DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR officials handed down penalties to five Cup Series teams Tuesday for lug-nut infractions, including one-race suspensions for two crew chiefs after last weekend’s events at Phoenix Raceway.

Two cars — the No. 2 Team Penske Ford for driver Brad Keselowski and the No. 99 Trackhouse Racing Team Chevrolet for Daniel Suarez — were each found with two lug nuts not properly secured in a post-race check after Sunday’s Instacart 500. Each team’s crew chief — Penske’s Jeremy Bullins and Trackhouse’s Travis Mack — was fined $20,000 and suspended for the next Cup Series race.

Three cars were also found in violation of Section 10.9.10.4 (Tires and Wheels) in the NASCAR rule book, but with just one unsecured lug nut each. Those teams were assessed a $10,000 crew-chief fine apiece:

• The No. 1 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet for driver Kurt Busch (crew chief Matt McCall)
• The No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota for driver Kyle Busch (crew chief Ben Beshore)
• The No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for driver William Byron (crew chief Rudy Fugle)

NASCAR officials also issued a behavioral penalty to Jonathan Stewart, who is listed as an engineer for GMS Racing’s No. 21 entry in the Camping World Truck Series. Stewart was suspended indefinitely for a violation of NASCAR’s Substance Abuse Policy (Section 19) and Section 12.1, which outlines violations and disciplinary action.

There were no penalties from last weekend’s Xfinity Series event.

SALEM, Ind. – Former NASCAR star Ken Schrader will compete in his first Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Powered by JEGS event during the 50-lap Midwest 250 Presented by Scott County Tourism & Lucas Oil at Salem Speedway on April 25.

The event will be promoted by Track Enterprises and will also include 100-lap features for the ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS and the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance.

Schrader competed in 763 NASCAR Cup Series events from 1984 through the ’13 season, getting four wins and 64 top five finishes, with a best finish in points of fourth in 1994. Schrader also competed in 116 NASCAR Xfinity Series events and 105 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events, getting two Xfinity Series wins and one Truck Series win.

Schrader has competed in 84 ARCA Menards Series events with 18 wins, including a win at Salem Speedway in 1999 and again in 2015. Schrader has mostly competed in a dirt modified for the past several years. Schrader has competed in seven ARCA/CRA Super Series events in the past, this will be his first in a CRA Street Stock.

The Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks event with the Midwest 250 will be a warm up to the May 15 Lucas Oil Great American Stocks versus the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Challenge points event.

Blake Hillard won the last series event at Salem Speedway in 2018 after the Challenge event was rained out in 2019 and canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Brett Hudson won the only other series event held at Salem Speedway in 2017.

NEW YORK -- National Women's Hockey League founder and former commissioner Dani Rylan Kearney resigned Tuesday from her post as an adviser to the league and president of the entity that owns four of its six teams.

The NWHL and W Hockey Partners announced her departure. W Hockey Partners owns the Buffalo Beauts, Connecticut Whale, Metropolitan Riveters and Minnesota Whitecaps.

Rylan launched the NWHL in March 2015 and was commissioner until October. She stepped down at that point and was replaced then by interim commissioner Tyler Tumminia.

The league is aiming to finish its season March 26-27 in Brighton, Massachusetts, outside Boston after suspending play in its Lake Placid, New York, bubble before the playoffs because of virus concerns.

Tiger Woods is getting back into the video-game space.

Woods and 2K have agreed to an exclusive, long-term partnership that includes Woods’ name and likeness appearing in the PGA Tour 2K franchise, which debuted last year with PGA Tour 2K21. Woods will also play an active role as an executive director and consultant with PGA Tour 2K, which has sold nearly 2 million units to date and features officially licensed PGA Tour professionals, courses, gear and apparel brands.

“I am looking forward to making my return to the video game landscape, and with 2K and HB Studios, I’ve found the right partners to make it happen,” Woods said back in January. “I’m honored to take part in this opportunity and look forward to sharing my expertise and insights as we build the future of golf video games together.”

2K also announced that it is acquiring HB Studios Multimedia Ltd., the developer for 2K21 and also The Golf Club series, which predated the 2K franchise.

Rory McIlroy admitted after missing the cut at The Players that the chase to gain speed has had a negative impact on his swing. GolfChannel.com senior writers Ryan Lavner and Rex Hoggard weigh in on the "Bryson Effect" on McIlroy and others.

They also discuss Justin Thomas' emotional victory at TPC Sawgrass and what it was like watching the crowds watching DeChambeau. Listen below:

R Ashwin was one of the star performers for India in the back-to-back Test series wins in Australia and against England at home. But, even as he picked up 44 wickets at 18.56 in seven Test matches, his expertise (or lack of it) with DRS did raise an eyebrow or two. He knows it, and - tongue firmly in cheek, wide smile in place - shifts the blame to Rishabh Pant for the poor success rate with reviews of late.

"I think we need to change the lens with which people are looking at me with the DRS," Ashwin, a guest at the India Today Conclave 2021, said. "Sometimes what people are telling us might not be true, because before this series against England, my DRS was extremely good. Because when you take DRS, you need to rely on the keeper's resources.

"Because I ask valid questions in terms of saying… I know whether the ball has struck in line or not, but with respect to the line from the angle that I am bowling and the bounce, the keeper really needs to help."

And then came the light-hearted blame game: "And Rishabh is actually letting me down on a lot of occasions. I took him aside and I said, 'we need to sit together on a crash course with DRS, because Ravi bhai (Shastri) has a few complaints with me going for DRS'."

Cue a lot of laughs, as expected. Jokes aside, Ashwin does want to fix the issue. "So, honestly, yeah, if there is one improvement I would like to make it's go for better DRS in the future series, I will hold myself in check."

Since the start of 2018 till the start of the England series, in the 19 Test matches Ashwin played, 20 reviews were asked for by the Indians when he was bowling. Of those, four were overturned upon appeal, five were deemed to be umpires' calls, and 11 reviews were squandered. In the four Tests against England, India got one review right when Ashwin was bowling, while nine were lost and one was an umpire's call.

Next up for Ashwin, who is not a part of India's white-ball teams, is the IPL, where he will be a part of the Delhi Capitals again, with Pant as well. There's something for the two of them to chat about.

Mohammad Naveed, the former UAE captain, has declared his intention to begin a fight to restore his reputation after the ICC handed down an eight-year ban to both Naveed, 33, and his team-mate Shaiman Anwar, 42, for breaching the ICC's anti-corruption code. Naveed will be 40 by the time the ban, which is back-dated to his provisional suspension date of October 16, 2019, is due to end.

It effectively means his career as a professional cricketer is over unless the ban is overturned. Naveed took to Twitter shortly after the sentence was announced on Tuesday to swing back at the ICC for the penalty handed out to him.

"Played my Cricket with sincerity from an associate player reached rank 10 cz I always performed for my passion and respect," Naveed tweeted. "Just one mistake not reported corrupt approach but never involved in these things. Witnesses and all people from these things said m [sic] not involved.

"So my request to all. I will fight for my right and honor don't want leave Cricket with bad words. According to all things m [sic] not involved and Management asked me to accept and get 3 year ban how can banned 8 years sorry but as attack bowler will fight."

In reply to a tweet from ICC ACU coordinator of investigations Steve Richardson linking to the ICC's announcement of the eight-year ban, Naveed replied, "You have any proof against me please show." Naveed responded to Paul Radley of the National, who has worked as a beat reporter covering the UAE national team for more than a decade.

"I want open media tribunal," Naveed wrote. "If they have proof just show on media openly I am a fighter as I always bowl in pressure will face every thing. Don't want to leave my cricket with bad and dirty way. All other players in the world are getting 2 year 3 year ban after accepting everything even I havnt [sic] done bad."

Anwar also tweeted for the first time in close to a year in Tuesday night. Like Naveed, he also sought to criticize the ICC's decision despite the evidence against him.

"It's totally unfair decision we are getting punishment on those which are not happened," Anwar wrote. "As associated players imagine who can offer us a big money."

In a recent interview with ESPNcricinfo, ICC general manager of the integrity unit Alex Marshall said that Naveed and Anwar were vulnerable to corrupt influence due to a multitude of factors.

"Corruptors will look at what they believe to be the motivation of the people they are approaching," Marshall told ESPNcricinfo. "So if the corruptors think that someone's sole motivation is money, whatever country they're in is just to earn money and they have no particular allegiance and they're playing simply for money, then certainly the corruptors think that person is more susceptible than someone who is not just playing.

"Amongst the Associates, there are plenty of countries where the players are amateurs, it's costing them money to play for their country but they're doing it because they're very proud and they love the sport. If you look at it from the corruptors point of view, and I keep going back to the UAE players because there are some cases still coming through the system, it's quite clear that the corruptors felt that they were motivated by money, some of them, and they felt it was worth approaching them.

"What makes the top Associates so attractive to the corruptors is the relatively low cricket income that people from Nepal, the UAE, Oman, some of the African cricket nations…they are being paid very little if anything at all. If you look at the bottom end of the Full Members, Zimbabwe would be a good example. They are amongst the poorest of the Full Member nations and we see players there being offered $30,000 to commit corrupt conduct. We see players in the Associates getting offered $10,000. We see players in European club matches getting offered 3,000 Euros. So that's the sort of scale of the offers. $10,000 to someone in some of these places is an awful lot of money. $30,000 in Zimbabwe would probably buy you a house."

According to testimony within the ICC tribunal document, the two UAE players were offered a total of 1.6 million UAE Dirhams ($435,000), to underperform - Naveed to give away runs while bowling, Anwar to score slowly while batting - in three separate matches at the 2019 T20 World Cup Qualifier. The sum offered to them would be up to 10 times their annual earnings on a UAE central contract.

"They [corruptors] wanted to control the opening batting, the opening bowling and the captain. So that is the absolute ideal for them," Marshall told ESPNcricinfo. "The opening bats both score slowly. Those small number of corrupt bookies take unlimited bets on how many runs will be scored in the opening phase of the match or the powerplay, and they'll also take unlimited bets on the number of runs conceded by those bowlers because if they manage to corrupt the bowlers, they know they're gonna concede more than 12 or 15 runs in an over."

"If there is interest in the match, interest in the profiles of the teams, there will be a decent betting market. They then look for which of those players might be susceptible. In the UAE example, Naveed and Shaiman Anwar fit into that very well. They were late in their career. They're about to retire. They were seen as worth approaching and they were playing in matches that have got a decent profile and a reasonable betting volume."

Heinrich Klaasen and Lara Goodall have been awarded their first national contracts by CSA, with Klaasen replacing Faf du Plessis and Goodall included with an additional women's contract becoming available. With 16 men and 15 women contracted, the board has also left open the possibility for anyone selected in the national teams in the 2021-22 season to be upgraded to a central contract.

du Plessis, who retired from Test cricket last month but remains available for white-ball selection, has not been recontracted by CSA. That will leave him free to pursue opportunities in T20 leagues around the world, and he will remain eligible to play for South Africa at upcoming ICC events. His contract has gone to Klaasen, who captained South Africa's second-string T20I side in Pakistan, and has been part of the white-ball squads.

Goodall, who played a starring role in South Africa's series win against India, will get additional funds, as CSA prepares for several upcoming world tournaments.

"We are about to enter into a very important cricket season with ICC World Cup events for both the men's and the women's teams and we are confident that we have the correct personnel and necessary depth within the system to produce teams that will challenge the best in the world in the coming 12 months," Pholetsi Moseki, CSA's acting chief executive, said. "On behalf of CSA, I would like to congratulate Lara Goodall and Heinrich Klaasen on their newly awarded contracts. Their performances on the field of play as well as the way they have carried themselves off the field has done the talking for them and we are pleased to reward the hard work that they have put in."

The announcement of the contracts means that South Africa's domestic teams can now finalise their squads for next summer. The current six set-up is being revamped and reduced to eliminate the franchises and include 15 provincial teams playing in two divisions. The eight teams in the top division would be allocated funds to contract 16 players each, while the seven teams in the second division can contract 11 players each. In total, there will be 75 fewer contracts available for players at the domestic level.

Men's contracts: Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock, Dean Elgar, Beuran Hendricks, Reeza Hendricks, Heinrich Klaasen, Keshav Maharaj, Aiden Markram, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Andile Phehlukwayo, Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Rassie van der Dussen

Women's contracts: Dané van Niekerk, Trisha Chetty, Nadine de Klerk, Mignon du Preez, Lara Goodall, Shabnim Ismail, Sinalo Jafta, Marizanne Kapp, Ayabonga Khaka, Masabata Klaas, Lizelle Lee, Suné Luus, Tumi Sekhukhune, Chloe Tryon, Laura Wolvaardt