Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner ... Ryan Blaney (left) finishes out a Team Penske Desert Double weekend sweep. During qualifications, Blaney shares a humorous reflection with a Dent Wizard crewmate while awaiting his turn to qualify for the Straight Talk Wireless 500 - love how this moment captured a crewmate was caught laughing at a comment Blaney had made - note the Start/Finish line in the background. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks - Motorsports Journal (2026)

Ryan Blaney's Gritty Phoenix Triumph Caps Historic Team Penske Weekend

 

Ryan Blaney showcased the kind of perseverance that defines champions, storming back from two loose wheel setbacks to capture the checkered flag in the Straight Talk Wireless 500 at Phoenix Raceway on March 8, 2026. 

Tyler Reddick's Historic NASCAR Three-Peat Leads 23XI 1-2 In Points After COTA Masterclass

Tyler Reddick's historic surge continued to dominate the narrative three races into the 2026 NASCAR Cup Series season, as the 23XI Racing driver delivered a commanding performance at Circuit of the Americas to become the first driver ever - since the series launched in 1949 - to win the opening trio of events. From a winless 2025 following his 2024 regular-season championship, Reddick has flipped the script with victories across superspeedway, draft-heavy intermediate, and now technical road course layouts. 

Day of the 2023 Busch Light Clash At The Coliseum pre-activity track walk shot of the GEICO RESTART ZONE towards the iconic peristyle end of the Los Angeles Coliseum. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (2023)

 

Almost nothing can ever match up to a first time experience of anything. A meaningful kiss, a campout in nature of a city kid, friendship with someone completely different than yourself, the achievement of a long and cherished goal that was months or even years in the study and making. 

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum has a long and varied past.  Conceived as a hallmark of civic pride as a memorial to Los Angeles veterans of World War I it was completed in 1923.  It will be the first stadium to have hosted the Summer Olympics three times when it hosts the 2028 Summer Games.  The stadium previously hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984.