LAST WORDS

I’ve just always had a love for automobiles. I got my first car when I was 12. I gave 12 dollars and a half, two flying squirrels, a gray squirrel and a 20-gauge shotgun for it. That was a ’37 Chevy, and that’s what I learned to mechanic on.”

Morgan Shepherd, 76, on making his 1,000th career NASCAR national series start in Saturday’s My Bariatric Solutions 300 at Texas Motor Speedway.

You changed the direction of this program.”

Loyola-Chicago coach Porter Moser to senior guard Ben Richardson, after Saturday’s loss to Michigan in the national semifinals. Richardson sobbed as he walked off the basketball court for the final time, holding on to teammate Clayton Custer, his friend since third grade.