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Jared C. Tilton/Getty ImagesLast year, Brad Keselowski was the first car across at Talladega. Talladega Superspeedway is the longest, highest-banked track on the Sprint Cup Series circuit -- and it's also one of the wildest. What should you know ...

As is my custom when I'm not traveling the Eastern seaboard, gallivanting about on vacation, I was participating in the ESPN.com chat during Sunday's Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire. When asked what I thought about Denny Hamlin's chances to win whe...

Almost three years ago, Joey Logano was mired in a subpar Sprint Cup race in a very mediocre rookie season. Sitting 24th in points, Logano spun after the halfway point at New Hampshire, which allowed him to play pit strategy when the weather began to...

When Brad Keselowski got his first career Sprint Cup win at Talladega Superspeedway three years ago, I think people chalked it up to an upset Talladega win. It was for a team that had never won a Cup race, in Keselowski's fifth career start, and he ...

Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway had a little something for everyone. It had long green-flag runs, slam-and-bang racing, heated tempers, controversial cautions and even a beacon of light for the conspiracy theorists out there in Davi...

The first round of my annual NASCAR Bracket of Massive Significance was nothing if not mad. Bristol wrecking and bad luck led to such upsets as Bobby Labonte over Jeff Gordon, Brian Vickers over Jimmie Johnson, and David Gilliland over Carl Edwards...

What a great time to be a sports fan! NASCAR is in full swing, but right now, it gets overshadowed by the NCAA tournament. But why let the college hoops fans have all the fun and enjoyment that brackets can bring? For the past few years, I've had ...

Looking straight up at the Sprint Cup winners at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, two teams have dominated Victory Lane -- Hendrick Motorsports and Roush Fenway Racing, combining to win 12 of the 14 races at the track. And although Kyle Busch and Carl Edw...

The theme for the 2011 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup so far, at least for this humble researcher, is competition. Not only do we have a tie atop the standings, with Kevin Harvick getting the tiebreaker and therefore the points lead over Carl Edwar...

It should be pretty widely accepted that this is the best sports time of the year. We have the Chase, the start of college and pro football, baseball pennant races, and so on. But, I'm here to talk Chase, since that's probably why you clicked on me....

Kyle Busch is simply dominant at Bristol. And with the Sprint Summer Showdown competition winding down, he's primed to have an extra million dollars in his firesuit.

Let's face it, the Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen had just about everything. We had a first-time winner, courtesy of a pass in a three-car battle during a green-white-checkered finish. Cars were flipping or on fire, as just about everybody with a s...

When you talk about road course racing in the Sprint Cup Series, two names instantly come to mind: Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart. Gordon has nine wins in 37 road course starts, Stewart has seven in 27 starts. That ranks one-two in Cup history, with ...

One question I get asked more than others (besides that annoying "why do they always turn left?" question) is what driver do I root for? Placing journalistic integrity (of which I have a little) aside, when I started watching NASCAR, I rooted for B...

Who needed to go out to see a summer blockbuster when you have Daytona? What didn't Saturday night's race have? It was a tale of redemption, as David Ragan came back from disappointing 2009 and 2010 seasons and the heartbreak of this year's Daytona...

What an odd NASCAR season it has been. We've had first-time winners in the two biggest races of the year, Trevor Bayne in the Daytona 500 and Regan Smith in the Southern 500. The third "crown jewel" race, last week's 600-miler at Charlotte, saw a la...