Major League Baseball, the fiercest protector of tradition in American sport, is finally, thankfully, embracing instant replay for controversial home-run calls. ...more

August 29, 2008

SPRINT CUP PREVIEW RACE NO. 24: BRISTOL After the Daytona 500 and Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, NASCAR racing doesn't get much more electric than the annual summer race at Bristol. The Sharpie 500 is short-track racing at its best: three hours of banging and crashing and drivers looking to get even under the lights. Despite an enormous seating capacity of 160,000, Bristol has sold out 53 consecutive times for its Sprint Cup races, easily the longest streak in the sport. Tribune motorsports writer Tony Fabrizio looks at what is topical heading into the third-to-last regular-season race: ...more

August 22, 2008

Steve Addington was incredulous. His driver, Kyle Busch, hadn't won in three weeks and people were making an issue of it. ...more

August 20, 2008

In only the first 47 laps of Sunday's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, a flat right-front tire cost Dale Earnhardt Jr. a lap, and exploding right-rear tires ripped apart the fenders of Juan Pablo Montoya's and Matt Kenseth's cars. ...more

July 28, 2008

Team owner Jack Roush got a second-place finish in Sunday's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard from Carl Edwards, but he was not in a good mood. ...more

July 28, 2008

Car, team, overall driving talent - all are reasons that Kyle Busch has won seven of the first 19 Sprint Cup races, including three of the past four. ...more

July 27, 2008

Designed from scratch and tested, modified and tweaked during a period of several years, NASCAR's "car of tomorrow" was supposed to be the best race car ever built. ...more

June 8, 2008

It's early on Monday, May 26, Memorial Day. As I sit here at my desk, I took some time to remember my own Army days in Vietnam. I distinctly remember the smell of Vietnam as I stepped off of the plane in 1970. I remember fellow buddies that I flew with in that year. I remember the landscape below us as we flew in the mornings in the helicopter. The cool air and the beautiful country below me so ravaged by war. ...more

May 29, 2008

NASCAR suspended seven crew chiefs in its top three national series Wednesday for violations at Daytona, though the Nationwide Series team of Zephyrhills' David Reutimann escaped serious penalty for having an illegal carburetor. ...more

February 20, 2008

Tony Stewart called it "the flying brick." Kyle Busch won the first race with one and said he "couldn't wait to tell everyone how terrible the thing is to drive." ...more

February 6, 2008