DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – With persistent rain showers continuing to dampen Daytona Int’l Speedway, NASCAR officials have chosen to cancel Friday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series qualifying session.

As a result, reigning series champion and current championship leader Joey Logano will lead the field to the green flag during Saturday’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona Int’l Speedway.

The field was set by the rulebook, which dictates the field be set by owner points. Logano’s No. 22 Team Penske Ford currently leads the owner point standings. He’ll be joined on the front row by Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch.

Brad Keselowski, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. will start third through fifth, respectively.

William Byron is scheduled to start 12th, but will fall to the rear of the field after switching to a backup car following Thursday’s practice incident with Keselowski.

The field will be officially set for Saturday’s race following pre-race inspection Friday afternoon.

PITTSBURGH -- Mike Sullivan is sticking around to see if he can get the Pittsburgh Penguins back to the Stanley Cup.

The club announced Friday that it has signed Sullivan -- who guided the Penguins to championships in 2016 and 2017 -- to a four-year contract extension that runs through the 2023-24 season. The terms of the new deal will kick in when Sullivan's current contract expires at the end of the upcoming season.

The 51-year-old Sullivan is 174-92-34 with Pittsburgh since taking over for Mike Johnston in December 2015. Sullivan's arrival provided a spark that helped the Penguins become the first team in nearly two decades to repeat as Stanley Cup champions. The deal gives Sullivan time to help Pittsburgh retool after getting swept by the New York Islanders in the first round of the 2019 playoffs.

"Mike has done a great job delivering four 100-plus-point seasons with our team," general manager Jim Rutherford said in a statement. "To win back-to-back Stanley Cups in this era speaks volumes of him as a coach."

The extension doubles as a vote of confidence from Rutherford, who expressed concern about the need for a culture change inside the dressing room after the Penguins slogged through much of 2018-19 before the earliest playoff exit of the Sidney Crosby era.

Sullivan clashed at times with prolific but temperamental forward Phil Kessel, whom the Penguins traded to Arizona last week for Alex Galchenyuk, among others. Pittsburgh also sent defenseman Olli Maatta to Chicago and signed versatile forward Brandon Tanev to a six-year deal on the opening day of free agency earlier this week.

"Mike has proven he is a tremendous leader for our team," Penguins president and CEO David Morehouse said. "Our trust in him as a coach has continued to grow since winning back-to-back Stanley Cups in his first two years. Mike has a championship mindset, and he is the right guy for our team, the organization and the city of Pittsburgh."

Sullivan has preached about "playing the right way" since the day he took over for Johnston while helping build a team identity focused on speed and solid defensive play. Speed hasn't been an issue during his tenure, but the Penguins have slid defensively since raising the Cup for the fifth time in franchise history in 2017.

Rutherford hinted during Pittsburgh's season-ending news conference that the front office had no problem with Sullivan's tactics and instead placed the blame for Pittsburgh's abrupt postseason ouster on the players. The roster overhaul in recent weeks has focused on trying to creating more depth up the middle and making the Penguins more difficult to face.

Sullivan is the third-winningest coach in Penguins' history, trailing only Dan Bylsma and Eddie Johnston. He is 9-2 in playoff series, and his 38 postseason wins rank second behind Bylsma's.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Columbus Blue Jackets have re-signed restricted free-agent defenseman Scott Harrington to a three-year contract.

The contract is worth $4.9 million with an annual salary cap hit of $1.63 million, a source told The Associated Press. The team didn't announce terms of the deal.

The 26-year-old blueliner set career highs in games played, assists and points in 2018-19, when he tallied two goals and 15 assists in 73 games with the Blue Jackets. He had four assists in 10 games in the playoffs.

Harrington has five goals and 21 assists in 152 career NHL games with the Blue Jackets, Toronto Maple Leafs and Pittsburgh Penguins.

With goalkeeper Zack Steffen due to leave for English Premier League side Manchester City on Tuesday, the Columbus Crew announced the signing of his replacement on Friday.

Eloy Room, who starred in goal during Curacao's surprising run at this year's Gold Cup, will join the team when the international transfer window opens that day.

He'll fill one of the Crew's international roster slots.

"We are excited to have a player as experienced and proven as Eloy join Columbus Crew SC," general manager Tim Bezbatchenko said in a statement from the team.

"Eloy is a talented goalkeeper whose leadership and shot-stopping ability will help strengthen our club. We believe Eloy's background competing at the European and international level will allow him to contribute to Crew SC immediately."

Room, 30, last played professionally with PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie league after spending the bulk of his career with Vitesse of the same league.

Atletico Madrid have publicly denounced the behaviour of both Antoine Griezmann and Barcelona, while saying they have turned down a request from the Catalan side to defer payment on the forward.

At the end of last season, Griezmann, 28, informed Atletico that he was leaving and Barca were expected to immediately trigger the clause when it dropped from €200 million to €120 million on July 1.

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However, nobody has yet visited the La Liga offices in Madrid to deposit the money, and Blaugrana president Josep Maria Bartomeu said at a news conference on Friday afternoon that "first contact" over the transfer took place on Thursday when Barca director Oscar Grau met with Atletico chief executive Miguel Angel Gil.

Soon after Bartomeu had finished speaking, Atletico responded with a lengthy and angry club statement which denounced the behaviour of both Barcelona and a player who remains under contract at the Wanda Metropolitano, and added that the request for "deferred payment" of the €120m release clause showed "disrespect."

"On May 14, Antoine Griezmann informed Miguel Angel Gil, Diego Pablo Simeone and Andrea Berta of his decision to leave our club at the end of the season," the statement said. "In the days that followed that meeting, Atletico Madrid learned that FC Barcelona and the player had reached an agreement in March, specifically in the days following the return match of our Champions League tie against Juventus, and that they had been negotiating the terms of the agreement since mid-February.

"Regarding president Bartomeu's statement today we wish to state that it is true that yesterday there was a meeting between Miguel Angel Gil and FC Barcelona CEO Oscar Grau, at Barcelona's request and that at that meeting, Mr. Grau expressed his intention, once the release clause of Antoine Griezmann's contract had decreased from 200 to 120 million euros, to ask for a deferred payment of the aforementioned amount of the clause in force as from July 1. Atletico Madrid's response was obviously negative, as we believe that FC Barcelona and the player have disrespected Atletico Madrid and all its fans."

Atletico's statement went on to say that they expected Griezmann to be at training on Sunday with his current teammates, while saying both the player and Barca had broken "basic rules of integrity" by negotiating a transfer last February when he and Atletico were still in competition against the Catalans on two fronts.

"Through this statement, Atletico Madrid wishes to express its strongest disapproval of the behaviour of both, especially FC Barcelona, for prompting the player to break his contractual relationship with Atletico Madrid at a time of the season when the club was involved in the Champions League tie against Juventus, as well as the league title race against FC Barcelona, something that we believe violates the protected periods of negotiation with players and alters the basic rules of integrity in any sporting competition, as well as causing enormous damage to our club and its millions of fans."

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu says he's aware that Neymar wants to leave Paris Saint-Germain, although he says the French champions do not want to sell the forward.

Bartomeu also confirmed that talks have begun with Atletico Madrid over the signing of Antoine Griezmann. Sources told ESPN FC earlier this week that Barca's interest in the France forward does not rule out a possible move for Neymar, who quit the Catalan club for PSG in a world-record €222 million transfer two years ago.

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Barca believe a deal would be viable financially, and sources have revealed to ESPN FC that Philippe Coutinho could even be used as a makeweight to bring the cost of the operation down. However, Bartomeu downplayed the idea of re-signing the Brazil international this summer due to PSG's reluctance to let him leave.

"We know that Neymar wants to leave PSG, but PSG don't want to sell him, so there's no Neymar case," Bartomeu said in a news conference on Friday.

Asked if, in an ideal world, he would like to sign him again, the president added: "We never speak about players from other teams."

It had been suggested in the Catalan press that Barca captain Lionel Messi had explicitly asked Bartomeu for Neymar to be brought back following a meeting between the two at the Argentine's house in May.

"Let's end that myth," Bartomeu said when asked if that was true. "Messi doesn't ask [for Barcelona] to sign certain players. He just wants a competitive team."

Bartomeu also closed the door on the idea of Ousmane Dembele leaving the club, possibly in a player exchange deal for Neymar, even saying the French winger is a better player than the Brazilian.

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"Dembele is a young, talented player who adds something different," he said. "Watching him play is a pleasure and when he's on the pitch you always want to see what he does. For me, he's better than Neymar."

Finally, Bartomeu explained that Barca have now opened negotiations with Atletico regarding the signing of Griezmann. There was a meeting in Madrid on Thursday between the two clubs' CEOs, Oscar Grau and Miguel Angel Gil Marin.

High-ranking sources at the Catalan club have told ESPN FC that Barca asked if they could pay Griezmann's release clause -- which dropped to €120m on July 1 -- in installments, while Atletico requested Nelson Semedo be involved in the deal.

However, Barca insist that Semedo is nontransferable. If they can't reach an agreement with Atletico, they will pay Griezmann's release clause after the weekend. Plans are already underway to present him at Camp Nou next week.

Manchester United's Paul Pogba is ready to leave the Premier League side in the summer with a transfer "in the process," the French midfielder's agent Mino Raiola told the Times newspaper.

Pogba, who moved to United from Juventus in 2016 for a then-world record fee of £89.3 million ($111.73 million), has produced inconsistent displays despite scoring 31 goals in 142 appearances in all competitions.

"Everyone within the club from the manager to the owner knows Paul's wishes," Raiola told the Times newspaper.

"Everyone knows the willingness of Paul to move on. We're in the process of that. Everyone knows what the feelings of Paul are."

British media has linked the 26-year-old World Cup winner with a move to Real Madrid, where he will link up with coach Zinedine Zidane, or a return to former club Juventus.

Pogba had suggested last month in Tokyo that now "could be a good time to have a new challenge somewhere else."

He is currently in New York this week on a promotional tour, with United's squad set to fly out to Australia shortly for a series of pre-season games that begin next week.

Raiola did not confirm if Pogba would make the trip.

"I can't tell you anything. I live day by day," Raiola added.

United kick off their new league campaign against Chelsea at Old Trafford on Aug. 11.

Going into their final round-robin match, Sri Lanka may be out of semi-final contention, and yet, there is a strong argument they have surpassed expectations at this World Cup. Ranked ninth in ODIs ahead of the tournament, they have won half the matches they've played so far, beating England, West Indies and Aghanistan, while losing to New Zealand, Australia and South Africa (their games against Bangladesh and Pakistan were both rained out).

Although India are firm favourites on Saturday, one more Sri Lanka win will secure them a mid-table position - fifth or sixth - something even optimistic Sri Lanka fans might have believed was beyond this team. And while Lasith Malinga has been the team's best player, the batting of Avishka Fernando in particular has been a revelation.

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Most expected Sri Lanka's World Cup to be disastrous. And although their ODI cricket remains poor, it seems in a better place than it did when they arrived in England.

"We've had a few positives out of this World Cup, with the openers and No. 3 having done well for us," Dimuth Karunaratne said. "Avishka Fernando is playing really well. He only got three games, but he showed what he can do - he can produce runs for Sri Lanka. He's one of the future stars."

While 21-year-old Fernando has been a particular cause for excitement, having hit Sri Lanka's first ODI hundred since January, and made 183 runs at a strike-rate of 107 through the course of his three innings, Sri Lanka have also had solidity at the very top of the order. Karunaratne and Kusal Perera have produced three opening partnershps worth at least 90.

The strength of performances are increasingly divorced from selection calls in Sri Lanka, but following years of rapid turnover in the opening positions, Sri Lanka perhaps have hope that the Karunaratne-Kusal Perera partnership can provide stability well beyond the World Cup.

"Kusal and I have different styles," Karunaratne said. "What the team expects from me is different - everyone expects me to bat through the innings. Kusal has been given the freedom to play his game. He can play his shots since he knows that I will play the anchor role from one end. If I get out, it gets difficult for him to play with freedom, so what I look to do is to rotate the strike and let him take on the bowling.

We have a good understanding and I don't race to catch up with his score. I have my limitations and I try to stick to that. We also have a good understanding running between the wickets. We have played lot of A team cricket together."

Sri Lanka have lost seven of the nine ODIs they have played against India in the last two years, but they had won their most recent match against them in England.. Chasing 322 at the Oval during the 2017 Champions Trophy, Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews struck fifties as Sri Lanka achieved the target with seven wickets in hand. Karunaratne hoped memories of that win would spread vibes within his team.

"India are a top team, and you can't afford to make mistakes against a side like that. But we have beaten them in England in the Champions Trophy, and some of those players who did that are in this squad as well. I hope we can take inspiration from that win and play well."