Matured Busch a title favorite, not fan favorite
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NASCAR&#39;s new playoff-style championship format has delivered nearly everything its proponents promised: more intense racing, higher television ratings and a tight title race heading into Sunday&#39;s season finale.
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The World Series now shifts from the game&#39;s most eccentric ballpark to the last of the &quot;Cookie Cutters.&quot; Busch Stadium, from the outside, has the same boring, circular look as
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Kurt Busch does not pretend he will suddenly become a celebrity in his hometown if he wins the Nascar Nextel Cup championship today at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Kurt Busch is really where he wants to be now. Up front and up front. The NASCAR Nextel Cup points leader covered the 1.5-mile oval at Homestead-Miami Speedway
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Mike Bliss uses a gutsy three-wide pass to take the lead, then holds off a charging Matt Kenseth over the final few laps to win his first Busch series race Friday night.
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It had nothing to do with managing, which remains a possibility in his future. It had everything to do with his health and desire, a realization that he could still be a big league player, instead of the manager of the Single A Greenville Drive. So Gabe Kapler - the outfielder with the cult following among fans and teammates - ...
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The Bowl Championship Series system is hated like the devil by many college football fans. So it should be no surprise that when asked why his team ran up the score this past weekend against
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Although Kurt Busch&#39;s driving style fits Dover International Speedway, the co-leader of the Nextel Cup championship chase has not mastered The Monster Mile.
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A dispute between the country's two biggest beer brewers has a brand-new battlefield - the Super Bowl. Late last week, with football fans by the millions gearing up for the big game, Fox Broadcasting decided not to put on the air a Miller Brewing Company ad that poked fun at Anheuser-Busch's plans for a new light beer.
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com. On a chilly, gray afternoon in St. Louis, Busch Stadium erupted on the sweet Jim Edmonds home run swing the Cardinals&#39; faithful have come to know so well.
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Kurt Busch surprised himself by winning the pole yesterday for the NASCAR season finale, putting himself in excellent shape for the opening laps of Sunday&#39;s climactic Ford 400.
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If Kurt Busch goes on to win his first NASCAR title, he can point to the 500 miles at Lowe&#39;s Motor Speedway as the defining race of his season.
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Monday&#39;s workout at Busch Stadium contained a few more St. Louis Cardinals than you&#39;d expect considering it was optional, but you could understand why they&#39;d want to
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It&#39;s the easiest pole Kurt Busch ever won. And one of the most precarious positions in which he ever has been. Heavy afternoon rains Friday washed out qualifying
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Dale Earnhardt Jr goes into Sunday&#39;s NASCAR Nextel Cup finale believing he&#39;s under no pressure. The Budweiser Chevrolet sits 72 points behind title leader Kurt Busch, and while it would be easy to reflect
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Momentum does not appear to play a big role in determining a World Series champion. For every example of a team that seemed to feed off its recent success, there is a counterexample.
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Baseball fans who were looking to Busch Stadium for reassurance Thursday night came away more apprehensive than ever. A few days removed from playing host to a National League Division Series