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TALLADEGA, Ala. – It’s been a rough year for Jeff Gordon, and Talladega was the cruelest kind of torture: a weekend that began so well yet ended in wreckage. Gordon started on the pole at Talladega, but couldn’t even lead a single lap. Constant problems with overheating dogged him all afternoon long, and finally on [...]

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Rochester Hills native Brad Keselowski has won the Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway, where he used a huge push from Kyle Busch to steal the race from Matt Kenseth. Kenseth was the leader on the green-white-checkered flag restart and lined up on the outside line so that teammate Greg Biffle [...]

An injury to a player can not only change the course of a particular team, but can alter an entire division. It was reported early Thursday that Baltimore Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs, who recorded 14 sacks last season, tore his Achilles’ tendon, and may be out for the entire 2012 NFL season. However, Suggs [...]

Welcome to the latest Happy Hour mailbag! You know how these work: You write us with your best rant/ joke/one-liner at happyhournascar@yahoogroups.com or on Twitter at @jaybusbee, we respond to your messages, everyone goes away with a smile on their face. I’ll be doing both the Kentucky Derby and Talladega this weekend, with a pronounced [...]

SI.com reports: Tyreke Evans‘ agent, Arn Tellem, made a rare appearance tonight to express his concerns about the former Rookie of the Year’s role. He met with Kings basketball president Geoff Petrie, Evans’ brother, Reggie, and another Tellem rep as well. Source close to Evans says he’s frustrated with how marginalized […]

Wait… what? West Virginia’s defense, new coordinator and all, beat the Mountaineer offense? The same offense that just scored again on Clemson? Technically, yes. The final score of WVU’s Gold-Blue game was a 43-34 win by the defense, but the matter of who “won” or “lost” ends there; a scoring system that rewarded the defense [...]

Running back Kevin Faulk said recently that he’d like to return for a 14th NFL season, but only if he plays for the Patriots. He’s not expecting to find out if that will happen anytime soon, however. Faulk told Mike Rodak of ESPNBoston.com that he expects the Patriots to take a wait-and-see approach in regards [...]

All weekend football in Italy was called off on Saturday following the death of Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, a player whose own private life had been plagued by a series of tragedies. The 25-year-old, on loan from Serie A side Udinese, collapsed on the pitch during a second division game at Pescara and was later [...]

Ryan Leaf, the second overall pick in the 1998 draft, didn’t spend many years in the NFL. He could be spending 50 of them in prison.

According to the Associated Press, Leaf faces two counts of burglary and two counts of criminal possession of a dangerous drug after his most recent legal troubles in Montana. The maximum penalties [...]

Noted golf enthusiast Tiger Woods seemed relaxed and confident heading into the 2012 Masters in Augusta. He was coming off a recent win, his first in years, and seemed poised to make a big statement to prove to the world that he was far from washed up. Woods headed into Thursday’s opening round knowing that [...]