures lie ahead,” the siblings wrote. “As iconic as she was on screen, she was an even more amazing mother and grandmother....

The video posted from the TikTok account @eli_theoneeye was shared with a caption that read: “The long awaited Harper rescue story [red and pink heart emojis].” The footage showed a montage of the cat’s journey from its discovery to its current home. The clip began with a shot of the cat encountering 27-year-old Mikayla McKee, who lives in Arlington, Virginia, on the side of a road, before being held in her arms, wrapped in a blanket....

In the footage, which was shared to TikTok by an account called Libbybax, we can see a small tabby cat being held by a man at a dining table. He then softly blows onto the pet’s face, causing her to shut her eyes and hold her paws up in a surrender-like pose. The man then does it again to the same affect, and it is very cute! A computerized voiceover can then be heard saying: “Our kitten dies every time we blow air on her face....

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that residents from Ashburn and Leesburg found the propaganda from Loyal White Knights Ku Klux Klan in their driveways on Thursday morning. The sheriff’s office said the fliers, which were placed in plastic bags and weighed down with birdseed, were also found in the driveways of several homes along Cross Timber Drive, Citation Drive, and Deer Chase Place in Ashburn, reported Loudoun Now....

Cousins was teammates with Thompson on the Warriors last season before he signed a one-year contract with Los Angeles this summer. Thompson praised Cousins during a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times. “DeMarcus is a great teammate and I developed such a great chemistry with him, coming off screens and cutting off from posts,” Thompson said. “I’ll miss him. I know he’s going to be a huge asset for the Lakers....

What do you do? What Jurgen Klinsmann chose to do is send a not-so-subtle message to the U.S. national team pool, both current and future, about striving for the highest levels of the game. He laid out a challenge of sorts by saying that, in his view, Americans have the talent but not the confidence to challenge for places at the highest levels of the game. “It needs to take the U....

Alan Pardew suggested the lengthy delays on a cold night at Anfield had contributed to Hal Robson-Kanu and Kieran Gibbs suffering muscle injuries, while Jonny Evans and Jake Livermore also appeared to be struggling in the closing stages. VAR was used to award a penalty for a foul on Mohamed Salah, while referee Craig Pawson disallowed a header by Craig Dawson after consulting replays. Klopp called for patience in the adoption of the new technology, although he believed Ahmed Hegazi could have been sent off for a challenge on Roberto Firmino....