Each month in SPEED SPORT Magazine we highlight some of our favorite Twitter posts from racing personalities from various disciplines. Here is the SPEED SPORT Twitter Me This from September 2019.

Dominic Scelzi (DominicScelzi41): At dinner tonight all I kept doing was checking out this guy with perfect hair at the table next to me. Turns out it’s @BrianBrown21. Who woulda guessed?

Tyler Courtney (TyCourtney23): Wing cars are fun, there I said it.

Thomas Meseraull (@TMezdriftz): Someone put glitter in one of Carley’s gift bags, now I look like I just got out of the strip club.

Clint Bowyer (@ClintBowyer): Woke up with this on my mind. Why the hell do we run these road courses backwards?

Hailie Deegan (@HailieDeegan): I was at @Target and after being in North Carolina for a month then coming back home to Cali I’m realizing how rude people are here. Like fine next time I’ll hit you with my cart

Mat Williamson (@Williamson6): Currently sitting at the infield care center waiting on a drug test. Is this a sign that we’ve made it?

Austin Theriault (@AustinTheriault): How do I know I just arrived in Northern Maine? People are speaking French and English at the airport in Presque-Isle.

James Hinchcliffe (@Hinchtown): So watching the big screens at @Mid_Ohio, apparently @TonyKanaan thinks I’m the most likely to cheat at a board game!! What gives, TK?!

Erik Jones (@Erik_Jones): Craziest thing happened driving to the track tonight. Had a big ol black bear run out in front of me. He waved and went on with his day.

Molly Helmuth (@Molly_Helmuth): Ever since I hooked up my Alexa, I literally try to use her all the time for things she cannot do, and then I realize how lazy I can truly be.

John Andretti (@John_Andretti): At a restaurant where the shirts say, “Spooning leads to forking so use condiments.” I thought it was funny!

Ryan Vargas (@The_Rhino23): Had to pack wheel bearings for the first time in over a year and I can assure everyone that it still completely sucks.

Jordan Taylor (@jordan10taylor): Hate when this happens. Me: Hey how are you? Other person: Good, thanks. You? Me: Good, and you? Other person: …good?

Chip Ganassi (@GanassiChip): I came home from a race years ago and my mother asked how it went. I told her “we ran out of fuel.” She replied “I thought the fuel was free.”

LOVE PARK, Ill. — Rockford Speedway will host its 54th annual National Short Track Championships this weekend, Sept. 27-29.

Highlighting the three days of racing will be Sunday afternoon’s National Short Track Championship 250 presented by Crazy Times Pub & Grub.

Five former winners of the event at the banked, quarter-mile oval are among the entries for the late model stock car special which has been extended to 250 laps this year – the first time the race has been more than 200 laps since 2005.

Defending race winner Alex Prunty, of Lomira, Wis., has won back-to-back NSTC 200 lappers and heads the list of former winners ready for action. Last year, Prunty was a regular competitor at Wisconsin’s Slinger Super Speedway and won the track title.

In the 2018 NSTC finale, Prunty wheeled his Chevrolet late model to his second consecutive victory ahead of Casey Johnson, Brian Johnson Jr., Grant Griesbach and Carson Kvapil.

Casey Johnson, of Edgerton, Wis., won the NSTC 200 in 2016. He is currently second in the ARCA Midwest Tour late model standings with two tour wins so far in 2019.

Johnson won his second straight late model track championship this year at Wisconsin Int’l Raceway in Kaukauna, Wis.

Jon Reynolds Jr. grabbed the victory in 2015 in the historic race, dating back to 1966, when the legendary Dick Trickle won the inaugural event. Hailing from Loves Park, Reynolds is a two-time Rockford late model champion, winning those titles in 2014 and again last year.

Second-generation speedster Rick Bickle Jr., of Edgerton, Wis., is a two-time winner of Rockford’s NSTC. Bickle won the NSTC for the first-time in 1990 when the race was co-sanctioned by NASCAR and the ARTGO Racing Series.

Bickle returned to Rockford’s victory podium in 2012.

Josh Nelms, of Lockport, Ill., claimed top honors in the 200 in 2009. Recent years have seen Nelms run a spotty schedule of late model events, but he won a late model feature race this season at Grundy County Speedway in Morris, Ill.

Other notable late model entries for Sunday’s $10,000-to-win race include Austin Nason, who currently leads the ARCA Midwest Tour series standings, and Slinger late model standout Brad Mueller.

Wisconsin late model superstar Ty Majeski is also scheduled to compete.

Looking through the records, the late Joe Shear and Steve Carlson are the all-time NSTC winners, each with eight victories. Eddie Hoffman has four wins and Trickle won three times.

The NSTC weekend gets underway Friday with more racing on Saturday, including the Big 8 Series 108-lap special. Sunday’s racing also includes the Mid American Stock Car Series and the Must See Racing Sprint Car Series.

Sports car racing legend Brian Redman took some time to hang out with The Ralph Sheheen Show presented by Lucas Oil this week.

As a former factory driver for Porsche and Ferrari, as well as a driver for Ford, McLaren, Cooper, BMW, Alfa Romeo, Jaguar, and more over the years, Redman has visited victory lane in some of sports car racing’s most prestigious events.

The three-time 24 Hours of Daytona winner, two-time 12 Hours of Sebring winner and Targa Florio winner also ran a handful of races in Formula 1, earning a podium finish in the 1968 Spanish Grand Prix. Redman chats about his glorious career with Sheheen and shares his harrowing story about surviving Hurricane Dorian while recently visiting friends in the Bahamas.

Catch this week’s full episode on SPEEDSPORT.com or download the podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, or Spotify.

The defending Stanley Cup champions made a big move ahead of the 2019-20 season, trading for Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Justin Faulk, and subsequently signing him to a seven-year, $45.5 million contract extension.

The Blues sent prospect Dominik Bokk, defenseman Joel Edmundson and a 2021 seventh-round pick to the Hurricanes. Along with Faulk, the Canes sent the Blues a 2020 fifth-round pick.

There had been months-long speculation that the Hurricanes were working a deal for Faulk, a 27-year-old three-time All Star. The Canes have a surplus of capable defensemen, Faulk was in the final year of his deal and it didn't appear Carolina would sign him to an extension.

Last season, Faulk served as an alternate captain for the Hurricanes, who became a postseason darling after snapping a nine-year playoff drought and making it to the Eastern Conference finals.

Earlier this month, the Canes had talked to the Anaheim Ducks about a Faulk trade, but the deal fell apart. It was unclear if Faulk was willing to sign a contract extension with the Ducks.

"We are excited to add Justin to our core group for the next eight years," Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said in a statement. "He is a top-four defenseman who averages over 23 minutes a game and we are confident he will be a strong addition to our club."

Faulk will earn $4.83 million this season on the final year of his deal; his next contract carries a $6.5 million average annual value. He is signed through 2026-27 -- four more years than any other player on the Blues roster.

Over the past five seasons, Faulk ranks seventh among NHL defensemen in goals and fourth in power play goals.

Edmundson, 26, appeared in 64 games with the Blues last season. He had two goals and 11 points. Edmundson appeared in 22 playoff games for the Blues as the franchise won its first Stanley Cup. Edmundson has a $3.1 million cap hit and will become an unrestricted free agent in July.

Bokk, 19, was the Blues' first-round pick -- 25th overall -- in the 2018 NHL draft. The Germany native had eight goals and 23 points with Vaxjo of the Swedish Hockey League last year. Bok is playing with Rogle BK Angelholm this season. Bokk was considered one of St. Louis' top prospects.

BURNABY, British Columbia -- Vancouver Canucks forward Brock Boeser and defenseman Oscar Fantenberg are in concussion protocol.

Neither player was on the ice for practice Tuesday, a day after their injuries during a 6-4 exhibition victory over Ottawa.

Fantenberg left Monday night's game after he was flattened along the boards in the first period. The Swede lay on the ice in discomfort for several minutes before he was helped off by a trainer. Ottawa's Jordan Szwarz was called for boarding, drawing a game misconduct.

Coach Travis Green says he believes Boeser was injured when he was hit from behind by Senators center Chris Tierney. The right wing had three assists before the hit.

The Senators and Canucks play again Wednesday.

Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews is facing a disorderly conduct charge after being involved in an incident in May in his hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona.

According to court records, Matthews, 22, is being charged with disruptive behavior or fighting. He has a pretrial conference scheduled for Wednesday morning. The summons was issued July 23.

"The Toronto Maple Leafs are aware of the complaint of disturbing the peace against forward Auston Matthews," the Maple Leafs said in a statement released Tuesday. "Auston is cooperating fully with the relevant authorities, but neither he nor the Club will comment any further out of respect for the process involved."

According to the police report obtained by ESPN, the incident occurred May 26 at 2 a.m. local time. A female security guard was sitting inside her car outside the condo building where Matthews lives when she was disturbed by the sound of someone trying to open her door. She allegedly got out of her car and confronted Matthews, who she said he was intoxicated.

As Matthews walked away, he "pulled his pants down, bent over and grabbed his butt cheeks," though he kept on his underwear, the woman told police.

Matthews signed a five-year, $58.17 million contract extension with the Maple Leafs in February. He was the top draft pick of Toronto in 2016, becoming the seventh American to be drafted No. 1 overall. He was born in California and raised in Arizona.

Suzann Pettersen is now linked forever with Syd Easterbrook, an English golfer and little more than a footnote in Ryder Cup history.

At the core of what made the Solheim Cup so special was it being decided by the final shot of the tournament at Gleneagles on Sept. 15. Pettersen rolled in a putt from just over 6 feet to beat Alex Marina, 1 up, and give Europe the victory. The ending became even better when Pettersen, a captain's pick, announced her retirement.

It's rare for the Ryder Cup or Solheim Cup to come down to the final match. For the men, the last time it happened was in Wales in 2010 when Graeme McDowell beat Hunter Mahan on the 17th hole. It's even rarer for the cup to be decided on the 18th green by the last match on the course. Think back to Bernhard Langer's miss at Kiawah Island in 1991 that handed the Americans the victory.

But to make a putt from the last match on the course to determine who wins? That happened only once before, way back in 1933.

Horton Smith, who the following year became the first winner at Augusta National, dispatched Charles Whitcombe to level the matches at 5½ points each. It came down to Easterbrook and Denny Shute, who were all square playing the final hole at Southport and Ainsdale.

Shute went bunker to bunker and blasted out to 20 feet. Easterbrook found the left rough, laid up and hit to about the same distance. If they halved the match, the Americans as defending champions would have kept the cup. U.S. captain Walter Hagen said later he wondered if he should have told Shute how the matches stood, but he was chatting with the Prince of Wales and "I thought it would be discourteous to walk out on the future king of England."

Easterbrook lagged his putt about 3 feet short of the cup. With a chance to win the match, Shute gunned his putt about 4 feet by the hole and missed it coming back. The Englishman holed the final putt of the Ryder Cup, giving Great Britain & Ireland the victory.

It took 89 years for another moment like that, and to show how much the golf landscape has changed, consider what happened the following week: The players headed north to St. Andrews for the British Open.

Shute got over his disappointment quickly.

Three shots behind Easterbrook going into the final 18 holes, Shute shot 73 and won a 36-hole playoff over Craig Woods for the first of his three major championships.

CASEY'S VICTORIES

Paul Casey grew up in England, played college golf at Arizona State and has played around the world since turning pro — sometimes exclusively in Europe, recently only on the PGA Tour, lately a mixture of both.

It makes him chuckle to see the context of his victories.

When he won the Valspar Championship in 2018, he heard references to his first victory in nine years. That was true — his first PGA Tour victory since 2009, when he won the Houston Open. More recently, he won the Porsche European Open in Germany, and it was his first European Tour victory in five years.

Hang on a minute.

"I haven't played that many times in Europe since rejoining the tour last year," Casey said.

Since his victory in the KLM Open in 2014, Casey had played only seven regular European Tour events until his victory in September. He played once in 2015, the BMW Masters in Shanghai, the week after a World Golf Championship in Shanghai. He didn't play at all in 2016 and 2017, rejoining the tour to be part of the Ryder Cup again for the 2018 matches in Paris.

"Any win is special," Casey said.

RAHM'S THERAPY

Jon Rahm usually needs a little time to get over tough losses, and he was plenty disappointed after finishing runner-up to Danny Willett in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. But he had another round of golf on the immediate horizon, and that made him happy.

Rahm headed straight from Wentworth to St. Andrews for the Dunhill Links Championship.

"I'm going to play the Old Course with my dad for the first time, so there's a lot of positives to look at," Rahm said. "It will be in bad weather, which I believe is how golf is supposed to be played in Scotland, right? It is how it is. There's many reasons why I should be smiling."

And then he offered one more.

"The week after that, I'm going to Spain," he said.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE

The PGA of America's highest honor is going to Nicklaus again — this time, Barbara Nicklaus.

Two decades after the wife of Jack Nicklaus was the first recipient of the "PGA First Lady of Golf," she has been selected for the PGA Distinguished Service Award for her role in the health care of children as part of the Nicklaus Children's Health System in South Florida. She is chairwoman of a foundation that has raised more than $100 million for children's health in 15 years.

Jack Nicklaus, the 18-time major champion, received the award in 2000. They are the first husband-wife duo to each receive the award. Mark and Debi Rolfing were selected as joint recipients two years ago.

The award is for individuals who show leadership and humanitarian qualities, including integrity, sportsmanship and enthusiasm for golf. She will be honored Nov. 5 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, during the PGA's annual meeting.

"Golf has been a very important part of my life for almost 60 years," she said. "It has opened so many doors to allow me to attempt to give back to the game that Jack loved when I met him and to the game that I now love, cherish and support unconditionally. ... Jack and I could never give back as much as we have been blessed to receive from this amazing game."

ON POINT

The PGA Tour still awards money, but it keeps score with points.

Starting in 2020, every circuit run by the PGA Tour will base its Order of Merit — typically known as a "money list" — on points. It will be modeled after the FedEx Cup, which has been around since 2007, and most recently the Korn Ferry Tour.

The points system now applies to the PGA Tour Latinoamerica, the Mackenzie Tour in Canada and the PGA Tour Series-China.

Latin America previously used the U.S. dollar, while the Mackenzie Tour used the Canadian dollar and the PGA Tour China used the Chinese yuan. The tour said it is switching to points to help avoid confusion with currencies.

The PGA Tour Champions uses money for the regular season and then switches to points for the Charles Schwab Cup playoffs.

DIVOTS

Women's British Open champion Hinako Shibuno rallied from eight shots behind to win on the Japan LPGA Tour for her fourth victory this year. Shibuno started the year at No. 561 in the women's world ranking. She now is No. 11. ... Eighteen of the 24 players from the Solheim Cup are competing in Indianapolis this week on the LPGA Tour. ... Former PGA champion Jeff Sluman now has made 1,000 starts on the PGA Tour (700) and the PGA Tour Champions (300). ... Phil Mickelson and Justin Thomas are among those making their first start of the new PGA Tour season at the Safeway Open in Napa, California. ... The BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth was the 16th time Rory McIlroy had opened with a 76 or higher. It was the first time he wound up with a top 10. His previous best after such a start was a tie for 24th at Wentworth in 2011.

STAT OF THE WEEK

Jon Rahm has not finished worse than a tie for 13th in his nine tournaments dating back to the U.S. Open in June.

FINAL WORD

"Everything that encompasses this event can rival the best of the best on the PGA Tour, in my opinion. I'll tell everyone if they are thinking about coming over here, go ahead and book that ticket." — Billy Horschel after his tie for fourth in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, his first regular European Tour event.

Bill Murray knows a thing or two about a Cinderella story on the golf course, and it appears he will be attempting to author one of his own this week at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Murray, 69, was reportedly involved in a four-vehicle crash on Tuesday in St Andrews, but he didn't let that stop him from getting some practice in, even if it meant he could only use one hand.

While no one was seriously injured in the crash, the "Caddyshack" actor showed up for his practice round at St. Andrews with a bandaged hand and a makeshift sling made out of a dress tie.

The celebrity team event also features the likes of superstar entertainer Justin Timberlake and former world heavyweight champion boxer Wladimir Klitschko.

Only time will tell if Murray's injured hand will be healed enough to use by the time the event kicks off on Thursday, but it appears he's going to give it a go no matter how many limbs he has available.

Arsenal racked up a big win in the Carabao Cup third round, winning 5-0 at home to second-tier Nottingham Forest on Tuesday.

Eighteen-year-old Brazilian Gabriel Martinelli scored twice in the lopsided win.

Rob Holding, Joseph Willock and Reiss Nelson rounded out the scoring on the night.