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NASCAR tire carrier saves reporter from runaway pit box before Craftsman Truck Series race
The NASCAR Cup Series All-Star race is on Sunday at Dover International Speedway, but there was a wild scene on Saturday when one pit crew member put his body on the line to save a reporter in the path of a runaway pit box.
Friday night was the Craftsman Truck Series race, and of course, before the race, teams have to set up their pit boxes.
However, as it was being moved into position, Spire Motorsports went rogue and started barreling toward the pit wall.
People could be seen scrambling to get out of the way, but Donovan Williams, tire carrier for Daniel Suarez’s No. 7 team in the Cup Series, tried to stop it from hitting Fox pit reporter Amanda Busick.
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No one was seriously hurt, but Williams did sustain some minor injuries and was taken to the hospital and released overnight, according to Fox Sports.
Now that is just downright heroic.
Unfortunately, this has ruled Williams out of the pit stop challenge that is part of the All-Star weekend festivities, but hopefully, he’s on the mend and will be back in action sooner rather than later.
On Saturday afternoon, Busick sent her thanks to Williams in a post on X.
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This just serves as a reminder of why you’ve always got to be paying attention and aware of your surroundings when you’re in the pits.
I’ve been lucky enough to hang around the pits at a few different races, and it’s one of the most electrifying things you can experience. That said, I’m always kind of in awe of how sideways it could go in an instant if you’re not paying attention.
I mean, in this incident at Dover, everyone was paying attention, and it still got dicey.
I’m just glad everyone is going to be okay, and maybe they can throw some brakes on those pit boxes if they don’t have them already.
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Napoleon Solo wins 151st Preakness Stakes
Napoleon Solo took home the 2026 Preakness Stakes on Saturday, the 151st running of the race.
The favorite in Taj Mahal, the 1 horse, was in the lead from the start until the final turn until Napoleon Solo made his move on the outside and took the lead at the top of the stretch. As Taj Mahal fell off, Iron Honor, the 9 horse, snuck up, but the effort ultimately was not enough.
Napoleon Solo opened at 8-1 and closed at 7-1. Iron Honor, at 8-1, finished second, with Chip Honcho fishing third after closing at 11-1. Ocelli, one of just three horses to run both the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago and Saturday’s Preakness, finished fourth at 8-1.
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A $1 exacta paid out $53.60, while a $1 trifecta brought in $597.10. But someone out there is very lucky, as a $1 superhighfive – picking the top-five finishers in order – paid out $12,015.70.
Even moreso, a 20-cent Pick 6 – picking the winners of the six consecutive races, with the final being the Preakness, paid out $33,842.34.
The race was run without the Kentucky Derby winner for the second year in a row. After Sovereignty did not run the Preakness last year – and wound up winning the Belmont Stakes – the training team of Golden Tempo opted to skip the Maryland race.
From 1960 to 2018, only three Derby winners did not run in the Preakness. Three Derby winners have skipped the Preakness in the last five years, and for the sixth time in eight years, for various reasons, the Triple Crown had already been impossible to accomplish by the time the Preakness even rolled around.
“I understand that fans of the sport or fans of the Triple Crown are disappointed, but the horse is not a machine,” Golden Tempo’s trainer, Cherie DeVaux, told Fox News Digital earlier this week.
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Only three horses from two weeks ago – Ocelli, Robusta, and Incredibolt, were back at the Preakness. Corona de Oro, the 11 horse on Saturday, was scratched well ahead of the Derby, and Great White, who reared up and fell on his back after becoming startled shortly before entering the Derby gate, took the 13 post on Saturday.
The Preakness went off roughly 24 hours after a horse died following the completion of his very first race.
Hit Zero, trained by Brittany Russell, came into the race as the favorite. However, he finished last in the race, which was won by another one of Russell’s horses, Bold Fact — and upon crossing the finish line, Hit Zero reportedly began coughing, dropped to his knees, then put his head down and died.
The Preakness took place at Laurel Park as Pimlico undergoes renovations. It was the first time ever that Pimlico did not host the race, moving roughly 20 miles south.
The Belmont Stakes, the final Triple Crown race, will take place on June 6. The race will return to Saratoga for a third year in a row as Belmont Park continues to be renovated.
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Coca-Cola quietly axed one Reagan-era drink that disappeared from store shelves
A popular Minute Maid citrus drink that vanished from store shelves decades ago still lives on in the memories of kids who grew up drinking it in the 1980s.
Coca-Cola, Minute Maid’s parent company, quietly discontinued Five Alive around 1995.
But nostalgic social-media posts keep wondering why.
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“When did Five Alive fall off?” a person on Reddit wondered about a year ago.
Another post from the same time showing an ad for Five Alive from 1979, the year it launched, drew sentimental reactions.
“Honestly, I loved that stuff,” wrote one commenter.
“Why did it go away?” asked another.
“I miss this stuff so much,” someone else wrote.
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“I could go for some Five Alive right now,” wrote a Redditor three years ago.
“Does anyone remember Five Alive?” asked another around the same time.
Both posts drew enthusiastic reactions from like-minded readers.
Some people even have fond memories of the less-expensive frozen concentrate version of the drink.
“Remember how it would slide slowly out of the can?” wrote a Redditor a year ago, drawing the response of, “SSHHHHHHHHHPLOP” from yet another commentator.
Five Alive faded from the U.S. market in the mid ’90s when Coca-Cola introduced Fruitopia in 1994 in a bid to keep up with trends, Tasting Table reported.
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Despite a $30-million marketing campaign, a spot in McDonald’s drink offerings and a shoutout from Stephen Hawking on “The Simpsons,” Fruitopia didn’t last either. Coca-Cola did away with it in 2003.
Coca-Cola announced earlier this year that Minute Maid is discontinuing its frozen juice concentrate products altogether “in response to shifting consumer preferences,” as Fox News Business reported.
Five Alive may have evaporated from American stores, but it isn’t fully extinct.
Coca-Cola advertises both Five Alive and Fruitopia for sale in Canada.
Five Alive is also available in Nigeria, according to Tasting Table.
On its website, Walmart touts Five Alive as “a nutritious blend of five fruit flavors” that has “the ‘citrus zing’ that makes you Feel Alive!”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Coca-Cola for comment.
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