Jimmie Johnson finished fifth in his final race as a full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver at Phoenix Raceway.
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If you watch enough sports you’ll see some horrific injuries. I’ve seen David Busst’s leg explode, watched Erik Karlsson’s Achilles tendon severed by a skate blade and winced at dozens of ACL tears. Professional sports are played with such speed and violence that they also serve as terrible reminders of the sheer fragility of the human body. Bodies, even the most thoroughly trained, are wrecked easily.
Although I doubt anyone who isn’t a medical professional ever gets used to watching injuries, you can get used to that notion of fragility. It is really easy for people to get hurt doing nothing, let alone pushing the edges of human performance...
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Nov 11, 2020 at 12:12a ET | NASCAR | Duration: 7:47
NCAA.com correspondent Andy Katz talks with college basketball newsmakers each week on the March Madness 365 podcast. New episodes drop every Tuesday wherever you get your podcasts.
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Immediately following the major news that the entire 2021 NCAA tournament will be in a controlled environment in the city of Indianapolis, Andy Katz breaks down how the decision...
Read More“This was definitely not how this was supposed to go down.”
The greatest American racer of his generation is on the phone. Jimmie Johnson is driving home from the racetrack and he is 100 percent correct. This is not how this was supposed to go down. Not this week. Not this year. Hell, not even the past 19 years. None of it. And yet here he is...
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Nov 8, 2020 at 7:00p ET | NASCAR | Duration: 3:51
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Chase Elliott won his first NASCAR Cup Series championship by winning the final race of the season at Phoenix. The 24-year-old becomes the third youngest driver to win the title behind Jeff Gordon and Bill Rexford.
Elliott took the lead from Joey Logano with 42 laps to go rather handily and drove on to take the checkered flag in his first Championship 4 appearance. The No. 9 started the race from the rear after failing pre-race inspection twice but had no problem finding the speed to lead a race-high 153 laps.
This was the...
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Nov 8, 2020 at 6:24p ET | NASCAR | Duration: 8:38
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Nov 1, 2020 at 6:19p ET | NASCAR | Duration: 2:58
Harvick had a tire go down early in the race causing him to make a green flag pit stop and lose two laps putting him in catch-up mode on the half-mile Martinsville track.
“For sure with the way we’ve run here in the past,” Harvick said, acknowledging he and his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford team expected the Martinsville race to be a challenge.
“Everybody kept battling there and I tried to run into the door of the 18 as a last-ditch effort there and spun him out there so sorry to put him in ...
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Oct 18, 2020 at 6:12p ET | NASCAR | Duration: 7:30
HOLLYWOOD CASINO 400 PICKS, PREDICTIONS, ODDS |
Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway will be the 10th of 11 races on 1.5-mile tracks and 19th of 20 races using the race package with engines producing 550 horsepower.
This will be the first of three races in the Round 8 and Kevin Harvick comes in as the No. 1 seed and Denn...
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Oct 4, 2020 at 7:04p ET | NASCAR | Duration: 16:19
His sudden drop in the desert means Sunday’s race at Talladega will be crucial to his postseason hopes...
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Oct 4, 2020 at 6:12p ET | NASCAR | Duration: 4:13
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Oct 4, 2020 at 4:28p ET | NASCAR | Duration: 5:23
The ‘Big One’ at Talladega took place towards the end of Stage 2 in the NASCAR Cup Series race. In a horrific crash that involved numerous cars, Las Vegas winner Kurt Busch was sent flying on top Cole Custer’s No. 41 car.
It was a frightening moment in the playoff race when the older Busch brother went flying and slammed into a couple of other cars on landing. The incident also collected Clint Bowyer and Brendan Gaughan right away...