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INSIDE SPORTS
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Larry McBride
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
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Rain, aging asphalt to blame for recent TMS delays
drainage system, he started with, “Man,
I’m just going to get myself in trouble,”
before a nearly four-minute answer
that included a lecture-like description
about the track’s surface that was last
By Stephen Hawkins
Associated Press
FORT WORTH — Blame it on the
rain. Or is it because of the aging as-
phalt at Texas Motor Speedway that
drivers prefer?
Really, it’s both, and became a soggy
issue for the third consecutive race
weekend at the Denton County track
over an eight-month period.
The Verizon IndyCar Series race in
Fort Worth is now in what essentially is
a 2 1/2-month rain delay, with the re-
sumption scheduled for Aug. 27.
“I think we’re going through a rough
patch,” TMS president Eddie Gossage
said. ‘We’re just being dealt a tough
hand by nature.”
After several hours of unsuccessfully
trying to dry the 1 1/2-mile oval, the
Firestone 600K was postponed late
Saturday without the Indy cars ever get-
Motor sports
Texas Motor Speedway
ting to pit road. The race then started
late on Sunday and didn’t get enough
laps completed to make it official before
more rain came.
Two months ago, the start of the
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at
TMS was delayed nearly two hours and
ended after midnight.
During the Chase for the Sprint Cup
in November, drivers lost their two
scheduled practice sessions the day be-
fore the race while officials tried to dry
the track following overnight rain,
though the Xfinity Series race was run
later that day.
The Cup race in April 2014 was post-
poned a day by rain.
When Gossage was asked if there
was anything the track could do with its
213i
completely repaved 15 years ago.
“Race car drivers like old asphalt,
right? That’s what you always hear,” he
said. Well, old asphalt becomes old be-
cause it oxidizes, and because over time
the ‘fines’ and the smaller aggregate
that make up asphalt come out.... The
result is you have a more porous as-
phalt.”
What that means is that there are
more small spaces and holes for water
to penetrate.
“An inch of rain, well, that upper lev-
el gets saturated,” Gossage said. “And
[water] holds it in there.”
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Larry Papke/AP
Indy cars are covered by tarps during a thunderstorm that stopped the
Firestone 600K at Texas Motor Speedway on Sunday in Fort Worth.
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Spieth on
roll going
into Open
Cavaliers stay alive
James, Irving each
score 41 as Cleveland
wins Game 5 of Finals
By Doug Ferguson
AP Golf Writer
QAKMQNT, Pa. — Jordan Spieth
feels confident about his game, typical
talk from most top players going into a
By Janie McCauley
Associated Press
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OAKLAND, Calif.
LeBron
James had 41 points, 16 rebounds and
seven assists, Kyrie Irving also scored
41 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers
capitalized on the Warriors playing
without suspended star Draymond
Green, staving off NBA Finals elimi-
nation with a 112-97 victory in Game 5
on Monday night.
major.
Unlike so many others at this U.S.
Open, however, Spieth speaks from ex-
penence.
Pro golf
PGA Tour: U.S. Open
Not since Tiger Woods a decade ago
has anyone had this kind of run in golf’s
biggest events. From the time he missed
the cut at Valhalla in the 2014 PGA
Championship, Spieth has not finished
worse than fourth in his last five majors.
He won the Masters and U.S. Open,
missed a playoff at the British Open by
one shot, was runner-up at the PGA
Championship and tied for second at
this year’s Masters.
He made it sound Monday as
though form was secondary to sheer be-
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Pro basketball
NBA Finals: Game 5
Cleveland 112, Golden State 97
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James and Irving became the first
teammates to score 40 points in an
NBA Finals game as the Cavaliers
pulled within 3-2 and sent their best-
of-seven series back to Ohio.
We’re just happy we got another
day. That’s all we can ask for,” James
said. We got another day to survive.
We’re going to start preparing tonight,
start preparing tomorrow and when-
ever Game 6, is we’ll be ready.”
Take that, haters. James had much
more to say about these playoffs before
he’s done — and not with his mouth,
even as the criticism came from all di-
rections following his Game 4 tussle
with Green and reaction to what he
considered the Golden State forward’s
inappropriate words.
He was booed again as the Cavs left
the court for their locker room, but
thousands of fans had already made
for the exits minutes earlier.
The Cavs handed defending cham-
pion Golden State just its fourth de-
feat at sold-out Oracle Arena all sea-
son, denying MVP Stephen Curry and
the Warriors a chance to celebrate a
second straight title with their golden-
clad “Strength In Numbers” support-
fief.
“Is my game always [good]... no,” he
said, answering his own question be-
fore he finished it. “The Masters this
year, tee to green, I felt much worse
than I did at events where I finished
25th at a tour event. But because I just
felt that we were ready and that we
could do it and I could draw on past ex-
perience — especially at that event —
we got into contention. I willed the
putts in. I couldn’t really describe it to
you other than it just being kind of a
mental state of being confident at the
majors.”
Such streaks are rare.
In the last 60 years, only Jack Nick-
laus (three times), Woods (twice) and
Arnold Palmer have gone at least five
straight majors in the top five. Nicklaus
went seven straight majors from the
1971 PGA Championship through the
1972 British Open, while Woods’ lon-
gest stretch of top-5s was six majors
from the 1999 PGA Championship
through the 2001 Masters. He won five
of those six majors.
Whether the 22-year-old Texan can
extend his streak depends largely on
Oakmont.
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ers.
Now, Curry and Co. must try to win
on the road just the way the Warriors
did last year and also in their only oth-
er championship season out West in
1975.
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Kyrie Irving (2) of the Cleveland Cavaliers reacts Monday during the second half of Game 5 of the NBA Finals
against Golden State in Oakland, Calif.
The Warriors will get Green back
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Penguins have shot at lengthy run
around his two stars.
Oddsmakers made Pittsburgh an
early favorite to win it all again next
year, heady territory considering there
hasn’t been a repeat champion in nearly
two decades. Then again, there’s reason
to be optimistic the run at the top that
seemed a near certainty in 2009 could
still come to fruition, if later than expec-
By Will Graves
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH - When the Pitts-
burgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup in
2009, a dynasty appeared to be in the
offing. It didn’t quite work out that way.
Injuries and inconsistent postseason
play sent the franchise into a full-
fledged identity crisis.
The long, seemingly interminable
wait for Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Mal-
kin to bookend the championship they
helped capture seven years ago came to
a blissful, euphoric end on Sunday
night in San Jose. Their six-game tri-
umph over the Sharks in the final
capped a meteoric six-month sprint un-
der Mike Sullivan, whose arrival in
mid-December provided the wake-up
Pro hockey
NHL Stanley Cup Final
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call the talented but erratic roster des-
perately needed.
“It’s not an easy win in this league,”
Malkin said. “Every team in the league
deserves to win. We play against San Jo-
se and they haven’t won in 25 years. It’s
not easy:”
Maybe, but for the Penguins the
path might be smoother than most. The
group that poured over the boards and
onto the ice when the horn sounded at
the end of a 100-game plus marathon
that spanned from September to June
appears to be well-appointed for the fu-
ture thanks to a series of moves by gen-
eral manager Jim Rutherford to build
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The core of Crosby, Malkin, forward
Phil Kessel and defensemen Kris Le-
tang and Olfi Maatta are all 30 or under
and all signed through at least 2022.
Goaltender Matt Murray — whose 15
wins in the playoffs tied an NHL rookie
record — turned 22 last month. Young
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Keith Srakocic/AP
Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby, right, carries the Stanley Cup as Patric Hornq-
vist follows him off a plane at Greater Pittsburgh International Airport on
Monday in Moon, Pa.
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