Kevin Durant has an enormous amount of potential. This season, many NBA experts believe Durant will be improved to the point that his name could be in the MVP talks. In Wednesday’s preseason game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat, the 6-foot-9 forward illustrated his skills.
In 32 minutes, Durant had 30 points, six rebounds and two assists while hitting 10-of-16 shots from the field and 9-of-10 free throw attempts. It was his second straight preseason game in which he scored exactly 30 points.
Against the Heat, Durant got plenty of help — namely from Jeff Green. The Georgetown …read more

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway (aka: the Brickyard) is home of the Indianapolis 500 and is highly regarded as one of the most prestigious tracks in all of motorsports. After taking a week off, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will now return to the Brickyard for the fifteenth time in a race whose prestige to NASCAR regulars is rivaled only by the season opening Daytona 500. In the previous 14 trips to the track, Indianapolis has produced only three multiple winners in NASCAR, and only two of them will be in the field on Sunday – Jeff Gordon (4 wins) and …read more

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It’s admittedly WAAAY too early in the season for NASCAR’s silly season to already have gotten as it deep as it has, that’s for sure … but, alas, I must do my small part in life to contribute to this nonsense, because – well, quite frankly it intrigues me.It all started just a few weeks into the ‘08 season when Richard Childress Racing announced the addition of a fourth team to their arsenal next year, and immediately everyone started pointing towards Bobby LaBonte to fill the seat in that ride due to his …read more

Yes, just as it did to us in Fontana a few weeks ago, Mother Nature has once more reared her ugly head and focused her anger on the NASCAR world.  Rainstorms cancelled qualifying for both the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series races. Due to Bristol being inside the first five races of the season (it is the fifth), the field for both races was set based on 2007 owner points.
What does that mean for us? For the third time this season, Jimmie Johnson will take us to the green flag for the start of the race despite winning only …read more

Haas CNC Racing is yet another in a long line of underachieving race teams in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series. So much so, in fact, that the typical casual race fan probably isn’t even quite sure who the heck I’m talking about when I say “Haas CNC”. Well, to sum them up, historically they’ve been an underfunded team lacking key sponsors, a competent development program, and capable drivers. At the beginning of 2007, their two cars were fielded by Johnny Sauter – who had his best Cup season of his career by finishing 30th in points – and, Jeff Green – …read more