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RELATED: Complete Miami race results | Series standings HOMESTEAD, Fla. — With the 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series title now in Erik Jones‘ rear-view mirror, the immediate question becomes “What’s next for the 19-year-old prodigy?” With a relatively nondescript, problem-free sixth-place finish in Friday night’s Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Jones secured the series driver’s championship, as well as the owner’s title for Kyle Busch Motorsports. Discovered by Busch when he beat his future car owner…

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Though the gravity of the end of his stellar NASCAR career is becoming more and more real, Jeff Gordon has maintained that the full impact won’t be felt until the checkered flag falls on Sunday’s finale. The same could be said for his longtime team owner, Rick Hendrick, who claims at least partial responsibility for keeping Gordon’s career going to this point.   Hendrick, who helped bring Gordon…

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Marc Appleman, pictured in 2011, is chief executive officer for the Society for American Baseball Research.(Photo: Deirdre Hamill/azcentral sports) In August 1971 in Cooperstown, N.Y., a group of 16 baseball researchers came up with the idea to start an organization specifically for baseball researchers. Since then, Society for American Baseball Research, or SABR, has grown to be a membership-based organization for anyone interested in all aspects of baseball. SABR is…

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Nov. 20, 2015) — NASCAR® fans have more ways than ever to watch as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series™ champion is crowned in this year’s finale at Homestead-Miami SpeedwaySM. Innovative new broadcast and digital outlets from NASCAR and NBC allow viewers to follow both the full driver field and the CHAMPIONSHIP 4® in the ultimate multi-screen experience during the Ford EcoBoost 400. Live coverage begins on Sunday with Countdown to Green…

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. — It’s Ford Championship Weekend and the automotive manufacturer has its name on all three NASCAR races this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway.   A champion in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series will be crowned Friday, where Brad Keselowski Racing driver Tyler Reddick trails Erik Jones by 19 points.   On the XFINITY Series side, Roush Fenway Racing‘s Chris Buescher has his Ford out front by 18 points over Chase Elliott (JR Motorsports).   Sunday, the Sprint Cup championship…

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Wood Brothers Racing, one of the longest tenured teams competing in NASCAR’s premier series, will return to full-time competition beginning in 2016.   Officials with the team and Ford Motor Co. made the announcement Friday afternoon at Homestead-Miami Speedway, site of this weekend’s Ford EcoBoost 400 (Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM) season-ending event.   Ryan Blaney will handle the driving duties, embarking upon his first full season after making 15 starts…

RELATED: Full practice results Rain interrupted Friday’s opening Sprint Cup Series practice at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and Carl Edwards was awarded the top spot after his No. 19 Toyota topped the charts early in the session. The caution was waved twice for weather around 1 p.m. ET, and NASCAR ultimately called practice at 1:30 p.m. ET after an attempt to dry the track late in the session. The practice was originally scheduled to run…

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — New GM Mike Chernoff on Friday announced several promotions in the Indians baseball operations and scouting departments. Matt Forman has been named director of baseball operations. Forman replaces Derek Falvey, who was recently named assistant general manager. Forman, who formerly wrote for Baseball America, was the assistant director of baseball operations last year. Sky Andrecheck was named senior director of baseball research and development and Keith Woolner was…

Ken Davidoff of the New York Post reports from the Owners’ Meetings in Dallas that “momentum continues to build toward” a rule change that he correctly notes will likely be referred to as “The Chase Utley Rule.” Specifically, a change in the rules which would be aimed at eliminating the sorts of hard slides into second base, the likes of which Chase Utley demonstrated in the playoffs, breaking Mets shortstop Ruben…

Baseball is sending the Pirates to Puerto Rico to play on Roberto Clemente Day. That is a good call by commissioner Rob Manfred. It should be only the beginning to a great plan. Here’s the plan, Mr. Commissioner. You mandate that for the first of two games between the Pirates and Marlins on May 30 in San Juan, everybody in uniform wears No. 21….

Baseball fans should have a much easier time watching in-market games next year, provided they have a cable TV subscription. Thanks to a deal between Major League Baseball and Fox, 15 regional sports channels will begin streaming in-market games through the Fox Sports Go app and Fox Sports website. As Phillip Swann at TVPredictions points out, the Toronto Blue Jays already had a streaming deal in place, bringing the total…

My daughter is two years old and chances are she’ll never experience many ordinary things of my youth — hearing a dial tone, putting a stamp on a letter, going to Tower Records and smelling that weird hemp smell or listening to a VCR ever-so-slowly rewind a video. It’ll all be foreign to her. It’s the same for every generation. What was once new suddenly becomes old. (Have you looked at…

With two laps to go at Martinsville, drivers were racing not only each other but a sinking Virginia sun. If the light left, the race would end early. Screaming through the corners of the half-mile-long track, brake temperatures climbed well past the thousand-degree mark, and the rotors began to glow. Jeff Gordon led the way, and the crowd was on its feet. The early-November race was Gordon’s last at Martinsville…

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Baseball is sending the Pirates to Puerto Rico to play on Roberto Clemente Day. That is a good call by commissioner Rob Manfred. It should be only the beginning to a great plan. Here’s the plan, Mr. Commissioner. You mandate that for the first of two games between the Pirates and Marlins on May 30 in San Juan, everybody in uniform wears No. 21….