Trending: Ashley Judd's husband, Kahne

May, 28, 2012
5/28/12
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By Bill Speros | Special to ESPN.com
Ashley Judd’s husband won the Indy 500 Sunday and she chugged along with her own ceremonial milk bottle after Dario Franchitti's victory:



The day was built around tributes to the late Dan Wheldon:

Judd followed up a few hours later with this photo tweeted to her 117,500-plus followers of an empty Indianapolis Motor Speedway:



Reba McEntire was revved up about Franchitti's victory:



As was Wildcat Nation:



Not all the racing was at Indy this weekend, as Brad Keselowski noted after his finish at Charlotte in Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600, won by Kasey Kahne:



All that racing took a toll, as Keselowski noted with pre-race post-race weigh-in photos. He lost three pounds for his efforts.

Before:



And 600 miles and all that fluid later:



On Memorial Day weekend, David Robinson thanked his fellow veterans who paid the ultimate price for our freedom:



Donte' Stallworth added his thoughts:



Jerry Rice caught on:



Many teams also passed along their holiday gratitude:



As did sports agent Drew Rosenhaus:



The Stanley Cup Finals begin on Wednesday when the Kings face the Devils. As Tom Hanks knows, the NHL playoffs are like a box of chocolates:



Even though the official hurricane season doesn’t start until June 1, Maurice Jones-Drew and the rest of Northern Florida, Georgia and South Carolina got peppered by tropical storm Beryl.


• Tim Wendel’s “The Summer of ‘68” tells the story of one of those epic seasons that changed baseball forever, according to Phil Rosenthal. (Chicago Tribune)

• Elmer Gedeon was one of two major-league baseball players who died while serving in World War II. As millions watch baseball on Memorial Day, it’s time to re-tell his story, as Terry Frei writes. (Denver Post)

If you see any offbeat newsy links or interesting items from your favorite sports site or Twitter that might be of interest to others, pass them along to me at bsperos1@gmail.com or tweet them to me at @BillSperos.

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