NASCAR star Kyle Larson is on a tear in 2025. Can he keep it going with a Daytona 500 win?

The winning for the Larson family hasn't slowed down at the start of 2025 as former NASCAR champion Kyle Larson watched his son, Owen, lead his team to victory in the Daytona 500's annual prerace fishing tournament. The 10-year-old pulled a 4.58-pound fish from Lake Lloyd located inside Daytona International Speedway to put the Larson team on top. Larson will try to snap a 0-for-11 skid in "The Great American Race” on Sunday, and The Associated Press will be embedded with his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team.

Championship roundup: Hannibal Mejbri reports Osmajic incident at Preston

  • Burnley’s Deepdale draw makes it 11 clean sheets in a row
  • Pompey strike twice in second half to win 2-0 at Oxford

Scott Parker was left frustrated that Marcus Edwards did not get a late penalty in Burnley’s 0-0 draw with Preston in the Championship. Controversy struck in the 90th minute when the on-loan Sporting star went down under a sliding challenge from Lewis Gibson but referee Anthony Kitchen waved away the spot-kick appeals.

For the visitors it was an 11th clean sheet in a row in the Championship but a frustrated Parker said: “It’s a penalty for me and I don’t think I’m being biased in my understanding of it. Marcus Edwards has touched the ball first and then he’s touched it on to the player who’s slid on the ground on to that player. The referee said to me that the defender got the ball. He didn’t get the ball. If the defender’s running with the ball and I want to tackle him, I have to get contact with the ball first.”

This story will be updated after the 3pm kick-offs

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Keown apologises to Van Nistelrooy for infamous Old Trafford ‘shenanigans’

  • Former players recall incident from game in 2003
  • Van Nistelrooy: ‘It was a good rivalry, wasn’t it?

Martin Keown has apologised to Ruud van Nistelrooy for the notorious clash between the pair at Old Trafford in 2003 after they renewed acquaintances at Leicester on Saturday.

The TNT Sports pundit Keown was at the King Power Stadium to cover Leicester’s Premier League home fixture with Arsenal and caught up with Foxes boss Van Nistelrooy before kick-off.

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