Ex-NFL player is missing
Louis Nix, who starred on the Notre Dame defensive line from 2011-13, has been reported missing in Florida.
Nix, who was chosen by the Houston Texans in the third round (83rd overall) of the 2014 NFL draft, had been wounded in a robbery in December.
He was signed to the Jacksonville Jaguars practice squad in 2016 and released in 2017. During his time in the NFL, he also played for the Texans, the New York Giants and the Washington Football Team.
Nix was wounded in December while putting air in the tires of his car at a gas station.
Now, his family is concerned as he has been missing since Feb. 23.
AUTO RACING
Myatt Snider won the Xfinity Contender Boats 250 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, taking the checkered flag in overtime Saturday after Noah Gragson slammed into a lapped car with two laps remaining.
The 26-year-old Snider celebrated his first victory in 36 starts with a reverse lap around the 11⁄2-mile track.
Snider spun his tires on the first of two restarts in overtime but got a second chance thanks to another late caution. He didn’t make the same mistake twice, driving by Tyler Reddick and turning the final two laps without much of a test.
The biggest challenge for the first-time winner was finding victory lane. Snider missed the turn before having to back up and try again.
Reddick was second, followed by Brandon Jones, Daniel Hemric, Jeb Burton and pole-sitter Austin Cindric.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Iowa forward Jack Nunge will miss the remainder of the season after injuring his right knee in the ninth-ranked Hawkeyes’ loss at No. 3 Michigan on Thursday.
School officials said the 6-foot-11 sophomore has a torn meniscus and is expected to undergo surgery next week.
Nunge was averaging 7.1 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.
SKIING
Lara Gut-Behrami won her second World Cup downhill in two days at Val di Fassa in Moena, Italy, to maintain her chance of winning the discipline title this season.
Gut-Behrami led Corinne Suter, the downhill world champion, by 0.32 of a second for a Swiss 1-2 finish.
Kira Weidle of Germany finished 0.68 behind in third, as the podium included the same three skiers who won the medals at the world championships downhill in another Italian resort, Cortina d’Ampezzo, two weeks ago.
Men: Filip Zubcic won the first World Cup race after the world championships to give new impetus to the battle for the season-long giant slalom title.
The Croatian skier overtook first-run leader Mathieu Faivre, who won the world title last week, to win by 0.40 seconds in Bansko, Bulgaria. Unheralded Stefan Brennsteiner was 0.93 behind in third for the Austrian’s first career podium.
Zubcic closed the gap on discipline leader Alexis Pinturault to just 22 points with three giant slaloms remaining. The next race is Sunday.
Henrik Kristoffersen was fourth going into the second leg but finished 17th. The Norwegian just avoided skiing out early in his run, forced to brake to make the next gate after sliding off the line.
TENNIS
Conchita Martínez , the 1994 Wimbledon champion, has tested positive for coronavirus.
Martínez said on social media on Saturday she is in quarantine at a hospital in Doha after the positive test on arrival in Qatar.
Martínez is the coach of former world No. 1 Garbiñe Muguruza, who is set to play at the Qatar Open from Monday.
The 48-year-old Martínez said she was experiencing “mild symptoms” of COVID-19.