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Sprint Car legend to raise money for veterans
TROY — For Miami County veterans eager to see the national monuments honoring their service, the trip from Troy to Washington, D.C., takes 500 miles when they take it on their own.Rarely outdone, sprint car legend Jack Hewitt can get them there in three miles.On July Fourth, the National Sprint ...
Freedom 76 race at Kil-Kare highlights fast holiday weekend
Waynesfield Raceway Park’s slogan says it best for the Fourth of July weekend. It truly is a Red, White and Vroom weekend ... and there’s something for everyone during a three-day racing extravaganza.The highlight can be found at Kil-Kare Speedway on Sunday with the Freedom 76 Stock Car Race, presented ...
Woman swaps Just a Pinch of her recipes online
FAIRFIELD — Transferring files from an old computer to a new computer sounds like a mundane task that everyone encounters at some point. For Fairfield resident Diane Wicktora, it was a different story.During the transfer, she lost a lot of valuable items that had been 21 years in the making ...
Add more greens to your daily diet
The iconic food pyramid has morphed into a full plate of food.The federal government recently rolled out a replacement for the 19-year-old pyramid that’s easier to understand and follow.Half the plate is filled with fruits and vegetables; the rest is filled out with protein and grains with a side of ...
Sprint Cup stars like the flavor of dirt track at Eldora
Tonight, Tony Stewart and 27 of his racing friends take to the high banks of Eldora Speedway for some camaraderie, competition and, most of all, charity.The seventh annual Prelude to the Dream — featuring drivers from NASCAR’s Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Truck series, IndyCar and NHRA — straps the all-star ...
Oxford woman wins race
It’s been kind of a passing of the torch for Carla Leach-Broshear and her son Tyler. Or maybe it’s a steering wheel they passed.Leach-Broshear’s first drive as a 16-year-old was on a drag strip. Now some 23 years later, her 16-year-old son Tyler’s first drive came, you guessed it, at ...
Time to rethink the UFC’s reality series
The latest season of the UFC’s long-running reality series, “The Ultimate Fighter,” ended with a whimper Saturday with the show’s live finale. “TUF,” which Spike TV has aired since its first season in 2005, has produced a handful of UFC champions and many contenders. But as we saw this season, ...
NASCAR driver Logano chasing Kentucky Speedway perfection
SPARTA, Ky. — So far, NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Joey Logano is undefeated at Kentucky Speedway. On July 9, when the Cup Series pays its inaugural visit to the 1.5-mile tri-oval, he’d like to keep it that way. Logano, a native of Middletown, Conn., was one of seven Cup Series ...
Strikeforce event big deal for area MMA fighters
COLUMBUS — Saturday’s “Strikeforce: Feijao vs. Henderson” event at Columbus’ Nationwide Arena features a championship doubleheader that could draw nearly one million Showtime viewers.But the event, which marks the organization’s Ohio debut, has bigger stakes for nearly a dozen area fighters who compete on the untelevised preliminary card.They include West ...
UFC’s military events have impact on broadcaster
Cincinnati native and 1986 Miami University graduate Mike Goldberg has seen it all during 14 years and more than 170 broadcasts as the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s play-by-play man.But admittedly, few events have made an impact like “UFC Fights for the Troops 2” recently did.This past Saturday, Goldberg and the UFC ...
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