5:29 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — John Hunter Nemechek passed teammate Chandler Smith with 17 laps to go and outran team owner Kyle Busch to win the NASCAR Truck Series race at Richmond Raceway on Saturday. Nemechek, already the series points leader, gave Kyle Busch Motorsports its fourth consecutive victory in the series
12:13 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals traded outfielder Nick Heath, who had been designated for assignment earlier in the week, to the Arizona Diamondbacks for minor league pitcher Eduardo Herrera on Saturday. The 27-year-old Heath, a speedster with a spotty bat, has been on the fringe of making
4:45 PM ET Bryce Young stepped into the first-team quarterback role and impressed during Alabama‘s spring game on Saturday, winning Most Valuable Player honors after completing 25 of 44 passes for 333 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions. Young, a former five-star prospect, was Mac Jones‘ primary backup as a freshman last season. He appeared
4:29 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — With spring practice in the books, Ohio State‘s quarterback derby will carry over into fall workouts. That’s not a surprise, considering the candidates to succeed star Justin Fields are two second-year players and a true freshman. Neither has thrown a pass in a college game. C.J. Stroud,
3:35 PM ET BEREA, Ohio — One day after signing pass-rusher Jadeveon Clowney, the Cleveland Browns terminated the contract of starting defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson. Friday’s move will save $11 million in cap space, but it leaves the Browns with a huge hole in the middle of their defensive line. Richardson’s contract had no guaranteed
9:39 AM ET Associated Press MONACO — Fourth-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas swatted aside unseeded Daniel Evans 6-2, 6-1 on Saturday to reach the Monte Carlo Masters final for the first time, and stay on course for a first title this year. The big-serving Greek faces the winner of a later semifinal between sixth-seeded Russian Andrey Rublev
10:36 AM ET A study released Saturday examining more than 3,000 college athletes who had COVID-19 found so few instances of heart-related issues that future cardiac testing might be used only for athletes with certain symptoms. In the study, published in the American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation, researchers found signs of possible, probable or definite
8:29 AM ET Zinedine Zidane has again refused to commit his future to Real Madrid despite winning the Clasico against Barcelona and knocking Liverpool out of the Champions League in a week. Zidane, who has a contract at the Bernabeu until 2022, has faced repeated questioning about his future plans after an up-and-down season which
Joe Root scored a century © Getty Images Kent 265 and 33 for 2 (Bell-Drummond 24*) need 412 runs vs Yorkshire 379 and 330 for 5 dec. (Lyth 116, Root 101, Brook 66*) Joe Root scored a century to put Yorkshire in a commanding position after day three of their LV= Insurance County Championship game
1:17 PM ET Buffalo Sabres forward Kyle Okposo will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to repair a broken bone in his cheek, the team announced Saturday. Okposo was injured when he was hit in the face by a puck during Thursday’s win over the Washington Capitals. The 32-year-old finishes the season