Latest by Jim Vertuno

Published on March 4, 2025 - Page 11
AUSTIN, Texas -- Joe Gibbs knows quite a lot about what it takes to win a championship. As an NFL coach, he won three Super Bowls. As a NASCAR team...
Published on March 3, 2025 - Page 9
AUSTIN, Texas -- Christopher Bell is making the most of his late-race chances to seize victories. Bell passed Kyle Busch with five laps to go, then...
Published on January 7, 2025 - Page 9
AUSTIN, Texas -- The expanded College Football Playoff has a decidedly old-school feel: Smothering defenses have carried the last four teams still in...
Published on March 25, 2024 - Page 9
AUSTIN, Texas -- William Byron won the Daytona 500 with an agonizing final lap under a caution flag. He took the checkered flag on Sunday at the...
Published on March 24, 2024 - Page 11
AUSTIN, Texas -- Five races into NASCAR's 2024 season and Ford is in a funk. Make no mistake, the Ford cars have been fast, just not quite fast...
Published on October 19, 2023 - Page 11
AUSTIN, Texas -- Patrick Mahomes "jumped" at the chance to invest in a Formula One team when he was asked to join a group of celebrity backers behind...
Published on July 1, 2023 - Page 11
The rapidly expanding landscape of nonprofit, donor-backed collectives paying college athletes to promote charities has been hit with a potentially...
Published on March 27, 2023 - Page 11
AUSTIN, Texas -- Tyler Reddick had the lead and the fastest car on the track when calamity nearly struck. Caution. Restart. Caution. Restart....
Published on May 17, 2022 - Page 11
AUSTIN, Texas — The NCAA waited nearly a year to issue a warning that there are still rules to follow now that college athletes can earn money off...
Published on February 5, 2022 - Page 11
With millions of dollars pouring into endorsements for college athletes, the latest battleground in the recruiting wars is the statehouse: A handful...