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The NASCAR Cup Series began its 74th season on Feb. 20 with the Daytona 500. Many of the venues and race names will be familiar to NASCAR fans. However, one thing that they will notice about this year’s schedule is that races will start a bit later than fans have become accustomed to in recent years. This is part of NASCAR’s broader goal of maximizing audience, as explained by NASCAR Senior Vice President of Media and Productions Brian Herbst....

Wait a minute. Let’s revise that. The theory and reasoning behind NASCAR’s penalties is sound following the melee primarily between the crews for Jeff Gordon and Brad Keselowski. Three Hendrick Motorsports crewmen (Jeremy Fuller, Dwayne Doucette and Jason Ingle) were suspended for six weeks because they decked Keselowski. One Hendrick crewman (Dean Mozingo) was suspended for decking another crew member. MORE: Hendrick loses four to suspensions | Would Hendrick ever hire Keselowski?...

MORE: Carl Edwards won’t drive in 2017; Suarez now in 19 “I always enjoy addressing this crowd, which gets bigger every year in attendance,” said NASCAR vice chairman Mike Helton in prefacing a series of awards given to track services, security and medical personnel representing speedways on the NASCAR schedule. “And that’s a good thing, because it means our sport is continuing to grow, and we’ve got people coming on board who make sure that we do things right....

Providing their insights on the Knicks-Jazz game from Salt Lake City, the duo welcomed their former teammate with the Knicks Nate Robinson as a guest. The 11-year NBA veteran, who was teammates with Richardson and Crawford between 2005 and 2008, last played in the league in 2016. One of Robinson’s biggest accomplishments in the NBA was his three wins at the NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest. NBA LEAGUE PASS: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial)...

Thanks to a few online sportsbooks, the latter is a possibility during the 2019 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. Joey Chestnut has been a force at the annual Coney Island event, winning each of the last three in commanding fashion and setting a new record of 74 hot dogs consumed in 10 minutes at last year’s event. Miki Sudo, a five-time champ, has ruled the women’s division in similar fashion after finally dethroning Sonya Thomas in 2014....

A young and relatively inexperienced Tamil Nadu turned back a 19-35 first half deficit to edge out Uttarakhand 56-54 and enter the men’s semi-finals where they meet last year’s runners-up Services, a fortuitous 88-77 winners against Kerala in the 62nd senior National basketball championships, here on Thursday. Also entering the penultimate round were Punjab who crushed Haryana 117-59, and will take on title holders Indian Railways who put out Delhi 100-93 in extra-time after the teams were deadlocked at 85-85 at the end of regulation period....

University of Texas nanotechnologist Ray Baughman came up with a low-tech way. He took a mat of chemically grown nanotubes, grabbed a clump of them and twisted them with a motor. The resulting yarn could be woven into a fabric. It might also make a good artificial muscle. A jolt of electricity causes the yarn to contract with 100 times more force than a human muscle. Baughman now has a grant from the Pentagon to develop an “exoskeleton” capable of amplifying the natural strength of a soldier....

Problems with attention such as occur in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may be familiar, but there are other sleep problems that might similarly compromise your child’s ability to learn. How does narcolepsy affect children? How is it diagnosed and what are the treatments available? Learn more about narcolepsy and how it might unexpectedly affect your child. Prevalence Although often considered among adults, narcolepsy actually has two peaks of incidence....

Vande Hei has been on the ISS for over 300 days and as of today, March 15, has become the record holder for the most consecutive days spent in Earth orbit by a NASA astronaut. He arrived on the ISS on April 9, 2021, aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with a Russian crew. He is scheduled to return to Earth the same way on March 30. However, according to various news reports, Dmitry Rogozin, the director general of Russian space corporation Roscosmos, has made threats that the organization would renege on its responsibility to ferry Vande Hei back to Earth....

The hypothetical impact scenario has been run all through this week from April 26 at the 7th International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defence Conference 2021. The exercise is being led by NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Throughout the week, CNEOS has been releasing new information each day to conference participants, skipping through months at a time as more and more information about the asteroid is “discovered.”...

The space agency is due to launch the powerful new space observatory—seen as the successor to the famous Hubble telescope—on December 18, 2021. But concerns have emerged over the new telescope’s namesake, former NASA administrator and ex-U.S. undersecretary of state James Webb. In an open letter publicly available on Google Docs, scientists Lucianne Walkowicz, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Brian Nord, and Sarah Tuttle highlight Webb’s leadership during the Lavender Scare, a term referring to the discrimination against homosexual people in the U....

Waiting at the end of the race at Texas Motor Speedway is a check for $1 million and plenty of bragging rights. MORE: Watch NASCAR’s All-Star Race live with fuboTV (free trial) The big first step for drivers and viewers this weekend: understanding the race format. Qualifying, the All-Star Open and the All-Star Race have all changed from a year ago, and there’s a lot to break down. Here’s all you need to know about how the 2022 NASCAR All-Star Race will be run....

The race — which has been held at the Daytona International Speedway since its inception in 1979 — will also mark the first stock-car race at the venue, which has previously hosted supercross and speedway motorcycle races. NASCAR announced the move in a tweet calling the LA Coliseum “America’s greatest stadium.” It is the current home of college football’s USC Trojans and has also hosted the 1959 World Series, Super Bowls 1 and 7 and the 1932 and ‘84 Summer Olympics....

The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook posted Kevin Harvick as the 7-to-2 favorite to win Sunday’s race, and they’ve also posted him as the 3-to-2 favorite to win the Sprint Cup title. Last season he took home both trophies by winning the race and season championship. Tony Stewart also accomplished the rare feat in 2011. Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. are the other three drivers still in contention for the championship....

Truex led a track-record 392 of the 400 laps in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. MORE: Must-see Coca-Cola 600 photos For most of the race, pole-sitter Truex had leads of four or five seconds over his closest challengers. But as the track cooled into Sunday night under the lights, Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick were able to close the gap within a second before a caution for debris reset the field with 55 laps remaining....

NashStore is described as a mobile store where Russian Android users can download different apps. While there will be apps that are free to download, NashStore is expected to be compatible with Russian Mir bank cards to allow transactions, according to Reuters. The developers of the store, Digital Platforms, say that the app was developed after Alphabet Inc. suspended usage of the Google Play store in Russia as a response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine....

NEWSWEEK: What differences have you seen in the world’s power elite, as represented by the attendees at Davos, the WTO negotiations, and similar events? Kamal Nath: The constituents at the head table have changed. Where the WTO is concerned, the most important thing is that the manner of negotiations has changed. In the last round of the WTO, there were just 10-to-12 countries who got together, and the other countries never had a voice....