Drag Racing

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer—Premier League, Fulham at West Ham, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); Women’s National Teams, Exhibition, United States vs. Costa Rica, 1:30 p.m. (NBC) College Football—Notre Dame vs. Navy, 8 a.m. (CBS); Ohio at Penn...

The NHRA on Wednesday unveiled its 2013 schedule, a 24-race season that once again starts and ends in Pomona. The season opens with the Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona on Feb. 14-17 and ends with the NHRA Finals there Nov. 7-10. The...

TV SPORTS SUNDAY Little League Baseball-World Series, 11 a.m., 6 p.m. (ESPN2), 1 p.m. (ABC), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Tennis-ATP World Tour, Western & Southern Open, Championship Match, 11:30 a.m. (CBS); WTA Western & Southern Open, Championship Match, 3 p.m....

Master pinstriper Casey Kennell is preparing to bring his work – including his motorcycles – into the Laurel Arts galleries, and he's bringing some friends and fellow motorheads with him. Kennell, a lifelong Somerset resident, has been...

TV SPORTS SUNDAY Golf-The British Open Championship, 5 a.m. (ESPN) Cycling-Tour de France, Final Stage, 7 a.m. (NBCSN), same-day tape, Noon (NBC) Auto Racing-NASCAR Nationwide Series, STP 300 pole qualifying, 10:30 a.m. (ESPN2); Formula One, Grand...

TV SPORTS SATURDAY Olympics--Men's Basketball, United States vs. Lithuania, Russia vs. Spain; Women's Triathlon; Men's Tennis; Beach Volleyball; Women's Field Hockey, United States vs. New Zealand; Men's Volleyball, Brazil vs. Serbia; Equestrian;...

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Tony Schumacher often meets friend T.J. Zizzo and Zizzo's dad, Tony, and they head to La Rosa Pizzeria in Vernon Hills. Together they talk NHRA drag racing over mouthfuls of deep-dish pizza. After Sunday, the two Top Fuel racers — Schumacher from...

Three members of a Mitchell drag racing family each recently pulled off a rarity. A perfect reaction time is .000 on the computer-generated stats that are produced after each race. So that means a driver would take off at the exact moment the...

"Big Willie" Robinson was a 6-foot-6, 300-pound former Los Angeles street racer, a gentle giant who promoted organized drag racing as a way to unite people of all races and classes and ease racial tensions. "When you get around cars, man, there ain't...

Bits and pieces from the local sports scene. Former Burroughs track and field performers end season with solid results: A group of former Burroughs High athletes finished their respective track and field seasons with some solid performances. Western...

TV SPORTS SUNDAY Auto Racing--NASCAR Sprint Cup, Quicken Loans 400, Noon (TNT); Drag Racing, NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, same-day tape, 4 p.m. (ESPN) Major League Baseball--New York Yankees at Washington Nationals, 12:30 p.m. (TBS); Milwaukee...