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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.
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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.
Leafs' Matthews faces disorderly conduct charge

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.
Notes: Pettersen forever linked with Ryder Cup history

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 playing Dunhill Links with one arm after car accident

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.
Balotelli debuts, Ronaldo missing in Juve rally

Juventus came from behind to go top of Serie A with a 2-1 win at Brescia on Tuesday as Mario Balotelli marked his return to Italian football.
Alfredo Donnarumma gave the hosts an early lead at the Stadio Mario Rigamonti but Juve hit back through a Jhon Chancellor own goal and a Miralem Pjanic strike either side of the break.
Balotelli made his debut for his hometown club after completing a four-match suspension that he was handed at Marseille last season, while the visitors were without Cristiano Ronaldo as he recovers from injury.
Maurizio Sarri's side edged an entertaining encounter to continue their unbeaten start to the season and move on to 13 points at the summit of the table, one ahead of perfect Inter Milan, who have a game in hand.
"We improved a great deal in our passing and had more control of the game, but we need to improve in our defending," Sarri said after the match.
"I saw steps forward in the way we created chances too, as there were basically three goal-line clearances and it wasn't easy after going behind within four minutes in a passionate atmosphere."
Inter can return to the top by beating Lazio at San Siro on Wednesday, while a draw would also be enough to send Antonio Conte's side top on goal difference.
Sarri tinkered with his formation in the absence of Ronaldo, selecting former Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey behind a front pair of Paulo Dybala and Gonzalo Higuain in a new-look 4-3-1-2 formation.
The champions got off to a nightmare start when Donnarumma, last season's top scorer in Serie B, caught Juve goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny off guard as he fired a powerful shot past the Pole inside four minutes.
Juve went in search of an equaliser as Sami Khedira flashed a shot narrowly wide and Higuain's glancing header went just past the far post, while Balotelli connected brilliantly with a long-range free kick to draw a flying save out of Szczesny.
Sarri's side drew level five minutes before halftime when Dybala's whipped corner caused chaos in the Brescia six-yard box as goalkeeper Jesse Joronen failed to gather and the ball ricocheted off defender Chancellor and into his own net.
Juventus pressed for a second after the break as Joronen saved well from Higuain and Chancellor cleared an Adrien Rabiot shot off the line.
They made the breakthrough when Dybala's free kick rebounded off the wall into the path of Pjanic, who struck a beautifully controlled half-volley into the bottom corner.
Brescia responded as Daniele Dessena's strike whistled just past the post and Dimitri Bisoli volleyed over from close range, before Balotelli rose to meet a cross in stoppage time only to direct his header over.
Spurs shocked by 4th-tier Colchester in shootout

Tottenham exited the Carabao Cup at the hands of fourth-tier Colchester United after losing 4-3 in a penalty shootout on Tuesday night following a 0-0 draw in regulation time.
Christian Eriksen saw his spot kick saved and Lucas Moura struck the crossbar in the shootout for Spurs, who have won only two of their eight games in all competitions this season.
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Tom Lapslie then sent Colchester into the last 16 for the first time in 44 years by scoring the decisive penalty past Paulo Gazzaniga. The League Two side are 71 places below Tottenham in the English football pyramid.
Following the match, Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino said: "Colchester made a fantastic game, it was difficult. We are so disappointed we could not score in 90 minutes. We wanted to go further but we are out."
The result marks the second time in a row that Colchester had beaten a Premier League side in a shootout after taking down Crystal Palace on penalties in the second round.
Pochettino added: "They beat Palace on penalties too, that can happen. That's the beauty of the competition, always something can happen."
Prior to this match, Pochettino had progressed from 21 of his 22 domestic cup ties against sides from outside the top flight, including all 18 he has faced in England.