NEW YORK – CBS Sports has revealed an all-star broadcasting team for the inaugural Superstar Racing Experience season, which debuts this summer on CBS and Paramount+.

The brand-new racing series will run on six consecutive Saturday nights in primetime beginning Saturday, June 12 at 8 p.m. ET. The announcing crew features veterans of the motorsports television industry, as well as current and former drivers.

Lindsay Czarniak, Allen Bestwick, Brad Daugherty and Matt Yocum will work all six races on the SRX schedule and bring viewers inside the made-for-TV racing series. Czarniak serves as host of the series, with Bestwick providing play-by-play of each race.

Daugherty serves as a roaming analyst, offering exclusive access to the inner workings of the series and showcasing the SRX experience.

Yocum is the series’ pit reporter, providing behind the scenes content with the drivers and crew members telling their stories at the track and beyond.

Each race will also feature a driver analyst, with Danica Patrick, James Hinchcliffe and Dario Franchitti each joining the broadcast team for two races on the schedule.

Patrick is scheduled to kick off the series as the driver analyst at Stafford Motor Speedway on June 12, as well as Knoxville Raceway on June 19.

Hinchcliffe is scheduled to join for the races at Eldora Speedway (June 26) and Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway (July 17), while Franchitti is scheduled to lend his voice to the races at Lucas Oil Raceway (July 3) and Slinger Speedway (July 10).

“The exceptional broadcast crew we have put together is a great reflection of what SRX is all about, bringing together all-stars from a variety of racing backgrounds to create a made-for-TV racing experience,” said Pam Miller, CBS Sports SRX Producer. “Each member of the team brings his or her own unique experience in the racing world with deep knowledge of the legacies involved and the entertainment value of racing.

“Between the amazing drivers behind the wheel, best-in-class television production and historic tracks, SRX will be a tremendous viewing experience for race fans across the nation.”

The six-race SRX series will feature drivers from a variety of racing backgrounds competing on short-tracks with a total emphasis on head-to-head competition in short, sprint races.

SRX has secured commitments from some of the sport’s biggest stars, including NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart, Tony Kanaan, Willy T. Ribbs, Paul Tracy, Helio Castroneves, Bobby Labonte, Bill Elliott, Ernie Francis Jr., Michael Waltrip and Marco Andretti.

MOORESVILLE, N.C. – With COVID-19 cases rising and a frustratingly slow vaccination rollout in Canada, the Honda Indy Toronto remains in doubt for the second year in a row.

Penske Entertainment CEO Mark Miles indicated a decision will be made by June 1 if the event scheduled for July 11 will be held.

That depends on whether the Canadian and local government health agencies are able to approve a public event, but so far that appears doubtful.

Miles said Wednesday morning if the Honda Indy Toronto race is not held this year, IndyCar would likely add an additional race to an existing weekend to create a doubleheader.

“If we needed to the most likely step would be a doubleheader on a weekend where we are already scheduled,” tipped Miles. “I won’t speculate at this point which one that would be, but we wouldn’t be looking at putting a different race in that date, we would be looking at adding one on a weekend we are already scheduled.”

Two prime possibilities would keep that event in the Green Savoree Promotions family, including the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, which is currently set for a single race on Sunday, July 4.

With the Toronto race scheduled for the next week, it could be moved to Saturday, July 3 with teams already in place at Mid-Ohio.

Another Green Savoree Promotions event is the Grand Prix of Portland, currently scheduled for Sept. 12. That is a single race weekend, so a Saturday race would fit into that schedule without any issues.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Doug Boles told SPEED SPORT last Friday at the Indy 500 Open Test that, if necessary, a Toronto “make-up” race could be held at IMS in October as the Harvest Grand Prix at Indianapolis.

That event was held as a Friday-Saturday doubleheader last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the IndyCar schedule, but the series was successful in creating a 14-race campaign.

For the second year in a row, an eight-hour sports car race with the Intercontinental GT Challenge will be held at IMS in early October.

Boles said if necessary, an IndyCar Series race could be held in conjunction with that race weekend, which would make it the final race of the NTT IndyCar Series season.

The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is currently scheduled to be the NTT IndyCar Series season finale on Sept. 26.

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NAPLES, Maine — The inaugural running of the Northeast Classic at Loudon’s New Hampshire Motor Speedway has been delayed for one more day.

American-Canadian Tour, Pro All Stars Series, and New Hampshire Motor Speedway officials have postponed the event until Sunday, April 18 due to weather concerns.

The open practice has also been moved back a day until Saturday, April 17.

The decision was made because of a Friday weather forecast in Loudon that calls for snow mixed with rain. However, temperatures are supposed to get progressively warmer throughout the weekend, reaching the high 50s on Sunday afternoon.

With open weekends on the NHMS, ACT, and PASS schedules at a premium, officials determined that moving everything back one day was the best solution.

All scheduled times will remain the same apart from the date change. Northeast Classic qualifying begins at 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 18, with the first feature rolling out at 1:30 p.m. The pits will open at 8 a.m. on Saturday and 7 a.m. on Sunday.

Northeast Classic camping has also been pushed back one day. Campers may enter the grounds on Friday and Saturday. Some camping slots are still available.

General admission tickets and pit passes will be sold at the track only. Grandstand tickets for Sunday are $30 for adults and $10 for kids ages 12 and under. Pit passes are $50 for Sunday only or $75 for Saturday and Sunday.

Face masks and social distancing are required per New Hampshire state guidelines.

“We certainly didn’t expect snow this week given the recent weather, but that’s the Northeast for you,” PASS president Tom Mayberry said. “Fortunately, we already had a Sunday weather date built into the schedule. By moving everything back one day, we can give teams and fans the race weekend they expected while still getting home in time for work on Monday.”

Dallas Stars goalie Ben Bishop and winger Alexander Radulov will both miss the rest of the 2020-21 season due to injury in a blow to the team's fading playoff hopes.

There was some hope at the trade deadline that Radulov could return to spark the Stars, but general manager Jim Nill said on Wednesday that the 34-year-old right winger will require surgery to repair a core muscle injury.

Radulov had 12 points in 11 games this season before leaving the lineup on March 18 with the injury. He had previously missed 15 games this season due to a lower-body injury. Dallas is 6-3-2 with the dynamic winger in its lineup this season and 9-11-10 without him.

Bishop, 34, had surgery last October to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. At the time, the prognosis was that he would return in five months. Bishop hasn't played a game this season, with veteran Anton Khudobin and rookie Jake Oettinger splitting time in goal for Dallas. Nill said, "It has been determined that Bishop will not return to play this season, allowing him time to continue his rehabilitation."

Both Radulov and Bishop are expected to be ready for the start of the 2021-22 season.

Dallas has also been playing this season without star forward Tyler Seguin, who underwent right hip arthroscopy and labral repair last October.

After being Stanley Cup finalists last postseason, the Stars have struggled to sixth in the Central Division with a .512 points percentage. They're seven points behind fourth-place Nashville for the final playoff spot but do have three games in hand.

The Stars' season was interrupted three times this season: twice for COVID-19 outbreaks on the team and once during the winter storm that hit Texas in March.

Danielle Kang knows that uneasy feeling is eventually going to come during the course of a round, be it on Thursday or Sunday or, perhaps, Wednesday, which is when this week’s Lotte Championship begins.

For a time, Kang wanted to suppress that feeling. It’s one she can’t fully relay verbally, but she’s aware that many in this COVID-19 era have felt it. If fear is too strong a word, anxiety might be more appropriately comprehensible.

Kang admitted, ahead of this week’s event in Hawaii, that she’s been having these feelings on the course for quite a while. Sometimes she handles it quite well, other times not so. “I've won a tournament feeling the way I felt and I've lost a tournament feeling the way I felt,” she said Tuesday at Kapolei Golf Club.

“I want to be able to be in control of how I feel. A lot of people can't. They can't control the way they think, the way they feel, but what I can do is work on it and practice how to accept that or deal with it better. That's one of the things I want to figure out.

“Kia, I failed. I doubled the last hole knowing it was going to happen. It's things like that. At ANA 18th I felt it, but knowing it's going to happen I almost holed out. It's sometimes hit or miss.”

Kang, 28, said she’s been working with, among others, swing coach Butch Harmon on embracing the feeling and not hiding from it.

“I try and create situations to feel it on purpose, because if I do it a million times maybe a million and one will be easier,” Kang said.

Trying to be even-keel isn't the answer. That's just not Kang. She’s an emotional person and player, and as her profile has risen in the game as she said, “everything is magnified.”

Kang won the first two events after the LPGA Tour’s return from the coronavirus hiatus last year, becoming, for a time, the top-ranked American in the world. She’s since picked up three more top-5 finishes, including a pair of seconds, and has one result outside the top 13 this season.

Once No. 2 in the world, she’s currently fifth, only behind Nelly Korda (fourth) among Americans in the Rolex Rankings.

This is the LPGA’s first event since the ANA Inspiration, where Kang finished 13th. The tour was off last week and Kang arrived early to Hawaii, hanging out with friends, enjoying “touristy stuff” and relaxing by the pool.

“It feels amazing. I really needed it. I think my girlfriends needed it as well,” she said. “I think everyone needs each other and that's what friends are for and families are for.”

Kang said she also watched the Masters as her friends made her turn on the TV. She told them, “Hey, it's a Friday. Relax. You got to wait until Sunday. Let's just watch the highlights. They were like, ‘No we got to watch this.’”

It’s now time to go from spectator – and vacationer – to competitor, which is the role Kang most enjoys. She said she wants to play as much as possible, to give herself as many uncomfortable moments as possible, because that one-millionth time might be the corner’s turn.

The journey continues in Kapolei, Hawaii, where the Lotte Championship will be contested Wednesday through Saturday (live Golf Channel coverage, every night from 7-11 p.m. ET).

It’s a good place to start a run that sees the tour go to Los Angeles, Singapore and Thailand in the next month.

“I feel really calm,” Kang said about competing in Hawaii, “and right where I need to be.”

Wake Forest senior Emilia Migliaccio nearly won the Augusta National Women's Amateur. She joins Amy Rogers and Adam Stanley on Episode 6 of "The Amy and Adam Show," to detail what it was like that week, on and off the course at ANGC, her whirlwind return to college and how's it's time to focus on her conference championship, regionals, nationals ... and finals.

Amy and Adam also discuss Amy's viral interview with Shanshan Feng at the ANA Championship and what lies ahead at this week's Lotte Championship in Hawaii. Listen below.

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Chief executives of cricket boards will start hammering out on Thursday what cricket's next eight-year calendar will look like. CEC (the ICC's chief executives' committee) meetings on the 2023-31 cycle have so far been exploratory in nature, in trying to suss out member views on various competitions, ICC events and the growing space domestic T20 leagues now occupy.

But the real work of getting the calendar into shape begins now, with two broad questions to answer: one, how much time is available for bilateral cricket given ICC events and domestic T20 leagues; and two, what should the structure of international cricket, including the World Test Championship (WTC) and the ODI Super League, look like?

These discussions are likely to be more complicated than ever, and not just because a common virtual window for every board to attend from around the world is relatively short and tricky. The demands on the calendar are growing and have amplified, even from the last time these discussions took place, across 2017-18. Ahead of the meeting, we look at the four issues that need resolving in the next calendar.

The neglected middle format: ODIs

T20s and Tests are fairly settled for the moment but it's the bilateral ODIs, and specifically, in relation to global ODI events, that is under the scanner. Ostensibly, the ODI Super League is providing context to bilateral ODIs with the reward of World Cup qualification at the end of it.

But a postponed start because of the pandemic - and with focus firmly on two T20 World Cups - it has yet to gain real traction and momentum. One of the points of discussion will be around an expanded 50-over World Cup - with 14, rather than 10 teams - though the push for this is coming from those Full Members who weren't in the last World Cup. Full Members like their teams to be in World Cups, as one official said, and there are currently 12 Full Members but a 10-team World Cup.

But if there is a larger World Cup in 2027, what happens to the ODI Super League? Currently, it has 13 teams out of whom the top eight qualify directly for the 2023 World Cup. If it was kept to a 13-team league but eventually 12 qualified from it, that would defeat the point of a league.

If that league becomes larger - and for 12-14 teams to qualify, it would have to be much larger - then it starts eating into the calendar, which already has less space in it. And there might still be an appetite for a World Cup qualifier tournament, given the great spectacle that was the 2018 tournament in Zimbabwe.

Nine or more for the World Test Championship?

Members see the WTC, by and large, as a success, enough in any case to indicate it will be around beyond the current cycle. The build-up to the finalists being confirmed, as well as the build-up to the final itself, has gone down well.

But the question hovering over the league is what to do with Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Ireland. The three are not part of the WTC in the league's second cycle which ends in 2023 but are keen to get some definition around their involvement going forward beyond that - even if it is a pathway that ultimately leads to inclusion.

When the league was first devised, the three weren't playing enough Tests to be part of it. They have only played ten Tests between them - Ireland just one - since the WTC began in July 2019. They have a slightly busier Test calendar while the second cycle of the WTC runs, but not by much.

The challenge, again, will be limited calendar space. Six series (three home and three away) over two years for each team works currently. Adding more teams will mean somehow squeezing more time out of the cycle, or not playing more than the six series but then diluting further the idea of a league in which a growing number of sides don't play each other.

That extra ICC event

In some ways, this extra event is at the heart of the game's current tensions. As things stand, the extra event - whether it is an ODI tournament or T20 - has been approved by the ICC board, despite objections from the BCCI.

But with CA and the ECB joining the BCCI in their opposition, and ICC chairman Greg Barclay suggesting an extra event was not a done deal, don't take it as final. It does have majority support among members currently - many of whom rely significantly on ICC event revenues - and is an acknowledged starting point for discussions, but whether that means it will remain by the end of these discussions is a different matter.

And if it is an ODI event, that will only complicate the status of the ODI Super League; how does that play into any such event? It used to be that ICC events would be scheduled into an eight-year cycle and members then went and simply built their own bilateral schedules around it. But with extra context now with the WTC and Super League - in essence, two more competitions - getting clarity on what they look like is equally as important as knowing when - and where - ICC events will be. Once members work out their bilateral match-ups in these competitions, a calendar can start to be built.

The other calendar

One of the main squeezes on the 2017-18 scheduling discussions were the various domestic T20 leagues members were running - an alternative calendar to the year essentially. At that time, South Africa's Mzansi Super League (MSL) and the PSL were difficult to work around in the sense that they took out two elite teams from international cricket for a total of six or so weeks between the October-March window - which is when the majority of members are in season.

This time, add to all those leagues SLC's Lanka Premier League, the Afghan Premier League, the Abu Dhabi T10, and from this summer, The Hundred. From 2022 also an expanded IPL, so more moving parts for members to juggle around. The ICC has no control over this, of course, but because they all eat into one calendar, it has a very direct impact on international cricket.

'Mr X', who gave Heath Streak two bitcoins while also presenting the former Zimbabwe captain with an expensive phone for his wife, is understood to be Indian businessman Deepak Agarwal, who was banned last year until 2022 by the ICC for breaching various anti-corruption codes.

On Wednesday, the ICC banned Streak for eight years after being found guilty for five charges, including failing to disclose approaches, facilitating contact with various players, and accepting gifts from a corruptor. The ICC described the corruptor as being from India and identified him only as "Mr X".

Agarwal, who is understood to be based in Delhi and is in his mid-30s, was also the corruptor who had approached former Bangladesh captain Shakib al Hasan, who was banned by the ICC after being found guilty on three charges, including failing to report approaches from the Indian businessman.

In December 2019, Agarwal himself was charged by the ICC's anti-corruption unit for being a "participant" in corrupt activities after being extensively probed by the ACU for over a year. While speaking to Agarwal in the days leading up to Christmas in 2018, the ICC's ACU team found Agarwal was "engaged" in WhatsApp conversations with an unnamed person the ICC had referred to as "Mr X" at the time.

This "Mr X" was facing several allegations the ACU had been investigating. He was a person Agarwal had to introduce to people, including players, with the intention of engaging them in corruption and get information from them. ESPNcricinfo understands that the "Mr X" in that context was Streak.

While banning him, the ICC said Agarwal was found guilty for "obstructing or delaying" an investigation including "concealing, tampering with or destroying any documentation or other information that may be relevant to that investigation and/or that may be evidence of or may lead to the discovery of evidence of corrupt conduct" under the ACU code.

During the investigation, Agarwal had handed in one of his phones from which ICC's ACU team found incriminating evidence, via WhatsApp conversations, of the corruptor attempting to influence Streak.

"In these conversations, Mr Agarwal effectively instructed Mr X as to what to say to the ACU over certain matters to ensure that they both told the same story (a story which on occasions was not true) and consequently misled or obstructed the ACU's investigation," the ICC said in a statement last April. "Mr X also sought clarification from Mr Agarwal over the interview process and what Mr Agarwal had told the ACU on certain matters. In effect, Mr Agarwal and Mr X contrived together to mislead the ACU investigation and not to tell the truth in their answers."

Today, the ICC revealed that before meeting up with the ACU team in January 2019, Streak "engaged in a series of WhatsApp messages with Mr X [Agarwal]", well aware that "Mr X himself had recently" been probed. "Prior to his interview with the ACU, Mr Streak engaged in a series of WhatsApp messages with Mr X, knowing that Mr X himself had recently been interviewed by the ACU. These WhatsApp conversations between Mr X and Mr Streak related to what Mr X had told the ACU in his interviews.

"In these conversations, Mr Streak has admitted that he and Mr X effectively discussed what Mr Streak should say in the interviews to ensure that they both told the same story (a story which on occasions was not true) and consequently he has admitted that his conduct in so doing could be construed as misleading or obstructing the ACU's investigation. Mr Streak also sought clarification from Mr X over the interview process and what Mr X had told the ACU on certain matters."