Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig surtsports.com. NS
Answer
surtsports.com. 5 NS ns1.surtsports.com.
surtsports.com. 5 NS ns2.surtsports.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.surtsports.com. 5 A 104.140.13.66
ns2.surtsports.com. 5 A 173.44.187.103
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0