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Ronaldo case kept with U.S. judge in Nevada

Published in Soccer
Monday, 08 February 2021 13:37

A U.S. Court of Appeals is letting a federal judge in Nevada decide claims by a woman suing football star Cristiano Ronaldo over a $375,000 hush-money settlement reached in a rape case more than a decade ago.

U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey said in September she would decide whether Kathryn Mayorga was mentally fit to enter the confidentiality agreement with Ronaldo's representatives in 2010.

Mayorga's attorney, Leslie Mark Stovall, appealed part of Dorsey's ruling that said a dispute over the legality of the agreement was eligible for arbitration. The ruling also allowed Ronaldo's attorneys to keep documents out of the case and stated that the case was not eligible for a jury trial.

The order by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was dated Jan. 13 and an attorney for Ronaldo in Las Vegas, Peter Christiansen, declined comment Monday about the case being returned to Dorsey.

Stovall did not immediately respond to telephone and email messages seeking comment.

The Associated Press generally doesn't name people who say they are victims of sexual assault, but Mayorga gave consent through Stovall in 2018 to be identified.

Mayorga, now 37, is a former teacher and model who lives in the Las Vegas area.

Stovall acknowledges she received money not to talk about meeting Ronaldo at a Las Vegas nightclub in 2009 and going with him and other people to his hotel suite where she alleges he sexually assaulted her in a bedroom. She was 25 at the time. He was 24.

Mayorga went public with the account in a lawsuit filed by Stovall in Nevada state court in September 2018. The case was moved to federal court a few months later.

Mayorga alleges that Ronaldo or his associates violated the confidentiality agreement by allowing reports of it to appear in European publications in 2017.

Ronaldo, 36, of Portugal, is one of the richest athletes in the world. He plays in Italy for the Turin-based football club Juventus and captains his home country's national team.

Through his lawyers, he has maintained sex with Mayorga was consensual.

Tampa mayor frustrated by maskless partiers

Published in Breaking News
Monday, 08 February 2021 14:42

TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa Mayor Jane Castor expressed frustration Monday over individuals not following her executive order for masks to be worn in certain outdoor areas of the city. The city handed out more than 200,000 masks, and still places such as Ybor City were packed with maskless crowds of partiers and concert-goers during weekend Super Bowl festivities.

"It is a little frustrating because we have worked so hard in cooperation with the NFL and the county and just a number of different entities, putting the executive order in place that masks had to be worn in specific areas that we knew groups would be congregating," said Castor, Tampa's former chief of police.

Those areas included outdoor areas near Raymond James Stadium, downtown Tampa and in entertainment districts, including Ybor City, the Channel District (Channelside) and the Central Business District. The order remains in effect until Feb. 13. This was in addition to the NFL requiring masks to be worn at all times inside the stadium and NFL events unless actively eating or drinking.

Before the Super Bowl, masks were only required indoors. Starting Sept. 25, as part of the state's Phase 3 reopening plan that allowed bars and restaurants to open at 100% capacity, Florida Gov. Ron Desantis banned localities from collecting fines from individuals not wearing masks. Castor had disagreed with the governor on this, believing local municipalities should be determining the rules most appropriate for their cities and counties. She also had disagreed previously with the governor on the reopening of bars and breweries.

Some local jurisdictions, like Miami -- the state's epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic -- fought DeSantis on this, but DeSantis signed an executive order prohibiting local governments from collecting fines from individuals, although private businesses have had the right to deny service to those not wearing masks. But some believe that leadership above Castor, as well as a "vacationer mentality," made Castor's job more difficult.

"Yes, we did see some videos," Castor said. "We did see some individuals that weren't wearing a mask. And at this point, in dealing with COVID-19, there is a level of frustration when you see that. It can be passed on to those individuals who are least likely to recover safely from it."

Still, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell praised the city Monday for putting on what the league deemed a safe Super Bowl, calling it an "extraordinary effort" to host the event. Events that were sanctioned by the NFL, including the NFL Experience, which moved outdoors, and the fireworks display along Riverwalk, saw good compliance.

"Really, the upside is -- the majority of individuals understood the significance of wearing a mask," Castor said. "They also understood their level of personal responsibility, and we couldn't have been successful without that."

"At this event a year ago, I don't think any of us would have imagined the challenges that we're going to have to face," Goodell said. "The can-do attitude of the people up here [the Super Bowl LV host committee, Castor and Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan] and so many others behind them -- it was really an extraordinary effort. We always say, 'It's a team game.' This was a great team up here. They really found a way to find solutions to difficult problems and really showed that this community is a 'can do' community who can make things happen."

But tailgates around the stadium, shopping malls, concerts, bars and clubs not affiliated with the NFL experienced problems.

Tom DeGeorge, owner of Crowbar, a live music, concert and events venue in Ybor City, expressed frustration over other businesses in his district not complying with orders. He saw the way the NFL and the city put an enormous amount of effort into the production of the Super Bowl on Sunday and at the NFL Experience, but he wishes local businesses could have received more help cracking down on violations and managing crowds, as he feels it was insufficient despite an increased police presence.

"For months, you've got area businesses saying, 'What are we gonna do with the overflow of increased traffic into our district to keep our people safe?' and it's not really being addressed, that's a problem," DeGeorge said, adding that he saw a number of local businesses violating ordinances, like allowing dance floors and putting money over safety. "You've gotta stop that many people coming in. We can't pretend these problems away, that when you have districts like Ybor and special events come into town, that we're not gonna be put in a situation where all of our health is at risk."

"Those places were packed, those people made a lot of money, and I just think it's really, really unfair to everybody else," DeGeorge said. "I just think that, as a city, the story that we wanted to come out and the way we wanted to portray it isn't necessarily what really happened here. And I think it's unfortunate that we're more concerned with PR than we are about truly taking care of our communities and the people that live here. It's very unfortunate. And it's gonna happen again when Wrestlemania comes around."

Sherman's plan: Two more seasons, then retire

Published in Breaking News
Monday, 08 February 2021 14:42

Set to become an unrestricted free agent in March, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman's next NFL stop is likely to be his last.

Sherman, who will be 33 in March and has long maintained that he wants to play until he's 35, told Stephen A. Smith on his ESPN+ show Stephen A's World on Monday that he intends to follow through on that plan and laid out what the rest of his NFL career might look like.

"I only want to play two more [seasons]," Sherman said. "I want to get on a competitive team. I think I still have a lot to give to the game. I think I still have a lot that I want to accomplish and I think I can go out there and help a defense come together like it should and reach their potential, reach the heights that the defenses that I've played on have reached."

When the new NFL league year opens on March 17, it will be Sherman's second foray into unrestricted free agency but the first time following the expiration of his contract. In 2018, Sherman quickly signed with the 49ers after the Seattle Seahawks released him after seven seasons there.

At the time, Sherman was coming off a ruptured right Achilles suffered in November 2017. Acting as his own agent, Sherman negotiated a three-year, $27.15 million deal with the Niners that included heavy incentives should he return to his previous All-Pro form.

Sherman did just that in 2019, earning his fifth Pro Bowl nod and a spot on the second-team All-Pro squad. But the 2020 season was essentially a lost one for Sherman, who had a calf injury all season and appeared in just five games.

In December, Sherman said it would take a "miracle" for him to return to the 49ers, given their many free agents and lack of salary-cap space to retain them. Among the players Sherman expects to get lucrative contracts from the 49ers before he would be in the mix are left tackle Trent Williams, cornerback Jason Verrett and linebacker Fred Warner, who is not yet a free agent but is entering the final year of his rookie contract.

That position hasn't changed, either, as Sherman is still expecting to depart. In speaking to Smith on Monday, Sherman mentioned the Las Vegas Raiders as a potential destination. New Raiders defensive coordinator Gus Bradley was Sherman's defensive coordinator in Seattle in 2011 and 2012 and is expected to install a similar defensive scheme to what Sherman played in with the Seahawks and the 49ers.

Furthering that connection, Raiders coach Jon Gruden raised some eyebrows last week when he appeared on the podcast Sherman co-hosts with Cris Collinsworth and told Sherman the Raiders "are looking for an alpha presence in our secondary, somebody that could play this Hawk 3-press technique with the read step. If you're available and interested, maybe you and I can get together at some point off air."

In addition to the Raiders, there's also an obvious tie to the New York Jets, who just hired former Niners defensive coordinator Robert Saleh as head coach.

No matter where he heads, Sherman seems intent on finishing his career on his terms and his timetable.

"After two years, I think I'm going to shut it down, regardless, because I'm sure I'll still get calls, I'm sure people still want to see if I have interest," Sherman said. "I think two more years and I'll be content where I'm at."

Also Monday, the 49ers announced they re-signed quarterback Josh Rosen to a one-year contract extension. Rosen, who was the 10th pick in the 2018 NFL draft, signed with the Niners on Dec. 23 after injuries to quarterbacks Jimmy Garoppolo and Nick Mullens and practice squad quarterback Josh Johnson landed on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Rosen was slated to become an exclusive rights free agent but now will get a chance to compete for a backup spot next season. He joins Garoppolo and Johnson as the only quarterbacks the Niners have under contract for 2021.

Sources: Pacers asst. resigns citing mental health

Published in Basketball
Monday, 08 February 2021 15:29

Indiana Pacers assistant coach Bill Bayno has resigned his job, citing mental health issues, sources told ESPN on Monday.

Bayno, 58, began a leave of absence two weeks ago and worked through terms of a departure with the organization in recent days.

Bayno has privately described a need to step away from the pressures and workload of the NBA grind amid the pandemic, especially in the aftermath of several personal losses, including the loss of both his parents.

His mother died in April of 2020 after a bout with cancer. His father died in 2019.

Bayno has also lost multiple close friends in the course of the pandemic. He doesn't rule out a future return to coaching, sources said.

Bayno, an assistant with the Pacers since 2016, had worked under former coach Nate McMillan and remained on staff with the hiring of the franchise's new coach, Nate Bjorkgren.

Bayno developed a strong reputation for his work in player development. He had previous assistant coaching stops with Portland, Minnesota and Toronto in the NBA, and two head coaching jobs in college, including a five-year run at UNLV that included two trips to the NCAA Tournament.

Bayno spent several months as head coach at Loyola Marymount in the 2008-2009 season, before taking a leave of absence and ultimately resigning on what he then described as "medical reasons and the advice of my doctors."

Angels agree to 2-year, $8.5M deal with Ohtani

Published in Baseball
Monday, 08 February 2021 14:30

The Los Angeles Angels and two-way player Shohei Ohtani agreed on a two-year, $8.5 million contract on Monday, a deal that provided both sides with cost certainty for two of Ohtani's three remaining arbitration years.

Ohtani and the Angels exchanged arbitration figures in January and the midway point was $2.9 million. The agreement, which avoids the need for a hearing, will pay Ohtani $3 million for his first arbitration year in 2021 and $5.5 million for his second in 2022. The pitcher and designated hitter from Japan will be arbitration-eligible again in 2023 before being scheduled for free agency.

Ohtani has only truly performed as a two-way player for the first two months of 2018 -- a stretch that preceded the torn ulnar collateral ligament that kept him from pitching for most of the next two years -- but first-year Angels general manager Perry Minasian said he will have "every opportunity" to resume that role in 2021.

The wide spectrum for his upcoming contributions made it tricky for Minasian and Ohtani's agent, Nez Balelo, to establish a reasonable salary figure for 2022.

"It was very difficult," Minasian said. "But I think that's where relationships come into play and communication comes into play, having an understanding of what the other side is looking at, and for ourselves, just kind of working together, both sides, coming to an agreement. It's a different type of player. There's not a lot of people that can do what this guy can do on a baseball field. For us to be able to come to a two-year agreement made a lot of sense."

Ohtani, 26, was the American League Rookie of the Year in 2018, providing a .925 OPS in 367 plate appearances and a 3.31 ERA in 51⅔ innings. He spent the 2019 season recovering from Tommy John surgery but batted .286/.343/.505 as the Angels' primary DH.

But he struggled during the shortened 2020 season, batting .190/.291/.366 in 175 plate appearances and recording only five outs in his first two starts before being diagnosed with a forearm strain.

Minasian wouldn't commit to any projections for how much Ohtani will pitch and hit this season but has continually lauded his offseason work.

"He's feeling great, he's ready to go," Minasian said. "Mentally, physically, he's definitely put in the work. And that's what's pretty impressive is just the amount of time and energy that this guy puts into his craft. When you combine that with the talent, I think we feel like he's going to be a huge part of this club and help us win games in multiple ways. We believe he's a difference-maker-type player."

Report: MLB slightly deadens ball amid HR surge

Published in Baseball
Monday, 08 February 2021 14:23

NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball has slightly deadened its baseballs amid a years-long surge in home runs, a source confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday.

MLB anticipates the changes will be subtle, and a memo to teams last week cites an independent lab that found the new balls will fly 1 to 2 feet shorter on balls hit over 375 feet. Five more teams also plan to add humidors to their stadiums, meaning 10 of MLB's 30 stadiums are expected to be equipped with humidity-controlled storage spaces.

A person familiar with the note spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Monday because the memo, sent by MLB executive vice president of baseball operations Morgan Sword, was sent privately. The Athletic first reported the contents of the memo.

The makeup of official Rawlings baseballs used in MLB games has come under scrutiny in recent years. A record 6,776 homers were hit during the 2019 regular season, and the rate of home runs fell only slightly during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season -- from 6.6% of plate appearances resulting in homers in 2019 to 6.5% last year.

A four-person committee of scientists commissioned by MLB concluded after the 2019 season that baseballs had less drag on average than in previous seasons, contributing to the power surge. Their report blamed the spike in part on inconsistencies in seam height.

MLB's balls are hand-sewn by workers at Rawlings' factory in Costa Rica, leading to inevitable, minor deviations in production that can have sizeable repercussions.

The league mandates all baseballs have a coefficient of restitution (COR) -- essentially, a measure of the ball's bounciness -- ranging from .530 to .570, but in recent years the average COR had trended upward within the specification range.

In an effort to better center the ball, Rawlings has loosened the tension on the first of three wool windings within the ball. Its research estimates the adjustment will bring the COR down .01 to .02 and will also lessen the ball's weight by 2.8 grams without changing its size. The league does not anticipate the change in weight will affect pitcher velocities.

The memo did not address the drag of the baseball, which remains a more difficult issue to control.

The Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Seattle Mariners, New York Mets and Boston Red Sox already have humidors. The five teams adding humidors were not identified in the memo.

Athletes ready to light up Liévin

Published in Athletics
Monday, 08 February 2021 15:11
Fields feature Britain’s new world U20 indoor record-holder Keely Hodgkinson and Jemma Reekie in the 800m, Laura Muir in the 1500m and five six-metre-plus vaulters

Many of the sport’s biggest stars will be in action as the second World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the year is held in Liévin on Tuesday (February 9).

The Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais will welcome five six-metre-plus pole vaulters including world record-holder Mondo Duplantis, an 800m field featuring Britain’s world under-20 indoor record-holder Keely Hodgkinson and double European under-23 champion Jemma Reekie, European champion Laura Muir in the 1500m and world indoor triple jump record-holder Hugues Fabrice Zango.

Joining Duplantis, who cleared 6.03m in Rouen, in the men’s pole vault are former world record-holder Renaud Lavillenie, Olympic champion Thiago Braz, two-time world champion Sam Kendricks and world bronze medallist Piotr Lisek, while the women’s competition features British record-holder Holly Bradshaw, who cleared 4.85m in Rouen, and Olympic champion Katerina Stefanidi.

Hodgkinson ran 1:59.03 in her first race of 2021 in Vienna, improving her previous best by more than two seconds to break the global under-20 record. Also on the 800m ‘A’ race start line will be her fellow Briton Reekie and world indoor fourth-placer Habitam Alemu. The ‘B’ race features Ireland’s Nadia Power, while men’s race entries include Britons Elliot Giles, Kyle Langford and Guy Learmonth.

READ MORE: Keely Hodgkinson smashes world under-20 indoor 800m record

Reekie’s training partner Muir goes in the 1500m where she will face world bronze medallist Gudaf Tsegay and European indoor 3000m bronze medallist Melissa Courtney-Bryant, with world indoor record-holder Samuel Tefera racing the men’s event along with Jakob and Filip Ingebrigtsen, Bethwell Birgen and Jimmy Gressier.

The women’s 3000m entries include double world champion Sifan Hassan and world steeplechase record-holder Beatrice Chepkoech, while world silver medallist Selemon Barega contests the men’s race.

World champion Grant Holloway, who has already clocked 7.35 this season, goes in the 60m hurdles against Wilhem Belocian, while the women’s field features world indoor silver medallist Christina Clemons, African champion Tobi Amusan and European indoor champion Nadine Visser.

Britain’s world leader Dina Asher-Smith had been due to contest the 60m but has withdrawn with a tight quad. In-form Ajla Del Ponte is among the entries and Arthur Cissé lines up in the men’s race.

World indoor champion Juan Miguel Echevarria is in long jump action and world leader Auriol Dongmo contests the shot put.

Startlists can be found here.

Fans in the UK will be able to watch the meeting live via the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website.

Larson Ready, Excited For Return To NASCAR

Published in Racing
Monday, 08 February 2021 12:00

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It’s been nearly a year since Kyle Larson last strapped into a NASCAR Cup Series race car to compete.

In that time a lot has happened to the native of Elk Grove, Calif. He lost his job at Chip Ganassi Racing and was suspended by NASCAR after the use of a racial slur, he barnstormed across the United States winning dirt-track races like it was going out of style and wrapped up the year by being reinstated by NASCAR and securing a job with Hendrick Motorsports.

While Larson’s story isn’t complete, it has the makings of one of motorsports’ greatest redemption stories.

“I feel extremely grateful,” Larson said Monday. “I never really thought I would get another chance to race in NASCAR and I kind of accepted that throughout the middle of last year and I tried to shift my focus towards what’s ahead in my new life of racing a bunch, driving up and down the road and stuff like that. I was trying to figure out how that would be with my family, my kids, once they start school.

“I’m grateful for the opportunity that Mr. H (Rick Hendrick) has given me. It’s pretty unbelievable and I’m very thankful. I hope to do a good job for everybody at Hendrick Motorsports and all my sponsors – just do a good job on and off the track to really take advantage of this second chance that I may not have deserved.”

A lot has changed since Larson last competed in a NASCAR event on March 8, 2020 at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Ariz. COVID-19 has since swept across the globe, forcing all forms of sport to adapt in order to continue.

NASCAR is no different. With the exception of a handful of events, most NASCAR Cup Series races will not feature qualifying or practice. Instead, most lineups will be set by a formula of statistics.

The schedule has changed drastically as well. Gone are tracks such as Kentucky Speedway and Auto Club Speedway, at least for now. They’ve been replaced by a multitude of road courses, including new events at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, and Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis.

While those would all be jarring changes for most people, for Larson the biggest change will be getting used to sitting in a stock car again as opposed to the sprint cars and midgets he drove most of last season.

Kyle Larson celebrates one of his many victories in 2020. (Paul Arch photo)

“I guess the biggest adjustment is getting the cockpit right,” Larson said. “Even though we have the measurements and stuff from when I was in the No. 42 car (at Ganassi), now things don’t maybe feel the same because I’ve been out of a car so long and my body has kind of gotten accustomed to sitting upright in a sprint car or midget. So, getting in the cockpit and trying to remember — OK the shifter feels normal there; my pedal distance feels right or it doesn’t; the throttle and brake geometry and stuff like that I think has probably been the toughest part to remember if that’s comfortable or not.”

Speaking of his dirt racing efforts, Larson isn’t giving that up. He’s publicly stated he plans to keep racing on dirt as often as he can when he’s not racing the No. 5 Chevrolet for Rick Hendrick.

“Dirt racing has always been something I can go back to whenever I’ve had a rough stretch of things in NASCAR and kind of turn my confidence around and get my attitude going in the right direction,” said Larson, who won the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals for the second consecutive year in mid-January. “That’s kind of what this past year of getting back to racing sprint cars and midgets, and even the late model stuff, kind of helped me do. And I’ve had my best season ever in a race car, so whenever you’re winning, that’s always helping things.”

One event on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule that most have assumed will be in Larson’s dirt wheelhouse is the inaugural NASCAR dirt race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway in March.

At this point Larson says he isn’t putting any additional thought or focus into that event. In fact, he’s not so sure he should even be considered the favorite.

“Being a dirt racer, maybe I’m just trying to downplay it, but I don’t think myself, (Christopher) Bell, Ricky (Stenhouse Jr.) or whoever the other dirt guys are in the field, aren’t going to have a huge advantage over everybody,” Larson explained. “I really believe that, if the weather cooperates and things like that, it’s going to be smooth, rubber down, one lane, kind of like a pavement race. So, I don’t think the running order is going to look much different than a normal race weekend at any other race track or any other oval.

“But I also don’t know because we haven’t been there yet, so I could be totally wrong. And I hope I am — I hope I’m way wrong and I go out there and dominate every time we hit the track and I hope I have an advantage over everybody. But I don’t think it’s going to be that big.”

However, before he gets to Bristol or anywhere else, Larson’s attention is focused squarely on Daytona Int’l Speedway for Sunday’s 63rd running of the Daytona 500.

“I feel like time has flown by for me up until these last two or three weeks,” Larson said. “It’s felt like forever to get down to Daytona. I drove my bus down yesterday and was just excited to get to that day — get to Sunday to get to drive it because I felt like once I got down here, things will start moving a little bit quicker again.

“It’s been so long since I’ve been in a Cup car. Now that I’m with a great team, there’s just a lot that I’m excited about. I’m excited to get on track, get racing and competing, and getting to work with a bunch of new guys.”

Era Motorsport Commits To Full IMSA Season

Published in Racing
Monday, 08 February 2021 12:57

INDIANAPOLIS – Era Motorsport, which recently won the LMP2 class during the Rolex 24, has committed to the entire IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship schedule.

Drivers Kyle Tilley and Dwight Merriman will race the seven-round championship and be joined by Ryan Dalziel for the remaining three North American Endurance Cup events.

“I’m thrilled to be able to announce our full-season effort,” said team owner and driver Tilley. “Our season last year was cut short, but it looks like we’ll certainly be making up for the lost track time in 2021. We had a strong run in last year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, which was our first IMSA race as a team. This year, we won, which felt like an incredible feat considering how competitive the field was this year. It still hasn’t settled in yet. We had decided before the race that we’d enter the full season, and starting the season off with winning the biggest race of the year is just further motivation to run the entire schedule.”

The team made their IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship debut last January, finishing third in their first professional sports car endurance race, the Rolex 24. In their three races to follow, the team landed on the podium each time. The team clinched their first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship victory last week at the Rolex 24.

In addition to running the full LMP2 schedule in the IMSA WeatherTech Series, the team has also announced Tilley and Merriman will compete in the Asian Le Mans Series with Andreas Laskaratos as the third driver in the No. 18 Oreca LMP2. The four-round championship begins this weekend at the Dubai Autodrome in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 13.

Red Robin Returns As PA Speedweek Sponsor

Published in Racing
Monday, 08 February 2021 13:00

ABBOTTSTOWN, Pa. – Pennsylvania Sprint Speedweek officials have confirmed that Red Robin Gourmet Burgers will return as the presenting sponsor of the annual event.

“Last year PA Speedweek was a huge success on many levels. We had great crowds, a superb field of cars and the partnership with Red Robin which made it one of the most successful Speedweeks in recent memory. We are pleased to welcome Red Robin back as the presenting sponsor of the 2021 Pennsylvania Sprint Car Speed Week,” said Alan Kreitzer, a member of the PA Sprint Speedweek Ass’n. “Red Robin continues to be a great supporter of sprint car racing and this partnership will help to advance the growing popularity and prestige of the PA Speed Week series.”

“Lehigh Valley Restaurant Group – Red Robin looks forward to continuing our partnership with sprint car racing by supporting the 31st Annual Pennsylvania Sprint Car Speedweek,” said Chris DeFrain, VP of Strategic Planning and Business Development at Lehigh Valley Restaurant Group. “We have been a locally owned and operated part of the central and eastern Pennsylvania communities for 28 years. Race fans have supported Red Robin, and we look forward to supporting race fans, teams and tracks during the most anticipated week in PA sprint car racing. Whether it is memories of your favorite restaurant or the first time you experienced PA Speedweek, we all fondly remember those times with family and friends.”

Lehigh Valley Restaurant Group – Red Robin has 21 locations in the Lehigh Valley, Northeast, Southeast and Harrisburg regions.

The 31st annual PA Sprint Speedweek kicks off on Friday, June 25 at Williams Grove Speedway for night one of 10 consecutive nights of racing.

Friday, June 25 – Williams Grove Speedway
Saturday, June 26 – Lincoln Speedway
Sunday, June 27 – BAPS Motor Speedway
Monday, June 28 – Lincoln Speedway
Tuesday, June 29 – Grandview Speedway
Wednesday, June 30 – Port Royal Speedway
Thursday, July 1 – Hagerstown Speedway
Friday, July 2 – Williams Grove Speedway
Saturday, July 3 – Port Royal Speedway
Sunday, July 4 – Selinsgrove Speedway

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