Busch raced to his 11th Nationwide victory of the year Friday night, giving him a season sweep on the 11/2-mile track. – Dollar General 300 results | Junior’s fortune 500 | Bank of America 500: Breaking down the field Busch edged Nationwide series title contenders Austin Dillon and Sam Hornish Jr. to win for the eighth time in the series at his favorite track. Coupled with his five Truck Series wins at track, he broke the track victory record with 13....

Twenty-five NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers raced in the rain-delayed Sprint Showdown on Saturday morning at Charlotte Motor Speedway — three knew they had a chance to be in the main event later Saturday. All it took was a win in one of the three segments. MORE: 10 tracks that could host All-Star race | All-Star race brings unique strategy It wasn’t as easy as that sounds, especially not in the door-to-door battle to the line in the final 10-lap segment in which Chase Elliott ended up as the runner-up in a segment for the second time....

After losing two games in a row, it appears that the Heat will have to get back on track without starting point guard Kyle Lowry, who has been battling a hamstring injury for over two weeks now. Lowry missed the first two games of the series before returning for Games 3 and 4 in his hometown of Philadelphia, but he appeared to have reaggravated the injury in Miami’s Game 4 loss....

Rittenhouse, who was cleared of all charges against him after killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and injuring Gaige Grosskreutz in Kenosha in August 2020, said while giving evidence that he is studying nursing at ASU. The college later clarified that Rittenhouse had enrolled as a non-degree-seeking online student for the session that started in mid-October, and was not taking classes on campus. “Kyle Rittenhouse has not gone through the admissions process with Arizona State University and is not enrolled in the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation,” university spokesperson Jay Thorne told Arizona Republic....

Mark Richards, Rittenhouse’s lawyer, also filed several other arguments, including dismissal of a video from July 2020 that prosecutors filed motions last week asking a judge to allow it as evidence. Prosecutors said the video shows Rittenhouse hitting a teenage girl in the back on Kenosha’s waterfront, but Richards argued the altercation is irrelevant to the case. Richards has similarly argued against prosecutors claiming Rittenhouse has an affiliation with the Proud Boys, which is a far-right extremist group....

Jenner, a member of the extended Kardashian-Jenner family and founder of Kylie Cosmetics, turned heads at Monday’s Schiaparelli fashion show in Paris in an ensemble featuring a faux life-sized lion’s head. The piece was part of a themed set featured at the show, with models also walking the runway with realistic faux heads based on a leopard and a wolf, inspired by animals featured in the “Inferno” portion of Dante’s Divine Comedy....

The Cavaliers’ All-Star point guard is OK with that arrangement for now, but he hopes it won’t be the case much longer. MORE: Kyrie through the years, in photos | Irving replayed injury until he could ’let it go' “I’m playing (Monday). I’m going to do the same thing getting ready for the game mentally and physically and then sit out in Denver again,” Irving told reporters Monday . “So that will be the last time I sit out in back-to-backs and the last two games, hopefully, I’ll miss for the rest of the season....

BUY ‘EM Mike Trout (6-for-13, 2 HR), Albert Pujols (5-for-12, HR), and Howie Kendrick (8-for-23, HR) have had a lot of success against Clay Buchholz. Matt Kemp (5-for-12) and Yasiel Puig (5-for-8) hit Eric Stults well. Yoenis Cespedes is 6-for-19 (.316) with three doubles against Garrett Richards. Pablo Sandoval is 8-for-15 (.533) with a homer and two doubles against the very hittable Edwin Jackson. Jon Jay of all people is 10-for-21 (....

Last Friday, the editor in chief of Variety was suspended by the paper indefinitely, and subsequently removed from his regular gig on CNN. A few weeks earlier, the gossip columnist for The Hollywood Reporter was taken off his job as well. On first glance, the pair of forced vacations bear scant resemblance to each other. Variety’s Peter Bart was granted some involuntary time off after Los Angeles magazine published a deeply unflattering profile depicting him as a coarse braggart who demeaned blacks, Asians and gays....

Need an idea of just how empty the bench was? MORE: Cavs GM fired after loss to Lakers | Look back on David Stern’s career Empty enough that 7-foot center Chris Kaman could take a nap on it. As crazy as that photo is, it's not the craziest thing that happened on Wednesday. With Jordan Farmar and Nick Young leaving the game with injuries and Kaman and Robert Sacre later fouling out, the Lakers didn't have enough players to field a full team....

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With the club winless in its past three games, including a 1-0 defeat in Saturday’s Clasico Nacional against Chivas, reports have indicated that the 65-year-old Argentine has lost the locker room. But in an interview with TDN, a relaxed La Volpe claimed that his players very much still believe they can turn things around under his watch. What we learned from Liga MX Round 7 “They’re with me to the end,” the coach said....

Some California residents, including prominent social media influencers, have continued to host large gatherings despite restrictions aimed at containing the rapid spread of the virus. Bars and nightclubs have been ordered closed but Garcetti said during a Wednesday news conference that some of “those who refuse to follow the science and refuse to follow the rules” had taken it upon themselves to create “nightclubs in the hills” by holding unauthorized house parties....

In Gallup polls taken since March, around 10 percent each week say they have experienced a temporary layoff and 4 percent report a job loss. In the polls, Americans are less confident today than they were in the spring that those jobs will come back. A new AP/NORC poll shows that 39 percent of households with a layoff expect to be able to return to the same job when the pandemic is over—a sharp decline from April, when 78 percent gave that response....

The former OL striker signed for the Gunners this summer in a club record deal reportedly worth £52.7 million, despite French giants PSG having and interest in him . The 26-year-old has settled in well, netting four goals in seven Premier League games for his new club, but knows that matching his haul of 37 from his last season with Lyon will be a tall task. Lacazette 14/1 to be PL top scorer...

NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) Lakers star LeBron James was ejected with 9:18 to play in the third quarter after he collected Pistons big man Isaiah Stewart with an errant elbow to the face. MORE: LeBron James ejected after bloodying Isaiah Stewart as Lakers, Pistons scuffle James was ejected after he was assessed a Flagrant 2 foul, with a scuffle unfolding between the pair, with Stewart not too pleased as he had to be restrained by team staff with blood streaming down his face....

Kent Bazemore, who was picked up from the Warriors in a mid-season trade, has suffered a right foot injury and will miss the remainder of the season, the team announced. MORE: Calipari not ‘dignifying’ Lakers rumors | Lakers close to worst in franchise history Bazemore's absence will amount to five missed games, contests the Lakers must win to avoid becoming the worst team in franchise history. They are currently at 25-52 on the season with a ....

The Action Network’s Rob Perez, known on NBA Twitter as @WorldWideWob, compiled some of Los Angeles’ signature moments from the 2018-19 season and set them to “One Shining Moment.” It is . . . perfect. MORE: Kobe Bryant offers advice to LeBron James Missed shots, weird turnovers, poor high-five execution — Lakers haters got to check off just about every box. But a Mario Hezonja block of LeBron James? That’s the cherry on top of the sundae....

After talks between the Lakers and Tyronn Lue hit a snag Wednesday and ultimately fell apart, Los Angeles is heading back to the drawing board. Lue and Monty Williams were two of LA’s top initial candidates to replace Luke Walton, but now that Lue has removed himself from the equation and Williams has signed a contract with the Suns, there aren’t many big names on the market. Still, the show must go on....

Like the Delta variant, Lambda is highly transmissible but Japanese researchers believe that three mutations in the variant’s spike proteins make it more resistant to antibodies induced by vaccination. Lambda, which is also known as the C.37 variant, is responsible for 1,037 cases of COVID-19 in the U.S., according to data from the GISAID Initiative, which promotes the rapid sharing of information about influenza and coronaviruses. The variant was first identified in Peru in August, 2020, where it has now become the dominant strain of the virus, and it has been reported in 29 countries including the U....