ARLINGTON, Texas — The eighth round of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship series, was also round two of both the Monster Energy Triple Crown series-within-a-series and the Eastern Regional 250SX Championship.

The event provided six great races in front of 62,105 fans inside AT&T Stadium. Eli Tomac brought his Monster Energy Kawasaki team its fourth win of 2020, the 31^st of his career, in typical Tomac style — a dramatic charge through the pack when everything was on the line.

The night didn’t start out great for Tomac, finishing only fifth in 450SX race one; that race was won convincingly by Team Honda HRC’s Ken Roczen, netting his fourth straight Monster Energy Triple Crown Race win after sweeping the Glendale round.

Tomac made his win in 450SX race two look easy after nearly holeshotting behind Rocky Mountain ATV/MC KTM’s Blake Baggett then quickly pushing ahead and pulling out a comfortable lead.

Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Jason Anderson worked his way up from a seventh place start to earn second place, which put him in the event’s points lead by one over Tomac. 450SX race three was a barn burner. Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Zach Osborne grabbed the holeshot and led for seven laps with Anderson, Roczen, and Tomac all so close the four riders were all in the whoop section at the same time for a couple laps.

Tomac clawed his way to the front on lap 13 and pulled a small lead. Anderson crashed late, giving second overall to Roczen but still grabbing the third overall position for the night.

The racing in the Eastern Regional 250SX class was just as dramatic, with a great battle in 250SX race one that saw Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s R.J. Hampshire grab his first Supercross win.

But it was the defending champion, GEICO Honda’s Chase Sexton, who took 250SX race two then brought home the overall win with a second-place finish in 250SX race three behind last weekend’s winner, Monster Energy/Star Yamaha Racing’s Shane McElrath.

The win ties Sexton and McElrath in championship points after two rounds.

HANFORD, Calif. — Mitchell Faccinto, Brendan Warmerdam and Robby Sawyer won their respective features at the newly reopened Keller Auto Speedway at the King’s County Fairgrounds on Saturday night.

Faccinto drove his familiar Western Metal Company blue No. 37 to victory in the 30-ap King of Thunder 360 sprint car main. He bested Gio Scelzi and D.J. Netto around the newly configured three-eighths-mile clay oval.

The local native led only two laps in the contest which was totally dominated by new comer Keith Day Jr., who started from the pole in the 22-car field. The young Day, who is only his second season of sprint car racing, held off numerous challenges from Faccinto during the late stages of the race.

It was only with two laps to go, when Day bobbled in the second turn of the notorious Hanford track, giving the lead up to Faccinto and also losing two more positions before he could recover.  It was Faccinto and Day who traded the lead back and forth several times a lap who put on a show on the opening night of the 2020 season. Unfortunately, Day’s miscue proved costly and pretty much gave the win to Faccinto.

In the Van De Pol Western Racesaver event, Warmerdam survived a wild green-white-checkered finish for the 305 sprint cars.

A two-lap shootout was a result of a red flag stoppage for a Kyle Rasmussen flip very late in the 25-lap affair. Rasmussen had just been passed for the third position when the nose of his car dove into the track surface resulting in a headstand and slow rollover.

The resulting restart bunched the field and allowed for several position changes.  Albert Pombo was forced from third, back to the finish eighth.

Polesitter and early leader Rob Soloman was able to finish second despite driving the last half of the race with a mangled small front wing. But it was Grant Champlin who charged from fifth to finish third in the final two laps.

Washington State invader, Colby Thornhill only 13 years old and making his first Hanford visit, would come home in the fourth spot after starting ninth.

The 20-lap IMCA Modified race was won by Robby Sawyer.

This evening races were under the direction of new promoter Peter Murphy. The former sprint car driving legend spent the last several weeks making major improvements to the historic track and his efforts were rewarded with a very large opening-night crowd.

The finish:

Mitchell Faccinto, Gio Scelzi, D.J. Netto, Keith Day Jr., Michael Faccinto, Kaleb Montgomery, Steven Kent, Grant Duinkerken, Mitchel Moles, Jace Vander Weed, Landon Hurst, Tanner Boul, Tim Estenson, Ben Worth, Vaughn Schott, Dominic Scelzi, Jared Faria, Tucker Worth, Craig Stidham, Joey Ancona, Zane Blanchard, Travis Coelho

Australia A 5 for 103 (C Overton 2-24) trail England Lions 428 (Lawrence 125, Sibley 116, Bracey 65, Steketee 4-75) by 325 runs

The touring England Lions put on another strong showing at the MCG, extending their first innings to 428 through James Bracey's half-century and then making good use of the pink ball under lights to remove a Test-strength Australia A top five cheaply.

The Lions new-ball pair of Ollie Robinson and Craig Overton picked up two wickets apiece, with Usman Khawaja the only player to offering sustained resistance with 30 off 79 balls at opener. His partner, Marcus Harris, failed to push his case for a Test recall by edging to fourth slip for just 6, while Kurtis Patterson, who made a hundred in his second Test last year, also fell in the cordon for 11.

"We're really pleased with our day's work, pushing on past 400 runs and making great inroads with the ball to put us in a strong position going into the second half of the match," Lions captain, Keaton Jennings, said.

"James Bracey batted really well with the lower order to help us to a good first innings total and to pass 400 for the second time in two matches. Then our seamers were excellent against a high-quality and experienced Australian top-five. The match is set up for a good final couple of days and we'll be looking to continue our strong start with early wickets tomorrow."

Robinson made the breakthrough for the Lions, and Overton then trapped Nic Maddinson lbw in the next over. Brydon Carse, on at first change, chipped out Patterson, and there was a brace of catches for Bracey behind the stumps as Khawaja and Moises Henriques departed before stumps.

Having seen the Lions move to a commanding 3 for 274 on the back of Dom Sibley and Dan Lawrence hundreds, Australia A had begun the second day well. Mark Steketee struck in his first over, having Lawrence caught behind without addition to the score, and Sibley only managed another eight runs before falling in similar fashion.

Tom Abell became Steketee's third wicket, leaving the Lions on 6 for 305, but a solid stand of 64 between Bracey and Dom Bess steadied the innings, before the last-wicket pair of Carse and Robinson took the score past 400.

Afif Hossain and Mohammad Naim have been included in the Bangladesh ODI side for the first time as they take on Zimbabwe in a three-match series next week.

Afif and Naim are two of several changes that Bangladesh are looking into as they prepare to play 50-over cricket for the first time since July last year. Mashrafe Mortaza, who according to the BCB chief Nazmul Hassan will be playing his last series as captain, is back and so are Najmul Hossain Shanto, Liton Das, Al-Amin Hossain, Mohammad Saifuddin and Shafiul Islam.

This squad has been picked only for the first two matches of the series. It had no place for Mosaddek Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Anamul Haque, Farhad Reza and Taskin Ahmed, while Soumya Sarkar is said to be taking a break for personal reasons.

Mosaddek is injured but the others haven't been in Bangladesh's plans for some time now. Taskin is in the Test squad currently playing against Zimbabwe, but he didn't make the XI. Rubel is an interesting exclusion though. He is usually considered a shoe-in for one-day games.

"It is great to have Mortaza back as his experience and leadership is vital to our one day cricket," chief selector Minhajul Abedin said. "Mohammad Saifuddin is also key to the team's balance. We had to make certain adjustments in the last ODI series we had played in as a number of cricketers were unavailable due to various reasons but I am happy that we now have a fit pool of players to select from. Shanto's current form in international and domestic cricket gets him into the team while Naim and Afif are also part of our long term plan for the shorter version."

Bangladesh will play the ODI series against Zimbabwe in Sylhet on March 1, 3 and 6.

At the end of 2016, R Ashwin had the batting record of a genuine allrounder: 1816 runs in 44 Tests at an average of 34.92, with four hundreds and ten fifties.

Since then, however, his batting returns have plummeted. In the 27 Tests he's played since the start of 2017, he averages 17.78, and he's only scored one half-century in that time.

Ashwin's decline as a Test-match batting force has coincided with the rise of Ravindra Jadeja, who averages nearly 50 in that timespan. While Ashwin has largely remained India's No. 1 Test spinner, he has occasionally lost out to Jadeja when they've played just one spinner overseas, and their contrasting batting form has been a factor when this has happened.

Ashwin has shown a tendency to tinker frequently with his set-up at the crease, and it's hard to say if it's a cause or a consequence of his declining run output. He admits, though, that his mindset at the crease has grown more circumspect, and that he wants to get back to batting more instinctively.

"In the past, the only secret to how I have got runs or how I was successful was by looking to be positive and that's exactly how I played," Ashwin said in his press conference after day three of the Wellington Test against New Zealand. "I personally feel I have been a little too watchful and a little too worried about getting out in the recent past.

"That's something I have tried getting over even in the games that I have played at home. Hopefully I will try and put it to rest. Just see [the ball] and hit it. Far too much going in the head won't work."

Ashwin, preferred to Jadeja in this game, picked up three wickets in New Zealand's first innings. He got the ball to drift during his spells from both ends, but it wasn't easy to say if he did this with the help of the strong wind blowing across the Basin Reserve or despite it.

"Look, I am not the lightest but the wind was actually pushing me across, so it must be of significance," Ashwin said. "Both days, from both ends, I have had to bowl from wherever the breeze has come against me. That has been pretty much my role in the game, but I thought personally the breeze was something that was way more than what a spinner would like, and I couldn't really take benefit out of it.

"So I had to adjust and try see what I can best get out of what was available. I actually quite enjoyed the way I bowled in this [innings] and I personally thought the fourth innings might fetch a little bit more from the surface but we will have to wait and see how it goes."

While Ashwin made some of New Zealand's top-order batsmen look uncomfortable - Tom Blundell and Henry Nicholls, in particular - Kane Williamson didn't allow him to settle, jumping onto the back foot at every opportunity and punching him against the turn, through the covers. Eventually, he placed a fielder in an unusual position for this shot, a deepish extra-cover two-thirds of the way to the boundary. He used that fielder against Colin de Grandhomme as well.

"I played India A games here [in New Zealand] and generally these guys, I think in terms of trying to use natural conditions and resources in their favour, this team is probably the best, because they are faced with it more often than not - heavy breeze and whatnot," Ashwin said. "And they tend to hit [with] the breeze rather than actually doing anything else.

"If you look at Kane Williamson's wagon wheel, I would have put [the deepish extra-cover fielder] right from the first ball if it was up to me, because Kane Williamson against an offspinner has always looked to hit through covers. He has not cut the ball and he doesn't step out much either. Colin de Grandhomme, likewise, [played that shot against Australia's] Nathan Lyon even from the rough."

"They [New Zealand] really understand these conditions very well and use it to their advantage. They try and hit it with the breeze, they know what works and what doesn't." R Ashwin

When New Zealand lost their seventh wicket, they were only 60 runs ahead of India's first-innings total, but their last three wickets widened the gulf significantly, adding 123 runs to the home team's total. India have come up against other frustrating lower-order stands as well, in the recent past, particularly overseas, with Sam Curran playing a hugely influential role in England's series victory against them in 2018.

"I think sometimes we pay too much importance to saying we need to bowl out teams far quicker, and I am not saying we shouldn't," Ashwin said. "But batsmen don't get out [easily] anymore. Lower-order batters do put a price on their wickets. If you were on two wickets [with only the lower order left] say 20-25 years ago, you would probably end up with a five-for.

"[Kyle] Jamieson has got a couple of first-class hundreds if I am not wrong (he has none, but scored a century against a touring English side in a warm-up match in 2018) and [Ajaz] Patel, he can bat as well. [Trent] Boult batted really well. You've got to give credit where it is due. Like I said, they really understand these conditions very well and use it to their advantage. They try and hit it with the breeze, they know what works and what doesn't. That's something we should quickly learn from them and try and compete with them."

At stumps on day three, India were four down, needing a further 39 runs to make New Zealand bat again. The odds are stacked against India, but they have a reasonably set pair of batsmen at the crease in Ajinkya Rahane and Hanuma Vihari, with some batting ability to follow in Rishabh Pant and Ashwin.

"I think we are not yet in a stage of the game where, from our perspective in the dressing room, we can look at it very far," Ashwin said. "We will have to take it per session, per hour, or however [large] a target we can set, the better it is for us.

"It's about getting away the morning session tomorrow. Since there's so much time in the game, it's very difficult to say what might happen, what we might foresee. It's important to stay in the moment and continue the way [Rahane and Vihari] are batting. They are set and they know what the wicket is like, so we will look to cash in tomorrow morning once again."

Fears over the spread of coronavirus have led to the postponement of Scotland Women's Six Nations match with Italy along with other sporting events.

Three Serie A football matches were called off by the Italian government because of an increased number of cases in the Veneto and Lombardy regions.

Scotland were due to play Italy at 17:10 GMT in Legnano on Sunday.

Scottish Rugby has put plans in place for all staff and players to travel back to Scotland immediately.

The suspension of "all sporting events" in the area was announced by Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte at a news conference on Saturday.

Scottish Rugby pointed out that the government had made the move to contain the virus in the south east of the region.

"The match was scheduled to go ahead in the north west of the area, so while the risk is minimal, precautionary measures have been taken," it stated.

"Scottish Rugby is fully supportive of any decision that has been made in the interest of the health and safety of players, staff and supporters."

Six Nations and the two national rugby associations are in discussions about rescheduling the fixture.

Karachi Kings captain Imad Wasim won the toss and went against type for the early part of the PSL, choosing to bat first at the National Stadium in Karachi. The winner of today's match will break the five-team gridlock to move two points clear of the rest of the field onto the top of the PSL points table.

Alex Hales comes into the XI to make his debut for Karachi in place of Mohammad Rizwan. Naseem Shah and Anwar Ali enter for Quetta Gladiators in place of Ahsan Ali and Fawad Ahmed.

Karachi Kings XI: Chadwick Walton (wk), Babar Azam, Sharjeel Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Cameron Delport, Alex Hales, Imad Wasim (capt), Umaid Asif, Mohammad Amir, Chris Jordan, Arshad Iqbal.

Quetta Gladiators XI: Jason Roy, Ahmed Shehzad, Shane Watson, Anwar Ali, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk, capt), Azam Khan, Naseem Shah, Tymal Mills, Mohammad Hasnain, Sohail Khan, Mohammad Nawaz.

LAS VEGAS -- Man's most primitive endeavor came wrapped in the lavish and the absurd on Saturday night in Vegas. It was the biggest heavyweight fight in decades -- a night the boxing folks hope is a prelude and not a throwback -- and Tyson Fury owned every last inch of it.

Among the many slogans favored by his fans is this one: a king never makes a silent arrival. This fight, from Wednesday's rowdy press conference to Friday's clownish weigh-in to an impromptu post-fight concert, was big and loud and raucous.

The Gypsy King came into the ring on a motorized sedan chair, sitting on a throne, wearing a red robe and a gold crown, singing Patsy Cline's "Crazy." Fury throttled Deontay Wilder in every round before winning by TKO when Wilder's corner threw in the towel in the seventh round. After the fight, he praised Wilder's courage, said "The king has returned to the top of his throne," and took the microphone to sing "American Pie." He's a pretty damned good singer, and the sellout crowd -- at least half of the 15,816 seemed to have traveled from the United Kingdom to ransack Vegas -- joined in the chorus. It was quite a moment, in a night and a weekend with many of them.

The big fights attract the fancy and important better than any event in sports, and this -- a rematch between two undefeated giants who fought to a draw in December 2018 -- was the biggest fight since Floyd Mayweather beat Manny Pacquiao in May 2015. For a sliver of the population, attending a fight like this one is not a luxury; it's a necessity. To uphold social standing, you simply have to be there. Celebrities, athletes, a guy with a Mike Tyson tattoo who was not Mike Tyson, and the actual Mike Tyson, who signed autographs (minimum fee: $200) Saturday at a meet-and-greet inside a memorabilia shop in the MGM. The line was long at noon and longer at 5 p.m. (When Tyson finished his shift, the life-sized sign announcing his appearance was immediately swapped out for a new one: Pete Rose, tomorrow, noon to 5 p.m.) Gordon Ramsay, running down an escalator at a surprisingly brisk clip to avoid the rest of humanity. Patrick Mahomes. Jerry West, looking regal. Raiders coach Jon Gruden and owner Mark Davis sitting together ringside like brothers in their new city.

The fans from the UK, though, carried the night, and the buildup to it. The ushers tried to run Friday's weigh-in like a wedding and steer fans to their respective sides. The idea is to avoid the fights that come with the cross-pollination, but the Fury dudes were more than willing to mix it up. Not to generalize, but his fanbase includes a lot of thick guys with shaved heads and prodigious appetites for beer. That combination can prove combustible, though it feels like there'd be more fights if fighting didn't require putting down the beer.

And they were back strong before Saturday's fight, singing loudly and intelligibly by 5:30, taking wild swings at whatever song happened to be playing over the speakers in a country-music bar between the casino and the arena. There was, somewhat unsettlingly, a squadron of preteen British boys in sportscoats and slacks, looking like they escaped from a harsh boarding school but had time to stop at a barber shop and all get the same haircut on their way out.

Their incessant "There's one Tyson Fury" song made its way into the arena after the first round of the last undercard fight. If you're not familiar, the song goes like this: "There's one Tyson Fury." That's it, that's the whole thing, so it tends to be delivered in quick bursts, like burps. They waited for "Sweet Caroline" -- the more advanced of the two Fury-based songs, and far cooler -- until it was blasted through the arena a few minutes before the national anthems.

Heavyweight fights are usually flares of violence trapped inside a lot of figuring things out. This one was not that way. Unlike the first fight, when Fury out-boxed Wilder but could only earn a draw after being knocked down twice, Fury came out aggressive and stayed that way. Wilder was never able to accurately unleash his right hand, his best -- and maybe only -- reliable weapon. That right hand is both real and existential, living in the minds of both fighters. Wilder holds it down by his hip, a little away from his body, like a warning, but on this night he was reduced to using it to flail and hope.

Wilder was disappointed in his corner's decision to stop the fight, as was his coach Jay Deas, who both referenced the idea of "going out on your sword." In truth, case could have been made for referee Kenny Bayless to stop it far sooner. Wilder hit the canvas like a sack of flour twice, and his balance was clearly affected by a shot to his left ear that had him bleeding and listing to his left over the last few rounds. When the bell rang to end the third round, he stood in the middle of the ring, frozen in his stance, as if he never heard it. To survive into the seventh, he grabbed the ropes, hugged onto Fury and generally did whatever he could to remain on his feet. That he managed to do it for as long as he did was a stout achievement.

"I'm my own worst critic," Fury said in the post-fight press conference. "But even I will say that was a fantastic performance."

Fury looks like a child's version of an old man, and yet he does everything that seems impossible for a body that's 6-foot-9 and 273 pounds. At one point he chased Wilder across the ring -- there was actually a lot of that -- and took a backhanded swing that somehow connected. He's a giant who fights like a point guard.

He also runs afoul of the first rule of boxing: show no weakness. He's open about his battles with depression and substance abuse. He's vulnerable and raw, which can be misconstrued as unfocused and unserious. He laughed about Wilder's suggestion that he can't punch, calling himself, "Old pillow fist, can't crack an egg." He comes by his nickname organically. The Gypsy King is an Irish Traveler, a group known in Ireland as "The Walking People," and he lyrically -- if not grammatically correctly -- says he's fighting for "all the people who don't think there's no hope no more."

They all seemed to show up Saturday night in Vegas: the hopeful and the previously hopeless. They traveled a long way to sing and chant and drink, and the new WBC and lineal heavyweight champion made it worth their while. And when it was over, they took it out into the streets and back into the bars, singing and chanting, their joy too big to remain inside. It's a safe bet Fury wasn't far behind.

There is, after all, only one Tyson Fury.

Bangladesh 25 for 1 (Tamim 10*, Nyauchi 1-11) trail Zimbabwe 265 all out (Ervine 107, Nayeem 4-70, Abu Jayed 4-71) by 240 runs

A career-best innings haul of 4 for 71 from seamer Abu Jayed helped Bangladesh keep Zimbabwe to 265 on the second morning in Mirpur. On a hazy winter's morning, with a relatively new ball in his hands, Jayed found plenty of swing to lead Bangladesh's effort with the ball, Taijul Islam backing him up with two wickets to help wrap things up. Bangladesh, in response, lost Saif Hassan early, but Tamim Iqbal settled in to guide them to lunch at 25 for 1 with no further drama.

Though never bowling at much more than a medium pace, Jayed maintained an impeccable seam position that brought with it consistent shape through the air. Having beaten Donald Tiripano's outside edge a handful of times, and watched as an edged drive flew through the vacant third slip first thing this morning, he kept the ball up to the bat, searching for swing. The tactic quickly bore dividends, Tiripano feathering another flat-footed drive and Ainsley Ndlovu playing around a full one that rapped him on the front pad in front of the stumps in consecutive Jayed overs.

Chakabva continued to show trust in the tail, taking whatever singles were on offer, but that quickly exposed Zimbabwe to danger: a single off the first ball of an over gave Bangladesh almost a full over at Ndlovu, though Abu Jayed needed only three balls to get rid of him. Another single, early in a Taijul over, turned the strike over to Charlton Tshuma, on his Test debut. Crowded by fielders all around him, Tshuma poked nervously outside the line of an arm ball to give Taijul his first wicket of the innings. At 245 for 9, Zimbabwe were tottering.

With only No. 11 Nyauchi for company, Chakabva started to farm the strike, keeping the scoreboard ticking over with the odd big shot, sweeping Taijul Islam and pulling Abu Jayed to the boundary. But it was just such a shot that brought the innings to an end, Chakabva bending low into a slog sweep at Taijul, only to top edge the attempt out to deep midwicket, where Nayeem Hasan held a simple catch.

While most of Zimbabwe's top order had taken time to open their accounts yesterday, Bangladesh's openers were a little more proactive. A flick and a sumptuous straight drive brought two boundaries for Saif Hassan in Nyauchi's opening over, while Tamim threw his hands into a pair of rasping drives at Tiripano soon afterwards as the runs flowed.

Nyauchi struck back for Zimbabwe, getting a length ball to hold its line and kiss the outside edge of Saif's bat to complete a wicket maiden in his second over, and that forced the batsmen back into their shells somewhat. Tamim shelved the big shots, while Najmul Hossain Shanto also opted for patience with an eye on the impending lunch interval.