INDIANAPOLIS – Hayden Reinbold will contest the full USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget Series schedule this season for Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports.

The 16-year-old native of Gilbert, Ariz., made his first four career series starts last year, racing at Gas City (Ind.) I-69 Speedway, Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway, Wayne County Speedway in Wayne City, Ill., and Arizona Speedway in San Tan Valley, Ariz.

Those four races allowed Reinbold to rank 25th in the final standings last season.

Reinbold will join a USAC National Midget Series rookie class that also includes Bryant Wiedeman, Brenham Crouch, Austin Barnhill, and teammate Chase Randall, who will kick off the season with Reinbold in a two-car team effort.

The duo will both race at the three-eighths-mile Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, Fla., on Feb. 5-6 during Winter Dirt Games XII.

“I am proud to be running my family’s car again this year and I hope to contend for Rookie of the Year,” Reinbold said. “I feel my experience from last year will help with that. I look forward to working more with (crew chief) Tyler Ransbottom this year too.”

This will be the first time that team owners Andy Reinbold and Todd Underwood’s have fielded a car for the complete USAC National Midget Series schedule.

“Our entire team is excited to run the full USAC midget schedule for the first time, but having my son be the driver makes it all that more special for me personally,” said Andy Reinbold. “I understand Hayden is still young and learning, but with our equipment and team, I expect him to do well and grow as a driver tremendously this year.”

Kolkata Knight Riders have hired England's white-ball analyst Nathan Leamon as a strategic consultant ahead of IPL 2021.

Leamon, who has been involved with the England team since 2009, has worked closely with Eoin Morgan - the Knight Riders captain - in recent years. He will be involved with the franchise's auction planning, and will work alongside AR Srikkanth, their current performance analyst, during the season.

It is understood that Leamon will take a leave of absence from the ECB during the tournament itself, after they recognised the value in him spending two months at the IPL working alongside Morgan ahead of the T20 World Cup in India later this year.

The Knight Riders finished mid-table at fifth in IPL 2020, which was played in the UAE, with seven wins and equal number losses, closely losing out on a playoff spot. It was also the first time the franchise had been coached by the former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, a close friend of Morgan, who was appointed captain by the Knight Riders midway into the 2020 season after Dinesh Karthik stepped down abruptly.

Morgan found himself defending Leamon in December after England trialled a system of coded signals from the dressing room to the pitch during their T20I series in South Africa, which suggested a choice of bowler and a possible field through a letter and a number. Morgan said there was "nothing untoward" about the trial and said it was "100% within the spirit of the game".

Leamon's previous experience working in franchise cricket includes his time with Multan Sultans in last year's Pakistan Super League, but a clash between the tournament and the white-ball leg of England's tour to India means he will not return to that role this year.

The IPL auction will be held on February 18. The Knight Riders have eight slots available, including two for overseas players after releasing Tom Banton and Chris Green from their 2021 squad. They have the joint-smallest purse remaining alongside Sunrisers Hyderabad, at INR 10.75 crore (USD 1.47 million approx).

CHELMSFORD, Mass. – The calendar for the upcoming eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series season was released Sunday night, featuring a diverse slate of 18 races.

Fourteen of the 18 venues return from 2020, but several of the races have new dates, including Texas Motor Speedway – which replaces Phoenix Raceway as the season finale.

The schedule opens with the traditional non-points Clash as a preseason exhibition race on Monday, Feb. 1 at Daytona Int’l Speedway, one week before the points opener at Daytona, which kicks off the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series for the 12th year in a row.

Homestead-Miami Speedway moves up from the third race of the season to become the second act of the new year, while Las Vegas Motor Speedway shifts forward from September to early March.

Michigan Int’l Speedway becomes the regular-season finale on Aug. 17, after which the eight-driver playoff field will be finalized, while Darlington (S.C.) Raceway is back as the playoff opener on Aug. 31.

Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway takes a late-September date and becomes the second race in the Round of 8 of the playoffs, while Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway becomes the cutoff race before the Championship 4 are set to race for the $100,000 championship prize.

Pennsylvania’s Pocono Raceway returns to the schedule after a one-year hiatus, while Watkins Glen (N.Y.) Int’l rejoins the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series lineup for the first time since a three-year run on the calendar from 2014-’16.

New to the series this season are two tracks – Circuit of the Americas and Road America – which gives NASCAR’s top officially-sanctioned esports series multiple road course rounds for the second year in a row.

This year’s eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series slate represents a two-race contraction from last season’s record-setting 20-race schedule.

Nick Ottinger of William Byron eSports is the defending eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series champion, securing his first series title last year in his ninth full-time season.

2021 eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series Schedule

Date – Venue – Location

Feb. 1 – Daytona Int’l Speedway – Daytona Beach, Fla. *
Feb. 8 – Daytona Int’l Speedway – Daytona Beach, Fla.
Feb. 23 – Homestead-Miami Speedway – Homestead, Fla.
March 2 – Las Vegas Motor Speedway – Las Vegas, Nev.
March 16 – Atlanta Motor Speedway – Hampton, Ga.
March 30 – Auto Club Speedway – Fontana, Calif.
April 13 – Richmond Raceway – Richmond, Va.
April 27 – Kansas Speedway – Kansas City, Kan.
May 18 – Circuit of the Americas – Austin, Texas
May 25 – Charlotte Motor Speedway – Concord, N.C.
June 22 – Pocono Raceway – Long Pond, Pa.
June 29 – Road America – Elkhart Lake, Wis.
July 13 – New Hampshire Motor Speedway – Loudon, N.H.
July 27 – TBA – TBA **
Aug. 3 – Watkins Glen Int’l – Watkins Glen, N.Y.
Aug. 17 – Michigan Int’l Speedway – Brooklyn, Mich.
Aug. 31 – Darlington Raceway – Darlington, S.C.
Sept. 14 – Bristol Motor Speedway – Bristol, Tenn.
Sept. 28 – Talladega Superspeedway – Talladega, Ala.
Oct. 12 – Texas Motor Speedway – Fort Worth, Texas

* – Preseason Clash, non-points exhibition race
** – All-Star Race, non-points special event

SAN DIEGO – Although there were plenty of quiet comments among players after Patrick Reed’s controversial drop on the 10^th hole during the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open, few wanted to speak out publicly on the incident.

Following his runner-up finish, Tony Finau was asked if he was comfortable with the ruling, to which he responded: “Yeah, at the present time, the circumstances they were in, I think all the procedures that they went through were proper. The official deemed that it was an embedded golf ball, so he took his club length and took relief.”

Reed, who closed with a 68 for a five-stroke victory Sunday at Torrey Pines, reiterated that officials had reviewed the replay and ruled that he had not violated any rules.

But at least a couple of players seemed skeptical that he did everything correct.

Asked if he would have picked up his golf ball like Reed and placed it in another spot before a rules official arrived to review the drop, Xander Schauffele said he would not have.

“I would wait for an official. He did everything by the book according to the official and everyone stood by there,” Schauffele said. “The talk amongst the boys isn't great, I guess, but he's protected by the Tour and that's all that matters, I guess.”

Lanto Griffin went a little deeper: "Golf's a game of sportsmanship and it's tough to put us in the spot to call him out because we weren't there, but at the end of the day I think 99 percent of the golfers out here, if it's in question one way or the other, they're going to go the other way, not taking a drop, it didn't cross, that type of deal.

"So, it's tough to see, it's sad, kind of pisses us off, but it's the way it is. Hopefully something changes and come to a conclusion."

SAN DIEGO – Before teeing off for the final round, Rory McIlroy wasn’t shown the video of his second shot into the 18^th hole on Saturday at the Farmers Insurance Open. Given his emotional response to the video after his round it was probably best officials waited.

On Saturday, McIlroy’s second shot at the par-5 18^th hole landed in the right rough. He deemed his golf ball to be embedded and after informing the other players in his group he took relief, which is allowed under the Rules of Golf. None of the volunteers around McIlroy’s ball had seen it land.

Earlier on Saturday, Patrick Reed had taken a similar drop for an embedded ball on No. 10 but video showed that his ball had bounced when it landed, creating questions as to how it could have embedded.

“I came in here yesterday after hearing about what Patrick had been through on the 10th hole, sort of giving him the benefit of the doubt because I just went through a similar thing on 18 yesterday,” said McIlroy, who closed with a 73 to tie for 16^th. “If a ball bounces up and comes to rest in a pitch mark or in a lie that's not the pitch mark that it made, then of course it's very hard for it to be embedded, but I feel the way my ball was definitely in its own pitch mark, it had to be, and that was why I was so confident to take relief.”

McIlroy was shown the video of his ball bouncing when it landed on No. 18 – video that wasn’t shown during the telecast – following the final round and officials ruled that he’d done nothing wrong under the Rules of Golf. Officials made the same ruling for Reed.

But the ruling by officials did little to ease McIlroy’s mind. The Northern Irishman took a drop in deeper rough than he had to at last year’s PGA Championship because he “didn't feel right” with the lie he would have been given.

“Like everyone out here, it's the worst thing in golf to be labeled as someone that tries to get away with something or labeled a cheater and that's just not how you want your reputation to be,” McIlroy said. “I've never tried to get away with anything out here. Our game is about integrity and it's about doing the right thing. I always try to do the right thing and hopefully people see that. I feel like I have a reputation of that.”

Paul Arriola, Jesus Ferreira and Jonathan Lewis all scored twice as the United States men trounced Trinidad and Tobago in a friendly in Orlando on Sunday night.

Gregg Berhalter's squad for the friendly was made up of domestic players, as top stars like Christian Pulisic and Tyler Adams weren't called in with the match falling outside of a normal FIFA window.

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However, the U.S. wasted no time getting on the scoresheet, with Lewis and Ferreira both finding the net inside of 10 minutes to stake the hosts to an early 2-0 lead.

Arriola extended the Americans' advantage just after the 20-minute mark, burying a first-time shot from a Ferreira assist following a quick-hitting counter-attack by the U.S.

The hosts continued to dominate the remainder of the first half and saw Arriola score again before the break from another Ferreira assist as the U.S. took a 4-0 lead into the dressing room.

Aaron Long, the U.S. captain on the night, set up the first U.S. strike after the restart, heading the ball back across the Trinidad goal that Miles Robinson knocked in for his first career international goal.

Lewis added his second and the Americans' sixth goal of the night, cutting inside from the left flank and blazing a powerful right-footed shot past helpless Trinidad keeper Adrian Foncette.

The onslaught continued for the U.S. with Ferreira scoring again shortly after the hour mark when he settled a pass into the area from Jackson Yueill with his first touch and beat Foncette at the far post with his second.

Trinidad and Tobago had the chance to score from a penalty in the 65th minute, but Matt Turner, making his debut in goal for the U.S., guessed right on Alvin Jones' spot kick and made the save to preserve his clean sheet.

In addition to the U.S. U23 team preparing for Olympic qualifying iand a pair of senior friendlies in March, the Americans are also looking ahead to a CONCACAF Nations League semi-final against Honduras in June and the start of World Cup qualifying at Trinidad in September as part of very busy 2021.

Former LSU tight end Arik Gilbert announced on social media on Sunday that he's transferring to Florida.

Gilbert was the No. 6 ranked prospect in the 2020 class out of Marietta, Georgia, and initially entered the transfer portal on Jan. 5.

He was fourth in receiving yards for LSU this past season with 368 yards and two touchdowns on 35 receptions in eight games. Gilbert abruptly opted out of the season on Dec. 9, and coach Ed Orgeron said at the time that he expected Gilbert to return in 2021.

Gilbert will give the Gators another excellent pass-catching option at tight end. Kyle Pitts, who is entering the NFL draft, was second on the team in receiving yards this season with 770 yards and 12 touchdowns.

Florida has bulked up its roster for 2021 through the transfer portal with Gilbert, as well as running back Demarkcus Bowman, who transferred from Clemson and was the No. 23 ranked recruit in the 2020 class.

The staff has also added defensive tackle DaQuan Newkirk from Auburn and Antonio Shelton from Penn State to the Florida roster.

Former Michigan quarterback Dylan McCaffrey is transferring to Northern Colorado, where he will have the chance to play for his father, Ed McCaffrey.

Dylan had been an ESPN 300 recruit in the 2017 class but was never able to win the starting job at Michigan. He only attempted 15 passes in 2018 and suffered a broken collarbone that shortened his season. He was a backup to Shea Patterson in 2019.

McCaffrey couldn't get his career started at Michigan and opted out of the 2020 season before it commenced.

The elder McCaffrey became the head coach for the Bears in December 2019, but he has yet to coach a game for Northern Colorado because the Big Sky moved its season to the spring due to COVID-19.

Northern Colorado recently announced it will not participate in the Big Sky's spring season and championship season but will instead pursue a modified nonconference schedule in late spring.

Ed will add his son to the roster with two years of eligibility remaining; and because Dylan is a graduate transfer, he is eligible to play immediately.

McCaffrey is brothers with former Nebraska quarterback Luke McCaffrey and Carolina Panthers star Christian McCaffrey.

Michigan still has quarterbacks Cade McNamara and Joe Milton on the roster, and the staff also added ESPN 300 quarterback J.J. McCarthy in this 2021 class. McCarthy enrolled early at Michigan and was the No. 25-ranked recruit overall, as well as the No. 2 dual-threat quarterback in the class.

SAN DIEGO -- Patrick Reed was so unaffected by a rules controversy a day earlier that he won the Farmers Insurance Open by five shots, the biggest margin in his nine career PGA Tour victories.

Reed closed with a 4-under 68 at Torrey Pines, making an eagle on the par-5 sixth and finishing off his dominating Sunday with a birdie on the 18th.

The former Masters champion finished at 14 under after a consistent four days at the bluff-top municipal courses overlooking the Pacific Ocean. He shared the first-round lead with Alexander Noren, was in a group one shot off the lead in the second round and then shared the third-round lead with Carlos Ortiz.

Reed said staying mentally strong and good play with his wedge and putter were enough to "keep me in the golf tournament and really allowed me to have a fun stroll up 18.''

The controversy arose Saturday on the par-4 10th, where Reed hit a 190-yard shot out of a bunker, with a TV replay showing the ball bounced once before settling into the rough. Without waiting for an official, Reed picked up the ball to see if it was embedded. Reed told the official that no one in his group nor a nearby volunteer saw it bounce. He was awarded a free drop and saved par in a round of 70.

On Sunday, Reed jump-started his round with a 45-foot eagle putt on the No. 6 to get to 12 under and followed with a birdie on the par-4 seventh. His only bogey was on the par-3 eighth, and he rebounded with a birdie on the par-5 ninth. He played par the rest of the way, until sinking an 8-foot birdie putt on No. 18.

"I was allowed to kind of put it behind me when the head rules official comes up and says you did everything you were supposed to do,'' Reed said. "When you do everything you're supposed to do, at the end of the day that's all you can control.

"Going into today, I felt good, I felt confident and really went to the golf course, plugged in my headphones and just kind of got in my world with my coach and got to that first tee.''

Tony Finau, Xander Schauffele, Ryan Palmer, Henrik Norlander and Viktor Hovland tied for second.

Reed said he was resilient.

"I knew today was going to be a grind, especially with that leaderboard and seeing how many big names were right around there at the top. I knew you were going to have to go out and play on offense. You couldn't play defense. You had to go out there and shoot a number," Reed explained.

"It was kind of shaky there early on in the beginning, kind of a couple shots that seemed to kind of get a little bit away from me. But I was able to rely on the short game early and get in a groove there in the middle of the round.''

Hovland had been the closest in pursuit on Sunday, with four birdies on the front nine, including on the ninth to get to 12 under. But the birdies dried up, and he bogeyed Nos. 14, 15 and 17 -- missing a 2-footer on 17 -- in a round of 1-under 71.

"The front nine was awesome, made four birdies and was just really solid tee to green; made some putts there, as well,'' Hovland said. "On the back, I didn't really feel like I played bad at all, you know; it was just a couple of mistakes, and it's so easy to just let things kind of slip away.

"But it's cool to kind of be up there having a chance to win. Didn't work out this time, but I feel like I learned a lot."

Ortiz stumbled badly with a round of 6-over 78. He hurt himself with three bogeys on the front nine that left him even at the turn. He had even more trouble on the back nine, where he bogeyed No. 11 and had trouble getting out of a greenside bunker on No. 12, taking a double-bogey 6. He bogeyed Nos. 15, 16 and 18.

Rory McIlroy closed with a 1-over 73, finished eight shots behind and still was a big story on Sunday. With so much attention on Reed taking relief from the embedded lie on Saturday, McIlroy had something similar happen on the 18th hole in the third round. When McIlroy finally found the ball, he determined it was embedded, informed the other two players in his group and dropped it into deep rough right off the fairway.

The PGA Tour issued a statement earlier Sunday that both players proceeded under the rules. Reed took one extra step by calling for a rules official to confirm, though he had already removed the ball from where it had been.

"You're trying to deal with the info that you have at that time, and the info that Patrick had at that time was the ball hadn't bounced, and the info that I had at that time was the same,'' McIlroy said. "And I went down and on my life, that ball of mine was plugged, it was in its own pitch mark, so I took relief.

"In golf, you'd rather be on the wrong side of the rules than the right side of them, just because that's just what our game's about.''

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Antonio Garcia, one of the GT Le Mans class winners from the 59th Rolex 24 at Daytona, tested positive for COVID-19 and missed a sizable portion of the event’s closing stages as a result.

The 40-year-old Spaniard co-drove the No. 3 Corvette C8.R alongside Jordan Taylor and Nicky Catsburg, but was pulled from competition shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday morning.

That left Catsburg and Taylor to finish the twice-around-the-clock endurance classic as a duo, with Taylor rallying the entry back from a drive-through pit penalty for the eventual class win.

Sunday marked Garcia’s second Rolex 24 win in the GT Le Mans class, following his triumph in the 2015 edition of the event. It was his third Rolex 24 class win overall, as he was part of the Brumos Racing Porsche team that took the overall victory in 2009.

Due to the positive test result, Garcia was not present for any post-race festivities, including the television interviews on NBC and the traditional victory lane photos.

Roughly 10 minutes after the conclusion of the race, Corvette Racing officials released a statement regarding Garcia’s absence from the car in the closing hours.

“As part of international COVID travel protocols, all drivers and team members traveling in and out of the US are required to take a COVID test before and after any race activities. While Antonio Garcia tested negative in preparation for his arrival for the Rolex 24, we have received notice that he has now tested positive in preparation to depart the country,” read the Corvette Racing statement. He was immediately pulled from competition upon notification of the positive test result and, although he wasn’t experiencing any symptoms, will no longer participate in any additional race activities at the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

“Upon consulting with IMSA and its Event Operations Protocols, the series determined Corvette Racing met all conditions under the IMSA event protocols that allowed it to compete in a safe and responsible manner,” the statement continued. “We have notified crew members and others who had contact with Antonio and will conduct testing with racing team members after 72 hours, per CDC guidelines.”

IMSA officials released a short statement regarding the situation after the race Sunday.

“Following the guidelines outlined in the Event Operations Protocols manual, Corvette Racing alerted IMSA that driver Antonio Garcia tested positive for COVID-19, the IMSA statement read. “We wish Antonio well in his recovery.”

Garcia is a 16-time class winner in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship since joining Corvette Racing in 2014.

He’s also a three-time GT Le Mans class champion (2017-’18, ’20), including co-driving to the series title last year with Taylor in the debut season for the mid-engined Corvette C8.R.

According to Garcia in a Spanish-language post on social media Sunday evening, this is his second positive COVID-19 test result in two months.

Garcia wrote that he tested positive and was symptomatic back in December.

Speaking to the media in a post-race availability Sunday following their win, both Taylor and Catsburg said they felt safe throughout the Rolex 24, despite Garcia’s positive test.

“Corvette Racing and Pratt and Miller take safety and health very seriously, so the protocols that we have are super serious,” Taylor said. “The drivers don’t really get to interact even in a 24-hour (race), I didn’t even see Nicky all race long. And pretty much just passed the car off to the next guy and see each other after the race.

“So for me and Antonio … I saw him before the race, and that was the last time. Even then we’re always social distancing. We’re always taking the correct protocols,” Taylor added. “Surface to surface, we’re wearing gloves, baklavas, helmets in the car, so nothing in the car could be at risk for us. So for us, we didn’t have too much concern. We took the lead from IMSA and NASCAR to trust ourselves. We’re here to compete. They gave us this platform to race and to be here.

“The last thing we want to do is break their protocols and do something unsafe or unhealthy.”

Catsburg, a Dutch driver, noted he tested negative Saturday and planned to undergo an additional test Monday before traveling to Europe.

“I feel safe and never felt under any threat from his positive result,” Catsburg said.