Whenever a NASCAR celebrity ignited a media blaze, it was Chris Throgmartin's job to put out the flames ...more

February 16, 2008

Dale Jarrett is in. His five-race farewell tour will begin Sunday as planned. It was touch and go for a while Thursday, or at least it seemed that way, but the 51-year-old, soon-to-retire driver of the No. 44 Toyota made it into the field for the 50th Daytona 500. ...more

February 15, 2008

The biggest break in Marcos Ambrose's NASCAR career wasn't a win, but a seventh-place finish. ...more

February 10, 2008

SEBRING INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY — You can't be this good out of the box ... can you? Team Peugeot is showing that it can be that good, smashing the track lap record by turning a lap in the time of 1:42.801 (129.571 mph) on Tuesday in just its fourth run on the historic track. The lap broke the one-day old record of 1:43.821 (128.298 mph) set by Audi on day one of the fourth annual American Le Mans Series Winter Test. ...more

January 30, 2008

Thousands of dog handlers, owners and groomers converged on Florida Classic Park from morning until dark. They were accompanied by more than 2,500 excited dogs. ...more

January 12, 2008

With 59 races and 12,956 laps under his belt this year, Zephyrhills' David Reutimann heads into the final race of his first season competing full-time in NASCAR's top two divisions. He is fourth out of five drivers in the Nextel Cup Rookie of the Year standings - 19 points behind third-place Paul Menard and 10 ahead of fifth-place A.J. Allmendinger - and second overall in the Busch Series standings heading into Ford Championship Weekend at Homestead. In the final edition of his Tampa Tribune rookie diary, Reutimann discusses how his results have measured up against his expectations: ...more

November 16, 2007

Sebastien Bourdais went out a winner as well as a champion in his final Champ Car race, overcoming a penalty and a lead-trimming yellow flag to win the Mexican Grand Prix before heading off to Formula One. ...more

November 12, 2007

WHERE: Avondale, Ariz. DATE OPENED: 1964 ...more

November 9, 2007

SEBRING — The pool was more quiet than usual this week as the state-qualifying members of the Sebring swim team got their last laps in before the Class 2A state finals, which begin this morning at 9 a.m. Three individuals — junior Megan Wolfe in the 50 free, junior Bryan Kirsch in the 100-breaststroke and senior Shanaan Spiegel in the 100-backstroke — join the Wolfe-anchored 200-free relay team at the Central Florida YMCA Aquatic center in Orlando. That's a total of six Streaks representing Sebring at state, two more than coach Pat Caton had hoped for heading into regionals. ...more

November 2, 2007

By the time Zephyrhills' David Reutimann arrived at Atlanta Motor Speedway late Saturday night aboard team owner Michael Waltrip's plane, he already had thoroughly celebrated his breakthrough Busch Series victory at Memphis Motorsports Park. ...more

October 29, 2007