1.   Wednesday was a practice day in more senses than one.

2.   At most major championship venues, each practice day brings some progress.

3.   ----- It is a practice day, and Matt has spent a little more than three hours at the YMCA before joining his teammates.

4.   But this is not a practice day.

5.   He arrives an hour before the players do on practice days.

6.   He had five full practice days on the course and wore out the practice range workers.

7.   He raced in the Long Beach Grand Prix pro-am and slammed his car into a turn on the first practice day.

8.   NASCAR granted the drivers an extra practice day on Thursday.

9.   On a normal practice day, there might be a half-dozen media folk present, tops.

10.   On practice days, they go to tracks together, Pearson fiddling with the car and Buckshot trying to articulate just how the car is performing.