Kyle Busch, the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion who won more than 200 races across the three national series, died on May 21 following an illness, NASCAR announced.Busch was 41. He is survived by his wife Samantha and children Brexton and Lennix.We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sport's greatest and fiercest drivers. He was 41 years old.We extend our deepest condolences to the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and the entire pic.twitter.com/FARIF6OKrw NASCAR (@NASCAR) May 21, 2026His family and Richard Childress Racing initially announced that Busch was suffering from a "serious illness" earlier on May 21, nothing that Busch would miss the Cup Series race and Truck Series race in Charlotte this weekend.Busch, from Las Vegas, Nevada, was a once-in-an-era driving prospect who won his first O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race days after his 19th birthday. A year later, Busch won his first career Cup Series race at California at age 20 with Hendrick Motorsports.Brothers Kyle and Kurt Busch raced against each other in the Cup Series from 2005-22, both amassing Hall of Fame careers. Both were brash racers, unafraid of on-track controversy or conflict.Kyle Busch made the move from Hendrick to Joe Gibbs Racing in 2008 and won his first Cup Series title in 2015 despite missing 11 races with a leg injury. That year, Busch made the playoffs after winning four races in 15 regular-season events before making the Championship 4 and winning the finale at Homestead-Miami.Busch won his second Cup Series championship in 2019, bookending a five-year stretch where he won 27 races along with the two titles.He made a stunning move in 2023 to Richard Childress Racing after 15 seasons at JGR and being synonymous with the No. 18 M&M's Toyota. Busch's first season at RCR started with a surge, three wins over the first 15 races in the No. 8 Chevrolet.But Busch struggled since, going more than two seasons without a win. Busch's public persona has lightened over the last couple years as he reached his 40s and his son Brexton pursued the start of his own racing career. Busch's career finished with two Cup Series championships, the 2009 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series championship, 63 Cup Series wins, 102 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series wins and 69 Craftsman Truck Series wins. His final NASCAR national series victory came at Dover on May 15. Busch celebrated at the start-finish line as he had so many times after taking the win -- with a bow in front of the crowd, checkered flag in hand.FOX reporter Amanda Busick asked Busch on the frontstretch during his winner's interview why winning and celebrating never gets old."Because," Busch said, "you never know when the last one is."This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Kyle Busch dies at age 41, was NASCAR Cup champion twice

NASCAR icon Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion who won more races across the sport's three series than any other driver in history, has died at the age of 41.

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While frustration mounts across college sports and talk of breakaway conferences hits the hallways at conference's spring meetings, the leader of the agency formed to police name, image and likeness payments has a simple reminder: These are the rules you wrote.In an interview with The Associated Press this week at the Big Ten meetings, Bryan Seeley, the CEO of the 11-month-old College Sports Commission, said he has actually heard more good feedback than bad as he's started making the rounds at league meetings. The problem is that the bad stuff mostly revolves around issues that could break everything apart notably, the third-party NIL deals that have blown budgets sky high and become the fulcrum of the frustration for schools trying to figure out how to survive in an era where they pay players.I was hired to launch the CSC and enforce the rules as written, Seeley said. It is totally fine with us if the rules end up changing if there is consensus to change those rules. But until that happens, were going to enforce the rules as written and thats what we were told to do.Some athletic directors see an unsustainable modelMichigan State atheltic director J. Batt summed up the feelings of some administrators in California this week when he called the college system as it currently stands unsustainable.We've got to evolve the system, Batt said. That (has) potential for a lot of different tracks. Primarily, evolving the CSC to meet what has become an evolving landscape is important. The current state isn't working.Batt's comments came less than 24 hours after Ohio State AD Ross Bjork openly wondered to cbssports.com about the Big Ten potentially breaking away from the pack and writing its own rules. Washington AD Pat Chun told the website we created this fraudulent market to be able to compensate our athletes.The comments came in the same week that saw hopes scuttled again for federal legislation to resolve some of these problems. The Congressional Black Caucus and NAACP leveraged the recent Supreme Court ruling that paved the way for Southern states to redraw Black-majority districts into a call for Southern sports leaders, especially in the SEC and ACC, to speak up. House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said: If the SEC schools are for it, we are against it.Commission gets a win in arbitration that doesn't solve all the problemsSeeley flew to California a week after from what the CSC would term a win. In the first challenge to the CSC rejecting an NIL deal one involving contracts for Nebraska football players an arbitrator ruled in favor of the commission.Seeley said a lot of foundational issues were addressed in that one. Namely, the arbitrator ruled that a multimedia rights group in Nebraska's case, Playfly could be deemed an associated entity, which is key because the CSC is asked to evaluate all NIL deals that come via associated entities. Attorneys for athletes in the $2.8 billion House settlement responded by asking the judge now overseeing the landmark case to clarify whether the CSC is properly classifying thir parties like Playfly as associated entities.The arbitrator also dinged Nebraska and Playfly for warehousing the players' NIL rights essentially securing them for a purpose to be named later instead of having an actual deal to use them right away. Seeley said potentially a more serious problem is schools making guarantees about third-party NIL payments to players while recruiting them from the transfer portal, which is not allowed under NCAA rules. Deals aren't supposed to be signed until after the athletes are enrolled. And they are now finding it quite difficult to submit compliant NIL deals to meet those obligations, Seeley said. "Assuming that is true, that is clearly a problem. The question is, how should the industry attack that problem? You're seeing differences of opinion, in some ways based on whether you're a school who made those commitments or didn't.The CSC says it has cleared more than 26,000 NIL deals worth some $242.3 million through May 1 since its launch. Seeley says schools, not CSC, responsible for delays in approving casesSeeley said he hears criticism about a slow timeline to clear deals, which can leave schools in limbo, unsure if certain players are eligibile. But the CEO calls that a false narrative.Deals are being held up because they dont comply with the rules, Seeley said. And many times when we ask for information about the deals, we get no response, a partial response that doesnt answer our question, or, increasingly, false responses, which causes delays.Four months ago, at the NCAA Convention in Washington, Seeley made an impassioned plea for each 68 Power Four school to sign a so-called participation agreement that would lock in the CSC's authority.It will not go into effect until all the schools sign it but many have refused. Some have cited guidance from state attorneys general who say it's illegal for a public university to sign away its right to take legal action, the likes of which could still take place in the Nebraska case. Seeley views the agreement, along with federal legislation, as being important but still believes the CSC can be effective with those issues undecided.Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti agrees that the real drivers of change won't come from Washington but from conferences themselves."Can we get to make adjustments that we think we need, based on the real-time experiences of whats happened? Petitti said. And whats sustainable about that? How does it impact what were doing going forward? Because were going to still face that with or without Washington. So weve got to be willing to come up with some sustainable model.Seeley said the CSC wants to work with whatever model the schools develop. What he refuses to do is accept blame for enforcing the rules.We didnt write the rules, he said. But the issue now is not, is the CSC broken or not working? The issue is a lot of schools apparently didnt follow the rules.___AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football

The arrow is definitely pointing up for University of Texas star quarterback Arch Manning.Manning displayed toughness as a new starter last season for the Longhorns, overcoming a rough start and hasty bust labels for a passer with major upside.Although Manning completed 61.4 percent of his throws for 3,163 yards and 26 touchdowns with seven interceptions and rushed for 399 yards and 10 touchdowns in a more than respectable overall performance in leading the Longhorns to a 10-3 record, he still faced plenty of criticism.Inside the Longhorns program, though, they have witnessed serious progress from Manning. The New Orleans native and nephew of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning and former Super Bowl Most Valuable Player quarterback Eli Manning and the grandson of Hall of Fame quarterback Archie Manning has been fine-tuning his game throughout the offseason.The biggest thing that Ive seen from Arch, fundamentally, hes so much cleaner right now, Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said during a Touchdown Club of Houston luncheon emceed by KPRC 2 Sports Director Randy McIlvoy. He has really worked hard and thats going to really help him from an accuracy standpoint, especially in the short to intermediate game, where that completion percentage can go up.Texas @TexasFootball coach Steve Sarkisian on growth of quarterback Arch Manning @ArchManning @KPRC2 'Fundamentally, so much cleaner now. He has really worked hard and that is going to really help him from an accuracy standpoint. He learned about himself, had some real pic.twitter.com/LmfW9EvvKb Aaron Wilson (@AaronWilson_NFL) May 21, 2026Beyond the technical aspects of the game, Manning showed last year that he could endure big hits and heavy criticism.He played through a painful right foot injury, affecting his plant foot while throwing that happened against Texas A&M and put off surgery.The offensive line struggled at times. He was pressured a Southeastern Conference high 165 times. He was sacked 26 times, and avoided several potential sacks with fast footwork. He also dealt with receivers dropping 8.1 percent of his throws and a historically unproductive running game.The thing I think he learned about himself, he had some real adversity last year, and this guy found out about himself, Sarkisian said. And I think he found out about how physically tough he is, and I think his teammates did, too, and they credit him for that. All of your players that go to the draft, they always ask, Whos the toughest player on the team?Every one of them said Arch Manning. Think about that for a second. The quarterbacks the toughest guy on the team, but thats not only physical toughness, thats mental toughness. And so I think you gotta have that grit at the quarterback position. He was a work in progress his entire time here. Hell be a continued work in progress as we grow, but I wouldnt trade him for the world, man. Were fortunate to have him on our team this year. I think hes poised for a big-time season.Aaron Wilson is a Texans and NFL reporter for KPRC 2 and click2houston.com

Gerwyn Price brought proceedings to a dramatic standstill during his Premier League Darts semi-final against Stephen Bunting in Sheffield this evening.The Welsh star, known as the 'Iceman', spotted a troublesome spectator and immediately took matters into his own hands.Price was ahead 2-1 when he turned away from the oche and began pointing directly at a fan seated in the front row to the left of the stage.The 2021 world champion then gestured emphatically towards security staff, demanding they remove the individual from the venue.His wish was granted moments later, with the rest of the Sheffield crowd breaking into cheers and applause as the offending supporter was escorted out.The disruption came at a particularly awkward moment, with Bunting having just landed his first dart in the treble 20 bed during the fourth leg.As the Liverpudlian was preparing to follow up with another maximum, his concentration was shattered by the unruly fan.Both players worked alongside the referee to identify exactly who was causing the trouble.Sky Sports commentator Wayne Mardle didn't hold back in his criticism, saying: "It's a shame when people think they can pay good money and ruin everybody else's evening."Play was stopped mid-round in the match between Gerwyn Price and Stephen Bunting! pic.twitter.com/ujrotzTJr8 Sky Sports Darts (@SkySportsDarts) May 21, 2026 The atmosphere inside the arena shifted noticeably once the troublemaker was removed, with fellow spectators clearly delighted to see the back of them.Price never quite recovered his composure following the commotion, and Bunting capitalised brilliantly.The Bullet, who had earlier dispatched Jonny Clayton, went on to claim a gutsy 6-3 victory over his Welsh opponent.It was a crucial win for Bunting, whose slim hopes of reaching next week's finals at the O2 Arena depended entirely on taking the night.For Price, the defeat stings less given his play-off berth was already locked in after an impressive 2026 campaign.The Welshman will have plenty to keep him busy regardless, with the former world champion also set to compete at the UK Open Pool Championship next week.Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

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