Green Valley High School graduate Jamie Little and her husband, Cody Selman, who also is a racing person, are expecting their second child in October. It’s going to be a girl this time.
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The best rider all season long also was the best mudder in the Monster Energy Series season finale. Ryan Dungey’s ninth victory of the season and the fourth of his career in Las Vegas was almost as wild as the weather.
Las Vegan Kyle Busch sailed away from Kevin Harvick after a late wreck collected several of the leaders Saturday at Kansas Speedway and finally won a NASCAR Sprint Cup race at one of three tracks that had eluded him.
Ryan Dungey clinched his second consecutive Supercross title last weekend in the featured 450SX class at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Jimmie Johnson has a series-best three wins at Kansas Speedway and a track-best 8.7 average finish. It’s why he’s a 5-1 favorite despite the stellar Joe Gibbs Racing practices.
Micah Roberts, a former Las Vegas sports book director who has been setting NASCAR odds since 1994, analyzes the field for Saturday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup GoBowling.com 400 at Kansas Speedway.
In the aftermath of the Geico 500, a lot of concerns about hell-bent racing in 200 mph packs with bad weather on the way were expressed — as if this was the first time that had happened.
A quirk in the calendar will push NASCAR Weekend back onto the same weekend as the Pac-12, Mountain West and Western Athletic Conference college basketball tournament hoopfest in Las Vegas.
Over 25 million pounds of dirt is prepped for the Monster Energy Supercross race inside Sam Boyd Stadium.
He was named the MVP of Super Bowl VII. Then Jake Scott had a falling out with Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula and was traded to the Washington Redskins, where he played the last of his eight seasons. Then he basically disappeared.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a 4-1 favorite in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Geico 500 on Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. Only one other driver, Jimmie Johnson at 15-2, has single-digit odds.
Micah Roberts, a former Las Vegas sports book director who has been setting NASCAR odds since 1994, analyzes the field for Sunday’s Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama.
Tony Stewart said that if some of these race teams insist on leaving lug nuts off during pit stops to hasten a car’s return to the track and improve its position, it would only be a matter of time until wheels started flying off.
Micah Roberts, a former Las Vegas sports book director who has been setting NASCAR odds since 1994, offers his opinions on Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia.
Richmond International Raceway is identified as a short track for its flat three-quarters-mile layout, but it actually runs closer to what is witnessed on the flat one-mile tracks at Phoenix and Loudon, New Hampshire. Kevin Harvick has fared his best on these types of tracks.