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...They put us in this box, and we'll race like this until we kill somebody, and then they'll change it.' CARL EDWARDS, race-car driver, criticizing NASCAR for the design of the Talladega Superspeedway, after his car wrecked during the last lap of the Sprint Cup, injuring eight...
...slowdown isn't limited to the big three sports. NASCAR has been mired in a slump all season. Attendance is down, and a recent race at Talladega Superspeedway drew 50,000 fewer fans than the same event a year ago. The NCAA is cutting travel costs to combat the economic downturn. The organization will reimburse schools for only two bags of luggage per traveler, which will produce an expected savings of $1.5 million per year. Golf agents have reported a rough endorsement market for players, as the financial-services companies that have supported the sport got hit hardest by this...
...helping organize stock-car races on the beach. After the war, France, 6 ft. 5 in. and with a booming voice, decided to bring order to a ragtag racing scene that sometimes saw promoters skip town without paying the drivers. He founded NASCAR in 1948, built the Daytona superspeedway in the 1950s, banished all dirt tracks from the circuit in 1970 (thus assuring more vroooom) and then handed the operation...
...book, as best international cookbook and Del Posto as best new restaurant. The winners will be announced at a Manhattan gala on May 8, a few days after Batali returns from cooking chicken thighs and tortilla casserole for scores of NASCAR drivers, crewmen, and their families at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega...
...closing in on NASCAR driving champion Tony Stewart on the backstretch at Talladega Superspeedway. The speedometer, if you had one (stock cars don't--what's the point?), would be reading north of 150 m.p.h., but you're still south of Tony. And you need to pass him for the checkered flag, the Nextel Cup points and the adulation of the 150,000 or so NASCAR nuts who regularly show up every weekend. As you get closer to Stewart's rear bumper, a couple of things start to happen, not all of them good. First, Tony gets ticked...