Instagram sensation Muni He is on her way back to the LPGA after breezing through Q-Series.

Teen phenom Yealimi Noh earned a tour card, too.

So did former University of Arizona standout Haley Moore.

Forty-five players earned LPGA status Saturday at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina with every one of them taking home a story about their trek through the two-week, 144-hole marathon that constitutes the final stage of the tour’s qualifying tournament.

“Emotions are pretty surreal right now,” Stanford senior Albane Valenzuela said. “It's a dream come true getting my full LPGA card.”

Valenzuela (T-6) was one of three collegiate amateurs securing LPGA status for next year by finishing among the top 45. She shared the thrill with her college teammate, Andrea Lee, the top women’s amateur in the world, who finished T-30. USC’s Jennifer Chang finished T-9.

Florida’s Sierra Brooks finished T-62 and Florida State’s Frida Kinhult finished T-67. They both won the right to play the Symetra Tour next year.

Chang and Kinhult told Golfweek they intend to forgo the spring collegiate season to turn pro at the start of 2020 and take up the tour status they earned at Q-Series, with Valenzuela, Lee and Brooks saying they remain undecided when they will turn pro. Amateurs making it through have until July 1 to decide to take up tour membership.

Jennifer Kupcho and Maria Fassi were the only amateurs who chose to defer turning pro after earning LPGA privileges in Q-Series last year, with both opting to complete their collegiate careers. The choices worked out well. Kupcho won the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur and Fassi won the NCAA Championship. After turning pro this past summer, each went on to secure their LPGA status for 2020, despite limited starts in the second half of this year.

He won Q-Series, closing out with a 2-under 70 at Pinehurst No. 9, finishing at 21 under overall. That was three shots better than Hee Young Park (70) and six better than Noh (69).

Three-time winner Christina Kim (T-24), Karine Icher (T-26), Emma Talley (T-6) and Kim Kaufman (T-30) were among LPGA veterans improving their status by finishing among the top 45. Those finishes will allow them to compete out of Category 14 of the tour’s priority list next year.

England won the toss and chose to bowl v New Zealand

Saqib Mahmood, the Lancashire fast bowler, has been handed the chance to make his debut in the second T20I against New Zealand in Wellington, as England seek to build on their seven-wicket victory in Friday's opening fixture in Christchurch.

Saqib, whose natural fast-bowling attributes earned him 28 wickets at 18.50 in Lancashire's Royal London 50-over campaign last summer, comes into the starting XI in place of Tom Curran, who has been rested to manage his return from a side strain.

"He's a guy who offers a bit at the front and the end, a cool calm character in high-pressure situations," said Eoin Morgan, England's captain, after Saqib had received his cap from the former Lancashire batsman and Sky Sports commentator David Lloyd.

"It's something you dream of as a child growing up," Saqib told Sky Sports before the start of play. "I've still got to pinch myself that I'm going to be making my debut in an hour or so."

"Morgs told me yesterday, I was having a nap in the afternoon and he sent me a text to tell me the good news."

Morgan won the toss and chose to bowl for the second match running, and hoped for more of the same from his side after an impressive first outing of the tour.

"We expect the Black Caps to come back hard so we are expecting a good competitive game," said Morgan, who confirmed Saqib as the one change to the side, meaning that Dawid Malan will once again open alongside Jonny Bairstow. "It looks a pretty good wicket but it's a different stadium, so a different challenge."

"It was a high-scoring game here last year so hopefully we can get a good score on the board and defend it," said Tim Southee, New Zealand's captain, who confirmed that James Neesham would be coming into his side in place of Scott Kuggeleijn.

With Sam Curran, Pat Brown and Lewis Gregory all making their T20I debuts in the opening game of the five-match series, Saqib's selection means that all but two of the uncapped players in the squad have now been blooded - Somerset's explosive opener Tom Banton and Saqib's Lancashire team-mate, Matt Parkinson, will have to wait their turn.

New Zealand: 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Colin Munro, 3 Tim Seifert (wk), 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Colin de Grandhomme, 6 Daryl Mitchell, 7 Mitchell Santner, 8 James Neesham, 9 Tim Southee (capt), 10 Lockie Ferguson, 11 Ish Sodhi

England: 1 Dawid Malan, 2 Jonny Bairstow, 3 James Vince, 4 Eoin Morgan (capt), 5 Sam Billings (wk), 6 Lewis Gregory, 7 Sam Curran, 8 Chris Jordan, 9 Saqib Mahmood, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Pat Brown

UFC 244 could easily go down as the biggest fight card of 2019 -- even though the headline bout involves one fighter, Nate Diaz, who recently took three years away from the sport, and another, Jorge Masvidal, who has headlined exactly one event in his UFC career.

There is also not a single championship fight to speak of. Except, of course, the one for the made-up BMF belt.

Saturday's pay-per-view event at Madison Square Garden is about as nontraditional as you can get, but it illustrates the power certain athletes are enjoying and perhaps a newfound willingness by the UFC to embrace different ideas and marketing concepts.

Don't forget, less than four months ago, the UFC was at odds with its biggest star, Conor McGregor, over a dispute about his potential placement on a summer card. The UFC wanted to book McGregor in the co-main event, behind a championship fight. The entire negotiation eventually fell through, in part due to a McGregor injury.

If New York isn't the beginning of a new era, it's at least an outlier worth noting. Diaz has willed this main event slot, and even the creation of a BMF belt, into existence with his enormous popularity. And it's very likely this welterweight fight will outshine next month's actual welterweight title fight between Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington, which will headline UFC 245 in Las Vegas.

Longtime fans of the sport have to appreciate the irony in all of this. It took Diaz and Masvidal years to turn into household names and start generating the type of paychecks they long felt they deserved. And now here they are, breaking some of the unspoken, but very real, rules the UFC has traditionally lived by.

By the numbers

7: Consecutive fights in which Diaz (+120 as of Friday afternoon) has been the betting underdog, including this one. Nate won four of the previous six.

5: Seconds it took Masvidal to knock out Ben Askren in July, making it the fastest KO in UFC history.

2,131: Strikes by Diaz during his UFC career, the fourth most in promotion history.

2: Previous main event slots for Diaz in a UFC pay-per-view event. Both were fights against Conor McGregor (UFC 196 in March 2016 and UFC 202 that August).

26: Fights for Masvidal since he last was finished. That happened in a 2009 Bellator bout in which Toby Imada submitted him via the rarely seen inverted triangle. Since then, Jorge has finished eight of his opponents.

Source: ESPN Stats & Information

A look back

Five vs. five

Jorge Masvidal's most recent results
Win: Ben Askren (KO1, July 6, 2019)
Win: Darren Till (KO2, March 16, 2019)
Loss: Stephen Thompson (UD, Nov. 4, 2017)
Loss: Demian Maia (SD, May 13, 2017)
Win: Donald Cerrone (TKO2, Jan. 28, 2017)

Nate Diaz's most recent results
Win: Anthony Pettis (UD, Aug. 17, 2019)
Loss: Conor McGregor (MD, Aug. 20, 2016)
Win: Conor McGregor (SUB2, March 5, 2016)
Win: Michael Johnson (UD, Dec. 19, 2015)
Loss: Rafael Dos Anjos (UD, Dec. 13, 2014)

Fighting words

"Ben Askren had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him. The dude from England [Darren Till] had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him. And the list goes on and on. If you look through my career, I put an end to a lot of guys [who had] never been knocked down, never been stopped. ... That's the only thing I'm trying to do, is take this guy out of consciousness for a while. That's my job. That's entertainment."
-- Masvidal, during a UFC conference call with the media

"I think it's already set in stone: I'm the baddest m-----f-----, and he's the runner-up."
-- Diaz, during the same media call

Dom & Gil's film study

Cruz on Masvidal as a stand-up guy

Melendez on Diaz making advances

Brett Okamoto's prediction

Could be a tale of two fights. Early on, I like Masvidal's boxing and his power. I like his defensive grappling for the most part, especially against a non-dominant wrestler in Diaz. I also like his experience. I don't think a couple of "Stockton slaps" are going to throw Masvidal off his game. And even though they are both former lightweights, I look at Masvidal as the more natural 170-pounder. The longer the fight goes, however, the more it could favor Diaz and his unmatched cardio. Very tough fight to pick, but I'll go Masvidal via TKO, fourth round.

This fight show is brought to you by the No. 500

UFC 244 will mark the 500th live event in the fight promotion's history. How many did you see? Remember your first? Here are some numbers to ponder, compiled by ESPN Stats & Information:

Number of fights: 5,394
Number of fighters: 1,997
Number of male fighters: 1,834
Number of female fighters: 163
Number of champions: 95, including superfight and tournament champions
Number of cities that have hosted: 156 (Las Vegas has hosted the most events: 121)
Number of countries that have hosted: 28 (United States has hosted 334 events)
Number of continents that have hosted: 5 (No Africa or Antarctica)
Number of KO/TKO wins: 1,796
Number of submission wins: 1,121
Largest attendance: 57,127 at UFC 243 (Robert Whittaker vs. Israel Adesanya on Oct. 5 at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia)
Smallest attendance: 594 at UFC Fight Night 5 (Anderson Silva's UFC debut, a 49-second KO of Chris Leben) on June 28, 2006, at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas; the show was headlined by Jonathan Goulet vs. Luke Cummo and also featured future light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans as well as future welterweight title challengers Josh Koscheck and Jon Fitch)
Longest title reign: 2,457 days by Silva, from 2006 to 2013
Shortest title reign: 33 days by Georges St-Pierre in 2017

What else to look for ... beyond the main event

The rest of the card, co-main event down:

PPV (via ESPN+), 10 p.m. ET
Kelvin Gastelum vs. Darren Till | Middleweight
Stephen Thompson vs. Vicente Luque | Welterweight
Derrick Lewis vs. Blagoy Ivanov | Heavyweight
Kevin Lee vs. Gregor Gillespie | Lightweight
ESPN2, 8 p.m.
Corey Anderson vs. Johnny Walker | Light heavyweight
Shane Burgos vs. Makwan Amirkhani | Men's featherweight
Brad Tavares vs. Edmen Shahbazyan | Middleweight
Andrei Arlovski vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik | Heavyweight
ESPN+, 6:30 p.m.
Jennifer Maia vs. Katlyn Chookagian | Women's flyweight
Lyman Good vs. Chance Rencountre | Welterweight
Julio Arce vs. Hakeem Dawodu | Men's featherweight

Dom & Gil break down the co-main event

A couple of things to chew on regarding Kelvin Gastelum vs. Darren Till:

• Gastelum (16-4, 1 NC), coming off April's middleweight interim title bout loss to Israel Adesanya, has never lost back-to-back fights.

• Till (17-2-1), moving up from welterweight, is on a two-fight losing streak after starting his career unbeaten in his first 18.

Strength in numbers at UFC 244

Fighters in the ESPN divisional rankings: 7 -- Derrick Lewis (No. 6 at heavyweight), Corey Anderson (No. 6 light heavyweight), Kelvin Gastelum (No. 3 middleweight), Jorge Masvidal (No. 5 welterweight), Stephen Thompson (No. 10 welterweight), Katlyn Chookagian (No. 3 women's flyweight), Jennifer Maia (No. 7 women's flyweight)

Fighters on ESPN's Top 25 under age 25 list: 1 -- Edmen Shahbazyan, who at age 21 is 10-0 and ranked No. 3 on the list

Former UFC champions: 1 -- Andrei Arlovski, who reigned at heavyweight from 2005 to '06

Title challengers: 7 -- Kelvin Gastelum (middleweight, 2019), Nate Diaz (lightweight, 2012), Darren Till (welterweight, 2018), Stephen Thompson (welterweight, 2016 and 2017), Derrick Lewis (heavyweight, 2018), Kevin Lee (interim lightweight 2017) and Andrei Arlovski (heavyweight, 2005 and 2006). Looking beyond the UFC, Jorge Masvidal challenged for the Strikeforce lightweight belt in 2011, and Lyman Good was welterweight champ in Bellator in 2009.

Top 10 vs. Top 10

A lot of high-level fighters will enter the Octagon on Saturday at the Garden, but only one bout will pit two ranked fighters against each other: the feature fight of the early prelims (6:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+) between Katlyn Chookagian, No. 3 in the women's flyweight Top 10, and seventh-ranked Jennifer Maia.

Chookagian (12-2), who has won three of her past four, is a victory away from tying Gillian Robertson, Joanne Calderwood and champion Valentina Shevchenko for the most wins in women's flyweight history.

Maia (17-5-1), who has had her arm raised in her past two fights, needs a win to tie Molly McCann for the second-longest active win streak in the division; Shevchenko has won four straight.

Minute man

Johnny Walker (17-3) has fought three times in the UFC, and he has won all three bouts by knockout, earning Performance of the Night bonuses each time (and celebrating with the "worm" dance). He KO'd Khalil Rountree in 1 minute, 57 seconds last November, TKO'd Justin Ledet in just 15 seconds in February and TKO'd Misha Cirkunov in 36 seconds in March.

That makes him one of three fighters (along with Vitor Belfort and Shane Carwin) to win each of his first three UFC fights within two minutes, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. No one has done so in his first four, and with a KO at any point in Saturday's first five minutes, Walker would join Carwin as the only modern-era UFC fighter to start a career with four first-round knockouts.

Walker's opponent in the feature prelim (8 p.m. ET, ESPN2), Corey Anderson, also has won three in a row and also has some superlatives on his résumé. Anderson (13-4), No. 6 in the ESPN light heavyweight rankings, has 52 takedowns in his UFC career, the most in 205-pound history. He has the third-highest takedown accuracy in light heavyweight history (50%), and with a win, he would tie Ovince Saint Preux for the most wins in the division since 2014 (10).

The winner of this fight will tie Aleksandar Rakic for the second-longest active win streak among UFC light heavies, with only Dominick Reyes (six) ahead of them.

Odds 'n' ends

• The UFC has visited Madison Square Garden three previous times, and welterweight Stephen Thompson has been on two of those fight cards. He fought to a draw against then-champion Tyron Woodley in 2016 and defeated Jorge Masvidal in 2017. "Wonderboy" (14-4-1), who has lost his past two outings, faces Vicente Luque (17-6-1), winner of six in a row. It's a bout that, in contrast to the BMF main event, should have at stake a GG belt to honor two of the good guys on the UFC roster.

• Derrick Lewis (21-7), who faces 18-2 Blagoy Ivanov, has 10 UFC wins by KO/TKO, tied for the most ever in the heavyweight division.

• Gregor Gillespie (13-0) is seeking to become the third fighter to start 7-0 at lightweight (joining Khabib Nurmagomedov and Benson Henderson). He fights Kevin Lee (17-5), who is returning to 155 pounds after a one-fight detour to welterweight.

• The featherweight prelim between Shane Burgos and Makwan Amirkhani has some superlatives attached to it. Burgos (12-1) has the highest striking rate (7.06 per minute) and the highest takedown defense percentage (94.4%) in UFC featherweight history. Amirkhani (15-3) has the second-best strike absorption rate (1.62 per minute) and ranks fifth among active 145-pounders in takedown accuracy (48.2%).

• Brad Tavares (17-6 overall, 12-5 UFC), who faces rising contender Edmen Shahbazyan (10-0), is one win from tying Thales Leites, Nate Marquardt and Yushin Okami for the third-most UFC middleweight wins, behind Michael Bisping (16) and Anderson Silva (14).

• Andrei Arlovski (28-28, 2 NC), who faces 8-0 Jairzinho Rozenstruik, already has the most wins in UFC heavyweight history (17). If he wins by knockout, he would tie Cain Velasquez, Lewis and Junior Dos Santos for the most KOs. A finish of any kind would be the 12th of his UFC career, which would put him second in division history behind Frank Mir (13).

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs exercised their 2020 club contract option on left-hander Jose Quintana on Saturday and declined their 2020 club contract option on left-hander Derek Holland.

Quintana, who will turn 31 in January, will earn $10.5 million next season. The Colombia native was 13-9 with a 4.68 ERA this season. He also had 152 strikeouts with 46 walks in 171 innings pitched.

Quintana joined the Cubs in 2017 in a trade with the White Sox for then-prospects outfielder Eloy Jimenez and pitcher Dylan Cease along with infielders Matt Rose and Bryant Flete.

The Cubs chose not to pick up their $6.5 million option on left-handed reliever Holland, who was obtained in a midseason trade with the San Francisco Giants for cash.

Holland, 33, pitched 15.2 innings for the Cubs with an ERA of 6.89.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

WASHINGTON -- The song "Baby Shark" blared over loudspeakers and a wave of red washed across this politically blue capital Saturday as Nationals fans rejoiced at a parade marking Washington's first World Series victory since 1924.

"They say good things come to those who wait. 95 years is a pretty long wait," Nationals owner Ted Lerner told the cheering crowd. "But I'll tell you, this is worth the wait."

As buses carrying the players and team officials wended their way along the parade route, pitcher Max Scherzer at one point hoisted the World Series trophy to the cheers of the crowd.

At a rally just blocks from the Capitol, Scherzer said his teammates grinded their hearts out to "stay in the fight." And then, after backup outfielder Gerardo Parra joined the team, he said, they started dancing and having fun. And they started hitting. "Never in this town have you seen a team compete with so much heart and so much fight," he said.

And then the Nats danced.

Team officials, Nationals manager Dave Martinez and several players thanked the fans for their support through the best of times and staying with them even after a dismal 19-31 start to the season. "I created the circle of trust and I trusted these guys," Martinez said.

The camaraderie among the players was a theme heard throughout the rally. "It took all 25 of us, every single day we were pulling for each other," said pitcher Stephen Strasburg, the World Series MVP.

Nationals veteran slugger Howie Kendrick, 36, said that when he came to the Nationals in 2017, "I was thinking about retiring. This city taught me to love baseball again."

Mayor Muriel Bowser declared DC the "District of Champions." The Capitals won the Stanley Cup in 2018, the Mystics won the WNBA championship this year, and now the Nationals.

The city had been thirsting for a World Series championship for nearly a century. The Nationals gave them that by winning in seven games over the Houston Astros; the clincher came on the road Wednesday night.

"I just wish they could have won in DC," said Ronald Saunders of Washington, who came with a Little League team that was marching in the parade.

Nick Hashimoto of Dulles, Virginia, was among those who arrived at 5 a.m. to snag a front-row spot. He brought his own baby shark toy in honor of Parra's walk-up song, which began as a parental tribute to the musical taste of his 2-year-old daughter and ended up as a rallying cry that united fans at Nationals Park and his teammates.

As "Baby Shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo" played on a crisp morning, early risers joined in with the trademark response -- arms extended in a chomping motion. Chants of "Let's go Nats!" resonated from the crowd hours before the rally.

Kimberly Ballou of Silver Spring, Maryland, said sports "is a unifier" that transcends race, gender and class and brings people together.

The crowd along the route was deeply packed. Cheers went up and fans waved red streamers, hand towels and signs that said "Fight Finished" as the players rode by on the open top of double-decker buses. General Manager Mike Rizzo, a cigar in his mouth, jumped off with the World Series trophy to show the fans lining the barricades and slapped high-fives. Manager Martinez also got in on the fun.

"We know what this title means to DC, a true baseball town, from the Senators to the Grays and now the Nationals," Bowser said at the rally. "By finishing the fight you have brought a tremendous amount of joy to our town and inspired a new generation of players and Nationals fans."

Bowser added: "We are deeply proud of you and I think we should do it again next year. What do you think?" Then she started a chant of "Back to back! Back to back!"

Martinez said he liked to hear the mayor pushing for back-to-back championships and said: "I get it. I'm all in. But let me enjoy this one first. I don't know if my heart can take any more of this right now. I need to just step back and enjoy this."

Martinez, who had a heart procedure recently, said that during the Series, as things heated up, players and fans shouted at him to watch out for his heart. "All this right here has cured my heart," he said.

And as the "Baby Shark" theme played once more, team owner Lerner told the team's veterans, "From now on, you can call me 'Grandpa Shark.'"

President Donald Trump has invited the Nationals to the White House on Monday, though relief pitcher Sean Doolittle doesn't plan to attend.

"There's a lot of things, policies that I disagree with, but at the end of the day, it has more to do with the divisive rhetoric and the enabling of conspiracy theories and widening the divide in this country," Doolittle told The Washington Post.

The president attended Game 5 in Washington and was greeted with loud boos when he was shown on the giant video screen during a tribute to veterans. The boos more than overwhelmed a scattering of cheers.

Delores Smith of Washington, a longtime baseball fan who said she had an uncle who pitched in the Negro Leagues, said the World Series was "a big win" for the city. "This is the first time in a long time that I've seen the whole city come together. There's no fussing about Trump."

Even with the threat of stars leaving for free agency -- as outfielder Bryce Harper did after 2018 -- fans hoped the Nationals' success would continue.

They greeted third baseman Anthony Rendon with chants of MVP and cheered for the Nationals to re-sign him when shortstop Trea Turner got on the mic and said "Can we bring back Anthony Rendon?"

"I'll second that notion," said outfielder Adam Eaton.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

FORT WORTH, Texas – Tyler Reddick secured the pole for Saturday night’s O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway with a blistering lap during NASCAR Xfinity Series qualifying.

Reddick took his No. 2 Alsco Chevrolet Camaro to a time of 28.316 seconds (190.705 mph) around the 1.5-mile quad-oval, putting himself best among the eight remaining playoff contenders as he chases a spot in the Championship 4 in two weeks’ time at Homestead-Miami (Fla.) Speedway.

The pole is Reddick’s fourth of the season and the sixth of his Xfinity Series career.

“I honestly didn’t think it was that great of a lap, but we obviously are really fast,” Reddick noted. “This Alsco Chevrolet and all the guys back at RCR, we’re going really hard these last couple of races. They’re giving everything we’ve got and it’s obviously showing up. I was able to make a mistake there and still narrowly get the pole, so it’s a good sign of things to come. Hopefully we can use it and take advantage of that pit selection when we go into Phoenix here next week.

“I’m liking our odds here tonight. We had a really fast car yesterday in practice and I’m very curious to see how this race will change as it unfolds into the nighttime.”

Non-playoff driver Harrison Burton will join Reddick on the front row after a lap of 28.348 seconds (190.490 mph) in the No. 18 DEX Imaging Toyota Supra for Joe Gibbs Racing.

Burton was recently announced as the heir to Christopher Bell’s No. 20 car for next season in the Xfinity Series and hopes to play spoiler to the title contenders’ hopes in Saturday night’s 300-mile race.

Speaking of Bell, he will share the second row of the grid with fellow playoff driver Cole Custer, while Chase Briscoe completed the top five in qualifying despite failing pre-qualifying inspection three times.

Justin Allgaier, Ross Chastain, Jeb Burton, Kansas winner Brandon Jones and Noah Gragson made up the balance of the top 10 on the qualifying sheets.

Michael Annett will start worst among the eight playoff contenders in 19th place.

Justin Haley crashed in turn four coming to the start of his qualifying run, with his No. 11 LeafFilter Gutter Protection Chevrolet stepping out and backing hard into the outside wall.

Haley will go to a backup car and start last in the 38-car field.

The O’Reilly Auto Parts 300 is set to take the green flag at 8:30 p.m. ET, with live coverage on NBCSN, the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90.

QUALIFYING RESULTS: NASCAR Xfinity Series; Texas Motor Speedway; Nov. 2, 2019

1. #2 – Tyler Reddick, 28.316 seconds (190.705 mph)
2. #18 – Harrison Burton, 28.348 seconds (190.490 mph)
3. #20 – Christopher Bell, 28.352 seconds (190.463 mph)
4. #00 – Cole Custer, 28.426 seconds (189.967 mph)
5. #98 – Chase Briscoe, 28.497 seconds (189.494 mph)
6. #7 – Justin Allgaier, 28.515 seconds (189.374 mph)
7. #10 – Ross Chastain, 28.557 seconds (189.095 mph)
8. #8 – Jeb Burton, 28.559 seconds (189.082 mph)
9. #19 – Brandon Jones, 28.563 seconds (189.056 mph)
10. #9 – Noah Gragson, 28.630 seconds (188.613 mph)
11. #23 – John Hunter Nemechek, 28.812 seconds (187.422 mph)
12. #51 – Jeremy Clements, 28.852 seconds (187.162 mph)
13. #86 – Brandon Brown, 28.915 seconds (186.754 mph)
14. #22 – Austin Cindric, 29.015 seconds (186.111 mph)
15. #4 – B.J. McLeod, 29.032 seconds (186.002 mph)
16. #15 – Stefan Parsons, 29.118 seconds (185.452 mph)
17. #07 – Ray Black II, 29.140 seconds (185.312 mph)
18. #74 – Bayley Currey, 29.208 seconds (184.881 mph)
19. #1 – Michael Annett, 29.241 seconds (184.672 mph)
20. #90 – Ronnie Bassett Jr., 29.319 seconds (184.181 mph)
21. #39 – Ryan Sieg, 29.339 seconds (184.055 mph)
22. #08 – Gray Gaulding, 29.354 seconds (183.961 mph)
23. #89 – Landon Cassill, 29.407 seconds (183.630 mph)
24. #36 – Josh Williams, 29.478 seconds (183.187 mph)
25. #38 – J.J. Yeley, 29.499 seconds (183.057 mph)
26. #78 – Matt Mills, 29.605 seconds (182.402 mph)
27. #0 – Garrett Smithley, 29.618 seconds (182.322 mph)
28. #61 – Chad Finchum, 29.618 seconds (182.322 mph)
29. #01 – Stephen Leicht, 29.655 seconds (182.094 mph)
30. #17 – Kyle Weatherman, 29.694 seconds (181.855 mph)
31. #52 – David Starr, 29.932 seconds (180.409 mph)
32. #93 – C.J. McLaughlin, 29.953 seconds (180.282 mph)
33. #66 – Bobby Dale Earnhardt, 30.266 seconds (178.418 mph)
34. #5 – Vinnie Miller, 30.476 seconds (177.189 mph)
35. #13 – Timmy Hill, 30.545 seconds (176.788 mph)
36. #99 – Josh Bilicki, 30.549 seconds (176.765 mph)
37. #35 – Joey Gase, 30.600 seconds (176.471 mph)
38. #11 – Justin Haley, 0.000 seconds (0.000 mph)

FORT WORTH, Texas – Three-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Tony Stewart officially entered the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame on Friday in a ceremony at The Speedway Club at Texas Motor Speedway.

“I thought you were gonna put a ring on it, but since you didn’t I thought I would put a ring on it. You’re a member of the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame,” Texas Motor Speedway President and General Manager Eddie Gossage joked as he handed Stewart, the longtime bachelor, his Hall of Fame ring.

Stewart authored the most diversely successful career in the history of Texas Motor Speedway. His record of two NASCAR Cup Series wins (2006, ’11), two pole awards (’10, ’14), and a pair of Indy car pole awards (1997, ’98) likely won’t be challenged or matched anytime soon, and his 1,176 laps led at Texas Motor Speedway ranks fourth in track history.

“When I was young, all I wanted to do was figure out how to not work a real job,” Stewart said. “Luckily, I found something that I could do that they would actually pay me to do that I liked to do, which is drive a race car.”

Stewart has done much more at Texas Motor Speedway than succeed on the track. He lends his name to the Tony Stewart Presents the Vankor Texas Sprint Car Nationals, where he finished third in Friday night’s A-Main.

“I’m a glutton for punishment,” he joked when asked about being inducted the day after he completed a race. “I was talking to Chip (Ganassi) and he said, ‘I thought you retired.’ I was like, ‘I thought so too,’ but apparently I don’t understand what the definition of retired is.”

He also has spent the past 12 years putting his skills to work at the Smoke Show fantasy driving camp, which has raised nearly $2 million for Speedway Children’s Charities – Texas Chapter.

“I’ve told Eddie ’til the day I die, as long as he wants to do it, I’m in.”

Other award winners Friday were Scott Dixon (Racer of the Year), Chip Ganassi (Bruton Smith Legend Award), Tyler Reddick (Sportsmanship Award), the late Gerry Fraley (Excellence in Journalism), and Extreme Photography Studios (Major General Thomas Sadler Humanitarian Award).

Chaotic scenes marred Saturday's Bundesliga match between Hertha Berlin and Union Berlin that saw Union goalkeeper Rafa Gikiewicz confront his team's supporters who had stormed onto the pitch afterward.

The highly anticipated derby between the two Berlin sides -- their first in Germany's top flight -- was also briefly delayed after the first half when visiting Hertha fans threw flares onto the pitch at Union's Alte Forsterei stadium.

Match referee Deniz Aytekin opted to keep the players in the tunnel for five minutes before returning for the second half.

"It's just sad when something like this happens. I am just relieved that nobody was injured on the pitch. It has nothing to do with football," Aytekin told reporters after the match.

"The players' health stands above all. In accordance with the police, we decided to go through with the match because at the end of the day everyone's safety is the biggest concern."

Union won the match 1-0 when substitute Sebastian Polter converted a penalty in the 90th minute in front of the home end.

Following the final whistle, Hertha fans lit fireworks in the stands and threw them onto the pitch. On the other end, several masked Union supporters broke through and reached the pitch.

But Gikiewicz raised his fists to fight off the Union supporters before they could reach the Hertha supporters.

"The people moved back to the stands. But we will definitely try to identify everyone," Union communication chief Christian Arbeit said. "That's also shows that we are a family. Here, our keeper prevented someone else from doing a stupid thing."

Flares were also sent toward Union's bench, but coach Urs Fischer praised Aytekin's effort to control the match.

"I didn't think it was so bad. [The players] all remained calm," Fischer said after the match. "And because it was so calm, nothing much happened. Thank god. But you shouldn't target those rockets at supporters."

Berlin police told ESPN FC that Hertha fans had also lit fireworks on their way to the stadium, with one minor injury reported.

BIRMINGHAM, England -- When Trent Alexander-Arnold readied to take a corner as the clock ticked down at Villa Park, with seconds left in his 100th appearance for Liverpool, there was apprehension among the home supporters and expectation in the away end.

It was the 95th minute, seven after Andy Robertson cancelled out Trezeguet's first-half opener for Aston Villa and there were just 60 seconds remaining for the league leaders to rescue three points. Liverpool were several levels below their best, without rhythm or surety in their play, all afternoon and the fixture was ready to be filed under "just one of those days."

"We made it difficult for ourselves," Jurgen Klopp admitted post-match. "We started playing football good but not exactly like we should have done. Aston Villa were ready today for a proper fight, a proper battle, defend with all they have, try to find spaces for counter-attacks and be there and have good set pieces.

"We played good football, but didn't finish the situations and then we conceded a goal, then it is not so easy to change these wrong decisions, this wrong path, immediately. We needed a bit of time."

Liverpool's poor decision-making aligned with marginal calls -- Villa's goal was ruled just onside by VAR, but Roberto Firmino's armpit (yes, you read that correctly) was deemed to be offside when he had the ball in the back of the net -- compounded the sense that it may not quite be their afternoon. But in those dying moments, the emotions of both fan bases were understandable. Dean Smith's men have ceded 11 points in games in which they have gone ahead this season, more than any other Premier League side. Liverpool, by contrast, are the champions of division in winning points from losing positions.

It turns out that Villa supporters were justified for feeling the way they did: Sadio Mane's deft header from Alexander-Arnold's corner dissected Conor Hourihane and Jonathan Kodjia before nestling into the far corner to make it 2-1 to the league leaders.

Prior to that moment, Liverpool did not need to dig that deep or look too far to believe they could conjure another rescue act. They were decisive at the death during a ridiculous 5-5 draw with Arsenal in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night, in which they triumphed on penalties. Their winner against Leicester City at Anfield last month arrived after 95 minutes. Their equaliser against Manchester United at Old Trafford in the next fixture materialised in the 85th minute. The "Fergie Time" concept, coined when Sir Alex Ferguson's sides had a habit of producing late goals, has been replaced by "Klopp o'clock."

Since the start of last season, no other Premier League team has scored more goals in the division during the last 10 minutes than Liverpool's 23. In September 2017, after his side had conceded 13 goals from seven matches, Klopp admitted that lapses in defence had become "a self-fulfilling prophecy" for them as players got sucked into the narrative around them. That has since been positively replaced by Liverpool's powers of recovery: since the German labelled his squad "f---ing mentality monsters" in April after Mohamed Salah and Jordan Henderson scored late goals in a 3-1 victory at Southampton, they have continually found ways to win even with time running out.

Liverpool have lost just one of their last 50 top-flight fixtures, which came against Manchester City in January 2019. On Sunday, the title rivals collide again at Anfield in what will be an almighty battle. The hosts have a six-point advantage over Pep Guardiola's defending champions, who also had to produce a late come-from-behind victory at Southampton, and the determination of both sides this Saturday, neither willing to relinquish the opportunity to keep the pressure on the other ahead of next weekend, paves the way for yet another all-consuming encounter.

Given the evidence, it would be wise to watch that game until the final whistle.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green will not play Saturday night against the Charlotte Hornets because of a sprained left index finger.

Green injured the finger during Friday night's 127-110 loss to the San Antonio Spurs and had the finger wrapped as he spoke to reporters after the game. It remains unclear if he will need an MRI on the finger.

"I hurt my finger," Green said after Friday's game. "Ligament action. But it is what it is. ... I don't know [about Saturday]; we'll see. It's pretty sore. I couldn't grip the ball the whole entire [game], probably since the second quarter, which is why I was making a lot of one-handed, right-handed passes and dribbling left with my right hand. I couldn't really grip the ball, so we'll see. Hopefully it will calm down a little bit overnight, but who knows?"

Warriors guard D'Angelo Russell will also miss Saturday's game because of a right ankle sprain.

Green's injury came two nights after Warriors superstar Stephen Curry broke his left hand in a collision with Phoenix Suns big man Aron Baynes. The Warriors announced before Friday's game that Curry will be out at least three months after undergoing surgery.