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TV(Photo: Dynamic Graphics, Getty Images) AUTO RACING Sprint Cup practice 7:30 a.m. Fox Sports 1 Xfinity Series qualifying 8:30 a.m. Fox Sports 1 Xfinity ToyotaCare 250 11:30 a.m. Fox Sports 1, 104.5-FM IndyCar qualifying 3 p.m. NBC SN NHRA 4Wide Nationals 9 p.m. Fox Sports 1 BOXING Gonzalez vs. Arroyo 9 p.m. HBO COLLEGE BASEBALL West Virginia at Oklahoma Noon Fox Southeast Campbellsville at Cumberland Noon 98.9-FM Georgia at Florida…

Mamadou Sakho is in his third season at Liverpool Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho is being investigated by Uefa after failing a drugs test. Although the France international, 26, is not officially suspended, he will “not be available” for selection during the investigation, Liverpool said. BBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter Ian Dennis said Sakho failed a test after the Europa League victory over Manchester United on 17 March. It…

11:02 PM ET print RICHMOND, Va. — Tony Stewart spoke out and NASCAR fined him. So what else is new? Well, for starters, you don’t often see the NASCAR Driver Council immediately issue a statement in support of a fined driver, along with a pledge to pay the fine — $35,000 in Stewart’s case. And it isn’t every day that a senior NASCAR official publicly admits “it’s time for us…

The Katy High School varsity baseball team is forfeiting 20 games because of a UIL rule violation. Two players were paid to to be Little League assistants during this season, which a 19-6A District Executive Committee found violated the amateur athletic rule on Friday. Katy played Strake Jesuit Friday night and the boys’ parents believe the teens didn’t do anything wrong. The parents say they checked the rules before accepting…

12:37 AM ET print CINCINNATI — Chicago Cubs left-hander Jon Lester admitted it was on his mind. What if he could throw a second consecutive no-hitter for the Cubs? It seemed crazy, but so did a 13-4 start for the team known as “lovable losers.” The Cubs keep proving they’re anything but losers as they beat the Reds for the fifth time this season Friday night, 8-1, behind Lester’s seven…

Ryan M. Kelly Virginia baseball Posted: Friday, April 22, 2016 4:22 pm Driver who lost consciousness in UVa baseball team’s bus crash dies BY ANDREW RAMSPACHER The Daily Progress Posted on Apr 22, 2016 by Andrew Ramspacher UPDATED with quote from UVa coach Brian O’Connor  Bernard Martin, the Virginia baseball team’s bus driver who lost consciousness behind the wheel late Thursday afternoon in Miami, died shortly after arriving at Mercy…

Why do you watch baseball? I watch it because it brings me joy. I don’t take life lessons from it. I don’t look for meaning. I don’t revere heroes (Jackie Robinson excepted). No, for me baseball gives me a little bit of joy day in and day out during the season. I have to imagine that you experience something similar. The other day, Michael Bradburn wrote about how baseball is,…

Thursday, April 21PACKERS Tom Silverstein, beat writer Read Transcript 2016 NFL Draft: Get news, Packers picks, draft basics, mock drafts and more By Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel Imagine someone walking into the offices of Bill Belichick or Ted Thompson…

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By Stephanie Stahl PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Tennis is a sport that many young athletes are turning to out of the growing concerns about concussions associated with some contact sports. And a special kind of tennis program in our area is providing children with a lot more than just hitting the ball back and forth over a net. Fifteen year old Max Steinman is a great example, smashing his way back…

Follow Extra Mustard on Facebook | Follow Andy on Twitter Seinfeld and Sports The Brooklyn Cyclones will be hosting their third annual Seinfeld Night in July, including an “Izzy Mandlebaum’s Feats of Strength,” and a black-and-white cookie-eating contest. In honor of this important event, we present the gallery above of Seinfeld and Sports. (Click here for full-size version.) You Know You’re Rich When… A Manhattan millionaire will soon be reunited with the Picasso painting…

Josh Norman has agreed to sign with the Washington Redskins in a whopping deal worth a $75 million over five seasons, with $51 million coming to Norman in the first three years, FS1 NFL Insider Mike Garafolo reports. This makes him the highest-paid cornerback in the league.  Norman posed for photos with a pen and his new contract and smiled ear to ear alongside Redskins general manager Scot McCloughan and family…

11:02 PM ET print RICHMOND, Va. — Tony Stewart spoke out and NASCAR fined him. So what else is new? Well, for starters, you don’t often see the NASCAR Driver Council immediately issue a statement in support of a fined driver, along with a pledge to pay the fine — $35,000 in Stewart’s case. And it isn’t every day that a senior NASCAR official publicly admits “it’s time for us…

NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France, right, speaks at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at Valdosta State University on Feb. 29.(Photo: Andrew Harnik, AP) So much for trying to be inclusive, NASCAR. At a time when other sports are leading the charge toward a brighter social future, the good ol’ boys seem intent on returning us to a more divisive era. NASCAR has been on quite a…

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You may as well cut the cord and watch the NBA playoffs and finals without a cable or satellite subscription. Channels are already pulling the plug on sports broadcasts as we know them. At the start of the National Basketball Association playoffs, I received a message from Chris Brantner, who goes by the handle Mr. Cable Cutter, asking if I’d…

John “Doomsday” Howard, who has a 23-12 record in his 13-year career of hitting guys until they cry mercy, rolls into an LA Fitness in the Boston suburbs. He’s three hours late to his workout, but not because he slept in. It had snowed that morning, the schools started late, and he needed to drop off his three daughters. “I got kids, man,” Howard says. Many professional athletes might hire…