Danica / Wheldon Rift

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WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — Danica Patrick may be small, but she’s not about to back down on the track or off.

Patrick, one of two women in Sunday’s ABC Supply/A.J. Foyt 225 at the Milwaukee Mile, had an on-track collision with the car driven by Dan Wheldon and then made a beeline for the Englishman in the pits after coming back to finish eighth. (more…)

LOS ANGELES — A veteran sports writer for the Los Angeles Times said in his column Thursday that he is a transsexual.

“I am a transsexual sports writer,” Penner wrote. “It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words.” (more…)

PERTH, Australia – Former Chicago Bulls center Luc Longley and his family barely escaped a fire that destroyed their home and possibly some basketball memorabilia.

Longley said he managed to get his girlfriend, two children and their two friends out of the home, a converted industrial premise, before it went up in flames Friday night.

“I was asleep and heard a bang, an explosion, and it was already on fire and got the kids out,” Longley said Saturday.
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