The 42nd annual Camp Barnes Benefit Stock Car Race will be held at Delaware International Speedway in Delmar on June 24. Gates open at 4 p.m. and racing begins at 7.
Racers will compete for more than $35,000 in prize money. Big Block Modifieds, Super Late Models, TSS Modifieds, Crate Late Model, Modified Lites, Little Lincoln and Delmarva Chargers will compete.
Spectator’s tickets are $17 and pit tickets are $27. Children under 13 accompanied by parent or guardian are admitted free to spectator seating. For more information, call Det. Jeff Hudson at (302) 856-5850 ext. 346 or jeff.hudson@state.de.us.
B+ Foundation 5K on Thursday
The eighth annual B+ Fighting Childhood Cancer 5K road race is expected to attract more than 1,750 runners to Wilmington Thursday night.
The 3.1-mile event begins at 6:45 p.m. at Salesianum School, 1801 N. Broom St.
The event benefits the Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation, named in honor of the 14-year-old Salesianum student who died July 14, 2007.
Penn State AD Joyner resigns
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – David Joyner, the Penn State athletic director who steered the department following the Jerry Sandusky scandal and Joe Paterno’s death, will resign Aug. 1. Joyner was appointed acting athletic director in November 2011 after Tim Curley was placed on administrative leave.
Penn State will form a search committee and work with a consulting firm in looking for its next athletic director.
Woods takes fuller practice swings
PINEHURST, N.C. – Tiger Woods is making progress in his recovery from back surgery and starting to extend his swing, his agent said Tuesday.
Woods already has missed two majors this year while he recovers from a microdiscectomy on his back on March 31. He last played on March 9 at Doral, when he closed with a 78 despite the pain in his lower back. Woods has said he has no idea when he will be healthy enough to return to competition. A report on Golf Channel’s morning show said he was taking full swings at the Medalist Golf Club in South Florida.
“Tiger is progressing like he expected,” Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports Management said in an email.
NCAA makes case for amateurism
OAKLAND, Calif. – The NCAA began making its case for keeping the current model for college sports, with the women’s athletic director at the University of Texas testifying Tuesday that paying basketball and football players would tear apart the very foundation the school’s athletics are based upon.
“I don’t believe that our university would approve of an activity where a segment of our student-athlete population was professionalized,” Plonsky said. “I know we strongly believe our student-athletes should not be professionalized in any way.”
Taking the stand after six days of witnesses called by plaintiffs in the antitrust trial brought by former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon and others, Plonsky said Texas regards athletes as students first, even for those in the high profile football and basketball programs that bring in tens of millions of dollars a year.