Nascar at Indy - Exercise in History and Tedium
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Jeff Gordon won the 1994 Brickyard 400, the first stock car race at Indianapolis.
Stock car drivers make it seem as if Indianapolis Motor Speedway is much more fun to drive into than to race around. As they ente...
Veteran Ndereba and Newcomer Tola Win at NYC Half-Marathon
Conventional wisdom says that elite distance running is not for the young. Supposedly, years of long training runs are needed to put power into the legs. Young runners may graduate to longer distances, but they should not start long.
Conventiona...
Will the Real Big Brown Show Up for the Haskell Invitational?
Michael Iavarone owns racehorses, so forgive his optimism. He says that he has never felt better about Big Brown and that he fully expects him to demolish a compact field on Sunday afternoon in the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in O...
Jimmie Johnson Wins at Brickyard, Where Rubber Did Not Meet Road
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jimmie Johnson celebrated his second victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a burnout.
Appropriately, one of his tires exploded.
Johnson survived tire troubles in a caution-filled race Sunday, holding off Car...
Sastre Wins Tour de France
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Carlos Sastre on the podium in Paris after winning the Tour de France Sunday.
PARIS — Carlos Sastre has been a contender in the Tour de France for so long that few people thought he would ever actually win i...
Rep. Rush Concerned About Less-Than-Harsh Suspension of Rick Dutrow
Representative Bobby L. Rush, chairman of the congressional subcommittee that took horse racing to task for its lax policies regarding performance-enhancing drugs during hearings last month, sent a letter Monday to the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority ...
Daniel Bukantz, Champion Fencer, Dies at 90 - Obituary (Obit)
Dr. Daniel Bukantz, who was a national champion and Olympic fencer and a longtime Olympic fencing referee while pursuing a career in dentistry, died Saturday at his home in Forest Hills, Queens. He was 90.
The cause was lung cancer, said his s...
