car racing
Ken Squire, a longtime NASCAR broadcaster, has died. He was 88 years old.
Squire died Wednesday night in Waterbury, Vermont, according to the owner of the local WDEV radio station, which Squire owned.
“Ken Squire has never sat behind the wheel of a stock car, but like any of our competitors, he has led the growth of NASCAR,” NASCAR Chairman and CEO Jim France said in a statement. contributed to.” He called him a great storyteller whose voice is the soundtrack to many great NASCAR moments.
Mr. Squire opened Thunder Road Speedway in his hometown of Barre, Vermont in 1960. Vermont Governor Phil Scott, a stock car racer, called Squire “a true Vermont legend and a dear friend to me and many others.”
Mr. Squire was the lead announcer for the Daytona 500 on CBS from 1979 to 1997 and also worked for TNN and TBS. He was inducted into his NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2018.
golf
European tour: Nikolai Hejgaard shot a 5-under 67 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to maintain a share of the first-round lead at the season-ending World Tour Championship.
French players Julien Guerrier and Mathieu Pabon tied with Hodgegaard. Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm stumbled in the closing stages and fell off the leaderboard. McIlroy hit three bogeys in his final seven holes for a 71, while Rahm finished with a bogey-bogey 72.
LPGA: Ruoning Ying started with five birdies through eight holes, played without a bogey, and shared the lead with Nasa Hataoka with a nine-under 63. Participated in the CME Group Tour Championship held in Naples, Florida.
Minjee Lee made a 30-foot birdie putt from the 18th green at Tiburon Golf Club to come within one shot.
PGA: Cameron Young birdied the final hole in the dark and held his match through the worst of the rain to finish among the players who managed to finish the first round of the RSM Classic in St. Louis with a 6-under 66. He shared the lead with Eric Cole and Davis Thompson. . Simons Island, Georgia.
Only 65 players from the 156 player field completed the first round.
tennis
ATP finals: Novak Djokovic bounced back from his first loss in four months to beat Hubert Hurkas 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-1 in the final group match in Turin, Italy.
Djokovic then got the help he needed from Jannik Sinner and qualified for the semi-finals of the final tournament of the season among the top eight players of the year, with Sinner defeating Holger Ruhn 6-2, 5-7 to advance as second in the group. did. , 6-4.
soccer
EURO 2024 Qualifying: Hungary booked their place in the European Championship for the third consecutive year thanks to an own goal in stoppage time in a 2-2 draw with Bulgaria, which was interrupted by violent clashes outside an empty stadium.
After trash cans were set on fire in the capital Sofia, Bulgarian fans threw makeshift bombs, stones and plastic bottles at police, who responded with water cannons. Local media reported that several demonstrators were injured.
Teenager Lamine Yamal scored the goal to defeat Spain 3-1 and maintain first place in the qualifying group.
Spain and second place Scotland have already qualified for next year’s European Championships.
World Cup Qualifiers: Mohamed Salah continued to score goals from Liverpool to Cairo, scoring four goals in Egypt’s 6-0 win over Djibouti.
It was Egypt’s first match in the African qualifiers for the 2026 Expanded World Cup.
hockey
NHL: Tim Stuetzle scored an aerial goal with two seconds left in overtime as the Ottawa Senators squandered a 4-0 lead to beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-4 in Stockholm.
The match was the first of four games played on four consecutive days in the Swedish capital as part of the league’s Global Series.
– News Service Report
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