Border War rivalry returns
Kansas and Missouri are resuming their bitter Border War in football after the former Big 12 Conference rivals agreed to a four-game series in which each school will play host to two home games beginning in September 2025.
The fourth-longest rivalry in college football dates to 1891, but it has been on hiatus since Missouri departed for the Southeastern Conference. The schools recently announced a six-game series in men’s basketball beginning with the upcoming season that includes two games on each campus and two in Kansas City, Mo.
The second football game between the Jayhawks and Tigers will take place in 2026 in Lawrence, Kan. The third will happen in Columbia in 2031 before the series concludes the following season in Lawrence. Missouri leads the series, 56-55-9, after winning the most recent matchup Nov. 25, 2011 at Arrowhead Stadium.
College basketball
Jalen Hill is staying at UCLA for his redshirt junior season. A team spokesperson said Hill withdrew his name from the NBA draft. Hill started 25 of 30 games for the Bruins under first-year coach Mick Cronin this past season, averaging 9 points and a team-leading 6.9 rebounds.
Auto racing
Scott McLaughlin was supposed to leave Australia for Indianapolis this month to make his IndyCar debut on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. McLaughlin instead settled for a virtual victory Saturday on the oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway — his second win of IndyCar’s iRacing six-race series — after a wild finish in which most of the leaders crashed as they rushed toward the checkered flag.
Horse racing
Charlatan romped to victory by six lengths in the first division of the Arkansas Derby and Nadal won the second division in Hot Springs, Ark., giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert a sweep. The 146th Kentucky Derby usually would have dominated the first Saturday in May, but instead, 21 3-year-olds ran in two divisions at Oaklawn, each worth $500,000. The race was worth 100 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby to the winners.
Soccer
Brighton became the first English Premier League club to publicly oppose plans to try to restart the season in neutral stadiums during the coronavirus pandemic. As the COVID-19 death toll surpassed 28,000 in Britain, Brighton chief executive Paul Barber accepted that resuming sporting events would require compromises but said that the league’s integrity would be damaged if teams couldn’t play at home.
• Cologne’s players are continuing to train despite the three positive tests for coronavirus at the club that have unsettled the German league’s restart plans. Cologne confirmed that three people had tested positive but didn’t name them.
Elsewhere
Hafthor Bjornsson, 31, set a world record in the deadlift, hoisting 1,104.52 pounds (501 kilograms). He set the record in his native Iceland. Known as “Thor,” the 6-foot-9, 425-pound Bjornsson broke the previous record of 1,102.31 pounds, set by England’s Eddie Hall in 2016. The “Game of Thrones” actor who played Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in the HBO series, Bjornsson made the successful attempt at Thor’s Power Gym.