Conor Ballantyne

Took awhile to get @SunDrop delivered to Montana, but finally made Martha Earnhardt’s SunDrop pound cake with my mom. Incredible! @DaleJr

It’s a massive shame that Dover Motor Speedway didn’t get a points race for the NASCAR Cup Series because the racing has been good. Instead, it has pretty much been a disaster from a NASCAR All-Star Race perspective. Hopefully, we can get Dover back in the points schedule.

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying." nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/…

+ a reminder from Quincy Jones

In a few hours from now, @DystanySpurlock will become the first Black woman to start a NASCAR national series race.

🗣️ Division games should never be included in the International Series!

This reader comment on a NY Times column where Ross Douthat ponders that maybe God is speaking to us through A.I. is an absolute fastball on the corner with movement, and deserves a column. "Lightening was once mysterious too; mystery did not make Zeus correct" is perfect.

SVG has done it again. He not only wins Watkins Glen after overcoming a 29-second deficit...but then WINS by 7.2 seconds on top of that. Bonkers.

Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.link/kfJxWVn

We are honored to have been named the winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting!

TOTTENHAM FANS DESERVE HAPPINESS TOO 😲

Study Head of an Old Man, after Rembrandt, 1635-40, 📸 of @BillSimmons via @knicks_tape99

Fox audio folks gonna have to mix in more crowd noise with these pops for Hocevar!

hold me

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The Hurricane struck.

You can really feel how much a Cup Series win meant to Carson Hocevar here.

HE IS DRIVING THE CAR AND CELEBRATING WITH THE FANS ... AT THE SAME TIME!!!