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The federal law enacted in 1992 effectively outlawed sports betting in 46 of the 50 states. On May 14, the court, by a 6-3 margin, ruled that PASPA was unconstitutional and that states are free to decide for themselves whether to allow and regulate wagering on sports. Sportsbooks outside Nevada could open as soon as next month. The major North American sports leagues, such as the NFL and NBA, are unlikely to experience a spike in popularity because of the decision, but NASCAR — which has struggled to maintain its fan base, let alone grow it —could use the ruling to great advantage....

Kevin Harvick crashed at Chicagoland Speedway last Sunday after a bump with Jimmie Johnson cut his tire, resulting in words after the race. Harvick finished 42nd and is 22 points behind Jeff Gordon on the cutoff line with two races remaining to get to the Challenger Round. MORE: Must-see photos from Chicagoland | Chase standings entering New Hampshire This week, Sprint Cup competition will be held at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, located north of Boston....

Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Kevin Harvick are this year’s Championship 4, and they will make their way to Homestead-Miami Speedway to decide this year’s season title. The rules are simple: The highest-finishing driver will win, and this is a track where truly any of the four drivers can come away with a victory. Defending champion Martin Truex Jr. has been great on 1.5-mile intermediate tracks like Miami for the last two years, Kevin Harvick has four wins on such tracks this season, Kyle Busch has three and Logano has nine top-10 finishes himself....

Ty Dillon, along with defending Truck Series champion Johnny Sauter and rising star Christopher Bell, will be apart of the intense racing on the half-mile clay track. Wednesday’s event, which is one of the most popular in all of NASCAR, marks the fifth time the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series has raced at Eldora. Bell is the only returning winning driver. Three of the four previous winners are currently full time Cup Series drivers or have made starts in the series this season....

The race, scheduled for 150 laps, was delayed by 80 minutes because of a power outage in the area. The lights went out again with about 26 laps remaining, leaving the trucks on a dimly lit track (generators kicked in to power light for a portion of the racing surface). MORE: Phoenix picks | Phoenix lineup breakdown | Kurt Busch under investigation for assault While the lights quickly began to come back on at the one-mile facility, NASCAR opted to call the race official because of the possibility of another failure....

The 2016 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was a fairly quiet one for a road course race, with only 4 cautions for 10 laps and 12 lead changes. The first caution came on Lap 7 when Clint Bowyer’s horrible season continued as he had a mechanical issue and would not continue the race. The second caution came out for debris on Lap 46. Kyle Busch took the lead as many drivers decided to pit under the caution....

When the dust settled, Tyler Reddick, Chase Elliott and Christopher Bell had earned victories in the round, all under wildly different circumstances. If you were looking for drama, Bell’s run at Charlotte was the height of it. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver was fixed to the bottom of the playoff standings coming in. Only a win would get him to the next round. Bell and his team made their move deep in the final stage....

After winning a race there in the playoffs last year with a controversial bump of Martin Truex Jr., the defending Cup series champion will start on the pole for Sunday’s race. Truex won’t be too far behind him as he will start ninth. Kevin Harvick will start fourth, and five-time Martinsville winner Denny Hamlin will start fifth. Kyle Busch, who has won back-to-back races and six of the last eight races across all three series, failed to qualify for the third round and will start 14th....

Races at Indianapolis and Michigan will feature a high-drag package, which is expected to reduce speeds by 10 mph. Richmond will roll out a new tire tread pattern. The race at Darlington on Labor Day weekend also will use a reduced downforce package similar to what will be used at Kentucky, but with a specially designed Goodyear tire to create more grip. MORE: NASCAR’s arenas of speed | Betting preview: New package levels the field at Kentucky...

Vehicles will no longer back out from the pit wall to begin qualifying sessions, NASCAR announced Tuesday. Instead, all vehicles will be angled toward Turn 1 at the start of each qualifying session. After each hot lap is complete, two crew members are allowed to guide vehicles into position between rounds. MORE: Debating best, worst of Cup season | Clint Bowyer’s weekend-best rant NASCAR’s original rule was in place “to allow access from the media....

But Rick Nash, still dealing with symptoms from what's been reported as a concussion sustained last Tuesday? That's a big deal. Nash, New York's best winger and goal-scorer, is on injured reserve, and any attempts to forecast his return are pointless until he's symptom-free. San Jose Sharks defenseman Brad Stuart earned a three-game suspension for elbowing him in the head. New York's problems started when Nash was in the lineup, and they're currently on a three-game losing streak with a league-worst minus-16 goal differential....

Robinson believes that Denver is the place for him at the moment, as he plans to opt into the player option of his two-year, which will pay him $2.1 million next season, according to the Denver Post. Robinson is out for the season after suffering a torn ACL in January. Robinson, who has already started the rehab process, is working to return from his first major injury. He plans to be back with the team in time for training camp....

The TikTok video that amassed millions of views and brought Silvester internet fame, as well as fueled controversy, appeared to show Silvester making fun of basketball legend LeBron James. This was after James had written a (now deleted) tweet speaking out in anger against alleged police brutality in the death of Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl who was shot by a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio. Bellevue Mayor Ned Burns posted on the city’s Facebook page Thursday that Deputy Nate Silvester was terminated effective May 27....

In all, 64 male and female youth Olympians will tee-off at the Nanjing Zhongshan International Golf Club, reports Xinhua. The synchronicity between Rio 2016 and Nanjing 2014 runs particularly deep in golf. The International Golf Federation (IGF), the sport’s global governing body, has highlighted both China and South America as markets where the Olympic rings are most likely to stimulate growth. Senior figures at the IGF must be sleeping well at the moment....

The incident occurred on October 26 in New Bern, North Carolina, reported WITN. Max and Laura Oglesby took a break at work and decided to check in on their two-year-old son Declan via nanny cam – and were horrified by what they saw. Laura Oglesby posted a clip of the footage to TikTok, where it has amassed more than 10 million views. In the video, Lauren Rowe — their child’s nanny — can be seen using physical force on the toddler in an attempt to force-feed him....

Nanoleaf is one of the best-known brands in the smart lighting industry. The products come in a series of shapes, which customers can piece together however they like to create an installation that can be hooked onto a wall. Nanoleaf is particularly popular with gamers and streamers, so a Sonic-themed product is quite apt. The 32 lights included in the pack allow users to build a portrait of either Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles ‘Tails’ Prower or Knuckles the Echidna – the three main characters in the upcoming animated movie....

In the same context, plenty of characters across the animeverse show similar traits to the ninjas in Naruto. Whether it’s their personality, powers, or determination, they would easily fit in as shinobis of any villages in Naruto. As such, we are sure these 10 anime characters listed below would make perfect the Konoha ninjas! 10 anime characters who would easily fit into the role of a Naruto shinobi 1) Izuku Midoriya Izuku Midoriya from My Hero Academia would undoubtedly make a great genin-level shinobi from Konoha....

On Tuesday, the telescope, a $10 billion project, finished unfolding and tightening a sunshade the size of a tennis court that had to be folded “origami-style” into the nose cone of the Ariane rocket. After the fifth and final layer of sunshield was tight and secure, ground controllers celebrated, cheering and bumping fists. The sunshield took half the expected time to tighten the layers through the use of motor-driven cables, the process spanning just one-and-a-half days....

The GEICO 500 will be held at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, April 24, and the green flag will drop at 3:00 pm ET. The race will be contested by 39 drivers over 188 laps on the 2.66-mile-long tri-oval track. This marks the 106th Cup race hosted by Talladega Superspeedway in the series’ history. NASCAR’s longest track features 33 degrees of banking at the turn. It also has 16.5 degrees of banking on the tri-oval and three degrees on the backstretch....

The new policy — established about six months after the National Rifle Association sponsored the Sprint Cup race at Texas Motor Speedway — was revealed in sanction agreements filed Friday by Dover Motorsports Inc. with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. “As part of the normal course of annually reviewing our sanction language, there are some changes that take place,” NASCAR spokesman David Higdon said Monday. “This is one of those situations....