A former NASCAR driver has been sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison for trying to have sex with an underage girl. Court records show that 60-year-old Rick Crawford was sentenced Monday in Orlando federal court. He was convicted in August of attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.
The underdog on paper but the favorite in his mind, Logano busted up The Big Three and won an improbable first NASCAR title by soundly beating a trio of former champions. Logano won the season finale Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway to grab the Cup title in a season in which he barely contended until the playoffs began.
Will Power won the Indianapolis 500, giving the 37-year-old Australian his biggest victory on IndyCar’s grandest stage.
Harvick dominated a race interrupted by rain and drove to his Cup Series-high fourth victory of the season Sunday at Dover International Speedway.
Logano won Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway to snap a streak that dated to April 30 of last year. That win at Richmond was later disqualified because his car failed inspection, so the benefits from the victory were stripped and it cost him a spot in the playoffs.
On Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway, points leader Busch finished ahead of Harvick and the rest of the field for Joe Gibbs Racing’s first victory this season.
An eighth title would push Johnson past Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty for most ever, leaving him alone as NASCAR's greatest.
In a stunning decision, NASCAR driver Carl Edwards is walking away from the final year of his contract with Joe Gibbs Racing less than two months after nearly winning his first Cup championship, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr., who missed the final 18 races of last season because of a concussion, has been medically cleared to return next year.
Johnson was the dog of the championship contenders in a winner-take-all season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He needed only to beat three other drivers to tie Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt as drivers with seven titles, but he was the worst of the final four for all but one lap Sunday night.
This week's Charlotte riots are creating damage, confusion and concern among the sports world.
Harvick made the biggest pass with 70 laps to go, sweeping by Denny Hamlin and holding on to take the rain-delayed race at the half-mile concrete track.
Indianapolis and Pocono may not be the only stops on Jeff Gordon's comeback tour.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. will not race again this month because of concussion-like symptoms and the No. 88 car will be turned over to trusted former teammate Jeff Gordon for the next two weeks.
There was a time when drivers raced injured, when nothing could get them to climb out of their seat.
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon could come out of retirement next weekend and drive the No. 88 Chevrolet if Dale Earnhardt Jr. is not cleared to race.
As a 66-to-1 long shot entering the race, Rossi stunned the field and won the historic 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 by using a fuel strategy to outsmart a handful of drivers with the race's most dominant cars.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver and NASCAR chairman Brian France each have rebuked North Carolina's so-called "bathroom law," putting their organizations' weight and money behind their stances.
Stewart broke a vertebra in an all-terrain vehicle accident on January and missed the first eight races of the season. Doctors have said he can return to the track this weekend.
Busch claimed his first Spring Cup Series victory at Martinsville on Sunday, holding off AJ Allmendinger a day after winning the truck race at the speedway.
A person on a snowmobile drove into two dog teams competing in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Saturday morning, killing one dog and injuring at least three others.
Hamlin edged out Martin Truex Jr. by .01 seconds, winning the Daytona 500 on Sunday afternoon for the first time after finishing in the top five in each of the last two years.
Elliott, the son of Bill Elliott, became the youngest driver to land the top spot in NASCAR's biggest race, outrunning 43 others in qualifying in the car that used to belong to now-retired Jeff Gordon.
Gordon retired and Stewart is out after breaking his back, and Joey Logano will try to become the first driver to win the Daytona 500 in consecutive seasons in more than 20 years on Feb. 21.
Stewart broke his back in a crash in Southern California on Sunday and underwent surgery that will sideline for the first portion of what is still expected to be his final season.
Rio and Cuba. The Pope's Year of Mercy and artist Christo's walk on water. Philadelphia, Cleveland and the next U.S. president. Super Bowl in California and the Indy 500 at 100. A centennial for America's National Park Service, 400 years since Shakespeare died and 500 years of pure German beer.
