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CAMBRIDGE, Wis. -- The mother of driver Matt Kenseth has died.

A.J. Foyt has been released from a hospital in Houston, where he was being treated for complications from knee surgery.

Regan Smith has taken to life in the Colorado high country like a mountain goat. Last summer, he and his wife moved into a new home deep enough in the wilderness that wild animals occasionally wander onto their back porch. He took part in a Warren Miller ski film in which his No. 78 Chevrolet, outfitted with studded snow tires and a ski rack on its roof, skidded along the snowy mountain passes near Telluride, with U.S. freestyle skier Jess McMillan in the passenger seat. He even got caught up in the Denver Broncos' playoff run, no small feat for a driver typically interested only in auto racing and ice hockey.

Sometimes, even in racing, you have to go backward so you can eventually move forward.

At last, there's a large patch of blue to break up the doom and gloom that has clouded the NASCAR economy for the past three seasons.