McClure eager to get back to racing after wreck
DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Eric McClure remembers only bits and pieces of the accident that left him with a concussion and internal bruising.

HOUSTON -- Houston Dynamo president Chris Canetti sat in the highest row of empty BBVA Compass Stadium, gazed west at the city skyline and made a bold prediction.
DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Eric McClure remembers only bits and pieces of the accident that left him with a concussion and internal bruising.
BEIJING -- China has chosen Wang Hao and Zhang Jike to play table tennis singles with Ma Long joining them in the men's team competition at the London Olympics.
WASHINGTON -- No one worked harder than Roger Clemens. He would will himself to win. The New York Yankees traded for him after winning the World Series because they didn't want complacency to set in.
BOSTON -- For Josh Beckett and the Boston Red Sox, getting jeered at Fenway Park has become par for the course.
NEW ORLEANS -- An email from an imprisoned friend of the Saints coaching staff with a postscript saying, "put me down for $5,000" on Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers has become another sore point between players being punished for New Orleans' bounty system and the NFL.
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Now that the Minnesota Vikings will get their new stadium, the worrying can begin over a gambling expansion designed to pay the state's share of the $975 million project.
LONDON -- Officials say a new park on the site of the 2012 London Olympics won't fully open to the public until a year and a half after the games.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- The NFL is looking for potential replacement officials while it negotiates with the officials' association on a new contract.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey has been charged with misdemeanor drunken driving following his arrest last month after a traffic stop on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
TOKYO -- American pitcher Brad Penny was released by the Softbank Hawks after appearing in just one game for the Pacific League team, becoming the latest in a long list of former major league players to struggle to adjust to Japan's unique brand of baseball.
The NBA playoffs are in full swing and already there have been some surprises.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The New England Patriots have hired Bill Belichick's son as a coaching assistant, making him the third generation of the family to try his hand as a football coach.
BOSTON -- On Thursday, the Red Sox honored their public address announcer with the sound of silence.
NEW YORK -- Yankees reliever Rafael Soriano stepped toward third base and bluffed a pickoff throw, then twirled and made a soft toss to first. No dice, the Tampa Bay runners didn't fall for that ol' trick -- they'd seen it too often.
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says it is time for the University of Connecticut and Boston College to put hard feelings behind them and work to re-establish an important New England rivalry on the football field and basketball court.
WASHINGTON -- It makes perfect sense that the New York Rangers and Washington Capitals are heading to a Game 7.
BOSTON -- Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett will take the mound Thursday night at Fenway Park, as controversy swirls around the struggling starter.
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece -- The flame that will burn during the London Games was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics on Thursday, heralding the start of a torch relay that will culminate with the opening ceremony on July 27.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Former President Bill Clinton will reflect on the White House and fairway on the Golf Channel next week.