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Elliott fails inspection before NASCAR's championship race

(AP) — Chase Elliott Joey Logano for the Cup.
had an early setback in "If you aren't pushing, you're Keselowski and Logano,
his pursuit of NASCAR's in the wrong business," El- teammates at Team Penske,
championship when his liott said of his Hendrick are both former champions.
car failed pre-race inspec- Motorsports crew. Hamlin is 0 for 3 in title rac-
tion Sunday at Phoenix es.
Raceway. Elliott is seeking his first Cup
championship in the winner- The finale moved to Phoenix
Elliott was supposed to start take-all season finale. He this year for the first time,
on the pole but instead had to won last week at Martinsville and it is seven-time cham-
drop to the back of the field to advance to his first final pion Jimmie Johnson's final
at the start of the race. The four. race as a full-time NASCAR
No. 9 Chevrolet had an issue driver.
with the body in tech, but El- Elliott is racing Denny Ham-
liott dismissed the threat. lin, Brad Keselowski and

Lazio again scores late to rescue 1-1 draw against Juventus

we needed a match like that shortly after when Sergej looking to recover from mid-
against Torino and it hap- Milinković-Savić nodded a week defeats in the Champi-
pened again today." cross on in front of goal and ons League against Real Ma-
Vedat Muriqi was just short drid and Liverpool, respec-
Nine-time defending cham- of making contact at the far tively.
pion Juventus was fourth, post.
three points behind leader Inter broke the deadlock in
AC Milan, which hosts Hel- Ronaldo went even closer the 58th when Ashley Young
las Verona later. Atalanta re- but he curled an effort off the crossed in from the left and,
mained level on points with top of the right post. with his back to goal, Lauta-
Juventus after drawing 1-1 at ro Martínez flicked a header
home with Inter Milan. The 35-year-old also saw a into the far corner.
free kick palmed out from
Lazio was missing a number under the bar by Lazio goal- Substitute Aleksej Miran-
of players, including Euro- keeper Pepe Reina. chuk leveled 11 minutes
pean Golden Shoe winner from time, drilling into the
Ciro Immobile, after con- Juventus coach Andrea Pirlo bottom right corner from the
(AP) — Lazio scored an- late at Zenit St. Petersburg flicting results for tests for took off Ronaldo and at- edge of the area.
other stoppage-time goal on Wednesday to salvage a COVID-19. tacking midfielder Dejan
to rescue a 1-1 draw at 1-1 draw in the Champions Kulusevski in the 76th as he OTHER MATCHES
home to Juventus in Serie League. Juventus took the lead in opted for a more defensive Henrikh Mkhitaryan netted
A on Sunday. the 15th minute when Juan approach and that proved a a hat trick to help Roma win
"The goal is all down to Cuadrado beat a couple of mistake against a team fa- 3-1 at Genoa.
Juventus appeared to be (Joaquín) Correa," Caicedo Lazio defenders on the right mous for scoring last-minute Roma moved third, two
heading for a win and into said. "We were convinced before sending in a low cross goals of late. points below Milan.
second spot after Cristiano something would happen. for an unmarked Ronaldo to
Ronaldo's first-half goal but But I'm really speechless tap in from point blank range. Lazio pinned Juventus back Genoa slipped into the rel-
substitute Felipe Caicedo now. and it found the equalizer egation zone after Torino
pounced deep in stoppage It was Ronaldo's third goal in with practically the last kick drew 0-0 with bottom-place
time. "Juventus didn't play for the his two league matches since of the match. Correa fed Ca- Crotone to move above Ge-
last 15 minutes. We never recovering from the corona- icedo, who swiveled to fire noa on goal difference.
Caicedo had netted a stop- give up and the credit for the virus, which kept him out for into the bottom right corner. Crotone defender Sebastiano
page-time winner in Lazio's draw has to go to everyone. three weeks. Luperto was sent off late on
last league match — against With this mentality and focus RECOVERY following a second yellow
Torino — and also scored we can fight right to the end, Lazio almost leveled Both Inter and Atalanta were card.

Browns place QB Baker Mayfield on COVID-19 list during bye

(AP) — The Cleveland positive, Mayfield could be the health and safety of our league and the virus contin- country.
Browns didn't escape the allowed to return to practice players, coaches and staff ues to be rampant across the
bye week completely un- as early as Wednesday. members remaining our
scathed. highest priority."
First-year coach Kevin Ste- Mayfield is in his third season
Quarterback Baker Mayfield fanski gave his players off with the Browns (5-3). The
was placed on the Reserve/ Thursday through Sunday. No. 1 overall pick in 2018 has
COVID-19 list Sunday after The Browns (5-3) reached thrown 15 touchdown passes
a staff member tested positive their bye still in the play- and seven interceptions.
for the coronavirus. off picture and one win shy
of matching their total from The Browns hadn't had a
The team, which is on a bye 2019. positive coronavirus test since
this week and scheduled to training camp opened in July.
host Houston next weekend, The Browns said that once The team kept receiver Odell
released a statement saying it they return to work on Mon- Beckham Jr. away from the
was notified a day earlier of day, they will "follow the facility for a few days when
the positive test. NFL-NFLPA intensive pro- he experienced COVID-19-
Mayfield is believed to have tocol. We will continue to like symptoms.
had close contact with the work closely with the league
unidentified infected per- and medical experts on the There has been an uptick
son. As long as he doesn't test appropriate next steps with in positive tests around the