Indiana Stewart and the Temple of Vrrooom! ATLANTA - No doubt the executives at Paramount Pictures feel that this Memorial Day weekend is an important one as they get ready to open the fourth installment of their Indiana Jones franchise. But for Indiana native Tony Stewart, Memorial Day weekend has always been important, for it provides a motorsports mosaic, from stock cars in Charlotte, N.C. to sports cars in Lime Rock, Conn. to the cornerstone event of the weekend ? the Indianapolis 500. Indy is Stewart's Temple of Vrrooom.IRL IndyCar Series: Indianapolis 500 Freedom 100 Practice tickets. BALTIMORE - Not once but twice, jockey Kent Desormeaux sneaked a peek to see if anyone was gaining on Big Brown.I looked between my legs, under my arms, and they were eight (lengths) behind me? Desormeaux said.I stopped pushing. I said, `That?s enough. BALTIMORE - Not once but twice, jockey Kent Desormeaux sneaked a peek to see if anyone was gaining on Big Brown.I looked between my legs, under my arms, and they were eight (lengths) behind me? Desormeaux said.I stopped pushing. I said, `That?s enough. Sports News Big Brown wins Preakness; poised for Triple Crown Enlarge Photo AP AP - 2 hours, 10 minutes ago BALTIMORE - Not once but twice, jockey Kent Desormeaux sneaked a peek to see if anyone was gaining on Big Brown.I looke. tickets. NASCAR: What's New/What to Watch in '08 IRL IndyCar Series: Indianapolis 500 Freedom 100 Practice, We're now three races into a 36-race NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Before we get any further along, some storylines to follow the rest of the season. What's in a Name The most .obvious changes in NASCAR this year are the name changes of two of the three national series. Sprint, which merged with/took over rival Nextel, put its name on the big series. The old Nextel Cup Series is now the Sprint Cup Series. A sponsorship change from Anheuser-Busch to Nationwide Insurance led to the old Busch Series. |