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RELATED: Full Rolex 24 schedule DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — For a four-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup champion, Jeff Gordon sure seemed like a kid in a candy store Friday afternoon in the Daytona International Speedway garage area preparing for his second career start in Saturday’s iconic Rolex 24 sports car race. Gordon will team with brothers Ricky and Jordan Taylor and sports car veteran Max Angelelli in the No. 10…

RELATED: Full Rolex 24 schedule DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — For a four-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup champion, Jeff Gordon sure seemed like a kid in a candy store Friday afternoon in the Daytona International Speedway garage area preparing for his second career start in Saturday’s iconic Rolex 24 sports car race. Gordon will team with brothers Ricky and Jordan Taylor and sports car veteran Max Angelelli in the No. 10…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Amid all the talk about the new points system as drivers met the media Tuesday and Wednesday, Joey Logano talked about something that could have just as big an impact on the championship: “The aero changes for this year … have been lost in the shuffle of all this,” Logano said. “That will be a big deal.” For two days when drivers were supposed to talk about…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Our experts weigh in on four of the biggest questions in NASCAR after the annual media tour: Turn 1: Should Danica Patrick be worried about her career if the Nature’s Bakery sponsorship falls through? K. Lee Davis, ESPN.com motorsports editor: Absolutely. Patrick isn’t a bad racer, she just hasn’t shown the kind of improvement she needs to on a power team such…

NASCAR finally woke up from its fantasy world earlier this week, making sweeping changes to its racing events that will turn a stale, boring product into…well, it will still be boring. The most popular racing series in North America is bleeding viewers both in person and on television. Speedway Motorsports, International Speedway Corporation and Dover Motorsports, the three companies that own the majority of the tracks NASCAR races at,…

RELATED: Driver Tracker for 2017   FOX Sports analyst Michael Waltrip will make one final run at the Daytona 500 next month and then call it a career in NASCAR.   Waltrip, 53, made the announcement in a release with sponsor Aaron’s on Thursday afternoon. He is a two-time winner of the “Great American Race,” prevailing in the Daytona International Speedway opener in 2001 and 2003.   Premium Motorsports will…

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The US men’s national soccer team, currently in its annual January training camp before a friendly against Serbia on Sunday, once again finds itself at the dawn of a new era. Jürgen Klinsmann – who one suspects would have been willing to take credit for the sun rising at dawn each day – is no longer the national team coach; Bruce Arena is. Klinsmann’s claim that he had fundamentally revolutionized…

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RELATED: Driver Tracker for 2017 FOX Sports analyst Michael Waltrip will make one final run at the Daytona 500 next month and then call it a career in NASCAR. Waltrip, 53, made the announcement in a release with sponsor Aaron’s on Thursday afternoon. He is a two-time winner of the “Great American Race,” prevailing in the Daytona International Speedway opener in 2001 and 2003. Should he qualify for the 40-car…

RELATED: Driver Tracker for 2017 FOX Sports analyst Michael Waltrip will make one final run at the Daytona 500 next month and then call it a career in NASCAR. Waltrip, 53, made the announcement in a release with sponsor Aaron’s on Thursday afternoon. He is a two-time winner of the “Great American Race,” prevailing in the Daytona International Speedway opener in 2001 and 2003. Should he qualify for the 40-car…

After an absence of several years, boys varsity soccer will be back at Mount St. Joseph Academy in Rutland next fall. It made perfect sense to reinstate the sport, said Athletic Director Phil Hall. First of all, Hall said, the two schools funneling the most students into MSJ are Christ the King and Barstow in Chittenden — both schools where soccer is an important ingredient of the extracurricular package. “We…

Paul Simon collaborated with Philip Glass on the album Songs from Liquid Days. New York Daily News via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption New York Daily News via Getty Images Editor’s Note: On Jan. 31, Philip Glass turns 80. We’re marking the event by asking a few of his collaborators and colleagues to write about him and his music. Paul Simon contributed lyrics to a song from Glass’ 1986…

Julia Landauer originally got into racing when she was about 10 years old because her parents wanted something she could compete in with her brother. Now she gets to compete with “the boys” regularly as an up-and-coming driver in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. Landauer is back for her second season in the series in 2017, driving full-time this time around for owner bob Bruncati and his Sunrise Ford…

The seven-time champion said that once his streak of five consecutive titles was broken in 2011, all the pressure was off and so he’s not stressing over the possibility winning a record-setting eighth title.  “I feel a larger responsibility in being a real leader at Hendrick Motorsports and being there for my teammates and team members,” said Johnson. “I feel a stronger calling for being involved in the Drivers…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Jan. 25, 2017) – After a season of milestones for NASCAR Drive for Diversity graduates competing across NASCAR national series, the industry’s flagship development program for multicultural and female drivers has announced that six drivers will join its 2017 class. The drivers were selected after a competitive combine held last October at New Smyrna Speedway and will compete for Rev Racing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series…

Julia Landauer originally got into racing when she was about 10 years old because her parents wanted something she could compete in with her brother. Now she gets to compete with “the boys” regularly as an up-and-coming driver in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. Landauer is back for her second season in the series in 2017, driving full-time this time around for owner bob Bruncati and his Sunrise Ford…

In a move expected for several weeks, the Los Angeles City Council has given unanimous final approval to a privately run bid that could bring the Olympics back to Southern California. The council’s vote on Wednesday means that if L.A. is selected as host of the 2024 Summer Games, the city will sign a contract agreeing to cover any financial shortfalls. Bid leaders have estimated the mega-sporting event would cost $5.3…

Don’t read too much into Danica Patrick’s seemingly aggressive foray into off-the-track ventures. She says she’s not planning any kind of post-racing exit strategy. Asked about that specifically Tuesday on the first day of the NASCAR preseason media tour at the Charlotte Convention Center in North Carolina, Patrick responded: “Yeah, you’re wrong in thinking that’s the purpose. The things that I have done outside of racing that all really are happening…

RELATED: Full Media Tour schedule CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. looked absolutely relaxed Wednesday morning, sitting in the single director’s chair on stage at the Charlotte Convention Center and meeting with the NASCAR national media for his first formal pre-season question and answer period. He seemed so comfortable, in fact, that when he was ushered off stage for the next phase of Media Day appointments he actually seemed a little…