The popular NASCAR driver and his longtime girlfriend, Amy Reimann, on Wednesday announced via Twitter that they’re engaged. MORE: NASCAR wives and girlfriends | Prepping for retirement | Dale Jr. steals kiss Earnhardt and Reimann, who have dated for four years, are in Germany on vacation during the Sprint Cup series’ off-week. According to NASCAR.com, the picture accompanying her announcement is of the couple in a Lutheran church that Earnhardt’s family attended seven generations and 300 years ago, he tweeted....

NASCAR announced that Earnhardt failed race inspection three times at Michigan, leading to a warning and a time penalty, while the teams of Paul Menard and Josh Wise were late to qualifying, resulting in their penalties. MORE: Michigan Winners & Losers | Info for Bristol Night Race The teams of Brad Keselowski and AJ Allmendinger received written warnings for failing race inspection twice. While the written warnings do not include any penalties, the teams could be subject to P1-level penalties should they be issued warnings again this weekend at Bristol....

But that didn’t stop Junior from joining the party in Victory Lane. MORE: Rough starts for Gordon, Stewart | Highest paid drivers | PHOTOS: Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 This is just another case of Earnhardt ruling over the Twittersphere, and Johnson was all for it. Despite two unfortunate finishes to start the season, Earnhardt is pretty pleased with his performance. He should be, considering he is in the top five in the Sprint Cup points standings heading into the Kobalt 400 on Sunday in Las Vegas....

Earnhardt has three top-10 finishes in five NASCAR Sprint Cup races this season and has led 49 laps. He’s even better at Martinsville. MORE: Would your driver fit in presidential cabinet? | Complete Martinsville schedule Earnhardt has four top-10 finishes in the past five Cup races at the track. He was fourth there last fall and won in 2014, holding off now-retired Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon. Can Sunday be the day when he breaks through with a win and puts himself in position for this season’s Chase for the Sprint Cup?...

Alex Bowman will drive for the team at Michigan and Jeff Gordon will return for the race at Darlington. Earnhardt has spent more than six weeks recovering from concussion-like symptoms. He underwent further evaluation Wednesday at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Concussion Program and was not cleared to return. “We know how hard Dale is working to get back,” team owner Rick Hendrick said. “He’s following what the doctors are saying, to the letter, and doing exactly what he needs to do....

Daryl Henry, 24, and Pablo Ceniceros-Deleon, 19, in conjunction with two co-defendants, posed as gay men on Grindr to draw unsuspecting users to the Solana Ridge Apartment Complex in Dallas. The victims were alternately robbed, assaulted, sexually assaulted, held against their will or carjacked, court documents say. Lawyers for Henry and Ceniceros-Deleon did not respond to requests for comment. At least one defendant “urinated and wiped human feces on” at least one victim, prosecutors allege....

The NHL and Fanatics listed the jersey as open for auction — with the hilarious denotation “WORN DURING FIRST PERIOD” in the item’s title — before the Stars had even completed their 4-2 victory against the Predators in the 12th NHL Winter Classic. Perry’s ejection just two minutes and 44 seconds into the first period at Cotton Bowl Stadium on Wednesday caught a lot of attention during the day’s festivities....

The suspended Florida State running back’s trial will begin the week of Aug. 24, with jury selection beginning on Aug. 21, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. MORE: Best/worst cases for Top 25 teams | 15 best programs since 2000 Cook was seen across the street from the courthouse in Leon County with one of his attorneys, Ricky Patel. However, they were not at the hearing. According to his other attorney, Joey McCall, Cook was at an FSU student code of conduct hearing....

According to Marc Berman of the New York Post, the Knicks will be “ready to pounce” should the Trail Blazers All-Star guard be made available this summer. Yahoo Sports’ Chris Haynes painted a bleak picture of Lillard’s time in Portland, with diminishing returns and early playoff exits The Knicks have enough cap space and ample trade ammunition to at least sniff around on a deal featuring Lillard; New York currently sits with five first-round picks in the next three NBA drafts in part because of the Kristaps Porzingis trade, with a league high in cap space scheduled for the 2021 offseason....

During a Wednesday radio appearance on 1080 AM in Portland, former Blazer Damon Stoudamire confirmed a film crew is working on the feature. He did not divulge the network that is commissioning the project, but Awful Announcing reported it’s being produced to air on HBO. MORE: 2016 NBA mock draft | Take a stand, NBA “We got a lot of people on board,” Stoudamire told the station, via The Oregonian....

His time at Coors Field reads like this: 15 years, four winning seasons, two postseason appearances. O’Dowd wasn’t the only team executive to resign Wednesday. Senior vice president Bill Geivett followed him out the front office door after Colorado’s fourth consecutive losing season. The Rockies are starting fresh from within, appointing Jeff Bridich to run the show. Bridich has served as the team’s senior director of player development since 2011....

In the footage shared to Twitter, White can be seen slapping his wife at a New Year’s Eve party in Mexico and repeatedly trying to hit her as the pair get into a physical altercation. The video was posted to the Spinning Backfist Twitter account on Monday morning and quickly went viral. “Well, this isn’t good,” the UFC-dedicated account captioned the video. The married couple’s fight in the VIP section of El Squid Roe in Cabo San Lucas was first shown by TMZ before later being shared on social media....

–MYRNA Loy in “The Thin Man” (1934) Asta as a main event? That was just one clue that the show was, if not a dog, certainly in trouble. Close to four years in the making, “Nick & Nora” finally opened last week on Broadway. Despite a seasoned creative team, two fine stars (Barry Bostwick and Joanna Gleason) and a swell terrier, the kick in the “Thin Man” cocktail is gone....

Her new crew chief, Daniel Knost, is looking to see if his methodical approach will work well with Patrick, who will begin working with Knost and his crew starting next week at Texas Motor Speedway. It could be a three-week arrangement or it could be for longer, as Stewart-Haas Racing hasn’t announced a crew chief for Patrick for 2015. Knost was Patrick’s engineer for the 10 Sprint Cup races she ran in 2012 before her first full season....

MORE: Dale Earnhardt Jr. sympathizes with Danica Patrick after boos “But every now and again they just catch you in a moment, and I had a moment,” Patrick said about the incident during a promotional tour of Boston on Wednesday. In the viral video, the 35-year-old driver can be heard saying to a fan, “I do the best I can. I mean, if you’re a real fan, you know that my job is not to sign autographs, right?...

He was sitting at a table during the Chicago Blackhawks’ media day session, though, doing his job, and he hasn’t played enough hockey lately to talk about that instead. As media swarmed his teammates with question after question about Jonathan Toews’ leadership and Duncan Keith’s stamina, Carcillo hung tight, answering question after question about the death of his friend, Steve Montador, and the action he took in its wake....

This year’s 2014 Big One for One Drop runner-up Daniel Negreanu recently celebrated his 40th birthday, and could be hitting the golf course soon thanks to a gift he received from EPT commentator Joe Stapleton. MORE: Schemion, Smith flip-flop at the top of GPI World Rankings | Daniel Negreanu Player of the Month | WSOP November Nine Set The present contained several boxes of unique golf balls with former Full Tilt Poker part-owner Howard Lederer’s image placed on each one....

The Brazil defender is poised to become City’s fifth signing of the transfer window, following Bernardo Silva, Ederson, Douglas Luiz and Kyle Walker. Get 15/8 on Man City to win the Premier League Zidane was asked about the right-back’s potential transfer during a press conference in the U.S., and revealed that Danilo had been allowed to leave the club. “He has gone now," the former France international told reporters. “Danilo is going away....

“Showtime” didn’t disappoint this time, either. Judges ruled Saturday’s bout unanimously in his favor by scores of 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113, giving Porter the vacant WBC welterweight championship before 13,058 fans at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. MORE: Join DAZN and watch the Joshua-Povetkin fight for free Porter was flat-out the aggressor, mauling Garcia at will and never truly letting his opponent counterpunch from a place of comfort. “I tell people all the time (that) I don’t make predictions," Porter said after the bout....