The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series regular season is nearly one-fourth of the way over at the Easter break, lending some insight to how the championship playoff series could play out. As for picking a winner in the Chase, Tony Stewart pretty much ruined that for generations with last season’s surreal charge.
SPRINGFIELD -- Two sections of Illinois campaign finance law aimed at reining in political action committees were struckdown by a Chicago federal judge Tuesday afternoon, a ruling that could lead to so-called super PACs coming to Illinois.
Contrary to what you’ve read or seen reported from Daytona International Speedway this week, today isn’t Danica Patrick’s canonization, primarily because A) she’s not deceased and B) to my knowledge hasn’t dramatically impacted the Catholic Church. No, today is the Daytona 500 – NASCAR’s main event.
The advent of the Chase for the Championship in NASCAR’s premier division, which happened to coincide with the most competitive era ever seen in auto racing, has made prognosticating far less of an exact science than it was in the 1980s or '90s.
Q: Did a MOPAR-powered car ever win an IndyCar race and, if so, who drove it? I am told one did win, but I can’t ever recall a MOPAR-powered IndyCar. -- John, retired and living in New England
Four members of Shawnee’s Team Crain captured championships Saturday at the 2011 USPF 14th annual Crain Powerlifting-Bench Press-Deadlift Open.
Kurt Busch took the lead from Jimmie Johnson with 41 laps remaining to win the AAA 400 at the Dover International Speedway Sunday afternoon.
Tecumseh High School product Patrick Cobbs has been added to the New Orleans Saints roster as a running back.
Marcos Ambrose, the 34-year-old Australian who’s been blazing fast on the road courses since moving halfway across the planet five years ago to try his skill in NASCAR, passed the top two cars with two laps to go for his first Sprint Cup Series victory in Monday’s postponed Heluva Good Sour Cream Dips at The Glen.
Tutoring Sam Bradford is Josh McDaniels’ route to career redemption.
The former boy wonder, once head coach of the Denver Broncos at age 32, has a career re-set as offensive coordinator with the St. Louis Rams. By Wednesday, the second day that players could report, McDaniels guessed the hours he’s spent with Bradford already was in double digits.
Road course racing goes a long way towards minimizing that wait-and-see approach. The effect is not always pretty, but it is undeniably entertaining. That fact shouldn’t be lost on a sport that has seen a drop in attendance and overall popularity over the last several years as the economy limps along.
A Western Conference finals appearance by the Oklahoma City Thunder is starting to turn Oklahoma’s natural colors of crimson and orange into a slightly bluer hue.
Actions sometimes speak louder than words, especially if you’re Chris Brown. Brown made news last week for throwing a chair at a window in his dressing room at the studios of “Good Morning America.”
Zach Randolph scored 31 points, including 13 in the fourth quarter, and Tony Allen made two late free throws to help the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 110-105 on Tuesday night.
San Francisco defensive tackle Justin Smith was ejected from the 49ers’ game at San Diego Thursday after making contact with an official after a play.
Matt Treanor wanted to stay with the Texas Rangers, even knowing he is expected to be the backup catcher.
“For me, it was a no-brainer,” Treanor said Monday after getting an $850,000, one-year contract from the American League champions. “I was going to try and come back with Texas if they’d have me.”
The Rangers last month signed free agent Yorvit Torrealba from San Diego to a $6.25 million, two-year deal.
Seven weeks after the NFL’s crackdown on illegal hits, players remain confused about what they can and can’t do. The league says there should be no such uncertainty.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have assigned second-year center Byron Mullens to their Tulsa affiliate in the NBA Development League.
Kevin Durant scored 30 points, including 20 in the second half, and grabbed 11 rebounds as the Oklahoma City Thunder came from 19 points down to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 111-103 on Wednesday night.
