by Bill Pollock | Mar 4, 2013 | Sports Features
Columbia native Carl Edwards vowed he would dominate at Phoenix and he was right. Leading the final 78 laps, Edwards pulled away on a late restart and ended his 70-race winless streak on Sunday at Phoenix. “This win feels as good or better as any win I’ve...
by Bill Pollock | Feb 11, 2013 | Sports Features
St. Louis native Rusty Wallace, the 1989 NASCAR Cup champion, was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame over the weekend in Charlotte, NC. With his induction, all Hall of Fame eligible drivers with 50 or more Cup victories are now enshrined. Wallace is also the...
by Bill Pollock | Oct 20, 2012 | Sports Features
Kasey Kahne ran a record 191.360 mph on Friday in qualifying for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway. Kahne lapped the track in 28.219 seconds (191.360 mph) to edge second-place qualifier Mark Martin (191.238 mph) by .018 seconds. The pole is Kahne’s...
by Bill Pollock | Oct 12, 2012 | Sports Features
Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR’s fan favorite, is going to miss the next two weeks of racing as he tries to recover from a concussion. Junior will miss Saturday’s race at Charlotte as well as the 400 mile race on Oct. 21 at Kansas Speedway. Earnhardt, who just...
by Bill Pollock | Sep 3, 2012 | Sports Features
Still looking for his first win in the Sprint Cup Series since week three of last season, the odds of Carl Edwards competiting for a championship this season are slimmer than his loss to Tony Stewart last year at Homestead. It will take nothing short of a miracle for...
