Month: May 2022

2:28 PM ET Georgia is close to finalizing a long-term contract extension with football coach Kirby Smart that will make him among the highest-paid coaches in the FBS. Last season, Smart guided the Bulldogs to their first national title in 41 years with a 33-18 victory over Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship.
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2:10 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Roger Penske signed a five-year contract extension with Shell-Pennzoil on Thursday that covers Team Penske, IndyCar, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and most of Penske’s portfolio. Team Penske and Shell-Pennzoil have won 96 races together, including Joey Logano‘s recent NASCAR victory at Darlington Raceway. The new deal has multiple layers
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11:51 AM ET MONTE CARLO, Monaco — Grand Prix cars have raced around the streets of Monaco since 1929. In that time the cars, the principality itself and the rest of the world have changed dramatically, yet somehow the tradition of racing the fastest automobiles on the planet around one of the tightest circuits anywhere
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8:31 AM ET Former Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone was arrested in Brazil late on Wednesday for illegally carrying a gun while boarding a private plane to Switzerland, local police said on Thursday. The Brazilian police found an undocumented LW Seecamp .32 gun in Ecclestone’s luggage during an X-ray screening, police said in a statement,
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11:17 AM ET MONTE CARLO — Kevin Magnussen now agrees he could have given Lewis Hamilton more space to avoid their collision at the start of the Spanish Grand Prix. Magnussen and Hamilton collided at Turn 4 on the opening lap of the race, with the contact giving both drivers’ cars a puncture. Magnussen’s radio
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10:41 AM ET Michelle Wie West, who was the youngest player to ever qualify for an LPGA event at age 12, plans to step away from competitive golf after next week’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles in Southern Pines, North Carolina, she told Golfweek in a story published Thursday. Wie West, 32, said she
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10:20 AM ET Former F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen will return to racing later this year in a one-off NASCAR appearance at Watkins Glen in August. Raikkonen will compete for the Trackhouse Racing team in a NASCAR Cup Series event, alongside teammates Daniel Suarez and Ross Chastain. Raikkonen, one of the most popular F1 drivers of
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