The Detroit Gold Cup hydroplane races will be July 11-13 on the Detroit River.

Kip Brown is the defending champion of the event.

Dates have been set for two of the more prominent outlaw super late model races at Flat Rock Speedway.
The Joy Fair Memorial will be May 24, and the Stan Yee Memorial will be July 26 at the quarter-mile track.
The Fair race will be 100 laps, and the Yee 150.
Rain dates are May 25 for Fair, Aug. 2 for Yee.
Last year, multiple rainouts compelled Flat Rock to run the two races as one.
Phil Bozell of Portage won the race.

Taylor Ferns finished fourth and sixth in heat races at the Kokomo Grand Prix, a USAC Honda Midget Series doubleheader at Kokomo Speedway last weekend.
Ferns, of Shelby Township, finished 16th in a semifinal race.
Rico Abreu of St. Helena, Calif., won both feature races in a Toyota.

Here is the schedule for the Detroit Cougars, a Rivals Professional Football League team that will play its home games at Mount Clemens High School:

Preseason

May 16, Chicago

May 23, Akron

May 30, Southern Michigan

June 6, Akron

Regular season

June 13, at Southern Michigan

June 20, Chicago

June 27, Akron

July 5, at Southern Michigan

July 11, Open

July 18, Akron

Here is the schedule for the 2014 USAC Silver Crown Series for sprint cars. Taylor Ferns of Shelby Township plans to run the entire schedule.

April 6, Terre Haute, IN/Terre Haute Action Track (Kody Swanson winner)

May 17, Indianapolis, IN/Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis

May 22, Indianapolis, IN/Indiana State Fairgrounds

June 14, Madison, IL/Gateway Motorsports Park

June 29, Millington, TN/Memphis International Raceway

July 24, Indianapolis, IN/Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis

August 1, Belleville, KS/Belleville High Banks

August 16, Springfield, IL/Illinois State Fairgrounds

August 31, DuQuoin, IL/DuQuoin State Fairgrounds

September 20, Rossburg, OH/Eldora Speedway

October 11, Syracuse, NY/New York State Fairgrounds

Michigan International Speedway is still a palace of speed.

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Clint Bowyer said he went 217 mph during the Wednesday morning session during a Goodyear tire test at the 2-mile track.

"That's white-of-your-eyes fast," Bowyer told reporters and staffers at the track.

Dale Earnhardt Jr., Greg Biffle, Ryan Newman and Trevor Bayne also participated in the test.

Earnhardt Jr. said he reached speeds of 212-215 mph on the straightaways and about 180 in turns.

Greg Biffle tests at MIS

“This is one of our better tracks, and our fans will probably say the same,” Earnhardt said. “Having the success here over the last four or five years has given us a lot of confidence when we come here, and I think that’s why Goodyear brings us to test.

“I enjoy racing here. It’s a fun track. The asphalt is really aging well and it’s just going to keep getting better and better over the next couple of years.”

MIS was repaved in 2012, and drivers have since posted testing, practice and qualifying speeds that rank among the fastest in NASCAR.

The track hosts Sprint Cup races on June 15 and Aug. 17.

Connecticut has won four NCAA men's basketball tournament championships, all since 1999.
That's as close to UCLA-like as any program has been in the last 15 years.
Since 1999, while the Huskies have won four titles, the entire Big Ten has won one, by Michigan State in 2000.
Duke, Florida and North Carolina have won two apiece since '99.

Kody Swanson of Kingsburg, Calif., won the Sumar Classic, a USAC Silver Crown Series presented by Traxxas race at Terre Haute Action Track in Indiana on April 6.

Taylor Ferns of Shelby Township qualified 18^th and finished 19^th in the 100-lap sprint car feature on the half-mile dirt track.

Fastest qualifier Tracy Hines finished second and Jerry Coons Jr. third.

Ferns plans to run the full Silver Crown schedule this season in the No. 35 Motor City Transport Inc. Beast that features a Toyota engine.