The 2025 Miami Grand Prix saw continued dominance for McLaren as Oscar Piastri won his third consecutive race. Piastri’s now won four of the first six races and he’s gaining momentum as the top challenger for the 2025 drivers’ championship.

He had an NFL star cheering him on Sunday in Miami in Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson.

The Vikings star voiced his support for the McLaren driver — and his dance moves — on X.

The two met up prior to the race and Jefferson taught him how to do the griddy, a dance move Jefferson’s done after scoring touchdowns many times in his NFL career.

‘No one has ever done it in racing,’ Jefferson said. ‘You’ll be the first one.’

‘Well if I do it this weekend, I’ll do it for you,’ Piastri said, and the McLaren driver kept his word.

Piastri also drove Jefferson around the track in a McLaren road car during the weekend.

Jefferson wasn’t the only one, though, as Piastri also drove Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa around the circuit during the weekend as well. Many Miami players were in attendance for the weekend because the race takes place around Hard Rock Stadium where the Dolphins play their home games.

Local favorite and native Texan Scottie Scheffler, the world’s No. 1 player, prevailed at the 2025 CJ Cup Byron Nelson, shooting a 31 under to tie the PGA Tour scoring record, finishing at 253 for the week. Scheffler was eight shots ahead of second-place Erik van Rooyen, the largest margin of victory at the event since 1983.

Scheffler’s win at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, was his first of 2025 and 14th of his PGA Tour career. He earned a nice payday of $1.782 million with the win.

LEADERBOARD: Full tournament results from CJ Cup Byron Nelson

How to watch CJ Cup Byron Nelson

Live coverage of the final round of this year’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson tournament will be broadcast on the Golf Channel and CBS.

Sunday, May 4

TV: Golf Channel, CBS
Time: 1-3 p.m. ET (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. ET (CBS)
Streaming: Paramount+, ESPN+, Fubo

CJ Cup Byron Nelson prize money 2025: Winner payout, purse

This year’s total purse for the 2025 CJ Cup Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, is $9.9 million. Here’s the prize money breakdown:

1st: Scottie Scheffler (-31), $1.782 million

2nd: Erik van Rooyen (-23), $1.0791 million

3rd: Sam Stevens (-20), $683,100

4th: Jordan Spieth (-19), $485,100

T5th: Will Gordon (-17), $305,972

T5th: Mark Hubbard (-17), $305,972

T5th: Sam Burns (-17), $305,972

T5th: Takumi Kanaya (-17), $305,972

T5th: Eric Cole (-17), $305,972

T5th: Kurt Kitayama (-17), $305,972

T5th: Adam Schenk (-17), $305,972

T5th: Ricky Castilo (-17), $305,972

T13th: Antoine Rozner (-16), $200,475

T13th: Jhonattan Vegas (-16), $200,475

T15th: Matt McCarty (-15), $141,295

T15th: Chris Gotterup (-15), $141,295

T15th: Max McGreevy (-15), $141,295

T15th: Si Woo Kim (-15), $141,295

T15th: Chandler Phillips (-15), $141,295

T15th: Patrick Rodgers (-15), $141,295

T15th: Vince Whaley (-15), $141,295

T15th: Kevin Roy (-15), $141,295

T15th: Cameron Champ (-15), $141,295

T15th: Andrew Putnam (-15), $141,295

T25th: Ross Steelman (-14), $79,448

T25th: Pierceson Coody (-14), $79,448

T25th: Danny Walker (-14), $79,448

T25th: Nico Echavarria (-14), $79,448

T29th: Kevin Yu (-13), $66,330

T29th: Taylor Dickson (-13), $66,330

T29th: Thorbjorn Olesen (-13), $66,330

T29th: Trey Mullinax (-13), $66,330

T33rd: Doug Ghim (-12), $52,800

T33rd: Harry Hall (-12), $52,800

T33rd: Niklas Norgaard (-12), $52,800

T33rd: Michael Thorbjornsen (-12), $52,800

T33rd: Ben Martin (-12), $52,800

T33rd: Sungjae Im (-12), $52,800

T39th: Jake Knapp (-11), $40,095

T39th: Rikuya Hoshino (-11), $40,095

T39th: Alex Smalley (-11), $40,095

T39th: Joseph Bramlett (-11), $40,095

T39th: Sami Valimaki (-11), $40,095

T39th: Nate Lashley (-11), $40,095

T45th: Henrik Norlander (-10), $31,185

T45th: Matteo Manassero (-10), $31,185

T45th: Davis Riley (-10), $31,185

48: Rasmus Hojgaard (-9), $27,621

T49th: Karl Vilips (-8), $25,509

T49th: Webb Simpson (-8), $25,509

T49th: Patton Kizzire (-8), $25,509

T52nd: David Skinns (-7), $23,710

T52nd: Ben Kohles (-7), $23,710

T52nd: Thomas Rosenmueller (-7), $23,710

T52nd: Rico Hoey (-7), $23,710

T56th: Isaiah Salinda (-6), $22,770

T56th: Nicolai Hojgaard (-6), $22,770

T56th: Matt Kuchar (-6), $22,770

T56th: Stephan Jaeger (-6), $22,770

T60th: Byeong Hun An (-5), $21,978

T60th: Cam Davis (-5), $21,978

T60th: Ryan Fox (-5), $21,978

T60th: Victor Perez (-5), $21,978

64: Brandon Matthews (-4), $21,483

T65th: Mac Meissner (-2), $21,186

T65th: Beau Hossler (-2), $21,186

T67th: Camilo Villegas (-1), $20,691

T67th: Alejandro Tosti (-1), $20,691

T67th: Rafael Campos (-1), $20,691

70: John Pak (2), $20,295

The Pittsburgh Pirates fan who plunged 21 feet onto the warning track in right field at PNC Park last week is recovering, according to a statement on Saturday that accompanied his GoFundMe page.

Kavan Markwood, a 20-year-old who was at Wednesday night’s game between the Pirates and visiting Chicago Cubs and was sitting in the front row, put both hands on the rail in front of him and inexplicably went over it.

Markwood lay motionless while the medical teams from both the Pirates and the Cubs attended to him, and he was taken to Allegheny General Hospital in critical condition.

Jennifer Phillips, who organized the fundraising website for Markwood, said he was ‘awake, alert, and able to speak.

‘After everything he’s been through since the accident on Wednesday night, this progress feels nothing short of miraculous,’ Phillips added.

‘He still has a long road ahead of him, but today brought a moment of hope that we’ve all been holding onto,’ Phillips said. ‘Thank you all so much for your prayers, support, and generosity. Please continue to keep him in your thoughts as he begins the next phase of recovery.’

There was no immediate update to Markwood’s condition or the reason for his fall, but Pittsburgh Public Safety is treating the incident as accidental.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — One of the biggest attractions at the 2025 Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix has been Lego’s display of 10 life-sized cars built with nearly 400,000 pieces each. 

That’s right – nearly 400,000 each. 

Simple math for the F1 cars built for the 10 teams amounts to nearly 4 million Lego pieces used for the collaboration. 

And the biggest highlight: The F1 drivers behind the wheel of the drivable, electric cars for the drivers’ parade around the Miami International Autodrome located Hard Rock Stadium before the Miami Grand Prix begins on May 4.

‘It feels better than the real thing,’ McLaren’s Lando Norris said in an interview before the parade.

‘I couldn’t believe it at first,’ Williams driver Carlos Sainz said before mentioning the soaked track following early afternoon rain before the race. ‘With the slick tire on the wet, it’s going to be fun.’

‘Hopefully we don’t have Legos going everywhere,’ McLaren’s Oscar Piastri added.

George Russell drove the Mercedes with Kimi Antonelli sitting behind, while Charles Leclerc drove as Lewis Hamilton sat behind in the Ferrari. It appeared the Mercedes grazed the Ferrari on the Miami straightaway, while pieces did fall off after the McLaren made contact with the Alpine car.

‘I think they need to sweep the track,’ said Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, the two-time Miami Grand Prix winner and pole sitter for Sunday’s race.

The life-sized Lego F1 cars each weight 1,500 kilograms, or roughly 3,306.93 pounds – nearly double the weight of an actual F1 car. F1 cars and their drivers are not allowed to weigh more than 800kg total (1,763.7 pounds), per 2025 F1 regulations. 

However, they don’t drive as fast as F1 cars can go. In fact, far from it. The Lego F1 cars have about seven or eight horsepower, carrying a maximum speed of 20 kilometers an hour – or just 12 miles per hour. The real F1 cars can reach upwards of 200 mph at the Miami track, and upwards of 230 mph at any given race.

The Lego pieces were placed around a steel structure base for safety, and built so two people can sit in the car – one behind the wheel, and another behind a removable seat back. 

They’re also equipped with a real F1 steering wheel, four Pirelli tires, and hydraulic brakes used on F1 cars. 

‘They are upscaled Lego speed champions sets,” said Jonatan Jurion, lead designer for the Formula 1 project. ‘We had to figure out how to make two people sit in it – that was quite a challenge. We mocked that up first, and we built the scale of the car around it, and it turned out pretty nicely that it actually has the size of the real F1 car. So that’s pretty cool. We got the real Pirelli tires on them, which is really cool as well.” 

The project was completed in the Lego Group’s Kladno factory, located in the Czech Republic. It took about eight months to complete from concept to finish, equating to roughly 22,000 hours of work, by a team of 26 designers, engineers and Lego builders. 

This isn’t the first time Lego produced a car made of Lego pieces for Formula 1: McLaren driver Lando Norris drove a McLaren made of Lego pieces at Silverstone in Sept. 2024. 

But this undertaking – 10 cars instead of just one – is an accomplishment for Lego. 

‘It was really exceptional project because the timeline that we usually have for one car, we needed to reshuffle to be able to produce 10 in the same timing,’ said Marcel Stastny, a project manager at Lego.  ‘So this was a very challenging project, but we were super excited from the very first moment when we saw this.’

‘This is the highest recognition of hard work for our whole team,’ added Martin Smeida, an elite engineer for the project. 

The cars appeared to be a a big hit for the drivers, in a lighthearted parade, before the Miami race began.

“That was the most fun drivers’ parade we’ve ever had,” Hamilton said. “It was very fun.”

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One job on the Formula One grid may be more exclusive than being a driver. Laura Mueller is part of that club.

Working for the Haas F1 team, Mueller is F1’s first female race engineer. There are 20 race engineers on the grid, one for each driver. They are the chief link between the driver and team, working on track through radio communication and away from it while preparing for the next race. They commonly remain at their positions longer than an F1 driver stays in their seat.

Mueller was elevated to the position this season and is paired with Haas newcomer Esteban Ocon. Mueller had previously worked as a performance engineer at Haas, while Ocon, a Hungarian Grand Prix winner in 2021, joined the American team after five seasons with the Alpine F1 team.

“She’s a pretty determined character,” Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu told F1.com in January. “And then she’s very hardworking. Her work ethic is really, really good. … Esteban is a pretty determined character as well. So that side, I think the driving force, I think that personality matches pretty well.’

Entering the 2025 F1 Miami Grand Prix, Ocon was ninth in the drivers’ standings with 14 points through five races. Haas ranked sixth among F1 teams with 20 points, just five short of Williams in fifth, a position Haas will chase throughout the season as the best-of-the-rest prize behind stalwarts McLaren, Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull.

Haas has been the ultimate underdog outfit since joining the grid in 2016. It finished fifth that season but has only managed to equal that result once (2018). The lone American team until Cadillac joins the grid next season, Haas has yet to win a race or secure a single podium finish in F1.

Mueller is tasked with helping the downtrodden team make waves in the midfield this season. In addition to Williams, Haas will need to battle with Alpine, Racing Bulls, Sauber and Aston Martin for points in the constructors’ standings. For Haas, it takes a strong work ethic to find those extra margins over their rivals, many of whom have considerably larger resources.

“It’s been great to work with Laura,” Ocon said during a recent appearance on F1’s Beyond the Grid podcast. “She’s really a great engineer. She’s been having a lot of experience in a lot of different categories. She’s done DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters), I’ve done DTM, so we have that point in common. But she did a lot of different categories, and her trajectory is very impressive.

“She’s awesome to work with. The amount of hours she puts in is very, very impressive. She doesn’t count hours.”

Ocon recalled one particularly demanding weekend in Japan when the French driver struggled to find consistent performance.

“I remember in Suzuka, we had a difficult one, but we were still having meetings and debriefs because it was not the way we wanted to have the performance, and she didn’t stand up to take a sandwich or drink for probably the whole day.

“She was like, ‘Esteban, I will probably go and take food now because it’s 7:30 or 8 in the evening.’ And I’m like, ‘You didn’t eat yet?’ And she’s like, ‘No’’ because she didn’t want to because she was flat-out with work.”

Uphill battles come with the territory at Haas. For Komatsu, the difference is having the right people scaling those mountains.

“We don’t care (about) nationality, gender – it really doesn’t matter because what matters is work,’ Komatsu said when Mueller was promoted. ‘How you can fit into the team, how you can maximise the performance. I believe it is the right choice.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — He was 14 years old, sitting in the front seat of his GMC pickup truck, listening to the radio call of Bobby Ussery ride Proud Clarion to a 30-to-1 upset in the Kentucky Derby. 

It would be a nice, tidy story if Bill Mott could tell people now that when he started training horses, he would eventually do it for men who build airplanes and rule countries and that he’d get some who could bring him into the winner’s circle of the biggest race in the world. 

But that wouldn’t be true. Because from his tiny town in South Dakota, just across the Missouri River from the state capital Pierre, even bringing a horse to Churchill Downs — much less running in the Derby — would have felt much too big.

“I never even imagined that I would ever be here,” he said. ‘It was just a dream that was too far away. And to be up here thinking back at that, it’s like going to outer space.”

But to blast off into the atmosphere, you need a rocket ship. And on Saturday, Sovereignty turned on the afterburners in the stretch of the 151st Derby, passing race favorite Journalism and bending Mott’s time-space continuum in more than one way.

Because even though it wasn’t the first Derby win for a trainer who has been among the best in the sport for four decades, it almost felt like it.

In 2019, the Mott trainee Country House was named the Derby winner when the Kentucky racing stewards disqualified Maximum Security for drifting out at the top of the stretch and interfering with two other horses. 

Mott was, of course, happy to finally be a Derby winner. They lifted the trophy, got the garland of roses and celebrated into the night. But it was, admittedly, awkward if not downright bittersweet to get there that way.

Much, much better. 

“You have the joy of being here,” said Riley Mott, his 33-year-old son who is now a trainer with his own string of 40 horses. “But crossing the wire first is a different animal.” 

So is Sovereignty — and so is Mott. 

In a sport where the characters on the backstretch are famously good at overhype, misdirection and sometimes a little bit of chicanery, Mott is one trainer you’ll never hear a bad word about.

For more than 30 years in the national spotlight, beginning when he trained the great Cigar to a remarkable 16-race winning streak back in 1995 and 1996, Mott has been regarded as a consummate gentleman and a patient, old school horseman who never pushes them beyond their capabilities. 

It is, perhaps, why Mott actually hadn’t run many horses in the Derby — just eight prior to Country House — relative to the success he had in other big races. He might have been a little too patient, knowing just how little time you have to develop a horse to get them ready to run 1 1/4 miles on the first Saturday in May of their 3-year-old year. He wasn’t going to enter a horse just to be at the party. 

“To win these types of races, you can’t have many hiccups in your training schedule or the way the horse is doing,” Mott said. 

To underline that point, consider that Sovereignty is the first Derby winner for Godolphin, the international racing and breeding operation owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the head of the ruling family of Dubai. 

The Maktoums have almost certainly spent more money on horses than any human beings in the history of the world, and they have won pretty much every race around the world worth winning, from the Epsom Derby in England to the Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe in France to the Japan Cup to the Melbourne Cup to the Breeders’ Cup Classic. 

But none of them had ever won the Kentucky Derby until Saturday, and it certainly wasn’t for lack of trying. That’s horse racing, though. Everything has to go right — not just on Saturday but for months leading up to the race. That’s why the little guys, relatively speaking, always have a chance on Derby Day. But this year, the biggest fish in the sport just happened to swallow them all. 

“It’s been a long time coming,” Michael Banahan, the director of American bloodstock for Godolphin, said. “Do we expect to win these type of races? No, you don’t. You just expect to have some nice horses that you can give them the opportunity, give them great trainers like we have. And if we get one good enough to win the Derby, fantastic. We certainly don’t think that just because we have some nice horses that we’re going to be able to get a seat at this table and be the winner of the race.” 

But there were some clues that maybe Sovereignty was different. 

Despite starting his career 0-for-2 at shorter distances last summer, it said a lot about what kind of talent Mott thought he had in his barn when he entered Sovereignty in the Street Sense, an important 2-year-old stakes race at Churchill last October.

Sovereignty won that race easily, coming from last place, showing that he enjoyed the Churchill surface and that he would thrive in longer races. Suddenly, the Derby was the obvious goal. But for the next four months, Sovereignty disappeared to the anonymity of Payson Park, a training center in Florida. He didn’t surface again until March 1 at the Fountain of Youth Stakes, when he once again made a sweeping wide move to win by a neck and establish himself as a legitimate contender. 

But it was such a big effort coming off a long layoff that Mott did not push the colt too hard to get ready for the Florida Derby four weeks later, knowing the more important goal was still ahead.

Still, Sovereignty finished a good second to Tappan Street, who had to scratch from the Kentucky Derby due to an injury. Mott still felt as if his horse was on track and improving. But the betting public wasn’t as enamored with that effort as Mott was and allowed Sovereignty to go off at 7-1 by post time, a bit higher than the 5-1 he was assigned on the morning line. 

And as jockey Junior Alvarado guided Sovereignty from the No. 18 post to a ground-saving position on the rail around the first turn, Mott felt good — especially when he saw fast early fractions on the front end that would favor horses coming from behind. 

But still, even though he would always be a Derby winner — and certainly didn’t need another to validate one of the greatest careers in the history of the sport — he didn’t quite know what it would feel like to watch his horse cross the finish line first.

Until it happened, much to the delight and surprise of that young man who started training horses in South Dakota at 14 and listened to the Derby on the radio of an old truck. 

“They’re all special, and I don’t want to take anything away from Country House’s effort because he actually ran a very good race on that day,” Mott said. “The stewards did the right thing. It was a no-brainer that they put us up.

‘But this is better.” 

Japan’s Naoya Inoue returns to America to take on challenger Ramon Cardenas in a junior featherweight fight for Top Rank Boxing in Las Vegas this weekend. It will be for Ionue’s undisputed junior featherweight championship.

Inoue has not fought in the States since 2021, when he defeated Michael Dasmariñas by knockout in the third round to retain the WBA (super bantamweight), IBF, and The Ring bantamweight titles.

Inoue’s last 24 fights were all championship fights, with the first coming in April 2014.

Cardenas has won 14 straight fights and has positioned himself for this fight, which will be his first world title shot. He is coming off a unanimous decision victory against Bryan Acosta on Feb. 25.

USA TODAY Sports will have the latest updates and results for the full card here:

Naoya Inoue vs. Ramon Cardenas time 

The fight-fight main card is scheduled to start at 10 p.m. ET, with preliminary fights beginning at 6:15 p.m. ET.

Where is the Naoya Inoue vs. Ramon Cardenas fight location?

The Naoya Inoue vs. Ramon Cardenas fight takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

How to watch Naoya Inoue vs. Ramon Cardenas fight 

The main event will air on ESPN and be streamed on ESPN+ and Disney+. Preliminary bouts can be streamed on ESPN+.

Watch Inoue vs. Cardenas with ESPN+

Naoya Inoue vs. Ramon Cardenas card start time

Preliminary card: 6:15 p.m. ET / 3:15 p.m. PT (ESPN+)
Main card: 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT (ESPN/ESPN+)