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Lauth tweeted on July 2 that he was “tired of living a life of lies.” He also included a link to a Twitlonger post that he wrote, in which he alleges that he and Quezada began a sexual relationship when he was 15 and Nairo was 20. In his Twitlonger post, Lauth said that he initiated the relationship with Quezada, who was allegedly aware of Lauth’s age. Lauth said he was not trying to cancel Nairo, but trying to tell his fellow gamers the truth about what happened between them....

As the Sooners have struggled to win, and Young has struggled with his shot, it seems possible there’ll be a competition for this honor, after all. If so, the other candidates will be found on the Naismith list of 30 candidates announced Wednesday. NBA MOCK DRAFT 2018: Busy trade deadline, tanking season shake up first-round picks Could it be Duke freshman Marvin Bagley? Villanova veteran point guard Jalen Brunson? Ohio State’s surging Keita Bates-Diop?...

Harris played in one of many games across America where temperatures were freezing. In fact, practice was shut down for various teams leading up to this weekend. Some players displayed their toughness in the cold. The Seahawks’ DK Metcalf warmed up shirtless before his game against the Kansas City Chiefs. The weather in Kansas City was below 10 degrees. Harris joined the NFL Gameday broadcast team following the Steelers’ 13-10 win to discuss his strategy for preparing for the bad weather....

The 117th Congress will see fewer Democrats after Pelosi’s party sustained unexpected losses in the House of Representatives. Polls had widely predicted the Democrats would expand their majority. A number of races remain undecided, but Republicans have so far made 5 gains, while Democrats have lost 4 seats. The Democratic majority was 220 to the GOP’s 192 before the election. It’s now clear that gap will narrow. Despite a relatively disappointing election, Pelosi struck an upbeat tone following about former Vice President Joe Biden’s victory, calling him president-elect even before the major networks had called the race....

“The nature of galaxies during this early period of our universe is not well known nor understood. But with the help of gravitational lensing by a cluster of galaxies in the foreground, faint background galaxies can be magnified and also appear multiple times in different parts of the image,” NASA said in a statement. The scientists who worked on the findings include Dan Coe of AURA/Space Telescope Science Institute for the European Space Agency and Johns Hopkins University, Rebecca Larson of the University of Texas at Austin, and Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao of Johns Hopkins University....

The first space rock to make a close approach tomorrow, dubbed 2020 TD, will come within around 4.5 million miles of our planet at 10:14 a.m. ET on October 14 while travelling at around 32,00 miles per hour. That distance is relatively small in astronomical terms—roughly equivalent to about 18 times the distance between Earth and the moon. 2020 TD was first spotted in September this year and observations indicate that the object measures 35 to 79 meters (114 to 259 feet) in diameter....

The Richard Childress Racing driver took the checkered flag at Sunday’s Verizon 200 at the Brickyard, further cementing his status as one of the hottest commodities in NASCAR. It wasn’t easy for Reddick. It was a wacky day on the track, with Turn 1 proving especially volatile for drivers. No moment proved quite as shocking as the collision between Kyle Larson and Ty Dillon on Lap 61. Larson appeared to suffer brake failure curling into the bend and rammed into the side of Dillon....

And with good reason. Harvick’s No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford Mustang was that much better than other cars throughout both races in the Saturday-Sunday twinbill. Harvick earned another win Sunday to complete the weekend sweep at Michigan. Denny Hamlin, whose five wins this season are now one fewer than Harvick’s six, almost caught Harvick in the closing laps, but he ran out of time. Sporting News tracked live race updates and lap-by-lap highlights from Sunday’s NASCAR race at Michigan....

Instead of Elliott, who was passed late by Kenseth and finished second, Brad Keselowski claimed the final spot in the Championship 4 next Sunday at Homestead. Keselowski finished 16th and qualified on points. Keselowski joins Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr. and Kevin Harvick as a competitor in the championship race. “It’s been an incredible journey and there’s no way you could write it any better than this,” Kenseth said on the NBC Sports broadcast after the race....

The Joe Gibbs Racing team was hard at work on Hamlin’s No. 11 FedEx Toyota from Friday’s opening practice at the three-quarter-mile track, trying to get it properly prepped for the Toyota Owners 400 (6:30 p.m. ET; Fox, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). By the time Hamlin faced the media Friday afternoon after practices and before qualifying, he was disappointed in the day’s rough start but remained absolutely hopeful about the race....

NASCAR odds: Gordon, Harvick open as favorites in Atlanta Based on the speeds of both sessions, it doesn’t look like much has changed from 2014 in terms of speed and who has the most of it. In fact, Jamie McMurray’s fast lap at 191.549 mph was quicker than Kevin Harvick’s 190 mph pole-winning speed from Atlanta last fall. The temperatures were much cooler on Thursday than they were last August, but the dropoff in speeds isn’t nearly as dramatic as anticipated....

Ahead of round two of the eNASCAR Pro Invitational iRacing Series on Sunday at a virtual Texas Motor Speedway, the driver shared a photo on Twitter of his racing attire — or lack thereof. What is NASCAR iRacing? How the virtual races work, drivers, full schedule & more Needless to say, Twitter had a lot of jokes. DiBenedetto is in his sixth season in the NASCAR Cup Series and first with Wood Brothers Racing....

But Busch, car owner Joe Gibbs and champion crew chief Adam Stevens had to share the stage and the limelight with retiring four-time champion Jeff Gordon, who bade a tearful farewell after 23 full-time seasons and 797 consecutive races in NASCAR’s premier series — complete with a surprise introduction by mega movie star Tom Cruise. MORE: Dale Earnhardt Jr. most popular again | Busch’s title year | Brian France sees ’exceptional future'...

Johnson won his first NASCAR race of the season by taking the lead with 15 laps to go in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500. Kyle Larson finished second while Joey Logano, Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top five. The win marks Johnson’s seventh win at Texas Motor Speedway and is Johnson’s 16th straight year with at least one win, the longest active streak. Johnson entered Sunday’s race with just one top-10 finish in 2017, a ninth-place finish at Phoenix....

As expected, the 2015 schedule includes a return to Darlington Raceway for the Labor Day weekend race. The Southern 500, scheduled for Sept. 6, finally returns to what many believe is its rightful place on the schedule after 12 years of Labor Day races at Auto Club (Calif.) Speedway and Atlanta Motor Speedway. Atlanta’s race moves from Labor Day to the second race of the season, which is then followed by a three-race West Coast swing....

He’s also being quite hypocritical. MORE: Is Johnson better than Earnhardt? | Danica, Ricky working on relationship NASCAR has long been a Republican stronghold, with Republican presidents from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush making appearances at NASCAR races during election years. Big stock-car racing events are must-stops for Republican candidates and it’s not uncommon for drivers and team owners to endorse political candidates. There is nothing wrong with that....

As a result, there will be no changes to the 10-race, elimination-style Chase for the Sprint Cup this year. NASCAR changed the Chase rules last year, expanding the field from 12 to 16 drivers with the primary criteria based on race wins. The 10-race playoff was divided into four, three-race segments, with four drivers eliminated after each of the first three rounds. The end result was a four-driver showdown for the championship, with Kevin Harvick beating Ryan Newman for the title by one point....

The Lewis Country Store in Nashville posted the meme-like video of Biden’s 51-year-old son smoking a cigarette in a bathtub during a purported crack cocaine binge several years ago. The large electronic sign featured the caption, “Hope gas prices don’t get too high,” in an apparent reference to both the Colonial Pipeline shutdown and Biden’s drug addiction struggles following the death of his older brother, Beau, in 2015. The pipeline shutdown after last week’s cyberattack caused a gas price spike, prompting some drivers in states including Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia to stockpile gas and diesel....

Before viewers are treated to dozens of films and photos remembering everything Apollo 11 crew members Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins achieved with mankind’s first trip to the moon, National Geographic will show the world exactly how they got there. The network will debut a new documentary, APOLLO: Missions to the Moon, nearly two weeks before the anniversary on Sunday. The film, produced by award-winning filmmaker Tom Jennings, covers the space program long before the Apollo 11 crew stepped foot on Earth’s natural satellite....

FiveThirtyEight’s founder and editor-in-chief said that “10 percent chances happen” and cautioned voters against “taking anything for granted” as the presidential election campaign came to a close this morning. Writing for the website, Silver said a polling error of just 3 points could be the difference between a landslide victory for Democratic nominee Joe Biden and a “competitive” race. However, he added that even with a polling error of that size going in Trump’s favor, Biden would still “probably hold on” and win key states that Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 by narrow margins....