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Those photo ops were, as it turns out, the whole point. The men who put their feet up on Pelosi’s desk and took the speaker’s podium were not looking to upend the regime, and certainly had no chance of doing so. Appearing on the news in Pelosi’s and Mike Pence’s seats was plenty. The rioters stormed the Capitol, and beat a man to death in the process, to create images of themselves as “winners,” to “flex” on the establishment as their man was being pushed from power....

The Lucy mission will be the first to explore Jupiter’s so-called Trojan entourage of eight asteroids over the course of 12 years. Lucy aims to pass seven of the countless Trojan asteroids and then trail Jupiter as it orbits the sun. The thousands of Trojan asteroids trapped by the gravitational forces of Jupiter and the sun are believed to be leftover from when the outer planets were forming and could give scientists a glimpse into the solar system’s past....

It will be tough this weekend, especially in Fontana, Calif. where Busch has three career wins at Auto Club Speedway and finishes in the top 10 70 percent of the time. Add that to a win last week in Phoenix, and top 10s in every single one of his starts this year and the driver will be incredibly tough to beat on Sunday. But Kyle Larson will try to do it....

At Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday, Truex finally turned a dominant race into a win. He captured the Tales of the Turtles 400, his second win at Chicagoland in a row. More importantly, he advanced to the second round of NASCAR’s playoffs. “That was awesome, man. I’m so excited," Truex told NBCSN after winning. “This is the playoffs. This is what it’s all about.” “We just kept our hands down and kept digging and fighting and just did what we always do,” Truex told NBCSN....

In the two-lap overtime shootout that decided the race, Bowyer had a strong run through the tri-oval coming to the white flag, but as Bowyer’s No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford flashed across the start/finish line, Erik Jones steered his No. 20 Toyota up the track and blocked Bowyer’s progress. Bowyer could have driven through the Joe Gibbs Racing driver’s car, but he broke momentum, essentially giving Jones a break, rather than wrecking him....

Jamie McMurray finished second, while Kyle Busch, Aric Almirola and Kasey Kahne rounded out the top five. MORE: Danica says she had a feeling about Ricky’s chances “This is for all the guys at the shop,” Stenhouse said in victory lane. “This year, every race we’re getting better. We knew Talladega was a good track for us. I can’t say enough about the guys. We’ve been terrible for a long time, but this year, we’re getting better and better, and we knew Talladega was a good place for us....

Lap length: 1 mile (Car number in parentheses) (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 162.933 mph. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 162.404. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 162.25. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 162.14. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 161.936. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 161.573. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 161.457. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 161.298. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 160.643. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 160.506. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 160.492. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 160.192....

It’s said reaching the top is the easy part; staying there is more difficult. For Rick Hendrick, the climb up the mountain required a decade of hard work culminating in Hendrick Motorsports capturing its first NASCAR premier series championship in 1995. Two decades later, Hendrick’s Chevrolet team remains stock car racing’s platinum standard: a record 12 NASCAR premier series titles — including Jimmie Johnson’s record-matching seventh crown in 2016 — and 245 victories with 16 different drivers....

William Byron proved that Saturday. The Hendrick Motorsports driver posted a blazing qualifying lap to put himself in prime position to seal his spot in the final round of the postseason. He wasn’t the only one gunning for it. Playoff drivers made up each of the top three positions in Saturday’s qualifying, spotlighting the importance of this week’s race at Miami-Homestead Speedway. Joey Logano overcame a suboptimal start last week at Las Vegas to win and give himself a chance at a second Cup Series championship trophy....

NASCAR announced Friday that it will move its annual end of the season Truck/Xfinity championship banquet away from the Trump National Doral in Miami. MORE: Drivers hope Daytona can add spark to their season | Daytona qualifying: Date, time, TV channel | Tracks discourage display of Confederate flag “We made the decision (Friday) we are not going to Doral National,” NASCAR spokesman David Higdon said in a news conference. “We did begin talking about this earlier in the week....

It was not only the politically correct position, but really the only stance it could take. The only stance that any business, institution or professional sports organization can properly take in these emotionally charged times. MORE: Confederate flag in sports | Dale Jr. discusses Stars and Bars | Moments that define Dale Jr. Now NASCAR must take an even stronger stance and prohibit fans from displaying the controversial flag at its tracks and races....

The biggest change we’ll see from the first Michigan race to Sunday’s Pure Michigan 400, though, is the set-up of the car. NASCAR made a mid-season announcement that in addition to the special low down-force package debuted at Kentucky, Cup cars would also run a high-drag package at Indianapolis and Michigan. The low down-force package will also be used at Darlington on Sept. 6. However, once the Chase starts, the final 10 races will feature the same set-up they began the year with....

Regardless of what happened in Friday’s practices or where they started from, Earnhardt Jr. was going to be our top-rated driver this week because of what he’s done in restrictor-plate races this season – he finished third in the Daytona 500 and won his only race of the season at Talladega in May. At the four races between Daytona and Talladega each season, practices and start position mean the least to the driver-rating equation....

This is no tip of the cap by the SuperBook to honor a four-time Cup champion who is retiring at the end of the season. Gordon was made the favorite because he has proven to be one of the best at Atlanta over his career with five wins and five runner-ups. Since NASCAR began compiling Loop data from each race in 2005, Gordon tops all drivers at Atlanta with a 106....

Menard was the fastest in both the first and third rounds of qualifying for the Overton’s 400 (2:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). OVERTON’S 400: Live updates, highlights from Chicagoland “My guys did a hell of a job today,” Menard told NBCSN after his run. “We weren’t very good in practice, we did a mock run I was so loose I had to abort it so we never really got a true mock run, but the car had speed in all three of those rounds, we got a little too loose in Round 2 and adjusted for it and Round 3 drove like Round 1, so it was good....

Koscielny insists Arsenal must develop hatred of losing The Gunners have lost three of their last five matches, against Watford, Chelsea and a 5-1 thumping at the hands of Bayern Munich in the Champions League, and have pinned their hopes of silverware on the FA Cup. With Arsenal sitting 10 points behind Premier League leaders Chelsea and facing elimination from European competition, Wenger’s future at the Emirates has been called into question....

Adrian is not a marathoner, of course. But the guy knows swimming. That showed over the last two weeks, another fruitful Olympics for USA Swimming, and for Adrian. MORE: See full Olympic medal count | Team USA’s biggest test yet He took the bronze medal in both the 50-meter freestyle and the 100-meter freestyle, and more important, he won two golds as part of the men’s relay teams, in both the 4x100-meter freestyle and medley....

Although the location will be changing from the corner of Surf and Stillwell in Coney Island to a undisclosed, private location so the competiton can be conducted more safety because of COVID-19 restrictions, the fact that Chestnut is a heavy favorite to repeat stays the same. Chestnut will try to hold off five other challengers to become the men’s champion for a fourth consecutive year. Before he attempts to break his 2018 world record of 74 hot dogs and buns (HDB) he set in Brooklyn two years ago, Miki Sudo will try to win her seventh career Mustard Yellow Belt on the women’s side....

The 23-year-old Walker became the first Australian to play in the 100-year history of the NHL Saturday night in Washington, and skating for a professional team nearly 10,000 miles from home wasn’t an easy trek. He left his hometown of Sydney in 2011 at the age of 13 to play for Vitkovice HC in the Czech Republic for two years, speaking no Czech when he left home. After spending parts of two seasons there, he then went to North America two years later to join the USHL’s Youngstown Phantoms....

You may not be able to have a drink with your family or friends in person on National Beer Day 2020, but you could enjoy a beer over video chat. Or, read Newsweek’s roundup of famous quotes about beer, from Barack Obama, Russell Crowe, Sylvia Plath, and more. Another way you could celebrate National Beer Day 2020 is by ordering your favorite bottle or can of beer online, or by ordering a mixed case and discovering a new favorite....