Articles by Shav Glick

Still winning races at 45, Jeff Ward of Newport Beach will cap one of motorcycling’s greatest careers Thursday night, when he is inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in Detroit. Read more

Mario Andretti’s daring late-race pass of Jody Scheckter for victory in the 1977 Long Beach Grand Prix, then a race for Formula One cars and drivers, has long been considered the most exciting moment in the 31 years of racing on the seaside streets. Read more

For the last 23 years, NASCAR has opened its premier stock car racing season with the Daytona 500, long enough for many followers to think it has always been that way. Read more

After 70 years in the sportswriting business, what do you do when your boss says he wants a story about your career? Read more

Jack Snow, a Pro Bowl split end who played 11 years with the Los Angeles Rams before becoming part of its radio broadcast team, died Monday night. Read more

My Uncle Glen was a lap counter at the old Legion Ascot Speedway, that treacherous motor racing oval in the hills east of Lincoln Heights that quenched Los Angeles’ thirst for racing in the 1920s and ’30s. Read more

Jeremy McGrath came out of Murrieta in 1993 and raised the standards in supercross with a daring style that led to seven championships in eight years before he retired in 2003. Read more

Rod Dedeaux, whose 45 years as USC’s baseball coach produced 11 national and 28 conference championship teams, died Thursday at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. Read more

It would be difficult to find two more contrasting seasons than Ricky Carmichael and James “Bubba” Stewart had on their motorcycles last year. Read more