Danica Patrick's breakthrough victory helps make the Indy 500 important again. Jason Whitlock interviews the circuit's hottest driver.

Chris Paul isn't the only great guard in this series. Tony Parker flaunted his skills in a Game 3 win for the Spurs, Charley Rosen says.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. was aggressive, reckless, a villain and a winner. The driver who's most like him? It's not his son, Jeff Owens says.

The draft day downward spiral of the most productive player ever from "Linebacker U" shows Alex Marvez how times have changed.

Roger Federer has lost again, falling to 27th-ranked Radek Stepanek in the Rome Masters quarterfinals. Federer was beaten 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) by the Czech player Friday. This was Federer's sixth loss of the year. The top-ranked Swiss lost only nine matches in all of 2007. He piled up a string of losses at the beginning of this year when he was diagnosed with mononucleosis. The Rome Masters is a clay-court tuneup for the French Open, which begins May 25.