Sports Reporter, The Charlotte Mercury
John Speedway has been BRINGING IT to Charlotte sports fans since the days when sports TV meant a man in a blazer, a highlight reel, and the sheer force of personality. A walking encyclopedia of Charlotte Hornets heartbreak, Panthers lore, and minor league diamond drama, Speedway covers it all with the kind of breathless, hyperbolic passion that reminds you why sports matter in the first place. If it happens in the Queen City and somebody wins or loses, John Speedway was THERE.
Cleetus McFarland — 4.75 million YouTube subscribers and a real racing résumé — is pulling double duty at Michigan on Saturday: grand marshal and driver in the No. 4 Niece Motorsports truck.
Jun 5, 2026
Tyler Reddick and Denny Hamlin have turned 2026 into a two-Toyota title fight — and they're carrying it into Michigan International Speedway, the track Ford has won at 44 times and can't win at now.
Jun 5, 2026
The Charlotte Knights closed their six-game Truist Field homestand against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp with a Friday loss and a Sunday doubleheader split — a 12-4 win behind Jacob Gonzalez's 19th…
Jun 2, 2026
Connor Hall went home to Langley Speedway and held off Niece Motorsports teammate Landen Lewis for a CARS Tour Late Model Stock win, while Caden Kvapil charged from 15th to third to extend his points…
Jun 1, 2026
Down 5-3 in the nightcap of a weather-made doubleheader, the Knights erupted for eight runs in the fourth — capped by Braden Montgomery's grand slam and two Jacob Gonzalez homers — to bury…
May 29, 2026
The Charlotte Knights took the Gwinnett road series four games to two. All four wins came by exactly one run. Rikuu Nishida's eighth-inning go-ahead single Sunday sealed it; Jonathan Cannon and the…
May 26, 2026
Daniel Suarez won the rain-shortened 600 in the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet — built in Kyle Busch's old shop, by Kyle Busch's old people, days after Kyle Busch died.
May 25, 2026
Katherine Legge crashed out of the Indianapolis 500, then drove to Charlotte Motor Speedway and finished the Coca-Cola 600 — completing her Memorial Day Double attempt on a track she had never raced.
May 25, 2026
Hyak Motorsports has signed Clemco, an 85-year-old maker of abrasive blasting equipment, as a multi-race sponsor on Ricky Stenhouse Jr.'s No.
May 21, 2026
NASCAR's Hall of Fame chose its Class of 2027 on Tuesday in uptown Charlotte: Kevin Harvick (first ballot, 92 percent of the Modern Era vote), Jeff Burton, and five-time short-track champion Larry…
May 20, 2026
Kyle Larson heads to the Coca-Cola 600 on a 36-race winless streak — his longest since joining Hendrick Motorsports in 2021 — but Charlotte is a 1.5-mile track, and no driver in the Next Gen era has…
May 20, 2026
Katherine Legge will attempt the Indianapolis 500/Coca-Cola 600 "double" on May 24 — the first woman, the oldest driver, and the first foreign-born driver to try the 1,100-mile day.
May 20, 2026
NASCAR and Bussin' With The Boys are launching "Racin' With The Boys," a 14-episode weekly summer show produced by Peyton Manning's Omaha Productions.
May 20, 2026
Denny Hamlin won the NASCAR All-Star Race from the pole at Dover Motor Speedway on Sunday, beat his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe in a side-by-side fight to the line, and became the third…
May 18, 2026
Spire Motorsports' fifth-annual Spring Fan Day runs Thursday, May 21, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the team's Mooresville HQ (351 Mazeppa Road).
May 15, 2026
Thursday at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, NC, NASCAR Cup driver Daniel Suárez and his first-year Spire Motorsports crew chief Ryan Sparks spent the day with the Air Force — F-15E…
May 15, 2026
The NASCAR All-Star Race goes to Dover Motor Speedway Sunday for the first time in the event's 41-year history — the 42nd running of the showcase, three segments, 26 cars, the trophy on the line.
May 15, 2026
Nicolás Fernández Mercau's eighth-minute strike was all New York City FC needed to hand Charlotte FC a 1-0 defeat, the Crown's fifth straight match without a win.
May 15, 2026
Carles Gil's 97th-minute penalty gave New England a 1-0 victory over Charlotte FC on Saturday, the Crown's third consecutive loss.
May 15, 2026
Kaden Honeycutt won his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Friday at Watkins Glen — and did it by beating Connor Zilisch and Shane van Gisbergen, the two drivers who have dominated NASCAR road…
May 10, 2026
A series win over Nashville. A slow start against Gwinnett. And then Saturday night, when the Knights hit seven home runs in front of the home folks and the visiting bullpen sent three position…
May 3, 2026
The CW is running its Cup-driver guest-analyst rotation again for six O'Reilly Series races, and Denny Hamlin opens it at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
May 1, 2026
Both ARCA Menards Series regional tours run on Saturday May 2: the Cook Out Music City 150 at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway at 9 p.m. ET, the Bill Schmitt 173 at Shasta Speedway at 11:30 p.m. ET.
May 1, 2026
Corey Day won Talladega last Saturday by leading exactly one lap — the last one — for Hendrick Motorsports. Six days later, the same Concord-Mooresville pipeline runs at Texas, with Kyle Larson in…
Apr 30, 2026
Carlos Pérez drove in four. Aaron McGarity picked up the win. Charlotte hung a six-spot on Jacksonville in the fifth inning at 121 Financial Ballpark and closed a six-game road trip with two straight…
Apr 20, 2026
Tyler Reddick has won five of the six races Michael Jordan has attended this season. The one Jordan missed was the one Reddick lost. The numbers, not the narrative, tell the story.
Apr 20, 2026
Rockstar Energy announced its first-ever NASCAR Cup Series sponsorship, partnering with Tyler Reddick and Charlotte-based 23XI Racing. The deal puts the yellow star on the No.
Apr 16, 2026
Saturday night, Byron runs the No. 88 for JR Motorsports. Sunday afternoon, he's in the No. 24 for Hendrick Motorsports. Same Kansas weekend, same Charlotte story — thirty miles on either end of I-77.
Apr 16, 2026
Mario Camilletti delivered a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the tenth inning Friday night to give Charlotte a 9-8 win over Memphis, tying the series 2-2.
Apr 11, 2026
The Charlotte Hornets enter the final weekend of the regular season at 43-37, ninth in the East, with two games left — Detroit tonight and the Knicks on Sunday at MSG.
Apr 10, 2026
Through three games at Truist Field, the Memphis Redbirds lead the Charlotte Knights homestand series 2-1. A complete recap of the wild first half — and what's left on the schedule starting tonight.
Apr 10, 2026
Kyle Larson is the defending winner of Saturday night's Suburban Propane 300 at Bristol — and he's not eligible for the $100,000 Dash 4 Cash bonus.
Apr 10, 2026
Rajah Caruth earned his first Dash 4 Cash spot at Rockingham with a two-position move in the final nine laps. Now he takes it to Bristol — in a different car than he qualified in, with Jesse Love…
Apr 10, 2026
Justin Allgaier enters Saturday's Suburban Propane 300 at Bristol with seven Dash 4 Cash wins and $700,000 collected — both all-time records.
Apr 10, 2026
Brent Crews turned eighteen on March 30. Six days later, the Hickory native was leading the North Carolina Education Lottery 250 at Rockingham Speedway in his first career start at this oval distance…
Apr 4, 2026
William Sawalich won his first O'Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Rockingham Speedway on Saturday, becoming the youngest winner in track history in his 42nd career start.
Apr 4, 2026
23XI Racing — built in Huntersville by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin — has four wins in seven races to start the 2026 Cup Series season. Tyler Reddick leads the standings by 82 points.
Apr 2, 2026
Lee Pulliam — the late model legend making his first NASCAR national series start — led 40 laps at Martinsville, caused a 19-car pileup on a late restart, apologized immediately, and still finished…
Mar 28, 2026
Darius Rucker confirmed as co-owner of Legacy Motor Club on the Dan Patrick Show. Plus: O'Reilly Series posts its biggest Darlington audience in seven years, Denny Hamlin signals Tyler Reddick's…
Mar 26, 2026
Tyler Reddick won the Goodyear 400 at Darlington from the pole for his fourth Cup victory in six 2026 races, beating Brad Keselowski by 5.8 seconds despite cool shirt and electrical issues.
Mar 23, 2026
LaMelo Ball dropped 29 on Memphis. The Checkers scored three in the first period. Charlotte FC put up six goals. Three home games, three blowouts, one Saturday in March. Charlotte went 3-0.
Mar 22, 2026
Friday night at Darlington, Carson Hocevar charged to the lead and lost it to a blown tire with four laps to go. Sunday he goes back out in Dale Earnhardt's 1981 Wrangler colors.
Mar 22, 2026
The Charlotte Checkers have clinched the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season — and this city is barely paying attention.
Mar 22, 2026
Three wins in a row. Thirty-seven and thirty-four. LaMelo Ball dropped 29 on the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night at Spectrum Center, and your Charlotte Hornets are about to make some playoff noise.
Mar 22, 2026
Daniel Dye got indefinitely suspended for mocking IndyCar's David Malukas with a homophobic voice on a livestream. This isn't a cancel-culture story.
Mar 22, 2026
Corey Heim chose to restart ninth in double overtime at Darlington, then drove to the front on the last corner to beat Ross Chastain and win the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race.
Mar 22, 2026
