Three months ago, we wrote about the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s weekly auto racing fantasy contest, in which participants can win tickets to races at Richmond International Raceway. We were only 11 weeks into the season then. This weekend’s race, the Sharpie 500 in Bristol, was the 24th Sprint Cup event of the year, and we’re only three weeks away from the Chevy Rock & Roll 400 at RIR on Sept. 12.

The end of the high school sports season is the perfect time to reflect and honor the student-athletes who grace our fields and sports pages for 10 months out of the year. The Times-Dispatch will put the finishing touches on its 2008-09 high school sports coverage at the end of this month and in early July with the naming of the All-Metro spring sports teams.