Indianapolis 500

Men in Drag

The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax Returns

Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend.

Fastest Show on Earth

NASCAR's Ringmaster

Listomania: Top Five Musician National Anthem Fails

Honestly, "The Star-Spangled Banner" can be a beating even when performed in a competent manner. Only a select few have ever really knocked it out of the park -- Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Jose Feliciano, etc. -- and most of them had to change up the song considerably to do so. Your average pop mu ... More >>

It's Not Every Day Some Guy's Selling a '73 Indy 500 Pace Car Replica On My Drive to Work

​I spent way too much time this afternoon on this Web site devoted to the 1973 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car -- which, if you haven't figured it out by now, was a Cadillac Eldorado. But that's only because I spent way too much time inside a 1973 Indianapolis 500 Pace Car yesterday -- or, at the very l ... More >>

Dallas Chefs Choose Sides in the Fray Over Children's Menus and Kids in Restaurants

White couches in The Second Floor's Lounge, the natural prey of juice-box-slurping knee-biters.​Chicken fingers to the left. Chicken fingers to the right. For years, the issue of kids in restaurants and children's menus has divided chefs and patrons alike. From New York--where one Brooklyn piz ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: Fruitcake

Andra DuRee Martin/Manitou Springs COCA fruitcake tossing competition.​Everyone's heard the doorstop joke, as well as the one about a single fruitcake being regifted over the centuries. Yes, and if you blast through the outer layer, you find strata that would fascinate geologists.And they are anci ... More >>

Gentlemen, Start Your ... 7-10 Splits?

​For those of you - both of you - not consumed by Cowboys-Eagles this weekend, NASCAR comes to town in the form of the Dickie's 500 Sunday at.Texas Motor Speedway. Driving. Racing. Wreckin'. Watching. Drinking. Eating. Bowling? It's the events surrounding the race that actually make NASC ... More >>

The Top 10 Sportiest American Holidays

Had a buddy yesterday gloat to me that Memorial Day Sunday is "one of the greatest sporting days of the year!" To which I replied, "Huh?" I remember a time when the Indianapolis 500 was must-see TV along with the Harlem Globetrotters, heavyweight boxing matches, Oklahoma-Nebraska foot ... More >>

10 Questions: Helio Castroneves

Not only is he on the poll for this year's Indy 500, Castroneves has won the "greatest spectacle in racing" twice before. He's also been a winner at Texas Motor Speedway and--just to show he has moves off the track--Dancing with the Stars, as well.The Sao Paulo native earned the nickname "Spiderman" ... More >>

Shift Happens

Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life.  

Here's Mindy

Title Nein!

Equal rights shouldn't constitute unequal results

Really Fast Food

Where do race-car drivers eat?

Head in the Sand

Dust to Glory honors the Baja 1000, where everybody's a legend

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Royal Run

Elvis dons blue suede trainers

Blowin' Smoke

Biker Boyz is furious, but it ain't fast, which is a real drag

Sail On

Baby-faced Brett Shipp grows up--film at 10

Southern cross

Maya Angelou extends her domain by taking on film with Down in the Delta

Nerds of a Feather

In the competitive world of pigeon racers, it takes one fast bird to deliver the coo de grace