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DEARBORN, Mich. -- Joey Logano couldnt have had a bigger smile on his face Wednesday as he drove a restored 1914 Model T around the Ford Motor Company grounds.He joked about racing the train that transported visitors. He took the turns carefully to prevent a rollover. He seemed like a guy without a care in the world, cracking up with every push of the pedal even if max speed was 30 miles an hour.But come Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway, he will fire up for a ride much more bumpy and one that could generate much fewer smiles at close to 200 miles an hour. He enters the Chase for the Sprint Cup, which for the third consecutive year will feature an elimination-style format.If anyone knows just how crazy and out of control the Chase can get, its the 26-year-old Logano. Last year, Logano wrecked Matt Kenseth while going for the win at Kansas Speedway even though Logano already had won a week earlier and was guaranteed a spot in the semifinal round.A few weeks later with Kenseth not having advanced, a nine-laps-down Kenseth -- angry at Logano teammate Brad Keselowski -- pile-drove Logano into the Martinsville Speedway wall. Kenseth was suspended for two races. Logano didnt advance to the final round.NASCAR chairman Brian France created the rules for the Chase, in some ways, to have those types of moments, stirring emotions. The first two years of the elimination style formats have seen fights outside the car (Kenseth-Keselowski, Jeff Gordon-Keselowski to name a couple) as well as that on-track drama.Hopefully Im done with that [drama], Kenseth said last month when talking about the Chase. Hopefully it will be just nice and calm. Everybody is happy.Yeah, right. The rules werent designed for Kenseths happiness.Logano was happy Wednesday. Whether that happiness stays or not, he cant predict. But he knows in a format in which four drivers are eliminated every three races -- race-winners of each round and those best in points advance -- that the formula heightens emotions and intensity.Some people have a pretty uneventful 10 races, Logano said. Some people have an over-eventful 10 races. Ive been on both sides of that.If I look at two years ago when we got to Homestead [Florida], it was very uneventful, we won one race throughout the Chase, we kind of did our thing, we were under the radar and we found ourselves racing for a championship. Last year, we won three races and found ourselves in the middle of everything and we didnt get to Homestead.While he said he learns something every day from his experiences and hopes to put that into use, Logano is more focused on this year than thinking about what went right or wrong a year ago.When a driver puts on a race helmet, the idea is to win the trophy.You have to do what you have to do for your team and then you worry about the repercussions later, 2014 Sprint Cup champion Kevin Harvick said. Obviously with Joey and Matt last year and the repercussions, probably Joey having the best car and ending up not winning the championship, there is a lot of things to balance.But when youre in the car and in competition and kind of in that mode of really going after it, its hard to think about those things.Logano has long been on record that he has no regrets. His job remains to win races.Its a race, Logano said. Its not just one race. Its 10 races. A lot of times, you dont have time to think about repercussions or anything. You go out there knowing the job at hand and you just get the job done.We all sign up for a job. Its my job to make it happen.Did Logano think he got the job done last year?I think so, Logano said. Hey, we raced hard. We won races. We were fast. We learned a lot. Thats success. We learned about a lot of things -- we learned a lot about our race team and [are] proud of that.I feel like were stronger this year because of it.Kenseth and Logano werent alone in their drama last year in the Chase. Harvick shoved Jimmie Johnson with a closed fist after the Chicagoland race opened the 2015 Chase.Its designed for chaos, Johnson said. This format creates that. ... Honestly, just the way we race has changed so much over the years from the Mark Martin ways of pointing somebody by and it will come back to you later in the race.You never do that now. You race the fire out of the guy next [to] you. It just is how it is. The culture is changing. The mindset is changing.That culture, Kenseth said, doesnt necessarily come with the Chase. He said he sees it during the regular season.I dont feel like anybody is going to dump you and wreck you on purpose for a win necessarily because it is going to advance them to the next round if theres still a couple of rounds left unless its the same guy who would do it [in August] at Bristol, Kenseth said.I dont know that it is any different. Maybe it is. Maybe Im na?ve.So what happens over the next 10 weeks? Any chance of it being calm?Anything is possible, Keselowski said. Id have to see it first. I dont think its made to be calm. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Jerseys China . Sgt. Eric ONeal says most of the arrests at Monday nights game were for public drunkenness, though one person was taken into custody on suspicion of trying to steal a seat from the stadium. Buccaneers Jerseys China . 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The clock was quickly ticking toward midnight on June 30 and NBA free agency was about to begin.Bismack Biyombo was about to get swamped with offers after his stellar playoff run. What team in the league does not need a rim-protecting center?But Biyombo was still on the phone talking with his Toronto Raptors teammates. The group he became so close with during his only season in Toronto that took the franchise to its first Eastern Conference Finals.There was little reason for Biyombo to leave.Except he wanted more. And when the Orlando Magic came calling at midnight on July 1, offering a four-year, $70-million contract, Biyombo wanted to take the chance.Leaving his former teammates was tough, but Biyombo said he wanted to be part of a rebuilding process and help a team grow from the ground up, rather than joining it midstream as he had with the Raptors.This was his opportunity, not only to cash in as a free agent, but to be part of the change in a franchises culture.In the end, it was tough, Biyombo said. At some level, I think what we did in Toronto was special, but I wanted to go back through the process and do it again. ... When I had the opportunity to come (to Orlando), it was to go back and do it again. I believe there have been a lot of stories here. I want to be able to help to go back and make some more.Biyombo, who will face the Raptors for the first time at Amway Center in Orlando, helped the Magics defense improve. But that process has taken some time to develop and jell.The Magic are 12-16 and fighting to stay in the early playoff race.The Raptors are thriving andd perhaps playing better for the experiences they shared last year.ddddddddddddoronto has firmly planted itself as the second-best team in the Eastern Conference, for now. A place they expected to be.Their replacement options for Biyombo as backup center -- Lucas Nogueira, Pacsal Siakam and rookie Jakob Poeltl -- have performed admirably.But none of them have provided the same defensive presence and timing Biyombo brings.Toronto struggled with its defense in a 125-121 home loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Friday. It has been a larger theme throughout the season for the Raptors despite their success.It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out where our problem is, Raptors coach Dwane Casey told Doug Smith of the Toronto Star. Weve got to have defense in the game. We can score. Im not worried about us scoring.Until we individually make a decision to guard your man ... were going to be an up-and-down team.The Raptors have won games this year with one of the best offenses in the league. But their defense is middle of the road. They give up 105.8 points per 100 possessions and average 4.4 blocked shots per game, 22nd in the league.The Magic have used Biyombo -- along with Serge Ibaka -- to rise to 5.6 blocked shots per game, sixth in the le