Pedro's Quiet Exit After Barcelona Glory

Pedro Rodríguez, a key figure in Barcelona's most successful era and Spain's 2010 World Cup win, has left Lazio at 38 with minimal media attention. Despite his contributions, the departure went unnoticed compared to other stars' farewells.

He was a starter in Barcelona's 2011 Champions League final victory over Manchester United and scored in that match. In the 2010 World Cup final, he was part of the starting lineup that beat the Netherlands. Pedro left Barcelona for Chelsea in 2013, but his legacy remains tied to the club's golden era. freshyourfeel.org

Daniel Suárez held off the field at the Coca-Cola 600 last weekend in Charlotte and captured the checkered flag after closing at +17000 to be the outright winner. Now the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Nashville for the Cracker Barrel 400 on Sunday, May 31. Will Suárez make it two in a row or will another driver get into Victory Lane when Cup heads to Music City this weekend? Here are the odds at DraftKings Sportsbook as of May 27. This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX Sports may be compensated. Read more about Sports Betting on FOX Sports. NASCAR Cup Series Cracker Barrel 400 Denny Hamlin: +450 (bet $10 to win $55 total)Tyler Reddick: +700 (bet $10 to win $80 total)Christopher Bell: +700 (bet $10 to win $80 total)Ryan Blaney: +750 (bet $10 to win $85 total)Kyle Larson: +750 (bet $10 to win $85 total)Chase Briscoe: +1200 (bet $10 to win $130 total)William Byron: +1200 (bet $10 to win $130 total)Chase Elliott: +1200 (bet $10 to win $130 total)Joey Logano: +1600 (bet $10 to win $170 total)Ty Gibbs: +1800 (bet $10 to win $190 total)Ross Chastain: +1800 (bet $10 to win $190 total)Carson Hocevar: +2500 (bet $10 to win $260 total)Chris Buescher: +2800 (bet $10 to win $290 total)Bubba Wallace: +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)Brad Keselowski: +4000 (bet $10 to win $410 total)Daniel Suárez: +5000 (bet $10 to win $510 total)Austin Cindric: +6500 (bet $10 to win $660 total) Alex Bowman: +6500 (bet $10 to win $660 total)Josh Berry: +6500 (bet $10 to win $660 total)Ryan Preece: +7000 (bet $10 to win $710 total)Zane Smith: +9000 (bet $10 to win $910 total)Erik Jones: +9000 (bet $10 to win $910 total)Corey Heim: +9000 (bet $10 to win $910 total)Shane van Gisbergen: +10000 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)Connor Zilisch: +10000 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)Austin Dillon: +11000 (bet $10 to win $1,110 total)AJ Allmendinger: +13000 (bet $10 to win $1,310 total)Ricky Stenhouse Jr.: +13000 (bet $10 to win $1,310 total)Michael McDowell: +13000 (bet $10 to win $1,310 total)Austin Hill: +15000 (bet $10 to win $1,510 total)Noah Gragson: +20000 (bet $10 to win $2,010 total)John Hunter Nemechek: +20000 (bet $10 to win $2,010 total)Riley Herbst: +25000 (bet $10 to win $2,510 total)Ty Dillon: +30000 (bet $10 to win $3,010 total)Todd Gilliland: +30000 (bet $10 to win $3,010 total)Cole Custer: +30000 (bet $10 to win $3,010 total)Cody Ware: +50000 (bet $10 to win $5,010 total) Here's what to know about the oddsboard: The Favorite For the second week in a row, Denny Hamlin is favored to win the Cup Series race. He closed at +380 to be the outright winner at Charlotte but ended up finishing third. On the season, he's led an outstanding 699 laps to complement his one win, his All-Star Race victory and six top-five finishes. In 2025, Hamlin finished this race third after starting second. His 29.66 was the best lap of the day last year at the track. One To Watch With one win and 249 laps led, Blaney comes into the weekend off a seventh-place finish at the Coke 600 and sitting third in the Cup standings. What the driver of the No. 12 Ford does have going for him is that he won this race in 2025. Blaney got the victory by holding off the field, defeating second-place Carson Hocevar by a margin of 2.83 seconds.

The Southeastern Conference is eliminating "cupcake weekend." The league’s athletic directors voted at their annual spring meetings for everyone to play conference games on the second-to-last week of the regular season beginning in 2027. It means no more Football Championship Subdivision or lower-tier Football Bowl Subdivision opponents before those rivalry games that typically take place during the final week of the season. "That’s the end of cupcake weekend," SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said. "We never got that one sponsored, though." SEC decision-makers have discussed dumping those late-season payday matchups for months. The conference expanded to a nine-game league schedule beginning in 2026, prompting the need for more significant matchups in late November. "It’s nine conference games and a recognition that you’re populating more weekends," Sankey said. "And so you really cannot have odd numbers of open or non-conference dates later in the season because then that has a backward domino effect in where you place games early. We ran into some of that in the ’26 season." Only four SEC teams – Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi and Mississippi State – have such games set for this season. The league and its television partners also started releasing game times for the early part of the season and drew criticism from Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek. Yurachek pointed out that his team will essentially lose a full day between a 9:15 p.m. kickoff at Utah on Sept. 12 and an 11 a.m. kick the following Saturday against Georgia. "The assigned schedule will cost our student-athletes nearly a full day of rest and recovery that they would otherwise have available to them," Yurachek wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "This is not simply a competitive disadvantage — it is a genuine welfare issue for the young men who represent our program and contribute greatly to the bottom line of our television partners." He added that it "demonstrates a clear neglect for the well-being of college athletes." Reporting by the Associated Press.