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Lenox Rawlings: Petty cars have become relevant again
When they dropped the green flag for famous pioneers, Richard Petty got off the line faster than the prototypical American hero.
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ACC baseball tournament really isn't one
When the sun shines, and the 10-run rule mercifully ends those late-inning blowouts, the ACC baseball festival seems almost idyllic.
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Lenox Rawlings: Johnson, Hendrick are back with a vengeance
In stock-car racing's mad dash to the future, the scenery certainly looks familiar.
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Rawlings: Not every prize recruit is a savior
Savior follies and other notes:
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FSU scanning the horizon, with football in mind
Florida State's board chairman and perhaps its football coach somehow look at those dusty Texas plains and visualize an oasis.
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Lenox Rawlings: Conference carousels continue to turn
Jim Boeheim and Jamie Dixon stored their whistles six weeks ago, and this weekend they're expected to take center stage at the conference meeting.
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Lenox Rawlings: Wilt Browning to get his day
The night Martin Luther King Jr. died, the news reached the Savannah press box during the fourth inning of an Atlanta Braves exhibition game.
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Fowler adds substance to his style
Rickie Fowler always had style, and Sunday he nailed a substantial PGA title to his résumé.
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McIlroy, 23, plays like an old pro
The middle-school girls jumped up from their half-eaten lunches early Saturday afternoon and rushed to the first tee.
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Lenox Rawlings: N.C. State emerging as ACC favorite
The clock keeps ticking on college basketball's version of added time.
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Bad fourth hole costs Mickelson a fourth green jacket
As the last minutes of sunlight dropped between the pines Sunday, Phil Mickelson walked out of the Masters scoring parlor, hugged his girls and exhaled.
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Lenox Rawlings: Mickelson's charge ignites Augusta crowds
Phil Mickelson took his game to low ground on the back nine Saturday afternoon and took his score lower, reawakening thousands of fans on permanent Phil watch.
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Rawlings: With Garcia, golf is day to day
The golf world was hot for young Sergio Garcia, and then the golf world developed an icy shoulder.
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Lenox Rawlings: Three golf legends show what Masters is about
Like all the Southern classics, the Masters is about time and the river.
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Calipari has shot at history
Lenox Rawlings column on John Calipari
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Rawlings: Davis becomes a force to reckon with
The future is 6-foot-10 from head to toe and 7-4 wide when his arms are fully extended, like they are in an instantly famous publicity poster with 10 basketballs lined up under his big-bird wingspan.
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Lenox Rawlings: Siva is linchpin for plucky Cardinals
Louisville's Peyton Siva usually does the right thing.
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Rawlings: Calipari has this deal figured out
College basketball players come and go. They just come and go faster now.
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Lenox Rawlings: Tar Heels missed Marshall
The rough road to the Final Four eventually punishes luxury sedans with recapped tires, and late Sunday the wear and tear parked North Carolina's ride.
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Pack's upset bid comes up just short
N.C. State saw a wide highway to the Final Four open up Friday night, with rival North Carolina struggling past Ohio in the first semifinal and favored Kansas stumbling out of the starting game.
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Lenox Rawlings: Heels survive despite not hitting on all cylinders
When North Carolina calculated the permutations of life without Kendall Marshall, they never came up with this one.
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Lenox Rawlings: Drama looms over State, UNC
On his first lap around The Brickyard, Mark Gottfried coaxed N.C. State into the Midwest Regional semifinals.
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Lenox Rawlings: Patience paid off for Pack's Gottfried
A two-week sprint nudged N.C. State into the NCAA field and a two-game blitz put the Wolfpack in the Sweet 16, but the journey from aimless mediocrity to St. Louis was an 11-month marathon.
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Wolfpack's energy vs. traditional power
N.C. State spent a month living on the NCAA bubble and endured the longest wait of any at-large team during the bracket announcement.
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