June 29, 2011
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Pool report
 
 
 The folks at http://www.collegeswimming.com have judged FIU's 2011 swimming and diving recruiting class as No. 23 in the nation.
 Now, let's just say this up front: even these days, when a stud high school athlete's meets/games have more camera coverage than the cocktail party scene in Traffic, I regard recruiting ratings with an Internal Affairs officer's skeptical eye. If they were so darn accurate, Texas and Notre Dame would've been trading football championships for about the last 20 years and The Fab Five would've won something on the court other than applause for lengthening shorts.
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The Indianapolis 500 celebrated its 100th anniversary last year. But as The Greatest Spectacle in Racing turns 101 on Sunday, it carries some characteristics of something new.A new IndyCar Series formula means teams have spent May adjusting completely new setups to the first superspeedway of the season. Former Formula One drivers Rubens Barrichello and Jean Alesi bring new known names to a race still fighting to regain the stature lost more than a generation ago.To that end, for the second year in a row, the IndyCar series dispatched the 33 qualifiers in blocs of three and four to 12 cities Monday to spread the gospel of Memorial Day Weekend Sunday in Speedway as if it were still future Miami Beach developer Carl Fisher’s new event. ... Continue reading →