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Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR:Turn 1: Looks like Tony Stewart probably won his way into the Chase. At whose expense?Ricky Craven, ESPN NASCAR analyst: The expectations were very high for AJ Allmendinger entering last weeks race, but the team fell short. Conversely, the 14 team did not. It appears AJ has one more solid opportunity (Watkins Glen). In addition, Tonys win took a spot from a driver who could have averaged his way in. Again, AJ is in the mix for that qualification as well. The 14 team wasnt expected to be a playoff team, and those closest to earning a points entry to the big dance find themselves knocked back on their heels a bit. Its a very difficult position to be in at this stage of the regular season.Ryan McGee, ESPN.com: The Dinger. He probably cut Dingers chances in half.John Oreovicz, ESPN.com: Even though hes 17th in the points right now, Im going to say Ryan Blaney, because Ive been on his bandwagon all year long and I still think hes Chase material despite slumping out of the top 16. Daytona is a good track for the Wood Brothers team and it would be great to see Blaney rally his way back into the playoffs.Bob Pockrass, ESPN.com: Right now, its Kasey Kahne. It probably will be him, Blaney or Jamie McMurray as they battle for one of those final spots available on points.Turn 2: How far do you see Tony Stewart advancing in the Chase, should he make it?Craven: The second or third round. However, Ryan Newman came within one position in the final race of winning the title in 2014, and nothing during the regular season suggested that was going to happen, so if the Sonoma win inspires a driver and his team into believing, and they continue to improve -- then a championship could be possible.McGee: Not far. The reality is that the team still had a long ways to go to be a title contender. His career has been built on streaks, but I think we need to see that he has the ability to run well over an extended period of time before we can believe such a streak is possible. Since its summer and the Smoke heats up rule is in effect, we should know pretty quickly. The one big thing he has going for him? Mr. Hamlin was 100 percent correct, Smokes give-a-rip factor is super low.Oreovicz: I cant see Stewart turning back the clock to 2011 and advancing to the final four, but I can envision him making it to the round of eight purely on hunger, desire and race-craft, even if the speed of his youth isnt always there. Hes a proud man, and no matter how badly he wants the end of his NASCAR career to come quickly and without fanfare, hes not going to just cruise through those last 10 races.Pockrass: He could finish well enough, if he doesnt have any problems, to advance to the second round, which ends with Talladega, so theres always that chance of making it to the third round. But he would need to have great runs at Charlotte and Kansas to avoid having all the pressure on at Talladega.Turn 3: Brian France blew off any talk of moving races to weekday nights or changing the schedule. Should he reconsider?Craven: I have to believe that networks are behind this decision. They have invested enough money to alter the way our sport is presented and they surely have the horsepower to determine the date and time.McGee: Yes. But they wont. The way the track contracts are done make big changes even less likely. The season is too long. They should do all they can to dominate this time of the year, when there is almost zero competition for the attention of American sports fans and when prime-time TV is dying for awesome live content. Not in the fall when every other sport in the world is playing and TV is wall-to-wall with new shows.Oreovicz: Yes. With attendance and television ratings falling at many races, and some general unrest about the same unrelenting schedule, it wouldnt hurt NASCAR to shake things up on an experimental basis and see what works. The truck series race at Eldora is a great example of out-of-the-box thinking that turned into a hit for competitors and fans.Pockrass: He should consider a weeknight race. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. But to have a weeknight race, in addition to finding a television network that wants to carry it, NASCAR needs to work with a track and lower the sanction fee or put conditions on the sanction fee depending on how much it impacts the crowd. If a track is willing to take the risk, NASCAR should as well.Turn 4: Who wins first: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kasey Kahne or Chase Elliott?Craven: Elliott. I wouldnt have believed that in February, but Chase is ahead of where I expected him to be this early in his career, and it feels as though a win is around the corner. Dale Earnhardt Jr. may not win before the Chase begins, but he will make noise in the playoffs. The 88 team has chemistry, Junior (in the 7th or 8th inning of his career) understands the value of save your best for when it matters most.McGee: Dale Jr., and he does it this weekend.Oreovicz: Dale Jr. We are at Daytona, after all.Pockrass: Dale Jr. It will come either Saturday night at Daytona or in August at Bristol or Michigan.Robert Williams Jersey . 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The Montreal Canadiens announced on Friday that the veteran forward will return to the teams line-up on Saturday night when the Habs visit the Nashville Predators.Cricket will be included in the 2024 Olympics if Rome wins its bid to host the games, the president of the Italian board has said.Rome is one of the cities bidding to host the Olympics in 2024 - alongside Paris, Los Angeles and Budapest - and, under new regulations, will have the opportunity to add five sports to the games as they see fit. France Cricket is attempting to win a similar commitment with the Paris organising committee.If Rome hosts the Olympics, cricket will be included, Simone Gambino, president of the Federazione Cricket Italiana (FCI) told ESPNcricinfo. We have had a firm commitment from the organising committee.It is likely that, if Rome does host the games, cricket would be held in Bologna. The city hosted World Cricket League Division Four matches in 2010 and though the availability of turf pitches may be an issue, there would be time to overcome that should the bid be successful.Which nations would be involved remains open to debate. There would probably be a maximum of 16 teams invited to take part, though there is a possibility of just 12, with Olympic regulations suggesting they will be spread across the globe.So, if only 12 teams were included, three might come from Europe, three from Asia, two from Africa, two or three from America and the Caribbean and two or three from the South Pacific area. It could well be that some well-known cricket nations - notably England, who are part of the UK in Olympic terms - miss out.Roma 2024 would welcome new sports, such as cricket, in the Olympic program also in consideration of the increasing number of people that are actively playing it in Italy, a spokesman for the Rome 2024 organising committee told ESPNcricinfo. We are however fully aware that such a decision belongs to the International Olympic Committee and therefore our planning is exclusively based on the indications received from the IOC in Lausanne.The news emerged as the ICC continued its annual conference in Edinburgh. Having started the week with high hopes of winning agreement on a number of fairly radical proposals - the introduction of promotion and relegation in Test and ODI cricket, the return of a Worrld T20 every two years and a change in the manner in which revenues are pooled and distributed among other things - it now appears it will take longer than anticipated for all the strands to come together.ddddddddddddAs a result the press conference planned for Saturday, when the ICC hoped to unveil the agreements, was cancelled and an extra meeting has been arranged for late August in Dubai. The next ICC board meeting takes place in South Africa in October.While tangible progress has been limited, the mood of the conference has been notably more optimistic than in previous years. After years of being bullied (in the words of one Associate delegate) by a couple of dominant Full Member nations, the talk now is of family and consensus. Plans have not been derailed as much as given a more realistic timeframe for completion.One intriguing suggestion from the meeting concerns qualification for future World Cups. While Associate members will likely be disappointed by the proposal that the tournament remains a 10-team event, some discussion has taken place around the possibility of only the top six teams in the ICC rankings qualifying automatically with the other four gaining qualification through a play-off tournament. Such criteria, even if accepted, is unlikely to be introduced until the 2023 tournament.Other matters dealt with the unanimous election of Saudi Arabia as the 39th Associate member, and the unanimous ratification of the suspensions of the USA Cricket Association (USACA) and the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). They were suspended in June 2015 and April 2016, respectively. An ICC delegation, including board members, will visit both suspended nations shortly.Both Nepal and the US are important Members of the ICC as they have tremendous talent and potential, ICC chairman Shashank Monohar said. The ICC, as part of its game and market development strategy, will continue to provide the countries with as much support as possible so that they can put in place good governance and cricket structures. ' ' '