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			<title><![CDATA[It's time to get creative with the awards banquet]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[NASCAR's annual Sprint Cup awards banquet needs a little less teleprompter and a lot more drama. Terry Blount has five award categories that should be part of the show.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 02, 2008 05:31:48 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mad scramble for sponsorship dollars leaves Cup teams in limbo]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One of the most unenviable jobs in this shell-shocked economy? Try persuading cash-strapped corporations to pay you millions of dollars in exchange for a logo on a race car. You might be better off trying to unload that swampland in Florida, writes Terry Blount.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 24, 2008 10:39:46 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Junior says his late father would have been able to help secure sponsorship]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dale Earnhardt Jr. said he hopes good things come out of the merger between Dale Earnhardt Inc. and Chip Ganassi Racing, but he isn't sure a merger would have been necessary if his father was still alive and running DEI.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 14, 2008 10:33:02 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[With economy hurting budgets, NASCAR bans testing to save money]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[NASCAR will implement a no-testing policy next season in order to cut costs in difficult economic times.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 14, 2008 03:05:56 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[DEI-Ganassi merger a sign of the times in this difficult economy]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The DEI-Chip Ganassi Racing merger shows us just how difficult times have become. And they're likely to get worse before they get better, writes Terry Blount.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 13, 2008 10:32:19 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Blount's Blitz: Smith hurt by yellow-line ruling]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The yellow-line rule was put in place to increase safety. But for Regan Smith, it simply prevented him from winning Talladega.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 06, 2008 09:45:24 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Earnhardt Jr.'s blown tire causes accident, will go to backup car]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dale Earnhardt Jr. had a tire explode during practice Friday, starting a multicar accident and destroying the back end of the No. 88 Chevrolet.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 03, 2008 10:48:25 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Blount's Blitz: Edwards playing a little defense at Talladega]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Now it's time to play defense. No wild banzai moves this weekend. Not at Talladega, the track that can bite you faster than an angry cobra, writes Terry Blount.]]></description>
			<pubDate>September 29, 2008 12:33:06 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[From JJ's first Cup title to Knaus' suspension, nothing dull about 2006 Chase]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Imagine winning the Daytona 500, the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard and the Cup Series championship in the same year. Jimmie Johnson doesn't need to imagine, writes Terry Blount.]]></description>
			<pubDate>September 09, 2008 13:14:24 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can anyone stop professor Knaus and prized pupil Johnson?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It took Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus four seasons to learn how to win a championship. The question now is, has anyone else in Cup learned enough to stop them from winning another?]]></description>
			<pubDate>September 09, 2008 13:05:47 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Roush Fenway Racing drivers lay eggs -- not bricks -- at Indy]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Roush Fenway Racing is the best team in NASCAR never to kiss bricks at Indy. With five of its drivers qualifying in the top 16 for Sunday's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, RFR likes its chances in 2008, writes Terry Blount.]]></description>
			<pubDate>July 26, 2008 07:40:33 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[NHRA determined to bolster driver safety in wake of Kalitta's death]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The NHRA lost two drivers in tragic accidents during a 15-month period. It almost lost the sport's biggest star when John Force crashed hard in September. What are league officials thinking? Enough's enough, writes Terry Blount.]]></description>
			<pubDate>July 17, 2008 11:53:52 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Racing has reached the halfway mark, and it's already been a year to remember]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Racing has reached the halfway mark in 2008, and it has already been a wild year. Danica finally won, F1 is tied in knots and the NHRA has seen the highest highs and lowest low. NASCAR you ask? Last year's Sprint Cup pariah is this year's unquestioned superstar, writes Terry Blount.]]></description>
			<pubDate>July 08, 2008 05:11:45 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Franchitti's future uncertain after Ganassi shuts down Cup team]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dario Franchitti seemingly had it all. An Indy 500 trophy, an IndyCar Series title, worldwide appeal and a movie-star wife. He still has those things, but he no longer has a Cup ride. What does Dario do now?]]></description>
			<pubDate>July 02, 2008 06:31:11 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jockeying for a Chase spot starting to get serious]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The point in the Sprint Cup Series is to win the title. But first, one has to make the 12-driver Chase, and that picture is starting to gain focus, writes Terry Blount.]]></description>
			<pubDate>July 01, 2008 06:18:00 PDT EST</pubDate>
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