Jim Pedley, Managing Editor
Jim Pedley is a veteran, award-winning sports journalist who has worked at, among other places, the Boston Globe, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and the Kansas City Star. He's a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Arts in History.
Articles by Jim Pedley
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Carl Edwards of Roush Fenway Racing won the pole for Saturday afternoon’s Kansas Lottery 300 on Saturday morning.
Edwards had a fast lap of 171.521 mph at the 1.5-mile tri-oval.
Brad Keselowski of Penske Racing was second fastest with a lap at 171.282 mph.
Third fastest was Ryan Truex in a Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. […]
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Andy Graves was working at Hendrick Motorsports back in the early 1990s. It was a team that was pretty darn good in those days. But there might of have been something that was missing something. Like, one piece. Perhaps on the leadership front.
It all changed the […]
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Greg Biffle won the pole on Friday afternoon for Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway.
Biffle, who missed out on this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship, had a fast lap at 174.887 mph.
The Roush Fenway Racing driver has won twice at Kansas […]
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BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. – Surprise was not one of the things that Tony Stewart felt after following up two winning runs to start this year’s Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship by faltering in race No. 3 at Dover last Sunday.
Disappointment, yes, but surprise? Nope. Not these days.
These days, Stewart […]
Matt Hagan didn’t really need to be interviewed in the moments after he lost the 2010 Funny Car championship to John Force at the season-ending race in Pomona. The nauseated look on Hagan’s face told the whole story.
There’s a new look on Hagan’s face these days, however. It’s the look of a driver who is […]
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The story of the guy who may very well have been the best-ever American race car driver took another disappointing turn last week.
Al Unser Jr., it was reported, was in trouble again with the law and with alcohol. Seems he was caught while allegedly drag racing in his SUV near his […]
The Second Day Lede:
Kurt Busch was in anything but a win it or wreck it mood the middle of last week. In fact, light and laid back, he was barely in a Kurt Busch mood.
Perhaps it was the hunting trip he had been on at a private farm in central Kansas. Or maybe the thick, […]
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Sunday eliminations of the Auto Plus® NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway have been postponed due to weather in the Reading area. Rain and a forecast for more severe weather Sunday forced NHRA officials to postpone the completion of event.
Eliminations for the Full Throttle Drag Racing Series will continue Monday, Oct. 3 beginning with Pro […]
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This morning, it’s two down, eight to go in the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship. One-fifth of the way through. Whacked-out, bizarro-world events yet to go in a sport in which blind circumstance plays a much bigger role than does skill in determining outcomes.
But sports fans being human and […]
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Will Power earned his series record-tying eighth PEAK Performance Pole Award of the season and set a two-lap track qualifying record in the process at 219.283 mph (48.5948 seconds).
Target Chip Ganassi Racing teammates Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon – the others eligible for the driver championship – will start 11th and seventh, respectively. Franchitti’s crew changed […]
