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Martin Truex Jr. took the lead with 28 laps to go and held off Kevin Harvick on the final restart to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Southe 500 at Darlington Raceway on Sunday night. Truex started the summer season by leading an astounding 588 of 600 miles to win at Charlotte on Memorial Day weekend. He closed the season by outracing Harvick on Labor Day weekend for his second crown jewel win of the season. Harvick had the dominant car. He led 214 of 367 laps but this run was cut short by slow pit stops. At one point, Harvick fell 11 spots from first to 12th after a super slow 16.6-second stop. He battled back toward the top, but could not chase down Truex. Last week’s wier at Michigan, Kyle Larso...

Pat Haden, officially done as USC’s athletic director in less than a week now, will stay with the program and embark on a new assignment: Hitting up alums for donations to get renovation work done on the Coliseum. That can be problematic. How do we trust anymore where the money is actually going? This may be the point in The Big Ask where Haden asks himself about his own legacy. Reconstruction, involving cranes, bulldozers and industrial sized tweezers, are needed. Haden, who school president Max Nikias once said took a “significant pay cut” from his real-world lawyer job to accept a paltry $2.9 million in USC salary, appears to be within his legal rights to have been accepting a very, very ...