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BRISTOL, Tenn. -- The water-logged Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway was called after just 48 of 500 laps were run because of rainstorms throughout Saturday night.The race will resume Sunday at 1 p.m.NASCAR officials finally called it after more than three hours of delays. The race started more than an hour late because of rain, lightning and hail near the track. After just 38 laps, the race was halted as rain, somewhat heavy at times, hit the half-mile track.Things cleared after a delay of 1 hour, 24 minutes and drivers got back in their cars. But after 10 slow caution laps, the heavy rain returned and things ended for good.Kyle Busch had the lead, followed by Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, Denny Hamlin and Matt Kenseth.We havent really even got going so I think until we get some laps and get racing it is really kind of hard to say how its going to go, Elliott said. Im looking forward to the NAPA Auto Parts team getting back going tomorrow.Pole-sitter Carl Edwards, the winner at the track in the spring, led a top five qualifying filled with Joe Gibbs Racing racers. Along with Edwards, JGR teammates Hamlin was second, Busch was third and Kenseth fifth on Friday.All four Gibbs drivers remained in the top seven with Edwards sliding down from No. 1 to seventh.Its the second time in three races weather has altered the Sprint Cup schedule. Rain at Pocono Raceway three weeks ago pushed that finish until Monday when rookie Chris Buescher won his first Sprint Cup title as continued bad weather shortened that race.NASCAR may have looked hard for any free, dry windows of race time given that Bristol will begin transforming the race track into a football field to host Tennessee and Virginia Tech on Sept. 10. The tracks timeline gave them 19 days to convert the infield to a football field and make things ready for what Bristol executive vice president and general manager Jerry Caldwell figured would be more than 155,000 fans coming out to watch the game.The conversion was expected to start early Sunday once the last NASCAR hauler had left the track. Now, that time line is crunched as the track must finish with its main attraction, the Sprint Cup series.Wholesale Baseball Jerseys . Vettel was 0.168 seconds faster than Red Bull teammate Mark Webber around the Suzuka circuit. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg was two tenths of a second off Vettel. "The car balance is decent, but I think we can still improve," Vettel said. MLB Jerseys China . Anthony Calvillo, through 20 CFL seasons, was frequently invincible and largely stoic in the heat of competition. But underneath the professional exterior he was, and is, compellingly human. https://www.mlbjerseyschina.us/ . -- Yogi Ferrell orchestrates pretty much everything in Indianas offence. Clearance MLB Jerseys . The 25-year-old Japanese star has officially been posted by his club team, the Rakuten Golden Eagles. Cheap MLB Jerseys Authentic .Y. -- The Buffalo Sabres have placed centre Cody Hodgson on injured reserve and recalled two players from their AHL affiliate in Rochester.Melbourne Victory has failed in its bid to sign Ghanaian international Michael Essien.The former Chelsea star has knocked back an offer from the A-League club to join as a marquee player for the 2016-17 season despite him reportedly ending his contract with Greek club Panathinaikos this week.The club has been in constant discussions with Michael and his representatives but due to some personal issues Michael has unfortunately decided not to move to Melbourne, a Victory spokesperson told News Corp Australia.The 33-year-old Ghana midfielder scored 17 goals in 168 matches for Chelsea, playing in their 2009-10 Premier League-winning season, but his time at Panathinaikos was hampered by injury.The failure to sign Essien frees up cash from Football Federation Australias $1million pot of funding to help A-League clubs siggn big-name players, including star Melbourne City recruit Tim Cahill.ddddddddddddHad Essien signed, the well would have been almost dry, although his success in Australia could have prompted the FFA to increase the war-chest next season.(An increase would be) hard for season 12 but were certainly going to look at it again for season 13, FFA chief executive David Gallop said earlier this week.Its obviously pleasing that we allocated an amount of money and were getting to use it.Essiens shun takes off some of the gloss from an otherwise successful A-League off-season for the FFA thanks to the high-profile signings of Tim Cahill, Brett Holman, James Troisi, Rhys Williams and Bernie Ibini. ' ' '