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...SPEEDY RECOVERY NASCAR driver Ernie Irvan was given a 10% chance of surviving after a '94 crash at Michigan International Speedway. But 13 months later, he was back, driving in a race in North Carolina. Though Irvan had to wear an eyepatch to eliminate double vision, he finished sixth and said, "It felt as if I'd been doing it last week...
...each year to the Indianapolis 500, part of his campaign to show that the sport is "more than cowboys in cars going as fast as they can." Racing has a nostalgic appeal for Letterman, who grew up in Indianapolis. "I can remember as a kid going out to the speedway with my uncle to watch time trials for the race," he says. "I loved those days...
Just across 35th Street stands the forlorn hulk of the original 1910 Comiskey Park, with a gaping hole cut through the right-field stands. A mournful opening-day banner reads, SPEEDWAY WRECKING: THE HARDEST 'HITTER' OF ALL TIME. With these ghostly memories still in sight, how hard it is for the nostalgic baseball fan to come to peace with progress. Yet the truth must be acknowledged: the new Comiskey Park represents a hopeful beacon for the future of baseball. It is a talisman that the wonder of the game will survive this era of luxury sky boxes, insanely lucrative television...
...times in the 1970s and even smoked some with the future Vice President in 1971 at a fraternity party in Indiana. Serving a 50-year sentence in the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., for smuggling dope and taking part in a 1978 series of bombings in Speedway, Ind., Kimberlin tried to publicize his allegations four days before the 1988 election. But a funny thing happened before Kimberlin could conduct a jailhouse press conference: he was suddenly slapped into protective confinement and the conference abruptly canceled -- all on a personal order from Bureau of Prisons Director J. Michael Quinlan...
...Cruise $60 million race-car epic Days of Thunder is the widely reported claim that the film left Hollywood preview audiences gaga with delight. In fact, some early responses were so grumbly or apathetic that the producers decided to take the star and his car back to the speedway at Daytona to reshoot the ending. Two more racing shots were added. Such tinkering with big-ticket productions is not so unusual in these days of compulsive market research, but the timing for this one was unusual: the new ending was filmed just three weeks before this Wednesday's opening, making...