Lydia Craver

Charlotte Observer / McClatchy Southeast sports. • ESPN, Miami Herald, Bama alum. • Lowcountry native. • Fan of national parks, sweet tea & cowboy boots.

[Rod Boone @rodboone]

#Hornets are trading Miles Bridges along with a 2029 first-round pick and a 2027 second-round pick to Phoenix for Grayson Allen, Royce O'Neale and a 2033 first-round pick, league sources confirm.

[Rod Boone @rodboone]

#Hornets are sending LaMelo Ball and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid, a 2033 unprotected first-round pick, three first-round pick swaps and three second-round picks, league sources confirm.

He's officially gone.

[App State Athletics @appstatesports]

Freddy, do we have a story for you!

#GoApp

[Mike Kaye @mike_e_kaye]

Predicting the #Panthers 53-man roster ahead of training camp: https://t.co/K5yqafVviM

[Shelby Swanson @shelbymswanson]

Roy Williams hasn't been able to attend as many @DiamondHeels games as he'd like to this year, but he's been in the players' ears.

He's the dadgum voice of the UNC PitchCom system.

How about a frickin fastball? A little chiiin music?

My latest: https://t.co/OouPErwg22

[APSE @APSE_sportmedia]

APSE offering four $1,250 sports journalism scholarships for college students. The deadline is today. https://t.co/Pkv5oaffNO

[Marty Smith @MartySmithESPN]

NASCAR moves at 200 mph. But when someone is hurting, it stops to comfort.

The NASCAR Family -- and it is indeed a family -- wrapped it arms around the Busch family, who Sunday sought comfort from grief at the place Kyle captivated us all.

The racetrack.

For SportsCenter, an essay on a 200 mph remembrance.

[RCR @RCRracing]

Richard Childress Racing has elected to suspend use of the No. 8 and will run the No. 33 at Charlotte Motor Speedway and beyond. Kyle Busch was instrumental in the design of RCR’s stylized No. 8 and it has become synonymous with Kyle and an important symbol for his fans and the NASCAR industry. No one can carry it forward to the level that he did. The No. 8 is reserved and ready for Brexton Busch when he is ready to go NASCAR racing.

[Scott Fowler @scott_fowler]

This is what it looks like outside Welcome, NC, at Richard Childress Racing, at the homemade memorial following the sudden death of Kyle Busch.
Photos by the great @jsiner, for @theobserver.
For some reason, the M&M's being there are really getting to me.

[Alex Zietlow @alexzietlow05]

As I processed the tragedy, the words ringing in my head came from Kyle Busch’s radio under caution at the 2023 Daytona 500.

“Back in 1998, that would be the win!”

On Busch, Dale Earnhardt Sr., and the race that connects them, in @theobserver: https://t.co/YbJfeCFhHh

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

"His legacy is a titan of the NASCAR world and of the auto racing world in general."

@MartySmithESPN on Kyle Busch's life and legacy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr. @DaleJr]

Kyle and I had a really challenging existence for many years. But we luckily took the time to figure out our differences and that was something he instigated with a conversation in his bus around how we each managed our racing teams. I was super eager for us to get on better terms. But it was he who made the effort for that to be possible. We did some media together also to laugh through some of the things we put each other through many years ago. Most recently we had even been discussing him running my Late Model at Wilkesboro this summer. He seemed extremely happy and we had planned to meet up next Thursday to get his seat to the shop. He laughed over the idea of his fans and JRM fans having to cheer in unison during that race.

Kyle was one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. No one can deny that. But he was also a father, a husband, brother, son, and a friend to many. My heart is broken for the Busch family. I will never be able to make sense of this loss but I am thankful that we had found a way to become friends.

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

A joint statement on behalf of the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and NASCAR.

[Scott Fowler @scott_fowler]

Nashville and Atlanta will host a Super Bowl apiece in the next 5 years. It will be Atlanta's 4th time as SB host.
Charlotte, meanwhile, has never hosted one.
Could that ever happen? What would have to happen? I looked into the idea, for @theobserver: https://t.co/8E4ONZm0GL

[Alex Zietlow @alexzietlow05]

"A military operation."

"We're kind of the little team that can."

"That's what makes The Double one of the last truly impossible things in motorsports."

Inside the historic & logistically daunting weekend for @katherinelegge & @BRANDed. In @theobserver: https://t.co/P2urRflypI

[Langston Wertz Jr. @langstonwertzjr]

Elijah Phillips was sleeping outside. Rocky River coach Kenneth McClamrock took him in and now Phillips has stability, school plans and hope.

The story of how football coaches are really changing the lives of the young men they mentor. Tap link below

https://t.co/rA7V0hPqM7

[Rod Boone @rodboone]

The NBA Draft Lottery is this afternoon. And for once the #Hornets have the lowest odds of any team.

Why that might actually be a good thing.

https://t.co/mwkvGBQwI5

[Scott Fowler @scott_fowler]

Jim Nantz just gave a touching tribute on CBS to Scott Davenport, the beloved head golf pro at Quail Hollow Club who passed away in January after an illness. Here's the story I wrote on Davenport at the time, for @theobserver: https://t.co/h8ckl4cEej

[APSE @APSE_sportmedia]

Deadline approaching for APSE scholarship for student journalists. Can you use $1,250 for expenses? Apply today. https://t.co/Pkv5oaffNO

[Mike Kaye @mike_e_kaye]

#PANTHERS ROOKIE MINICAMP BEGINS TODAY:

Get ready for the weekend coverage with some analysis.

Grading the draft: https://t.co/nXdBfyXjMg

Offensive depth chart breakdown: https://t.co/uqL47TV0pj

Defensive depth chart breakdown: https://t.co/M5LFAlMXRI