Stewart, Gibbs among five headed to Hall
Tony Stewart and friends are heading to the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The three-time Cup Series champion will be inducted alongside his former car owner Joe Gibbs and teammate Bobby Labonte. Driver Buddy Baker and mechanic Waddell Wilson rounded out the Class of 2020.
“It totally changed from watching my moment to enjoying seeing the guy who helped build my career with Joe and then following that up with Bobby,” Stewart said about hearing his name called first. “It wasn’t about me. It was about all of us and this whole group that was going in.”
The NFL’s draft road show is headed to Cleveland in 2021 and Kansas City in 2023. No announcement has been made about 2020. Next year it will be in Las Vegas a few months before the Raiders move there . ... Tennessee agreed to terms on a deal with its top draft pick, Mississippi State defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons.
Former NFL player Cierre Marcelle Wood, 28, was ordered to stand trial on murder and child abuse charges in the death of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter soon after they moved into his Las Vegas apartment this year. Wood’s girlfriend, 25-yearold Amy Taylor, is jailed and faces a separate preliminary hearing.
Utah’s Rudy Gobert, Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo and Oklahoma City’s Paul George were the leading vote-getters for the NBA AllDefensive first team. Boston’s Marcus Smart and Milwaukee’s Eric Bledsoe rounded out the first team.
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps suffered losses in the men’s and women’s NCAA Division III tennis finals in Kalamazoo, Mich. The men lost 5-3 to Emory (Ga.) and finished the season at 33-2. The women fell 5-4 to Wesleyan (Conn.) to conclude a 27-2 season.
Caleb Ewan of Australia sprinted to victory on the 11th stage of the Giro d’Italia, while Italian cyclist Valerio Conti remained the overall leader.
A month after the NCAA voted to table a discussion regarding esports, “League of Legends” publisher Riot Games launched a governing body for its college and high school competitive video game activities: the Riot Scholastic Assn. of America.
The International Olympic Committee set up a vote on removing the sport’s governing body AIBA from organizing bouts at the 2020 Tokyo Games. The move will go before the full IOC at its June 24-26 meeting. The IOC intends to keep boxing’s 13 medal events on the Tokyo program.
Miranda Wang won the 20th hole of the final match on the course, giving Duke a 3-2 victory over Wake Forest for its seventh NCAA title in women’s golf.
Former champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga rallied past Canadian qualifier Steven Diez to reach the quarterfinals and extend his perfect record at the Lyon (France) Open.