Since 1934, SPEED SPORT has been covering motorsports all over the world. As we celebrate our 85th Anniversary, we decided to take a look back at some important moments in SPEED SPORT history.

1934 – The East Paterson Herald Publishing Co. produces the first issue of National Auto Racing News on Aug. 16. Later that year, Chris Economaki sells his first copy of this newspaper.

1937 – A special promotion offers a one-year subscription for $1, a 50-percent savings off the regular price.

1940 – NARN hosts the first National Convention of the auto-racing fraternity in New York City.

1942 – With auto racing banned for the duration of the war, the final issue of NARN is published on Nov. 19.

1943 – NARN’s successor, National Speed Sport News, is introduced in February by The Kay Publishing Co., with William Kay continuing as editor.

1944 – Published monthly, NSSN features stories about post-war racing plans along with columns and old race reports.

1945 – At 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 16, the government ban on auto racing is lifted. NSSN begins publishing every two weeks.

1947 – Weekly publishing resumes May 7.

1949 – NSSN moves from East Paterson, N.J., into the Ridgewood News building in Ridgewood, N.J.

1950 – Editor Bill Kay suffers a fatal heart attack at age 62. Associate editor Chris Economaki is promoted to editor.

1955 – Race fan William Thomas of Converse, S.C., earns $50 for winning the Daytona Speed Week Quiz sponsored by NSSN.

1956 – A.J. Foyt appears on the cover for the first time of the Sept. 12 issue.

1962 – The name of Chris Economaki’s column changes from Gas-O-Lines to From the Editor’s Notebook.

1963 – Pepsi becomes the first non-automotive consumer product to advertise.

1967 – Yearly subscription price increases to $7, the first change in 12 years.

1970 – The height of the paper is reduced from 16.5 to 15.5 inches.

1975 – A new logo, the first since 1952, debuts and features the words Speed Sport in large bold letters.

1977 – Cover price increases from 35 cents to 50 cents.

1983 – Microfilm copies of NSSN and its predecessor, National Auto Racing News, are added to the permanent collection at the Library of Congress.

1984 – Isuzu Trucks is the first company to include spot color in an advertisement.

1985 – NSSN ends its association with the Ridgewood News in February and moves from 30 Oak St. to 79 Chestnut St. in Ridgewood, N.J.

1986 – Several design changes, including a new logo, debut in the May 7 issue.

1987 – The first four-color photograph, featuring the 1988 Indy 500 pace car, appears in the Oct. 28 issue.

1988 – Chevrolet places the first four-color advertisement in the Feb. 3 issue.

1990 – Corinne Economaki becomes the third publisher as Chris Economaki is named publisher emeritus.

1991 – As of Aug. 1, the newsroom no longer accepts dictated copy.

1992 – The business office begins accepting credit cards for subscription purchases and renewals.

1993 – For the first time, readers have the option of purchasing a two-year subscription.

1995 – Starting with the Sept. 13 issue, the cover price increases from $1 to $2.

1996 – A special feature celebrates the centennial anniversary of the first oval-track auto race.

1997 – NSSN relocates from Ridgewood, N.J., to Harrisburg, N.C.

1999 – A special feature ranks the 24 Greatest Sprint Car Drivers with Steve Kinser No. 1.

2000 – The June 7 issue marks the first time the mailing address is printed directly on the cover, eliminating the use of labels.

2001 – Starting in November, content from the pages of NSSN is available online.

2002 – The design of NSSN undergoes a complete makeover, including a new logo, and the refreshed look debuts with the Feb. 6 issue.

2004 – As part of the paper’s 70th anniversary, a poster featuring an illustrated history of auto racing is distributed as a subscription premium.

2006 – Editorial content is adjusted to include more feature stories and columns in each issue.

2008 – A presence is established on social-networking websites MySpace and Facebook.

2009 – National Speed Sports News celebrates its 75th anniversary.

2011 – National Speed News ceases publication with the March 9 issue.

2012 – Turn 3 Media acquires the rights to the brand and returns to the marketplace with the first issue of SPEED SPORT Magazine.

2014 – SPEED SPORT Productions is launched with numerous video projects, including SPEED SPORT on MAVTV.

2017 – Turn 3 Media acquires Sprint Car & Midget magazine, adding to the company’s media portfolio.

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. – Matt DiBenedetto will be keeping busy during the upcoming Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series off weekend.

DiBenedetto has announced he’ll drive the No. 18 Toyota Supra for Joe Gibbs Racing during the NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., on Aug. 24.

GUESS WHAT?!?! I’m so dang excited to get an extra chance to do some road course racing next weekend for the @NASCAR_Xfinity race @roadamerica in the No.18 @iK9_Global Camry for @JoeGibbsRacing!! ??

— Matt DiBenedetto (@mattdracing) August 13, 2019

DiBenedetto, who is currently embarked upon his fifth full season of Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series competition and first with Leavine Family Racing, previously made seven NASCAR Xfinity Series starts for Joe Gibbs Racing.

Those starts all came in 2009 and 2010. He scored a best finish of ninth in those seven starts at Iowa Speedway in 2010.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Richard Childress Racing has been penalized for infractions discovered last weekend at Michigan Int’l Speedway.

The No. 3 of Austin Dillon and No. 8 of Daniel Hemric were found to have unapproved alternators in their Chevrolet Camaros. Both teams had their qualifying times disallowed and they were forced to start Sunday’s race from the rear of field.

Dillon’s crew chief Danny Stockman Jr. has been fined $25,000 by NASCAR and the No. 3 team has lost 10 driver and owner points. The same fine was handed down to Hemric’s crew chief, Luke Lambert. The No. 8 team also lost 10 driver and owner points.

The only other penalty announced by NASCAR was a $5,000 fine to Joe Gibbs Racing crew chief Jeff Meendering for unsecured lug nuts on the No. 19 Toyota Supra driven by Brandon Jones in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.

Manchester United will resist any bid for Paul Pogba during the remaining weeks of the European transfer window and have had assurances from the France international that he is committed to the club this season, sources have told ESPN FC.

There is concern at Old Trafford that Real Madrid could still launch a late move for the midfielder up until La Liga's transfer deadline on Sept. 2.

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However, United are set to reject any bid for Pogba -- even if it surpasses their £180 million valuation -- because there is no possibility of signing a replacement.

Following the 4-0 win over Chelsea on Sunday, Pogba said there was still "a question mark" over his future. His latest comments came two months after the 26-year-old said publicly he wants a "new challenge."

Pogba is still keen on a move to Real Madrid but there is an acceptance it will not happen this summer and he has assured manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer he is fully committed this season.

United are prepared for another approach from Madrid next summer but there are doubts about whether the Spanish giants can afford a fee that would convince the club to sell.

Solskjaer is still open to offers for a number of first team players before the European window shuts. Matteo Darmian and Marcos Rojo are both available after they were left out of the 18-man squad for the win over Chelsea.

Rojo saw a deadline day move to Everton collapse while Darmian has been linked with Inter Milan. Sources have told ESPN FC that Inter made an offer for Darmian in January but were put off by United's demands.

The Italian is in the final year of his contract and will be available on a free transfer next summer. The 29-year-old, who arrived from Torino in 2015, made just seven appearances in all competitions last season.

Meanwhile, goalkeeper Joel Pereira has joined Hearts on loan while Aidan Barlow has sealed a temporary move to Norwegian side Tromso until November. Midfielder Ethan Hamilton is also set to head out on loan with Southend and Rochdale both interested.

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and his wife, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Ciara, are among 11 families to join the Seattle Sounders' ownership group, the club announced on Tuesday.

Hip-hop star Macklemore and his wife, Tricia Davis, are also among the new stakeholders.

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"Today we begin another chapter in the story of Seattle Sounders FC, this proud club that means so much to so many people," majority owner Adrian Hanauer said. "We are doubling down on this community and growing our local roots even deeper.

"Sounders FC was born right here in Seattle, and for more than 40 years, the club has forged a meaningful legacy that is deep and far-reaching. Today's news is a testament to what our community has accomplished, as 11 new families have joined with the broader Sounders family as fans and invested stewards of our club."

The new partners join Sounders FC's existing ownership group consisting of Hanauer, actor Drew Carey and Jody Allen. The organization also announced that Hanauer Futbol -- a group comprised of Hanauer, his wife, Lenore, and Paul Barry -- has increased its overall investment in the Sounders.

The group of new investors draws heavily from past and present executives of Microsoft. The group is led by former Microsoft executive Terry Myerson and his wife, Katie, and includes CEO Satya Nadella and wife Anu; CFO Amy Hood and husband Max Kleinman; vice president Joe Belfiore and his wife, Kristina; and former senior executive Soma Somasegar and wife Akila.

Former Fox Sports executive David Nathanson and his wife, Sabina, are also part of the group of additional investors, as are longtime technology executive Chee Chew and his wife, Christine, and former Pandora CEO and ABC executive Brian McAndrews and his wife, Elise Holschuh, who currently serves on the strategy committee of Hugo House. The new group of partners also features Mark and Tomoko Agne, with the former working as Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers.

"This diverse, passionate group of new partners wants to continue developing the club's community-first approach, while also furthering its proud winning tradition on the field," Hanauer said. "Collectively, we believe that Seattle is the greatest city in the world and that Sounders FC has a responsibility to both preserve our region's unique spirit while also leading our community by fostering an environment that is inclusive and welcoming to all. On behalf of our entire Sounders family, I want to extend a proud and warm welcome to our club's new partners."

Hollywood producer Joe Roth, one of the club's owners when it joined MLS in 2007, has left the organization. His tenure witnessed a period in which the Sounders won five major trophies, including their first MLS Cup in 2016.

"When MLS gave me permission to look at the Pacific Northwest to start a soccer franchise, there was no question that Seattle was the place," Roth said. "The last 10 years watching our Sounders grow with their incredible fan support beat any hit movie I ever created.

"I love the team, from the players to the staff, and most of all I love the fans. When they write the history book of soccer in America, it was Seattle that propelled our game into being perceived as a first-tier sport."

Atlanta United manager Frank de Boer has said he does not believe in equal pay for men and women in football, or sports such as tennis, because women don't bring in as much revenue, according to a report.

"I think for me, it's ridiculous," De Boer told The Guardian when asked about the plans for equal pay. "It's the same like tennis. If there are watching, for the World Cup final, 500 million people or something like that, and 100 million for a women's final, that's a difference. So it's not the same. And of course they have to be paid what they deserve to [earn] and not less, just what they really deserve. If it's just as popular as the men, they will get it, because the income and the advertising will go into that. But it's not like that, so why do they have to earn the same? I think it's ridiculous. I don't understand that."

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De Boer represented the Netherlands at the 1994 and 1998 men's World Cups, and the Dutch women reached the final of the 2019 Women's World Cup before losing, 2-0, to the U.S. women in July.

The Royal Dutch Football Association has already pledged pay equity for its men's and women's teams. The women will receive yearly raises through 2023, when their earnings for national team service will equal that of their male counterparts. The U.S. women, meanwhile, sued the U.S. Soccer Federation in March, arguing that their pay and working conditions amounted to gender discrimination.

De Boer, the former Ajax coach who took over as manager for the defending MLS champions in December 2018, disagrees with gender pay gaps in the workplace but says they are still warranted in sports.

"I think it started because a woman [was] getting underpaid, especially at [managerial] positions," he told the newspaper. "They have to earn the same as a man. I think if you have a manager position for a bank or something, you have to earn the same what the men did because it's not physically, just only here [points to head], so why do you have to earn less, because you're doing the same job as a man? I think that's also dropped a little bit into the sports world, like tennis and soccer. But I think that's still different."

U.S. players, including Megan Rapinoe, Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan, say they have been consistently paid less than their male counterparts despite performing better. The prize money for the women's World Cup doubled to $30 million this year, but this paled in comparison to the €400m ($448m) available for the men's tournament winners last year. Last week, the U.S. Soccer Federation hired the services of two lobbying firms to counter the U.S. women's claims, a USSF spokesperson confirmed to ESPN FC. In the wake of the U.S. women's team's World Cup victory, legislation was introduced in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives requiring the USSF to pay players on the respective U.S. women's and men's national team equally.

The 2019 Women's World Cup final drew 22% more viewers in the United States than the 2018 men's final, according to data from Nielsen cited by Fox Sports. The U.S. men did not play in the 2018 final, which saw France beat Croatia, 4-2.

According to Nielsen data for U.S. viewership, 14.3 million tuned in to the Women's World Cup final via linear television, compared with 11.4 million for the 2018 men's final. The addition of online streaming put total viewership at 20 million via Fox Sports, making it the most-watched soccer match on U.S. English-language television, men's or women's, since the 2015 Women's World Cup final, which saw 25.4 million viewers.

According to a report in CNN, an additional 1.6 million viewers watched the final match in Spanish on Telemundo in the United States.

Outside of a backup goalkeeper, a 17-year-old center-back with red hair and a 16-year-old winger, Liverpool haven't added any new players this summer. Before acquiring free-agent keeper Adrian on Aug. 5, the club hadn't made a single senior signing. (And since Alisson went down in the first half of the season opener vs. Norwich, Adrian's now the starting goalkeeper until further notice.)

While the teams chasing them at the top end of the Premier League all improved in the final week of the summer transfer window, the Reds decided to stay put, not adding anyone who will likely contribute significant first-team minutes this season.

Last year was about as good as it gets. Liverpool won the Champions League and racked up the third-highest points total in Premier League history. They did it with a team of players who all peaked together or whose best years were still years away. Among the 15 players who played at least 1,000 Premier League minutes last season, 14 of them were 28 years old or younger at the start of the campaign. The only player on the wrong side of 30 was James Milner, whose Premier League career will seemingly last forever.

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On top of that, there are plenty of "like a new signing" types who will be expected to contribute way more than they did in 2018-19. Naby Keita made only 16 starts in the league, and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain missed all but 16 of the available minutes after tearing his ACL in the 2017-18 Champions League quarterfinal against Manchester City.

If you wanted to zero in on a weakness from last year's first XI, it would be the lack of attacking output provided by the midfield. Keita and Ox are two young, dynamic passers and dribblers with track records of scoring and creating goals from deep. There's certainly a case to be made that they'll provide some internal improvement or at least help stave off some of the inevitable regression for a team that experienced significant good fortune at both ends of the field (89 goals on 90.92 expected, 22 goals conceded on 34.64 expected).

Liverpool were one of the three best teams in the world last season. Milner remains the only significant contributor who is north of 29; barring an injury crisis or a season-long spell of rotten or impossible luck, Liverpool should be one of the best teams in the world once again. But Jurgen Klopp & Co. can't keep doing this forever. A squad that peaks together declines together, too.

They were smart in seizing on the market for Philippe Coutinho and reinvesting the money in the spine of this new team, but will they be so savvy again when Spain's super clubs come knocking for one of their all-star forwards?

In short, should Liverpool consider the unthinkable and break up their fabulous front three?

Set pieces are great, and the same goes for Virgil van Dijk (who is "Mr. Indispensable" for the Reds), Alisson and cut-rate world-class fullbacks, but Liverpool have climbed this high thanks to their front three.

Since Mohamed Salah arrived from Roma in the summer of 2018 to complete the trio with Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino, Liverpool have the second-most points in the Premier League behind the impossibly deep Manchester City. From 2010 to 2017, the club never made it beyond the Champions League group stages. With those three attackers, the club has reached the last two finals and won one of them.

It goes further than that. Since the beginning of the 2017-18 season, Salah, Mane and Firmino have combined for 158 goals in the Champions League and Premier League. That's nearly two-thirds of the team's 244 goals over that span. Beyond those three, no other player still with the club has more than seven goals.

Their value is obvious both inside and outside of Anfield. According to the CIES football observatory's transfer valuations, Liverpool's front three are worth a combined €521.6 million. Salah (€219.6m) is listed as the second-most valuable player in the world behind Kylian Mbappe, while Mane (€157.8m) is sixth and Firmino (€144.2m) eighth. Unsurprisingly, no other club has three players within the top 10.

However, those values won't be that high for that much longer. Salah turned 27 in June; Mane celebrated the same birthday in April; and Firmino turns 28 in October. Most attackers start to decline right around this time. Take a star player, throw in a minor drop-off in production and you've still got a star player, just slightly diminished. But when it happens to three guys at once, the effect on the team's performance could be exponential.

So Liverpool have a problem to solve. It's a problem they're lucky to have, but a problem nonetheless.

They can keep all three and get the maximum amount of on-field production out of them over the next couple of seasons, but that would eventually leave them with a trio of declining, expensive older players whose transfer values will have greatly declined. (All three are on contracts that expire on the same day, too: mark your calendars for June 30, 2023.) Or they could try to sell high on one right before the decline comes, running the risk of missing out on another great season or two, but then use that money to find a replacement, reinvest elsewhere in the squad, or both.

Among the front three, Salah is the untouchable. Over the past two seasons, he leads the team in -- deep breath -- shots, goals, assists, expected goals, expected assists, take-ons, chances created, big chances created, touches in the opposition box, sequences ending in a shot and sequences ending in a goal. Pick any attacking statistic that relates to putting the ball in the net and Salah is likely Liverpool's leader.

As for Mane and Firmino, it might just come down to age vs. current value. Despite functioning as the team's de facto No. 9, Firmino provides an aggressive defensive presence and leads the team in through balls completed over the past two seasons. He's just two goals behind Mane over that stretch, while also offering 22 assists to Mane's 11. But Firmino is seven months older and Mane tied for the Premier League in goals this year, so the latter would likely command a higher fee.

It seems absurd to even be considering breaking up one of the best attacking trios we've seen this century, but to remain competitive, the majority of clubs must constantly try to balance the present with the future. Time always wins. Every player eventually gets older and eventually gets worse, so managing a squad is a constant juggling act between making short-term sacrifices for long-term gain and vice versa, all while acknowledging that the whole point of this enterprise is to win as many points as you can, year after year after year.

Only a handful of clubs can really afford to maximize the present and the future at the same time. Liverpool aren't one of those teams -- at least not yet.

According to the most recent Deloitte Football Money League rankings, for the 2017-18 season, Liverpool recorded the seventh-highest revenue (€513.7m) in world soccer. That number, and potentially that ranking, will be even higher next time around. According to the Swiss Ramble, an anonymous expert in football finances, Liverpool's European Cup victory pushed their total revenue from broadcasting (Premier and Champions leagues, combined) up to €251m -- the most money any club has ever received from television.

The club has plenty of money to spend, and a source who works with European clubs told ESPN that he expects Liverpool's revenue, on the back of two deep Champions League runs plus the Premier League's world-leading TV deal, to soon catch up with the likes of Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, two clubs that can build for the future without having to sell off any of the present. However, Liverpool owner John Henry told The New York Times Magazine in May that the purchases of Alisson, Van Dijk and Fabinho would not have been possible had the club not sold Coutinho to Barcelona.

Whatever their financial future, it appears that not much will change at Liverpool this season or perhaps even next season. But at some point soon, the club is going to enter into a new era -- for one reason or another.