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ON NASCAR: Dillon, Stenhouse avoid slumps, seize first national series titles
While a lot of attention was focused on changes in the point system and the addition of the wild card to the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, a quieter rule change in 2011 served to shake things up...
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ON NASCAR: NASCAR's stars keep it real in Las Vegas
If the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season can be compared to a cup of coffee — sometimes warming, sometimes energizing and sometimes stomach-acid inducing — then Champion’s Week in Las Vegas is m...
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ON NASCAR: Edwards falls up to Chase for Sprint Cup
In the competitive sports arena, there are many variations on the statement that no one really remembers who finished second. While this is not necessarily true — fans of the guy or the team that a...
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Denton s Clint King turned 16 the same day he became the youngest driver to race in the ARCA Series
King becomes youngest driver to race in ARCA Series
Taking the Fast Track
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ON NASCAR: Pain leads to gain for Keselowski
The famous runner Steve Prefontaine was once quoted as saying, “Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.” “Pre,” as he was called, would most certai...
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ON NASCAR: Jamming transmissions: Learning respect from race traffic
Kentucky Speedway must have felt positively Dickensian on July 9, because in many ways, it truly was both the best of times and the worst of times. The excitement and spectacle of the track’s inau...
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ON NASCAR: Patience, persistence pay off for Ragan, Kentucky Speedway
Almost every week now, I am newly struck by the fact that the NASCAR world is one of possibilities. For a prime example, look no further than David Ragan. Born on what may well be the day of ultim...
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ON NASCAR: Stewart and Vickers state their case
America is hooked on courtroom drama, but things sometimes seem to drag on forever; we’re seeing that right now in a couple of high profile, televised trials. It took Tony Stewart and Brian Vickers...
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Perseverance pays off for Hamlin, No. 11 team
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NASCAR all about family as Father's Day approaches
As Father’s Day rapidly approaches, it is only natural that our thoughts should turn to family. The term “NASCAR family” is bandied about frequently, and rightly so. It is an apt description of t...
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Luck falls Harvick's way in Coca-Cola 600
CONCORD — You didn’t have to open a Superman comic to find Bizarro World—Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway had all the strangeness a fan of cosmic weirdness could hope to find. Ke...
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ON NASCAR: Nothing's more red, white and blue than green, white and checkered
More of an endurance contest than a race, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS) serves as a showcase for some of the team and driver attributes we forget about during shorter, beating...
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ON NASCAR: Veteran crewman’s life is the pits but loves his front row seat
NASCAR is still so relatively new that many people who work in the sport started their careers doing something completely different, from music teachers to mathematicians. In one notable case, the ...
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ON NASCAR: The heart of racing shows in NASCAR, industry initiatives
Everything about the NASCAR community seems larger than life. The racing venues scattered across the nation can accommodate tens of thousands – and in some places even hundreds of thousands – of e...
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ON NASCAR: Racing provides respite, remedy
When you live in an area with a high concentration of NASCAR fans, and you are curious by nature about the opinions of others, the end result is that you tend to become somewhat of a habitual eaves...
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NASCAR Hall of Fame to hold free open house
With the new year beginning, the NASCAR Hall of Fame is set to unveil a new exhibition, Short Careers, Lasting Legacy, on Saturday, Jan. 8. The debut also kicks off Open House Week where guests can...
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ON NASCAR: Four-time may take the fifth with new crew chief
Anyone who still believes NASCAR has an off-season hasn't been listening to the news. Just three days after the organization won its fifth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship with dr...
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Denny Hamlin dives to the inside of Kevin Harvick to take the lead on Sunday. Times Photo/Eliot Duke
Hamlin owns Martinsville again
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Dead heat. Well, almost. Denny Hamlin won Sunday’s Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville and trimmed fifth-place finisher Jimmie Johnson’s lead in the Chase for the NASCAR Spri...
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Johnson on top of his game at Dover
DOVER, Del. — The leading rebounder in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series solidified his status in Sunday’s AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway. Lest any of his competitors happened to forget that Jim...
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Bowyer has just enough fuel to win
LOUDON, N.H.— The picture told the story. Clint Bowyer’s No. 33 Chevrolet spun in a cloud of smoke as Bowyer celebrated Sunday’s victory in the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. In th...
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Stewart nabs first win of 2010
HAMPTON, Ga. — Tony Stewart announced Sunday night at Atlanta Motor Speedway that he’ll be a player in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Stewart won for the third time at Atlanta and for the 38...
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On NASCAR: Who is NASCAR?
When a model or actress signs a contract with a cosmetic or clothing company, she becomes what is known as "the face" of the product. If the marketing department is doing its job correctly, anytime...
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Montoya ends 113 race winless streak at Watkins Glen
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Welcome, Juan Pablo Montoya, to the Chip Ganassi party. Saving his best for the end of Sunday’s Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen, Montoya pulled away from Marcos Ambro...
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Biffle ends drought at Pocono
LONG POND, Pa. — With his team owner at Mayo Clinic recovering from injuries sustained in a plane crash, Greg Biffle found the remedy for the ills of Roush Fenway Racing and Ford’s racing program. ...
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Reutimann gets first true victory
JOLIET, Ill. — David Reutimann held off Carl Edwards in a green-flag run after the final round of pit stops Saturday night and picked up his second career NASCAR Sprint Cup victory in the LifeLock....
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On NASCAR: Let freedom roar
It seems a dichotomy of sorts that one of the professional sporting events most closely associated with the Fourth of July -- Independence Day -- is the Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca Cola NASCAR Sp...
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On NASCAR: NASCAR hits its marks time after time
To be a successful NASCAR driver, you have to be more than simply fast.
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On NASCAR: Harvick has 20/20 vision for Logano
‘Clichés’ earn that designation for a reason.
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Busch makes it a clean sweep at Charlotte
CONCORD — Call it Roger’s revenge.
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Kyle Busch flashes under the flag stand to take the checkered flag in the Autism Speaks 400 on Sunday. GETTY IMAGES
Busch on top at Monster Mile
DOVER, Del.— Kyle Busch took advantage of a rare mistake by four-time Sprint Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson to pull away for an easy win Sunday in the Autism Speaks 400 presented by HERSHEY'S M...
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On NASCAR: It's a bird, it's a plane ... no, it's the Biff
The first time I heard a driver — it was Kurt Busch — refer to Greg Biffle as “The Biff,” I laughed out loud. It sounded so much like a superhero’s name. But what kind of superhero might he be? Th...
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On NASCAR: All grown up from young guns to straight shooters
Small things can get a person's attention in a big way.
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On NASCAR: The long and short of it is bullrings rule
A little over a decade ago, Jim Hunter, NASCAR’s current vice president of corporate communications who then served as president of Darlington Raceway, took masterful advantage of what could have b...
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Returning favors: There's the rub in racing
For fans of Penske Racing, the March 7 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway was, in the words of Charles Dickens, the best of times, and the worst of times.
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Harvick at home in Hot-Lanta
Leading into any given NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race weekend, you always hear a lot of talk about hometown heroes.
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Oval of life: Farewell to a legend, hello to fatherhood
It seems ironic that as NASCAR is preparing to race at perhaps its most modern, contemporary track of all — Las Vegas Motor Speedway — one of the most significant events that occurred in the sport ...
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Jamie McMurray gets a Gatorade bath in Victory Lane as he celebrates his Daytona 500 win on Sunday. Getty Images
Daytona 500: McMurray claims biggest win of his career
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — What a storybook finish!
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On NASCAR: Drivers focus on winning races, not other sports
Like everyone else on the planet, I saw a lot of pre-game Super Bowl TV coverage on February 7, because there was no racing that day and I had nothing else to do.
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NASCAR 2010: It's all about you
It’s kind of funny how a single word can become a rallying cry for an entire nation. Some notable examples from the past include things like “freedom,” “equality,” and tragically in the past couple...
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NASCAR 2010: It's all about you
It’s kind of funny how a single word can become a rallying cry for an entire nation. Some notable examples from the past include things like “freedom,” “equality,” and tragically in the past couple...
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On NASCAR: Drivers are indeed athletes
I think the first really in-depth piece of NASCAR-related writing I ever did was for inclusion in a USA Today special section during NASCAR Champion's Week six or seven years ago. The story was tit...
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On NASCAR: Taking stock of a most valuable year in NASCAR
OK, it’s the end of the year, and you know what that means: lists.
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On NASCAR: Vegas vacation fitting for NASCAR
Las Vegas doesn't beckon visitors like an oasis in the desert; Las Vegas literally IS an oasis in the desert. And this one is no mirage.
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Jimmie Johnson was in New York City on Tuesday celebrating his Sprint Cup Championship in style atop the Empire State Building. Photo/Empire State Building
Champ visits NYC

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Denny Hamlin leads Jimmie Johnson through the corner late in the race on Sunday. Getty Images
Hamlin holds off Johnson for Martinsville win
MARTINSVILLE, Va.— Denny Hamlin may have won the Virginia campaign with a victory Sunday at Martinsville Speedway, but Jimmie Johnson moved ever closer to a record fourth straight NASCAR Sprint Cup...
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Johnson celebrates yet another win at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Getty Images
Johnson owns LMS
Jimmie Johnson has done it again. He won the NASCAR Banking 500 Saturday night, extending his lead over teammate Mark Martin to 90 points in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship.
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On NASCAR: Schedule change rubs fans right way
If there is one thing the tale of Aladdin and his magic lamp from “One Thousand and One Nights” has taught us, it is that no matter how hard you try, or how good your intentions are, you can never ...
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Jimmie Johnson flashes across the finish line to win the Pepsi 500 and take over the Sprint Cup points lead. Getty Images
Johnson wins at California
FONTANA, CALIF.— Jimmie Johnson called his shot.
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Jimmie Johnson crosses the finish line to win the AAA 400 at Dover on Sunday. Getty Images
Johnson rules Dover
DOVER, Del. — Polesitter Jimmie Johnson threw down the gauntlet in Sunday's AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway, but Mark Martin was up to the challenge.
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Thomasville native Brian Vickers celebrates with his crew chief after making the Chase field on Saturday at Richmond. Getty Images
Hamlin wins race; Vickers in Chase
RICHMOND, VA. — The Chase is on. Twenty-six races into the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, there are now 12 drivers with a chance to win the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
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