In recent weeks, the Midwestern part of the United States has been devastated by flooding. No state has been harder hit than Iowa where much of Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, and Iowa City are underwater. The recovery effort is massive, heart-breaking and costly.
If it’s any consolation to the citizens of Iowa, the sports world has [...]

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The television ratings for Memorial Day weekend are interesting to consider. If the weather is good, the first summer like weekend can bring disaster for the television ratings of major sporting events. But this past Memorial Day weekend, brought more good news than bad to television ratings
The Indy 500 on ABC had a 4.5 rating, [...]

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Motor sports are big around the world. In the United States, the rise in popularity of NASCAR is one of the great success stories in North American sports. NASCAR has gone from a southern, regional, small town sport, into a major market held in states around the nation, including Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and New York.
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There’s plenty of speculation swirling around driver Tony Stewart in the racing world. it’s well known that the popular and outspoken Stewart has a desire to leave the successful Joe Gibbs racing team to eventually form his own ownership group.
Lately there has also been talk that Stewart will take a break from NASCAR to compete [...]

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History was made in the Indy Racing League over the weekend. The league’s most popular driver, Danica Patrick, is now a winning driver. She became the first woman to win a race when she won the Indy Japan 300 last weekend.
For Patrick, the win was a long time coming. Janet Guthrie, a former Indy driver [...]

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