NASCAR Great Gordon To Drive Daytona 500 Pace Car
Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon will drive the honorary pace car for the Daytona 500 on Sunday. Gordon will lead the field to green behind the wheel of a 2017 Camaro ZL1.
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Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon will drive the honorary pace car for the Daytona 500 on Sunday. Gordon will lead the field to green behind the wheel of a 2017 Camaro ZL1.
Jeff Gordon is working in the broadcast booth. Carl Edwards is spending time with family. Tony Stewart is hanging out at dirt tracks. Some of NASCAR's biggest stars have stepped away over the last 15 months.
Denny Hamlin didn't need a Toyota teammate to grab another win at Daytona International Speedway.
Chase Elliott nipped Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the final qualifying lap to win his second straight pole for the Daytona 500.
NASCAR has a new sponsor, a new format, and welcomes back its most popular driver, all providing optimism for a sport eager to halt a steady decline in attendance, ratings and sponsorship.
Waltrip is a two-time Daytona 500 winner, and the Feb. 26 race will mark his 30th career start in "The Great American Race."
NASCAR is dramatically changing its format for the upcoming season, cutting every race into stages that reward points in hopes of make every lap matter.
Owen Wilson is set to lend his voice to one of racing's biggest events, this time as the grand marshal for the Daytona 500.
The Texas Motor Speedway is going to completely repave its track and reduce the high banking in the first and second turns. The project comes after NASCAR and IndyCar race weekends last year were hampered by rain.
After missing the final 18 races of last season because of a concussion, NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. has been medically cleared to return next year. He is set to take part in the season-opening Daytona 500.
Tony Stewart slid out of his car in a NASCAR race for the final time, and was swarmed by cameras, friends and rivals who wanted a piece of the retired champion. Stewart's final NASCAR race was pure fun.
Johnson got the restart of his life in overtime, took the lead on the very last lap of the race, won for the first time in his career at Homestead and grabbed the final Sprint Cup trophy.
Joey Logano still has a youthful exuberance -- the kind of guy who would watch "Boy Meets World" to relax on the night before a championship race. He is still as goofy as he was when he broke into NASCAR.
Edwards got the victory he so desperately needed to advance when he won a rain-shortened race at Texas. It was cut by 41 laps because of rain late Sunday night after the start was delayed nearly six hours.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is still driving fast, even though he has been sidelined from the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series because of a concussion.
NASCAR fans have already pulled in with their campers and are ready for the weekend.
Jimmie Johnson's win Sunday at Martinsville Speedway clinched him a spot in the title-deciding race. With only three slots remaining, the jockeying for a shot at the championship could quickly turn cutthroat.
NASCAR will resurrect its series in Mexico behind a new title sponsor. The rebranded NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series will mark its return with an exhibition race in Mexico City in December.
Kevin Harvick won the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway on Sunday, going to the front on a late restart and outrunning Carl Edwards to lock up his spot in the next round of the Chase.
It should have been catastrophic nearly any way Joey Logano looked at his situation. His wrecked car was in the garage during the opening race of the second round of the playoffs, his crew trying to get him back on track.
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Kevin Harvick won Sunday at New Hampshire to earn a spot in the second round of the NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs, pulling away off a restart a year after a late loss at the track.
The NASCAR Hall of Fame in downtown Charlotte is among the places damaged during violent protests over the police shooting of a black man this week.
Martin Truex Jr. surged to the front on a late restart and pulled away to give Furniture Row Racing a NASCAR Sprint Cup playoff-opening victory on Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway.
NASCAR driver Regan Smith has welcomed his second child after skipping this weekend's race in order to be with his wife as she went into labor. He said on Twitter that Eliza Grace Smith was born Sunday afternoon.
Children with special needs are eligible for up to $30,000.
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Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida introduced a bill to annex Greenland and make it the 51st U.S. state.
Throughout the day, highs rise into the mid-60s with the help of southwest winds.
Nearly one year after the mass pardon of more than 1,500 Trump-supporting Capitol riot defendants, House Democrats are asking whether any of the pardoned rioters are now working for ICE.
Children with special needs are eligible for up to $30,000.
The TikTok video, which now has over 2.5 million views, led to praise from those opposed to ICE enforcement but also criticism from others.
Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida introduced a bill to annex Greenland and make it the 51st U.S. state.
Throughout the day, highs rise into the mid-60s with the help of southwest winds.
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From laptops to vapes, lithium‑ion devices are driving emergency landings and evacuations as airlines push for stronger rules and better containment tools.
Texas veterans could be at risk of losing the help they need to stay home.
A North Texas couple tracked their stolen airport luggage across Dallas using an AirTag — only to learn police couldn't act on the data alone.
Nearly every day, hundreds of thousands of Texas students board a school bus.
Outdoor sirens are meant to warn Texans of tornadoes and floods. This summer's deadly flooding in Kerr County exposed how vulnerable many communities are, with sirens broken, outdated or missing.
Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida introduced a bill to annex Greenland and make it the 51st U.S. state.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will start using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok. The word comes days after Grok drew global outcry for generating highly sexualized deepfake images.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth highlighted the role of the F-35 fighter jet and its workforce during a visit to Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth plant.
The Supreme Court hears arguments today on whether laws in Idaho and West Virginia banning transgender athletes from competing on girls' and women's sports teams violate the Constitution and Title IX.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
While retailers like Amazon, Macy's and Target are extending their return window for gifts bought during the holidays, some stores are adding fees to return purchases.
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller is calling for a statewide ban on non-water additives, such as fluoride, in the public water system.
Last year, over 16 million vehicles drove on North Texas toll roads without paying, accumulating more than $69 million in unpaid tolls.
The largest nurses strike ever in New York City is underway as thousands of NYSNA members walk off their jobs at major hospitals.
As millions of Americans struggle with paying for health care, doctors and health experts discuss how medical care is being eroded by insurers denying necessary tests and treatment, making it "more difficult to be healthy in the United States."
After the ACA tax credit lapsed in December, enrollees are opting for less robust health plans or dropping coverage altogether.
'Tis the season: for sniffles, but before you blame the holiday gathering at grandma's for your coughing, sneezy misery, look around.
In Plano, Dragonfly Scans is a healthcare company that wants to show you what's happening inside your body.
Salad and Go, a drive-thru salad chain, said on Wednesday that it will close all remaining Texas and Oklahoma stores.
Venezuela is said to have the largest amount of these reserves in the world.
Trump said the "whole infrastructure" of Venezuela has to be rebuilt and that American companies would be used to rebuild it.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
After years in the making, Texas Instruments' semiconductor factory in Sherman has officially begun production.
Cooper Flagg scored 27 points and matched a season high with three blocks, and Naji Marshall had three straight baskets down the stretch and finished with 22 points as the depleted Dallas Mavericks beat the Brooklyn Nets 113-105.
The Bulls put seven players in double figures, outscored the Mavericks 38-8 in fast-break points and never trailed.
The community gathered Saturday at a parade to celebrate the remarkable season for the South Oak Cliff Golden Bears, who won the Texas UIL 5A Division II state football championship.
Anthony Davis has ligament damage in his left hand, and the Dallas Mavericks' oft-injured big man could be facing an extended absence.
Jason Witten is packing up and heading north after being hired by Oklahoma University as the Sooner's new tight ends coach.
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Bob Weir wrote or co-wrote and sang lead vocals on Grateful Dead classics including "Sugar Magnolia," "One More Saturday Night" and "Mexicali Blues."
Timothy Busfield is known for appearances in "The West Wing," "Field of Dreams" and "Thirtysomething."
The comic sold for 10 cents when it came out in 1938, and introduced the world to Superman.
The Red Bull Flugtag Airshow returned to Las Colinas on Saturday after a 12-year hiatus. Teams are tasked with constructing a flying machine and putting it to the test. It's estimated that around 25,000 people attended the event.
A suspect was taken into custody after an attack on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on June 1 in which there were 15 people and a dog who were victims. The suspect threw Molotov cocktails that burned some of the victims, who were part of a march for Israeli hostages.
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit babies at Texas Health locations across North Texas celebrated Valentine's Day.
As Anthony Davis prepared for his debut game at the AAC, Dallas Mavericks fans took to the arena to protest the controversial trade.
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