This week in sports

Sorry I did not write last weekend, but Memorial Day is one of the best sports weekends of the year.
The “Indy 500” was the highlight of the weekend. This year’s race was the first Indy 500 since 1994 when the Indianapolis Motor Speedway led a split from “The CART Series”. It is the longest race in Indy Racing League; compare it to this week IRL Race in Milwaukee, which is 225 Miles. Also, Indy has one of the smallest pit roads on the IRL circuit. All of this makes the Indy 500 one of America’s greatest sports events each year. It is my opinion that a lot of the Indy 500 is luck. It was a great race with a lot of passing and storylines including Marco Andretti trying to win at Indy, something his dad and car owner Michael never did. One of the other major stories was Danica Patrick trying to be the first women to win at Indy. My opinion is for the media to leave Danica alone! During the race Ryan Briscoe took her out in the pit lane, she got mad and went to his car for a talk, but security stopped her and the TV announcers made a big deal about it. This kind of thing happens all the time, usually not on pit road in the biggest race of the year but it happen back in the gauge area, so what’s the big deal.
Congratulations to Scott Dixon for the win, he stayed out of trouble all day and his team did a great job in the pits. One thing I know is that in the future Marco Andretti will win this race many times, he really showed me that he is a great driver. Danica may win Indy one day when the media gets off her back and lets her be a racer, than I think she can win the big one.

The other big race this weekend was the “Coca-Cola 600” at Charlotte. This is NASCAR’s longest race of the year. It is interesting also because it starts at 5 PM in sunlight and ends around 10 PM. Without sunlight the track changes because it becomes faster with out the heat of the sun. Kasey Kahn won when he pitted before anybody else. This was his second win in the 600 after wining in 2006. He is the sixth driver to win the All-Star Race and the 600 in the same year.

The French Open began this week in Paris. It goes for two weeks with the Women’s Final June 7th and the Men’s Final June 8th. My picks to win are any of the Russian women and Rafael Nadal who will meet Roger Federer in the Men’s Final for the third year in a row.

This just into the Laznet newsroom, ESPN is adding John Kruk to its coverage of the Women’s College World Series starting May 29. Should be fun. Kruk is an ESPN baseball analyst that is known to say outlandish things. I will be watching just for him.

Talk to you later.

Good night and good luck.
Jamie Lazaroff