For all the racers hitting the track at the Sacramento Mile for this weekend’s American Flat Track double header, the old school need-for-speed-surpasses-fear-of-death desires held fast. This wa ...

TRACK & FIELD. The time may be near when track officials will have to reclassify the mile as a dash instead of a run. In the 13 years since Britain’s Roger Bannister opened the floodgates by ...

Most one-mile races take place on a running track or flat roads. But not all – some throw in, say, a sand dune or two, just to spice things up.

Yet, over the years, the mile has been cut out of most mainstream track meets, replaced by metric numbers that don’t have nearly the same meaning, ...

A new drag strip outside of Los Angeles is putting the focus on street-legal cars with a unique rule set meant to replace street racing. The drag strip also happens to be just 1/16th of a mile, or ...

Only one of those, in the dramatic finish two weeks ago at Chicagoland, was at a 1.5-mile track. He’s placed in the top five in two other 1.5-mile races (Kansas, Las Vegas). In 53 starts on 1.5-mile ...

Newton South's Amelia Everett captured first place in the girls' 1-mile run at the 2021 MIAA All-State track and field meet on Thursday in Norwell. DEBBI TLUMACKI FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE.

In addition, Blaney, Hamlin and Reddick each have one win on a 1.5-mile track this year. With that many Round of 8 drivers among the leaders in points and wins on 1.5-mile tracks, ...

LINCOLN — Plans to move horse racing from State Fair Park in Lincoln to the east edge of town were unveiled on Thursday before state lawmakers, who were told the ...