Aric Almirola

There was no beating the Busches Friday at Texas Motor Speedway. The 42nd of 45 drivers to make a qualifying run in time trials for Saturday night's NRA 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, Kyle Busch took advantage of the late draw and stole the pole from...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Major League Baseball--Tampa Bay Rays at Boston Red Sox, San Francisco Giants at Chicago Cubs or Atlanta Braves at Washington Nationals, 11:30 a.m. (FOX); New York Mets at Minnesota Twins, 3 p.m. (FXSP) PGA Golf--Masters...

The black NASCAR truck with a white "54" on the side gleamed on pit road as its driver walked up for the night's race, prompting three dozen photographers and well-wishers to edge closer. The attraction was 19-year-old Darrell Wallace Jr. As Wallace...

|TODAY| |HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ TENNIS| Aberdeen Central and Roncalli at Sioux Falls Quadrangular (Brandon Valley, S.F. O’Gorman, 11 a.m. |COLLEGE BASEBALL| Northern State vs. Minnesota-Crookston, 11 a.m. at Sioux Falls   |TV SPORTS|...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Cycling--Paris-Roubaix, 7 a.m. (NBCSN) NHL Hockey--St. Louis Blues at Detroit Red Wings, 11:30 a.m. (NBC); Minnesota Wild at Columbus Blue Jackets, 5 p.m. (FXSP); New Jersey Devils at Buffalo Sabres, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) Auto...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Southampton at Reading, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) High School Basketball--National Invitational girls’ championship, 10 a.m. (ESPN2), National...

Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano knocked each other off the race track on the final lap of Sunday's Auto Club 400 -- allowing Kyle Busch to steal the win -- but it was Tony Stewart who left Auto Club Speedway fighting mad.   Yes, it was Busch's 25th ...

|TODAY| |COLLEGE SOFTBALL| Presentation at Bethany Lutheran Triangular in Rosemount, Minn., day two of two, vs. Finlandia, 12:30 p.m, and vs. Bethany Lutheran, 4:30 p.m.   |TV SPORTS| Major League Baseball—Boston Red Sox vs. Baltimore...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Men’s College Basketball--National Invitation Tournament, St. John’s at Virginia, 10 a.m. (ESPN); NCAA Division I Tournament, Ohio State vs. Iowa State, 11 a.m. (CBS), Indiana vs. Temple, 1:30 p.m. (CBS), Kansas vs....

|TV SPORTS| Major League Baseball--Philadelphia Phillies vs. Atlanta Braves, Noon (ESPN) NHL Hockey--Philadelphia Flyers at Tampa Bay Lightning, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) NBA Basketball--Miami Heat at Boston Celtics, 7 p.m. (ESPN); Minnesota Timberwolves at...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| College Softball--East Carolina at Alabama-Birmingham, 11 a.m. (FXSP) NHL Hockey--Boston Bruins at Pittsburgh Penguins, 11:30 a.m. (NBC); Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) Auto Racing--NASCAR Sprint Cup,...

|TODAY| |HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL| North Dakota| |Region 3 Tournament at Hazelton|  Napoleon vs. Edgeley-Kulm-Montpelier, 3 p.m.  LaMoure-Litchville-Marion vs. Kidder County, 20 minutes after  Ellendale vs. Central Prairie, 20...