1. Greg Biffle: Can NASCAR Sprint Cup's Current Leader Keep Up His Fast 2012 Start?

    It’s been a few years since Greg Biffle has made a serious charge for the championship in the Sprint Cup ranks. His last top five points finish came in 2008, when two consecutive wins to start the Chase enabled him to take third place...

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  2. NASCAR's Mendoza Line: Ranking Teams 31-40 in Sprint Cup Owners Points

    In baseball, the mark of mediocrity for a hitter is called the "Mendoza line." Named for former shortstop Mario Mendoza, a career .215 hitter, players unfortunate enough to fall below a ...

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  3. The 10 Best Nicknames in NASCAR Today

    The 1970s had The King versus The Silver Fox. The 1980s saw the emergence of The Intimidator and Jaws. But in a period of enhanced media attention from all angles, it seems like more ...

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  4. Commercials Cutting into Fox's Edge in NASCAR Coverage

    For the past decade, Fox Sports has put together some of the most consistent, well-rounded broadcasts in the history of NASCAR...

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  5. Brian Vickers Saves His Sprint Cup Career at Bristol

    The 2011 season seemed to be the perfect storm to end Brian Vickers' competitive NASCAR career. Coming back to full-time racing after blood clots removed him from his ride for the ...

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  6. Rick Hendrick Needs to Know When to Let Go of NASCAR Appeals Process

    Perhaps it's time for Rick Hendrick to just let it go. After losing today's appeal to the National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel, Hendrick will continue to pursue the overturning ...

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  7. Playing a Numbers Game: Projecting the Chase for the Sprint Cup in March

    There's a trick to predicting the Chase for the Sprint Cup. It's not particularly difficult if you follow the trail that the past few years' worth of standings have produced...

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  8. 12 NASCAR Sprint Cup Drivers Guaranteed to Improve in 2012

    Sprint Cup racing isn't quite the Grand National circuit of NASCAR's heyday. There are so many good teams these days that rampant fluctuation in the standings from year to year isn't just common, it's expected...

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  9. Danica Patrick: Why Has She Been Involved in So Many Crashes Lately?

    Anybody who's worried about Danica Patrick 's start to the NASCAR season, particularly in regard to the amount of her equipment torn up in Daytona, is jumping the gun. No, the statistics didn't look good during Speedweeks...

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  10. Daytona 500: FOX's TV Coverage a Mixed Bag

    Somebody, for the love of god, needed to take Darrell Waltrip's microphone away on Monday night. Waltrip was by far the biggest problem in an up-and-down broadcast of the Daytona 500, once again produced by Fox...

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  11. NASCAR: Danica Patrick's Sprint Cup Debut Part of a Week to Forget

    Welcome to NASCAR, Danica Patrick . Daytona Speedweeks 2012 marked Patrick's first foray into the Sprint Cup Series, as she transitions from Indy cars to stock car racing full time...

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  12. Who Moved Where? Recapping the NASCAR Silly Season Before the 2012 Daytona 500

    It wasn't even 2011 when we figured out that 2012 was going to be a season of significant change in the Sprint Cup garage...

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  13. Daytona 500 2012: Which Bottom Feeders Could Surprise Everyone?

    Winning the Daytona 500 doesn't just take a fast car, it takes a significant stroke of luck as well. Just ask Derrike Cope, who inherited the 1990 win when Dale Earnhardt shredded a tire after leading 155 of 200 laps...

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  14. Predicting the Top 20 in NASCAR Points in 2012

    The eighth iteration of NASCAR's Chase for the Sprint Cup may have been the most entertaining one since the format's debut in 2004...

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  15. NASCAR's 10 Hottest Young Drivers

    When the American economy collapsed a few years ago, NASCAR was the hardest hit of all professional sports. The sponsors that were willing to stick around favored established drivers over development programs with young drivers...

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  16. Danica Patrick and David Reutimann: NASCAR's New Odd Couple

    Ever since Tony Stewart put together a 10-race deal to bring Danica Patrick to the Sprint Cup Series this year, he had been looking for another driver to complete the full schedule in her No...

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  17. NASCAR Silly Season: The Top 10 Drivers Still Looking for a Ride

    We're standing on the precipice of February, and with the second month of the year comes the start of the American motorsport calendar in earnest. The Rolex 24 at Daytona has been won (by a team that included NASCAR driver A...

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  18. NASCAR: Top 10 Drivers After Preseason Testing

    NASCAR season is close at hand. Can you feel it? Okay, yes, the Daytona 500 is still over a month away. But as most of us froze last week, Sprint Cup drivers and teams spent much ...

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  19. NASCAR's Top 15 Bullies of All Time (With Video!)

    NASCAR drivers are no strangers to heated exchanges, as the photo above should illustrate. In November 2010, after an accident under caution ended both of their days, Jeff Gordon decided to attack Jeff Burton as a way of releasing his frustration...

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  20. NASCAR Sprint Cup: Top 7 Drivers We Can't Wait to Be Analysts

    See the photo above? It's a picture of Rusty Wallace and Dale Jarrett, taken in mid-2005. Besides sharing the common thread of being former champions at NASCAR's highest level (Wallace ...

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  21. NASCAR Sprint Cup: The 10 Most Versatile Drivers

    There's no single, universal, linear path that a driver follows from grassroots racing to NASCAR stardom. Plenty of drivers hone their skills on their local short tracks in late models, ...

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  22. The Top 10 Most Manipulative Figures in Motorsports

    Manipulation, however you want to characterize the word, is one of the traits of any great leader. Those in power must be able to take control of the situations put forth in front of them and alter them to their own advantage...

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  23. Kurt Busch: Which Sprint Cup Car Will He Be Driving in 2012?

    It's safe to say that 2011 wasn't Kurt Busch's finest year. Despite scoring four wins (two of them non-points victories in the Budweiser Shootout and Gatorade Duel at Daytona), Busch fell from grace pretty steadily from the start of the year to the end...

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  24. Tony Stewart and the Greatest Owner/Drivers in NASCAR History

    In an era dominated by multi-car super teams with excess sponsorship money at their disposal, NASCAR purists probably wondered when (or if) the Sprint Cup Series would ever see another owner-driver win a championship...

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  25. NASCAR Sprint Cup: 8 Up and Comers Who've Shown They're Ready

    Since the economic downturn sapped much of the sponsorship money out of NASCAR in the latter part of the past decade, rookies have been harder and harder to come by on the Sprint Cup circuit...

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