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St. Petersburg, Fla. – Jimmie Johnson is looking forward to fans being able to see him race in his next adventure.Johnson is going back to his roots to race around, well, roots and all, in the Mint 400, a 400-mile off-road race March 6-7 in Nevada outside Las Vegas. The race weekend was once immortalized as being the backdrop for Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in […]

Meet the tough-shot maker who leads Maryland women's hoops: Oluchi Okananwa. The women's college basketball season is ramping up with high-stakes games every night and the NCAA Tournament just around the corner. In those key regular-season games, March Madness stars introduce themselves to the nation with magical moments and Cinderella runs. We're teaching you about them before they become national heroes. Ahead of No. 14 Maryland facing No. 8 Michigan […]

St. Petersburg, Fla. — Alex Palou thinks he could follow his eight-win 2025 with an eight-win 2026. Kind of. "Yes, it's possible," Palou told me Thursday prior to the INDYCAR opener this weekend in St. Petersburg. "It's very hard, very low chances. But it's possible. "It's possible to win 17 races. I'm not going to do it, but it would be possible." The Chip Ganassi Racing driver seeks his fifth […]

The smiles and sheepish grins began spreading wider and wider around the 9:13 mark of the second half, following back-to-back eye-popping buckets from Michigan center Aday Mara, the second of which extended the Wolverines’ lead to 13 points. He followed his skyscraping alley-oop dunk with a remarkable offensive rebound-turned-twisting-reverse layup that drew a foul and produced a traditional three-point play. Mara and frontcourt partner Morez Johnson Jr. beamed with glee. […]

As the calendar flips toward March, the NCAA Tournament picture has started to crystallize. For weeks, the prevailing belief across men's college basketball has been simple: A trio of No. 1 seeds are essentially spoken for. Duke, Michigan and Arizona have looked like clear-cut top seeds. That left one final No. 1 seed dangling — a debate to be settled over the season’s closing stretch. Perhaps not anymore. On Wednesday […]

St. Petersburg, Fla. — INDYCAR is officially back! Drivers get on track Friday for the first time in the 2026 INDYCAR season as they prepare for the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. Sunday's race (Noon ET on FOX) will be the first time Will Power drives for Andretti Global after 17 years at Team Penske. That will be one of the storylines to watch. But there’s plenty more. Here […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Measurements! Testing! On-field drills! Those are some of the main talking points in Indianapolis as the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine rolled on Thursday with the start of televised workouts. Defensive linemen and linebackers took the field at Lucas Oil Stadium, and a few of the top prospects in this year's draft class dominated. But the day also brought us several more media availabilities with top draft prospects. Here […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Who is the best player in the 2026 NFL Draft? Well, there's one way to find that answer: ask the prospects who was the best player they faced in college. I did just that in the latest version of my NFL Combine Survey, asking 42 prospects who were invited to the combine who was the best player they went up against in their college days. It's a fun […]

The 2026 NFL Scouting Combine begins this week, which means everybody's favorite college football players from this past season will have a massive platform to showcase themselves to general managers, coaches and scouts. It's a huge deal to be invited, and it's a great opportunity to prove yourself one way or another — through workouts, interviews and press conferences. There have been plenty of examples of how important these four […]