| Rich Nye/Eyewitness Sports
Indiana is a hotbed of racing. Every weekend, all summer long, you can find drivers chasing their dreams on short tracks all over the state. One local driver proves that a race car can be a handful. Saturday night at the short track, you can see the roots of racing. On the dirt oval at Lincoln Park Speedway, 28-year-old Danny Pollock pilots his sprint car on the same track where his father and grandfather once raced. "Gotta go race. It's in my blood. It's been there forever. That's where it's gonna be as long as I can do it," he said. Handling a sprint car is tough for any driver, but Danny drives with only his hands. "This right here is my brake lever, which is a Go-Kart master cylinder. This is my throttle lever right here," he said.
More bands join the party at Stagecoach
The Eagles are getting company when the band kicks off the Stagecoach Festival in Indio this May. The second annual country-music event expanded the lineup on its newly announced third day by adding the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Shooter Jennings, the Sons of San Joaquin, Chuck Wicks and Don Edwards, which will play at the Empire Polo Field on May 2. The festival will also include members of Professional Bull Riders. Earlier in the week, festival organizers announced the addition of a Friday date to be headlined by the Eagles, with performances from John Fogerty, Trisha Yearwood, Shelby Lynne, Glen Campbell and Rissi Palmer. .
Hyundai Well-Positioned to Make its Mark at This Year's SEMA Show
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Six distinct Hyundai vehicles made their world debut today at the 2007 Specialty Equipment Market Association's (SEMA) show in Las Vegas, including the first-ever Elantra Touring "Beach Cruiser" Concept. In its seventh year at SEMA, Hyundai showed off vehicles spanning its entire product portfolio, proving that customization is not just for sport compacts anymore. Hyundai custom SEMA vehicles will be on display at booth #24385 at the Las Vegas Convention Center from Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2007. Hyundai in-house customized vehicles include the INCUS "Innovative Customization" Elantra and Mobis "Parts Expo Vehicle" Tiburon. Project vehicles built by aftermarket tuning companies include: -- "High-Tech Urban Escape" Veracruz by Troy Lee Designs -- the first-ever modified Veracruz crossover -- "VIP Luxury Tuner" Azera sedan from Street Concepts -- "Urban Assault" Accent sub-compact by Ernie Manansala -- Elantra Touring "Beach Cruiser" Concept by K-Daddyz Kustomz "Hyundai loves the SEMA show, and we are excited about launching six terrific Hyundais modified by some of the best tuner shops in the world, and by our sister companies INCUS and Mobis," said John Krafcik, vice president, product development and strategic planning, Hyundai Motor America.
Parks police to be armed
Why do you need to be armed with an offensive weapon if all you are doing is telling people to stay off the grass and to pick up litter? "This unit does not come under the Police Act so they have no lawful authority to carry arms, and if this is the case then what is to stop security guards, bus drivers and other people who face threatening behaviour arming themselves to?" 5:53pm Tuesday 27th March 2007 Print Email this Comment .b_box { border: 1px solid #40AA5F; background-color: #40AA5F; color: #ffffff; padding: 5px; width: 307px; } .b_box img { border: 1px solid #40AA5F; padding: 5px; background-color: #ffffff; } .b_box a, .b_box a:visited .b_box a:active { color: #000000 !important; } .b_box a:hover { color: #cc0000 !important; } .msg_div { padding: 0px; width: 307px; clear: left; } .entry { border-left: 1px solid #40AA5F; border-right: 1px solid #40AA5F; padding: 5px; width: 307px; } .entry2 { border-left: 1px solid #40AA5F; border-right: 1px solid #40AA5F; padding: 5px; min-height: 80px; } .b_entry { border-left: 1px solid #40AA5F; border-right: 1px solid #40AA5F; border-bottom: 1px solid #40AA5F; padding: 5px; width: 307px; } fieldset { margin-top: 10px; border: 1px solid #40AA5F; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding: 0px; } legend { padding: 2px 6px; color: #ffffff; background: #40AA5F; border: 1px solid #40AA5F; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 10px; } .headcell { text-align: center; color: #ffffff; background: #40AA5F; border-bottom: 1px solid #40AA5F; } .headcell a:link, .headcell a:visited, .headcell a:active { color: #000000; } .headcell a:hover { color: #cc0000; } .caltab { border: 1px solid #40AA5F; margin-top: 5px; } .year_daycell { text-decoration: underline; text-align: center; } .year_fullcell { background: #40AA5F; border: 1px solid #40AA5F; } blockquote { border: 2px outset #40AA5F; } .buttonclass { background: #40AA5F; color: #ffffff; } .
George W. Bush's presidency since 2007
His Grey Wolves henchmen worked as couriers for the Turkish mob boss Abuzer Ugurlu. At Ugurlu's behest, Catli's thugs crisscrossed the infamous smugglers' route passing through Bulgaria. Those routes were the ones favored by smugglers who reportedly carried NATO military equipment to the Middle East and returned with loads of heroin.
Judge Carlo Palermo, an Italian magistrate based in Trento, discovered these smuggling operations while investigating arms-and-drug trafficking from Eastern Europe to Sicily. Judge Palermo disclosed that large quantities of sophisticated NATO weaponry -- including machine guns, Leopard tanks and U.S.-built Cobra assault helicopters -- were smuggled from Western Europe to countries in the Middle East during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Police grab tagger with an eye for utility poles
A prolific 31-year-old tagger was arrested Thursday, Jan. 31, and hit with nearly three dozen criminal mischief charges in connection with graffiti nailed to utility poles across the city. Ryan Wendell Birkland was arrested by officers from Portland Police Bureau's Central Precinct Neighborhood Response Team. The graffiti began showing up on Portland General Electric poles several months ago. A similar style of graffiti resulted in $12,000 worth of damages to the Sherwood Field Water Tank in Washington Park. During the investigation, Officer Matt Miller, the bureau's graffiti investigator, received several tips about the graffiti that lead officers to Gallery 19, 1339 N.W. 19th Ave. Similar graffiti could be seen through the gallery's windows on display inside the building.
Loonie surpasses $1.10 US
The United States, our biggest trading partner, now has a huge external debt and its weakened dollar will further increase the costs of borrowing, causing its debt to balloon even more and further weakening that economy. Meanwhile, the resource sector can't sustain us indefinitely and the manufacturing jobs we are losing will never be replaced. And in the midst of this, the Canadian government is bloody irresponsible! It should be encouraging the Bank of Canada to adopt monetary policies that help keep the dollar in line. And meanwhile, it should be putting more of that budget surplus into research and development and other areas to encourage the development of industries that will sustain us when the oil economy comes to an end. But what is it doing instead?? The government is choosing to use a substantial chunk of that surplus to give us GST cuts and more income tax cuts for the rich.
CORNER CUBE FRIDAY 2/8: Looking at the significance of WWE leaving CW
After Funaki bled in the opening dark match, they changed the mat. After Matt Striker showed blood after Undertaker choked him out, they changed the mat. Before the Raw show in Austin, WWE officials brought medical staff ringside to go over any pertinent procedures. These are some of the specific performance variables that should be ensured by the promoters – WWE, TNA, all the way down - and verified by the Commission. But, the Commission is muddying the waters by trying to include WWE under its wide-reaching umbrella of rules more suited for MMA and boxing. Ensuring everyone's safety and health should be top concern. Updated Wednesday, February 6 9:15 a.m. Last night's ECW show was about an average episode. There wasn't anything particularly wrong with the show. It just didn't have as much kick as last week.
Racing gods' revenge?
To borrow one of the catch phrases from ESPN's Stuart Scott, Gillian Zucker needs a hug. Actually, everyone that works at California Speedway, er, Auto Club Speedway, could use a hug. Or better yet, a break. Because even though their Fontana, Calif.-based facility has never been a favorite of mine, last night's descent into weeper-driven madness is starting to make me wonder if the racing gods have it in for the two-mile oval. And I'm starting to feel for them. In case you passed out last night, rain delayed the start of the Auto Club 500 for about two-and-a-half hours, and the race ended up having two water-assisted crashes in the first 21 laps -- the second one putting the race under a red flag for an hour and change. Sixty-six laps of green-flag racing ensued after that, but the rains came back.
|
