Britain's Katie Boulter is through to the third round of the Mexico Open after coming back from a set down to beat lucky loser Francesca di Lorenzo.

Boulter, 23, defeated Di Lorenzo 2-6 6-3 6-2 after the 22-year-old American had replaced Italy's Jasmine Paolini, who withdrew through illness.

She will now face China's Lin Zhu in the last 16.

Fellow Briton Heather Watson plays Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko in the second round on Wednesday.

Boulter, who was the British number two before suffering a stress fracture in her back last year, has slipped to 394th in the world rankings after reaching a career-high 82 in February 2019.

Veteran Formula One commentator and pit reporter Will Buxton stopped by The Ralph Sheheen Show Presented by Lucas Oil this week. Buxton talked about a variety of F1 topics and chatted about his new book, “My Greatest Defeat: Stories of hardship and hope from motor racing’s finest heroes.”

Catch this week’s full episode on SPEEDSPORT.com or download the podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio or Spotify.

BELLEVILLE, Ill. – A leading auto-racing sanctioning body since 1946, the New Mexico Motor Racing Ass’n, based in Albuquerque, N.M., will now compete under the POWRi banner.

Setting a solid showing of 18 events for the season, the NMMRA will venture to three separate tracks throughout the land of enchantment extending from early April to October.  Starting the season in style on Saturday, April 4 at the newly built Vado Speedway Park. Co-sanctioning with the POWRi Lucas Oil Border Tour, all eyes will be on beautiful Vado, N.M., for this one of a kind event.  With this event marking the first of four visits to the picturesque Vado Speedway Park, other stand-alone shows will be May 5, June 13 and Aug. 8.

This next POWRi NMMRA season of speed will also see a two-night spectacular presented by Aztec Speedway on the weekend of Sept. 11-12. The high-banked three-eighths-mile will try to contain all the horsepower these traditional sprints have to offer.

Sandia Speedway, the fast and always exciting three-eighths-mile dirt oval in Albuquerque N.M., will continue to serve as the home venue for the POWRi New Mexico Motor Racing Ass’n. Hosting 12 race dates throughout the summer including the fan-favorite season finale, the eighth annual Sprint Car Stampede.

“We’re all looking forward to the start of the season, we listened to our drivers and fans on this.  Everything just made the most sense going with the POWRi team, from the points to the promotion they have everything we were after to put on the best racing possible,” said the POWRi NMMRA Series Director Steve BoneSteel.

POWRi New Mexico Motor Racing Ass’n Schedule

April 4 – Vado Speedway Park – Vado, N.M. *
April 11 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
April 25 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
May 2 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
May 9 – Vado Speedway Park – Vado, N.M.
May 30 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
June 6 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
June 13 – Vado Speedway Park – Vado, N.M.
June 20 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
July 18 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
July 25 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
Aug. 8 – Vado Speedway Park – Vado, N.M.
Aug. 15 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
Aug. 29 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
Sept. 11-12 – Aztec Speedway – Aztec, N.M.
Sept. 19 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.
Oct. 10 – Sandia Speedway – Albuquerque, N.M.

*Co-Sanctioned with POWRi Lucas Oil Border Tour Series

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- For the past week, Zach Parise was carrying some extra weight with him around the ice: The Minnesota Wild were actively talking about trading him.

Now that the deadline has passed, relieving Parise's stress and ensuring he will complete an eighth season in his home state of Minnesota, the standout left wing can better focus on trying to help the Wild return to the playoffs. Beyond that, though, his future with the organization has obviously become uncertain.

"Those games were hard to play. You just don't know. Once it gets brought up to you, in your mind you're thinking, 'Am I leaving tomorrow? What's going on here?'" Parise said Tuesday, before the Wild hosted the Columbus Blue Jackets. "Now that that's over, we can just worry about here and winning and getting ourselves into that wild-card spot."

Wild general manager Bill Guerin, who's in his first year running the team, took the uncommon approach of publicly acknowledging Monday after the deadline that he had discussed a deal involving Parise.

The wrinkle with a potential deal involving Parise is that he has a no-movement clause in his contract, requiring him to approve any trade. More transparency, thus, is necessary from the front office regarding such discussions. Guerin approached him a week ago while the team was on the road, Parise said, with the possibility. Parise declined to confirm whether he told Guerin he'd waive the no-movement clause, but had he indicated disinterest the talks surely would've ended then.

That's probably why Parise was choosing his words carefully as he took questions from reporters Tuesday, realizing that acknowledging a willingness to leave could make for an awkward stay for however much longer he's with the Wild.

"I don't know how close it got. I really don't," Parise said. "I love it here. I always have. My goals here haven't changed: It's to help this team. I'm not disappointed by any means that I'm here. I really enjoy playing here."

When Parise and his longtime pal, defenseman Ryan Suter, simultaneously signed identical 13-year, $98 million contracts with the Wild on July 4, 2012, the profile and expectations of this frequently middling franchise were instantly heightened.

The additions sparked fervor anew in an already fervent fan base and laid the foundation for a sellout streak that reached 230 straight games, until ending on Oct. 20 in the second home game of this season. The Wild made the playoffs in each of the first six seasons with the Parise-Suter duo, but that run ended in 2019. They're below the cutoff again this year, too, in 11th place in the Western Conference and five points out of a spot. Since Parise and Suter arrived, the Wild have only won a playoff series twice and never advanced past the conference semifinals.

Parise again has the most goals for Minnesota (21) this season, the fifth time in eight years he has led the Wild in scoring. He was one goal off the team lead in his second season (2013-14), too. That's been part of the problem, though: Parise has long been a workmanlike scorer, excellent at rebounds and redirects while always willing to muscle his way into traffic against bigger defenders, but he's not the type of player who can take over a game or consistently create chances for others. The salary-cap space taken up by Parise and Suter has ultimately made it more difficult to build a contender around them.

The 35-year-old Parise, as he's skating toward the end of his 15th season in the NHL, has not been shy about voicing his heightened urgency to win a Stanley Cup. Just because the Wild didn't trade him this week, that doesn't mean Guerin wouldn't take another crack at it in the summer.

"There are certain moves that just require more time and a little more detail," Guerin said, speaking generally about the seed-planting process that deadline-week discussions can initiate. "Sometimes you want to get through a season with a player and revisit it. You're not unhappy with him, but you could see the potential return you could get, so you revisit it. Like I said, we'll handle that at the end of the season."

As for any disappointment in not completing the deal?

"Not at all. I'm actually kind of excited to see what this group can do," Guerin said. "I've said all along that they're getting an opportunity, a longer leash."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Mexican winger Jurgen Damm is set to leave Tigres UANL for Atlanta United this summer on a free transfer after running down his contract, sources have told ESPN Mexico's Rene Tovar.

The same information was also reported by Record on Tuesday evening, with MedioTiempo suggesting Damm's contract with the MLS club will be three-and-a-half years.

The speedy 27-year-old has made over 200 appearances in Liga MX, but has found regular playing time difficult of late with Tigres, partly due to injury, and has opted for a change of scenery. Damm has won four Liga MX titles in his time at Tigres and has 12 caps for the Mexico national team.

"After consulting with my family, the best thing for me is to take a different direction in June and there's nothing but thanks towards this institution [Tigres]," said Damm in a press conference on Tuesday. "I'll fulfill my contract, I tried to give my best, I always tried to be professional, but what you look for is more continuity. [Tigres] gave me opportunities and I didn't make the most of them."

"I'm not going to say where [I'm going], I'm not going to speak more, I told the directors that I won't renew," he added. "It's not an economic issue. I never asked for more money."

Damm was on the verge of tears when making the announcement, having joined Tigres from Pachuca in 2015. The player, who has a German passport, was regularly linked with a move to Europe.

Tigres president Miguel Angel Garza had stated on Monday that the club intended to renew Damm's contract and that the player was open to the idea.

Damm was free to talk to clubs six months before his contract was up and will leave Tigres after the 2020 Clausura season.

NAPLES, Italy -- Midfielder Sergio Busquets criticised Barcelona for being shortsighted with their squad planning after the Catalans were held to a 1-1 draw by Napoli in the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday.

Busquets was booked in the second half and will be suspended for the return leg at Camp Nou on March 18. Teammate Arturo Vidal will also sit that game out after getting sent off at the Stadio San Paolo late on, while Gerard Pique limped off with an ankle problem in stoppage time.

Barca's small squad was already stretched. Long-term absentees Ousmane Dembele and Luis Suarez are unlikely to feature again this season and Barcelona manager Quique Setien named four B team players on the bench against Napoli just to make up the numbers.

"[Nelson] Semedo and I were one booking away from a ban so we were always running that risk [of suspension]," Busquets told reporters after the game.

"We hope Pique's injury is nothing serious but we will take on the second leg with what we have. We don't have a deep squad because, unfortunately, that's how it was planned."

Ivan Rakitic also suggested Barca had failed to put together a big enough squad as the cracks between the players and the club were revealed again after Lionel Messi's war of words with sporting director Eric Abidal last month.

The first-team, including Barca B winger Ansu Fati, is made up of just 20 players.

"We have a short squad but those that are in charge knew that," the Croatian midfielder said. "The solution is what it is. Those that are available will have work really hard because we have an important match in the second leg."

Pique will undergo tests on an ankle injury on Thursday, sources told ESPN, as Barca hope to have the defender available for Sunday's top of the table clash against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Full-backs Jordi Alba and Sergi Roberto won't be available for the Clasico but Setien did reveal they will be fine for the Napoli game next month.

"We can win La Liga and the Champions League," the coach said as he tried to put a positive spin on the 1-1 draw and the loss of key players. "It's true we've lost Busquets and Vidal for the return game but we will recover Alba and Roberto.

"I'm one of those people that looks at things optimistically. We don't have many players, but there's no point complaining about it."

Antoine Griezmann cancelled out Dries Mertens' first-half opener against Napoli as Barca's poor form on the road in the Champions League knockout stages continued. It is now just one win in nine games.

Napoli had the better chances to win the game, with an inspired Marc-Andre ter Stegen making saves from Lorenzo Insigne and Jose Callejon, but Setien insisted he was satisfied with the outcome.

"It was tough to create because they defended really well and took their only chance [in the first half]," he added. "The game opened up in the second half, there was more space and we were able to do some damage. It's a good result."

LONDON -- There is something particularly brutal about a heavy defeat in the Champions League. Nothing exposes a team's weaknesses quite like a dismantling by a side from another league, and Chelsea know precisely how that feels after being given a lesson by Bayern Munich at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night.

This was the moment when the full scale of the rebuilding job still to be done at Chelsea became apparent. Home defeats against the likes of Bournemouth and West Ham in the Premier League are one thing, but a 3-0 defeat against Bayern -- and it could have been much worse -- served only to reveal the huge gulf between the 2012 Champions League winners and Europe's elite.

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"It was a harsh lesson in the reality of Champions League football," Chelsea manager Frank Lampard said. "We have to improve in the summer, and today was a clear show that there is a lot of work to be done.

"I felt that when I came in the summer, and I still feel that today."

In some ways, this defeat could actually help Lampard get the players he wants and needs to take Chelsea to the higher level they used to take for granted. But the truth is that Hansi Flick's Bayern coasted to their Round of 16, first-leg victory following two goals from Serge Gnabry and the other from Robert Lewandowski, as the German champions made next month's second-leg at the Allianz Arena a formality.

Bayern will sail on into the quarterfinals, having injected youth and pace into the team since last season's last-16 elimination against Liverpool, but where Chelsea end up is anyone's guess. Lampard has arguably over-performed with the squad he inherited from Maurizio Sarri last summer -- a squad that lost its best player, Eden Hazard, to Real Madrid last summer and one that couldn't be strengthened due to a two-window worldwide transfer ban, which was subsequently reduced to one window on appeal.

That Chelsea are still in the Premier League top four, having won just five of their last 15 league games, highlights how well they started the season under Lampard, but reality has been biting hard for a while domestically. Bayern's performance was the equivalent of throwing a bucket of ice-cold water everyone at Stamford Bridge, just to make sure they all realise the state Chelsea are in.

This is a club that will always measure itself against the best in Europe. Since Roman Abramovich transformed Chelsea from also-rans into one of the continent's most powerful clubs following his arrival as owner in 2003, they have won three European trophies (one Champions League and two Europa Leagues) and lost a Champions League final on penalties. By and large, Chelsea have been a Champions League regular since 2003, but they looked like novices against Bayern, who were clinical in the second half after letting the home side off the hook during the opening 45 minutes.

"That's football at this level," Lampard said. "The levels of Bayern Munich were fantastic. They are a really strong team. Unless we had a 'bang on' night, it was going to be tough and that's what happened.

"When you have an eye-opener like tonight, no matter how young or old you are, you have to look against your direct opponent and ask what lessons you learned. But in the bigger picture, we saw the quality in their team. Lewandowski has been there a long time, and [Thomas] Muller, [Manuel] Neuer, [Jerome] Boateng: I played against all them in 2012 in the final. They have been together for a long time."

Longevity and stability are not something that this Chelsea squad has been blessed with. The young players who have been given a chance by Lampard this season -- Mason Mount, Tammy Abraham, Reece James -- will be fine servants for the club for years to come, but there are still plenty of big gaps to be filled. Defense remains an issue, as does the heart of midfield, but the biggest problem seems to be in goal, where the steady (but hardly spectacular) Willy Caballero continues to be preferred ahead of the out-of-form (and club-record signing) Kepa Arrizabalaga.

The inability to spend last summer and failure to take advantage of the lifting of the transfer ban ahead of the January window has left Chelsea painfully short of the quality required to compete at this level. Lampard was without the injured N'Golo Kante, Christian Pulisic and Callum Hudson-Odoi for this game and it showed. All three are doubtful to be fit for the second leg in Munich and Lampard will also be without Marcos Alonso, sent off in this game, and Jorginho due to suspension.

That said, Chelsea's challenge is not about achieving a Champions League miracle by overturning their first-leg deficit in Munich. It's about the long term and being able to build a squad capable of once again making Chelsea a heavyweight contender in the Champions League. They have some foundations in place under Lampard, but time will tell whether they are strong enough to keep their legendary former player in a job.

On this evidence, though, it will take at least two years to get close to Bayern's level. Lampard's problem is Chelsea have rarely shown such patience since Abramovich took over.

Domain, the naming-rights partner for Test cricket, is not the only brand to be exiting Cricket Australia's suite of sponsors. Mastercard and Specsavers are also on their way out, with Bupa to scale down its commitment and so lose its naming rights sponsorship of the national cricket centre in Brisbane and place on the shirts of Australian team support staff.

If this sounds like a worrying exodus for the game, it is nothing next to the climate in which CA's last broadcast rights deal was signed, a matter of weeks after the Newlands scandal. Having been front and centre of that negotiation, CA executive Stephanie Beltrame is now concocting a plan to recast the governing body's portfolio of partners in order to grow it.

Cricket is hardly doing badly: in terms of revenue raised from corporate backers it sits third in Australia behind tennis and the AFL. However, the dwarfing of all other sports revenue by the cash derived from broadcast rights means that the wider commercial realm is due a rethink, and cricket is getting its own from the very person who played a large part in growing that broadcast revenue.

As CA's head of broadcast rights, Beltrame worked assiduously towards the creation of competition in the market for a 2013 deal that included the Big Bash League for the first time and was worth some A$500 million. The next step was bigger, bolder and more lucrative still, the 2018 agreement with Fox and Seven reaping A$1.18 billion for CA. Having returned from maternity leave, Beltrame is now the executive in charge of all commercial concerns, and wants the wider picture to follow the broadcast trend.

"I prefer the term partnership than sponsorship because there's so much more to it than a one way investment," Beltrame told ESPNcricinfo. "I also want us to be able to form partnerships in other commercial areas, diversify our revenue and seek new opportunities so that we will be able to grow in the same way that we've seen growth across our media rights revenue. I have high expectations.

"From time to time we'll have a partner advise us that they're exiting despite having what they regard as quite a successful result, but we just have to respect that decision. Every partner you want to be treated in the same way when you arrive as when you leave, and exactly the same way an employee should have that - so we don't have any issues when partners go. We'd prefer they stay obviously, but you've got to respect the decision."

Among CA's other current sponsors, KFC, Toyota and Sanitarium have deals that run until 2021, and its commercial betting partner Bet365's much-debated contract expires the following year. Of Bet365, Beltrame said: "Ultimately because we still have a number of years left in the agreement, no decision has been taken about our association, whether that's to status quo, to change, so I think they're all considerations, but at this point in time we're still in a current agreement."

Chief among Beltrame's questions is to investigate, alongside the state associations, whether there is more to be wrung from the BBL, a far bigger proposition than it was at its inception in 2011. The league's current list of four partners may yet grow.

"If we believe a different model is required for BBL then we might look at changing the number of partners that can be associated with it," Beltrame said. "And then some consideration of how do you grow the pie but still provide meaningful protection and exclusivity to brands. How the BBL fits in with international cricket, how brands can opt to be involved across Australian cricket or be involved in international only or BBL only."

Where the AFL has been able to successfully build sponsorships over a long period of time through its breadth of clubs, matches, length of season and connection to the passions stirred in club members and followers, tennis' fulcrum is the Australian Open, a truly international event that sets the eyes of the world on Melbourne Park for two highly lucrative weeks. With its strong hold on the summer months, and the extra overseas eyeballs presented by its standing as a far more global game than AFL but somewhat less so than tennis, cricket should sit somewhere in between.

"The mix of how [our revenue] made up is very different, we don't have many partners, we've been quite exclusive for a long period of time," Beltrame said. "I think there's opportunities where we can create different partnerships at different levels. We can really take advantage of our national and international footprint. India's touring here, what else can we do, how can we sell directly to India? There's things we can do because of our remit as a national and international sport."

Some things, of course, are beyond anyone's control, like the extreme weather that blighted this summer's BBL almost as much as all previous events combined, or a slackening Australian economy after more than 25 years of growth. Whatever lies ahead, Beltrame wants CA to be able to adapt: "It just really starts from my perspective from reviewing what we're currently doing - looking under the hood."

The Memphis Grizzlies said forward Brandon Clarke will miss at least two weeks because of a right quad injury.

Clarke played only three minutes in Memphis' loss to the LA Clippers on Monday, due to what the team initially called right hip soreness.

According to the Grizzlies, additional testing revealed that Clarke suffered a quad injury, with the team saying he will be reevaluated in two weeks.

Memphis already is without Jaren Jackson Jr., who is expected to miss at least two weeks because of a left knee sprain. Clarke started in Jackson's place on Monday.

Clarke, the rookie first-round pick out of Gonzaga, is averaging 12.0 points and 5.8 rebounds this season while shooting 62.3% from the field.

Kobe Bryant will get his wish.

Baseball superagent Scott Boras told the Los Angeles Times that he will create an internship for the teenage daughter of John Altobelli, the Orange Coast College baseball coach who, along with Bryant and his daughter Gianna, was among the nine people killed in last month's helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.

During Monday's memorial service for the Bryants at Staples Center, Los Angeles Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka told the story of texting with the NBA legend just minutes before his death. While in the air, Bryant reached out to see whether Pelinka had ties to a baseball agent because he wanted to set up his friend's daughter with an internship.

That friend was Altobelli and the daughter was 16-year-old Lexi.

"Kobe's last human activity was heroic," Pelinka said. "He wanted to use his platform to bless and shape another's life."

According to the Times, Pelinka reached out to Boras about a potential position for Lexi in the days after Bryant's death.

The internship will be created, Boras told the newspaper, and will include Lexi gaining experience in "marketing, baseball operations, sports science and office administration," among other areas, at his company.