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Last year’s third-place Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals finisher, Justin Grant, will take to the track Friday night with hopes of locking into Saturday’s A-Main. As he was preparing for tonight’s action, he chatted Tony Bokhoven!

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TULSA, Okla. – For the first time in his career, Brad Sweet has been voted the Driver of the Year by the North American 410 Sprint Car Poll voting panel of media members, promoters, sanctioning officials and manufacturers.

The announcement was made Friday during the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals in Tulsa, Okla.

The reigning World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series champion earned 20 of the 23 first-place ballots cast in the year-end poll.  David Gravel, Aaron Reutzel and Donny Schatz all received one first-place ballot.

Those drivers ranked second through fifth, respectively, are fourteen-time Driver of the Year Award recipient Donny Schatz of North Dakota, Knoxville Nationals champion Gravel, All Star champion and Tuscarora 50 winner Reutzel, and Logan Schuchart.  Rounding out the top-10 for the season, respectively, are Daryn Pittman, Danny Dietrich, Brian Brown, Sheldon Haudenschild and Lance Dewease.

For the third time, Kasey Kahne Racing will receive the Team of the Year Award.  It will be the first for the No. 49 team, who among their wins, claimed Eldora’s King’s Royal in July.

Californians Michael “Buddy” Kofoid and Gio Scelzi will share the Wild Card Award for their exciting 410 sprint car performances.  California’s Mason Daniel is the Rookie of the Year Award recipient, following up his winning of the same award in the 360 class in 2018.

Steve O’Neal of Port Royal Speedway earned Promoter of the Year” honors for the fourth time in a row.  Dan Musselman of Maxim Racing will receive Builder/Manufacturer of the Year honors for the ‘410’ poll.  This is the first such award for Musselman (Chuck Merrill was honored nine times with Maxim). The Media Member of the Year award will go to SPEED SPORT’s Mike Kerchner for the first time.

Bill Simpson of Simpson Performance Products has been posthumously honored with the Thomas J. Schmeh Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Sport. Simpson was a pioneer in the racing safety business with his company, Simpson Performance Products. He started Impact! Racing in 2002. Simpson started with safety chutes for drag racers, and would also develop gloves, helmets, restraints, shoes and the first fire suits used in racing.

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Canada’s Brooke Henderson parlayed four birdies and a late eagle into Friday’s hottest round and a share of the lead at the LPGA’s season-opening Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions.

Henderson had a 5-under 66 to join Inbee Park of South Korea at 9-under 133 heading to the weekend at Four Seasons Golf and Sports Club Orlando.

Henderson, No. 3 in the Rolex Rankings and the highest-ranked player among the 26 LPGA players in the field, had a clean scorecard until three-putting from the back collar at the difficult, 192-yard closing hole for her lone bogey.

She wasn’t pleased with the finish, but she also wasn’t going to allow it to sour a solid body of work on a day when the scoring average was nearly 71. Mexico’s Gaby Lopez, whose lone LPGA victory is the 2018 Blue Bay LPGA in China, shot 69 and is alone in third, two shots back.

Park, already a World Golf Hall of Fame member with more victories (19 on the LPGA, seven majors) in the Diamond Resorts field, does not usually compete this early in the season. But with 2020 being an Olympic year, the gold medalist in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 adjusted her winter schedule to play weeks earlier than normal. Park shot a bogey-free 68 Friday, nearly holing her third shot at the par-5 17th to set up her third and final birdie.

Only 22, Henderson is seeking her 10th LPGA victory, and has earned multiple victories in each of her four seasons on tour. Winning this week would be a nice jump on extending her streak. Friday’s wind proved more demanding than a day earlier, with gusts topping 20 mph as Henderson reached the middle of her round.

“Once it started to pick up, I guess around the seventh hole, Britt (Henderson, her younger sister and caddie) and I did a really good job of just counting in all the factors and trying to hit smart shots and give ourselves some birdie looks,” Henderson said.

Her highlight was making an eagle-3 at the 525-yard 17th hole. After a big drive, Henderson had 200 yards to the front of the green, 230 yards to the flagstick. She was between a 3-wood and 7-wood, decided on 3-wood because of strong crosswinds, and ripped an approach shot that finished 4 inches from the hole.

Henderson owned one of two eagles recorded in the round. The other was by France’s Celine Boutier, who made the LPGA’s first ace of 2020 when she holed a 4-iron at the 179-yard fifth hole. It was her second lifetime hole-in-one, her first coming eight years ago, when she was an amateur.

When Boutier birdied her next hole, she held a share of the lead with first-round leader Danielle Kang at 9 under. Boutier (69) is tied for fourth, two shots behind the leaders.

Kang, who had birdied six of her first 10 holes and shot 5-under 29 on her front nine a day earlier, opened her day with seven consecutive pars before making back-to-back birdies at the eighth and ninth holes. Kang, however, would stumble with four bogeys on her closing nine and shot 73. She trails the leaders by three shots.

In the 49-player celebrity and entertainment division, which competes for a purse of $500,000 (the LPGA’s purse is $1.2 million), Major League Baseball Hall of Famer and Fox analyst John Smoltz, the event's defending champion, surged into a three-way tie for the leader. He was joined by two-time Diamond Resorts champion Mardy Fish (tennis) and U.S. military veteran Chad Pfeifer, who plays with a prosthetic left leg.

All three players have 74 points using a Modified Stableford scoring system. Blair O’Neal, a former Symetra Tour player who now works in television, is playing six-months pregnant and is tied for sixth.

Rickie Fowler said on Thursday that he has a good chance to win a trophy in the next three weeks as he goes from PGA West to Torrey Pines to TPC Scottsdale.

He might be traveling to San Diego and Phoenix with a trophy already in hand.

Following rounds of 65-64, Fowler is atop the leaderboard, tied for the American Express lead with Scottie Scheffler.

Fowler carded six birdies and an eagle Friday, playing the back nine of PGA West’s Nicklaus Tournament Course in 6-under 30. Through 36 holes on the Nicklaus Course and at La Quinta County Club, he has made just a single bogey. His 15-under, two-day total is a new personal best in relation to par.

“Well, as you guys have seen over the years, these courses are scorable,” he said. “But I feel like it's a fine line between playing well out here and kind of scraping by. If you drive it well and hit good approach shots, you can make a lot of birdies, but if you're a little off, you're kind of scrambling for par. So I feel like I've done a good job of just kind of picking my way around the two golf courses so far.”

The real challenges lie ahead, in the form of the Stadium Course and in converting a 36-hole lead.

Fowler is just 1-for-9 in his PGA Tour career when holding the lead or co-lead after two rounds. That lone victory came last year at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, where he survived two crooked numbers in the final round to finally win that event after a series of close calls. Close calls have been common from this position for Fowler, who’s had to settle for four runner-up finishes when taking a lead into the weekend.

For all the success he’s had and for as big of profile as he has in the game, the 31-year-old still has just five PGA Tour wins to his credit. Compare that number, for example, to that of Justin Thomas (12) or Jordan Spieth (11) or even Patrick Reed (7), three of his Fowler’s peers who have all spent less time on Tour.

To get off the fast start he’s looking for in 2020 and to pick up Tour title No. 6, Fowler will have carry his momentum to the most demanding of the three courses in the American Express rotation, Pete Dye’s (other) Stadium Course. He will play the third round there before the remainder of the field heads there Sunday following the 54-hole cut.

“We still have the Stadium to play tomorrow,” he said. “[We’re] two-thirds of the way there for what you would call the cut, or playing the three courses, and it will be Stadium on Sunday. …

“So I'm happy with the way we're hitting it and definitely heading in the right direction. Nice way to get off to a start for two days here and through two of the three courses and looking forward to getting out on Stadium tomorrow.”

We’ll get the bad part out of the way early – and quickly.

On Friday, Scottie Scheffler made double bogey on the 18th hole of the Nicklaus Tournament Course to close out his opening nine.

“Just the one miss happened on 18,” he said after his round, “but other than that, played pretty solid.”

Yeah – other than that he played the course in 10 under par.

Following rounds of 65-64, Scheffler shares the lead with Rickie Fowler through two days at the American Express.

He birdied six of his first seven holes Friday before his mishap at 18, which is his only blemish through two days. He added an eagle and two more birdies on the back nine. This three on his final hole probably should have been a two.

“It looked pretty good from the fairway,” he said. “It was kind of hard to see with the sunlight, but it was a pretty good shot.”

The former Texas Longhorn is fully exempt on Tour this season after finishing No. 1 last year on the Korn Ferry points list. He won twice on that circuit in 2019, at the Evans Scholars Invitational and the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship, collecting 10 top-10s in 20 starts.

And since arriving on the PGA Tour, he’s kept on rolling. This is Scheffler’s third 36-hole lead this season. The previous two he parlayed into a T-7 at the Greenbrier and a T-3 in Bermuda. He separately finished fifth at the RSM and has yet to miss a cut in seven previous starts.

Headed to the PGA West Stadium Course this week, he’ll take another stab at picking up his first PGA Tour victory.

“I just think you got to keep putting yourself in contention, and I’ve got a good chance this week,” he said. “Just keep doing that. Just keep playing and putting yourself in a good spot.”

Tony Finau isn’t yet showing signs of travel fatigue.

In fact, if he’s going to play like this, he might want to considering flying halfway around the world more often.

Fresh off a fifth-place finish last week in Hong Kong, Finau, at 13 under, will enter the weekend just two off the pace at the American Express. His second-round 62 on Friday tied the PGA West Nicklaus Tournament Course record, as he birdied seven of his last nine holes for an inward 29.

“These are the type of rounds you have to have to be in contention here, it seems like,” he said. “Everybody's going low, everybody's making birdies, and I'm happy that I was able to do that today and put myself in the mix.”

Finau is in the middle of a four-week travel stretch that will see him in consecutive weeks go from Hong Kong to Palm Springs to San Diego to Saudi Arabia.

He’s already sporting a little tape on his neck – “Just a little kink in my neck just from sleeping a couple nights ago,” he explained – but it’s having no impact on his golf swing.

Finau’s 10-under 62 was not only the course record but also his lowest score to par in his PGA Tour career.

A five-time runner-up on Tour still hunting a follow-up to his lone win back in 2016, he’ll now head for two rounds this weekend on Pete Dye’s Stadium Course.

“Yeah, I'm very familiar with this golf course, Nicklaus and the Stadium,” he said. “I played qualifying school here in 2013, so I've got, I've always got good vibes coming back here, great memories of a cool time for me. So I think any time that's the case and you're familiar with the golf course, you can shoot some good rounds and I was able to do that today.”

For the second straight day, a Colombian tops the leaderboard at the Latin America Amateur Championship.

At 3 under, Jose Vega leads by three over Chile’s Luke Roessler through two rounds at a windy Mayakoba in Mexico.

Vega, the only player under par, carded the round of the week with a 6-under 65, four shots lower than anyone else in the field Friday. He made two birdies on each side and holed out for eagle at the par-4 third.

Three back at even par for the week, Roessler (72) is the younger brother of 2017 Latin Am champ Toto Gana, who himself made the 36-hole cut on the number at 13 over par.

Roessler is followed by Argentina’s Abel Gallegos and fellow Chilean Gabriel Morgan Birke, the highest-ranked player in the field at plus-1.

Overnight leader Ivan Camilo Ramiez dropped to 2 over following a second-round 76.

The winner this week in Mexico earns invitations to both the Masters and The Open Championship.

Christian Pulisic's adductor injury appears likely to keep him out of Chelsea's lineup until mid-February.

The 21-year-old American attacker has not played since a 1-1 draw at Brighton on New Year's Day.

Chelsea play at Leicester City on Feb. 1 and their next league game after that is not until Feb. 17 when they host Manchester United.

Manager Frank Lampard said Friday the break ''might fall at a nice time and give us a bit more to play with.'' He added: ''Hopefully he will be back for the other end of that break. It's in line with how we expected him to be.''

Pulisic has six goals and six assists in all competitions this season, including a hat trick in a league match at Burnley on Oct. 26.

Sometimes, it takes something bold to enact change. UEFA's annual benchmarking report, released this week, underscores what we already know. There's good news (financial stability) and not-so-good news: extreme polarization. And it's the latter that could use a fix.

Over the past decade, debt has fallen, revenue has increased tremendously and the game of soccer, as a whole, is profitable. I feel like I've written this a gazillion times, but when Financial Fair Play was introduced, European club football made aggregate losses of €1.67 billion ($1.86 billion). In the past two years, the European game as a whole has been profitable: It made €579m ($646m) in 2017 and €140m ($156m) in 2018. And no, the decline in profits isn't a concern because we're still in the black. You make more than you expected and so you reinvest that extra cash in your company, which, in football, generally means increasing wages.

Forget the snide remarks: FFP achieved what it set out to do. It made football a business you could invest in, that could stand on its own two legs and where clubs didn't continually go bust or default on debts. The value of assets held by clubs has grown nearly 60% since FFP; if you own or run a football club, generally speaking life is good or, at least, sustainable. And that's important.

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On the flip side, we've seen a vast increase in polarization, the gap between rich and poor or, more accurately, the 1-percenters and everybody else. It exists both among clubs -- the top 30 clubs make nearly as much as the rest of the continent combined and the top 1% of clubs earn 20% of the club game's total revenue -- and among leagues, where the Big Five (England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France) account for 75% of the total.

The upshot of this is extreme polarization. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the more revenue you get, the more you can spend on wages and the better the players you can attract. And that, in turn, translates into success on the pitch. I wrote about this and why it's not a good thing two years ago. If anything, the situation has gotten worse.

The same six clubs have finished in the top six spots in each of the past three years in England. In Spain, the last time someone other than Real Madrid, Barcelona or Atletico finished in the top three was back in 2012. Some leagues have more turnover among the top spots, but not at the very top: In Germany, Bayern have won seven in a row, Juventus have won eight in a row in Italy and Paris Saint-Germain six of the past seven in France. Sure, you can mention Leicester City's Premier League exploits in 2016 or Ajax reaching the Champions League semifinal all you like, but the evidence is overwhelming. And unless something is done, in the long term we're only headed one way: the formation of a European Super League.

FFP often gets blamed for the extreme inequalities and because it limits outside investment from owners, generally forcing clubs to live within their means, it certainly hasn't helped. But it's a relatively minor, contributing factor. The real difference is the rise in the value of broadcasting revenue and commercial income, both of which have flowed mainly to the very top as the game became more globalized.

So what can you do to create a more level playing field?

Fans of U.S. sports will cite salary caps but simply put, they're unworkable (and probably) illegal in football. Luxury taxes might be more viable but again, you're relying on a deep-pocketed owners happy to make losses over time -- those are in short supply. What's more, you risk reintroducing some of the instability and pitfalls of the pre-FFP era.

A more equal revenue distribution is an option and would help; broadly speaking, football has already moved in that direction when it comes to leaguewide income, like broadcasting deals. However, broadcast income is a shrinking proportion of most clubs' revenues. The Premier League has had one of the most equitable TV deals for years and it has served English clubs well, but the gap between haves and have-nots has turned into an abyss. Unless you're willing to extend it to all revenues, including box-office and commercial, you're not going to have much of an impact. That would also be unworkable and, frankly, unfair: Why should Manchester United, for example, who've built their brand over decades, share revenue from a shirt deal with, say, newly promoted Sheffield United?

But what if, instead of working on redistributing revenues, we looked at redistributing the means of production, the players?

Right now, most top clubs will have more than 40-50 players under contract. Some will be youngsters, some will be on loan. What if we drastically cut that number? The players cut loose would end up back on the market and trickle down to the next tier of clubs that, presumably, would become more competitive. This knock-on effect would continue down the pyramid.

Many leagues already limit squad sizes and loan players. In the Premier League, you can't register more than 25 players, excluding Under-22s. What if that were cut radically to, say, 19?

Let's look at Liverpool's squad as an example. Take out the seven guys likely to contribute the least: Let's say Pedro Chirivella, Isaac Christie-Davies (he's on loan anyway, but bear with me), Nathaniel Clyne, Andy Lonergan, Dejan Lovren, and Adam Lallana. Those guys would be "cut" at the start of the season to meet the squad limit and if you wanted to bring in another guy in January, as they did with Takumi Minamino, then you'd need to cut somebody else loose. Bye bye, Xherdan Shaqiri. We're not talking about superstars, and the team as a whole wouldn't be much affected. But those seven players would trickle down to other clubs who would become more competitive as a result.

You can play the game for other clubs, too. Real Madrid would need to cut two guys, maybe Alvaro Odriozola and Mariano Diaz. Juventus might say arrivederci to Carlo Pinsoglio, Marko Pjaca, Emre Can and Daniele Rugani.

The other obvious upshot here is that younger players would become more valuable and clubs would be incentivised to develop them and keep them around because they don't count against the cap. Clubs who develop players would be rewarded in the long term.

You would obviously need some sort of mechanism to "cut" the player because if he signs a contract, he's entitled to his rights. So maybe you work out a deal where anybody can get cut in exchange for a full year's wages. You become a free agent and you get a year's salary. It's not a bad deal for a player and because you're a free agent, you suddenly become more affordable for other clubs because there's no transfer fee to pay and they don't have to match the big wages you were previously earning.

Would clubs go for it? Those who enjoy hoarding players would obviously be penalized and their managers would, of course, grumble about lack of options. But the reality is that everybody would be in the same boat and you wouldn't need to keep paying for dead weight on your wage bill. Sure, you'd need to be smarter when it comes to squad-planning, but costs would come down -- not just in terms of wages, but also in terms of transfer fees.

You would obviously need to find the right mechanisms in order to make such a plan work, too. Maybe 19 is too lax as an age; maybe we need to go down to 17 or even 16. Maybe it's not a year's salary to cut players; maybe six months is enough. Maybe exempt the U-21s or U-23s instead of U-22s. You'd also need greater transparency and oversight to prevent clubs (and, these days, superagents) from "parking" players at "friendly" smaller clubs. You'd need a better-regulated loan system for players over the age of 22, like maybe limiting them to one per season. You'd then want to figure out some sort of medical exemption for players who suffer a long-term injury and, of course, you'd need a long transition period before you whittle things down to 19 senior pros.

But it's doable and it's desirable. Because the fact of the matter is that the 20th-most important senior player at Manchester City (John Stones?), or Tottenham (Eric Dier?) or Paris Saint-Germain (Edinson Cavani?) may well move the needle the next tier down. Or, alternatively, we just sit and do nothing, waiting for the Overton window to further shift to the point where we think what is going on today across Europe is entirely normal. But trust me: that will get really, really boring in the long run and leave us screaming out for that closed Super League, which nobody says they want.

For some time during the second ODI in Rajkot, it felt like the Australian Test summer was being played in India in coloured clothing. Steven Smith was facing a short-ball barrage from a fast bowler with a leg gully, Smith and Marnus Labuschagne were looking good together, and David Warner was dismissed by a brilliant catch from Manish Pandey, reminding one of Tim Southee's leap at the MCG last month.

The format was different and the result was not in Australia's favour but the common theme was Smith and Labuschagne extending their scoring streak into India after not getting the chance to bat in the series opener. Australia have seen Smith score nearly 4000 runs in ODIs, and in a 36-run loss on Friday, they saw Labuschagne's effectiveness in 50 overs too.

Labuschagne has had a prolific summer with four centuries and three half-centuries in only five Tests, and averaging over 60 in the domestic 50-over competition that earned him a call-up for the three ODIs in India. He made his debut in the first ODI in Mumbai but only got the chance to bat in the second, impressing with 46 off 47 balls to keep Australia in the chase with Smith until the 31st over.

"I thought Marnus played really well in his first bat in one-day International cricket," Smith said. "He was really busy, we were going at a reasonable rate, we were going at around six an over there for a while, we were just busy and playing good cricket shots."

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Smith and Labuschagne added 96 in 94 balls for the third wicket - the best partnership of the chase - after having scored 378 runs together at an average of 94.50 during the Test summer back home. On Friday, Labuschagne showed deft strokeplay in Indians conditions, especially against the spinners by taking on the deceptive Kuldeep Yadav in a stiff chase. It was a wrong'un from Yadav that eventually got Smith but Labuschagne struck him for impressive boundaries, highlighted by a spectacular inside-out drive that oozed with confidence. Labuschagne scored a brisk 32 runs off the 29 balls he faced against the spinners.

"The way Marnus played in his first game, to have the courage to hit one over mid-off off Kuldeep really early on, that just shows he's got something about him," Smith said. "We know he's in terrific form, he's been batting beautifully, but transferring that into one-day cricket now is another thing.

"I thought he looked exceptionally good tonight. He hit the gaps hard, ran hard between the wickets and played some nice shots. The one over cover off Jadeja was a beautiful shot and he looked right at home. No reason why No. 3, 4, 5 can't stay as is, I think."

Smith and Labuschagne were the only Australia batsmen to hit the nets behind the stadium in Rajkot well before the game began on Friday, with Labuschagne toiling against two wristspinners, one right-handed and the other left-handed.

Much before the two came together in the match, Smith faced a short-ball barrage from Mohammed Shami as soon as he came out to bat, including a body blow and a big lbw shout in the sixth over, with Rohit Sharma waiting at leg gully for a catch.

"It was a pretty clear plan, what they were trying to do," Smith said. "I had to think about that and think how I wanted to play. I got a few away but I probably didn't feel great the first 20 balls I was at the crease, and then I started to find a bit of rhythm and feel a bit better. Hopefully some time in the middle today helped and I can make some more runs in Bangalore."

Smith did get more confident with his strokes later on, by targeting Navdeep Saini for three consecutive fours in the 10th over to race away from 3 off 16 balls. He then chaperoned the stand with Labuschagne and looked set for a century but fell just two short.

"It was nice to score a few runs, I would've liked to have batted a bit longer and been there in the happy hour but unfortunately, tried to cut one that stopped in the wicket a little bit and dragged it on," he said. "It was unfortunate at the time, it was a pretty bad time, we had lost Kez [Alex Carey] in the same over. Unfortunate but these things happen sometimes, learn from it, move on.

"I think the area where we lost it was losing the three wickets in between 30 and 40 overs and not having someone there that could start to launch, had we lost maybe one wicket in that 30 to 40 overs and had seven wickets in hand. We saw some guys doing some damage at the end, Kane [Richardson] got 24 off 11 balls. If we had an in batter and someone that had been out there for a while, perhaps things may have been different but that was probably where we lost it. I thought we timed the run reasonably well but I thought just losing those three wickets in that 30 to 40 overs put a big dent in the run chase."

Australia still came close and with the series decider on Sunday, they will hope the result resembles what they've been seeing back home this summer - a trophy in their hands.