The NFL wouldn't start a season without training camp. Major League Baseball wouldn't begin without spring training. ...more

January 10, 2009

Congress considered more than 2,000 feel-good resolutions during the two-year session that ended last month. ...more

December 26, 2008

Tony Stewart is leaving his team at the end of this season, has been bickering with his crew chief and is stuck in a 41-race winless streak. ...more

September 19, 2008

The Budweiser Shootout at Daytona will be around at least three more years with a new format that places the emphasis on the four manufacturers in NASCAR's Sprint Cup series. ...more

August 27, 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

It's easy to forget how good Ryan Newman was his first two years at NASCAR's top level. ...more

August 16, 2008

Ryan Newman, whose victory in the Daytona 500 did not spark the resurgence at Penske Racing he had hoped for, will be announced today as the second driver at Stewart-Haas Racing, the Associated Press and ESPN.com reported. ...more

August 15, 2008

If Tony Stewart thinks that becoming a NASCAR owner-driver next season will be a panacea for his career - even with hefty support from General Motors and Rick Hendrick - maybe he should drop by Robby Gordon's hauler or motorcoach for a while. ...more

August 13, 2008

Kasey Kahne won the season's first race at Pocono two months ago. That was his second victory in three weeks, and it was followed by a second at Michigan, but Kahne has been fairly quiet since then. Kurt Busch, Denny Hamlin and Jeff Gordon are other recent winners at Pocono. Tribune motor sports writer Tony Fabrizio takes a look at what's topical this weekend: ...more

August 1, 2008