NASCAR Nextel Cup: Checker Auto Parts 500 at PIR, Sunday Nov. 11, 2007 ~ 3:30 p.m. ABC

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[NYTexan]

FREE REPUBLIC NASCAR THREAD

The Chase for the NEXTEL CUP
continues with the Checker Auto Parts 500

Welcome all to the Nextel Cup race at
Phoenix International Raceway.

(Click on the Pics, Graphics, & Links for related news & info.)

The field for the Chase has narrowed.
Here are the top 6 drivers, # wins, current points:

1) Jimmie Johnson, 9, 6382
2) Jeff Gordon, 6, 6352
3) Clint Bowyer, 1, 6201

4) Kyle Busch, 1, 6043
5) Carl Edwards, 3, 6025
6) Tony Stewart, 3, 6009

Dale Earnhardt Jr. to Appear at PIR's
Raceway Club on Saturday, November 10

"America's Toughest Sheriff" Joe Arpaio to Drive Pace Car

Track Schedule for the Checker Auto Parts 500

Checker Auto Parts 500 Entry List

Qualifying: Friday 11/9 5:30 pm Nextel Cup Qualifying ~ ESPN2
Race: Sunday 11/11 3:35 pm Nextel Cup Race ~ ABC

Speed's NASCAR Raceday Pre-Race Show: 1:30 pm/et
(Caution Pool opens then!)

NASCAR Countdown pre-race ~ 3:00 pm ABC

Jayski.com TV listings

Track Details with Current & Historical Track info from:
NASCAR.com, That's Racin', SceneDaily.com, Wikipedia, na-motorsports.com

NASCAR News, Info and Stats from JAYSKI'S silly season site

[glock rocks]

Baseball Fines Barry Bonds 100 Home Runs

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Borrowing on NASCAR's policy of deducting championship points for rule violations and public behavior, baseball will fine slugger Barry Bonds 100 home runs for past policy infractions. The commissioner will announce the penalty at a press conference later today. Bonds could not be reached for comment.

more...

[WestCoastGal]

Strike Strikes 24
by Joal Ryan
Wed, 7 Nov 2007 05:48:35 PM PST

Jack Bauer has met his match: Striking writers.

The seventh-season launch of 24, scheduled for January, has been postponed due to the ongoing union writers’ strike, Fox said Wednesday.

24 is the latest casualty of the walkout that began Monday. Several shows, including NBC’s The Office, have shut down production. ABC’s Desperate Housewives was to follow suit on Thursday.

A Fox spokesman said he didn’t know if 24 had stopped shooting. The network said it was holding off on the premiere “to ensure that ‘Day 7’ can air uninterrupted, in its entirety.”

The new Terminator-spawned series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, has been slated to air in 24’s usual 9 p

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I hope he kneecaps them all.

http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=4fdec15b-57aa-4ba1-88c6-b5daac9b9b1d&sid=fd-news

[SouthTexas]

You're quite welcome! It really surprised me at the number of people that had RR and said they didn't know it was available.

Disclaimer: Not paid in any shape, form, or fashion by RR or T/W cable. :)

[Pete-R-Bilt]

for being first, the funny of the week.

in from Cal., off to Twin.

Cow falls 200 feet onto van; Michigan couple escape injury

By Jaime Adame
World staff writer

MANSON — A cow fell about 200 feet off a cliff Sunday and landed on the hood of a minivan passing by Rocky Point about one mile east of Manson, officials said.
Charles Everson, Jr. and his wife Linda escaped injury.
"It was just 'bam'— you just saw something come down and hit the hood," Charles Everson said this morning from his hotel room in Manson.
He and his wife are in the area from Westland, Mich., near Detroit, to celebrate their one-year anniversary, he said. They were on Highway 150 headed back to their hotel after attending a church service.
Everson, 49, said he didn't actually see the animal until it hit — and didn't realize what had happened until after the impact.
"I'm like, 'I don't believe this. I don't believe this. I don't believe this,' " Everson said, adding he repeated the phrase "about 20 times."
The incident happened about 12:20 p.m.
Arnold Baker, Chelan County Fire District 5 chief, said the cow was a heifer he estimated to weigh about 600 pounds.
"It's funny because it was such a close call," Baker said. "Inches different and the couple in this car would have been killed."
The cow, about year old, belonged to a breeder in the area who had earlier reported the animal missing, Baker said. The animal was euthanized at the scene.
The Eversons continued on about a mile after the collision before pulling over, and were taken to Lake Chelan Community Hospital as a precaution. The van suffered heavy damage, including a broken windshield from the force of the animal hitting the hood, Baker said.

[SouthTexas]

It was just 'bam'

The cow must have been an Emeril fan.

[NormsRevenge]

IndyCar champ Hornish moves to NASCAR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1923161/posts

[tubebender]

Your steaks tenderized on the hoof...

[tubebender]

Hendrick reflects on rough start as team nears seventh Cup title

[tubebender]

Two Busch Series crew chiefs fined
By DAVID POOLE - The Charlotte Observer

Tony Eury Sr., crew chief for Brad Keselowski on the No. 88 Busch Series Chevrolets owned by JR Motorsports, and Chad Walter, crew chief for the No. 24 Chevrolets at Hendrick Motorsports, were each fined $10,000 by NASCAR on Wednesday.

Eury and Walter were also placed on probation until Dec. 31.

Threads on the lug nuts on both of those cars had been removed in such a way that the lug nuts did not conform to the NASCAR rule book. The violations were found in inspections before Saturday’s race at Texas.

[SouthTexas]

Thanks. Seems far too many forget the sacrifices the old timers of the sport endured to bring us what we have today.

Fast forward: Before the race at TMS, JJ gave his Atlanta winnings, matched by Rick Hendricks and Bruton Smith, to the Red Cross, a million plus.

[SouthTexas]

Makes you wonder about Jr’s wheel last week huh?

[happydogx2]

We are going to be there!

After getting bit by the Nascar bug last year my wife and I decided to fly from Bend, Oregon to see this years race. Snow is supposed to be flying here in Bend so a few days in the sunshine plus the Sunday race has us packed and ready to go.

We will wave; that’ll be us up high just past the start/finish line!!

[SouthTexas]

Have fun!

[WestCoastGal]

No, that was the first thing Nascar checked.

[WestCoastGal]

Nobody shows up on the Nascar threads. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[WestCoastGal]

It's ok JJ you look like a dork in that hat, but I'm gonna beat you for the Cup.

[Pete-R-Bilt]

the second pic almost looks like a

Get out of my way Jimmy, I see another Miss Winston comming and I still have a few bucks left over from Brooke...

[WestCoastGal]

He may be saying thank God you didn’t win the pole and get the Berettas.

JJ Yeley on the pole for now, that won’t last. Qual on ESPN2

[Pete-R-Bilt]

Cool! I’m on it!

[WestCoastGal]

Hornish just qualified fast enough to make it in the show.