Rain, competition shrink cutoff margin for Chase

Like double-file restarts at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the race for the final positions in the 2009 Chase for the Sprint Cup tightened considerably following Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301.
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Attorney: Texas LB Kindle left scene of accident

Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle ran his car into an Austin, Texas, apartment and left the scene of the accident last week, his attorney said.

Andrea Canales: After Confed Cup smash, U.S. turns to Gold Cup

After drawing the attention of the world with its stunning run to the Confederations Cup final, the U.S. national team immediately turns its focus to the CONCACAF Gold Cup, where it begins its defense of its North and Central American title on July 4.

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Allan Muir: Draft winners and losers

Grading an NHL draft immediately after it takes place is like tasting a cake after all the ingredients are together, but before you’ve actually given them time to bake. The draft is an imperfect science at best, which is why giving this crop some time to gestate is the only way to accurately judge the [...]

Bruce Martin: Logano beats lofty expectations with Loudon victory

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — The driver known as Sliced Bread popped out of the toaster earlier than anybody realistically expected by winning Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire.

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Luke Winn: Despite draft buzz, Brackins puts NBA on hold to return to Iowa State

While the first round of the NBA draft unfolded last Thursday night, Iowa State’s Craig Brackins was on a flight from Chicago to Belgrade, Serbia, for the World University Games. He’d spent the previous nine days in Colorado Springs, Colo., first auditioning, then practicing with the 12-man U.S. team, and as he sat in Chicago’s [...]

Joe Posnanski: Talkin’ about the age-33 falloff phenomenon, with Bill James

After a one-week vacation, we are back with the continuing evolution of an experiment that last appeared two weeks ago: a combination column with Boston Red Sox senior advisor and baseball writer extraordinaire Bill James …

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Ben Reiter: No matter what Pujols does, the Cards’ season rides on Carpenter

“Starting in K.C. he just said, forget about it,” Cardinals center fielder Rick Ankiel said of his teammate Albert Pujols last week in the visitors’ clubhouse at Citi Field. The Friday before, against the Royals, Pujols had begun one of those stretches — five games, three home runs, 12 RBIs and eight hits in 19 [...]

Can Bill Snyder Return The Kansas State Wildcats To Glory?

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; … by Rick McMahan 7 reads This article is dedicated to my brother Bill Klimek, a long suffering, rabid Kansas State Wildcat fan who is going through some trying …

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Oklahoma gets Florida football commit

Oklahoma struck in the fertile recruiting ground of Florida over the weekend, earning a verbal commitment from touted running back Roy Finch of Niceville.

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Logano wins first as rain shortens New Hampshire

Another rainstorm. Another first-time winner.
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Logano wins first as rain shortens New Hampshire

Another rainstorm. Another first-time winner.
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Busch, Gordon settle for top-fives in wild Cup race

Once defending Lenox Industrial Tools 301 champion Kurt Busch accepted that a rain shower that was expected all day Sunday had forced him into third place at New Hampshire Motor Speedway behind Joey Logano and Jeff Gordon he was able to celebrate the day’s positives.
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Busch, Gordon settle for top-fives in wild Cup race

Once defending Lenox Industrial Tools 301 champion Kurt Busch accepted that a rain shower that was expected all day Sunday had forced him into third place at New Hampshire Motor Speedway behind Joey Logano and Jeff Gordon he was able to celebrate the day’s positives.
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Gabriele Marcotti: Brazil shows why it’s Brazil

JOHANNESBURG — Pedigree matters. If it didn’t, we might not have witnessed what happened at Ellis Park on Sunday, an unstoppable rally that gave Brazil the Confederations Cup title in a 3-2 win over the U.S. Heck, when was the last time you saw a team come back from two goals down at halftime in [...]

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