RACE NO. 9: PHOENIX Checker Auto Parts 500, coverage starts 3 p.m. Sunday, WFTS, Ch. 28 ...more

November 9, 2007

Dale Jarrett had no idea what life was like in the back of the Nextel Cup garage. ...more

November 7, 2007

If you follow NASCAR on television, there's no doubt you've heard this or even thought it. ...more

November 3, 2007

As the latest of the open-wheel racers to make the move to NASCAR, Dario Franchitti is finding himself learning a completely different language. ...more

October 21, 2007

Highlands Today recently did a story that citrus producer Mason Smoak had testified before the House Agriculture Committee in Congress that,"We want legal workers." I can agree that citrus growers need workers to get their fruit picked, but not at the expense of having millions of illegals from Mexico unlawfully entering the United States. Mr. Smoak said he "is proud of the salaries he pays his employees" of $10 an hour, when the federal wage rate is $5.85? ...more

October 11, 2007

Jack Roush sat in the pitch black, the generator that powers the lights having overheated. Flickers of light illuminated his face in snapshots each time the tinted glass doors to Greg Biffle's hauler were opened and closed to the daylight Friday. ...more

September 29, 2007

Six years ago, Zephyrhills' David Reutimann made his NASCAR debut in a Busch Series race at Richmond International Raceway. In tonight's Emerson Radio 250 Busch race at the three-quarter-mile short track, he'll make his 152nd start in one of NASCAR's top two divisions. Reutimann talks about this weekend's Busch and Cup races at Richmond and his season to date in this week's edition of his Tampa Tribune diary. ...more

September 7, 2007