NASCAR at Richmond spring 2022: Start time, TV, streaming, lineup for Toyota Owners 400 - Yahoo Sports

After an eventful and thrilling overtime race on the road course at the Circuit of the Americas, the NASCAR Cup Series heads to the capital of Virginia for a short-track race at Richmond Raceway.

Through six races this season, the Cup Series has produced six different winners — three of them first-timers. And while Hendrick Motorsports drivers (Kyle Larson, Alex Bowman and William Byron) have won three of the six races, and two other top-tier teams — Stewart-Haas Racing (Chase Briscoe) and Team Penske (Austin Cindric) — have also claimed victories, a start-up team made its presence felt on the Series when Ross Chastain took Trackhouse Racing to victory lane for the first time last weekend at COTA.

Will Sunday's race see a seventh different winner and another first-timer? Or will a traditional power reassert itself on one of NASCAR's oldest tracks?

Alex Bowman (48) crosses the finish line to win the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway on April 18, 2021.

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Here is all the information you need to get ready for Sunday's Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia.

What time does the Cup race at Richmond start?

The Toyota Owners 400 starts at 3:30 p.m. ET at Richmond Raceway.

What TV channel is the Cup race at Richmond on?

Fox is broadcasting the Toyota Owners 400 and has a pre-race show beginning at 3 p.m. ET.

Fox Sports 1 will also have an earlier pre-race show beginning at 2 p.m. ET.

Will there be a live stream of the Cup race at Richmond?

The Toyota Owners 400 can be live streamed on the FoxSports website (for those with a cable/satellite provider) and on the FoxSports app.

The race can also be streamed on FuboTV as well as other options.

How many laps is the Cup race at Richmond?

The Toyota Owners 400 is 400 laps around the 0.75-mile track for a total of 300 miles. The race will feature three segments (laps per stage) — Stage 1: 70 laps, Stage 2: 160 laps, Stage 3: 170 laps.

Who won the Cup race at Richmond last year?

Martin Truex Jr. won the most recent race at Richmond on Sept. 11, 2021 after leading 80 laps, including the final 51. And nearly one year ago on April 18, Alex Bowman won after taking the lead on lap 391 and edging Denny Hamlin at the finish.

What is the lineup for the Toyota Owners 400?

(Car number in parentheses):

1. (12) Ryan Blaney, Menards/Richmond Water Heaters Ford

2. (24) William Byron, Liberty University Chevrolet

3. (18) Kyle Busch, Mars Crunchy Cookie Toyota

4. (14) Chase Briscoe, Mahindra Tractors Ford

5. (43) Erik Jones, FOCUSfactor Chevrolet

6. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Auto-Owners Insurance Toyota

7. (4) Kevin Harvick, Mobil 1 Triple Action Formula Ford

8. (1) Ross Chastain, ONX Homes/iFly Chevrolet

9. (20) Christopher Bell, SiriusXM Toyota

10. (10) Aric Almirola, Smithfield Ford

11. (22) Joey Logano, Shell Pennzoil Ford

12. (41) Cole Custer, HaasTooling.com Ford

13. (11) Denny Hamlin, FedEx Express Toyota

14. (99) Daniel Suarez, CommScope Chevrolet

15. (9) Chase Elliott, A SHOC Chevrolet

16. (8) Tyler Reddick, Guaranteed Rate Chevrolet

17. (21) Harrison Burton, Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford

18. (17) Chris Buescher, Violet Defense Ford

19. (6) Brad Keselowski, Violet Defense Ford

20. (2) Austin Cindric, Discount Tire Ford

21. (5) Kyle Larson, HendrickCars.com Chevrolet

22. (38) Todd Gilliland, Black's Tire Ford

23. (77) Landon Cassill, Voyager: Crypto for All Chevrolet

24. (34) Michael McDowell, Navage Nasal Care Ford

25. (3) Austin Dillon, BREZTRI Chevrolet

26. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Action Industries Chevrolet

27. (45) Kurt Busch, Embrace Home Loans Toyota

28. (48) Alex Bowman, Ally Chevrolet

29. (23) Bubba Wallace, Dr Pepper Toyota

30. (42) Ty Dillon, Chevyliners.com Chevrolet

31. (7) Corey LaJoie, Nations Guard Chevrolet

32. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., SunnyD Chevrolet

33. (51) Cody Ware, Nurtec ODT Ford

34. (78) BJ McLeod, Surface Sunscreen/MaintenanceSupplies.com Ford

35. (15) JJ Yeley, Nabor Force Ford

36. (31) Justin Haley, LeafFilter Gutter Protection Chevrolet

37. (44) Greg Biffle, Norfolk State University Chevrolet

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New York Yankees' Aaron Judge says team's new TV analyst Carlos Beltran doesn't need to address role in sign-stealing scandal - ESPN

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TAMPA, Fla, -- There are plenty of things Carlos Beltran needs to do once he begins his job as a New York Yankees announcer on Monday.

Become familiar with the YES Network setting. Get comfortable alongside his broadcast teammates. Find a rhythm that works for him on air as an analyst.

One thing he doesn't need to do, Yankees star slugger Aaron Judge said, is address the team about his role in the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal in 2017.

Beltran played for Houston that year when it beat the Yankees in the AL Championship Series on the way to its first World Series title. After news of the scandal broke much later, New York players took aim at the Astros, with Judge asserting they "cheated and you didn't earn it."

"In my opinion, I don't think he needs to say anything to us," Judge said Sunday. "I've got a lot of respect for Beltran, he helped me a lot during his time here as a player. Learned a lot of good lessons. He spent a lot of quality time just kind of talking to me about the game, the mental side of the game, his approaches, how to be a good teammate."

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Beltran retired as a player after the 2017 season. He played with the Yankees in 2014 and 2015 and a part of 2016.

"I'd love to talk to him," Judge said. "It's been a while since I've seen him. Just getting a chance to catch up with him and see what he's up to because we're to be seeing a lot of him during the year. Just looking forward to having him back around because he was a big part of this team, a big part of baseball, what he brings to the game and what he's going to bring to the YES Network is going to be big time."

In an interview to air Monday on the YES Network, Beltran said there is a stain on the Astros' title.

"Looking back now, yes, we did cross the line," Beltran said. "We all did what we did. Looking back, we were wrong."

Beltran was named the Mets' manager before the 2020 season but never managed a game after being let go due to the scandal.

Judge said he is looking ahead and not back at 2017.

"I can't speak for the whole group, but I think the things that we've got to focus on this year and the things we've got to do this year are more important than anything that happened in the past," Judge said.

"We've got a lot of important things, a lot of good things going on this year, so I'm just going to focus on what we've got to do with that. If he sees anything, if he's got any advice that can help us, I'll definitely be talking to him."

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Tiger Woods says 'it will be a game-time decision' on whether he plays at next week's Masters - CNN

(CNN)Five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods said "it will be a game-time decision" on whether he will compete at the 2022 Masters, which begins Thursday at Augusta National in Georgia.

"I will be heading up to Augusta today to continue my preparation and practice," Woods wrote on Twitter Sunday. "It will be a game-time decision on whether I compete."

The 15-time major winner, who suffered serious leg injuries in a single-vehicle crash in February 2021, has not played an official tournament since the 2020 Masters in November of that year.

Woods' only appearance in competitive golf since the crash was in December 2021 alongside son Charlie at the PNC Championship at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando, Grande Lakes in Florida, where Woods and his son finished second.

The 46-year-old told Golf Digest in November last year he would "never" again compete on the PGA Tour full time, but would instead "pick and choose" events.

"You practice around that, and you gear yourself up for that," he said. "And you play. I think that's how I'm going to have to play it from now on.

"It's an unfortunate reality, but it's my reality. And I understand it, and I accept it."

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Men's Final Four Live Score: Kansas vs. Villanova Updates and Analysis - The New York Times

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UConn players stretching during a practice on Thursday in Minneapolis at the site of the Final Four.Eric Gay/Associated Press

Separated by about 1,000 miles and decades of fragmentation, the N.C.A.A. will stage an eight-team, four-day, two-city carnival of college basketball starting on Friday.

It is the way it has always been for Final Fours. And despite all the changes after last year’s uproar over inequities between the N.C.A.A. men’s and women’s tournaments, do not expect that approach to shift for at least a decade.

The decision, made over the winter after deliberations by a series of N.C.A.A. committees, defied a recommendation in August by a law firm that the association hired to examine its approach to championship events. But it was also in keeping with a longstanding reluctance within the college sports industry to bring the men’s and women’s events closer together geographically.

“Every coach that I’ve talked to that’s participated in the Final Four — and I’ve talked to quite a few after the report came out — not a one said we should have both Final Fours at the same place,” said Geno Auriemma, the Connecticut coach who has the Huskies in their 14th consecutive women’s Final Four.

The women will play in Minneapolis this year, and the men will be competing in New Orleans.

The notion of merging the slate of games and turning a single city into an emporium of college basketball each spring has percolated sporadically over the 40 years since the women’s tournament debuted.

The idea gained new currency in August when a law firm hired by the N.C.A.A. issued a report that concluded that the association had long prioritized the men’s tournament and its revenues. Bringing the men’s and women’s events to the same city, the report asserted, would “ensure that the student-athlete experience at the men’s and women’s championships is more equitable.”

That prospect seemed far-fetched to some executives, particularly because the N.C.A.A. had already chosen host cities for both tournaments’ Final Fours through 2026. The decision in February, which N.C.A.A. officials said was unanimous, was for the events to remain separate through the next cycle of bidding to host the tournaments — making changes unlikely until at least 2032.

Executives said, though, that they were considering other possible adjustments, like holding the competitions on separate weekends, that could draw a larger spotlight onto women’s basketball. For now, though, N.C.A.A. leaders said they had been skeptical of upending decades of tradition.

“It was important at this time for the committee to see the results of the enhancements and the other investments that were being done in the championship and to really pay homage to or continue to respect what has been built around the women’s Final Four already with the fan base and otherwise,” Lynn Holzman, the N.C.A.A.’s vice president for women’s basketball, said Wednesday.

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NEW ORLEANS — This latest men’s Final Four boasts a semifinal so loud it automatically ACTIVATES THE SHIFT KEY.

(And it boasts a semifinal so quiet it’s as if it will occur in parentheses.)

Some Final Fours turn up lopsided in noise with the tilt toward one bout, such as Kentucky vs. Wisconsin in 2015 or Duke vs. UNLV in 1991, but this one takes the lopsided cake and blows up the damned thing. The 258th installment of Duke vs. North Carolina, which began in January 1920 and involves a deep-rooted level of highbrow contempt, renders as drastic undercard the 10th installment of Kansas vs. Villanova, which began in March 1968 in the NIT.

“It’s perfect,” Kansas guard Christian Braun said here Friday. “We don’t need anyone to talk us up. I feel like we know who we are. We’re Kansas.” It is Kansas, and it is the lone No. 1 seed left in this March Madness, but a reminder always helps.

In spotting the perfection, Braun embodied an old premise about sports and those who play them in front of witnesses: a yearning to be overlooked. What luck, to be overlooked.

Meanwhile, the participants in Duke vs. North Carolina danced the other dance Friday, the one about playing down the circumstances, the one about taking an inflated dirigible of excitement floating above the Superdome and letting out some of the air. There’s even need for that for 75-year-old Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski who, atop facing a rival that resides forever famously eight miles away, must lighten the heaviness of his pending retirement.

So Krzyzewski on Friday went on an unsolicited bender of verbiage that began with, “One thing, before answering anything.” It involved the restructuring of the NCAA. It was calm. It was wise. It was . . . so long it went past soliloquy and bordered upon treatise. It also took up a giant chunk of the allotted interview time that could have centered upon Duke vs. North Carolina, a mission careful Krzyzewski students might have found maybe even intentional.

Navigating the rocky verbal waters, North Carolina senior forward Leaky Black said, “It’s a massive game just because it is a Final Four game. We have been told to look at it as just another game; it just happens to be Duke. I can’t really give you [reporters] what you want with this question” — the truth is hard — “but we all know how big of a game this is. Final Four, Duke vs. North Carolina. It does not get much bigger than this unless it was a championship game. It definitely is a big-time game.”

Technically, it’s a Final Four of kingdoms — Kansas (32-6) vs. Villanova (30-7), then Duke (32-6) vs. North Carolina (28-9) — a hobnobbing quartet crammed with 17 national titles and 61 Final Four berths and with the least-decorated (Villanova) merely the best program of recent years (three of the past six Final Fours, national titles in 2016 and 2018). Realistically, it’s a booming first — the first Duke-North Carolina game in a men’s NCAA tournament — and it’s the threequel of a trilogy everyone avoids discussing.

On Feb. 5, Duke decimated North Carolina, 87-67, as AJ Griffin scored 27 points on 11-for-17 shooting, Paolo Banchero got 13 points and 10 rebounds, Duke shot 57.6 percent, North Carolina’s defense looked like rubble and North Carolina stalwart Armando Bacot shot merely 4 for 10. On March 5, as Krzyzewski coached his last home game to a blush-worthy amount of fanfare, North Carolina decimated Duke, 94-81, as Bacot got 23 points on 10-for-11 shooting, Caleb Love got 22 with 12 for 12 on free throws, RJ Davis got 21, Brady Manek got 20 with 11 rebounds, Duke’s defense looked like rubble and Banchero shot 11 for 26.

North Carolina ruined Duke’s grand occasion, which would make a repeat ruination here pretty much unbearable, Krzyzewski-wise and otherwise.

On either of those nights, it would have landed well beyond far-fetched to say a third meeting would come in the Final Four. (Virginia Tech cleared out both of them in the ACC tournament.) “I would have been like, ‘No way,’ ” Duke big man Mark Williams said, “just off the fact that Duke and Carolina had never played in the [NCAA] tournament. I think they’ve grown as a team. I think we’ve grown as a team. But just … ‘That’ll never happen.’ ”

Now it’s here, everybody’s trying to get here to see it, and it’s happening in a city that is not in a dry county. As first-year North Carolina coach Hubert Davis, who once played for the Tar Heels and six NBA teams, told it: “Caleb [Love] said, ‘Every seat is going to be filled in our game?’ I said, ‘Yes,’ and he said, ‘Are there going to be people at the open practice [Friday]?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ And he came back again and said, ‘All these seats are going to be filled during the game?’ I said: ‘Yes, is that okay, because I’m looking to play you a lot of minutes. Are you okay here?’ ”

(In a related matter, Kansas vs. Villanova also will occur.)

“We’re jacked,” Kansas Coach Bill Self said, reassuring all that at least somebody was.

In its hush, Kansas-Villanova brings its own threequel. Villanova clipped Kansas, 64-59, in the 2016 South Region final in Louisville and annihilated Kansas, 95-79, in a 2018 national semifinal in San Antonio. “I get tics whenever I think about it,” Self said of the latter game. “So I remember we started the game off on a 2-0 run. That was about the highlight of that particular game. I actually watched it this week. And they were fabulous. … And I really felt like the team that Villanova had in ’18 was the best college basketball team in the last decade. I really believe that.”

Well, this time, Villanova arrives with a hobble, the cruel injury to junior guard Justin Moore in the final minute of the 50-44 win over Houston in the South Region final. That removed 34.6 minutes per game (first on the team), 14.8 points (second), 4.8 rebounds (third), 2.3 assists (second). On the plus side, opposite Kansas and its excellent guard Ochai Agbaji, at least Villanova excels beyond all others in a huge tournament dynamic: free throw shooting.

Its 83.0 percent average stands a whopping 3.3 percent ahead of the second-place school, Missouri State.

“It is a lot of preparation, a lot of hard work,” said team leader Collin Gillespie, who is at 90.5 this season. “We know that there are going to be games where we might not make free throws but just being consistent in our habits and every time we step up to the line having the same routine, working at it in practices and game repetitions, putting pressure on ourselves in practice. It sounds cliché and boring, but that is really all it is.”

It sounds cliché and boring and quiet, thus perfect.

Then comes the other game.

“I don’t think anything will compare to when the game starts tomorrow with 70,000 people in the stands,” Duke’s Williams said.

“It is definitely bigger [than previously realized],” North Carolina’s Manek said of the rivalry. “It’s not something that you can just experience on TV. It is special, and the games at Carolina, games at Duke, the fans have different energy in the gym. It is nothing I have experienced until this year.”

“I think it’s going to be a storied Final Four,” said Mitch Lightfoot, who plays for, well, Kansas. “Duke and North Carolina playing for the first time in the tournament is special. And then Kansas and Villanova, which is going to be its own sort of rivalry.”

(It will be the quieter one.)

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Colin Kaepernick works out for NFL scouts in hopes of 2022 comeback: Eight potential landing spots for QB - CBS Sports

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Colin Kaepernick hasn't taken an NFL field since 2016, but the former 49ers quarterback-turned-civil rights activist is eyeing a comeback in 2022. Not only that, but a handful of teams have reportedly contacted the 34-year-old. On Saturday, Kaepernick showed off his arm in front of NFL scouts at halftime of Michigan's spring game.

If history is any indication, the apparent interest in Kaepernick doesn't mean the QB is actually a safe bet to return. Since his exit from San Francisco in 2017, when he generated national controversy due to on-field protests of police brutality, the former Super Bowl starter hasn't appeared close to signing with a new team. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell openly encouraged clubs to sign the QB prior to the 2020 season, but only after years of conflict between Kaepernick and the league, including a botched NFL-organized workout for the QB to audition for interested teams.

And that's not even accounting for Kaepernick the player, who starred as a dual threat early in his career but largely came off the bench in his final seasons. If he were to return, it would almost assuredly be as competition for a No. 2 or No. 3 job.

With that said, here's a look at eight teams that might consider adding Kaepernick this offseason:

Would Aaron Rodgers be OK with it? We'd guess so, considering his new $150 million contract ensures he can't be threatened under center. Kaepernick would offer more experience than Jordan Love as the backup, and coach Matt LaFleur, who is fond of the ground game, could get creative to deploy the QB in special packages.

7. 49ers

Crazy as a reunion sounds, Kaepernick's mobility doesn't make him a bad option as potential Trey Lance insurance, especially considering he'd probably be around $25 million cheaper than injury-prone incumbent Jimmy Garoppolo. Can you imagine the surprise resurgence of No. 7 jerseys in the Bay Area? Wilder things have happened this offseason, no?

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They need QBs, plain and simple. Their grand plan probably lies with this year's rookie QB class, but after taking a flyer on a Cam Newton reunion in 2021, why couldn't they roll the dice with another aging dual threat?

Their aversion to robbing young Jalen Hurts of the spotlight (especially after the abrupt falling-out with Carson Wentz) will probably keep them out of the mix, but stylistically, the fit is there. Kaepernick is closer aligned to Hurts' skill set than current No. 2 Gardner Minshew strictly because of his legs, and if the Eagles are really gonna lean into this run-heavy approach, why wouldn't they be interested in a situational reserve? Special teams coordinator Michael Clay was also on staff with the 49ers during his time there.

One of the teams who attended his 2019 workout for NFL scouts, they've got Logan Woodside as Ryan Tannehill's backup. They could easily add competition there, and Kaepernick's legs would bode well for their run-heavy attack.

They were reportedly interested in the past, but more importantly, Lamar Jackson has just Tyler Huntley behind him on the depth chart, and he's coming off an injury-riddled 2021. Offensive coordinator Greg Roman, who leans on lots of QB runs, was Kaepernick's OC for four different seasons in San Francisco.

They've easily been the most heavily -- and tangibly -- linked to Kaepernick since his last playing days. On one hand, that suggests they're all talk, no action when it comes to potentially adding him. On the other, there's never been a better time for them to take a flyer and give him a shot to run their run-first offense. With Russell Wilson gone, only Drew Lock is a conceivable starter here.

Why the heck not? If any team is open to adding weapons of all kinds, it's them. Andy Reid isn't shy about offering opportunities for comeback stories, Patrick Mahomes would likely embrace the chance to work alongside him, and Chad Henne could still stick as the more conventional pocket-passing backup. Receiver Daurice Fountain was recently spotted running routes for Kaepernick, and it's not hard to envision Eric Bieniemy using the QB in some of Kansas City's trick-play formations.

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Source - New England Patriots acquire WR DeVante Parker in trade with Miami Dolphins - ESPN

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- In a rare trade between AFC East rivals, the New England Patriots have acquired Miami Dolphins wide receiver DeVante Parker and a 2022 fifth-round draft pick in exchange for a 2023 third-round pick, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Saturday.

The Dolphins' acquisition of Tyreek Hill and the free-agent signing of Cedrick Wilson Jr. made Parker expendable. Miami will now have two first-round picks, a second-rounder and two third-rounders in the 2023 NFL draft.

Meanwhile, Parker could be a top option for Patriots second-year quarterback Mac Jones, joining a receiving corps that includes top returnees Jakobi Meyers, Nelson Agholor and Kendrick Bourne.

The Patriots inherit the remaining two years of Parker's contract, which calls for him to earn base salaries of $5.65 million in 2022 and $5.7 million in 2023.

The Patriots are expecting to receive a compensatory third-round pick in 2023 as a result of losing cornerback J.C. Jackson in free agency.

Since Bill Belichick became head coach of the Patriots in 2000, this is only the fifth trade New England has made with the Dolphins. The most notable came in 2007 when the Patriots dealt second- and seventh-round picks to Miami for receiver Wes Welker, who went on to set the franchise record for receptions (672).

Belichick knows Parker well from having prepared his teams to face him since 2015, when the Louisville alum entered the NFL as a first-round pick of the Dolphins.

"He's got a very, very good skill set," Belichick said of Parker before a game against the Dolphins in 2020. "He's a big athlete that runs well, has good hands, good run-after-the-catch ability, and good quickness for his size. He presents a lot of problems on deep balls. He's a big target on the end of routes in-cuts and crossing routes. He's strong, can break tackles as a catcher or run player, so he attacks all three levels of the defense and can be productive at all three [receiver spots]."

The 6-foot-3, 219-pound Parker played in 10 games last season (eight starts) and totaled 40 receptions for 515 yards and two touchdowns.

Over his NFL career, he has played in 93 games (64 starts), totaling 338 receptions for 4,727 yards and 24 touchdowns. He's the Dolphins' sixth-leading receiver all time.

Parker's breakout season came in 2019, when he recorded 1,202 yards and nine touchdowns on 72 catches. However, his production was limited by his health over the ensuing two seasons, in which he missed nine combined games and recorded a total of 1,308 receiving yards.

As the Dolphins' new coaching staff assembled a receiver room that specialized in creating separation and yards after the catch, Parker -- traditionally a possession receiver -- stood as the odd man out.

ESPN's Marcel Louis-Jacques contributed to this report.

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