Earnhardt used the app Periscope to give fans an exclusive look at his life on three different occasions, most recently at the opening of his Whiskey River restaurant in the Charlotte Douglas (N.C.) airport Wednesday. MORE: Newman, RCR lose appeal | Chase Elliott lands 2016 sponsor | Emotional Earnhardt highlights ‘Dega audio “I don’t know whether it will be something I do consistently or continue to do, but we’ve been talking about some ideas on how we can use it,’’ Earnhardt said about Periscope, via NASCAR Talk....

It finally found a company willing to pay and willing to even possibly co-exist with a current sponsor. MORE: Earnhardt’s new deal | Earnhardt wedding: High price tag | Group qualifying concerns | Picks Nationwide Insurance is willing to co-exist with competitor Farmers Insurance at Hendrick Motorsports thanks to the power of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the massive reach of Hendrick Motorsports and JR Motorsports. In its final year as the title sponsor of NASCAR’s No....

That’s not a simple question. In another draft, the fact that Cook fell to the second round and the Vikings traded up to get him with the No. 41 pick wouldn’t have been that big of a deal. Cook, however, was a projected first-round pick who was taken 33 picks behind Christian McCaffrey at No. 8 overall. MORE: NFL Draft Round 2 Board How can a running back who averaged 6....

The Dorfman Affair isn’t only about journalistic ethics. It’s also about the way business publications get a lot of their scoops. The way business journalism has gotten gossiped-up. And the way that publications, including on occasion my employer NEWSWEEK, pander to readers by offering simplistic moneymaking formulas that my colleague Jane Bryant Quinn quite rightly calls financial soft porn. Before we proceed, a few disclosures. Dorfman befriended me more than 20 years ago, when he was a star columnist at New York magazine and I was a Detroit-based business writer whom no one else in New York City financial journalism would take seriously....

The veteran journalist shared a clip of Grassley commenting on the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot and allegations that Trump attempted to pressure the DOJ to intervene after his loss to President Joe Biden. Allegations include Trump calling former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and urging him to falsely declare that “the election was corrupt” and to “leave the rest to me and the [Republican] Congressmen....

Since the team announced on Monday that the three players were suspended, Altman and the University of Oregon had come under fire for their handling of the incident. Reporters peppered Altman with questions about Austin's background -- specifically whether he knew the extent of his prior investigation at Providence College before bringing him to Oregon. Altman maintained that Providence head coach Ed Cooley had told him in November that the matter Austin was involved with was "a university matter," and that he believed it not to be serious at the time....

McGregor has not fought since January and the Irishman is itching to return to the Octagon amid the coronavirus pandemic. He has been vocal on social media, calling out Justin Gaethje earlier this month after the American dominated Tony Ferguson at UFC 249 behind closed doors in Jacksonville, Fla. MORE: Tyson’s AEW debut with Jericho was cringeworthy TV White said the former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion just needs to bide his time....

Talladega is where championship hopes go to die, where they are swept away in a heap of crumpled sheet metal, or towed away on the back of a truck. Sunday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway (2 p.m., ESPN) is the wild-card race of the Chase, the one that could drastically shake up the championship standings and determine who makes it to the season finale still in title contention. Matt Kenseth leads five-time champion Jimmie Johnson by four points with five Chase races remaining....

Now. MORE: Worst crimes connected to athletes For the love of pigskin, now. I don’t want to bust anyone’s “my Twitter outrage is bigger than yours” bubble, but coaches have been giving dangerous, reckless and violent players second chances for years. I mean, seriously, people, Ohio State had video of Carlos Hyde slapping a woman, and he was still allowed to play for the Buckeyes. Aaron Hernandez punched a man so hard outside a nightclub, the man had concussion symptoms for months — and Hernandez still played at Florida....

Patrick fell a lap down twice Sunday in the Oral-B 500 before rallying for a sixth-place finish at Atlanta Motor Speedway, topping her career best of seventh earlier this year at Kansas. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver was fourth on the final restart and got shuffled back to sixth in the final two laps, costing her a chance to make history. The highest finish ever for a female driver in Cup came in 1949 when Sara Christian finished fifth in a race at Heidelberg (Pa....

Patrick posted a career-best seventh-place finish Saturday at Kansas, only her second career top-10 finish and her best since an eighth-place run in the 2013 Daytona 500. How did she celebrate? She got a dog. MORE: Earnhardt leads practice | Earnhardt-Barkley race | All-Star lineup | Danica’s chances Actually, getting the dog was already planned but it just capped a great weekend when she brought Dallas, a miniature Siberian husky, to the home she shares with boyfriend Ricky Stenhouse Jr....

Patrick enters her third Sprint Cup race at the legendary track, but she also drove seven IndyCar races there. In fact, IndyCar remains the driving series in which Patrick had the most success. MORE: 10 drivers to watch at Indy | Stewart’s focus: winning Danica Patrick (Getty Images) Now she enters her 20th Sprint Cup race of the season, more back marker than contender on a weekly basis. At Indy, Patrick finished in the top 10 six times in open-wheel races....

After a pair of shaky seasons, Giants quarterback Daniel Jones looks to have reestablished himself as the hurler of the present and future for Big Blue. Jones made big strides as a thrower this year, bumping his competition percentage to 67.2% while dropping his interception rate to a league-low 1.1%. Still, the fourth-year starter isn’t called “Vanilla Vick” for nothing. He takes pride in his ability to tuck it and run, using his 6-foot-5 frame to evade pressure....

So far, so good, according to early reports. Tight end Evan Engram offered more praise Thursday night about the rookie’s progress. “He’s picking up [the offense] really fast,” Engram told NJ.com. “They’ve been trying to throw some stuff at him and he’s handled it really well." Giants offensive coordinator Mike Shula said as much last week, when he said he thought Jones would be ready to go in Week 1 if necessary....

Queen Margrethe II released a statement on Monday, in which she apologized to the family of her second son, Prince Joachim, whose children will not be given prince and princess titles. The monarch said she was “future-proofing” the royal family, adding that with titles come royal jobs, and these will be done by fewer family members. British and American publications have reported on hostile comments by Joachim in an interview and the news that he and his wife, Princess Marie, were reduced to tears....

All the stars are aligned and Danny Jacobs’s plan to get a shot at the winner of the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin II bout is coming together nicely. The seasoned vet boxer can force the issue and make that next part of the plan take effect by defeating Sergiy Derevyanchenko at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City on October 27. “I feel like everything is set up in my path, so all I have to do is be victorious and all these things will come to me,” Jacobs told Sporting News following a press conference in New York City on Thursday to promote the upcoming fight....

The star’s retrial has been set for next March, per NBC, meaning that the 46-year-old could still spend up to 45 years behind bars. He stands accused of sexually assaulting several women in the early 2000s but maintains his innocence. Legal experts told Newsweek as the trial began in October that both Scientology and the #MeToo movement would be factors in his case. Three of Masterson’s alleged victims had reportedly been part of the Church of Scientology, of which he’s still a member....

The Salvador native headed to Europe after barely more than a single season in Brazil. His dream of returning home for the Selecao’s first World Cup on home soil in more than half a century was for so long little more than a pipedream. But 2012 changed all that. His fabulous form in Germany for Gladbach attracted the attention of Bayern Munich, and a move to the Allianz Arena turned heads back home – including that of Luiz Felipe Scolari....

“Who doesn’t want to go to the BET Awards and listen to the people you hear on the radio and you download their music and support them?” the 20-year-old driver said. “Why not go see them live at such a huge event and make connections with them? I wanted to do it.” Wallace also knew the reaction he might get when he took over NASCAR’s Instagram account Sunday night and posted photos from the event....

Sharper spoke only to answer a procedural question from the judge. PHOTOS: Disgraced athletes Wednesday’s proceedings had been scheduled to set a date for a preliminary hearing of allegations that he drugged and raped two women he met at a West Hollywood nightclub. The second hearing would have involved Sharper’s extradition to Arizona, where he’s alleged to have drugged three women and sexually assaulted them in Tempe in November....