Matt Kenseth won the first two races of the season, but it’s been downhill ever since for the former champion, and Sunday’s race only added to his decline. Kenseth started 10th but dropped to 21st before the Goody’s 500 was 10 laps old. During pit stops after 42 laps, Kenseth’s team was cited by NASCAR [...]
Gary Sheffield’s next home run will be his 500th in the major leagues. The question is: What uniform will he be wearing when he hits it? The Detroit Tigers released the nine-time All-Star on Tuesday, leaving him without a team as he closes in on becoming the 25th player to reach the milestone. Sheffield left [...]
Chipper Jones and the Atlanta Braves agreed Tuesday to a $42 million, three-year contract extension through 2012, a deal with an option that could become worth up to $61 million over four seasons. The agreement virtually guarantees that the 36-year-old Jones will play his entire career in an Atlanta uniform. A six-time All-Star, Jones was [...]
Quarterback Carson Palmer considers his throwing elbow fully healed as he begins offseason workouts with his Cincinnati Bengals teammates. Palmer chose not to have reconstructive surgery for a partially torn ligament and tendon in his right elbow, which sidelined him for 12 games last season. Instead, he decided to see whether rest would heal the [...]
Michael Vick has agreed to pay the Atlanta Falcons $6.5 million as part of his bankruptcy case, clearing the way for the team to release him before training camp. The settlement was reached ahead of Vick’s bankruptcy hearing in Virginia on Thursday. Vick arrived in Virginia Monday afternoon and is being held at Western Tidewater [...]
A brutal stretch of schedule wasn’t doing much for the Atlanta Hawks before they delivered a lockdown defensive effort to defeat one of the top teams in the NBA. The Hawks hope to replicate that performance against another team battling for playoff position in the Eastern Conference on Tuesday night, when they look to strengthen [...]
UCF’s football program’s conditioning activities are rigorous “but within the range normal to other Division I football programs,” according to a review ordered after a player died and another collapsed last year. The review released Friday was done by an attorney hired by the university and recommended better communication between team physicians and the athletics [...]
Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini signed a contract extension Monday following a 9-4 season, boosting his annual salary to $1.85 million. The contract runs through February 2014 and makes him the sixth-highest paid coach in the Big 12. When Pelini was hired by the Cornhuskers in 2007, his five-year contract called for a salary of [...]
NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson was the leadoff defense witness Monday in the Helio Castroneves tax-evasion trial, testifying that a lawyer who is also charged in the case has a sterling reputation in the motorsports world. Johnson, a three-time Sprint Cup winner, said Michigan lawyer Alan Miller has many clients in NASCAR and the Indy Racing [...]
Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been soundly outshone by Kyle Busch, the driver he replaced at Hendrick Motorsports, but he hopes to turn the corner soon. To that end, Earnhardt and much of the brainpower at Hendrick Motorsports held a meeting recently to air their views and try to stumble on something that would bring improvement. [...]
