Dale Earnhardt Jr retains popularity

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

NASCAR has no issue with Delaware sports betting: While the majority
of the major US sports leagues go into a frenzy over pending sports
betting in Delaware, officials at NASCAR say the potential of gambling
corruption is minimal, and they aren't worried about the new law
affecting their sport in any way. Unlike the National Football League,
Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the
National Hockey League, and the money-making top division of the NCAA,
NASCAR does actually conduct business in Delaware. The auto racing
circuit runs twice a year in Dover, but confesses no concern over the
implications of legal sports betting. "NASCAR has no issue with
Delaware's proposed law for sports betting," NASCAR Managing Director
of Corporate Communications Ramsey Poston told Full Throttle Autos
Online. (Online Casino Advisory)
http://www.gnextinc.com/nascar/news/nascar.html

NASCAR vs Kentucky Speedway heads to trial: The former owners of the
Kentucky Speedway are asking a federal appeals court for a green flag
to pursue their antitrust claim against NASCAR. "They were squeezed
out," attorney Stan Chesley, who helped file the lawsuit in 2005, said
after arguments Thursday in front of a three-judge panel of the 6th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A lower-court judge last year rejected
the speedway's claim that the racing body and a sister company that
operates tracks and promotes races have conspired to monopolize
control over who gets the top stock car events. The Kentucky track,
some 40 miles south of Cincinnati, has new ownership that wants the
case ended to help its chances of gaining a coveted NASCAR Sprint Cup
race. But Chesley said there are important issues for a trial, and
that the former owners also want hundreds of millions in damages.
"People have the right to have their case heard in court," Chesley
said. NASCAR attorney David Boies said the lawsuit against the racing
body and its International Speedway Corp. represented impatience by
the Kentucky Speedway to get a Sprint Cup race. "They want one.
Everyone wants one," Boies told the judges. Rule said the new Kentucky
Speedway owners, Speedway Motorsports Inc., were co-conspirators.
Boies told the judges there was no evidence of that claim. "Like other
sports - the NFL, Major League Baseball, the NBA - NASCAR has the
right to create its schedule and host events where it wants to," said
NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston.(Associated Press)
http://www.gnextinc.com/nascar/track/news.html

Edwards: Hendrick Motorsports has closed the gap:
http://www.gnextinc.com/nascar/news/hendrick.html

Mayfield sued by stepmother:
http://www.gnextinc.com/nascar/index.html

Kyle Busch the NASCAR team owner?
http://www.gnextinc.com/nascar/drivers/news/kyle_busch.html

Jack Daniels leaving RCR after season?
http://www.gnextinc.com/nascar/drivers/news/casey_mears.html

Dale Earnhardt Jr retains popularity:
http://www.gnextinc.com/nascar/drivers/news/dale_earnhardt_jr.html

Pocono Raceway preps for Sprint Cup race weekend:
http://www.gnextinc.com/nascar/news/pocono.html

Kurt Busch: Different start times hurt track attendance:
http://www.gnextinc.com/nascar/drivers/news/kurt_busch.html

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