Sports

By JIM BENTON
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Rick Hendrick is ready for the roller-coaster ride to end.

He and Jeff Gordon co-own the Chevrolet driven by Jimmie Johnson. For owner-points purposes, Gordon is listed as the man, but the No.

By BERNIE LINCICOME
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The law of averages is still, after all, a law. It is not an inkling of averages or a whim of averages. No, it is a law.

And sooner or later, the law was going to catch up with the myth.

By ROSS McKEON
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
As much as they hate to hear it north of the border, Canada is losing its grip on hockey _ or what it calls "Its Game."

A look at what is happening in today's National Hockey League shows the European invasion is taking hold.

By ROSS McKEON
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
As much as they hate to hear it north of the border, Canada is losing its grip on hockey _ or what it calls "Its Game."

A look at what is happening in today's National Hockey League shows the European invasion is taking hold.

By JIM SOUHAN
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Bobby Knight is a bully and a coward. The Texas Tech basketball coach reaffirmed his credentials for membership in those substrata of humanity on Monday night.

Knight popped one of his players in the chin with his fist, leaving Michael Prince wincing and flexing his jaw.

This act should offend anyone who has children, or cares about the messages we send and receive via sport, or has coached youngsters, or is familiar with Knight's history of violence.

As offensive as his actions Monday night were, though, more disgusting was the reaction of his sycophants on Tuesday.

According to his supporters _ or those simply afraid of him _ you would have thought that his hand merely slipped while writing a large check to an orphanage.

ESPN basketball "analyst" Fran Fraschilla observed the blow and said, "This is coaching." He also said "a hundred" coaches will do the same thing this season and no one will care.

Gerald Myers, the former Tech coach who is now the school's athletic director, said "Coach Knight did not slap Michael," and that Knight was telling Prince "Hold your head up and don't worry about your mistakes."

On ESPN radio, Mike Golic and a litany of ESPN "analysts" brushed off the incident.

Some of these people are liars.

By MIKE MULHERN
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Kevin Harvick is happy to finally have his Nextel Cup career turned around. And five wins this season and a shot at the title is quite a turnaround, for Harvick and car owner Richard Childress.

By RAY RATTO
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Coach Pete Carroll has had it so good at Southern Cal for so long that an apology from him grates on the ears a bit. So when he apologized for stripping a gear after the interminable replay delay late in the Oregon-USC game Saturday, he sounded almost disingenuous.

By CHUCK FINDER
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Day after day. Snap after snap. The starting quarterback barked, and his offensive teammates sprang into action. Monday through Saturday. May through July.

By BOB SMIZIK
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Imagine this: After the Steelers and Seahawks won conference championship games Jan. 22 of this year, the NFL announced the Super Bowl would be played not in two weeks but March 13.

Crazy, right?

What about this? After the National League Championship Series ended Oct.

By JON ORTIZ
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Envision T.G.I. Friday's blended with the Basketball Hall of Fame and you're close to the concept behind Center Court with C-Webb, the new restaurant that Chris Webber opened this week in suburban Sacramento, Calif.