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Ten Years After: Ken Schrader Recalls a Moment He'll Never Forget

By Holly CainFeb 8th 2011 – 5:06PM

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years ago on Feb. 18, we lost Dale Earnhardt. NASCAR President Mike Helton used those very words that day – "we lost Dale Earnhardt" – in making the announcement that shocked and saddened people like no other death in American motorsports. It was a national tragedy – Earnhardt's photo...

Working Through Death of a Legend

By Holly CainDec 17th 2009 – 9:00PM

Over the next two weeks, FanHouse will be covering the top sports stories of the decade. In this installment, Holly Cain gives a first-person take on the moments surrounding Dale Earnhardt's untimely death at the 2001 Daytona 500.I vividly remember the sickening feeling when I first realized that Dale Earnhardt might be...

Earnhardt's Last Lap: 2001 Daytona 500

By Holly CainDec 17th 2009 – 9:00PM

Over the next two weeks, FanHouse will be covering the top sports stories of the decade. In our first installment, Holly Cain looks back at the 2001 Daytona 500 and the impact that losing Dale Earnhardt had on NASCAR.DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Initially it looked like a routine last lap crash in the Daytona 500. Nothing...

Hall Call Could Lead to Confusion

By Adam AlexanderJul 10th 2009 – 4:36PM

We're still a few months away from learning who the first five inductees into the NASCAR Hall of Fame will be, giving us a little time to banter back and forth about who should be in that critical first class. I'm curious to see how everything plays out with the criteria for induction. With three premier but separate...

Daytona '79... NASCAR's Greatest Day?

By Holly CainFeb 15th 2009 – 5:00AM

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Today marks the 51st running of the Daytona 500.But for most Americans, NASCAR's green flag really dropped 30 years ago in the 1979 Daytona 500 when television carried flag-to-flag coverage of the sport's biggest race for the first time.It was a dramatic finish -- Richard Petty edging Darrell Waltrip...

DaleEarnhardt News From the Web

  • 05/20/12 Ambrose shines, Johnson wins Source: FOXSPORTS.com.au Run as a curtain-raiser for the longest race on the calendar, the Coca-Cola 600, the All-Star race is a one-off, 22-man sprint for a massive $1 million purse.
  • 05/18/12 This Week in NASCAR [Maylong Edition] Source: Fan IQ The NASCAR drivers have a weekend off from points racing, but not from racing.
  • 05/16/12 Twitter Tweets about Dale Earnhardt Jr as of May 16,... Source: Nascar Rocks Hahahaha @JimmieJohnson's and Dale Earnhardt Jr's, Juan Pablo Montoya's NASCAR Sprint Cup race cars are in Transformers Dark Of The Moon!
  • 05/15/12 NASCAR Sprint Cup teams head to Charlotte for All-Star... Source: Gaming Today - Las Vegas NV After traveling back and forth across the country since February, the NASCAR Sprint Cup teams get to sleep in their own beds for the next three weeks at home in Charlotte where most are headquartered.
  • 05/05/12 Earnhardt: Talladega is my chance Source: InRacing News NASCAR Dale Earnhardt Jr is optimistic that Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega could be the event where he finally brings his long winless streak to an end.

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