Author: Michael

Fine, I’ll say it – NASCAR looks so, so dumb today. Well, actually, I don’t know. 
Maybe dumb isn’t the right word. Petty (not Richard!)? Hypocritical? Two-faced? I guess one of those will work. I’ll let y’all decide which to use. It’s a free country. 
After spending days and days aaaaaand days promoting the hell out of Sunday’s viral fight between Ricky Stenhouse Jr., his daddy, and Kyle Busch, NASCAR levied a whopper of a fine on RSJ late yesterday to the tune of $75,000. 
Huh? Come again? I don’t get it, and I’m not alone.

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The Indianapolis 500 is upon us, folks. It’s the meat smack-dab in the middle of the sandwich that is the greatest day in motorsports (the bread consists, of course, of the Monaco Grand Prix and the Coca-Cola 600).
I think the Indy 500 is my favorite race of the year. The history, the tradition, the speed; it just doesn’t get any better.
It’s one of the great events not just in racing or sports but in the United States, and if you have the opportunity to make the pilgrimage to Indianapolis Motor Speedway some year, you’ve got to do it.

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Caitlin Clark is playing better, and her Indiana Fever are at least losing closer games.
The numbers continue to thrive in rare air on television and attendance, as if she was still barnstorming the Midwest and beyond as an Iowa Hawkeye the last two seasons.
But there is one number Clark cannot digest.
The Indiana Fever, who picked her first in the WNBA Draft last month, are 0-5 for the worst record in the WNBA after an 85-83 loss at the Seattle Storm late Wednesday night in front of 18,343 – the largest crowd ever for a WNBA game in Seattle. 
Seattle has had a WNBA team since 2000.

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