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  1. NASCAR on BET? Drive for Diversity goes reality TV in 'Changing Lanes'

    blog.al.com via @NewsRealityTV  &bull Sep 2, 2010

    NEW YORK - Jessica Brunelli is a fan of "Jersey Shore" and "The Real World," so the 17-year-old race car driver knows just how addictive reality TV can be. Addictive enough to draw in viewers who don't know Jeff Gordon… Full Story »

  2. NASCAR is pushing the envelope with 'Boys, have at it'

    blog.al.com via @Bhamnewssports  &bull Jul 19, 2010

    Two roosters in particular -- Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski -- who have been doing their best to test the limits of NASCAR's "Boys have at it" policy. They tested it at Atlanta in March when Keselowski wrecked Edwards and Edwards paid him back by launching him on the frontstretch of the high-speed track. They tested it again Saturday night in St. Louis at Gateway International Raceway during a Nationwide… Full Story »

  3. Edwards takes out Keselowski to win NASCAR Nationwide race at Gateway

    blog.al.com via @Bhamnewssports  &bull Jul 18, 2010

    Carl Edwards wasn't about to let Brad Keselowski bump his way past him to win Saturday night's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Gateway International Raceway. Edwards and Keselowski were side by side on a green-white-checkered restart when Keselowski ran up… Full Story »


  4. Kevin Harvick dominates to win NASCAR Truck race at Gateway

    blog.al.com via @Bhamnewssports  &bull Jul 17, 2010

    The race was supposed to have been run Friday night at Gateway International Raceway outside of St. Louis. But a power failure caused it to be postponed until Saturday.It probably wouldn't have mattered when the race was run because nobody… Full Story »


  5. Teen driver Johanna Long to make NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut on Friday

    blog.al.com via @GulfLive  &bull Jul 17, 2010

    Courtesy of 51 SportsJohanna Long of Pensacola will make her debut in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at O'Reilly Raceway Park on Friday in a Billy Ballew Motorsports Toyota. On Friday, the Pensacola teen will get her birthday wish. Less than two months after becoming old enough to drive on a… Full Story »


  6. Do the National Anthem, an electric guitar and a NASCAR race go together?

    blog.al.com via @dougdemmons  &bull Jul 17, 2010

    There is absolutely no chance whatsoever that I would ever sing the National Anthem before a sporting event, especially a race. And that's even if I had a good voice, which I don't. Race fans are especially unforgiving of singers… Full Story »


  7. Sports Sound Off: NASCAR could solve problem of role models

    blog.al.com via @hossainmoinul  &bull Jul 16, 2010

    I saw four pictures of candidates for USA's baseball coach. I have heard of all of them but the Dunn boy. He was a winner when he played with his dad at Vesthavia Hills, when he was a catcher at Auburn, when he was an academic All-American, when he coached high school at Oak Mountain. He was a winner at Sanford. It doesn't matter if he's a South Alabama alumni. He's a coach, and he wants to win. In my opinion, Casey Dunn is the man. The best person to head the South Alabama… Full Story »


  8. Proposed changes to NASCAR's Chase won't accomplish much

    blog.al.com via @dougdemmons  &bull Jul 15, 2010

    That should be especially true with the Chase, which was implemented specifically to add inject drama and tension into a sport that goes door-to-door with the NFL. But there hasn't been a dramatic finish at Homestead since the first year of the Chase in 2004, when Kurt Busch won by a fender. There's a reason why Homestead is one of four tracks that Jimmie Johnson has never won at. He doesn't need to. By the time Johnson gets to south Florida it's all over… Full Story »


  9. Juan Pablo Montoya tells Mark Martin to get some driving lessons

    blog.al.com via @Bhamnewssports  &bull Jul 11, 2010

    Juan Pablo Montoya isn't the most popular driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and Saturday night he demonstrated why.Montoya was upset with the way Mark Martin raced him on the last lap of Saturday night's race at Chicago. After… Full Story »


  10. NASCAR turning back the clock with revamped cars in Nationwide Series tonight

    blog.al.com via @PressRegister  &bull Jul 2, 2010

    JOHN RAOUX/Associated PressCarl Edwards, driving the No. 60 Ford Mustang, and Joey Logano, in the No. 20 Toyota Camry, practice on Wednesday at Daytona International Speedway for tonight's NASCAR Nationwide Series race. Richard Petty changed all that, his larger-than-life persona giving the fledgling sport a national presence 40 years ago and paving the way for the likes of Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Jimmie Johnson to hog center stage while… Full Story »

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