Joe Gibbs Racing President J.D. Gibbs said Sunday that Hamlin was battling a sinus infection and was having trouble seeing and went to the care center about an hour before the race. Crew Chief Darian Grubb told Motor Racing Network that Hamlin had trouble following a finger with his eye and that is when NASCAR ruled him ineligible to race. Sam Hornish replaced Hamlin for the Auto Club 400, and Hamlin must be cleared by a NASCAR-approved doctor to get the OK to race this weekend at Martinsville Speedway....

NASCAR’s most popular driver not only won the Xfinity Series ToyotaCare 250, but for the first time he won in the subseries using his own equipment while racing for JR Motorsports. MORE: Sunday’s starting lineup | New trouble for Clint Bowyer | Latest on lug nuts Earnhardt had to hold off Ty Dillon and others after a nine-car crash in Turn 2 with eight laps remaining sent the race into overtime....

He has one more year left on his contract before ESPN ends its NASCAR race telecast rights. The 2014 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee isn’t sure what he will do in 2015. The 57-year-old Jarrett, winner of 32 Cup races in his career, does know he wants to remain in racing. “Obviously this sport of NASCAR has been my world and I don’t know (about 2015), honestly,” Jarrett said. “I don’t have any feelings as to what may happen....

Temperatures are expected to be in the low 40s at kickoff with rain and snow in the forecast. Some Cowboys players are getting past the flu, some are in the beginning stages and quarterback Dak Prescott is taking preventative medications, according to Calvin Watkins, beat writer for The Dallas Morning News. “Flu bug has swept the Cowboys this week,” Watkins tweeted. “Joe Thomas and Ben Bloom have it. Justin March has a respiratory infection, Jordan Lewis and Xavier Woods just recovered from it....

Atlanta also carries Dansby Swanson, 25, and Touki Toussaint, 21, on its roster. So what’s keeping the team from grabbing control of the competitive NL East? What might keep it from the playoff run it desires after an NLDS loss last season? Perhaps it’s reliable starting pitching from the middle of the rotation, or maybe it’s veteran leadership to guide an inexperienced group of hurlers. If either option applies, then the team’s reported agreement Thursday with 31-year-old left-hander Dallas Keuchel on a one-year contract that will pay him $13 million could be the ideal remedy....

The 24-year-old Buffalo Bills safety had a reported cardiac arrest after he tackled Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins in the first quarter of their NFL clash. Medics performed CPR for 20 minutes on the field before Hamlin was rushed to a local hospital, where he is breathing with the aid of a ventilator. The game was postponed, with a new date to be decided, and now fans have turned to the clip of Hamlin appearing on One Bills Live show, which was filmed postgame a couple of months ago....

On Friday, Lillard took to his Instagram page for his recurring entry in 4 Bar Friday, a weekly freestyle rap contest he’s helped popularize. At the end, he revealed his first signature shoe. There’s not a lot we know about the shoe at this time, other than what we can garner from pictures and Lillard’s tweets. The first colorway is the road version, and there will be several others, including a red one....

If you haven’t been following the Lions head coach this offseason, he has delivered unsolicited quote after hearty unsolicited quote that make some fans roll their eyes, other fans want to run through a brick wall and media members drool at the sight. Campbell has let rip a few instant-classic quotes: First, his infamous knee-cap introductory press conference, then his request to have an actual lion at training camp, and plenty in between....

On his radio show Thursday, Le Batard, who is the son of Cuban immigrants, condemned the network’s “cowardly” policy limiting on-air personalities from engaging in political discussion. MORE: New ESPN boss wants ‘fair’ and ‘balanced’ news, not politics Former ESPN SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill criticized Trump on Twitter in 2017, calling him “a white supremacist.” She was suspended for her comments and has since left the network. Le Batard continued:...

Even among such a grand collection of Hall of Famers, it long has been assumed that the correct answer at No. 1 is Mean Joe Greene. If one is limiting the discussion only to those who have worn the team’s jersey, that is accurate. The greatest of all Steelers, though, in the strictest sense, has been Dan Rooney. STEELE: Rooney helped make Steelers gold standard among sports franchises His father, Art, founded the team and ran it for decades....

Danica Patrick and Martin Truex Jr. were irate after getting involved in accidents they blamed on the incompetent driving of others. MORE: Auto Club 400 photos | Johnson wins at Fontana Patrick passed Kasey Kahne’s car on Lap 121, but then he made contact with her car between Turns 1 and 2, sending Patrick crashing hard into the wall. “Damn it,” Patrick’s spotter Brandon Benesch told crew chief Billy Scott on the team’s radio....

Stewart, who will be running his final Sprint Cup season in 2016, will work with Michael Bugarewicz, who had been the race engineer for Kevin Harvick’s No. 4 team. Bugarewicz replaces Chad Johnston, who had been Stewart’s crew chief the past two seasons before leaving the organization to become the crew chief for Kyle Larson at Chip Ganassi Racing. MORE: Kyle Busch’s amazing year | Harvick pays tribute to Busch | Stop complaining, Busch deserved title Bugarewicz, a Penn State graduate and former engineer at Roush Fenway Racing, worked with Harvick crew chief Rodney Childers, helping lead SHR’s No....

Danica Patrick is one of them, both the most popular and least successful. And on Thursday, we got her first comments on SHR’s decision. MORE: Ford recharges its NASCAR future | Stewart: Eyes on the future “I trust the team and their decisions in what they want to do,” Patrick told SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “Our only goal is to be successful and win.” That’s hardly a ringing endorsement. SHR’s decision brought skepticism from fans, many of whom follow the four drivers’ teams not just because of who they are but also for their links to Chevrolet racecars....

Patrick shared a photo of the Green Bay Packers quarterback and her family on the beach. MORE: Dale Earnhardt Jr. narrates awesome ‘Legend of Daytona’ video She posted the picture with several other photos from the race weekend. Patrick revealed she was dating Rodgers in January. A post shared by Danica Patrick (@danicapatrick) on Feb 17, 2018 at 4:37pm PST He was in Patrick’s No. 7 Premium Motorsports Chevrolet pit box Thursday night for the second Duel qualifying race....

The Giants tight end has already lost “parts of” his foot as a result of a potentially life-threatening MRSA staph infection, according to Bleacher Report’s Jason Cole, who has been told Fells will never play football again. MORE: Fells gives Giants his support | The curious case of Jason Pierre-Paul Doctors reportedly told Fells he may lose the foot to avoid a blood infection, and to save it, he’s relying on antibiotics....

The stag? Gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of only 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, and likely isn’t doing much better today. The flation? The Consumer Price Index rose 4.3 percent between January 2007 to January 2008. The numbers seem positively buoyant compared to our last serious bout of stagflation in the late 1970s, when inflation rates spiked to double-digit levels and mortgage rates were in the high teens....

In an interview on Good Morning Britain to promote his new movie, The Lost City, Radcliffe declined to comment on the situation. “I’m just so already dramatically bored of hearing people’s opinions about it that I just don’t want to be another opinion adding to it,” he said. After Smith slapped Rock onstage for making a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head, many Hollywood celebrities have put in their two cents....

Snyder instead wants it in the new stadium he intends to have built for his NFL squad “sooner than later.” The architectural planning is already under way, he says. Where and how Snyder will acquire the land is another matter. MORE: Financial impact if Redskins change name | Sarah Palin, Mike Ditka like ‘Redskins’ “Whether it’s Washington, D.C., whether it’s another stadium in Maryland, whether it’s a stadium in Virginia, we’ve started the process,” Snyder said in an interview with Comcast SportsNet Washington....

Rasmus Tantholdt of TV2 was speaking in the Gulf state’s capital as part of a live broadcast when he and his film crew were approached by security staff, who arrived in a golf buggy. The situation quickly became tense as it appeared that reporting and filming from that spot was not welcome, with the security staff threatening to smash and destroy the camera. The clip of the confrontation has gone viral on social media....