Major professional sports is starting to trickle back in the United States. The UFC is staging two different cards this week, while NASCAR marks its return Sunday with a Cup Series event at historic Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. The race will be 400 miles and begins at 3:30 p.m. ET. It will be the first of three Cup Series races at Darlington this season, including another one already Wednesday.

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There will be no fans in attendance on Sunday and there will be no practice sessions – the lineup will be determined in part by a random draw for starting positions. The betting favorite is Kyle Busch in the No. 18 car at +600. There had been four official points races this season before the coronavirus pandemic forced a shutdown. Busch ranks 12th in points and has two Top-5 finishes but hasn’t won yet in 2020. Busch has raced 15 times in NASCAR’s top series at Darlington and has 10 Top-10 finishes and a win in 2008. His 716 laps led there are first among all active drivers.

Denny Hamlin (No. 11 car) is +650 and Kevin Harvick (No. 4) is +700. Hamlin won the season-opening Daytona 500 in February for the second year in a row – just the fourth driver to win back-to-back Daytona 500s – but hasn’t run well otherwise with an average running position of 16.9 overall that ranks 16th in the circuit. Hamlin has been strong in his career at Darlington with two wins in 14 races and an average finish of 7.8.