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We all know NASCAR races can be a magnet for some of the best that humanity has to offer, but are they also an attractive target for terrorists? According to an FBI/Homeland Security Department assessment and congressional report released to local police on Monday, that's entirely a possibility. Any large gathering makes for an enticing terrorist opportunity, but NASCAR events in particular ...
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Just like in real life, the champs are starting to separate from the chumps in the Marbles Fantasy League. (I haven't been cheating enough -- I'm very much in the latter.) Big congrats to Cookeville Engineers, who posted the highest weekly point total of the season this week behind a team of Kyle Busch , Denny Hamlin , Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Travis Kvapil . If you haven't already, join up ...
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Kyle Busch
Denny Hamlin
Dale Earnhardt Jr
How did this little beauty not become the centerpiece of the greatest commercial campaign in the history of the world? You take a great American sport, a great American nightmare (cleaning house), and the great American love of violence, and boom -- instant classic. I can see it now -- the lil' Intimidator vacuum leaving skid marks across the carpet ... doing burnouts on the dining room ...
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Vince Vaughn and Jeff Gordon share a moment. What's passing between them (besides two vertical feet of airspace! ha!)? You tell us. Winner gets a bucket of still-warm Darlington asphalt. After the jump, Lewis Hamilton gets his Trojan on . Quite possibly the funniest set of captions ever. Winner, CamShaft: Another Ganassi puppet in the making. And a record number of runners-up. Really, ...
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Jeff Gordon
Folks, this is ten kinds of awesome. A few weeks back, I posted a look at many of the NASCAR drivers who've tried their hand at baseball . Well, now my pal Kevin Kaduk over at sister site Big League Stew has topped, scattered, smothered, and chunked me by creating The Hank Aaron 755 ,* a list of all the baseball players whose names sound like NASCAR drivers. (With bonus ...
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Everyone knows Kyle Busch is running the table on the track (wow, was that a tortured metaphor), but during the breaks in the action, which driver has the best ads? I mean, if we're going to have to put up with fifty commercial breaks an hour, the commercials may as well be worth watching, right? We'll have a big commercial showdown post later this week. But as I learned from the Greatest ...
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Kyle Busch
Denny Hamlin
A few thoughts while flying at 35,000 feet above the heartland of America as I commute back and forth from Indianapolis this month: Rowdy Busch is on one heck of a hot streak at the moment. The young gun appears to be driving harder and with more fire than just about anyone else on the race track. It's not a matter of whether or not his race cars are better. They're essentially the same cars ...
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Yes, I know we've had all kinds of Junior and Kyle content here over the last ten days, but it's all people want to talk about. Which is a shame, because it means we have to postpone our all- David Ragan , all-the-time week for awhile. ESPN the Magazine has a solid, if a little touchy-feely, article about Dale Earnhardt Jr. in its current issue , and it's well worth a look. It humanizes ...
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The Big Lead, one of the more prominent sports blogs around, ran a post this weekend live-blogging the race from Darlington . Nick Bromberg of Around and Around In Circles ran the show, and all things considered, he did a pretty good job, considering he was in decidedly anti-NASCAR territory. (First comment: "What the hell is a NASCAR?" Though credit goes to the commenter who ...
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Just for a second, pretend it's not Kyle Busch celebrating on top of that car there. Assuming he's not your favorite driver, block out all the bad blood that Kyle has stirred up with your guy. (Junior Nation, I'm looking your way.) Can you do it? I know, it's tough. But look, you've got a guy who's winning left and right, who's about half a step from passing other cars while in ...
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Kyle Busch
All right, here's the deal. In preparation for tonight's Dodge Challenger 500, we've given you a history of the Darlington track . We've given you ten track facts . We've given you what to watch for tonight , and the top five storylines headed into the race. We've shown you the keys to victory at the racetrack. And that's not all. We've also given you a picture of a gorgeous ...
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Danica Patrick
Kyle Busch
Oh, Danica. And things were going so well: Based on her appearance afterward, I think we can rule out "putting on her makeup in the rearview mirror" as a cause of the accident.
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Danica Patrick
Continuing the series here at The Marbles where we assess each team's performance a third of the way through the season. We'll look at the stats of NASCAR's teams now, again just before the Cup chase, and at the end of the season. Last week, we focused on Hendrick Motorsports ; this time around, the titans of Joe Gibbs Racing . Is there any team anywhere, in any sport, riding as ...
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Kyle Busch
Tony Stewart
The header today is actually a bit of a misnomer, since technically this particular comic book was free. (If you paid for it, demand a refund!) NASCAR Heroes is the story of hotshot racecar driver (really, is there any other kind?) Jimmy Dash, who, along with his band of intrepid and suitably multicultural teammates, fights the evil Jack Diesel. You know Jack's bad 'cause his fire suit is ...
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Michael Waltrip
Ten facts about Darlington Raceway, site of this weekend's Dodge Challenger 500. Many of these came from Jerry Bonkowski's outstanding article on the track's history; make sure to check that one out. • Inspired by a 1933 visit to the Indianapolis 500, Darlington businessman Harold Brasington built the 1.25-mile egg-shaped oval Darlington Raceway over the course of more than a decade. ...
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I was sitting in the media center of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday afternoon watching the rain fall when I thought I'd dial up the Cup practice on my computer via my Slingbox. Except, there wasn't any Cup practice on SPEED. You say you missed it, too? You say you couldn't find it on television? If you answered yes to both questions, you were right on both. For the first time this ...
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In all the comment threads that have run this week on The Buschwhack (I'm gonna make that name stick, you watch), one of the prevailing themes was how much Kyle Busch drove like Dale Earnhardt Sr. Any time that idea was voiced, however, one of Senior Nation would pipe up with something along the lines of "You can't compare anyone to Dale Senior. Anybody that does that is an idiot." ...
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Dale Earnhardt Jr
Kyle Busch
Okay, that's a dramatic performance of the fall of Troy (you know, the Trojan Horse and all that) in Istanbul, Turkey. And that's F1 driver Lewis Hamilton dangling in the air. What the hell's going on here? Best caption wins a copy of the Iliad. After the jump, Jessica A lba flames on in Jeff Gordon's face . Winner, MCODakota: "If I hear you say, 'She's tight in the ...
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Jeff Gordon
It's the return of Pit Chatter, where we listen in on the "secret driver's channel" and get you the stories you'll never hear anywhere else. In previous installments, we've heard the tale of the two Tonys , the story of Goodyear's revenge , and the secret behind Junior's success . Today, we find out the true story behind the biggest wreck of the season! The scene: Twenty laps to ...
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Dale Earnhardt Jr
Kyle Busch
Denny Hamlin
I was reading somewhere on the Internet where a writer referred to Darlington Raceway as a relic of NASCAR history. I found it an odd choice of words, especially since the word "relic" is often used as a not-so flattering reference by those born since the end of the Vietnam War. Darlington does, however, qualify as a relic according to the Webster Dictionary definition: "An ...
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