Chase or no Chase, Johnson would still be the man to beat at Homestead-Miami
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...Johnson has won races on eight different tracks in the Chase and has been winning for so long that one of those is Darlington (S.C.), a track in the inaugural 2004 Chase that since...
Page | ConversationAs Chases go, 2008 edition a bit of a yawner -- so far
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...of first-to-second margin with two races to go. Last season, Johnson and Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon staged a great Chase battle, and they went to Phoenix separated by 30 points. Johnson had...
Page | ConversationWinning takes on a new urgency for drivers still looking for first of season
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...of this Chase: the guy on near-autopilot for a three-peat. Carl Edwards, Greg Biffle and Jeff Burton have taken turns as nice diversions -- Edwards being the current flavor of the week after winning...
Page | Conversation'Kentucky Kid' gets acquainted with new ride at Valencia test session
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.comAP Photo/Alberto Saiz MotoGP fans swarm American rider Nicky Hayden, far right, before the Valencia Moto Grand Prix. MotoGP: Hayden already in 2...
Page | ConversationChasers gladly put Talladega in their rearview mirrors
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.comAP Photo/Bob Jordan Four-time Cup champ Jeff Gordon is the defending race winner at Lowe's Motor Speedway. Start Your Engines Talladega didn't...
Page | ConversationLet go by KHI, Sprague returns to No. 60 Wyler Racing Toyota
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...two teams to one, taking away a seat from part-owner Stacy Compton and putting competition director Jeff Hensley out of a job. Hensley was crew chief for Skinner at BDR and returned to the...
Page | ConversationPoints leaders face a monster test at biggest, baddest track in the land
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...sort of safe way to survive 188 laps on the high banks. Hendrick Motorsports teammates Johnson and Jeff Gordon avoided the front like the plague a year ago, playing possum in the rear all day...
Page | ConversationSecrets to Chase success likely to be revealed at Kansas
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...into the 2008 Chase. Two weeks into a long 10-week playoff and we've got a...the stretch, like Johnson and Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon last year. If the latter scenario plays...
Page | ConversationYou have to start fast and win races to be a Chase champion, right?
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...40 points behind, respectively. Tony Stewart, Greg Biffle, Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick and Matt Kenseth are essentially...less. But a 10-race playoff is fairly long and lends itself to allowing one throwaway race...
Page | ConversationRoush Fenway looks to solidify Chase spots at Ford-friendly Michigan
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.comAP Photo/Carlos Osorio Carl Edwards snapped a 52-race winless streak with a victory at Michigan in June 2007. Start Your Engines Roush Fenway Ra...
Page | ConversationGordon, Stewart, Harvick have had stranglehold on Watkins Glen
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...lies a sort of gray -- there's making the Chase, and there's making it with momentum. Jeff Gordon, Greg Biffle, Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick are inside the Chase cutoff but don't have...
Page | ConversationPoints racing taking a week off at the famed Brickyard
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.comAP Photo/Tom Strattman Jeff Gordon, left, and car owner Rick Hendrick have kissed the bricks four times at Indy. Start Your...
Page | ConversationHensley abruptly ousted as crew chief for winless Skinner
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...took over Saturday at Memphis and will continue on an interim basis. "Mike and Jeff have been together a long time, and Jeff has done a tremendous job. But there comes a point where...
Page | ConversationEven-keeled Benson finds himself in unfamiliar terrain: in first place
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...five to be named Rookie of the Year in Nationwide and Cup, with Kyle Busch, Ricky Craven, Jeff Gordon and Kevin Harvick. Only Benson (the 1995 Busch champion), Harvick, Greg Biffle and Dale Earnhardt won...
Page | ConversationLove it or hate it, Pocono Raceway a major player in Chase for the Cup
John Schwarb, Special to ESPN.com...a sometimes dull series? Catch the next bus out of Long Pond. So on it goes, including last week from four-time series champion Jeff Gordon, who called the track "outdated" and said it needs...
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Bowl Projections tops ESPN.com searches in November. Did "jeff long" make the list?