MECHANICSBURG, Pa. – Hoosier will present the season opener at Williams Grove Speedway, slated for Sunday afternoon, March 15 at 2 p.m., featuring the Lawrence Chevrolet 410 sprint cars in a $4,080 to win event.

The 410 sprints are the only division on the racing program with gates opening at noon followed by warm-ups at 1:30 pm.

Courtesy of Hoosier Tires, Hoosier giveaways are slated for the season lidlifter for both fans and racers alike.

Adult general admission for the season opener is set at $16 with youth ages 13 – 20 priced at $10.  Kids ages 12 and under are always admitted for free at Williams Grove Speedway.

Throughout the upcoming season, as they have for many years, Fast Tees Screenprinting of Thompsontown will again be paying $300 to set fast time at all oval time trial events in honor of late speedway champion Jimmy Nace.

The total of Fast Tees Fast Time posted monies will again approach nearly $5,000 in 2020.

Eshenaur & Son fuels of Harrisburg returns to Williams Grove Speedway again, with the Eshenaur Fuels Last Lap Pass Awards for both regular and visiting open wheel divisions.

Eshenaur’s will again offer a $250 last lap pass award to any driver who makes a last lap pass for the win in the 410 sprint car division while a $100 bonus is posted for last lap pass winners in the 358 sprints.

Eshenaur’s will also offer $100 bonus last lap awards for all 305 sprint races during the season.

In addition, various product certificates will be awarded at numerous events during the season including vouchers for Hoosier Tires and Keizer Wheels.

MOORESVILLE, N.C. – With a full-time staff that includes several former NASCAR regulars, JR III Racing has grown its race operation to have a hand in several different categories of competition.

The growth of the establishment in the last year has exceeded its current 10,000 sq. ft. facility in Mooresville, NC and the team has now begun breaking ground on a 7,000 sq. ft. addition.

As well as its established vintage racing clientele, JR III Racing made the step into the IMSA Prototype Challenge series with a limited schedule in 2019 ahead of a full-season program in 2020.

While the current shop has seven full-time employees and houses almost 20 vintage cars which JR III preps for SVRA and club racing events, it also holds two Ligier LMP3s and one Norma Prototype Challenge car. With a full house, it was time for expansion and JR III Racing hopes to complete the project by the end of the year.

The expansion will bring the JR III Racing facility from 10,000 square feet to 17,000 square feet, allowing for a larger workspace for the team’s growing vintage racing clientele as well as storage for pit lane and track equipment needed for events.

Expanding the shop is another step forward for the team as JR III Racing team owner Billy Glavin grows to meet client demand and prepare for expanded operations in the future.

“When we moved into our current race shop, our business had already expanded and filled the space,” said Glavin. “The expansion allows for us to continue growing and bringing in more customer cars to work on. From July to December 2019, JR III Racing grew from three employees to seven. We are settling into our new routine and schedule while continuing to provide high-level restorations and race preparation with the very experienced crew we have welcomed.”

The Carolina Hurricanes upgraded their offense by acquiring forward Vincent Trocheck from the Florida Panthers for Erik Haula, Lucas Wallmark and two prospects, the teams announced Monday.

The 26-year-old Trocheck has 10 goals and 36 points this season in his seventh season for the only NHL team for which he's played.

His best season came in 2017-18 when he had career highs with 31 goals and 75 points.

Carolina is clinging to the second wild-card position in the East with 74 points. Florida is only four points behind.

Wallmark, 24, has 11 goals and 12 assists as Carolina's fourth-line center, while the 28-year-old Haula has 11 goals and 12 assists centering the third line.

Haula was in his first year with the Hurricanes after being acquired from Vegas. He had 55 points for the Golden Knights in 2017-18.

Trocheck isn't a rental for Carolina. He has two years left on his six-year deal with an annual average value of $4.75 million.

Haula has a cap hit of $2.75 million and will be an unrestricted free agent after the season, while Wallmark will be a restricted free agent.

The prospects going to Florida are defenseman Chase Priskie and forward Eetu Luostarinen. Luostarinen has skated eight games with Carolina, while Priskie is in his first year in the AHL.

New York Rangers forward Chris Kreider was the most coveted player at the NHL trade deadline. Apparently, no one coveted him more than his current team.

Kreider, 28, who was set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer, was re-signed on Monday to a 7-year deal.

According to reports, he will get an annual average value of $6.5 million.

Kreider, who had spent his entire career in New York, has 24 goals and 21 assists in 60 games this season and is on pace to set career highs in both categories. He has had a productive February, posting six goals and five assists in 11 games.

A dozen teams were in the hunt for the winger's services, including the Boston Bruins, St. Louis Blues, Colorado Avalanche and New York Islanders.

But the Rangers were committed to trying to re-sign him. As of last Friday, a source said there was a "65-percent chance" of Kreider reupping, but that talks had reached an impasse on Sunday. The issue: The Rangers wanted to go six years with Kreider, at around $7 million annually, while the was seeking seven. The $6.5 million AAV would appear to be the compromise.

He missed nearly two months of the 2017-18 season due to blood clots, undergoing two surgeries and spending nearly a week in the hospital because of the issue. But he has been a

While the Rangers, at 33-24-4, could post their first winning season since 2016-17, they have some ground to make up in the strong Metropolitan Division and could miss the playoffs for the third straight year. But in Kreider, they have secured an important piece as their collecting of outstanding young players rounds into a contender.

Patrick Marleau gets a chance to experience a playoff run this season after the Pittsburgh Penguins acquired the forward from the San Jose Sharks for a conditional third-round draft pick.

"Patrick is a player who can play anywhere in our lineup," Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford said in a statement. "He's a good two-way player, provides leadership and will be a good fit with our team."

Marleau returned to the Sharks for a 20th season in 2019 on a league-minimum $700,000 contract after spending two seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs. But the season didn't go the way he wanted, with injuries and ineffectiveness keeping the Sharks near the bottom of the West.

The Penguins are only two points behind the Washington Capitals for the lead in the tough Metro Division, and Marleau will likely fill a bottom six role and try to win his first Stanley Cup.

If the Penguins win the Cup, the Sharks get a second-round draft pick.

Marleau is the Sharks' franchise leader in games (1,550), goals (518) and points (1,102). The 40-year-old has 10 goals and 10 assists in 57 games this season.

"Patrick is one of the most iconic players to ever wear the Sharks uniform," Sharks GM Doug Wilson said in a statement. "Although we have had a disappointing season in San Jose, he deserves every opportunity to have a chance at winning a Stanley Cup, and we're happy to help accommodate that. We wish him the best of luck."

He played for the Maple Leafs in 2018-19, but his $6.25 million annual average salary was too much for the cap-strapped Leafs, who traded him to Carolina Hurricanes. The Hurricanes made the move to net a first-round pick and bought out the final year of Marleau's contract.

Marleau captained the Sharks from 2003 to 2009.

ESPN's Greg Wyshynski contributed to this report.

The Carolina Hurricanes upgraded their offense by acquiring forward Vincent Trocheck from the Florida Panthers for Erik Haula, Lucas Wallmark and two prospects.

The 26-year-old Trocheck has 10 goal and 36 points this season. How did each general manager do in this trade?

The deal:

Hurricanes get: F Vincent Trocheck

Panthers get: F Erik Haula, F Lucas Wallmark, F Eetu Luostarinen, D Chase Priskie

Carolina Hurricanes: B+

One of the most thrilling sights in football is watching Hakim Ziyech fire a 50-metre, cross-field pass. Ziyech thinks so too. He'll often pause for a split-second to admire its flight. Sometimes, after backheeling his way past another opponent, he'll glance up at the big screen to catch the replay. (He has so many different feints but doesn't yet boast a trademark one.)

Only a couple of footballers in Europe right now are more creative than Ziyech at Ajax. But if he is to become equally influential at Chelsea, the club at which he will play from next season, Frank Lampard will have to do something brave: give Ziyech the keys to the shop and let him do what he wants on the field. The Dutch-Moroccan isn't moving to London just to become an ordinary, play-it-safe footballer. "Free Hakim Ziyech!" could be the drama that plays out at Stamford Bridge next season.

Ziyech's origins help explain the footballer he became. He was born in 1993 in Dronten, a small town founded only 20 years earlier on land reclaimed from the sea. There weren't many other good footballers anywhere nearby. Like the northern villager Arjen Robben before him, Ziyech grew up as the best player in his rural region, and so nobody nagged him about passing, tracking back or playing it safe. His job was to win games single-handedly.

He was the ninth and youngest child of poor Dutch-Moroccan parents. On Saturdays, after his game at the local amateur club, he and his dad would share fries in the canteen. But his father had multiple sclerosis. One night, 10-year-old Hakim fell asleep on his dad's bed in the living room, then roused himself around midnight to go upstairs. At 3 a.m., he recalled recently for the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper, he came down to find his father dead.

Ziyech started his professional career at Heerenveen before making a modest step up to FC Twente. Ryo Miyaichi, the Japanese winger formerly at Arsenal, marvelled after their first training session together at Twente: "What's he doing here? He belongs at Real Madrid." Ziyech appeared to agree. He passed to the only one or two Twente players whose talents he trusted, and he never bothered defending.

He also made obstinate career choices. Selected for Holland's squad in 2015, a year after the Dutch had finished third at the World Cup, he suddenly left training camp pleading injury. Holland's then-coach, Guus Hiddink, recalled thinking: "A shame, but I had the feeling his future with Oranje would come." It didn't: Ziyech chose Morocco instead.

Holland's assistant coach Marco van Basten called him a "dumb boy" following his decision. Didn't Ziyech understand that Holland would always be better than Morocco? At 23, Ziyech was still fighting against relegation with Twente, and it seemed feasible that he'd spend his career performing brilliant cameos in football's shallow end. Ajax had checked him out, but in August 2016, technical director, Marc Overmars, said he wasn't going to buy him because Twente wanted too much money and Ziyech would only block the development of academy players. Days after Overmars' verdict, Ajax were humiliated 4-1 by Russian side Rostov in a Champions League qualifier and the club hurriedly forked out €11 million for Ziyech. The player moved into a posh flat in Amsterdam that he furnished with a billiards table and little else. But it had enough guest rooms for his beloved nephews and nieces to visit.

That season, 2016-17, Ziyech helped transform Ajax. Against every expectation, the absurdly young side reached the Europa League final, which they lost 2-0 to Manchester United. The club's keeper Andre Onana recalls thinking of Ziyech: "What is this man? He's good on free kicks, he's good at one-on-ones, he's fast and scores many goals. But his best quality: decisive passes. He really sees everything. Sometimes I think he has three eyes." Ziyech was also suddenly pressing and tackling opponents, even in the 90th minute with his tongue hanging out and his spindly legs buckling. Stranger still, he enjoyed it.

"If you'd shown me those images of myself when we lost possession five years ago, I'd have said you were crazy," Ziyech told Voetbal International magazine.

His only shortcoming was a habit of shooting from almost anywhere on the field and, perhaps not coincidentally, Ajax's 2017-18 season was a flop. Ziyech is a player who aims to be decisive with every move -- whether beating defenders, playing a splitting pass or finding the top corner -- but the flipside is that he often loses possession. When he isn't brilliant, his scowl, drooped shoulders and bowed head can lose him friends, notes Dutch journalist Sam Planting. Ziyech became a hate figure to disappointed Ajax fans and he once retaliated by removing all his Ajax-related posts from Instagram. He distrusts people he doesn't know and detests the chatter around football. Still, in the summer of 2018, he went to the World Cup with Morocco while Holland stayed home.

Last season, as Ajax got to the brink of a Champions League final, Ziyech -- even more than his teammates Frenkie de Jong, Dusan Tadic and Matthijs de Ligt -- emerged as probably the Eredivisie's best player in 25 years. He even finally grew out of his shoot-on-sight policy. Ajax's coach, Erik ten Hag, moved him from midfield to outside-right, where he could cut in on his left foot and take all the risks he liked, knowing there were enough men behind him in case he lost the ball. Holland's former striker Youri Mulder summed him up: "If he gives 10 passes, he loses possession five times, gives two normal balls and creates three brilliant openings that can produce goals."

'A player we hope can bring that bit of creativity'

Ziyech is at his most brilliant against big teams, making and scoring Ajax's first goal in their 4-1 win at Real Madrid in March, but he visibly loves playing football against anybody. After Heracles were thumped 4-1 by Ajax, their forward Cyriel Dessers marvelled at Ziyech's passing: "Three, four times, the ball suddenly drops dead at the back post. How is that possible?" When Ten Hag tried to give Ziyech some rest by substituting him late in a 4-0 pounding of Feyenoord last October, the player was outraged. He knew he was playing the best football of his life and he didn't want to miss a minute. During his time at Ajax, Ziyech has had more assists, shots, chances created and dribbles completed than any other player in the Eredivisie, according to Opta.

Fans have learned to adore him, and he now reciprocates, too. When an admirer invaded the pitch during a match at Lille, Ziyech hugged the boy, inviting him and his parents to Amsterdam. He took time for cheery chats with disabled fans.

Ziyech outgrew the Eredivisie years ago, yet until last week he kept turning away foreign clubs inquiring about his availability. "I'm very choosy," he told the Algemeen Dagblad. "Last summer, Sevilla made a concrete offer. Absolutely a nice club, but there's a technical director there [Monchi] who had wanted to bring me to Roma a year before. Everything was almost sealed until we suddenly didn't hear from him anymore. And now I had to join his club. Well, forget it: I don't let anyone mess me around."

The bigger problem is that only about 10 clubs on earth are now obviously better than Ajax and the likes of Liverpool, Barcelona and Real Madrid aren't about to give Ziyech the freedom to take any risk he likes. "Big clubs had doubts because you have to build a team around him," noted Holland's former playmaker Rafael van der Vaart. Ziyech wasn't going to leave Ajax just to play boring safe football in the service of some other creator.

Even though he turns 27 next month, Chelsea are getting Ziyech cheap for €40 million, possibly rising to €44 million with bonuses. (Overmars had promised Ziyech he'd be cooperative when the right club came along.)

Lampard explained after the signing: "This season, there have been games where we've maybe struggled to unlock the door, and he's certainly a player who we hope can bring that bit of creativity."

In Chelsea's 4-2-3-1 system, Ziyech could play outside-right or as a No.10. However, Lampard may not realise just how much freedom his new signing expects. If Ziyech can inherit Eden Hazard's old role as Chelsea's designated risk-taker, he'll love it. If he can't, he will one day look back on the 2018-19 season at Ajax as his pinnacle, the time in football that he was happiest. So will many Dutch fans.

Last year's great Ajax team is now falling apart. De Jong and De Ligt have gone, Donny van de Beek will probably join Real Madrid this summer and Onana may yet follow Ziyech's path to Chelsea. We may need to sustain ourselves these next 25 years with memories of Ziyech.

Imagine falling asleep after Australia's defeat in the T20 World Cup opener against India on Friday and then waking up no sooner than the third over of their 123-chase against Sri Lanka three days later, only to find the four-time winners and defending champions are staring at another potential league stage defeat.

Australia have never lost to Sri Lanka across limited-across formats; at 3 for 10 in 3.2 overs, it seemed like they were heading for a historic defeat at WACA. The swing of left-arm pacer Udeshika Prabodhani and turn from offspinner Shashikala Siriwardene had suddenly left the vulnerability of a seemingly impenetrable line-up exposed even further after Poonam Yadav spun them into a tangle in Sydney.

Against Yadav's wristpin, their batters didn't have any answers. On Monday, Prabodhani's inswingers felt like jumbled alphabets to this world-beating side. A 4.5-degree swing from the left-arm pacer's second ball of the innings would get the better of one of the world's bests. Alyssa Healy, coming off a blazing 51 in the T20 World Cup opener, was sent packing by a 98kph incoming delivery.

At 34, Prabodhani is one of Sri Lanka's most experienced players, their most economical bowler on Sri Lanka's tour of Australia across limited-overs formats, and senior-most among the rare few left-arm pacers on the women's international circuit. "She's the best bowler in Sri Lanka and she has a lot of experience," the captain Chamari Atapattu had said about Prabodhani at the pre-match press conference on Sunday. "We call her 'the silent killer'".

"I'm sure there was a couple of nerves today, but I hope we showed today the character that has been there in the group." Rachel Haynes

Prabodhani's first four balls in the second over denied No. 3 Ashleigh Gardner any runs. The fifth, a carbon-copy of the ball that dismissed Healy, hooped back down the line to crash into the top of middle and leg. With just eight on the scoreboard, the urgency among the Sri Lankans fielding inside the circle lent a degree of imminence to a third wicket that was only three balls away.

In the recent past, the left-hand opener Beth Mooney has been peerless at the top within the Australian set-up, playing starring roles in the title triumphs of her WBBL side Brisbane Heat and, more recently, Australia in the tri-series. Her last two 20-over outings, though, were worth a combined 16 runs. At the WACA, she would add only another six runs, her seven-ball stay cut short with a flighted away-going delivery from Siriwardene.

For the second time in four nights, the focus of an Australia chase fell squarely on the side's highly-regarded batting depth. The chastening defeat against India had left questions to be asked of this purported strength, but unlike Friday night where the entire line-up seemed wanting in resilience after Healy's dismissal, resistance against Sri Lanka came in the form of a 95-run stand between the Australia captain Meg Lanning and her deputy Rachael Haynes.

"I thought today we showed a little bit of our character," Haynes said after her 47-ball 60. "World Cup tournaments aren't easy. Playing at home, you're really enjoying the opportunity to do it but you kind of escape from the fact that it's different from a normal series where perhaps you can drop a game here and there and get back in the contest whereas World Cup cricket you have to keep winning. That's the nature of the beast.

"I'm sure there was a couple of nerves today, but I hope we showed today the character that has been there in the group. To be able to get over the line right at the end there will hopefully correct some of the momentum heading into the rest of the tournament."

At least four dropped chances when the pair were batting and a botched use of DRS left Sri Lanka no room to review a Lanning caught-behind.

"It didn't feel easy to bat out there, to be honest," Haynes said. "I felt like I cloffed nearly every shot that I played today, perhaps with the exception of one. We knew, more than anything, that the partnership was really valuable. So it was nice to be able to come together and get us back in a position where we could attack.

"I think we talk a lot about having match-winning contributions, and sometimes it requires beginnings, and sometimes it requires impactful innings in T20 cricket. Today I think Meg and I came together and we did that job. We won the game of cricket for our team. It was obviously an important moment because we needed to win today to stay in the contest.

"But, yeah, from my point of view, it was just really nice to share in that with Meg. Today is also her 100th match. So it was really nice to not only win but obviously win a big game for her too."

Peshawar Zalmi will have no case to answer for alleged ball-tampering during their game against Quetta Gladiators, after the PCB confirmed that Quetta had failed to formally make a complaint. Quetta captain Sarfaraz Ahmed's claim they had reported what they perceived as ball-tampering by Peshawar has been refuted by the PCB, who in a press release stated Quetta had not filed the complaint through the "correctly stated procedure".

Following the conclusion of the match between Quetta and Peshawar on Saturday, Sarfaraz said his side believed Peshawar had altered the condition of the ball, and they were taking the matter up with the match referee and the PCB. "As far as ball-tampering is concerned, we have followed the protocols of [the] PCB and submitted our report on the matter," he said. Team manager Nabeel Hashmi, who was with Sarfaraz at the press conference, appeared to clarify the comment, suggesting a formal complaint had not been made.

The procedure to file a formal complaint was never followed though. Quetta wrote their complaint on the match evaluation form, which is not the platform to lodge formal complaints. Instead, the PCB pointed out, "all Reports must be completed on Form "Rep 1" (or such other form as may be made available for such purpose by the PSL from time to time). All Reports must be signed and dated by the person lodging the Report."

That needed to be done within 48 hours of the conclusion of the game, which Peshawar won by six wickets. With that time having now lapsed, the window of opportunity available to Quetta to make a complaint has closed.

"The Pakistan Cricket Board today confirmed match referee Roshan Mahanama has not received an official complaint from Quetta Gladiators against Peshawar Zalmi for changing the condition of the ball..." the PCB media release said.

The PCB made clear they will not recognise Sarfaraz's public comments as an official complaint, and were not happy with the manner in which Quetta had handled the matter.

"We are aware that a statement on changing the condition of the ball has been made without providing any concrete evidence or lodging a formal complaint through the correctly stated procedure," Wasim Khan, the PCB CEO, said.

"In this case, this should have been submitted to the match referee by 6pm on Monday, 24 February. Such irresponsible statements without formal follow-up will only effect the integrity of the event and cast doubts on international cricketers, and, as such, I request the players to use caution and show responsibility."

A source at Quetta Gladiators told ESPNcricinfo that they had no intention to formally complain, insisting Sarfaraz's comments had been misinterpreted. Quetta merely wanted to raise awareness of the issue, and to ask umpires to pay more attention to the ball's condition, which would explain why they included their remarks on the umpire evaluation form instead of lodging a complaint to the match referee.

The PSL resumes in Multan on Wednesday, where Multan Sultans will take on Peshawar. Quetta next play in Rawalpindi against Islamabad United.

Another talking point regarding potential No. 1 overall pick Joe Burrow occurred when his measurements were taken on Monday morning at the NFL combine in Indianapolis.

Burrow's hand size was measured at nine inches, a source confirmed to ESPN. The information was first reported by Yahoo Sports.

Per ESPN Stats and Information, the length from pinkie to thumb was tied for the smallest among first-round quarterbacks measured at the combine since 2008. Ryan Tannehill and Jared Goff, the others with those hand sizes, happened to be instructed by current Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor.

Taylor and the Bengals could potentially draft Burrow with the franchise's top-overall pick since 2003. Taylor, a former quarterback at Nebraska, had a 9-inch hand measurement at the 2007 combine.

Of the 35 quarterbacks drafted in the first round since 2008, 9 7/10 inches is the average hand size, according to ESPN Stats and Information. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who led Kansas City to victory at Super Bowl LIV and was named the game's MVP, registered at 9 1/4 inches in 2017.

Over the last 10 years, a mere three quarterbacks with 9-inch hands have attempted more than 300 passes -- Goff, Tannehill and Chad Henne. During that span, none of them have a Total QBR above 55.

Burrow enters this week's scouting combine as the overwhelming favorite to be the top overall pick. The former LSU quarterback won the Heisman Trophy and led the Tigers to a national championship in his final year of college.

Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa and Oregon's Justin Herbert were measured with 10-inch hands. Along with Burrow, they are expected to be two of the top quarterback prospects available in the upcoming draft.