Matt Crafton

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Auto Racing--Indy Racing League, IndyCar Indianapolis 500 pole day, 10 a.m. (NBCSN); Drag Racing, NHRA Kansas Nationals qualifying, same-day tape, 4:30 p.m. (ESPN2) College Baseball--Central Florida at East Carolina, 10 a.m....

Kyle Busch snapped a seven-race drought on the NASCAR Truck Series by winning Friday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway.     Busch dominated the early, but had to overcome a penalty that sent him to the back of the pack midway through the race. However,...

Johnny Sauter lost the Truck Series points lead Wednesday after NASCAR penalized him for an illegal fuel cell at Kansas. Sauter was docked 25 points by NASCAR. It knocked him from first place into a second-place tie with Jeb Burton, 13 points behind...

Matt Crafton charged to the lead in a crash-filled race at Kansas Speedway, and then held off a late run by Joey Coulter to pick up his third career Truck Series victory Saturday. Crafton and Coulter were engaged in a spirited game of cat-and-mouse...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Auto Racing--Formula One, Bahrain Grand Prix, 6:30 a.m. (NBCSN); NASCAR Sprint Cup, STP 400, 11:30 a.m. (FOX); American Le Mans Series, Long Beach Grand Prix, Noon (ABC); Indy Racing League, Indy Lights Grand Prix of Long Beach,...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Cycling--Paris-Roubaix, 7 a.m. (NBCSN) NHL Hockey--St. Louis Blues at Detroit Red Wings, 11:30 a.m. (NBC); Minnesota Wild at Columbus Blue Jackets, 5 p.m. (FXSP); New Jersey Devils at Buffalo Sabres, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) Auto...

Johnny Sauter grabbed the lead from rookie polesitter Jeb Burton with 17 laps left in Saturday's Kroger 250 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway and pulled away to keep his 2013 perfect record intact.   Sauter won the season...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Southampton at Reading, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) High School Basketball--National Invitational girls’ championship, 10 a.m. (ESPN2), National...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Auto Racing--NASCAR Sprint Cup, Daytona 500, 11 a.m. (FOX); Drag Racing, Arizona Nationals, same-day tape, 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Men’s College Basketball--Illinois at Michigan, Noon (ESPN); Cincinnati at Notre Dame, 1 p.m. (CBS);...

Wrecked a year ago while leading late in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway, Johnny Sauter found redemption Friday night at the 2.5-mile superspeedway in winning the season-opening NextEra Energy Resources 250....

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| NFL Football--Denver Broncos at Cincinnati Bengals, Noon (CBS); Minnesota Vikings at Seattle Seahawks, 3 p.m. (FOX); Pittsburgh Steelers at New York Giants, 3:25 p.m. (CBS); Dallas Cowboys at Atlanta Falcons, 7:20 p.m. (NBC)...

It's hard to believe that by the end of the week, there will be cars back on the track. So it's time to start looking forward to the 2012 NASCAR season. From now until February 26, when the green flag drops on the Daytona 500, we will countdown to the...