The TD Beach to Beacon 10k road race has selected The Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness as its beneficiary this year.
The center was founded in 2003 and strives to promote safe, respectful and inclusive schools and communities through its school-based programs for students in grades 1-6. It also provides resources for parents and educators.
Each year, the Beach to Beacon donates $30,000 to a different Maine charity to help support its cause. The race has donated $660,000 to various charities since its founding in 1998.
“We are grateful to TD Bank and the TD Beach to Beacon 10K organizing committee for selecting us as their beneficiary for 2022,” said Susan Greenwood, the executive director of The Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness. “This will be an enormous help as we expand our programs geographically to serve schools in all Maine counties, and it will raise awareness of the importance of youth inclusion programs among the general public in Maine and beyond.”
In a press release, Larry Wold, the president of TD Bank, Maine Market, cited the center’s positive impact on the community. “This organization’s focus on the inclusivity and respect of people of all abilities and backgrounds directly aligns with TD’s values,” he said. “And we couldn’t be more pleased to name them this year’s beneficiary.”
The race will be held on Aug. 6 this year. It will be the first in-person running of the popular 10k since 2019. The race was canceled in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic and held in a virtual format last year. It typically draws more than 6,000 entrants.
BASKETBALL
G LEAGUE: G League player of the week Chris Clemons recorded his third straight triple-double with 21 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds as the Maine Celtics beat College Park 122-113 at the Portland Expo.
Maine (8-7), which picked up its third consecutive win, also got 24 points from Deonte Burton to lead six players in double figures. Sharife Cooper led College Park (7-9) with 31 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds.
AUTO RACING
NASCAR: Brad Keselowski took Jack Roush to Victory Lane for the first time since 2017 and their rebranded race team showed it has a pair of Fords ready to race for a Daytona 500 victory.
Keselowski and Chris Buescher won their respective 150-mile qualifying race at Daytona International Speedway to put them side-by-side starting from the second row Sunday in the sold-out spectacular.
It was a huge night for Keselowski as part-owner of Roush’s organization. The team is now Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing, and Keselowski drives its flagship No. 6 Ford.
He has a long-term vision for RFK and returning the team to one of NASCAR’s elite is not an overnight fix. But the win in the first of two 150-mile qualifying races means Keselowski has a fast Daytona 500 car.
Then Buescher won the second duel, a victory earned after Joey Logano wrecked on the final lap as he attempted to block a Buescher move for the win.
NASCAR champion Kyle Larson and his Hendrick Motorsports teammate Alex Bowman locked down the front row in Wednesday night time trials.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s new team will make its NASCAR debut Sunday, as Kaz Grala drove the No. 50 Chevrolet into the race with a pass of J.J. Yeley on the 60th and final lap of the first race.
FORMULA ONE: Michael Masi will be replaced as Formula One’s race director following the late controversy surrounding the title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last December, FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said.
Motorsport’s governing body reached its decision after conducting a detailed analysis of the wild ending at the season finale, where Red Bull driver Max Verstappen won his first world title after overtaking Mercedes star Lewis Hamilton on the last lap. The 44-year-old Masi is staying with the FIA but in an undetermined role.
Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas will act alternatively as race director, assisted by Herbie Blash as permanent senior advisor, Ben Sulayem said. The Abu Dhabi outcome followed a key decision by Masi, prompting deep confusion and seething vitriol in some quarters – with the FIA saying the sport’s image had been tarnished as a consequence.
Hamilton led comfortably until a crash by Nicholas Latifi brought out the safety car with five laps remaining. Verstappen stopped under yellow for a fresh set of tires, and Masi flipped his decision and let the drivers separating Verstappen from Hamilton pass the safety car under yellow.
Verstappen restarted second behind Hamilton and, on quicker new tires, zoomed past Hamilton in the fifth turn. Mercedes lost both its protests over how the race ended. Hamilton was utterly dejected at the way he missed out on a record eighth F1 title to move ahead of fellow great Michael Schumacher.
FOOTBALL
NFL: Kansas City cornerback Chris Lammons become the fourth suspect arrested in connection with an assault at a Las Vegas nightclub that prompted the Feb. 6 arrest of New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara.
Lammons turned himself in Thursday in Las Vegas and was briefly booked into the Clark County Detention Center on suspicion of felony battery resulting in substantial bodily harm and conspiracy to commit battery, police said. Two other men, Darrin Young and Percy Harris, turned themselves in Monday and were booked on the same charges before posting bonds.
Police say surveillance video shows Kamara and at least three other men attacked the victim Feb. 5 at about 6:30 a.m. They say it shows Kamara punching the man repeatedly before others stomped on the man while he was on the floor at the rooftop nightclub Drai’s above the Cromwell hotel-casino.
TENNIS
NOVAK DJOKOVIC received a warm welcome in Dubai, where the Serbian tennis star visited the world’s fair following the global drama around his decision to remain unvaccinated.
After being twice detained and deported from Australia ahead of the year’s first Grand Slam Tournament last month, Djokovic was in the United Arab Emirates for the Duty Free Tennis Championships.
“I’m excited to go out on the tennis court next Monday,” he said when asked by The Associated Press how he feels after the recent twists and turns of the legal dispute over his travel visa. “I miss tennis honestly after everything that has happened.”
Djokovic this week doubled down on his decision to stay unvaccinated. The No. 1-ranked tennis player said he would skip the French Open, Wimbledon and other tournaments if he was required to get a coronavirus vaccine to compete.
RUUD WITHDRAWS: Second-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway pulled out of the Rio Open clay-court tournament because of an abdominal injury.
Ruud said he was still feeling the effects of an injury he picked up during Sunday’s final of the Argentina Open, which he won.
“I tried as much as I could, but unfortunatelly it wasn’t possible,” said Ruud, who was replaced by Spain’s Roberto Carballes Baena, who lost his second-round match against Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo 6-3, 6-2 after the second set was halted for a rain delay.
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