LAS VEGAS – After an early showing of speed with a pole qualifying effort at Daytona Int’l Speedway, Myatt Snider’s weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway got off to a rough start on Friday afternoon.

Snider was forced to a backup car for the NASCAR Xfinity Series Boyd Gaming 300 following a crash less than 30 minutes in to the lone practice session for the series at the 1.5-mile oval.

The 25-year-old was coming through turns three and four when the back end of his No. 21 Chevrolet Camaro stepped out, sending Snider spinning down the track and into the frontstretch grass.

At that point, the front end of Snider’s Camaro dug into the grass, causing heavy damage to the car as it skidded to a halt.

Snider was checked and released from the infield care center, but the front end of his car was too mangled to repair. The team will utilize the car scheduled to be driven by Anthony Alfredo next weekend at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., as its backup for the remainder of the event.

After exiting the medical center, Snider took full responsibility for the incident.

“I’m not sure what happened, but that one’s my fault,” Snider noted. “We had a fast car, and I was just trying to feel it out. Obviously, this is my first mile and a half (track race) in an Xfinity car, so it’s pretty different. That’s on me for not recognizing what differences (between the Trucks and Xfinity cars) there might be.

“It’s just a shame that we have to pull out a backup this early; I’ve got to be better than that,” Snider added. “We’ll have a good car for the race, though.”

Saturday’s event may be Snider’s first start at Las Vegas in an Xfinity Series car, but he does have three NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series appearances in Sin City, with a best finish of sixth in 2018.

Last week in the Daytona season opener, Snider led 22 laps from the pole before being collected in an accident coming to the end of the second stage that eliminated his No. 21 Camaro from the event.

Ross Chastain led Friday’s Xfinity Series practice session, less than a week after failing to qualify at Daytona and replacing Jeff Green in the RSS Racing No. 38 for the race.

Chastain turned a lap of 30.529 seconds (176.881 mph) around the 1.5-mile Las Vegas oval, with Brandon Brown, Chase Briscoe, Brandon Jones and Justin Allgaier filling out the top five on the speed charts.

Qualifying for the Boyd Gaming 300 is scheduled for Saturday at 1 p.m. ET, live on FOX Sports 1.

TOLEDO, Ohio – Ken Schrader has raced a lot of things, but on May 29 at Toledo Speedway he’ll drive something he’s never driven before.

Schrader will climb behind the wheel of a school bus on May 29 to participate in the school bus figure 8 race at Toledo Speedway. That day just so happens to also be his 65th birthday.

The Fenton, Mo., native found his way to Daytona in 1980 and has competed in NASCAR, ARCA and USAC-sanctioned events during a lengthy career. He has sat on the pole for the Daytona 500, has won the Duel races at that same track and has four wins and 23 poles to his credit on NASCAR’s Cup Series.

Schrader is a fan favorite at Toledo, where he captured the win in the ARCA event at the Glass City oval in 2013. He was a champion car owner on the ARCA Menards Series in 1999 and 2017. Schrader also is a partner in the ownership of Federated Auto Parts Speedway in Pevely, Mo. Schrader also does promotional appearances for Federated Auto Parts throughout the year, with ride and drives with his dirt modified and dirt late model, where he also competes in those classes to this day. Schrader is also slated to race in the Little 500 for non-winged sprint cars at Anderson (Ind.) Speedway the week prior to the Toledo event.

The Monroe Superstore School Bus Figure 8 race presented by Great Clips will feature full-size school bus racing on the Figure 8 course at Toledo May 29. The popular event has brought huge crowds to the speedway the past several years. In addition to the School Bus event, the ARCA R&M Recycling Late Model Sportsman will battle on the big half-mile paved oval, while the quarter-mile short track action will be provided by the ARCA Victory Lane Quick Oil Change Figure 8’s and the Vault Antiques and Treasures ARCA Factory Stocks. Several additional fun events include a Boat Figure 8 Race, the Flag Pole race, Backup race and the new Butterfly race.

Tickets will go on sale next month for the event, as well as for several of the special events on the Toledo schedule. Race time is 7:30 p.m. on Friday evening, May 29. A rain date of Sunday evening, May 31 at 5:30 p.m. has been set if needed.

INDIANAPOLIS – A new NTT IndyCar Series team, Citrone/Buhl Autosport, is planning to make its debut during the Month of May at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Co-owned by former Indy car racer Robbie Buhl and his business partner, Robert Citrone, the team intends to compete in the GMR Grand Prix on the IMS road course on May 9.

Multiple reports suggest that an Indianapolis 500 attempt by the Citrone/Buhl team is also possible.

Citrone/Buhl Autosport is a partnership between Robert and Nick Citrone, as well as Tom and Robbie Buhl.

Robert Citrone is the founder of Discovery Capital Management and the largest minority owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, while his son Nick is a Data Analytics Coordinator for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Tom and Robbie Buhl own Buhl Sport Detroit, a motorsports marketing company that operates a rallycross team called Racing4Detroit, and an advanced driver training program called Teen Street Skills.

No stranger to IndyCar, Robbie Buhl competed in 78 Indy car races between 1993 and 2004, including eight starts at the Indianapolis 500. His best Indianapolis 500 finish was sixth in 1999 driving for A.J. Foyt Enterprises.

A two-time Indy car winner, the younger Buhl won the 1997 Pennzoil 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and the 2000 Delphi Indy 200 at Walt Disney World Speedway in Florida. His most recent Indy car appearance as a driver was the 2004 Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Motegi, where he finished 21st.

Robbie Buhl was the Indy Lights champion in 1992 on the strength of one win and 11 podiums in 12 races. He was also a minority owner and team principal at Dreyer & Reinbold Racing alongside Dennis Reinbold.

A brief press release on the team’s website states Citrone/Buhl’s goal as being “competitive while partnering with the right people to deliver results.”

Team officials also see this May’s effort as “the start of a continued racing endeavor, with aspiration of more entries at more (NTT IndyCar Series) races in the future.”

A driver and engine supplier were not named in the team’s initial announcement on Friday.

South Africa players who want to be considered for the T20 World Cup have the chance to stake a claim in the next week, with several spots in need of filling, according to coach Mark Boucher. Despite the disappointment of his team's biggest T20 defeat in the opening match against Australia, Boucher sought to "take the emotion out of the whole scenario" and look at the bigger picture, with seven months to go before a major tournament.

"There are certain places up for grabs and with guys getting opportunities, it's important that they take them now," Boucher said. "A month or so before the World Cup we want to have our minds on who we want to take as a 15-man squad but it's difficult for players to make a name for themselves a month before the tournament. Now is the time that players need to put their hands up and stake a claim for positions and there are still position up for grabs. We don't quite know what our combinations are going to be and we are waiting for guys to step up."

After their performance on Friday night, which included their lowest T20I score, and Boucher's criticism of the bowling as "poor", it would appear that South Africa have plenty of positions to fill but the man in charge did not want to be overly dramatic. "It's not the end of the world - losing one game of T20 cricket," Boucher said. "Yes, we are going to have to shape up quite a bit in the next week but there is also a plan going through to the next World Cup."

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Part of that plan was trialing Temba Bavuma in the opening role, which was a success against England before he got injured, using Heinrich Klaasen - who was also forced out with a niggle - in the middle order and experimenting with Rassie van der Dussen and Jon-Jon Smuts. All those options paid off during the England series and are likely to do so again.

A bigger concern is the inconsistency of the attack, who had the experience of Dale Steyn and Kagiso Rabada but still conceded heavily. Steyn, Lungi Ngidi, Rabada and Andile Phehlulwayo, who have 107 T20 caps between them, gave away 70 runs in the first six overs and failed to pitch the ball up, something bowling coach Charl Langeveldt discussed in the lead-up to the match. Both Boucher and Langeveldt have spoken about the importance of specialised skills training, but stressed that during a series, South Africa don't have the time to do that.

Boucher made the same point after the Wanderers defeat. "It's not something we can change overnight. We've tried to work on things like yorkers but our lines and length were really bad," Boucher said. "It's not like they were running down the wicket and taking us on. We were giving them boundary options."

Rabada, South Africa's "poster boy", as acting director of cricket Graeme Smith called him, was the most guilty and had six fours and two sixes scored off him to finish as the most expensive bowler on the night. Boucher put Rabada's showing down to a lack of game time, presenting an interesting conundrum between getting the balance between overbowling and keeping him fresh. "KG has come back from a long rest so it's no use making an emotional decision and saying we are going to leave him out for the next game," Boucher said. "We need guys like him and Anrich [Nortje] to come back but we also needed to rest them and that was the right decision because we want them fresh."

But how long does it take players to find their groove again? The answer might come on Sunday, when South Africa face a must-win situation to stay in the series or face further scrutiny over their progress in what has been a lean summer. As he done since he took over in December, Boucher pleaded for patience, even as he admitted that progress needs to come.

"We are working really hard off the field. We understand the areas we need to work on. We've got to get back on the horse," he said. "If we rock up and play 40% cricket we are going to get beaten and beaten badly, like we were today."

It would be easy to assume that Ashton Agar had been in fine form going into Friday's T20I at the Wanderers, but after taking a hat-trick and 5 for 24 to bowl South Africa out for their lowest-ever score in the format, Australia's spin-bowling allrounder revealed that he "was actually feeling horrible" in training ahead of the game.

"It was really exciting - obviously a highlight of my cricketing life," said Agar in the post-match presentation. "My job was made a lot easier when I had Mitch Starc, Patty Cummins, Richo [Kane Richardson] and Zamps [Adam Zampa] doing the job before me.

"It's funny, I was actually feeling horrible [coming] into the game. Obviously when the wicket turns a bit, [you] get a bit of assistance and your job's made a bit easier, you get on a roll and you keep going."

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After impressing in the home summer in T20I series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Agar underwhelmed in Australia's series in India last month, taking two wickets in three ODIs while conceding 5.60 runs per over. But despite his struggles on that trip, he explained that an end-of-series chat with another left-arm spin-bowling allrounder had helped him to turn things around.

"I had a wonderful chat with Ravindra Jadeja after the India series," Agar said. "He's my favourite player in the world - I want to play cricket like he does.

"He's an absolute rockstar: smacks them, gun fielder, and spins the ball. But it's just his presence when he's out there, watching his confidence… just talking to him about spin bowling, keep trying to spin the ball. When he's batting he has a really positive attitude, and he takes that attitude into the field as well.

"So I was pretty inspired by talking to him. And I've got good people around me: I've got a wonderful fiancée - she's very supportive, so I'm really lucky - and a great family. They're able to keep me really level."

Agar's job was made easier by four early Australian wickets, with Starc and Cummins leaving South Africa three down after the Powerplay and Zampa striking in the seventh over. And Agar said that his burgeoning partnership with Zampa - the last five T20Is that they have played together have ended in Australia wins - has been a great help to his game.

"It's developed massively," he said. "We've always got along really well, we're pretty no-fuss, away from the field we have similar interests, and we just get along well.

"So then going out into the middle, we both really enjoy talking about the game, speaking about spin bowling. I think we have a really good understanding of each other's games. What we did well in Australia in the last T20I series [against Pakistan], we identified that if someone is getting wickets early, it's their day to attack and the other one defends. It's good to string a few games together with him."

Agar's hat-trick - his first since 2013, when he managed the feat playing English club cricket for Henley in the Home Counties Premier League - owed plenty to a superb slip catch by his captain, Aaron Finch, who dived spectacularly for the catch to dismiss Dale Steyn.

And while Agar suggested the catch demonstrated Finch's "total skill" in the cordon, Finch himself suggested that it had simply been further proof that it was a day when everything went right for Australia.

"There was about a 10 percent chance of me catching that," he said. "[Agar] bowled beautifully. He deserved all the rewards today. The length, and just a little bit of assistance in the wicket, makes a huge difference in T20 when you're looking to go very hard.

"The way that we attacked the crease and bowled a really good aggressive length was crucial. We pride ourselves on not giving away width with the new ball, and making them hit good shots to good balls. If someone comes out and blasts you off good balls, you take your hat off to them - that's what we're all trying to do."

Tiger Woods will bypass an opportunity to play near his South Florida home next week as he is skipping the Honda Classic.

Woods did not enter the tournament by Friday's deadline, deciding to skip the event in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, for the second straight year.

The decision was not a surprise based on what Woods said Sunday after finishing last among players who made the cut at the Genesis Invitational.

"I was just off, it happens,'' said Woods, who also skipped this week's WGC-Mexico Championship. "I'm off and I got a chance to have the week off this week and do a little prep, a little practicing, some training, be at home and all positive things.''

Woods said he was plagued by back stiffness at the event he hosts as he posted his first two over-par rounds of the 2019-20 season.

The 295, 11 over par effort was his worst 72-hole score at the Genesis Invitational and just the second time in his career he finished last among those who made the cut.

Woods was 68th, 22 shots back of winner Adam Scott. At the 2015 Memorial, Woods shot a third-round 85 - his worst as a pro - and teed off last on Sunday before finishing last in the field - eight shots back of the second-to-last finisher.

In three official tournaments this season, Woods won the Zozo Championship for his 82nd PGA Tour win, tied for ninth at the Farmers Insurance Open and finished 68th at Riviera. He also finished fourth in the unofficial Hero World Challenge. He is ranked ninth in the world.

Woods has played the Honda Classic five times, finishing 12th in his last appearance in 2018. His best showing was a tie for second in 2012 to Rory McIlroy. It is also the place where he withdrew with less than nine holes to play in 2014 due to back issues which a month later led to the first of four procedures.