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Dale Earnhardt Jr. has concussion
ESPN.COM ^
| 10/11/2012
| AP SOURCES
Posted on 10/11/2012 6:45:55 AM PDT by alancarp
CONCORD, N.C. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. has a concussion and will sit out the next two Sprint Cup races at Charlotte and Kansas.
The injury ends NASCAR's most popular driver's championship chances this season.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Kansas; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: 88; chat; earnhardt; junior; nascar; sports
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Regan Smith will drive the 88 car in the next two races.
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posted on
10/11/2012 6:46:02 AM PDT
by
alancarp
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/11/2012 6:48:30 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: NormsRevenge; glock rocks; Pete-R-Bilt; NYTexan; WestCoastGal; tubebender
I don’t have the whole NASCAR ping list, but hopefully y’all can get that going.
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posted on
10/11/2012 6:48:40 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
To: alancarp
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"I smell fishy...????....I mean this smells fishy"
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posted on
10/11/2012 6:48:46 AM PDT
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: alancarp
Jr. had scant chance of winning the championship this year anyway. I wonder if this claim of concussion might be more damage control to explain his remarks after Talladega. He was far from carrying the company line and NASCAR doesn't take well to being dissed. Remember what happened to JJ and Knaus after he (Knaus) gave them the verbal finger last fall at ‘dega.
That being said, I do hope Jr. is OK.
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posted on
10/11/2012 6:54:11 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Doogle
Fishy? How so? There sure ain’t no upside to NASCAR’s ratings... or even ticket sales... to have Jr. miss his home track’s race.
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posted on
10/11/2012 6:55:10 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
To: Roccus; Doogle
Ah gotcha - I missed that bit. That said, I’ll bet the brass aren’t happy at all about this announcement. Wonder when we’ll hear from Jr. himself.
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posted on
10/11/2012 6:58:49 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
To: alancarp
...JR’s comments shortly after the race....CZAR Helton was not pleased
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posted on
10/11/2012 7:04:13 AM PDT
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: alancarp
IMO, he would be wise to go home, recuperate and avoid interviews until the dust settles. However, a blow-up between Jr. and NASCAR might be EXACTLY what Brain France needs needs to get his head on straight. (if that's even possible)
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posted on
10/11/2012 7:05:00 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Roccus
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posted on
10/11/2012 7:11:18 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
To: alancarp
Updated story
here: news conference to include Letarte and Rick H.
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posted on
10/11/2012 7:13:17 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
To: alancarp
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posted on
10/11/2012 7:13:54 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Doogle
Just read a summary of the post-race comments from
from here.Though he later issued an apology - 'regretting' those remarks, I can't disagree with him in the slightest. The plate races aren't races, IMHO. Individual cars performing well cannot succeed on their own, and going 4-wide at high speed is an obvious recipe for disaster. Those cars were packed in tighter than those in a Walmart parking lot on Black Friday.
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posted on
10/11/2012 7:20:58 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
To: Doogle
I smell dead tuna.
This stinks almost as much as Obama’s September emplyment/unemployment reports.
Reports all said Dale suffered no injuries.
Now this.
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posted on
10/11/2012 7:27:05 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Obamaspeak: An army of pompous phrases marching across the landscape in search of an idea.)
To: Roccus
I’m inclined to believe it. While the HANS Device and other similar head-and-neck restraints do an admirable job of preventing neck injuries and basilar skull fractures, they put drivers at greater risk for closed-head injuries. Even though the head stops moving, the brain still moves inside the skull.
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posted on
10/11/2012 7:29:03 AM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Vote Romney to stop Obama. Vote conservative Congresspeople to stop Romney.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Yep. That last lick Jr. took looked hard enough to scramble your brains no matter what you had them encased in or restrained by.
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posted on
10/11/2012 7:43:35 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(I will not comply.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
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posted on
10/11/2012 7:45:07 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: Roccus
concussion happened a couple of weeks ago. Not sure where you are getting that from that story.
According to Hendrick Motorsports, Jr. definately suffered the concussion on Sunday at Dega.
Now he did take a really hard lick during testing at Kansas in August, and he did suffer a concussion in 2002 in a wreck at California.
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posted on
10/11/2012 8:00:08 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
To: commish
Got it from the link supplied.
Jr. says it happened in KS
30 secs. ago
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posted on
10/11/2012 8:05:56 AM PDT
by
Roccus
To: commish
Listen to the video with Ricky Craven which mentions the Kansas crash and concussion...... Who knows all the info or at least it seems to be coming in bits and pieces.
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posted on
10/11/2012 8:07:33 AM PDT
by
deport
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