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Sep 16, 2017 Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment JOLIET, Ill. — Martin Truex Jr. had a choice just 42 laps into the 2016 playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway. As he coasted into the garage with a blown engine, he knew he still had a chance to make it into the semifinal round. He would have needed several other playoff drivers to drop out with issues or a…

NORTH BRANFORD, Conn. (AP) — Authorities have identified the second person killed in a Connecticut plane crash that claimed the life of NASCAR modified champion racer Ted Christopher. Police said Sunday that 81-year-old Charles Dundas, a resident of New York and Florida, was killed in the Saturday crash in woods near North Branford. Federal officials say the plane had left Plainville’s Robertson Airport headed for Long Island. Dundas and the…

To the editor: Los Angeles did not win the bidding for the 2028 Summer Olympics; it lost the bidding for 2024. With all the other cities realizing fiscal prudence and withdrawing their bids, the International Olympic Committee was scared that no city would be foolish enough to bid for 2028. (“LA 2028 delegation returns from Peru, outlines next steps for 2028 Games,” Sept. 15) To make matters worse, the IOC…

Modified championship racer Ted Christopher was one of two people killed when a small plane crashed in the woods in Connecticut on Saturday, officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that two people were aboard a Mooney M20C plane that went down near the North Branford-Guilford border shortly before 2 p.m.  Brian France, NASCAR chairman and CEO, said Christopher, 59, and the plane’s pilot both died. A witness…

Shane Miller sees a lot of kids come through his office with concussions. Miller is a pediatric sports medicine specialist at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, and in the past few years, he started noticing something that worried him. “We started to see a trend of athletes reporting to us that that they had continued to play in their particular sport after sustaining a concussion,” he says. “We wanted…

Imagine if a team of scientists devised a drug which massively reduced people’s chances of developing cancer or heart disease, cutting their overall likelihood of dying early by 40%. This would be front page news worldwide, a Nobel prize as good as in the post. That drug is already here, albeit administered in a slightly different way: it’s called cycling to work. One of the more puzzling political questions is…

Koka is a respected figure in Cairo’s pigeon fighting world. His life revolves around preparing for the contests, in which whole neighbourhoods clash to hunt and capture each other’s pigeons.  Away from the duels, he spends his time caring for the hundreds of pigeons he rears in a ramshackle wooden tower he has built on his roof.   Like numerous other breeders, Koka treasures the pigeons for their…

Imagine if a team of scientists devised a drug which massively reduced people’s chances of developing cancer or heart disease, cutting their overall likelihood of dying early by 40%. This would be front page news worldwide, a Nobel prize as good as in the post. That drug is already here, albeit administered in a slightly different way: it’s called cycling to work. One of the more puzzling political questions is…

Imagine if a team of scientists devised a drug which massively reduced people’s chances of developing cancer or heart disease, cutting their overall likelihood of dying early by 40%. This would be front page news worldwide, a Nobel prize as good as in the post. That drug is already here, albeit administered in a slightly different way: it’s called cycling to work. One of the more puzzling political questions is…

NORTH BRANFORD, Conn. — Modified championship racer Ted Christopher was one of two people killed when a small plane crashed in the woods in Connecticut on Saturday, NASCAR officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that two people were aboard a Mooney M20C plane that went down near the North Branford-Guilford border shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday, but they didn’t release the names of the victims. Brian France, NASCAR chairman…

NASCAR driver Ted Christopher was killed Saturday in a small plane crash in Connecticut, CBS New York reports. The Mooney M20C aircraft crashed in a wooded area near Guilford shortly before 2 p.m., according to the FAA.  Authorities said two people were on board the plane at the time. The second person’s name has not been released. Police said they do not yet know from where the plane took off,…

All the world’s eyes are on the Korean Peninsula, but not only because of Kim Jong Un’s controversial nuclear missile tests. South Korea is set to host the Winter Olympics in February. Scheduled for Feb. 8-25, the games are planned to take place in Pyeongchang, a city of 44,000 people just 50 miles from the North Korean border. When asked if the host nation would be safe for the event,…

Stored away on my phone is a brief video showing the day, a few years ago, when my son first learned to ride a pedal bike – more precisely, the moment he gained sufficient confidence for me to stop hovering and record the historic event for posterity. Looking back at the footage, what struck me was the meandering route he plotted. But this wasn’t beginner’s wobbling – it was a…

The afternoon had turned uncomfortably hot in Qatar as the two men stepped outside, away from the crowds at an international sports assembly. They needed to speak in private. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and his companion on that November day in 2016 — Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee — took off their jackets to walk along the edge of the Persian Gulf. Los Angeles was competing…

England The eight mile, family-friendly Brean Down Way in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, opened in July 2017 after 18 months of volunteer work and fundraising. It follows a newly-opened sluice-top road, crosses the River Axe, skirts a wetland nature reserve and mud flats, and takes in numerous cafes, before finishing at Brean Down Fort. Originally built to defend against Napoleonic invasions, the fort is now a National Trust site documenting life on…

RELATED: Final practice results | 10-lap averages | Full schedule at Chicagoland Coors Light Pole winner Kyle Busch backed up his show of speed in Friday qualifying by leading Saturday’s final Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series final practice at Chicagoland Speedway. Busch propelled the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 18 Toyota to a best lap of 180.252 mph in the 50-minute final session. He’ll lead the field to the green flag…

RELATED: Chicago starting lineup | Playoff standings JOLIET, Ill. — The addition of Stewart-Haas Racing to Ford’s NASCAR program for 2017 was made to increase the automaker’s championship chances. Now, on the eve of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series’ Playoffs, two SHR drivers are among the five total that will carry the blue oval banner into the 10-race postseason. First up is Sunday’s Tales of the Turtles 400 here…

England The eight mile, family-friendly Brean Down Way in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, opened in July 2017 after 18 months of volunteer work and fundraising. It follows a newly-opened sluice-top road, crosses the River Axe, skirts a wetland nature reserve and mud flats, and takes in numerous cafes, before finishing at Brean Down Fort. Originally built to defend against Napoleonic invasions, the fort is now a National Trust site documenting life on…

On stage, Wenger expressed his amazement at the transformation. He could never have foreseen a time, he said, when Americans owned roughly a dozen of England’s clubs. He was, he said, delighted by it. Polite applause rippled among the guests. Outside that room, though, the picture is rather more complicated. Barzun might have wanted to celebrate the special relationship that had brought so much American influence into the Premier League,…

NASCAR is my favorite brand of racing, but sadly, no developer/publisher has taken full advantage of the license. Monster Games is trying hard to change that narrative, and NASCAR Heat 2 is the beginning of a new chapter. Credit: Monster Games NASCAR Heat 2 After a rocky start with NASCAR Heat, Monster and 704 Games offer an imperfect but drastically improved sequel. Here’s the best, the worst and the bottom…