Johnny Benson is doing everything he can to capture the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Championship, but Todd Bodine isn't cooperating.

Every time an opposing coach schemes to stop Casey Benson from driving left, wry smiles from a knowing few pop up across the gym, because arguably the most well-known boys basketball player in the East Valley has a secret.

BENSON — Arizona Department of Public Safety officers say they seized two large marijuana loads in Cochise County in about an 18-hour span.

Johnny Benson and Ron Hornaday Jr. have been the best drivers in NASCAR’s Craftsman Truck Series this season. But they drove more like student drivers on Friday.

BENSON - Two people were killed late Wednesday when the small plane they were in crashed during a landing attempt at the airport in Benson, a Federal Aviation Administration official said.

There’s a place in Arizona where the wind sings and if you listen carefully you’ll hear the faint whisper of poetry.

So Kenny Rogers goes after a cameraman and gets suspended (only after an appeal process longer than a Channel 8 pledge drive), but New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson registers a half-a-sack on a CBS cameraman in Baton Rouge Sunday and — after further review — boogies away scot-free?

The Grammy Award-winning jazz guirtarist, along with his band, orchestra and chorus, honors the music of Nat King Cole.

There are only two starters back from the title-winning Corona del Sol boys basketball team of a year ago.

Johnny Benson, who announced this week he is leaving his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series ride with Bill Davis Racing at the end of the season, still has some unfinished business behind the wheel of his No. 23 Toyota Tundra.