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Nationwide Champ Brad Keselowski 'Will Live With' NASCAR's New Format

TAMPA, Fla. -- Brad Keselowski arrived at Tampa's Busch Gardens theme park Wednesday to help promote the Feb. 20 Daytona 500 wearing a black jacket emblazoned with a NASCAR Nationwide series logo -- a proud nod to the series championship he won in 2010 but won't be defending in 2011. In a posting on its official Twitter...

NASCAR Drivers Must Declare for One Championship in 2011

NASCAR drivers will have to declare which championship they want to contend for in 2011 -- choosing to earn championship points in only one of the three national touring series, Sprint Cup, Nationwide or the Camping World Truck Series, according to a posting from NASCAR's official Twitter account late Monday...

Gateway Incident Adds to Carl Edwards' Dark Side

Carl Edwards certainly has been full of what marketing-types like to call "crossover appeal." He's been the star of AFLAC's main Olympic commercial. He's glanced the cover of Men's Health magazine while becoming a spokesman for healthy fast food chain Subway. And, of course, he's become a favorite of the "SportsCenter"...

Memo to Danica: We're Losing Interest

It may shock you to discover that sex, the most provocative word in any language, doesn't necessarily sell in sports. Such is the hard lesson of Danica Patrick, who has posed and unzipped and used her looks to sell t-shirts and do interviews and commercials, but, in the end, hasn't won enough to sustain her once-sizable...

Drivers Give New Car Rave Reviews at NASCAR Nationwide Test

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- For those of you who pine for the good ol' days when NASCAR's racers looked like the production cars they claimed to be, the new-look Nationwide Series has your back. Twenty-five cars were at Daytona International Speedway Tuesday for a two-day test session to work out last-minute kinks and fine...