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How to watch today’s Geico 500 at Talladega NASCAR race: Livestream options, more
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Superspeedway racing is back as NASCAR revs its engines for the Geico 500. The longest NASCAR oval, Talladega offers 500-miles over 188 laps of pure adrenaline.
One of the most highly-anticipated races of the NASCAR Cup Series, the Geico 500 at Talladega will host about 80,000 in-person spectators. If you couldn’t make to Lincoln, Alabama today and you’re watching from home (you may have the best view in the house), you’ll want to know how and when to watch today’s race. Keep reading for everything you need to know to watch or stream the Geico 500 at Talladega.
How and when to watch the Geico 500 at Talladega NASCAR race
The Geico 500 will broadcast live from the Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama on Sunday, April 21, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. ET (noon PT). The race will air on Fox and stream on SlingTV and the platforms featured below.
How to watch the Geico 500 without cable
While most cable packages include Fox it’s easy to watch the Geico 500 if Fox isn’t included in your cable TV subscription, or if you don’t have cable at all. Your best options for watching are below. (Streaming options will require an internet provider.)
Stream the Geico 500 at Talladega on Sling TV and save $10
If you don’t have cable TV that includes Fox, one of the most cost-effective ways to stream live NASCAR races this year is through a subscription to Sling TV. The streamer offers access to all four channels airing NASCAR this season, plus local ABC affiliates (where available) with its Blue Tier plan. Also worth noting: Sling TV comes with 50 hours of cloud-based DVR recording space included, perfect for recording all of NASCAR’s big moments this season.
You can watch today’s race on Fox via the Sling TV Blue and Sling TV Orange + Blue tiers. The Blue tier features 42 channels, including your local Fox affiliate, for $45 per month. The Orange + Blue tier features 46 channels, including ESPN, for $60 per month. Sling TV is currently offering $10 off your first month of service on all subscription tiers.
Top features of Sling TV Blue tier:
- There are 42 channels to watch, including local NBC, Fox, FS1 and USA affiliates (where available).
- You can access most network-aired NASCAR races, and local NFL and nationally broadcast games at the lowest price next season.
- All subscription tiers include 50 hours of cloud-based DVR storage.
Watch the Geico 500 at Talladega for free with Fubo
You can also catch all NASCAR Cup Series races in 2024 on Fubo. Fubo is a sports-centric streaming service that offers access to NBC, USA, Fox and FS1, in addition to almost every NFL game next season.
To watch NASCAR without cable, start a seven-day free trial of Fubo. You can begin watching immediately on your TV, phone, tablet or computer. In addition to NASCAR races, you’ll have access to NFL football, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and international soccer games. Fubo’s Pro Tier is priced at $80 per month after your free seven-day trial.
Sports fans will want to consider adding on the $7.99 per month Fubo Extra package, which includes MLB Network, NBA TV, NHL Network, Tennis Channel, SEC Network and more channels with live games. Or upgrade to the Fubo Elite tier and get all the Fubo Extra channels, plus the ability to stream in 4K, starting at $90 per month ($70 for the first month).
Top features of FuboTV Pro Tier:
- There are no contracts with Fubo, you can cancel anytime.
- The Pro tier includes over 190 channels, so there’s something for everyone to enjoy.
- Fubo includes most channels you’ll need to watch live sports, including CBS (not available through Sling TV).
- All tiers come with 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR recording.
- Stream on your TV, phone, tablet and other devices.
Watch the Geico 500 free on Hulu + Live TV
You can watch NASCAR this season with Hulu + Live TV. The bundle features access to 90 channels, including Fox and FS1, NBC and USA. Unlimited DVR storage is also included. Watch every Cup Series race on every network with Hulu + Live TV, plus catch almost all live NFL games next season, exclusive live regular season games, popular studio shows (including “NFL Total Access” and the Emmy-nominated show “Good Morning Football”) and lots more. With Hulu + Live TV, you’ll have access to live local network affiliate programming without the hefty price of a cable subscription. Hulu + Live TV offers a three-day free trial.
Hulu + Live TV comes bundled with ESPN+ and Disney+ for $77 per month after your free trial.
Watch NASCAR races live with a digital HDTV antenna
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You can also watch today’s race on TV with an affordable indoor antenna, which pulls in local over-the-air HDTV channels such as CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, PBS, Univision and more. Here’s the kicker: There’s no monthly charge.
For anyone living in a partially blocked-off area (those near mountains or first-floor apartments), a digital TV antenna may not pick up a good signal — or any signal at all. But for many homes, a digital TV antenna provides a seriously inexpensive way to watch NASCAR without paying a cable company. Indoor TV antennas can also provide some much-needed TV backup if a storm knocks out your cable.
This amplified digital antenna with a 50-mile range can receive hundreds of HDTV channels, including ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Fox and Univision and can filter out cellular and FM signals. It delivers a high-quality picture in 1080p HDTV and top-tier sound.
2024 NASCAR Cup Series schedule
Below is the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series schedule for the remaining races in the 2024 season. All times Eastern.
- March 17: Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, 3:30 p.m. (Fox)
- March 24: EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas 3:30 p.m. (Fox)
- March 31: Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway, 7:00 p.m. (Fox)
- April 7: Cook Out 400 at Martinsville Speedway 3:00 p.m. (FS1)
- April 14: Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400 at Texas Motor Speedway, 3:30 p.m. (FS1)
- April 21: GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, 3:00 p.m. (Fox)
- April 28: Würth 400 at Dover Motor Speedway, 2:00 p.m. (FS1)
- May 5: AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway, 3:00 p.m. (FS1)
- May 12: Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway, 3:00 p.m. (FS1)
- May 19: All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway (All-Star Race), 8:00 p.m. (FS1)
- May 26: Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, 6:00 p.m. (Fox)
- June 2: Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway 3:30 p.m. (FS1)
- June 9: Toyota / Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway, 3:30 p.m. (Fox)
- June 16: Iowa Corn 350 at Iowa Speedway, 7:00 p.m. (USA)
- June 23: At New Hampshire Motor Speedway, 2:30 p.m. (USA)
- June 30: Ally 400 at Nashville Superspeedway, 3:30 p.m. (NBC)
- July 7: Grant Park 165 at Chicago street course, 4:30 p.m. (NBC)
- July 14: At Pocono Raceway, 2:30 p.m. (USA)
- July 21: Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 2:30 p.m. (NBC)
Olympic break
- Aug. 11: Cook Out 400 at Richmond Raceway, 6:00 p.m. (USA)
- Aug. 18: FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway, 2:30 p.m. (USA)
- Aug. 24: Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway, 7:30 p.m. (NBC)
- Sept. 1: Cook Out Southern 500* at Darlington Raceway, 6:00 p.m. (USA)
Playoff Round of 16
- Sept. 8: Quaker State 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, 3:00 p.m. (USA)
- Sept. 15: Go Bowling at the Glen at Watkins Glen International, 3:00 p.m. (USA)
- Sept. 21: Bass Pro Shops Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, 7:30 p.m. (USA)
Playoff Round of 12
- Sept. 29: Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway, 3:00 p.m. (USA)
- Oct. 6: YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, 2:00 p.m. (NBC)
- Oct. 13: Bank of America ROVAL 400 at Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, 2:00 p.m. (NBC)
Playoff Round of 8
- Oct. 20: South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 2:30 p.m. (NBC)
- Oct. 27: At Homestead-Miami Speedway, 2:30 p.m. (NBC)
- Nov. 3: XFINITY 500 at Martinsville Speedway, 2:00 p.m. (NBC)
Championship
- Nov. 10: At Phoenix Raceway 3:00 p.m. (NBC)
Why does NASCAR take a two-week break for the 2024 Summer Olympics
Because NBC Sports is the official broadcaster of the Paris Summer Games, NASCAR will take a two-week pause between races at Indy (July 21) and Richmond (Aug. 11).
Frito-Lay is recalling a limited number of 13 oz. bags of Lay’s Classic Potato Chips after being alerted by a consumer contact that the product may contain undeclared milk.
The bags of chips affected by recall were distributed to certain retail stores and e-commerce distributors in Oregon and Washington and were available for sale beginning Nov. 3, 2024.
“Those with an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume the recalled product,” the Food and Drug Administration said in the recall notice posted Thursday.
No allergic reactions related to the recall have been reported, according to the recall. Additionally, no other Lay’s products, flavors, sizes or variety packs are affected.
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The recalled chips include Lay’s Classic Potato Chips, in flexible 13 oz. (368.5 grams) bags with UPC code 28400 31041, a “Guaranteed Fresh” date of 11 Feb 2025, and one of either two manufacturing codes: 6462307xx or 6463307xx.
General guidelines from the FDA advise consumers who have purchased any recalled food to dispose of the product or return it to the retailer for a full refund.
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What is the debt ceiling? Here’s why Trump wants Congress to abolish it before he takes office
Washington — President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk blew up a GOP-backed deal to fund federal agencies into March, raising the pressure on Republican congressional leaders to craft a plan to avert a government shutdown just before the holidays.
In a statement Wednesday, Trump and Vance lambasted the agreement for including provisions favored by Democrats. But the incoming president and vice president also added a new, significant wrinkle to negotiations when they urged Congress to raise or abolish the debt ceiling now, instead of next year.
“Increasing the debt ceiling is not great but we’d rather do it on Biden’s watch,” Trump and Vance said in their statement. “If Democrats won’t cooperate on the debt ceiling now, what makes anyone think they would do it in June during our administration? Let’s have this debate now.”
What is the debt ceiling?
Set by Congress, the debt ceiling, or limit, is the maximum amount of money the U.S. Treasury is authorized to borrow to pay debts incurred by the federal government. Lifting the debt ceiling does not authorize new spending, but instead lets the government spend money on obligations that Congress has already been approved.
Failing to address the debt ceiling could lead the U.S. to default on its debt, which would have devastating effects on the economy. The government has never defaulted, and the Treasury typically uses accounting moves, known as “extraordinary measures,” to delay breaching the debt ceiling.
While raising the debt ceiling used to be routine, legislation addressing it has in recent years been used as leverage to force policy concessions and fuel debates over government spending.
Congress last addressed the debt ceiling in June 2023 as part of a legislative package negotiated by President Biden and then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That deal suspended the debt ceiling through Jan., 1, 2025, ensuring any fight over it would take place after the 2024 elections.
The Treasury Department will likely implement extraordinary measures to stave off a default in the new year. It will also announce an “X date,” the estimated point at which the government will no longer be able to pay its obligations. The Economic Policy Innovation Center, a conservative think tank, projected in an analysis released Monday that it’s possible the debt limit will be reached by June 16.
While the Treasury Department’s use of extraordinary measures would give Congress more time to address the debt ceiling, Trump is now urging lawmakers to take action now, before he takes office.
Why does Trump want to raise the debt ceiling?
The president-elect will come into office with a legislative to-do list that includes securing the border and extending provisions of his signature Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was enacted in 2017 and overhauled the tax code. But a fight over the debt ceiling could complicate efforts by the Republican-led House and Senate to focus on those legislative initiatives and pass them quickly.
Trump is urging lawmakers to eliminate the debt ceiling altogether, a position that some prominent Democrats have endorsed in the past.
“Number one, the debt ceiling should be thrown out entirely,” Trump said in a phone interview Thursday with CBS News’ Robert Costa. “Number two, a lot of the different things they thought they’d receive [in a recently proposed spending deal] are now going to be thrown out, 100 percent. And we’ll see what happens. We’ll see whether or not we have a closure during the Biden administration. But if it’s going to take place, it’s going to take place during Biden, not during Trump.”
Trump separately told ABC News that “there won’t be anything approved unless the debt ceiling is done with,” indicating any spending deal to prevent a shutdown must address the debt limit.
“If we don’t get it, then we’re going to have a shutdown, but it’ll be a Biden shutdown, because shutdowns only [injure] the person who’s president,” he told ABC News.
Whether Republicans and Democrats would go along with such a plan, though, is far from clear. GOP lawmakers in both chambers have opposed raising the debt ceiling without spending reforms, and debates over the debt limit often give way to broader fights over the federal budget, which conservatives in Congress have said is bloated and should be reduced. Plus, Democrats still control the Senate and the White House.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement Wednesday that shutting down the government would harm families and endanger services Americans rely on.
“Republicans need to stop playing politics with this bipartisan agreement or they will hurt hardworking Americans and create instability across the country,” she said. “President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance ordered Republicans to shut down the government and they are threatening to do just that — while undermining communities recovering from disasters, farmers and ranchers, and community health centers.”
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries suggested Democrats would not go along with a plan pushed by Republicans to raise the debt limit.
“GOP extremists want House Democrats to raise the debt ceiling so that House Republicans can lower the amount of your Social Security check. Hard pass,” the New York Democrat wrote on the social media platform Bluesky.
Jeffries also told reporters “the debt limit issue and discussion is premature at best.”